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While everything was all and quiet amongst the three, another man was having quite a different problem.
Within the forest, this man, named Quentin, found himself hanging upside down from a tree. He was donned in what looked to be leather armor, covered in a black cloak, which was hanging towards the ground due to his position. He hung there with his eyes closed. If he so much as moved, another trap would trigger that would certainly mean his end. He opened one eye and looked around, and could see the dim firelight in the distance. "No, I won't involve whoever they are," he thought to himself rejectedly.
He had been stuck there for quite some time, and figured if nothing had come for him yet, it wasn't going to until much later. With great dexterity, he lifted himself up, and using a sharp blade he had tucked up under his sleeve, easily cut the rope holding his feet. As he fell, he flipped over to land on his feet. Just as he did, a rope was pulled that moved a layer of leaves and vegetation to reveal poison-tipped sharp edges jutting up from a small hole in the ground. Quentin outstretched his legs and caught himself on the edge of the hole, then flipped backward away from it to land safely on two feet.
Just as he did, what looked to be orc hunters leapt from the bushes at Quentin. As they leapt, Two blades launched out from the man's sleeves, impaling the first two. Two more lept out. Quentin grabbed the hilts of the blades sticking out from his sleeves and parried both their attacks, then drove his blade through both of them. The sounds of fighting could be heard from the small camp and any other passerbys. The four orcs lay dead, and the blades retracted back up Quentin's sleeves. He pulled his cloak securely around him, and raised his hood, turning now to the fire, wondering if anyone heard the commotion.
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Bursitis: Learn About Symptoms and Treatment
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A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that cushions an area of friction between tissues, such as tendon and bone. Bursae reduce friction between moving parts of the body, such as around the joints of the shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, and adjacent to the Achilles tendon in the heel.
The number varies, but most people have about 160 bursae throughout the body. Bursae are lined with special cells, called synovial cells, which secrete a fluid rich in collagen and proteins. This synovial fluid acts as a lubricant when parts of the body move. Inflammation of a bursa is referred to as bursitis.
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The most common causes of bursitis are repetitive motions (for example, repeated throwing of a ball), trauma (extensive kneeling), infection, and preexisting rheumatoid conditions.
Trauma causes inflammatory bursitis from repetitive injury or direct impact.
• Chronic bursitis: The most common cause of chronic bursitis is minor trauma that may occur to the shoulder (subdeltoid) bursa from repetitive motion, for example, throwing a baseball. Another example is prepatellar bursitis (in front of the knee) from prolonged or repetitive kneeling on a hard surface to scrub a floor or lay carpet.
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Welcome to the decade of space robotics. Jules Verne, Europe's shiny new automated transport vehicle, docked with the International Space Station today, where Canada's Dextre is flexing her circuits after moving in last month. Meanwhile, the Cadillac of Mars rovers, JPL's humbly named Mars Science Laboratory, is prepping for a fall 2009 journey to the red planet. Are we witnessing the beginning of the symbiotic relationship between robots and humans in space?
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OP 12/27/05 12:16:38 AM#1
y warhammer and not 40k.
40k's way cooler, way cooler armys and people no what to expect since its got games out.
which warhamer game would u chose to be an online game
lord of the rings
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12/27/05 1:23:05 AM#2
How'd you get Lord of the Ring on that poll? I thought it was fantasy vs. 40k. Well just so you know, Lord of the ring is due to come out too.
40k was fun to play but it always seems like you couldn't put the same detail and time into each model. I had 13 full squadrons of just regular marines and I got tired of the red scheme after a while so I started modifying the models themselves giving them poses. Added battle scarring to all the tanks and dreadnoughts that I had and even used the ravenwing commander from the dark angels as a regular model in my blood angel group for added effect.
Now with fantasie each soldier could be a work of art. Blood angels took me an hour per model, fantasie 3 mininum. The 2 headed dragon took 6 months alone and has been my pride and joy for about 6 years now.
Now as a MMO I'm sure that mythic will come out with 40K within time. Games workshop usually has a little deal where if you want to sell one product, you must sell all. Although what would you consider for the realms? Naturally chaos and the empire but do you realize how many space marine factions and sub factions are out there? Necrons and tyranid are both hive mind intellegence so being a single minded character might be a little hard there. Would you set the map up on a specific planet like cachachen or spread it over various planets and even space hulks? Would you allow vehicles and if so what kinds. I like my 2 variations of the Land raider but they are nothing to those damn necron pyramids that spit out troops like a wal-mart store with cheap labor. would the empire be able to use atmospheric artillery which theyre imfamous for?
Oh I could continue with the questions all day. Lets get some ideas on these.
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12/27/05 4:23:28 AM#3
Necrons and Tyranids could be NPC mobs, that would eliminate the hive mind problem.
Factions and subs and variants of races/armies for the most part could be set to expansions.
Map set to planets.
Combat comparable vehicle for each race/army.
Imperials should have some sort of artillery (something to the effect of a balanced system though)
I suggest maybe having characters being allowed 1-4 pets simulating squads perhaps and the number of them balanced to the class/profession.
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12/27/05 10:48:36 AM#4
Personnally, I'm more inclined towards fantasy than 40k. Sure 40k has some cool stuff (Imperial guard ftw! :p), but the background on Warhammer Fantasy is so much better, imho.
Personnally, I find most of 40k's factions to be boring and/or ugly.
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12/30/05 5:14:47 AM#5
Warhammer is a great place to start, rather than 40k,
40k can get rather unruly and degenerate into a blood fest, especially when the nids are involved.
There was an excellent game by battleisle, called incubation that was very similar to 40k but not on line etc,
there was also a brilliant warhammer game called Dark omen on the pc, could never beat the tomb king at the end, but if that format is used it wll be awesome.
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12/30/05 4:16:01 PM#6
Games Workshop has actually developed a table-top game based on the LOTR series, which is probably where he got that option from. It's been quite successful in comparison to other games of the genre, though it isn't well known despite the huge success of the movies.
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Zool 2 (Amiga)
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The sequel to Zool sees him take on the bad guys Mental Block and Krool across 15 levels.
Zool 2 is a platform game where you control the titular "Ninja of the Nth Dimension" (or his girlfriend, Zooz, who can complete each level in a slightly different way) as he rampages through a variety of levels, collecting countless tasty treats, shooting any enemies that he encounters and finding bonuses (there's a variety of special power-ups Zool can find - for example, a bomb that follows him and can be blown up at any time to remove on-screen enemies, or a temporary invulnerability). New to the sequel is Zool's ability to scale walls and his new spinning attacks.
On each level you have to collect a certain amount of the featured fruit within an allocated time limit, and then find the exit across the multi-directionally-scrolling levels. There are lots of hidden areas to see, including a bonus Breakout game starring Zool's pet 2-headed dog.
Zool 2 Amiga Chupa Chups advert
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• "זול 2" -- Hebrew spelling
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A big improvement on the original Martin Smith (63069) 4.75 Stars4.75 Stars4.75 Stars4.75 Stars4.75 Stars
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Amiga Format Jan, 1994 93 out of 100 93
Amiga Power Jan, 1994 86 out of 100 86
Tilt Jan, 1994 82 out of 100 82
Amiga Joker Jan, 1994 80 out of 100 80
High Score Feb, 1994 4 out of 5 80
Amiga Joker Apr, 1994 77 out of 100 77
CU Amiga Jan, 1994 76 out of 100 76
Power Play Jan, 1994 70 out of 100 70
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Focus (Browser)
Focus Browser Title screen and main menu
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Focus is a fast-paced action platformer set in different non-scrolling rooms. Players control a small, white creature that is only able to move around and jump. To escape, the exit to the next room has to be unlocked. This is done by pressing a number of yellow buttons. Early on walking over them is sufficient for activation, but in later levels the player needs to lure opponents, shooting rockets, to target the yellow areas in order to trigger them.
Every rocket blast is deadly, but hitting the floor also launches debris that is just as fatal. After a few levels players get access to the Focus Mode. When pressing a button everything slows down significantly, similar to bullet time, but at the edge of the circle surrounding the creature an arrow appear to teleport to that area. There is only a limited amount of focus energy in every area and it can also be used to transport through lasers or walls for instance. Other difficulties include spikes, explosive blocks and moving platforms. After a while the basic focus mode is upgraded to have a larger reach and from then on the player will need to evade multiple rockets at once and constantly teleport, often in quick, successive bursts (somewhat similar to a jet pack), to dodge the attacks and escape as soon as the exit is opened.
The game contains three difficulty levels, 50 stages, medals for a number of achievements and a speedrun mode that can be unlocked.
The browser version adds an Insane game mode with a set of harder levels.
Focus Browser Focus can also be used to light up dark rooms.
Focus Browser Using focus to reach the exit to the right.
Focus Browser Start of the first room in the Insane mode
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Droid Dreams (Commodore 64)
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You are a droid on a spaceship bored silly. The only way to escape from the boredom is to sleep and dream of being the hero and saving the day. You play one such dream as a ship is in distress and only you can save it. This is done by collecting objects and placing them in the right place over six levels. As well as enemy droids there are electrodes and bombs in your way. Watch your oil levels which deplete over time but can be topped up along the way.
Droid Dreams is a side view horizontally scrolling game where you can move both left and right. The joystick controls your droid while the fire button fires your laser. The screen is split into two. The top half is the playing area while the bottom half includes details like oil level, score and lives.
Droid Dreams Commodore 64 Let's save the ship.
Droid Dreams Commodore 64 Get a gold bar.
Droid Dreams Commodore 64 Blast the enemy.
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Metro: Last Light - RPK (Windows)
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RPK is the second downloadable content (DLC) for Metro: Last Light, featuring a new Soviet era machine gun with a high rate of fire, available from gun traders in the Moscow Metro.
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Aug 18 2007, 11:53pm Anchor
Was thinking a bit, and I'm thinking of switching the delorean to be a helicopter. That way we get a non buggy hover mode that doesn't cause cars to disappear, and a standard camera that isn't all the way back. And you get those cool dust particles when you're over ground. Too bad trees would still move, but oh well.
Proposed controls. Standard ones of course, but adding two more. Horn would make the delorean go forward. Handbrake would make it slow down. I'll get around to it once i finish school stuff. And those other features.
Edited by: Delorean88us
Aug 19 2007, 12:14am Anchor
Dont Delorean it will be harder to control and i like it the way it is.
Aug 19 2007, 12:16am Anchor
unfortunately, it's for not for you to decide. By using the helicopter, it can now pitch and bank when hovering, but the main thing and peds don't disappear if you go on top of them. Learn to control using the new way, or change controls to suit your way.
Aug 19 2007, 12:21am Anchor
Ok (but i will always remember this when u start to get complaints).
Aug 19 2007, 12:27am Anchor
i always get complaints, so it's not going to phase me.
Aug 19 2007, 12:36am Anchor
fine heres the first i dont want it you should make a poll
Aug 19 2007, 12:41am Anchor
i think it will be cool this way with the chopper instead of the RC vehicles I find it more easier to control.
Aug 19 2007, 1:10am Anchor
yeah chevron sure whatever besides i hate chevys
Aug 19 2007, 1:17am Anchor
I like the sound of this, the choppers are easier to control and I'd rather have a non buggy hover mode. The hunters handling is definitely the best handling to choose from if your going this route.
Aug 19 2007, 1:47am Anchor
my names not referring to the car its referring to something from dont like a feature thats put in tough luck deal with it or dont play it.
Aug 19 2007, 7:39am Anchor
I like this idea as long as the DeLorean doesn't tilt forward every time you move forward cause I've seen other mods that reaplce the chopper with the DeLorean and to move forward it has to tip down. It won't be like that right?
Also, if you replace the sound on the blades and such surely all the other helicopters like the police chopper and news chopper would sound like 2015 cars?
Aug 19 2007, 10:00am Anchor
i like the helicopter idea
Aug 19 2007, 10:37am Anchor
no tilting at all. It will stay level unless you make it tilt. I can replace the sparrow, as it doesn't affect the sounds of the regular heli's
Edited by: Delorean88us
Aug 19 2007, 10:42am Anchor
Ok that's cool then. In that case I'm all for it.
Aug 19 2007, 12:07pm Anchor
If so, there must be a button to make the sparrow fly like a plane.
Aug 19 2007, 3:09pm Anchor
That is the reason why the thread is called flying/hover, and why i had a proposed control that would create forward thrust like a plane.
Aug 19 2007, 3:56pm Anchor
ok now this is starting to sound better i thought it would fly like a heli regulary would but that sounds cool!
P.S. Sorry i snapped early just really pissed that my mom has banned me from going to because m to obsessed buty im not im just near obsessed
Aug 19 2007, 4:07pm Anchor
oh, it can fly like a helicopter for the hover stuff. But then, you have a button that makes it go foward (not up, forward) like a real plane.
Aug 19 2007, 4:29pm Anchor
ok cool
PS no hard feelings fro m before right?
Aug 19 2007, 4:34pm Anchor
Hold on how would you steer it then? I no it won't tilt forward and back but will it tilt left and right like it does now when steering? But a good thing about having it in the helicopter is it will be able to strafe left and right, correct?
Aug 19 2007, 4:39pm Anchor
it steers. Helicopters yaw, roll, and pitch, if you remember. And yes, it will strafe. And if you let go, it'll decelerate automatically.
Aug 19 2007, 8:33pm Anchor
How could doc control all this with just a regular steering wheel??? :P
Aug 19 2007, 8:35pm Anchor
good question. Same way as a yoke?
Aug 19 2007, 9:00pm Anchor
I'm pretty sure the Hover Conversion Company also modifies the steering wheel to have extra axis points to control height.
Aug 19 2007, 9:17pm Anchor
Well, started coding..........and there's a big problem. Any forward speed tends to make the helicopter tilt back all the way.
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This Just In: Gay Stereotype Possibly Misleading
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While there's much to love in the Sarah Silverman program (like this and this), I think my favorite characters are Steve and Brian, Sarah's "gigantic, orange and gay" neighbors. Played by writer Steve Agee and comedian Brian Posehn, the couple are a bit hefty, with scraggly facial hair and rumpled plaid shirts, and seem to love video games and, uh, farting, more than Cher and Madonna. This kind of portrayal of gays on television is indeed unusual, and one could argue the show is aiming for the simplest kind of comedy by using the least "gay" guys to play the gay guys; but oddly enough they end up being a pretty accurate portrayal of most of the queer dudes I know. Maybe this is just my bizarro world, but all my straight guy friends are hair-gelling, disco-dancing superfreaks, and my gay guy friends are shlubby geeks. (And I mean all that in the best possible way, guys). Are all the gay dudes just trying to act straight, and vice versa, until everything's backwards, or could the stereotypes be (shudder) wrong?
Just this weekend San Francisco welcomed the International Bear Rendezvous, an "annual gathering of bears and bear lovers." A bear, for the uninitiated, is, according to Wikipedia, a "male individual who possesses physical attributes much like a bear, such as a heavy build, abundant body hair, and commonly facial hair." My apartment happens to be situated on a street between two of the main host bars, and all weekend, buses pulled up and disgorged crowds (herds?) of large, hirsute men. And I'm not sure if this is related, but the distinct odor of garlic fries seemed to waft over the neighborhood as well. Do bears eat garlic fries? Anyway, as I walked up to the subway station Saturday night, I found myself assuming every bearded, baseball-cap-wearing, chubby guy I saw was heading for the bear festivities, until I realized: no, these are probably just, you know, Americans. Are Sarah Silverman and my neighborhood portents of a near future in which gay stereotypes are so mixed up nobody gives a damn any more, or are we just so deep in the subculture we can't see straight any more? Either way, I could really go for some garlic fries.
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The Brave
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A mysterious stranger (Marlon Brando) makes an unsettling offer to an American Indian (Johnny Depp) hoping to better his family's lot.
Cast: Johnny Depp , Marlon Brando , Marshall Bell , Elpidia Carrillo , Frederic Forrest , Clarence Williams III , Max Perlich , Luis Guzmán
Director: Johnny Depp
Genres: Western
The Brave (1997)
Release Date: January 1st, 1997|2 hr. 3 min.
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Help me decide between two names
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jumpingfrog0 Wed 05-Dec-12 21:32:32
We just can't decide between two boys names and would like your help. The names are Benjamin and Jasper. Both are a similar style to me - classic and timeless - but obviously Jasper is a bit more unusual although it does seem to be rising up the charts.
Which is your fav and why? We really need your help now as we like them both equally. Thanks
OkayHazel Thu 06-Dec-12 15:07:18
I love the name Ben, but he is an ex boyfriend who punched me. So I just can't.
Mono1 Thu 06-Dec-12 14:36:30
Jasper IS cute for a little boy but I just can't imagine liking it for an adult. It makes me think of posho accountants or maybe a City trader. Is there perhaps a reason why so many mums on here seem to like it but don't know any grown up Jaspers- there are a few Labradors tho.... Ben might be a bit boring but also reliable and fun.
I really like Jasper - DH wanted one of the DSs to be called Jasper...but I knew a lovely black labrador, also called Jasper.
But you, presumably don't! I'd go for Jasper...although I do like Ben too.
TiggerWearsATriteSmile Thu 06-Dec-12 11:55:26
Benjamin is boring and there are loads of Bens.
Jasper is fab, really like it.
(I also like Tobias, just to go off track. )
LemonBreeland Thu 06-Dec-12 11:54:25
I have always loved Jasper. Benjamin is a bit wet to me, and Ben is boring.
TremoloGreen Thu 06-Dec-12 11:52:14
I quite like Jasper. Definitely more interesting than Ben, although you could always use that as a middle name. It was going to be my name if I was a boy (Jasper Henry). Sorry Mono, guess we can't be friends grin
Jasper! No contest for me, much better than boringBen!
poppy283 Wed 05-Dec-12 22:47:52
I have a 4mo Jasper - love his name.
Can't bear Ben.
rachel234 Wed 05-Dec-12 22:39:23
Jasper! There are so many Bens/Benjamins around that it is a little dull, sorry.
imdreamingofaskyebluechristmas Wed 05-Dec-12 22:31:54
Jasper is getting popular because of Twilight....
Ben is popular, there are only two in our school though.
FlojoHoHoHo Wed 05-Dec-12 22:29:37
Ben yes, Benjamin no. Jasper no, I just think of carrot.
scrumpkin Wed 05-Dec-12 22:28:24
Absolutely love Jasper!
Mono1 Wed 05-Dec-12 22:27:01
Sorry- I don't like Jasper at all. It's not a name for a grown up you'd want to be friends with. Cute until about the age of 5, but as a grown up it immediately makes me think I wouldn't like him. If however you are v posh and Jasper is likely to go to Eton, then fine. Otherwise stick with Ben.
Jasper. Although it is a name for wasps where I grew up.
NK493efc93X1277dd3d6d4 Wed 05-Dec-12 22:20:05
For me Jasper will always sound like a dog's name.
EverlongLovesHerChristmasRobin Wed 05-Dec-12 22:16:01
I love Benjamin but really dislike Ben.
HoratiaLovesBabyJesus Wed 05-Dec-12 22:11:53
I prefer Jasper - I know a lot of Bens and don't particularly like Benjamin although I can't put my finger on why.
I know a small Jasper and he's lovely. That helps!
QuickLookBusy Wed 05-Dec-12 22:09:20
Have you had the baby yet?
If you like the names equally, I would wait until he was born and decide which name suits him best.
MustafaCake Wed 05-Dec-12 22:05:00
I like Ben but it's a very very common name. Would you be OK with your Ben being one of several in school? Only mentioning it as some parents don't want that!
If you like Ben but want something a bit different how about Benedict?
I like Jasper too and would probably chose that one cos it's quite unusual.
Ruprekt Wed 05-Dec-12 21:53:58
Toooooooooooooooooooo many Bens!!
BikeRunSki Wed 05-Dec-12 21:53:24
Jasper is slang for wasp.
Both really nice, I can't choose between them.
EdithWeston Wed 05-Dec-12 21:52:00
Difficult choice; both lovely.
I'd go for Jasper: bit racier ('Oh Sir!').
Benjamin. But Id have just Ben.
WonkyWilly Wed 05-Dec-12 21:46:56
Love Jasper, Benjamin is ok but a bit boring and overdone!
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Source 1
Extract from the report. How was “the experiment” carried out? (ED 50/8)
The following report gives the account of a feeding experiment carried out on about 40 children during the early summer, namely from April 17th to July 24th, 1907.
The meals, consisting of breakfast and dinner were given in a School in one of the poorest quarters of the ciry, about 30 of the children coming from this school, and 10 from an adjacent one. The children were selected out of Standards I. to IV. by the Head Teacher and myself. The children apparently most in need of meals were chosen, though a few were included primarily on the ground of the then particularly poor circumstances of the family. In the majority of the cases either the family income, for one reason or another, was very irregular, or the mother went out to work or the family was a large one; but in one or two of the cases the circumstances were comparatively good.
Every effort was made to make the meals, as far as possible, educational. There were tablecloths and flowers on the tables; monitresses, whose duty it was to lay the tables and to wait on the other children, were appointed, one to each group of 10 children; they were provided with aprons and sleeves and had their meals together after the other children. From almost the first there was very little to complain of in the general behavious of the children, for children soon respond to orderly and decent surroundings. The table cloths, it is true were very dirty at the end of the week, but this was chiefly die to the dirty clothing of the children, and owing to the very inadequate provision at the school for the children to wash themselves, it was difficult to ensure that even their hands were clean.
« Return to School dinners
1. Read Source 1. This is an extract taken from City of Bradford Education Committee Report by the Medical Superintendent, Ralph H Crowley MD, MRCP in conjunction with the Superintendent of Domestic Subjects, Marian E Cuff, on a Course of Meals given to Necessitous Children from April to July, 1907.
• Make a summary of what the experiment involved. How many children? For how long? Which meals? (And so on.)
• How were the children chosen? Why do you think they chose these children?
• Look at paragraph 3. ‘Every effort was made to make the meals, as far as possible, educational.’ What does ‘educational’ mean here? What was being taught? How did the children react?
• Why were the tablecloths dirty afterwards?
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TY - JOUR AU - Gan,Li AU - Zhang,Qinghua TI - The Thick Market Effect on Housing Markets Transactions JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 12134 PY - 2006 Y2 - April 2006 DO - 10.3386/w12134 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12134 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12134.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Li Gan Department of Economics Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4228 Tel: 979/862-1667 Fax: 979/847-8747 E-Mail: [email protected] Qinghua Zhang Guanghua School of Management Peking University Beijing 100871 China E-Mail: [email protected] AB - This paper provides a search model for housing market where the number of buyers and/or sellers plays very important role. The model makes three testable predictions: (1) the unemployment rate has a negative impact on the trading volume and the sale prices of the housing market; (2) a larger housing market has a lower average sale price, shorter time-to-sale and smaller price dispersion, in addition to a lower vacancy rate. (3) In a larger housing market, when the unemployment rate goes up (or down), the sale price decreases (or increases) by a smaller percentage than in a smaller market. All three predictions are supported by a panel dataset of the Texas city-level housing markets. ER -
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TY - JOUR AU - Calvo,Guillermo A. AU - Izquierdo,Alejandro AU - Mejía,Luis-Fernando TI - Systemic Sudden Stops: The Relevance Of Balance-Sheet Effects And Financial Integration JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 14026 PY - 2008 Y2 - May 2008 DO - 10.3386/w14026 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14026 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14026.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Guillermo A. Calvo Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs 420 West 118th St, Room 1303B MC3332 New York, NY 10027 Tel: 212/854-4264 E-Mail: [email protected] Alejandro Izquierdo Inter-American Development Bank 1300 New York Ave, N. W. Washington, D. C., 20577 E-Mail: [email protected] Luis-Fernando Mejía University of Chicago Department of Economics 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 E-Mail: [email protected] AB - Using a sample of 110 developed and developing countries for the period 1990-2004 we analyze the empirical characteristics of systemic sudden stops (3S) in capital flows --understood as large and largely unexpected capital account contractions that occur in periods of systemic turmoil -- and the relevance of balance sheet effects in the likelihood of their materialization. We conjecture that large real exchange rate (RER) fluctuations come hand in hand with 3S. A small supply of tradable goods relative to their domestic absorption -- a proxy for potential changes in the real exchange rate -- and large foreign-exchange denominated debts towards the domestic banking system, denoted Domestic Liability Dollarization, DLD, are claimed to be key determinants of the probability of 3S, conforming a balance-sheet effect that impacts on the probability of 3S in non-linear fashion. Regarding financial integration, the larger is the latter, the larger is likely to be the probability of Sudden Stop; however, beyond a critical point the relationship gets a sign reversion. ER -
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TY - JOUR AU - Cette,Gilbert AU - Kocoglu,Yusuf AU - Mairesse,Jacques TI - Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 15577 PY - 2009 Y2 - December 2009 DO - 10.3386/w15577 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15577 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15577.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Gilbert Cette Banque de France 1, rue de la Vrillière 75001 Paris, France E-Mail: [email protected] Yusuf Kocoglu Léad, Université du Sud Toulon-Var and Centre d’études de l’emploi BP 20132 83957 La Garde cedex, France E-Mail: [email protected] Jacques Mairesse CREST (ParisTech-ENSAE) 15, Boulevard Gabriel PERI 92245 MALAKOFF CEDEX FRANCE Tel: 33-1-41-17-35-50 Fax: 33-1-41-17-76-34 E-Mail: [email protected] AB - This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long (since 1890) and medium (since 1980) runs. During the past century, the United States has overtaken the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy. During the past 25 years, the four countries have also experienced contrasting advances in productivity, in particular as a result of unequal investment in information and communication technology (ICT). The past 120 years have been characterized by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in all four countries; (ii) a long decline of productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital deepening (at least to the extent this can be measured) accounts for a large share of the variations in performance; increasingly during the past 25 years, this has meant ICT capital deepening. However, the capital contribution to growth varies considerably over time and across the four countries, and it is always less important, except in Japan, than the contribution of the various other factors underlying TFP growth, such as, among others, labor skills, technical and organizational changes and knowledge spillovers. Most recently (in 2006), before the current financial world crisis, hourly labor productivity levels were slightly higher in France than in the United States, and noticeably lower in the United Kingdom (by roughly 10%) and even lower in Japan (30%), while TFP levels are very close in France, the United Kingdom and the United States, but much lower (40%) in Japan. ER -
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@techreport{NBERw4789, title = "The Financial Accelerator and the Flight to Quality", author = "Ben Bernanke and Mark Gertler and Simon Gilchrist", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "4789", year = "1994", month = "July", doi = {10.3386/w4789}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w4789", abstract = {Adverse shocks to the economy may be amplified by worsening credit-market conditions-- the financial 'accelerator'. Theoretically, we interpret the financial accelerator as resulting from endogenous changes over the business cycle in the agency costs of lending. An implication of the theory is that, at the onset of a recession, borrowers facing high agency costs should receive a relatively lower share of credit extended (the flight to quality) and hence should account for a proportionally greater part of the decline in economic activity. We review the evidence for these predictions and present new evidence drawn from a panel of large and small manufacturing firms.}, }
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Santa Claus Meatloaf
Charles Phoenix is a chef and performer in love with 1950s and 1960s Americana. His test kitchen “puts the kitsch in kitchen.” This is the inevitable result for Christmas. The Santa Claus Meatloaf is the perfect treat for Santa to enjoy when he visits your home. It’s certainly a healthier alternative to cookies.
Scroll down and you can see that the Santa Claus Meatloaf bakes well.
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38 Responses to 20 Non-fiction Writers Under 40
1. [...] steal the idea from The New Yorker and then borrow it from New Haven Review, which clearly stole it from The New Yorker. Ahem..not stealing or theft so much as appropriation. [...]
2. Dave Mastio says:
So, zero of your top 20 under 40 nonfiction writers are right of center or write for conservative publications. Lame.
Also shows how far-reaching your open minds go in looking for other perspectives.
3. Mark Oppenheimer says:
Dave, I think most of these people are pretty apolitical in their writing. I think maybe five or six write primarily for political mags, like Harper’s. But David Samuels, for example, while he may write for some liberal mags, is not really a political writer.
In any event, how do YOU know none of them are right of center? Do you know the politics of all these writers? I don’t. Methinks you are assuming a lot. What do we know, for instance, about Fagone's politics? He writes about extreme eating!
But anyway-- do you have any suggestions for us? People who are primarily identified with the right but do interesting, elegant, long-form work? Send the suggestions our way!
4. Yes, Dave: Send us your suggestions. Which young, right-of-center writers do you like best? I'd love to read them.
5. [...] Review’s entire list is here. And links to some of Fagone’s stories, including an investigative piece into a murder that [...]
6. Meredith Hobbs says:
I like the idea of a list of zippy nonfiction writers.
Two things:
--How can you write about Josh Glenn without mentioning the late great Hermenaut? Bizarre.
--Only six of the 23 writers that you list are women. What's up with that?
7. Hi Meredith—you're absolutely right about the lack of balance between women and men. Who would you say we missed? (Part of what makes this exercise great, of course, is in making the list longer.)
8. Scott Dickensheets says:
How old is Matt Labash? Looks youngish. He's conservative, and is widely considered good. He's got a recent collection out, Fly Fishing With Darth Vader.
9. Anne Trubek says:
Great idea, and a great list! Thanks for doing this. It is one way to get non-fiction into these kinds of discussions (whatever we think of lists, age cut-offs, etc.). t
10. RomeneskoShouldKnowBetter says:
It's pretty disappointing that Jim Romenesko would link to something as shallow as this........
11. Hey Scott: Thanks to you, I just read Labash's hilarious piece about Facebook. Then I checked my Facebook account, sad little monkey that I am.
12. phil anderson says:
Ummmm... Jonah Goldberg and Mark Steyn are just a couple off the top of my head. Those two always have something amusing, biting and trenchant to say about culture, world affairs, and plenty of other topics. Talk about living in a fishbowl!
13. Paul West says:
Lindy is twenty-eight.
14. Eula Biss says:
Yes, no list is ever complete, but: Amy Leach, Lia Purpura, Alison Bechdel, Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson....
15. Hooray for the Old Hag, aka Lizzie Skurnick. Jessa Crispin of Bookslut is also superb. And while she's primarily identified with one book, Rebecca Skloot should be on the list, because it's one of those books you only need to have written one of.
Elif Batuman is one of the stroppiest, most idiosyncratic young non-fictional prose stylists du jour, and sure to endure.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is always a good read, too.
16. Dan Oppenheimer says:
I nominate Meghan Daum, though I can't remember whether I liked her book of essays or not. She seems to have stature, though.
Nathan Rabin, of The Onion, has always seemed pretty remarkable to me.
17. I try to track conservative writers and, to be honest, I haven't been thrilled by their strengths as either writers of powerful (as opposed to just nasty but humorless) prose or as investigative reporters, who are typically the kinds of folks that can master the "long article."
I've often wondered about this and I've come to believe in part it's because conservative ideology does not lend itself to investigating the kinds of things that the long article fundamentally supports: the discovery of facts about political corruption, bizarre belief systems, the stranger forms of consumerism, and alternatives ways of living.
In part this is because looking under the rocks at these things is likely to disturb the conservative worldview if it involves reckoning with such realities as the corrupting influence of capitalistic uses of money, expressing the initial and necessary sympathy needed to "get into" other belief systems that run contrary to chest-thumping patriotism or strident Christianity, reflecting on thoughtfully--and without harsh judgment--on the myriad nonmainstream ways we consume goods and services and live our lives.
18. wid conroy says:
Not that it matters, but eight or nine of the 20 appear to be Jewish. Does that make the group a cabal?
19. Mark Oppenheimer says:
Wid— That definitely makes the group a cabal. But if you pay $20 to subscribe to New Haven Review, I can gain you admission to the cabal.
DJO— I think Daum is probably mid-40s, but I agree she has done some strong stuff. Will have to check out Rabin. He would add to Wid's cabal, it sounds like.
Paul West— Lindy is 28?!?!? Wow, what a prodigy. Love her stuff...
20. Dan: I like Nathan Rabin a lot also. I'm now feeling a little embarrassed that his name slipped my mind when we were throwing names around for the list in the first place.
21. Dan Oppenheimer says:
Daum's wiki says she was born in 1970. Don't know which month, though, so she might not be under 40. Then again Josh Glenn is 42, so...
Not to mention that Meghan "American Shiksa" Daum would dilute the cabal (or maybe not; I mean, when you go around calling yourself the American Shiksa, you're kind of paying tribute to the cabal, aren't you?)
Also, while we're on the topic of counter-programming against the cabal, how could you leave Matt Taibbi off the list? I don't know if he's actually of Arab descent, or has some relationship to the Muslim faith, but a lot of people certainly think he doesn't like Jews.
22. JKS says:
Good list. Lewis-Krauss is a badass. Silverstein's piece on poetry competitions in Harper's is amazing.
There's also: Jeff Tietz, another Harper's contrib, whose "The Boy Who Loved Trains" [I think that's the right title], on Asperger's, is brilliant as well. And fiction star Wells Tower, who, like Bissell, slays it in both modes.
23. Max says:
Even though he's on the NYer fiction list, Wells Tower's non-fiction is at least as funny and surprising as his fiction. Read his pieces for Harper's, GQ and the Washington Post Magazine. Elif Batuman was definitely an oversight (which you've corrected), and Jeff Sharlet (author of "The Family"), Donovan Hohn (author of "Moby Duck", Harper's ed), Raffi Khachadourian (staff writer for the NYer) should all be included.
24. Max says:
JKS, good call on Tietz. He's amazing and doesn't publish often enough. Harper's has given a lot of younger writers a pretty great platform for narrative non-fiction.
25. lisa_emily says:
I second Raffi Katchadourian- I've been blown away by a number of his articles, don't know if he's under 40, but he must close enough.
26. Vernor says:
Why is Bissell on the list? He is a Peace Corps drop out that couldn't hack living abroad yet has posed as a nonfiction writer that writes about far-off places. Most of my foreign correspondent friends roll their eyes at his byline.
This guy once heavily criticized the writing style of Robert Kaplan yet he mimicked Kaplan's style in his failed Vietnam book--most of which is rewritten history passages interspersed with banal details about a tourist trip to Vietnam. It should have just been left as a simple travel essay rather than a book.
As a writer, he's a joke, but he is good at cultivating his literary patrons--just take a look at his recent letter in defense of Genoways. And now he is written a book about video games. Great.
27. at says:
Only six women worth mentioning out of 20?
28. Pete says:
Phil Anderson: Goldberg is 41 years old, but I guess small slides like that are allowed. But Steyn? He's 50.
29. Viki says:
ahem. Rebecca Solnit?
30. Max says:
Solnit's awesome but definitely over 40. But there are plenty more women. Eliza Griswold is under 40, so is Kira Salak. They are both extremely badass.
As for Vernor's mouth-foaming about Tom Bissell, I'm sure his
"foreign correspondent friends", if they exist, are rolling their eyes that he's trolling a comment board on their behalf.
31. Ruhee says:
I was about to suggest Alex Ross (author of The Rest is Noise, and Listen to This) but he's 42 now. Shame -- he's one of my favourite writers of all time, for sure.
32. Djew says:
It's crazy that Rebecca Skloot isn't on this list. But then again, lists like this are always crazy.
33. Tom Bissell says:
Don't worry, Vernor. My foreign correspondent friends roll their eyes at my byline, too.... I appreciate, in any event, the close, careful attention you've paid to my career.
34. John Jeremiah Sullivan
35. Anne Ray says:
Many thanks, other folks, for the mention of Rebecca Solnit, Eliza Grizwold, and Meghan Daum.
However, Ariel Levy. So seriously absent.
36. [...] clip came via Lindy West (one of 20 under 40!), so I can’t take credit for unearthing it. But because this is a dad-blog, the [...]
37. Danny T says:
After our conservative friends nominated their champion - Matt Labash - I decided to broaden my horizons by looking up the piece they recommended about Facebook. Unfortunately I only got as far as this stellar, dare I say it shocking, passage:
"Facebook is an online community where colleagues, friends, long-lost acquaintances, friends of friends or long-lost acquaintances, and perfect strangers find and "friend" each other based on their real or perceived affinity."
Before my brain switched off. If this is the best the right can do, it's no wonder they have an image problem (they do have an image problem).
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"Only in the general social-psychological literature will the reader
find discussions of the sexual obsession of the Nazis, but these
discussions, coming from scholars without specialized knowledge of
Nazi Germany, are fragmentary and only partially illuminating.<30> Nearly
all who treat this subject see it as an instance of psychic
projection. The theory of projection, advanced by Freud, postulates
that those who repress within themselves undesirable feelings and
impulses such as aggressive urges and sexual drives may seek relief
for the gnawing feeling of unconscious guilt by projecting their
illicit desires upon others and righteously attacking them, thereby
externaizing their feelings. This Freudian insight is declared to be
valid even by so skeptical a critic of psychoanalysis as H.J. Eysenck,
who summarizes it thus:
There is a tendency in people to attribute personal qualities
they themselves possess, but do not admit possessing, to other
people. Thus a person who is stingy but will not admit this to
himself will tend to attribute stinginess to others to quite
an unreasonable extent. Thus, similarly, those qualities which
the prejudiced person represses in himself tend to be projected
and attributed to other people; it is not the prejudiced person
himself but others who are seen as hostile and threatening,
or else his own weakness leads to exaggerated condemnation of
everything that is weak."<31>
30. See for example Allport, G.W., "The Nature of Prejudice," New
York, 1958, pp. 349-355
31. Eysenck, H.J., "Uses and Abuses of Psychology," London, 1954. P. 274
(Goldhagen, Erich. "Nazi Sexual Demonology," Midstream, Vol. 27, No. 5,
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Charlie Parker: 'Confirmation: Best of the Verve Years'
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MURRAY HORWTIZ, American Film Institute: The saxophone in that recording is the instrumental voice of Charlie Parker, one of the two most important soloists in all of jazz history, along with Louis Armstrong. A.B. Spellman, why this record, Confirmation: The Best of the Verve Years?
A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: Because it catches Charlie Parker in bebop's height. It catches Charlie Parker at a time when the basic kinks had been worked out of bebop, but it's still very, very fresh. Bird is still in his twenties, and he's working with other musicians, for the most part, who are still in their twenties. And they're all very much alive.
HORWITZ: So Bird — Charlie Parker — is playing a style of music called bebop. What do we mean when we say bebop?
SPELLMAN: We're talking about the beginning of modernism in jazz. We're talking about music that sort of left the dance floor. Some people could still bop to it, but it was not dancing music, it was music you would sit down and listen to. And it was music that got into more theoretical kinds of improvisation — chord change improvisation as opposed to the sort of theme and variations, the melodic embellishment playing that characterized swing.
HORWITZ: Tell us about some of those people you're talking about — the young players. There's some extraordinary musicians on these recordings.
SPELLMAN: Yes, there's some real Hall of Famers here. You have Kenny Clarke, who was the modernist innovator of the drums, and Max Roach who was his acolyte. There's Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and a host of others.
HORWITZ: But throughout all the recordings on this CD, what one really hears is the magical saxophone of Charlie Parker.
SPELLMAN: Charlie Parker is I think perhaps the most articulate saxophonist ever. By articulate, I mean that he seems to be saying exactly what he means all the time. And what he has to say is deep indeed.
HORWITZ: The composer and pianist John Lewis — the artistic director of the Modern Jazz Quartet — said one time that Charlie Parker was the only artist he knew of in jazz whose every single solo was perfect. How do we get a sense of that from this CD?
SPELLMAN: I think Murray that that's one of the reasons that we did select this particular recording, because it does include the Charlie Parker with string sets. And that gives you arrangements that are not so great, but they do provide a backdrop for Charlie Parker so that his solos will stand out.
HORWITZ: What were the roots of this style of his and the fact that he could play like nobody before or since?
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Members of the evangelical Lakewood Church in Houston worship at a prayer service in 2005. More than 45,000 churches across the U.S. are represented by the National Association of Evangelicals. Jessica Kourkounis/AP hide caption
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Members of the Lakewood Church worshipping in Houston
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Cizik says he has no regrets about what happened to him after appearing on the show.
"In so many ways, this has been good for me," he tells Terry Gross, adding that his support of same-sex civil unions wasn't the only reason he was asked to leave the NAE.
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"It was a sum total of everything [I said on Fresh Air]," Cizik explains. "It was speaking out on behalf of creation care, climate change, a broader agenda — speaking out on a host of levels that just offended the old guard. Civil unions, well that was just one part of it."
Cizik says that he still strongly believes that same-sex couples should be allowed to obtain civil unions.
"While I haven't come to a conclusion on [gay marriage], I am convinced that you can't deny rights to people based on their sexual orientation. It's wrong," he says. "It's even wrong, I think, as Christians to take that position. Because we should support human rights for all people even when they don't agree with us."
He also explains how he believes the evangelical movement has changed in the past several decades — and why he believes the evangelical movement is overdue for another ideological shift.
"Most important, [we need to become] independent of partisanship and ideology rather than subservient to partisanship and ideology," he says. "Evangelicalism [has] become so subservient to an ideology and to a political party that it needs, as I say, to be born again."
Interview Highlights
On his comments about same-sex marriage on Fresh Air that forced him to resign from his position at the National Association of Evangelicals
"It came out of the depths of the heart the mouth speaks and so it just came out. I hadn't planned on saying it, but I had been thinking about it a long time. And that's because I had been looking at constitutional arguments that are now being weighed by the California Supreme Court. In other words, can we deny rights to others whose rights we don't especially share? Or, in fact, may disagree with strongly? And yet, yes I agree with what I said then and I agree with it now. What's changed since then — even over the last year — according to a poll released just this week by Public Religion Research Institute, is that a majority of evangelicals — not just younger evangelicals — say that they agree either with same-sex marriage or civil unions. That's a majority of white evangelicals in California. And evangelicals around the country are looking at this in new light and new ways and evaluating this in terms of the Constitution and in light of our Christian values. And that's good."
On being asked to resign
"We have an evangelical saying that goes like this: 'When God closes one door, he opens another.' Well, absolutely right, I found out about that. But [God] doesn't say anything about catching your fingers in the doorjamb as you leave. What I'd say to people who have been sacked, fired or whatever — don't get your fingers caught in the doorjamb while leaving. In other words, don't try to pull yourself back in. ... But God is bigger than those events that precipitate your departure from that job. I'm not the only only who lost my job in recent days, weeks, years. So recognize it as an opportunity and see how God is going to help you in the future."
On how evangelicalism has changed
"It became perceived by millions and millions of Americans as captive to a conservative ideology. Not captive to Jesus or to the Gospel but captive to an ideology that has departed, in so many ways, from historic evangelicalism. The movement has always been a reactionary movement. It was born out of reaction to the 19th century biblical criticism in biology in which evangelicals reacted to that and moved away. The new evangelicals of the 20th century saw the fallacy of that kind of approach towards society but after a number of decades, that kind of neo-evangelicalism that was founded by the National Association of Evangelicals — well it's fallen back into the same kind of subservience to reactionary-ism. Evangelicalism is [seen] today by what it's against, not what it's for. And we're trying to say, we're for these things. And among those is this command to first and foremost follow Jesus — not the Republican Party or Rush Limbaugh or anyone else, but to follow what the Gospel says."
On the Tea Party movement
"The Tea Party movement is irreligious and significantly so. It's got lots of problems. I wouldn't join it if I were an evangelical and I would urge others not to or at least to be suspicious of it because it doesn't bring with it the whole biblical concept of responsibility and the rest to God and so I'm not a Tea Party fan."
On religious imperialism
"[Religious leaders across the world] look upon our advocacy on behalf of religious freedom as intervention. And they resent that. And so we really have to be careful when engaging overseas that we understand how these pivotal players in these religious communities view us. And not attempt to manipulate them but understand their importance. ... And we just can't view religion through the lens of counterterrorism policy. We have to understand that religions play pivotal roles on all of these issues of poverty, development, disease and the like. Even climate change. And we have to engage these players."
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Re: two problems when migrating from 2.1.30 to 2.2.15
vadim wrote:
Hallo everybody,
think about it ...
was making berkeley db to remove all unused log files after next
checkpoint. With 2.2.15 this parameter in DB_CONFIG does not make any
Yes, in order to fix a locking problem in back-bdb the cache code was changed to use a long-lived transaction per slapd thread to handle read-only operations. Unfortunately BDB 4.2.52 has a bug where these long-lived transactions prevent the DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE option from working. They also prevent db_archive from doing anything useful.
I posted a patch to BDB 4.2.52 that will allow it to work properly when a special option flag is used in the back-bdb code. 4.3 already works correctly by default, so no special option is needed there, but I don't believe it has been released yet.
There was a long discussion of this problem on the -devel list, you can get some of it here:
The patches are in this message:
Keep in mind that if you use these patches, you will need to undo the patch to back-bdb when you migrate to BDB 4.3.
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FBI veteran Clint Van Zandt
Would your child know how to escape a dangerous situation? Former FBI agent Clint Van Zandt recommends 10 very important strategies any child can use.
1. Do not get into any car unless your parents personally tell you to. Also, stay away from anyone who follows you on foot or in a car. You do not need to—and should not—go near a car to talk to the people inside.
2. Grown-ups and other people who need help should not be asking children for help—they should be asking older people. Adults should not be asking you for directions or to look for a "lost puppy," or telling you that your mother or father is in trouble and that they will take you to them.
3. Quickly get away from anyone who tries to take you somewhere. Yell or scream, "This person is not my father (or mother)."
4. You should use the "buddy system" and never go places alone. Always ask your parents' permission to leave the yard or play area—especially if you're going into someone's home.
5. Never, never hitchhike! Do not try to get a ride with people unless your parents have told you it is okay to do so.
6. People should not ask you to keep a special secret. If they do, tell your parents or teacher. Also, tell anyone who wants to take your picture, "No," and quickly tell your parents or teacher.
8. You can be assertive, and you have the right to say "No" to someone, including adults and even relatives or friends who try to take you somewhere against your will, touch you or who make you feel uncomfortable in any way.
9. Many parents use a special code word that only the child knows to convey a message, should someone other than a parent ask a child to accompany them anywhere.
10. Practice a special yell. It is low, loud and long. It tells the person trying to hurt the child, "I know what to do! I'm not an easy victim!" It tells everyone within the sound of the child's voice, "I need help!" It gets the child going, it breaks the "spell." A child should not panic and freeze, thereby becoming immobile in an emergency. When you yell, you take a deep breath, thereby getting oxygen and energy to your brain and muscles. Your own yell can give you courage and get your feet moving when you need to run away!
10 safety tips parents should know
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Connie Mack IV web video: George LeMieux the liberal (and confidant of Charlie Crist)
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV is calling GOP U.S. Senate rival George LeMieux a “liberal” in a new web-based video, and may be hitting even harder — showing him as confidant to former Gov.Charlie Crist, who was run out of the Republican Party two
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Cornbread Stuffing
Cornbread stuffing
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: about 40 minutes
Yield: 8 servings
To make ahead: Assemble, cover, and refrigerate the day before. Bake just before serving.
* 4 tbs unsalted butter, plus more for the pan
* 1 medium onion, finely chopped (about 1 1/4 cups)
* 3 celery stalks, finely chopped (about 1 1/4 cups)
* 1/4 cup dry white wine or low-sodium chicken broth
* 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
* 16-oz package cornbread stuffing mix
* 3/4 cup dried cranberries
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9 x 13-inch baking dish; set aside.
2. Meanwhile, in a large pot, melt butter over medium heat. Add onion and celery and cook, stirring, until softened, about 8 minutes. Add white wine and cook until liquid is almost evaporated, about 1 minute. Add broth and heat through, 2 minutes.
3. Pour onion mixture over stuffing mix, add cranberries, and gently toss to combine. Transfer stuffing mixture to the prepared baking dish and bake until crusty and golden on top, about 30 minutes.
Kid-Friendly RecipeHow kids can help: Measure ingredients; butter baking dish.
Per serving: 309 calories, 7 g fat (4 g saturated), 1,160 mg sodium, 16 mg cholesterol.
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Ian Birnbaum
After our double - dose of Dragon Age: Inquisition videos yesterday, we were already pretty amped up for the huge open-world take on the Dragon Age mythos. Today, executive producer Mark Darrah and creative director Mike Laidlaw joined the Twitch.tv E3 streaming broadcast to talk more about the game's story, crafting systems, and squad-control mechanics.
Laidlaw and Darrah spoke for about half an hour about how and why you'll move through the massive open world in Inquisition. Players will be able to customize their weapons' hilts, blades, and guards, equip their followers with upgraded armor, and work to make the Inquisition a powerful force in the region.
“Ultimately everything you're doing is designed to strengthen you and your party, or you're doing things that strengthen the Inquisition,” Laidlaw and Darrah said during the gameplay video. “One of the core tenants of Dragon Age: Inquisition is that you're the leader of an organization, and this allows you to do things you couldn't do as an individual.”
Gathering ingredients and crafting is also a key part of strengthening the Inquisition. Dragons in particular have been redesigned to be end-game battles with valuable crafting components—but you'll need some help to take them down.
“We've reworked dragons from the ground up. Rather than targeting a dragon as a giant circle, you can now target individual limbs. And they're so big that you can really get inside it, under it, beneath it. There are different types, different breeds, but they're all apex predators.”
According to Laidlaw, the game will take about fifty hours to complete if you ignore every sidequest and just burn through the story content. If that's accurate, it means there's a staggering amount of plot to explore as the head of the Inquisition. We'll also get to see some familiar faces return from early Dragon Age games, including Leliana, Morrigan, and Cullen.
You can catch up on all of our E3 2014 coverage here .
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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is coming to PC
Tim Edwards
Brum brum!
EA have just launched the latest Need for Speed game, it's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, and it's being developed by Burnout creators Criterion. In the demo shown at the EA E3 press conference, a Koenigsegg was chased by police driving Buggati Verons through a vast redwood forest. It was pretty, exciting and fast. But it's the new online features that offer the most intricate innovation.
Autolog is Criterion's in-game social network, which keeps players updated on the progress of their friends and rivals. It also acts as a matchmaking service. On-stage, Criterion producer Craig Sullivan drove against a rival who'd recently beaten most of his online records in a Hot Pursuit mode. Burning through a forest, Craig deployed roadblocks to try and knock his enemy off course. It looked smart and slick, even if the landscapes lacked a bit of detail. But then, it appeared to be running at a smooth 60 frames per-second on current gen consoles. The PC version, which was confirmed in a press release, will be better. It always is.
It was bloody loud, too. My ears hurt.
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Facebook for Windows Mobile 1.0
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• May 11, 2009
• Pros
Visually attractive. Responsive interface. Supports multiple screen resolutions. Can upload photos and recorded videos.
• Cons Incorrectly shows hidden items in the news feed. Lacks phone book and e-mail integration. No home screen alerts for notifications. Some caching issues with status updates.
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Though at times wildly different than the BlackBerry version and hobbled with some caching problems, Facebook for Windows Mobile is sure to be well received by Facebook fans with Microsoft-powered smartphones.
By Jamie Lendino
For a few years now, Facebook fans on Windows Mobile devices have been stuck with a couple of unappealing choices: either use the stripped-down WAP site like everyone else, or as a few enterprising souls did, pony up for the $24 Opera Mobile browser and then run the iPhone-formatted version. But now, finally, there is an official, native Windows Mobile client. I'm pleased to report that, though not perfect (it's got some caching issues, among other problems), it's a solid first offering, one that takes advantage of Windows Mobile's ability to support different kinds of devices and form factors from multiple manufacturers.
Interestingly, while this app is available to Windows Mobile 6.1 handset owners, it will come as part of Windows Mobile 6.5—but only on certain handsets. Microsoft will bundle the code with the OS. But it's up to individual handset vendors and carriers as to whether to activate it on a particular handset model. I find that maddening. But since we won't see Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets for at least another few months, there is still time to reconsider this policy.
I tested Facebook for Windows Mobile 1.006 on a Samsung Epix on AT&T's high-speed HSDPA data network. The Epix includes a non-standard 320-by-320-pixel touch screen, along with a tiny built-in trackpad and a mouse cursor—attributes that proved to be no problem during the review. In fact, these controls made it especially simple to navigate the app. Unlike Facebook for BlackBerry 1.5, there are two rows of icons across the top, instead of one. The top row contains icons for the home screen, your profile, friend list, messages, and a useful phone book that lets you dial any friend with phone numbers in their profile. This is a cool feature, but, unfortunately, the app doesn't completely integrate Facebook with the handset's address book the way it does on BlackBerry handsets.
Beneath the top icon ribbon is a second row, which on the home page contains links to the news feed, status updates, and photos. This second row changes depending on the mode; for example, when you click the Messages icon, it is replaced with options to view your inbox, sent items, notifications, and outstanding friend requests. Another key difference: the Windows Mobile version distinguishes between the News Feed and Status Updates, whereas Facebook for BlackBerry only shows status updates. On the other hand, Facebook for BlackBerry can integrate notifications into the handset's main message view, whereas Facebook for Windows Mobile remains a separate, distinct app you have to enter and exit in order to use.
With Facebook for Windows Mobile, you can snap photos and upload them from within the Facebook app, and do the same for recording videos as well. This a very useful feature to have instant access to. Test photos uploaded instantly, with very few clicks. One feature I would have liked to see, however, is the ability to comment on the pics. With this app, you can't comment even if you navigate to the photo from your profile later. You have to wait until you get back to your PC for that.
As with Facebook for BlackBerry 1.5, the Windows Mobile version handles status comments in a multistep process that makes browsing more complicated than it is on the desktop. One key difference: on Windows Mobile, you see the last comment for each status update. That's cool, but the app doesn't tell you how many comments there are, which is just plain odd. On the BlackBerry version, you have to click to read any of the comments.
The Epix is a pretty fast handset, but even so, I was impressed with Facebook for Windows Mobile's navigation and responsiveness. In my various tests, I didn't see any crashes during the review. Sometimes it took half a minute to load a friend list or new status updates, but other times it only took a few seconds. It wasn't possible to tell if cellular data signal or clumsy app programming was responsible. But I'd guess the former, since the app updated quickly most of the time.
A few issues gave me pause, however. One gaffe is the same as one that plagues the BlackBerry version: the Windows Mobile app doesn't know if you've hidden anyone from your news feed. As a result, you'll see status updates for all of your friends, even those you've hidden because they're too chatty. I also noticed a few caching issues. Sometimes, if I refreshed the news feed, went into another mode (such as photos or messages), and then returned to the news feed, three-day-old updates would display until I refreshed the page again. Another time, the app displayed a feed containing some of the updates that happened in the past hour--but not all of them, as I confirmed when comparing with the desktop feed. Finally, since there are so many Windows Mobile handsets out there—and so many home page configurations, not to mention third-party UI overlays like HTC's TouchFLO, Spb Mobile Shell, and Samsung's TouchWiz—there's no practical way for the app to stick Facebook alerts on the home page, the way there is with RIM's Facebook for BlackBerry app.
My complaints are all relatively minor concerns. Still, the number of them makes me less enthusiastic about the app as a whole than I am for the BlackBerry version. Even so, Facebook fans with Microsoft-powered smartphones have much to celebrate with the long-awaited release of Facebook for Windows Mobile. Most users will be reasonably happy with the app, and most will also look forward eagerly to a quick point update to fix some of the annoyances.
More Windows Mobile App Reviews:
• Dropbox (for Windows Phone)
• Spotify (for Windows Phone)
• Camera360 (for Windows Phone)
• BrilliantVision OneShot (for Windows Phone)
• i4software Fast Camera (for Windows Phone)
• more
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note grinder <p>I had trouble getting [cpan://GD] to install on Strawberry. As in "I gave up". Other than that I am very fond of Strawberry.</p> <p>I realise that it should be fairly easy to download the GD C library source and compile it, and then use it to build the XS component of GD. I fiddled around for a while and since I was pressed for time, I just installed the GD.ppm module for Activestate and generated the graphs I needed to generate.</p> <p>In other words, AS and Strawberry coexist peacefully on the same machine, so you can always use both. Executing a particular perl binary by specifying its full path is sufficient for it to locate the libraries that belong to it. The question comes down to which one you wish to use by default when you run 'perl' from a DOS box. That just depends on your PATH setting.</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-29008"> <p align="right"><font size="-2">• another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl</font></p> </div></div> 765977 765977
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Re: (nrd) Good package name for Winamp module?
by newrisedesigns (Curate)
on Mar 12, 2003 at 18:30 UTC ( #242461=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
in reply to Good package name for Winamp module?
Well, there's already Winamp::Control, however this requires the httpQ plugin, while (I assume) yours does not.
I'm not too sure about naming conventions, but there is a tutorial by The Great Author of Tutorials Dealing with Modules dealing with packaging modules for distribution.
Winamp::API has a nice ring to it. :)
Good luck to you.
Update: Mr. Muskrat beat me to the punch. :)
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First, this is an excellent question. It can generally be generalized to "where would one use OO programming?" Obviously not every task.
Let's start by looking at what OO programming gives you. This is, basically, a way of abstracting behavior around state. This is useful where you have a midsized project and want to make sure that you can more easily de-couple components (but don't want to go as far as, say functional programming). For small projects, the overhead in design makes it an unattractive choice. For very complex projects with complex concurrency issues you probably want to go with functional programming as your primary paradigm (you can mix OO and functional programming though).
So let's look at basically three models of managing state: Imperative, Object-oriented, and Functional
Imperative is basically summed up as "You do something with state. Object-oriented can be thought of as "state is responsible for its own behavior" and functional programming is "avoid state if you possibly can."
In general highly complex, highly concurrent systems will benefit from functional programming, and extremely simple systems will benefit from imperative programming. It's in the middle where object oriented delivers its best benefits.
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I voted for Caps Lock, because it is not simply "useless" (as weirdos: pause, Scrlk, PrtScr) it is harmful! I wish this key were never invented!!! It was useless even on conventional typewriters.
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by cog (Parson) on Nov 17, 2005 at 12:12 UTC
That's because you don't have RSI.
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by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Nov 17, 2005 at 12:23 UTC
Harmful? Just remap it. I use it as an alternative control key:
xmodmap -e 'add Control = Caps_Lock'
Why control? Because I used to use keyboards where the CapsLock key was below the shift key. Quite useful for me in those days to have the above mapping - on a standard PC keyboard, I seldomly use the CapsLock key - but if I hit it by accident, it won't cause SHOUTING.
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Item Description: This is a great module that grabs the weather with very simple commands from the National Weather System
Review Synopsis:
I just got this module today with the advice of jcwren and it is the easiest way to get the weather from the web. All it takes is a simple snippet like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl use Geo::Weather; my $weather = new Geo::Weather; $weather->get_weather('Philadelphia','PA'); print $weather->report();
And that little bit will come with a weather report that will come out with this (Today, I mean):
<font size=+4>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</font><br> <img src=" +" border=0> <font size=+3>Mostly Cloudy</font><br> <table border=0> <tr><td><b>Temp</b></td><td>37° F</td> <tr><td><b>Wind</b></td><td>From the West at 15 mph</td> <tr><td><b>Dew Point</b></td><td>18° F</td> <tr><td><b>Rel. Humidity</b></td><td>39%</td> <tr><td><b>Visibility</b></td><td>unlimited</td> <tr><td><b>Barometer</b></td><td>30.25 inches</td> <tr><td><b>Sunrise</b></td><td>7:14 am</td> <tr><td><b>Sunset</b></td><td>5:16 pm</td> </table>
But if you don't want that big report you can even shorten it to make it more limited and more..fashionable:
use Geo::Weather; my $weather = new Geo::Weather; my $current = $weather->get_weather('19067'); print "The current temperature is $current->{temp} degrees\n";
And that would just print:
The current temperature is 35 degrees
Now, all this code presented is well documented in the module. All the keys are covered with a description next to it. So, in conclusion, this is MUCH easier than going out and writing a whole load of regular expressions to grab the weather where the results might not even be accurate! Trust me, I know. Get it here
UPDATE: In the full report, you can use the zip code in there too for convenience. If your not connected to the internet when you run it, all that will happen is a little error.
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Letting Fannie and Freddie Off the Hook
Although they played a part in the ensuing financial panic, noted economist Mark Zandi argues why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don't deserve to be blamed for the housing bubble.
Zandi sees many groups to blame for the U.S. housing bubble of the last decade, but finds that Fannie and Freddie, who were making just a fraction of the subprime loans as the private sector at the height of the bubble, should not be considered among them. He sees America's broken mortgage securitization machine as the fundamental source of the problem.
"Getting history right for this dark economic period is critical if we are to design a better mortgage finance system for the future. If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are responsible for the debacle, then perhaps government's role in a future mortgage finance system should be minimal. But if private lenders deserve most of the blame, the case grows for giving government an important role in backstopping and overseeing the system."
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I absolutely loved that the bottom screen on HG/SS was the menu, rather than having it be mostly unused outside of battle. I really wished that we would've got a hybrid between the HG/SS and D/P/Pt bottom screens heading into the 5th gen- having a Poketch-esque thing replacing the Pokegear, so I was quite disappointed that we ended up getting the C-Gear, which I basically never used (I had the Dowsing Machine almost permanently on my bottom screen). Hopefully we can still have some sort of hybrid in the next games, though, since the menu at the bottom was just too convenient (and bring back the permanent running shoes, please!).
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Welcome to the site. I'm no expert on Poly. I'm just forging ahead also....Just like you. I make mistakes, and I learn....and I make more mistakes....and I learn more....and so on and so forth.
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by Jason MacNeil
29 October 2006
Elanors consists of some members of Judah Johnson, however they are quite different than that group. Spacy, atmospheric, and very consistent, this group creates very moving pieces of work, opening with “The Lion”, which sounds like a cross between Starsailor and Radiohead. It is a very pretty track that you could fall asleep to as equally as you could fall in love with it. Just as engaging is the slow, soulful, and very tender “Counsel of Bodies”, which beams brilliantly. Elanors can also be very lush and large sounding, especially on the inviting “She Had a Dream”, sounding like Ricky Nelson fronting Sigur Ros in certain spots. What makes this album so damn appealing is how well they maintain a high level of quality and consistency, with “Drifters” sounding like a possible Ron Sexsmith track circa Cobblestone Runway, while the sweet “Do You Know My Name” resembles a Rufus Wainwright composition. Perhaps the lone number which has them reaching a bit is “Tricks”, with its sullen, Coldplay-meets-Thom Yorke feeling.
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Google Launches Maps Elevation Data API
Adam DuVander
Mar. 25 2010, 02:05AM EDT
Flat maps have a hard time communicating elevation changes, but now you can access the data to visualize as you want. Google Maps added two elevation services, bringing you the meters above sea level for any point on earth.
You can play around with a mashup created by the Maps team using the new data at the end of the post, where I've embedded the tool. Be sure to check out Death Valley for some below sea level examples.
The service can be accessed with Google Maps V3, or via its own elevation web service, which returns JSON or XML. The latter gives you more freedom with how you use the data, but it's subject to the same terms as other map web services: you need to eventually plot the data on a Google Map. We've add a new Google Maps Elevation API profile with more details.
Finding elevation along a route has long been part of the GMap Pedometer, a classic mashup for walkers, runners and bikers. In fact, there are several end-user tools that make use of elevation data in our 6 Fun Sites to Track Your Trails. Now, getting at that data is even easier.
There's also a simple code sample for incorporating elevation directly into your Maps. Keep in mind this only works for V3. Previously Google had pitched the latest version of its Maps API as mobile-specific. By adding elevation to V3 and not V2, they could either be signaling that V3 is the way forward or that elevation data is of more use to users on the go.
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I'm looking for a map that shows the elevation from the dams on the missouri river through the arid regions of Nebraska ,kansas and Oklahoma. I'm proposing a pipe line through the regin to ease the flooding and provide water for the regions agricalture.
The application is very useful in getting the informatin on altitude change, over the path. It would be better if the distance is displayed in the horizontal axis for better clarity. Thanks
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Robin Hood of Travel Tracks Flight Deals Via API
Garrett Wilkin
Apr. 05 2011, 12:00PM EDT
Flight price tracker Yapta's value proposition sounds a bit like Robin Hood of the travel industry. It will not only track travel prices for you, but to help you get a refund should the price of your reservation fall after you’ve booked it. I wouldn’t be surprised if Yapta can also be used to retrieve kittens from high branches, but that part of the Yapta API isn’t documented yet.
Yapta relies on JSON schema definitions and provides a detailed encyclopedia of its API messages. This gives developers an in-depth look the Yapta API data surface. This API release is in beta, and developers must go through an application process to gain access. So it seems that the current public API documentation is really a bit of a tease. The good news is that during this beta phase Yapta openly invites API users to interface with its developers.
Yapta sounds like a technically robust API since it is taking information from multiple disparate data sources and then offering it up to the API user. A quick look at the site shows that Yapta outsources travel reservation searching to Kayak. Yapta also uses OAuth to protect user credentials. Maybe in a month of two there will be an open source implementation of the Yapta API on github. We can hope. There is sure to be some excitement around this offering since Yapta’s price tracking API is the first of this type openly available in the travel industry.
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G,day people,
I was wondering if any geneticists on here could give me a few pointers to what I should write about for the following question:
“There are two major requirements that need to be met in order to conduct genetic linkage analysis for a particular human genetic trait: i) genome –wide coverage of markers, and ii) enough informative meiosis for conclusive evidence. For each requirement discuss why it is necessary and the things that determine whether or not the requirement is met”
I do not wish for anyone to give me the answer to this question as this doesn’t excel my learning. What I would like is if someone can give me a few pointers as I have really no clear idea what this question is asking. If I get some guidance on what the questions is asking for and what things I should be looking at then that’s what im after.
Thanks in advance
The question is asking...
Lets say you were looking for gene that caused a particular genetic disease. And for some reason you wanted to look for that gene by linkage analysis.
Explain why do you need markers all over the genome.
Explain why do you need enough meiosis events, to make use of said markers.
First you need to read up on linkage analysis. How does this method work? Can you tell me the basic idea behind this method. Once you can tell me the basic workings of this method, then remember that a human genome is not the tidiest of things. It looks like a very fragmented harddrive.
Hope this helps.
Yep thanks for that. My genetics worksheet paper isn’t due for a month (got two weeks of holidays now) but once i get some other assignments out of the way ill read up on it and if i have any problems ill definitely post them up.
Thanks for the pointers again, much appreciated smile.gif
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Now you're beginning to speak my language there, EW! Not nary of this, "I have 45,000 trouble free miles on my truck" mess! Of course you (not you personally) have 0 - 85,000 or so trouble free miles! Now, give me 100,000 and more, and I'll listen! Like me old '93 Dakota that odometer broke 9 years ago at 120,460 miles on! That odometer and headlight switch I just replaced is only trouble I've had with that truck! Using nary bit of oil, etc. That's what I'm talking about, boys!
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Hey there, i posted awhile back about not having any heat and defroster not working along with a odor in the cab. Well i am getting a code 442 and a code 420. What is the code 442, i saw in the ram manual it is the evaporative emissions control unti and says something about a leak, if so where should i look and what to look for. Thanks and any help would be great
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"Green Economy?" We're Not Green Enough to Buy it PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Thomas L. Knapp
Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:47
"Green Economy?" We're Not Green Enough to Buy It
by Kevin Carson
In last month's Rio +20 (UN Conference for Sustainable Development)
declaration, "The Economy We Need," RIPESS (French acronym for
Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social and Solidarity
Economy) dismisses the "so-called green economy" model promulgated "by
governments and corporations" with the contempt it deserves.
There are at least two problems with the green economy movement. The
first is highlighted in the RIPESS declaration: It is really a
greenwashed attempt to create a new, greenwashed model of capital
accumulation for global corporate capitalism, based on "the
commodification of the commons."
Green (or Progressive, or Cognitive) Capitalism, like the first
Industrial Revolution, is based on a large-scale process of primitive
accumulation (a technical term Marxists use that means "massive
The primitive accumulation preceding the rise of the factory system in
industrial Britain involved the enclosure of common lands: First of a
major portion of the Open Fields for sheep pasturage over several
centuries in late medieval and early modern times, then the
Parliamentary Enclosures of common pasture, woodland and waste in the
18th century.
The new greenwashed model of corporate-state capitalism, as the RIPESS
declaration suggests, achieves primitive accumulation through the
enclosure of the information commons. Economist Paul Romer calls it
the "new growth theory." It's based on enclosing digital information
and innovation -- things which are naturally free -- as a source of
rents. This "progressive" model of capitalism, promoted by Warren
Buffett, Bill Gates and Bono, is even more heavily reliant on patents
and copyrights than the existing version of corporate capitalism.
The "green capitalist" model is intended as a response to the primary
threat facing corporate capitalism and its model of capital
accumulation: Technologies of abundance. If allowed to operate without
hindrance, the free adoption of low-cost, ephemeral production
technologies and the radical deflationary effect of freely replicable
digital information would not only destroy most existing corporate
profits but render most investment capital superfluous.
It's this threat, all the "progressive" rhetoric aside, that "green
capitalism" is intended to head off. It's a last-ditch effort to
rescue an entire system of class privilege and economic exploitation
based on artificial scarcity from the revolutionary impact of
The Solidarity Economy model promoted by RIPESS -- and by my free
market anticapitalist comrades at the Center for a Stateless Society
-- is just the opposite. What we seek is a self-organized,
decentralized economy, in which ordinary people take advantage of new
technologies of abundance (like low-cost production technologies and
free information) to build an economy of our own in which the rentier
classes' huge accumulations of land and capital are worthless.
This was foreshadowed by the Owenite cooperatives of the 1830s, in
which unemployed tradesmen undertook production in cooperative shops,
marketing their wares to their fellow workers for Labor Notes in
barter exchanges. The problem was that this model only worked for
craft trades in which the tools of production were still individually
affordable. It didn't work in forms of industrial production which
relied on large, specialized, and extremely expensive machinery. The
Knights of Labor learned this the hard way four decades later when
their efforts at creating worker cooperatives ran head-on against the
capitalization costs of the factory system.
The beauty of the age we live in is that new production technology is
reversing this process. A growing share of manufacturing takes place
in job shops using cheap, general-purpose CNC machine tools. A garage
shop equipped with open-source lathe, router, 3-D printer, etc.,
costing $10-20,000 can produce goods that once required a million
dollar factory. And a much larger share is amenable to such production
methods. In food production, soil-intensive raised-bed horticulture
was already far more productive than industrial agriculture. New
techniques, like those of John Jeavons, are making it more productive
It's technologically feasible for workers and consumers to bootstrap
almost an entire economy on the Owenite model, with very little in the
way of land and capital assets.
So the question is, which model do we want to follow? Do we knuckle
under to the greenwashed Hamiltonian model of "progressives" like
Gates and Buffett, aimed at protecting their profits against the
radical deflationary effects of abundance? Or do harness these
deflationary effects for people like ourselves, replacing the
domination of bosses, toil and debt with a society of self-governance,
leisure and mutual cooperation.
You shouldn't have to think about it long.
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The IPCC report on extreme climate and weather events
Filed under: — rasmus @ 19 November 2011
• SumoMe
Fig. 1. The text analysis according to
Fig. 2. Wind speed statistics and tropical cyclones.
1. 1
Hunt Janin says:
What does the new IPCC report have to say about sea level rise?
2. 2
Paul D says:
Can you rotate the text image 90 degrees clockwise??
It’s a 2 minute job in Photoshop or your favourite image editing software.
[Response: Done. -rasmus]
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The spectrum of tools available to help is familiar: improved forecasts and warnings for severe weather, rigorously enforced zoning and building codes, and restoration of ecosystems that serve as buffers between people and river floods or coastal-storm surges, for instance.
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CM says:
Hunt (#1), see pp. 6, 12, and 26 of the SPM linked to by Rasmus. You’re in luck (and coastal populations are not): some of the more robust statements in the report concern extreme coastal high water events.
Otherwise, I found Rasmus’s discussion here rather more interesting than the SREX SPM, and mind you, my eyes glaze over quickly when people start using words like “Weibull distribution”. Trust the IPCC to make even “extreme climate events” sound boring.
I’m not asking for an 8pm Discovery Channel disaster-fest. But take this (to return to sea level): “The very likely contribution of mean sea level rise to increased extreme coastal high water levels, coupled with the likely increase in tropical cyclone maximum wind speed” — now you think they’ve finally got into gear, right? — “is a specific issue for tropical small island states.”
It’s a specific issue for them? This is the kind of heroic understatement last seen as a literary trope in the sagas of my Norse ancestors. (“There is low confidence as to whether Gunnar is inside, but there is robust evidence that his halberd is … aaagh.”)
There’s been a lot of talk in these threads about drought projections. SREX’s cautious wordings might be grist for another round of that.
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Pete Dunkelberg says:
Hunt @ 1, just search on sea level in the linked pdf.
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Pete Dunkelberg says:
What is the latest date for a paper to be submitted, accepted or published in order to be considered in this report?
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Chris Colose says:
Rasmus, thanks for the post,
I do not think there should be much surprise as to why TC frequencies decline in a warmer world, something which seems to me to be something that can be argued on theoretical (at least qualitatively) grounds, and not necessarily dependent on full blown GCMs (as was also implied in Judith Curry’s comment on the SPM).
The decline in frequency depends on the ratio between the difference of middle tropospheric moist entropy and its saturation value (this difference scales with Clausius-Clapeyron at fixed RH), to the difference between moist entropy of saturated air (with T=SST and surface pressure) and the boundary layer moist entropy. The degree to which the atmosphere is unsaturated increases in a warmer world (at fixed RH), which results in decreases of convective mass flux.
Of course, the “frequency of hurricanes” is probably not a very useful statistic, either from a human or climate perspective. The TC’s that matter for us are often the “black swans” (to use a phrase of Kerry Emanuel) of hurricanes, those with unusual tracks (esp. with exposed infrastructure), and of course weighted by the intensity of the hurricane. From a climate perspective, I’m not aware of any theoretical argument for why there should be the number of hurricanes per year that we actually observe (remarkably close to 90 every year) but small hurricanes cannot be compared in any meaningful way to big category 5’s (in terms of impacts on energy fluxes, etc). Thus, the thing that matters for us is intensity, but also whether the changed background state provides conditions favorable for “black swans.”
It is actually not even obvious that N is highly sensitive to various triggering events in the macroscale (e.g., globally and annually averaged) view, as some people like Emanuel have argued only recently (he gave a talk a couple weeks ago at the University of Albany on this), if climate not only impacts hurricanes but hurricanes pose a strong constraint on the climate system (such as the differential climate sensitivity between the Poles and tropics). If one could put a big wall near Africa and prevent AEW’s from forming into TC’s (or to be more realistic, modify the baroclinic-barotropic instability of the African Easterly Jet, perhaps by “greening the Sahara” and altering the meridional baroclinitiy and moisture gradient) then one could initially get a decrease in TC frequency which would then imply a change in the background state that could feedback onto conditions conducive for TC conditions (albeit with a different spatial structure).
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Lloyd Smith says:
An expanding atmosphere diminishes the chances of TC formation but SST increases coupled with an expanded atmosphere may extend the time when TC’s are able to form and be sustained. In addition, SST increases, an expanded atmosphere and reductions in Arctic ice create favorable chances for ETC formation and extended life. Frozen precipitation and on shore impacts of ETC’s create a new set of challenges for which existing policies and infrastructure are not adequately prepared.
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Halldór Björnsson says:
I like the word cloud. But it is not difficult to remove common words from the list. Here is my version after removing common english words and ensuring that all were lower case:
10. 10
Hank Roberts says:
> Halldór Björnsson … version
That’s informative. Recommended.
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Kerry Emanuel says:
First, I think Chris Colose has done a great job summarizing the theoretical arguments in favor of a global decrease in tropical cyclone frequency and the fact that, at the end of the day, the global frequency of events may have little (or perhaps nothing) to do with the nature and frequency of potential initiating disturbances.
The policy-maker’s summary of the IPCC report on extreme events strikes me as conservative to the point of being biased. Consider, for example, this statement on page 11:
Note that the qualification “although increases may not occur in all ocean basins” is not applied (as its converse should be) to the subsequent statement about the global decrease in frequency. Indeed, most if not all downscalings of GCMs of which I am aware predict that while global frequency decreases, it increases in some ocean basins. Why the qualification in the first instance and not the second?
Another curious statement is “Heavy rainfalls associated with tropical cyclones are likely to increase with continued warming”. But increased heavy rainfall is arguably the most robust result of both direct simulations and downscalings of tropical cyclones, and it is a feature that everyone working on the problem, to the best of my knowledge, agrees on. So why just “likely”?
Finally, we have “The uncertainties in the historical tropical cyclone records, the incomplete understanding of the physical mechanisms linking tropical cyclone metrics to climate change, and the degree of tropical cyclone variability provide only low confidence for the attribution of any detectable changes in tropical cyclone activity to anthropogenic influences.” But this seems to ignore much evidence to the contrary. For example, the work of Elsner and Kossin (2008) uses homogeneous data derived from satellite (not the so called “best track” data) to reveal a distinct upward trend in the highest quantiles of tropical cyclone intensity in many places. It also ignores the rather spectacular correlation between North Atlantic tropical cyclone power and summertime tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature extending well back into the 20th century, with the latter clearly following the northern hemisphere surface temperature rather closely; yet the IPCC does not seem to have a large problem with attribution of the latter.
As Chris points out, the frequency-intensity dichotomy is somewhat misleading, as the societal impact is more related to the frequency of intense events, which is a different matter. It is too bad that the IPCC missed an opportunity to correct this.
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David B. Benson says:
Despite the reasonable accuracy of the Weibull approximation, it is not an exact characterization of the PDF of sea surface wind speeds. from
The Probability Distribution of Sea Surface Wind Speeds. Part I: Theory and SeaWinds Observations
in which a more precise PDF is otained based on a Fokker-Planck equation taking into account some of the surface layer physics.
However, the more empirical
Eugene C. Morgan, Matthew Lackner, Richard M. Vogel, Laurie G. Baise
Probability distributions for offshore wind speeds
Energy Conversion and Management 52 (2011) 15–26
find that the Kappa and Wakeby distributions fit the upper tail (higher wind speeds) of a sample better than the bimodal Weibull, … and then the 2-parameter Lognormal distribution performs best for estimating extreme wind speeds, but still gives estimates with significant error. The Lognormal has a heavy tail but from the body of the paper one finds that the tail still is not heavy enough.
I opine, for fundamental phyical reasons, that a fractional derviative Fokker-Planck equation ought to be considered. The details and references are not included here for brevity; it suffices to note that such an approach will lead to a PDF with a heavy tail rolling off (eventually) as k/w^(3/2) for some constant k and large wind speed w.
In summary, it is possible that this IPCC report is more right than wrong regarding tropical cyclone frequency and intensity statistics; all I am fairly confident about is that the Weibull distribution is inappropriate for considering the frequency of high wind events.
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Dan Bloom says:
So does the new IPCC report say anything about “polar cities”? See, my ideas are getting closer and closer to reality, all ye who doubted me here over the years!
14. 14
Meanwhile over at the BBC, Richard Black has found a draft document (possibly a version of this one, which has slightly different wording) and quotes this:
The wording in the draft I found is a little different:
A variant on the story has spilled into a news report here in South Africa, as well as the anti-science blogosphere.
Correct me if I’m wrong but if we are projecting forward over any period of 20-30 years, there is a reasonably high likelihood that natural variability will obscure the climate change signal. This statement however seems to me to be stronger than that. What do we know about natural variability that suggests it will make the climate change signal seem relatively small?
We are still in a relatively deep low in the solar cycle, for example, and unless we have some good science suggesting that the next 2-3 solar cycles will be equally low, we should see a relatively steep natural increase in temperatures (but overlaid on any warming previously banked in the system). Could this be what the draft is referring to?
Given that we have news services that even when they do not have an agenda can end up confusing the public, we’d better make sure we have a clear way of explaining all this.
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prokaryotes says:
Another marker for extreme climate are microburst and uptakes. Discovered by Ted Fujita.
Fujita is recognized as the discoverer of downbursts and microbursts and also developed the Fujita scale,[1] which differentiates tornado intensity and links tornado damage with wind speed.
Fujita’s best-known contributions were in tornado research—he was often called “Mr. Tornado” by his associates and by the media. Much of what we now know about tornadoes was either discovered or advanced by his efforts. In addition to the Fujita scale, he was a pioneer in the development of tornado overflight and damage survey techniques, which he used to study and map
In the book “Our Angry Earth” (out of print, though audio version is available on the internet), Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl, describe microburst and the connection to climate change.
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Pete Dunkelberg says:
Kerry Emanuel @ 11, it is interesting that part of your comment parallels this analysis.
Then when you mention “…the rather spectacular correlation between North Atlantic tropical cyclone power and summertime tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature….” I wonder what you and Rasmus make of this Naval study which finds in part:
“If Caribbean SSTs are below (above) average in earlier months,
then Beaufort Sea SIC tends to be above (below) average in October.”
“Our results indicate that viable long-range forecasts of October SIC in the
Beaufort Sea are possible via the use of Beaufort Sea SIC and Caribbean SSTs
at lead times of one to five months.”
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Pete Dunkelberg says:
Philip Machanick @ 14, I can’t help thinking that your comment involves ESP (error some place). The error involves events & extreme events vs the climate change signal overall. It is high time I brought up the divide and conquer strategy.
Total ocean heat content will keep going up. This is not “natural” i.e. unforced variability. Let us stop forgetting conservation of energy. Where does the added energy of the ocean come from? But evidently this is not a discrete extreme event as the term is used. Cool La Niñas are now warmer than El Niños were prior to 1998. Evidently this is not an ‘event” as long as the difference between the two over an ENSO cycle is about the same as it was in the past.
“Divide and conquer”: the focus on discrete events makes it possible to slice and dice climate into small (in both time and space) bits that are hard to individually attribute to much of anything.
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Hank Roberts says:
Good pointer there from Prokaryotes.
More here
—excerpt follows—
Asimov’s full speech can be seen here
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Pekka Kostamo says:
Some comments on the hurricanes… from an engineer.
Reading hurricane forecasts from a number of sources (for no personal reason), I note that a detail often involved is the outflow of dust from Sahara. A high dust event is believed by the forecasters to prevent formation of a hurricane, even in conditions when other factors are favourable (i.e criteria for sea surface temperature and subsurface temperature profile, atmospheric profiles of humidity and wind shear are met and an easterly wave exists).
Obviously, the dust outbreaks depend on a number of factors, such as the rains, evaporation and prevailing winds in the great desert and the Sahel south of it. I understand that modeling efforts on future climate developments in that region have given rather unconsistent results. (This in addition to potential warming impacts on the generation mechanicsms of the easterly waves themselves in the heart of Africa.)
As a sideline to theoretical understanding, does this line of thought open an opportunity to engineer the weather (nor climate) in terms of eliminating or reducing the number of hurricanes? Killing some killer storms before they have an opportunity to get going by means of seeding susceptible easterly wave convection features off the coasts of Africa (or in mid-Atlantic) might well be very cost effective. (I am aware of the project STORMFURY – which was about steering an already mature storm away from valuable targets nearby. A different concept altogether with a different set of opportunities and problems.)
Many technologies could converge to reduce or eliminate one of the major hazards of weather, current or future. Using better observations, modeling, aircraft & avionics than what was available 60 years ago this would be a sideline benefit of more than marginal value.
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Burt Armstrong says:
On aspect of the PETM that I can not find is what was the O2 level, prior and after the 20,000 year event? Being a biologist I have an interest in it because during the age of Dinosaurs the general O2 level was higher than it is today, being around 26%. Thus one aspect of the somewhat selective die off might have been a lowering of the O2 levels that disfavored the Dinosaurs and either favoring Mammals or not being important to Mammals for their survival. One can keep in mind that Birds a living close relative of the great Dinosaurs had a very fast metabolism. This fast metabolism is one aspect that makes them dominate the skies as flying requires a massive energy component, something only the smallest mammals and of curse birds can achieve.
I of course do accept the IPCC report but wish that they could express more accurately how worried the climate scientists really are about what we are going to get when we go past 450 ppm CO2 due to inaction sponsored by the powers that rule us.
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David B. Benson says:
The Generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) is frequently applied for the statistical analysis of extreme wind speeds. from the abstract for a poster:
Stable estimations for extreme wind speeds
Hans Van de Vyver – Royal Meteorogical Intstitute of Belgium
as part of 7th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis: Probabilistic and Statistical Models and their Applications, June 27th-July 1st, 2011, Lyon, France
This is an appropriate approach which assumes already a heavy tailed distribution an extreme wind speeds.
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Predicting the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones under the present conditions let alone under future conditions are daunting tasks. There is an urgent need to find a solution to global warming. Harnessing a small part of the energy produced in the atmosphere would provide enough clean energy to meet all human needs.
There may be a possibility of harnessing some of the energy produced in the atmosphere. My experience as a process control engineer has been that the behavior of complex processes is easier to control than to predict. The following link describes a proposal for producing a anchored vortex in order to produce energy.
The thermodynamic of tropical cyclones is well understood. The energy source is warm sea water. While warm sea water is widely available, the initiation and control of a convective vortex requires other ingredients which could be provided.
Harnessing the energy of the atmosphere would be a major scientific undertaking. Atmospheric scientist could contribute to solving the energy and global warming problem.
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Pete Dunkelberg #17: You may well be right but the draft the BBC article quotes says: “climate change signals are expected to be relatively small compared to natural climate variability”. That is what I was specifically finding hard to understand. The text I found changes the statement to refer to extremes, which makes more sense.
Possibly this was an early draft and the wording was in error. It’s unfortunate that the BBC reported this without checking with the authors on the status of the document.
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prokaryotes says:
Why can we attribute Microburst to Global warming and Ozone Depletion?
Because more cold air around the tropopause, and the trigger of precipitation, causes more downbursts.
Global Warming Causes Stratospheric Cooling
Cooling of the stratosphere isn’t just the result of ozone destruction but is also caused by the release of carbon dioxide in the troposphere. Therefore, global warming in the troposphere and stratospheric cooling due to ozone loss are parallel effects. As cooling increases, development of the ozone layer can be affected because a cold stratosphere is necessary for ozone depletion.
So releasing more carbon dioxide may not only increase global warming but may also contribute to the formation of the ozone hole. The system is pretty complicated and so we try to give just an overview of it here.
Microburst – They generally are formed by precipitation-cooled air rushing to the surface, but they perhaps also could be powered from the high speed winds of the jet stream deflected to the surface
The formation of a downburst starts with hail or large raindrops falling through drier air. Hailstones melt and raindrops evaporate—this is an endothermic process that demands a lot of energy (in the form of latent heat) so the air is cooled. Cooler air has a higher density than the warmer air around it, so it falls
The atmospheric currents become more distubed and unbalanced, like ripples in an ocean. This causes more air bursting.
Outflow boundaries create low-level wind shear which can be hazardous during aircraft takeoffs and landings. If a thunderstorm runs into an outflow boundary, the low-level wind shear from the boundary can cause thunderstorms to exhibit rotation at the base of the storm, at times causing tornadic activity. Strong versions of these features known as downbursts can be generated in environments of vertical wind shear and mid-level dry air. Microbursts have a diameter of influence less than 4 kilometres (2.5 mi), while macrobursts occur over a diameter greater than 4 kilometres (2.5 mi). Wet microbursts occur in atmospheres where the low levels are saturated, while dry microbursts occur in drier atmospheres from high-based thunderstorms. When an outflow boundary moves into a more stable low level environment, such as into a region of cooler air or over regions of cooler water temperatures out at sea, it can lead to the development of an undular bore.
The national temporal distribution of catastrophic windstorms during 1952–2006 has a flat trend, but their losses display a distinct upward trend with time, peaking during 1996–2006.
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Urs Neu says:
I am not sure if the analysis of overall wind speed pdf is an adequate approach to look at the frequency-intensity question, since tropical cyclones (TCs) are individual closed systems within the atmosphere and have a different behavior than normal wind flow. There are kind of tipping points in the development of TCs, which might lead to a very different behavior of a certain part of the atmosphere (and its wind speed) if a TC is built or not. Thus I am not sure if this can be described by a regular pdf curve, especially at the high end.
One of the points discussed at the moment is the question on what is more important, the change in overall tropical SSTs (via latent heat input) or changes in relative SSTs in a certain basin (i.e. regional SST change relative to overall tropical SST change; via vertical stability, e.g. Vecchi and Soden, doi:10.1038/nature06423). I suppose it’s both (not only from the experience that climate generally tends to make things as complicate as possible…, but for both influences being physically plausible), but frequency and intensity might not be influenced by both in the same way.
It is striking and in some way also puzzling that the observed long-term trend (i.e. over a century) in Atlantic TC activity seems mainly to come from an increase in the number of tropical storms that never reached hurricane strength, but not in hurricane number (Landsea et al. 2009/ doi: 10.1175/2009JCLI3034.1; Vecchi and Knutson 2011/ doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3810.1). While I agree that evidence for a long-term increase in hurricane activity might be weak, I do not agree to the argument of Landsea et al. that the increase in TCs is spurious (see However, an increase in weaker TCs does not really fit in the picture that we expect, nor does the recent Atlantic hurricane season (rather low number of hurricanes (6) and major hurricanes (3) compared to the total number of TCs (18)). I don’t know at the moment how to put that in a consistent pattern with expectations.
Since we have no reliable information on the long-term history of the most intense hurricanes, we cannot compare the recent evolution to history. However, even if there is no centennial long-term trend and hurricane activity has not been higher in recent years than it was in the mid 20th century or at the end of the 19th century, this does not mean, that the recent observed increase (as described by Kerry Emanuel above) is not due to human activity. Since there are several factors – which can vary by natural as well as human causes – that can influence tropical storm genesis and intensity, a long-term trend might not be very helpful for attribution. These factors can change individually, and one factor may be the reason for an increase at one point while another or other factor(s) may trigger an increase later on. Thus – supporting Kerry Emanuels point – due to the lack of sufficient historical information the indication of uncertainty in historical time series might be somewhat pointless in the attribution discussion. Nevertheless, this point seems always to be weighted quite strongly in the hurricane discussion. What we need for attribution is evidence for a significant change of one or several factor(s) due to human activity, the corresponding processes, and model results. While there is evidence for the two former points, we have still problems with model resolution and differences between model results and observations, although Kerry Emanuel has explanations for the latter (Emanuel 2007/ DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1571.1). Although uncertainties concerning future tropical storm activities might have even increased somewhat during the last years (which might be frustrating in way and makes researchers cautious), we should not forget about what seems to be clear – as said by Kerry Emanuel.
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Pete Dunkelberg says:
Philip Machanick,
I think physics is your home ground, but since your topic is making sense of the material you quoted I’ll try to help. Both quoted statements are saying
“Burn baby burn. Go ahead and burn all the carbon that can be extracted from the earth, it won’t make a noticeable difference for a very long time.”
“Burn baby burn” (Better: burn dummies burn) is three whole words, which can be further condensed to just two slightly longer words:
“Agency capture”
This can be further condensed to just one word:
Recall that denialism is a mishmash of ABC all aimed at D:
A. It isn’t happening
B. It’s not our fault (anything but CO2)
C. It will be good for us anyway (all that “cheap” energy (ignoring massive costs))
and therefore there is no good reason to change our energy sources (meaning: current cash flows)
and if enough people believe this Big Carbon wins a big
D. Delay.
Evidently, when a report such as the IPCC’s depends on total consensus even one “political balance” type in the group is enough for a dark side victory.
Back in physics land, can we recognize the climate change signal?
1. Let’s have a baseline. How about the century 1880 – 1979 for averages, and the total land area impacted by flood + drought in any ten year period for extreme events. [individual events are a distraction from easier ways to recognize the signal]
2. Conservation of energy. Total ocean heat content keep increasing, total ice keeps decreasing which also requires energy, seal level keeps increasing, total atmospheric energy including latent heat keeps increasing. Why?
3. Increasing aridity and drought: predicted, observed and projected. See Dai’s papers including his 2011 followup on his well known 2010 Drought _Under Global Warming: A Review_ for starters.
4. Flood: insufficiently researched but a noticeable problem
5. Bunched precipitation (more of an area’s total precipitation coming in fewer heavier events): Predicted, observed, quite a few papers but observed effect exceeds predicted effect. By the way I prefer looking at bunched precipitation as a middle part of a whole water cycle response to warming, with drought and flood on the sides of the same distribution.
Conclusion: the notion that the climate change signal doesn’t and won’t stand out from natural variation is bizarre. Even the most basic physics (conservation of energy) knocks it down.
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Pete Dunkelberg says:
Louis Michaud @ 22: “There is an urgent need to find a solution to global warming.”
The solution is no secret: Stop burning carbon. Leave it in the ground. Deploy existing alternate energy technology.
If the additional alternate energy source you propose
works out, of course this is a good thing.
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KeithWoollard says:
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John N-G says:
The Weibull distribution examples are informative, but David P. Benson (12 and 21 above) argues that other distributions may be more appropriate and Urs Neu (25 above) argues that TC’s may be a separate category not fitting neatly into the distribution of overall wind speeds. I agree with Urs Neu for the specific reason that there are theoretical arguments (reasonably consistent with observations) for the maximum intensity of TC’s, implying that the upper end of the PDF may be bounded.
If the value of the upper bound increases, the frequency of the most intense tropical cyclones must increase, no matter what happens to the overall shape of the PDF. If you consider any appropriately bounded analog to a Weibull distribution (or any other distribution for that matter), the odds of random changes to all the parameters governing that distribution causing a simultaneous increase in the frequency of most intense events and a decrease in frequency of events above a lower and much easier to satisfy threshold is close to 50%, not 1.9%.
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RichardC says:
22 Louis – Interesting idea. I’ve got some questions. First, figure 4 shows a 4m diameter model and the vortex rising from it seems to increase the effective height of the structure by about 80%. I assume they took the photograph at the instant the absolute best performance was achieved, so the claim that a vortex in a production unit of 80 meters height could sustain a 15,000m vortex seems wildly optimistic. Could you explain?
I also would think that the vortex above the structure would be less efficient than that within the structure. Is that correct? Assuming an 80% increase in height (estimated from figure 4 in your link), the system seems negligibly more efficient dollar to dollar than a simple chimney of far less diameter, which can be taller than the AVE structure you propose.
Finally, natural vortexes move. Winds push them around. A vortex anchored at the bottom would seem to be far more subject to destruction by natural air currents than a hurricane or tornado. Plus, doesn’t the anchoring of the bottom completely eliminate the possibility of using sea surface temperatures as a driver? The sea surface would cool and the vortex would die. This still leaves the possibility of using solar power or fossil fuels as the driver, but it just doesn’t seem that the idea will make much difference when compared to a simple power chimney – though I’m intrigued and want to learn more. TIA for further info.
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CM says:
Philip, Pete, re: SREX drafts and “relatively small” climate change signal,
I don’t really see what the issue is here. The SREX is about extremes. If the draft text at some point read as in the BBC story, presumably the drafters thought it was obvious that “signal” referred to extreme events, not (say) long-term trends in global mean temperature, ocean heat content or glacier retreat. Then they realized that it would not be obvious, at least when the denialosphere was through with it, and changed it.
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CM says:
Prokaryotes, re: downbursts,
The link you assert between stratospheric cooling and downbursts doesn’t make sense to me. Precipitation-cooled air is not cooled in the stratosphere, and if there’s a link between stratospheric cooling and downward deflection of the jet stream, this layman would like to have it spelled out. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think any of the references you have stitched together spell out such a hypothesis, nor have I found any literature discussing it by a little bit of googling. Apparently those who study downbursts look mainly at the gradient in equivalent potential temperature between the surface and the mid-troposphere. Though I could imagine other reasons why global warming should increase downbursts, I haven’t actually seen any literature suggesting it would. So where does this suggestion come from?
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Lewis Guignard says:
RE: Pete Dunkleburg.
One supposes we should shut down all the coal fired electrical generation plants world wide to satisfy the desire, by some, to eliminate mankinds production of CO2.
There is one main question: Can man control the climate? Not influence, but control. Then there is the question of how.
Climate has changed and will change. The last 2000 years is not even a base line. Let us take the last 100,000 years. In the last 400,000 years, a better baseline for a 4.5 billion year old planet, ice ages are the norm. Is that a better world than one of CO2 and warm weather. I’ll take thawing in Canada and Russia anytime over that.
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prokaryotes says:
Hello CM, the idea that GW creates more MB is layed out in the book “Our Angry Earth” from Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl, which i mentioned in post #15. Asimov had an master degree in chemistry, though his analysis about it was very sound. It is my hypothesis that this could be due to stratospheric cooling and precipitation uptake.
Please post any relevant link to an article/study which suggest otherwise or in particular about downburst/downdraft or microburst genesis. Because i couldn’t find a lot of information about microburst in general. And very little about climate change interconnection.
There is this older article about downdrafts/microburst in general:
The size and dynamics of a microburst may be dependent upon the scale and type of precipitation in a maturing cell. The genesis of a microburst from a downdraft may proceed as follows (see Fig. 4 and Fig. 7):
A concentrated rain shaft or virga shaft, on a scale of about 1 km (0.5 n mi), forms a concentrated downdraft with a very sharp edge,
across which the horizontal gradient in buoyancy force generates strong torques resulting in a sheath of toroidal vorticity surrounding the downdraft.
The impact with the surface, and interaction with the surface friction layer, cause this sheath of vorticity to gather up into a ring vortex that spins up as it is forced to expand diameter by the outflow about the base of the downdraft.
To be more precise, maybe due to Stratospheric cooling, the Jet Stream is altered, which could cause more downdrafts, thus creating a favorable environment for microburst genesis. Maybe the link to stratospheric cooling is weak at this time, but then there is the precipitation uptake from global warming.
Polar stratospheric clouds or PSCs, also known as nacreous clouds (play /ˈneɪkriːəs/, from nacre, or mother of pearl, due to its iridescence), are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (50,000–80,000 ft). They are implicated in the formation of ozone holes;[1] their effects on ozone depletion arise because they support chemical reactions that produce active chlorine which catalyzes ozone destruction, and also because they remove gaseous nitric acid, perturbing nitrogen and chlorine cycles in a way which increases ozone destruction.
Nacreous Clouds
They need the very frigid regions of the lower stratosphere some 15 – 25 km (9 -16 mile) high and well above tropospheric clouds. They are so bright after sunset and before dawn because at those heights they are still sunlit.
They are seen mostly during winter at high latitudes like Scandinavia, Iceland, Alaska and Northern Canada. Sometimes, however, they occur as far south as England. They can be less rare downwind of mountain ranges. Elsewhere their appearance is often associated with severe tropospheric winds and storms.
Also relevant and in agreement with more severe storms observed during the winter months.
One of the main factors is a change in the position of the jet stream – the fast-moving current of air that moves from west to east, high in the atmosphere.
Changes in the jet stream’s path can cause massive changes in weather conditions across the globe
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Ray Ladbury says:
Correction: PDF stands for probability DENSITY function. The choice of a Weibull is probably sound on grounds of extreme-value therory. For the shape values being considered here, the skew will be positive.
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Tom Scharf says:
After all the hyperventilating in 2006 after Katrina and a very active Atlantic hurricane season and the opportunistic climate disaster linkage hindsight, the actual numbers dropped off a cliff:
Global cyclone energy is at or near all time lows since modern measurements began. This even with best estimates were for very activate seasons year after year.
It has been 2000+ days and counting since a Cat3 hurricane has made US landfall. A record.
This analysis is very flawed when it barely even mentions actual recent measurements versus recent model predictions. This is just another example of burying poor model performance, then proclaiming new numbers as if poor prior performance was irrelevant to the task.
What am I looking for? Mea Culpa? No. Just an honest assessment that the models are performing poorly, and are unreliable, and that is why we are discussing all these updates and new theories, right?
From a skeptical point of view, the “oversight” of not clearly showing trends of the last 30 years versus CO2/temperature seems fraught with a desired political narrative.
Real data matters. Real prior performance matters. The hurricane link is tenuous to non-existent. Prove me otherwise.
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Ray Ladbury says:
Lewis Guignard,
I am sure that the saber-toothed tigers and mastodons are heartened to think you find the climate they thrived in to be relevant. As to how we manage to feed 10 billion people and support a complicated global infrastructure with a climate like that 100000 years ago, I would love to hear your thoughts. Are you planning to domesticate wooly mammoths?
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prokaryotes says:
Category 4 Kenneth the strongest East Pacific late-season hurricane on record
2011, 19 atlantic tropical storms, make this year the 3rd busiest on record!
Re-analysis has shown that a tropical disturbance that formed between Bermuda and Nova Scotia on September 2 briefly attained tropical storm status
The addition of the unnamed tropical storm to the record books brings this year’s tally of named storms to nineteen, tying 2011 with 2010, 1995, and 1887 as the 3rd busiest year for tropical storms. Only 2005 and 1933 had more named storms since record keeping began in 1851. An average season has just eleven named storms.
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SecularAnimist says:
Tom Scharf wrote: “It has been 2000+ days and counting since a Cat3 hurricane has made US landfall. A record.”
Also totally irrelevant since whether or not hurricanes “make US landfall” has nothing to do with anything.
Having said that, I’d point out that it has been barely 90 days since Hurricane Irene, a mere Category 1 hurricane, made US landfall, causing at least 45 deaths and over seven billion dollars in damage, cutting electric power for over seven million homes and businesses for days, triggering an evacuation order for 370,000 residents of New York City, and causing unprecedented flooding throughout the Northeast.
And only days later, a mere tropical storm, Lee, caused another billion dollars in damage, and again causing historic, destructive and disruptive flooding in Pennsylvania, New York and elsewhere.
And of course this is in the context of the USA experiencing fourteen billion-dollar-plus weather disasters in 2011, far exceeding the previous record of nine set in 2009, as meteorologist Jeff Masters details at WunderGround.
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Dan H. says:
While 2011 may have been busy with regards to the total number of storms, the intensity of the storms as dropped off in recent years.
[Response: My tolerance level for your continuing unbacked assertions, reference to highly biased information sources, and pretty much outright denial of the evidence is now zero. Got that?–Jim]
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CM says:
Prokaryotes #35,
Ah, I see. You made it up. That is, you asserted your untested hypothesis as well-established fact. Don’t do that. It’s confusing, irritating, and distracts from serious conversations. Like the one we could be following on this thread, where some experts in the field have shown up to discuss the IPCC’s pronouncements on tropical cyclones.
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prokaryotes says:
CM, i suggest you then focus on what you interpret as the real conversations. Because i find your replies rather confuse. So please follow your own advice, cheers.
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KeithWoollard says:
Rar @ 37. Mastodons survived through many glacials and interglacials just fine. We killed them off
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Dan H. says:
Would you prefer that I link to the peer-reviewed paper from which I lifted the plot? Check out the accumulated cyclone energy over the past four decades.
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Lewis Guignard says:
RE: Ray Ladbury
Your point appears to be that the only climate you think relevant is recent, the last few hundred years – during mankinds ability to measure it. Yet the earth cares not whether we can measure it or not. My point remains:
Can man CONTROL the climate? If so, how?
The ideas of eliminating or controlling CO2 production are actually ideas whose end game is one of making man live as he did 200 years ago. Yet this action does nothing to assure a stable climate, especially one which is reflective of the 1970’s. Can we be assured of that by our actions or are we just crying wolf and saying man did it and we must then sacrifice a virgin as a paen to the gods?
But if there is success in stopping the production of CO2, where then your food to feed the 10 B or so humans. Do you think battery powered farm tractors and trucks will suffice to farm the land and oceans and move the produce to market? Thatis not even a joke. The batteries would weigh so much as to make the machinery unusable. As the EPA and those of similar ilk move to make the cost of CO2 production higher, the cost of electricity, even more importantly, the supply will become limited and the price of everything higher which, by simply laws of economics, will reduce usage. So everyone’s life will be one of less. Finally, the excess which allows so many scientists a free ride to research the most esoteric of ideas will go away and they too will have to get real jobs feeding themselves and their families.
For me: burn the coal. Farm the far north with liquid hydrocarbon fuel fired machinery and keep enough excess for the scientists to keep researching.
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ccpo says:
Lewis, your time here may be short, indeed, for your comments are far less interesting and engaging even than Dan’s, being almost completely rhetorical. I suspect Jim will have little tolerance.
To answer your question, we obviously can change and control climate. We are in the process of doing so, quite obviously. Your question really is, can we stabilize it? the answer to that would also be yes – assuming we all agreed to. but, technically, dead easy. We know that over the last 800,000 years CO2 has not gone above 300 – and not usually over 280-ish. Those times were roughly parallel to today, so would seem a good benchmark. Stabilize at 260 – 280 and life should be quite rosy barring an asteroid or some such.
Let’s set aside resource constraints for the moment. If we change nothing else but re-grow forest ecosystems, change food production to regenerative practices we can begin pulling down carbon. We can do less of both if we also change behavior and society to be less energy intensive. Or draw down faster.
Given we can calculate the carbon cycle pretty well, we,as a global society, certainly have the ability to manage our carbon emissions or manage the mitigation by managing the sequestration or release of carbon via carbon farming. And there are a fairly long list of other measure to take, as well.
The only thing keeping us from saving ourselves – assuming methane emissions aren’t already self-propagating – is choosing not to play nice.
I have posted these things many times, so will not post again now. You can find them by searching on my pseudonym easily enough, I’d say. Let me know if you can’t find them.
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prokaryotes says:
Re OT Post #45
I suggest you google “electric tractor” then or “electric tractor store”.
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Ray Ladbury says:
Utter bullshit! You seem to think the only sources of energy are fossil fuels and batteries. You had better be wrong, as the end of fossil fuels is unavoidable and not too far at hand regardless of their implications for climate change. What is more, if we had taken the hint in the ’70s and started serious research into a sustainable energy future, we wouldn’t be in this mess now. Even if we’d started in the ’80s, when it became clear that climate change was real, we’d probably be OK. Instead, you denialists have made your prophecy of scarcity and ruin self-fulfilling.
Oh, and by the way, farmland is NOT an infinite resource. The Canadian shield will never replace the US Great Plains as a producer of wheat, since it lacks topsoil.
And frankly, your assertion about the worth of scientific research is as absurd as it is insulting. What is more, you don’t even appreciate the absurdity of your using a marvel of science and technology as a vehicle for broadcasting your ignorance.
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SecularAnimist says:
Dan H. wrote: “Check out the accumulated cyclone energy over the past four decades.”
Nothing in the paper you linked to even addresses the effect of anthropogenic global warming on hurricanes.
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Dan H. says:
You are correct.
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But it could cost us a.. um.. whatever the HOTS equivalent of a raid tier is.
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Hi there.
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Lili is a good place to start with supports. Very easy to play and can have a huge effect on the game. Just have to dodge the CC when using her ult.
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Okay, putting aside the fact that they're criticizing a game that isn't out yet and that they have not played, here are my problems with the video.
I think games that are exclusively about indulging in sadism do not have redeeming value.
This statement to me seems to be very telling of the folks' at EC view of art. For them art has no value outside of its ability to do 'good'. Art that does not do good is not worthy. Art that does bad is bad art.
That's the propagandist's view of culture. Wherein the entire creative output of the species must be commandeered and steered toward the betterment of society as a whole, because what's the point of art if not to make the world a better place right?
It's very telling that they open with the Iliad. A work of art that has been used for centuries as the source of western civilization's foundational myths. It is the exemplar of art as propaganda.
Lost in all of this is the prerogative of the artist. It is assumed that upon taking up the mantle 'artist' a person must also have made on oath to 'do no harm'. But artists are not doctors. It's not the job of an artist to save the world. The value of art is not in its ability to do good. Art is not propaganda subservient to social and political necessity. The job of the artist is simply to create whatever they feel compelled to create. And if we peer into their creations and see ugliness there, real ugliness that cuts to the bone, if we see pointless, merciless sadism, well then we ought to consider that a very good work of art. Perhaps because it's honest. Perhaps because it's dangerous. Perhaps because as propaganda it's useful to nobody. But mostly because the artist has taken something of themselves that was hidden and given it to us.
And if that work of art starts the war that ends the world, so what? I'm not interested in politics, or society, or whatever else. I'm interested in art. And I will judge the worthiness of art as art. I will not judge the value of art according to its usefulness in pushing forward the agenda of some third rate youtube propagandist.
So when EC wants to tell me that a game has no value because it's an indulgence of the worst tendencies of humankind that could not possibly lead to anything good, my response will always be 'go fuck yourself'.
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The devs said in the Q&A that they weren't happy with it but were still trying to figure out how to fix it.
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I think the short cooldown on it needs to be re-thought entirely. At the moment you can steal maybe half a wave before your minions wipe out the remaining half and it just isn't very impressive. I think it would be a more useful ability stealing entire waves at a time but on a much longer cooldown, like 40 seconds or more.
Even then you have the problem of the ability being utterly useless in a team fight. Azmodan's army at least has some team fight utility when you dump them onto the enemy team. You could let her mind control enemy players but I imagine that would be a balancing nightmare and raise concerns about being too much of a loss of control for the opposing players.
What games have a better storyline than most movies? by thelittlepuppet in AskReddit
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Pulls off the 'unyielding march towards horrific yet inevitable truth' horror style better than most movies I've seen. Outside of The Orphanage.
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I think a large part of gameplay for ranked mode will be the 'rollout', by which I mean getting to mid as fast as possible. Best way to accomplish that I think is to leap frog your way there. One person shoots ink, the others squid to the front, start inking, person behind moves all the way forward, etc.
Please remember this was a STRESS TEST by soundships in splatoon
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No amount of testing will fix the problem if they don't dispossess themselves of the notion that it's OK to be matching people on different continents into the same game.
Please remember this was a STRESS TEST by soundships in splatoon
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Mario Kart has lag issues, but you don't notice because it's a racing game.
Will there be a competitive scene in the future? by i_am_Toru in splatoon
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Not unless there's an option to queue by local region only. Competitive players aren't going to hang around a game they have to play at 200 or 300 ping.
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In the South Kensington location the instructors change without any notice, so as your child is settle in the class suddenly you have a new instructor with a new way to teach so is not fair on the kids and the parents that are paying for expensive lessons that loose continuity just because there is a new teacher. And also the space in the pool is for 3 lessons at the same time. So even the class is for maximum two kids there is a quite a lot of disturbance with the other kids from the other classes.
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Lila Downs is a bicultural border-crosser who grew up both in Minnesota and the Sierra Madre mountains and Oaxaca in Mexico. She has a strong interest in Mexico's native cultures; her mother is a Zapotec Indian, and Downs has studied and sung in languages including Zapotec, Nahuatl, Maya and Mixtec. Though as a college student she intended to sing opera, a period of soul-searching (which included following the Grateful Dead around) led her to investigate traditional Mexican music, albeit through a modern, jazz-influenced filter. She toured with bands like los Cadetes de Yodoyuxi and la Trova Serrana, and began to find her signature style when she hooked up with saxophonist Paul Cohen. From 1999's La Sandunga to 2004's Una Sangre: One Blood, Downs has carved a unique niche for herself: an innovator working off of native traditions, she's both a champion of native cultures and a darling of the world music scene.
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Bumping an oldy, but goody. If this is the first post you read, you should go read the OP for context.
So, I return to the scene of the crime. Edgartown harbor again. This time, I'm returning to the boat at night, but rather than being crystal clear, it's pretty foggy. We're also not navigating back through the harbor, but out to the Chappaquiddick anchorage.
So I say, what the heck, dig out the white light. As I leave the dinghy dock, several others are coming and going. I note that way less than half have dinghy lights.
As I make my way past the Chappaquiddick ferry, it gets much darker. The inner harbor (in the opposite direction) is lined with lit boats and houses and impossible for anyone with above a 50 IQ to get lost. But out here, it's hard to see shore. Although, you can see the lights from all the mega yachts in the distance at anchor (none fit in the harbor). Amazing sight really, it was like a lit city!
Sure enough, I swear the same yo yo is patrolling the harbor with their search light as last year. You can see the huge sword of a beam slicing randomly through the fog in the distance. Whipping back and forth and even up in the air. Maybe they thought a meteor was coming? Then, sure enough, as they got closer, they lit us up like an escaped prisoner again.
I'm already partially impaired by the bloody white light on my dink, which obviously made no difference, now they see to it that I can't see a freaking thing. Next time, I charge the offender with a combat knife and take to their inflatable.
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PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 30 March, 2011, 12:00am
UPDATED : Wednesday, 30 March, 2011, 12:00am
Consensus is a code word for inaction
Is there such a thing as a totally harmonious society where everybody agrees on everything? OK, stupid question, but go and tell that to Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah. If you cannot find him, he is probably in cloud cuckoo land where harmony rules. The other place with unquestioned harmony is North Korea, where you face a firing squad if you disagree with the Dear Leader.
Tsang thinks we in Hong Kong can all agree to agree, too. Maybe he's gone cuckoo. That happens when you spend too much time in a make-believe world. He wrote in his blog that we must all reach a consensus before the government considers a universal pension plan, which the Democrats have been pushing for.
Is Public Eye missing something? Are there really free societies out there where governments act only when consensus is reached on divisive issues? Is it possible for Hong Kong's powerful business sector to reach a consensus with the working class on a universal pension plan? Another stupid question. Just look at how fiercely bosses opposed a minimum-wage law. Look at how they are now trying to avoid paying workers for rest days and meal breaks.
No, Mr Tsang, you have been in your dream world too long. Visit us more often. Here, when bureaucrats speak of a consensus, we see it as a code word for inaction. We do not need the world's highest-paid bureaucrats if all they do is sit back and wait for consensus on everything. We pay them for leadership. When society is divided, we need leaders who dare to lead by doing the right thing. So please lead by telling us a universal pension plan is the right thing to do for our ageing population, or tell us it is not. Do not pussyfoot.
Fund managers get free ride for another year
Let us look at the truth about Hong Kong's current pension plan - the Mickey Mouse plan called the Mandatory Provident Fund. The truth is you cannot retire on it. For those now nearing retirement age, the total payout may cover a few holidays, but that is about it. Our bureaucrats were hallucinating up in cloud cuckoo land when they dreamed up the scheme.
The truth is that fund managers have for years drained a big chunk of your savings in fees and management costs. They charge high fees because they face no competition. They face no competition because you cannot shop around for your fund manager - your boss chooses for you. The truth is our bureaucrats have prevented competition since the scheme started. This has fattened the bank accounts of fund managers. Public pressure has finally forced a government U-turn. You can choose your own fund manager starting next year. This allows fund managers to milk you for yet another year. That is the truth.
Scrooge-like employers lack a conscience
We bet you if Charles Dickens was alive today he would have made Ebenezer Scrooge a Hong Kong boss. What can be more scrooge-like than the Employer's Federation telling its members they do not have to pay workers for meal breaks and rest days under the minimum-wage law? This group represents our top bosses. Public Eye knows many are the meanest in the developed world. But can anything be meaner than our bosses making workers choose to either starve or lose an hour's pay while they themselves enjoy long lunches in pricey restaurants?
Maybe public disgust will make them choke on their steaks. But do not count on it. That only happens to those with a conscience.
Lighting up our lives with sleepless nights
After three years as environment undersecretary, Dr Kitty Poon Kit has yet to see the light. Well, she does see it, but differently from how she should as an environmental official. Light, she says, is important to Hong Kong since we are the Pearl of the Orient. That explains the pussyfooting over a law against light pollution. We suppose she thinks all those flashing neon lights light up your life, not cause you sleepless nights or guzzle energy.
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Grandad loves his grand daughter very much, and she loves him
A very short story, which may or may not be continued, granddad shows his grand daughter the joys of sex.
Polly had her bath and came back to watch the TV she likes X factor so Tina said she could stay up and watch.
When she got in the lounge the only place to sit was on the floor, or she could squash her little body on the edge of the sofa with me.
She didn’t like the floor to hard so she opted for laying beside me, as she lay there her body turned toward me slightly, her head nestled in my shoulder she watched the X factor.
I had my hand on her leg; she was wearing a pair of panties and a short nightie which only reached her knees.
The sofa was slightly back from the chairs, so anyone wanting to speak to us would have to turn round.
She was glued to the box, and I felt her smooth leg under my hand and immediately wanted to touch her more, my cock was already rising.
I slowly slide my hand up her leg onto her thigh, I looked at the family they weren’t looking at me, I looked at Polly she wasn’t either.
My hand slide between her legs and again moved up her thigh I was almost at her panties, she didn’t move, my hand covered her panty clad pussy, she turned sharply and looked at me.
I put my finger to my mouth as if to say shhhhhhhhh, she didn’t say anything, and turned toward the TV again.
I gently rubbed her pussy though her panties, feeling her becoming slightly damp, her body had moulded its self into mine.
My fingers tried to gain entry into her pants but the elastic on the leg was too tight, I rubbed her once more over her pants, cursing the fact I couldn’t get inside them.
She moved away from me and left the room, but returned a few minutes later and got back in the position she had left moments before.
My hand went back to her thigh and I slide my hand once again up her leg toward her pussy, suddenly I realised where she had gone minutes before, to the toilet.
She had removed her pants and her pussy was wet from little girl pee, my hand was soaked, she looked at me again, and again my finger went to my lips shhhhhhhh.
She smiled and looked away, my index finger soaked in pee traced the line of her slit from the top near her tiny clitty to her anus, pushing deeper with each movement.
I removed my finger, Polly looked at me again, and watched as I licked my fingers, once again they went back into her slit, and again I drank her pee and dampness.
Polly watched as I sucked her pee into my mouth with a wicked grin on her lips, I smiled down at her as she watched.
My hand went back to her pussy, my fingers delving a little deeper into her; she was becoming damper as my fingers probed her opening.
Polly moved and turned slightly toward me, her chest facing me, one leg between mine, the other over the side of the sofa. She was open more now.
My fingers toyed with her pussy her body pushing into mine, her breathing becoming deeper, she looked at me again, and again I put my fingers to my lips shhhhhhhh.
My fingers still on her pussy her hand went to mine and pushed my hand hard against her, she fumbled for a moment and found my finger, she placed it at her small entrance and again pushed against my hand, my finger went inside her the full length, she gave a short moan and her face turned, something had hurt her, she didn’t know what, but she didn’t speak or cry out.
Instead she held my hand in place, I began to move it back and forward finger fucking her, she was moaning louder, Tina turned and told Polly to be quiet or she would have to go to bed.
Polly looked at me I said shhhhhhh
I moved her hand to my cock, it was like a rod of iron, she grasped it through my jeans; again a wicked smile came to her lips when she found it hard, she had never seen or felt it hard before.
I managed to unzip my jeans, and pulled it from its hiding place; she was squeezing me, wondering why it was so hard.
I grasped her hand and moved her hand in an up and down motion.
And there with a room full of people she began to wank me in the way she thought it should be done. Her fingers rubbing the head, smearing the precum over the head and her hands, then she began the up and down movement on my shaft.
I wanted to come so badly.
Tina turned again, Polly stopped I kept my hand still, “dad make us a cup of tea.”
I got up and went to the kitchen. Polly stood behind me, smiling, knowing she had unfinished business to attend to, and so did I.
I lifted her onto the kitchen table, her legs automatically opened she knew where I wanted to go.
I noticed a slight stain of blood on her thighs.
My mouth covered her pussy and I drank in her sweetness, I tongue fucked her for ten minutes, licking her tiny girlie clit and lapping up her juices, I probed her bum with my finger, just a little way I didn’t want to hurt my angel, plenty of time for that.
Her legs in the air thrashing about she had her little girl orgasm her first, but I knew it wouldn’t be her last, not now.
The kettle was boiling and turned off; I took the cups and filled them with milk and sugar, waiting for the tea to brew.
She knelt in front of me and pulling my zip down she once again found my missile still hard and waiting for attention.
I didn’t tell her, she already knew, I had used my tongue on her, and she would use her tongue on me.
I leaned on the units as she took part of my helmet into her mouth, her tongue sliding over my penis opening swallowing my precum.
She was smiling her eyes looking at me; she knew that what she was doing was right.
She remained kneeling as I began to spurt, rope after rope entering her mouth; she swallowed what she could, the rest landing on her face.
I picked her up in my arms and licked the sperm from her face and kissed her deeply like a boy would a grown girl, but Polly was only six.
And I loved her so much.
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2011-12-27 16:37:12
Great story. Would like to hear what happens next. Like hearing about them at that age.
anonymous readerReport
2011-07-07 01:31:38
Your a excellent writer keep writing please continue this story x
2011-06-07 10:53:11
Really nice story. Teaching a sweet little girl to love sex and make your sex toy is one of the greatest fantasies. Keep the story going maybe a sleep over with Granpa to continue her training or a over night trip. Likeemyoung!!!
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My Thrones fic series continues with a little sibling love...
Winter is coming. For generations the Stark’s family motto had stood as a constant reminder to the rest of the kingdom that somewhere beyond the edge of those warm long summers waited the bitter sting of winter. Fitting then that they kept themselves in Winterfell the coldest place this side of the wall. As the keeps farmers and smiths kept up their work, seemingly oblivious to the cold, a cloaked figure moved unnoticed by the townspeople and moved discretely but shivering through the marketplace. The figure, unlike those surrounding it was not used to the cold, since it had undertaken the long journey to Winterfell every day for them it had felt like they were going to die. Like they were heading into a frozen wasteland which no living thing could survive. Each day the figure felt a little further from home and each day they were shocked at how cold the new day was.
The figure clasped its hands beneath its cloak and rubbed them vigorously being careful not to let any of the finery they wore under the shabby cowl shine through. The snow crunched under foot as the figure approached the large stone arch that formed Winterfell’s threshold. Two guardsmen were stationed on either side of the gateway. Instead of fine chainmail or long flowing cloaks these men wore simple leather armour, some of them with fur stitched on around the neck and shoulders. The men faced outwards from the town and had no reason to suspect or even notice one more traveller bundled up against the cold, the figure knew this but couldn’t stop them self holding its breath until it past the men. Exhaling in relief the taste of a bitter and chill wind filled the figures lungs and as she saw the overgrown stone path which led upwards to the keep’s walls, Cersei Baratheon: Queen of Winterfell swore she’d never again set foot in Winterfell.
The forgotten path was as out of sight as her brother had said and was every bit as unstable, suddenly the thick leather boots Cersei had taken seemed just as valuable as the fine silk and priceless jewellery she wore under her cloak. She scowled to herself in a pang of frustration, she was Lady Cersei Lannister, daughter to the wealthiest man in the kingdom and wife to King Robert Baratheon, all this...sneakery was beneath her. She was a lion and lions didn’t creep. But something very important to her was on top of that wall and she would have crawled on her hands and knees to get to it if she had to.
So Cersei climbed slowly but surely hand by hand and inch by inch until she was at the very top of the wall and made hurriedly for the refuge of the dilapidated stone guard post. Only one corner of the structure was still fully intact the rest had been beaten down over the centuries and had perished in some places and completely eroded in others. The only sign of activity was the weak fire in the centre of the post. The trembling flames spread their flickering light across to the one intact corner and danced across the flawless metal chest plate of Jamie Lannister.
“You are full of surprises sister, part of me didn’t think you’d make it to the top.” Jamie said grinning cockily as his twin sister huddled around the measly fire he’d built. Cersei stared daggers at her brother before returning to the fire and trying to get the sensation back in her fingers. Jamie stepped towards the fire “and in such...illustrious clothing” he quipped brushing the coarse cloak between his fingers
“Some of us understand the concept of subtlety” Cersei shot back, Jamie stopped behind his twin and rested his hands on her shoulders. Cersei could only barely stifle a moan as his coarse hands began to gently but firmly massage her shoulders. “Is that what you want sister, subtlety?” His fingers dug deeper as the cloaked woman’s breathing quickened. “Or do you want something altogether more...interesting?” as Jamie began laying kisses on her neck Cersei felt her pussy lips twitch as they responded to her brothers lips on her frozen bare skin. Cersei had always been a strong woman; her governess’s ad told her father that she was too proud to ever make a good wife. Had she been born a man she would have made an excellent general, intelligent, scheming and never intimidated, in truth only one man would ever be master of her and that was her brother. Since they were children the two had been close, for Jamie it had been about protecting and caring for her, whilst he was only the elder by minutes he still saw her as his little sister. For Cersei however it was something much deeper. Jamie was more than her brother, he was her missing part, and the two of them belonged together and would never be complete apart. It had been the most glorious day of their life when they made love for the first time. It had to be secret of course; Tywin Lannister already had a lascivious dwarf for a son, if the people knew what he knew about his children there’s no telling what damage it could cause to his plans. But the two had tasted each other since they were 15 and despite the fact they slept with others either out of desperation in Jamie’s case or for keeping the King happy in Cersei’s, both Lannister’s knew that they belonged to each other.
Jamie slipped the cloak from his sisters back and brushed over more of her exposed neck and shoulders. Cersei tipped her head back and embraced Jamie in a deep smothering kiss, their tongues fought each other fiercely until both were forced to pull back for more breath. Panting with desire Cersei span around and faced her brother who was already pulling his armour off, she resisted the urge to undress or to touch herself; she would act only when her lord wanted it until then he was hers to watch. Casting off the last off his plating Jamie stood in only his underclothes, an expression of pure carnal lust across his face. Cersei shivered at the sight of her brother and the flush of heat at the wetness between her legs.
“Stand up” The command rang through the air and Cersei quickly jumped to her feet and revealing the crimson and gold finery she wore beneath her cloak. Jamie feasted upon his sister’s image. Her subtle, slender frame quivering with excitement and her long golden hair flowing down to where her breasts were heaving with anticipation.
“I need you, sister!” The last word set off the explosion within his twin as Cersei flung herself into Jamie’s animal like grasp.
At once the two once again attacked each other’s mouths. Fiercely grapping as their hands wandered across each other’s body. Jamie ran his hands down his sisters waist grasping her hips and pulling her in tighter as she clasped the back of his head, he slipped his hands past her thighs and grasped her ass through the thin silk causing Cersei to moan with pleasure. Jamie pulled himself away and started desperately yanking at the expensive material ripping and tearing it in some places before finally roughly pulling the garment past his sister’s thighs into a crumpled heap on the stone ground.
Jamie grabbed Cersei by the hips and lifted her up, intermittently returning her frenzied kisses. Pressing her up against the wall he snaked his free hand between her milky thighs till he found her dripping hairless snatch. Pleased she had shaved for him he began to tease her labia lips with his fingers. Cersei moaned with passion, there were times when she wanted her brother to be gentle and delicate but now was not one of them.
“Don’t tease me Jamie; give it to me now, ALL OF IT!” She screamed completely lost in the moment and not caring who might hear her. Not wanting to disappoint Jamie rammed two fingers inside his wailing sister and began finger fucking the Lannister woman for all she was worth. His hand already slick with her juices Jamie pistoned in and out of Cersei as the slender woman began to hump her hips down onto her brother’s hand, with his spare hand Jamie roughly mauled his sisters beautiful tits feeling her nipples rock hard under his palms. He moved his mouth down and began pleasuring the mounds with his mouth flicking around her areolas with his tongue whilst his fingers struck deeper and deeper into her womanhood. The dual assault was too much for the queen and she bucked furiously as her first orgasm of the night shot through her. Jamie backed away from the wall and his pinned lover and wildly tore the last of his undergarments off exposing his 11 inch cock to the cold air and felt lust once more overtake him as Cersei stared at him hungrily, practically licking her lips in anticipation of the fucking she was about to get.
“Suck it bitch! Give me all you’ve got!”
Cersei’s knees hit the floor before her brother was through with his sentence and immediately had one of her slender hands around his rock hard pole as she swirled her tongue around the end licking up the glistening pre cum from Jamie’s tip before engulfing the head in her mouth. With one hand cupping Jamie’s balls she began to fuck her own throat on his dick. Cersei was an experienced cock sucker and loved the ay her throat got filled as she took the throbbing member deeper into her mouth. Jamie grunted as her sister deep throated him, flexing her throat muscles and flicking her tongue as much as she could along the underside. Jamie looked down and saw the drool start to slip from her mouth as she continued to suck him, never gagging her bugging as he reached the end of her mouth with every throat. He loved his sister’s blowjobs because here he got to see her at her most primal and sluttiest form, on her knees frantically frigging her own cunt with an audible slipping sound as she thrusted in and out of her soaked lips whilst throating her brother’s cock. This was the side of his sister that belonged only to him.
As much as he loved his sisters oral skills he wanted more, many was the time where passion had overthrown the pair and the they had been forced into a rushed and frantic oral session to relieve each other quickly and discretely. Well not here, here they were safe and private so he was gonna enjoy all her body had to offer him.
Despite being desperately tempted to let himself cum all over Cersei’s pretty face, Jamie grabbed his sister’s hair and pulled her off of him, Cersei, disappointed of having been deprived of her brothers cock looked up pleadingly at her brother, panting furiously to get her breath back. Jamie smiled at his sister’s disappointment before once again scooping her up in his arms and carrying her over to a block of fallen stone work near the fire in the centre of the shelter. Carefully placing her on the cold stone block Jamie dropped to his knees and dove between Cersei’s legs. Jamie knew that she was in no mood to be teased but still he cruelly began teasing his sister’s folds with his tongue as she squeezed his head with her thighs.
“No! No...Ugh .Jamie...I ...teasing!” she reprimanded between moans. Jamie however continued to eat Cersei’s pussy regardless of his sister’s pleas. Cersei may have told him to stop but the way her thighs were gripping him Jamie wondered if he could stop, even if he wanted to. As Jamie found the twins clit Cersei shuddered at the attention he gave her, she felt her second orgasm brewing deep within her as her loves tongue began to swirl around her clitoris with increased vigour. She felt the electricity begin to build within her as she neared a second climax. Jamie having sufficiently wound his sister up pulled himself from her grasp and leaving a shocked Cersei hanging on the borders of climax before the pressure building within her disappeared as soon as it had come.
“Jamie you bastard!” Cersei shrieked at her brother’s grin. She hated it when he teased her almost as much as when he left her hanging just before an orgasm.
“You were the one who told me to stop” he replied his smirk growing at the sight of his flustered sister
“I wanted you to stop at the beginning. You should finish what you start.” Cersei said behind gritted teeth as the last of her would be climax dialled down.
“So I should finish you now then? Is that what you want?”
“Yes” Cersei spat
“Then beg me for it.” Jamie knew that behind her sister’s supposedly furious expression she was loving this. Cersei was cool and collected in her everyday life but past experience told Jamie the blonde loved begging for her brother’s cock and how slutty it made her feel. She slid onto her belly and stuck her ass in the air, presenting herself for her lover.
“Please brother, finish me. Take me like I won’t let anyone else take me. Fill me full of your man meat and fuck my slutty hole!” she screamed.
Satisfied, Jamie grabbed his sister’s hip and drove himself roughly into his sister’s warm pussy as she was pushed forward from the powerful thrust and granted at his entry into her. Cersei was hardly a virgin but she was still amazingly tight and felt every inch of her brothers welcomed invasion. Cersei reached under and tweaked her nip as her brother began to pick up his rhythm and thrust into her deeper. The feeling of the cold stone against her breasts was amazing and Cersei began to enjoy the way the cold brought her senses alive through her naked flesh, awakening every nerve as the pleasure from her pounded pussy and that caused by her manipulating her tit seemed to be amplified by the chilling breeze that swept across them. Despite enjoying the icy sensation Cersei’s body was on fire with pleasure as Jamie kept pounding himself into her little box, he grabbed her hair and pulled as he humped into her. Cersei grunted and began humping back faster as Jamie reached under her smooth stomach to where her breasts rocked back and forth in time with the banging she was receiving leaving Cersei to steady herself with her now free hand.
“Tell me what you want whore!” Jamie whispered as he pulled Cersei’s blonde hair up so he could whisper in her ear. “What should I do to you?”
“I need you inside of me brother” she squealed “Impale me on your big fat cock and use me for your pleasure, nothing makes me happier than having your cock use all my holes until I pass out in ecstasy and you fill me with your creamy load” Jamie’s thrusts got quicker as he felt his climax approaching, taking this as her cue Cersei stepped up the dirty talk.
“You close big brother? Are you gonna fire that spunk right up inside of me? I want you to pump so much of that stuff into me it’ll be oozing out for days! I want to walk around feeling your seed still secretly warm inside me .Can you do that for me Jamie, please? Can you fill up your little cum slut queen?”
As Cersei screamed these obscenities at him Jamie felt his climax ever closer until he could no longer hold on and with an animal like howl he emptied his load straight into his sisters waiting cunt. Cersei screamed in orgasmic bliss as she felt herself being filled to the brim as Jamie’s cum shot right through to her womb and began to mix with her own juices as the gooey sensation brought the Queen to her last and most earth bending orgasm of the night. Jamie pulled out of his sister and collapsed against the walls exhausted Cersei, panting like a dog slumped against the cold stone platform she’d just been fucked against and watched as her and her brother’s cum began to drip out and pool on the ground. Making sure that Jamie was watching, Cersei scooped up some of the couples combined cum with her fingers and, her eyes never leaving Jamie’s, she stuck the fingers in her mouth. She made a show of sucking the fingers and smiling at the taste. “Mmmmm, we taste good brother!” she said through her minx like smile. Jamie smiled partly at her sister’s display but also at her expression. Cersei was always keeping her emotions tightly wrapped up so when it got too much and she exploded into the pairs frantic love sessions, it made Jamie happy to see his sister smiling. He pulled himself up to where she was sitting and sat next to her draping his arm over her shoulder. Cersei laid her head against his shoulder and the two lay down on the cold stone floor and just held each other in post orgasmic bliss. Predictably it was Cersei who spoke first.
“It’s freezing up here Jamie could you not have built us a bigger fire, or at least brought some furs or blankets?” She said her smile twisting into a sarcastic smirk
“A bigger fire would have been too visible and blankets would have made me stand out.” He turned and faced Cersei “Some of us, dear Cersei understand the concept of subtlety” he said grinning, Cersei shot him a disapproving look before snuggling down back into his embrace. “I haven’t forgiven you for leaving me twisting in the wind earlier. I think you owe me for that Jamie” Cersei said in what seemed like a serious and grave tone. “Oh, then I’ll have to think of a way to make it up to you, Lady Lannister.” Jamie replied in an almost purring voice.
As the two prepared for another round of lovemaking far beneath them, completely unaware of what lay above him and how it would change things forever and after taking a moment to look at his dire wolf pup and then back to the wall Bran Stark smiled and began to climb.
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Picking Out a Girl for my Daddy
___I was all settled in bed when, here she came again. It was my daughter Darby. She crawled in bed with me, snuggled up tight behind me and began to rub my body. She always did that when she wanted to talk about the same thing. My hot bodied daughter had gotten a fixation on her daddy,… me.
It started when some girlfriends told her in confidence that they were having sex play with their daddy’s. Their dad’s, supposedly, were feeling them up, fingering them, licking their pussy and letting them jack them off and…., the girl were giving them blow jobs. They said they weren’t having sex with them….but in private whispers to Darby, they said they really were. True or not, Darby was envious and wanted the same sex thrills as they were getting.
They told her how it all started with them crawling in bed with their dads and started feeling them up. Sometimes with their moms asleep right beside them. A sleeping dad gets sleep hardons and if they were lucky, he would have one and they would slowly jack or even suck on them. After that, it was sneaking sex play behind moms back.
Darby told me all this to try and get me aroused so we could have some sex play. I had no wife now, so there was no sneaking around. I had told her I didn’t want to get into having sex with her, that she would be getting boyfriends and I would supply the birth control pills. Darby wasn’t in the mood to except that and kept on trying to get me to have sex play with her.
Darby thought up a plan. One night she snuggled up to me and said: “Daddy, what about having sex play with a girl like me….. that’s not your daughter? You two could have a great time and I….well….I would just kind of ’watch’?”
I told her to go to bed, but I’d think about it tomorrow.
If daddy won’t play sex with me, I’ll get one of my girlfriends to play sex with him. They all like him and on a sleepover no one will know. I’ll ask Morgan first, she’s hot for my daddy and has been for a long time. Daddy once held her across his lap and told her a story during a storm when the lights went out. She said that’s when she fell ’in love’ with my daddy.
I could see enough that night, sitting on the side with my daddy to watch him play with her long hair. As he talked low I could tell she was getting turned on. Her pajama top was part open and she felt her own tits. Daddy kept on talking but I watched is eyes looking down her top. She told me she felt him getting a hardon and it was big against her back. She slipped her hand down her pajama bottoms and rubbed her slit. He noticed it and began to feel her face gently as he told her a story. The story was kinda sexy about a man getting with a young girl. I was getting turned on myself.
She does a lot of sleepovers here. We’ve snuck in daddy’s bed before and he woke up with us snuggled up to him. He told Morgan that would be kept secret between all of us. She said one night he put his arm over her and snuggled up tight to her. She was in heaven and said he had a hardon. She pretended like they were having sex and pushed her pussy up against his hardon over and over. I envied her so bad.
I didn’t wait for daddy’s answer because he might take a long time to decide. I ask Morgan to sleepover that night. I told her what was going on and she got all excited. We planned an invasion of daddy’s bed that night.
I put off thinking about messing with some girl Darby would pick out for me. The only one that I ever got a rise out of me was that…Morgan girl. She had no daddy and got her brother to feel her up once, according to Darby. She was a very advanced girl. Nice tits, ass and so cute when she smiled all sexy at me. I had a dream about her one night and I was holding her and we were about ready to fuck, when I semi-woke up, there she was snuggled up to me. I had a big hardon and she was gently pushing her pussy up against it over and over. What a hot night that was.
I see Morgan is sleeping over again tonight. I wonder if Darby will pick her out for me to have sex play with. That would be very tempting. All I needed was for someone to find out and blab what was going on. ’If’…I decide to get into this I better have solid talk with the girl. Morgan can keep her mouth shut. I’ve met her mom and she’s happy that Morgan had a daddy figure to be with. She told me Morgan really likes me and to feel free to be her ’stand in’ daddy if I want. I got the feeling as we talked her mom was coming on to me herself. She stood so close to me and that smile of hers. Morgan sure got her good looks from her sexy mom.
I watched the girls that night whisper and giggle and I knew something was up. They were clever little shits, and both hung on me on the couch. They had on skimpy little nighties and Morgan….damn she was sexy looking with barely nothing on.
Bedtime came and lots of giggles and whispers from Darby’s bedroom. I figured I would find them both in my bed in the morning. I fell asleep hoping for a dream about Morgan.
I was really turned on thinking about what might happen tonight. I told Darby how excited I was. I whispered: (“…Darby, I’ve never been this sexually turned on before. Doesn’t it feel good!”) She agreed and hoped her daddy would let her do hot things with her. I took Darby’s hand and I said: (“…feel this.”) I took her finger and slipped in in my wet slit. She was a little shocked as she said she had never felt another girls slit before.
I said: (“Oh I have, it’s fun to do. Feel my clit and rub it. Then put your finger inside and feel how warm and slick it is. I reached over and felt her slit. This was our first time to feel each others slits. She began to breath heavy and said she liked the feeling we both were getting. We talked about fingering and how to get an orgasm if you do it just right. I said how I hoped I could get her daddy’s finger in me and more.
I became fixated on feeling Morgan’s slit. We laid down and she let me play with her slit all I wanted. Her finger in me was making me very horny. I ask her if I could feel her tits too. She said, sure and started feeling mine too. This was all new to me and she ask me If I want to orgasm with her. I whispered ’oh yes’. It was our first fingering together. She turned and put our pussy up to our faces. I felt so hot and nervous as she put her finger in me. I got to look close at her pussy in person. I played with her clit and rubbed it all around. She said: (“keep doing that daddy.”) and giggled. (“…lick your finger to make it all slick”)
I had never had a girl warm breath on my pussy before, and it was awesome.
Something just make my pussy tingle real good. I looked. It wasn’t her finger, it was her tongue. Oh my god…she was licking my pussy and it felt so good.
I had to try it. I gave her clit a lick. She jumped and said: (“…oh daddy…do that some more.”) She was pretending I was my daddy licking her pussy. I started doing the same. I said: (“…lick me daddy, it feels so good.”). We played sex with each other but now we wanted to go sneak in daddy’s bed.
I love to lick first time girls and get them all hot. Darby was so turned on now, I love the feel of a girls wet pussy.
Now on to her daddy. We quietly snuck in his bedroom. He was lying on his side. My heart was pounding with the kind of sexual excitement I liked. I carefully crawled in bed with him….oooo he was so warm. I snuggled up to him and stuck my finger in my wet pussy and got it all wet.
I held it under his nose. I rubbed it on his lips. His tongue came out to taste it. I snuggled closer. I felt his hardon growing between my legs. I gently put his hand on my tits. He slowly started feeling them. I started kissing him on his face.
Darby was watching all this and rubbing her slit. I reached down and gently felt his hardon. He made a soft ’mmmm’ sound. I gently put my hand in his pajama bottoms and started stroking his big hardon. His arm slowly went around me and gently pulled me to him. I now kissed around his lips. I let my tongue trace his lips. We slowly started tongue kissing.
He started moving his hips as I pulled his pajamas down and let his hardon out. I could hear him and Darby breathing hard. I started kissing slowly down on him. I kissed my way down and started gently kissing his hardon. Darby was all excited and fingering her self real good. I slowly turned and put my wet pussy by her daddy’s face. I lifted one leg and inched my pussy closer to his face. I felt his hand feeling my ass. I pushed my pussy to his lips. I waited.
I felt his tongue enter my wet pussy. That’s just what I wanted. As he began to lick me real good I put my lips over the head of his hardon. I was so hot for this I sucked him real good as he moaned along with me. His warm hands on my butt cheeks were awesome and I let my hips move my pussy on his tongue. Now for what I wanted next. I started jacking and sucking on his hardon. I see Darby’s hand reach over and touch her daddy’s hardon as I sucked it. She felt my lips moving up and down on it and now she began to quietly moan.
I had never sucked a guy before and it was making my pussy tingle along with her daddy’s tongue. I wanted his cum to shoot out like in the porn movies. I jack him and licked the head of his hardon. I started to orgasm big when I felt a big shot of cum land on my lips, then more and more in my open mouth.
I put my lips over it and still more shot in my mouth. It was hot and slick. My orgasm went way beyond like never before and my pussy twitched on his tongue. Darby was having an orgasm and we all moaned as it happened. Darby leaned over and put her mouth on her daddy’s hardon too. Her hands were now jacking him as she sucked and licked him. We had done it. A daddy to play sex with finally.
In the morning Darby and I were snuggled up to ’daddy’ as he began to wake up. He lay there and then began to smile. He put his arms around us and pulled us to him tight,…. then he mumbled:
“ Girls, I just had the best dream of my whole life.”
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She laid there on the blanket, the taste of the wolfs cum still in her mouth, feeling it dry on her breasts and thighs, as she fought to catch her breath. her body was sore, faint bruises already forming where the wolf had wrapped it legs around her narrow hips.
“Oh you poor baby.” She made a soft cooing noise to go along with her words and rolled over so that she could crawl across the ground toward him, keeping her head lower than his showing him that she thought he was more dominant then she was.
“it has been awhile for you hasn't it, it is okay baby I can take care of you.” She continued to coo at him as she reached forward circling her fingers around his hard, throbbing cock. it was already slick with precum, She gave it a few hard tugs earning a growl mixed with a frustrated whine from the wolf. he turned as she set up lifting her fingers so that she could lick them clean but she never got chance. The wolf turn and knocked her over, climbing over her so that his back legs were on either side of her head.
She knew what he wanted and she opened her mouth eagerly, accepting hicock as he shoved it past her soft lips bruising them with the force of his thrust, his huge cock pushing her mouth open wider as he slid down her throat almost making her gag. She moaned around her mouth full and half closed her eyes, hand lifting to lay on his flanks as he started to jerk himself roughly in and out of her mouth, each thrust shoving himself down her throat. She panted making moaning sounds as she pressed her tongue up against the underside of his cock tasting it hungrily.
The second wolf did not want be be left out, and gave a small pathetic wine as he moved closer to her, stepping over her so that it could rub, it hard, slick cock along the underside of her breasts. She moaned, squirming at the sensation of the wolfcock rubbing against her breasts. She dropped her hands off the flanks wolf that was still pumping himself into and out of his mouth and reached down cupping her own breasts and then pushing them down against the cock below them. The second would whimpered again and turned himself driving his dark red cock up between her breasts causing her to moan around the cock shoved down her throat.
She had just started rolling her breasts around the huge dripping dick between them when she felt the wolf above her start to throb against her tongue, his thrusts becomes faster, more desperate. he lifted his head and let out a sound that was as much growl as it was howl and empties himself in her mouth and throat. she gagged and then swallows mouthful after mouthful of hot sticky cum, as yet more of it dribbled out the side of her mouth running down her cheeks and into her hair.
As soon as he had pulled himself free of her mouth with a soft popping sound she gasped for air, but did not stop instead she turned her attention tot he wolf that was so desperately fucking her large, cone covered tits.
“it is okay boy, I got you, I will take care of you.” Her words were spoken in a soft purring coo as she set up causing the wolf to snark and snap at her in irritation. She didn't give him long to be iterated though before she was rolling over onto her knees once again, spreading her long legs wide as she watched him over her shoulder.
“That's it, come on, you're such a good boy aren't you. you're going to bury that cock of yours in my pussy aren't you? yes, my good boy is.” She reached under herself using her fingers to spread the lips of her pussy wide, one fingers stroking her own clit lightly making her shiver and wiggle her hips.
The wolf moved forward shoving his head between her legs and sniffed her, his hot breath against her sensitive skin making her moan again, gasping in pleasure as his tongue flicked out over her fingers. “Thats it, good boy. Mmm do you like the taste of my pussy, mmm yeah?”
He continued to lick and nips at her pussy making her moan even louder her head dropping as she twitched and shivered, spreading her legs even further. he gave her no warning just pulled his head back and moved forward, filling her tight, dripping pussy with his long, thick wolfcock. he put his paws on her back shoving her head and shoulders down. She moved her arms putting her head against them trying to muffle her own desperate panting and moaning against her own skin as her body was rocked back and forth by the force of the wolf’s thrust into her body hitting the deepest parts of her. his claws left red marks against her pale skin before he stepped back wrapping his legs around her and yanking her ass up against the soft ,warm fur of his stomach as he pounded himself into her again and again.
She felt her orgasm building between her legs and in her stomach her body trembling and her muscles clenching around the cock buried deep inside her body milking the wolf as he continued to drive himself into her. She lifted her head and cried out in pleasure giving something almost like a howl herself as the orgasm washed over her, her juices spilling out around the wolf cock dripping down his cock and into the fur covering his balls as well as down the inside of her own legs= mixing with the dried cum already there.
She held collapsed back tot he ground, the only thing holding her up was the wolf’s legs s wrapped around her sips. She felt his throbbing, growing larger inside of her, and a moment later felt it as gush after gush of cum filled her body. The wolf pulled himself free of her, and she collapsed onto top of the towel, now damp with the wolf cum, and her own but she didn’t care she was too tired to move. She started to close her eyes and drift off but before she did she felt four warm bodies settling themselves around her.
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2013-04-07 07:20:03
So fucking hot.
Makes me want to be fucked by a wolf <3
anonymous readerReport
2012-10-25 16:54:14
only one thing that most people will care about, the amount of misspelled words. Other than that it was a great story
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2012-10-21 22:20:50
Just one problem here... Wolves have a knot at the base if their dick just like a dog does, and they almost always get it in... But their knots and dick are both abnormally large.
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Drew Barrymore confirmed today that she and hubs Will Kopelman welcomed a baby girl Sept. 26. They named the newborn Olive, joining the growing list of celebs who may have chosen baby names after strolling the aisles at their local grocer.
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When Gwyneth Paltrow and her Coldplay rocker husband gave birth to a baby girl in 2004, the pair chose to name the fruit of their loins after... well... fruit. Gwynie defended the moniker on Oprah, shortly after little Apple's debut, explaining that she thought the name sounded "so sweet" and "wholesome and biblical."
Chin up, Apple! At least they didn't name you Prune, which is apparently a pretty popular name in France now.
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Passion Delivers
Exclusive to STR
May 17, 2007
'If I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the morning,
I'd hammer in the evening,
All over this land.'
In his column, 'The Road to Compassion and Freedom,' Glen Allport discussed the importance of developing a passionate view of liberty. I couldn't agree more. Passion is what gives form to longing and creativity, transforming the unseen to the visible, bringing dreams to fruition. Let's zoom in on passion, shall we?
I'm convinced that no amount of talk about freedom or passion will close this deal. Most people aren't interested in freedom except as an excuse to go to war. I don't follow the reasoning that well, but I believe it goes something like this: Some 'leader' somewhere is bad, his followers are bad, so we Americans (for reasons I don't understand either) are obliged to go there with a lot of weapons and kill as many of them as we can to get our point across ' play nice or else.
People seem surprised that Americans are also killed in the execution of this good deed of ours. If Americans lose body parts, they naively ask, 'If I'm a child of God, why isn't he protecting me?' Does the color of his skin or the name he gives god make him more precious to that god than the people he shot at? Could 'those bastards' be asking the same thing of their god?
No ordinary means is going to break through this mindset that has developed over years spent swathed in religious dogma, government schools and propaganda network news. This shell of closed mindedness and ignorance is tougher than dried farina, and that is one the toughest substances known to mothers.
People won't get the idea if we just talk about liberty. We have to model passion for them. I'm convinced that we have to summon the courage to expose our own passion from our own open hearts. This is the only way other people will begin to make an internal examination for themselves. I've seen this work too many times over the years for it to be a fluke. I'll give you a peek into it.
I've done extensive volunteer work with alcoholic women for a number of years. Universally, they each have a painful or shameful reason why they went overboard trying to medicate themselves out of their pain. When they hit bottom and become desperate enough, this is when they open their minds and hearts. It is excruciating. Many have to come to terms with childhood sexual assault. Various types and degrees of abuse and neglect are common. Sometimes the catalyst is the death of a child. Maybe these things didn't cause the alcoholism, but they expose the lack of problem resolution and support in our culture.
The thing that brings light into the dark crevice, which has become the existence of these women, is the honest sharing of other women. It's a life giving, and sadly, rare invitation. These people have found their salvation in open heartedness. Unfortunately, they had to go through hell to find it.
'If I had a bell,
I'd ring it in the morning,
I'd ring it in the evening,
All over this land'
When I listen to these women share as they go around in turn, it's as if nothing important is happening, like the depiction in a television drama. Then suddenly, not like on television, one of the more experienced recovering people opens their mouth and speaks from their heart. Immediately, there is a phenomenal shift.
The speaker is given rapt attention, not out of respect, but out of awe. It's like manna falling in the desert to people who didn't know how hungry they were. Like lightning striking or a bell pealing, when the sincere truth is told, malnourished souls instantly recognize the vitality of what is being said. Is it love? Is it freedom? It's difficult to say if there is a difference. I'm telling you, dear reader, I'm 48 years old and I've been around, but I've never heard people speak this way anywhere else. When I do, my heart cannot help but respond. It bursts open just in the hearing of someone else opening their heart; it makes me want to be a better person.
At this point, dear reader, you probably want a 'for instance.' I'll try to recall something really painful and meaningful to me ' ah, there it is. When I was an adolescent girl, I was molested by a man who I knew. He was drunk. It happened because my parents had always taught me to do as I was told. This is the kind of thing that happens when children are taught to ignore their own instincts and conform without questioning authority.
Because I was certain that my mother would blame me and be angry with me for it, I never told anyone. I buried the pain inside, and I'm sure I missed a lot of opportunities for living and loving because of it. Many times I felt out of control trying to keep the pain suppressed. There were times that my children and others around me paid the price for it. Yes, I hurt my children, the people I love most in the world. Unmet pain has a way of torturing you over and over again.
Twenty years went by before I heard another woman tell her similar story and how hard she tried to drown out her pain. It broke my heart open. Her courage to speak of her pain instigated my own healing process. I never had a chance to tell her that. This is OK too, because now I understand that my open heart helps other people in ways that I'll probably never know, either. It's the solution to the world's ills. It feels so damn good that I just keep at it.
Unfortunately, this process is like a best-kept secret. It's even hidden in plain sight in the Bible ' 'confess your sins one to another that you may be healed.' (Oddly, I can't seem to find anything in there about killing for democracy.)
Why do recovered people keep showing up and speaking the truth to one another about themselves? They operate on the amazing principle that in order to keep what they have (recovery), they have to give it away. In my opinion, this is an oversimplification. What they are doing in this life-giving situation is exercising open-heartedness, which benefits others and themselves. It gets the monkey off their backs and keeps it off. It keeps them heart-fit.
It matters not if one is the speaker or the listener, when the truth is being told about the human experience, about one's own faults, mistakes, pettiness, fear, rage or disappointment in themselves without blame, everyone heals. I speak from my own experience when I say that the listener instantly and deeply recognizes themselves in an open-hearted account because deep down we're all made from the same material. Whether one is the speaker or the listener, love shows up in these exchanges in a way that is missing from all but the most exceptional facets of human interaction.
Does the reading of my account open your heart? It healed me a little more in the telling. This is how it works. When I first encountered this kind of love and freedom, I felt as if I had come home. It changed me in the listening and I now take it with me wherever I go. My favorite way of sharing this gift with the world is to laugh at myself. If you can poke fun at yourself, you'll never lack for something to laugh at.
Once you've faced your worst horrors, you learn not to sweat the small stuff. When I do something that doesn't work out, I might say, 'Oh no, I really am a moron!' People around me are disarmed. They relax and realize that it's OK to make mistakes. It's OK to tell on yourself. I've never had anyone use these times as an excuse to take a 'shot' at me. Even people who enjoy cruelty understand that it is wasted if I've already exposed myself as fallible.
It becomes easy for a careful observer to see how glaringly absent such open heartedness is in our culture at large. Everything nowadays is a pissing contest. Even church people have to try to one-up one another with their McMansions or their children's athletic or educational successes. Just read a holiday newsletter (if you can stomach it) or bumper sticker ('My child is a good citizen at ABC Elementary.')
Mankind has evolved and so have our problems. In America , as in most developed nations, most people are no longer hungry--not even poor people. From the advent of the automobile, color television and supermarkets to disposable diapers, antibiotics and birth control in a bottle, even the poor experience a level of affluence not so much as dreamed of by the most elite aristocracy of previous centuries. Today even poor people can become recreational drug addicts.
In his work, 'The Power of Now,' Eckhart Tolle tells us:
'All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no 'I' except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential'In that state, even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future.
'Anybody who has ever taken drugs to get 'high' will know that the high eventually turns into a low, that the pleasure turns into some form of pain.
'Perhaps many of us do not like where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are by our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.'
There's nothing wrong with working towards or having nice things. I probably want them as much as anyone. But the Buddha says that suffering arises from desire, so if we identify with things there will be no end to desire or suffering.
Since we are far beyond getting our basic survival needs met, what is required of us is greater too. Unfortunately, society as a whole does not recognize this. Where it does, it assumes force is the answer, taken to the extreme of war if necessary. Prohibition didn't work, so we ratchet it up and now we have a War on Drugs. We also have wars on poverty, discrimination, illiteracy, wealth inequity, etc. There is no end to war, ever.
War is simply not the answer to mankind's problems. Something much more painful, courageous and costly is required. (Sissies need not apply!) You don't need an AK-47 for the real battle--that would be too easy. You won't need endurance training or a drill instructor. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for your ego.
Ego must be subdued. It cannot be allowed to run rampant if man is to evolve beyond killing to get his point across, and the quickest and surest way to tame the ego is to tell the simple truth. There is then nothing left to hide behind, and hiding is the endless game of the ego.
I believe passion and open-heartedness are the key to the problems which plague humanity today. This solution is not to be topically applied--it can't be talked about esoterically. If we remain intellectual while hoping someone else will be willing to expose passion first, it will never work. Liberty requires passion, but it is by invitation only. You cannot point to the Promised Land and expect other people to cross over into it. You have to forge a path through the psychological fire, tell people about your triumphs and pitfalls--how sometimes you're surrounded by superficial morons and want to scream; how sometimes the biggest superficial moron is looking back at you from the mirror. When we open our hearts and tell the truth, others are safe to open their hearts and examine what they find and to tell the truth about it. It's the antithesis of initiating force and its resultant counterforce. Exposing our own passion is the solution--not the intellectual exploration of ideas, which, though useful to interested parties, only seems boring or meaningless to the busy, the stupid or the lazy--sadly, the majority.
It's time to get down to business. It's like talking about getting married, planning a wedding and buying a house. It's all work that needs to be done, but the proof is in the pudding, as Dad used to say. Can I live with this person day in and day out? Can I say "I'm sorry" when I hurt him? Can I summon the courage to say "ouch" when he hurts me and explain why it hurts in a way he'll understand without blame? Can I take complete responsibility for my own happiness without falling into the cultural trap of trying to make someone else happy and expecting them to do the same for me? Can I refuse to use the psychological power at my disposal as leverage to get what I want from someone who is vulnerable to me? If I don't learn to do so, I risk force being initiated against me next time because my own actions promote and validate this behavior.
I once heard of a man married to an unhappy woman--a true story. For some unexplained reason, she tried to make her husband unhappy too, and often said unpleasant things to him. Things intensified when he retired. He loved this woman (which was also unexplained), and one day decided that his response to her was simply going to be 'no matter what you say or do, nothing will change my love for you.' He said this to her repeatedly. Eventually the woman couldn't take it and gave up trying to make him miserable. She softened into a quiet affection.
I'm certainly not saying that life is always this simple ' it surely is not. What I'm saying is that love is the solution, one way or another. On the surface it probably seemed that this woman wanted her husband to be as unhappy as she was. What is probably closer to the truth is this ' like a suffering child who screams 'I hate you!' to his mother, she was crying out for help. Often an extra dose of love is what is needed, but the need and remedy cannot be recognized if we operate out of our ego rather than our hearts. We'd be too busy taking other people's pain personally to respond appropriately. Once we examine our own pain and take responsibility for the condition of our hearts, we are then free to be fully present without our egos getting in the way.
I don't think I've ever known a more unhappy person than my own mother. Practicing open-heartedness healed me to the point where I even learned to love her because I stopped wanting love from her. I learned to find love in my own heart for my own self, even though I'd gotten the idea that I was thoroughly unlovable. It then became the simple act of sharing that love. Learning to love my Mother is what I consider to be one of my finer accomplishments in life. If I can do it, anyone can.
I still trip over my own feet on a daily basis, but it doesn't bother me so much any more. I grew up ashamed and afraid of life, but other people, perfect strangers, healed me with their open hearts ' I consider them to be my true mothers. I understand now that shame is simply a bruised ego. It comes from the idea that I should somehow be other than I am. Now I know that I'm really no different from anyone else ' no better, but sure as hell no worse. I've simply been given the chance to love.
My teacher, Rich Chakrin, says 'You don't need an object to be 'in love.'' Loving doesn't have to be strenuous or complicated. In 'The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment,' Thaddeus Golas tells us:
'Expansion in love is an action that is available to every being in the universe all the time. A willing awareness will take us to heaven, a loving attitude will make us free. Love is the only dimension that needs to be changed'.If you are not sure how it feels to be loving, love yourself for not being sure of how it feels'.The reality of love is something you do for yourself.'
Take a chance ' take responsibility and tell the truth today with no blame. Don't make operating out of a place of honesty and love dependent upon what other people do or don't do. Open your heart to the people you care about before it's too late, before fear completely overtakes our world. Eventually the number of people you care about will grow as you realize that love is who you really are.
I've found the freedom to love and it is the only thing worth living for. It costs nothing but your own loneliness. It changes the world. Offering love is an irresistible invitation--it reminds other people that they are love too. You can have as much love as you want--it's already there in your own heart--just dip right in and drink deeply from the well. You can keep it too, so long as you give it away.
'Well I've got a hammer And I've got a bell And I've got a song to sing All over this land It's the hammer of justice It's the bell of freedom It's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.'
'The Hammer Song' music and lyrics by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
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You might think you know all about this Leica-alike, but the pumped S version promises a real performance step-up from the original X100. In particular, the improved focusing speed and updated 16.3MP APS-C sensor are what Fujifilm hopes will keep competitors at bay.
That said, it hasn't fixed what wasn't broke, keeping the 35mm-equivalent f/2 lens, array of manual controls and hybrid viewfinder that impressed us so much on the X100. It also retains the retro looks and solid-but-lightweight (at 445g) magnesium build.
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The work that's been put into improving autofocus speed is undeniable, with the X100S snapping into focus quicker and more accurately than its rivals. Picture quality is exceptional, and almost equal to the Sony RX1, even when shooting RAW.
But it's also just a joy to use, with great controls, a nice feel in the hand and an eye viewfinder that gives you plenty of options for how you want to shoot. It means you can see either a digital view through the EVF or an optical one with a digital info overlay.
Our only niggle is that the faux-vintage styling seems overdone now. We'd like a subtle black version. One of the finest pocketable cameras we've ever used, sure, but that price keeps it from sitting too high in our list of the best compact cameras around
Stuff says...
Fujifilm FinePix X100S review
Fast, feature-packed and fun – the FinePix X100S is the finest compact around
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Spider-Man 2 Trading Cards Reveal New Pics!
‘MutantCircus’ alerted us that in UGO’s coverage of the Spider-Man 2 toys at Toy Fair, they’ve also included pictures of the upcoming trading cards for the sequel, which reveal new pictures from the film! You can check them out by clicking the links below:
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You can join this thread on the SHH! Boards if you’d like to talk about the above pics.
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Laurence Reisman: Q&A with Jim Lehrer, longtime journalist and presidential debate moderator
Jim Lehrer, 75, is executive editor and anchor of the "PBS NewsHour," which has evolved from the half-hour "Robert MacNeil Report" that debuted in 1975. At the time, Lehrer was the Washington correspondent. Over the years, he may be best known outside of the "NewsHour" audience as the moderator of 11 presidential debates.
A native of Wichita, Kan., Lehrer received a bachelor's degree at the University of Missouri before joining the Marine Corps. He worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for newspapers in Dallas before joining KERA-TV in Dallas.
He recently answered some questions from Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers.
Q. You landed the first interview with President Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. That interview was on Jan. 21, 1998. Clinton told you he didn't have an improper relationship or a sexual relationship with the intern. When you gave him a second chance to clarify what he said, Clinton replied, "There is not a sexual relationship. That is accurate." What were you thinking at that time about the president's response? Did you have a sense that he was lying? (Please note transcript here.)
A. No, I did not. There had been no serious advanced reporting or speculation that the Lewinsky development was even on the horizon. I assumed, just sitting there, that it was unlikely Clinton would deny such a thing if were true.
Q. Was the Clinton interview the most newsworthy interview you ever did? If not, which one was and why?
A. Yes, the Clinton interview was the most newsworthy interview I have ever done.
Q. You have moderated 11 presidential election debates. What have been the two most memorable moments, and why?
A. When John McCain declined to address Barack Obama directly in the first 2008 debate. Also, when I missed a cue and thus mistakenly stopped George H.W. Bush in 1988 before his time was up for an answer.
Q, Which presidential candidates do you think were the best debaters you ever witnessed?
A. Bill Clinton.
Q. Which presidential candidates surprised you the most with his answers during a debate you moderated?
A. None really surprised me.
Q. Did you ever personally change your opinion about a presidential candidate based on answers given at a debate you moderated? If so, could you provide an anecdote?
A. I never go into a debate with any specific opinions of a candidate. That only gets in the way.
Q. Did you personally prepare the questions to ask presidential candidates in a debate? How did that work?
A. Yes, I prepare all of my own questions. It's extremely hard work.
Q. What's the best or most memorable question you ever asked a presidential candidate in a debate?
A. Will the nation be safer if you are elected (or re-elected) president? I asked it of John Kerry and George W. Bush in 2004.
Q. Who are the three newsmakers you never got to interview and wish you had?
A. J.D. Salinger, Winston Churchill and Joe Dimaggio.
Q. Which broadcaster, or broadcasters, influenced you the most?
A. Robert MacNeil.
Q. As a professional who built a reputation for being fair-minded and for providing serious broadcast journalism, what are your thoughts regarding broadcasters such as Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann?
A. I have no thoughts about them. I do not watch either — and I never have.
Q. You are a successful novelist. Who are your favorite novelists and why?
A. J.D. Salinger, Georges Simenon, Ernest Hemingway. They used stunningly direct sentences to write about the most complicated corners of the human spirit.
Q. What's your best piece of advice to someone looking to enter the news broadcasting business?
A. Get a job as a reporter on a small newspaper and go from there.
What: Author/journalist Jim Lehrer is the final speaker of the 2010 Celebrated Speakers Series at the Emerson Center.
When: 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. March 27
Where: The Emerson Center, 1590 27th Ave., Vero Beach
Tickets: $65,, (772) 778-5249
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LG 42LV550T review
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The LG 42LV550T's pictures are a classic game of two halves, in that it looks great with bright scenes, but slightly off with dark ones.
The problem with dark scenes is that while LG has provided a healthy number of tools aimed at getting a convincing black level response during dark scenes, there doesn't seem to be a combination of settings that delivers a totally satisfying final result.
Starting with the Local Dimming feature turned on, for instance, it quickly became apparent that even on the feature's least aggressive setting it causes obvious blocks of light to appear around bright objects when they're appearing against dark backgrounds. So naturally that feature was turned off right away.
However, turning this feature off caused quite a drop off in the depth of black that the LG 42LV550T's screen can resolve. Making sure the Dynamic contrast system was turned on to its lowest setting improved things a bit, although turning this any higher made the image look unstable, with frequent brightness jumps.
Setting the separate Black Level option to low is worth a try, too, but be warned that even on its least powerful setting this can cause shadow detail to be reduced during dark scenes.
Further complications find the provided Cinema preset failing to look at all convincing during dark scenes, with far too much low brightness detailing getting crushed out of the picture, and the appearance of subtle but undeniable backlight 'clouds' over parts of the picture if you're watching in a dark room.
However, the impact of the clouding is reduced almost to nothing if you're watching in a bright room, or if you're watching bright scenes.
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In fact, with bright footage the LG 42LV550T is a highly accomplished performer.
Two things in particular stand out right away: sharpness and brightness. Regarding the former, HD material looks impressively detailed and crisp, especially as the set doesn't suffer badly at all with motion blur, even if you decide against using the TruMotion system.
As for the brightness, pictures look intensely dynamic, punchy and colour-rich, except during very dark scenes. In fact, the set's portrayal of bright parts of the picture is so enjoyably aggressive, it effectively hides the screen's black level shortcomings during shots where there's a bold mix of light and darks, leaving only predominantly dark scenes to reveal the black level issues noted earlier.
Colours are decently – perhaps totally – consistently natural in tone too, although the presets on offer all benefit from a little fine-tuning via the colour management features.
Also pleasing for an inexpensive TV is how well defined the colour blends are. There's no sign of the striping or patching noted with some of LG's really entry-level TVs, which helps pictures look more three-dimensional – without actually being 3D, of course!
With the set's motion processing, for most of the time you're probably best leaving it off, because the picture only suffers with a little motion blurring without it, and it can cause processing side effects, even in its lowest preset mode.
The only thing you might want to try – because this minimises unwanted side effects – is using a manual configuration, with the blur element turned way down and the judder element set to two or maybe three. Set the judder any higher and you'll find that film sources start to look unnaturally fluid.
The LG 42LV550T is a middling-to-good performer with standard-definition sources. Noise is reasonably suppressed during the upscaling process, but upscaled pictures don't ultimately look as sharp as they can on some rival sets.
A number of LG TVs this year have suffered quite excessively with input lag, making them unsuitable as gaming monitors. But the 42LV550T doesn't fare too badly, averaging 30ms over the course of 20 separate tests.
The lag actually shifted between a common level of 40ms and an occasional 6ms, but even the occasional 40ms maximum figure should only have a very minor impact on your gaming performance.
Tech Specs
Product TypeLED-LCD TV
Scan Format1080p
Standard Refresh Rate50 Hz
Digital TunerDVB-T (MPEG4)
Video Signal StandardHDTV 1080p
Number of HDMI Ports4
Number of SCART Interfaces1
Product FamilyLV5
Brand NameLG
Screen Size106.7 cm (42")
Aspect Ratio16:9
Green CompliantYes
Green Compliance Certificate/AuthorityRoHS
Ethernet TechnologyEthernet
Weight with Stand (Approximate)15.50 kg
Backlight TechnologyEdge LED
VESA Mount Standard400 x 400
Operating Power Consumption96.77 W
Dynamic Contrast Ratio5,000,000:1
RMS Output Power20 W
Electronic Program GuideYes
DLNA CertifiedYes
Digital Audio OutputYes
Height with Stand683 mm
Width with Stand1012 mm
Depth with Stand256 mm
Number of Common Interface1
Component VideoYes
PC StreamingYes
Internet AccessYes
Media PlayerYes
Motion Interpolation TechnologyTruMotion 100Hz
Enhanced Refresh Rate100 Hz
Height617 mm
Width1012 mm
Depth39.2 mm
ColourGlossy Black, Brown
Brightness400 cd/m²
Sound SystemDolby Digital, Surround Sound
Product SeriesLV5
Maximum Resolution1920 x 1080
FeaturesTeletext, Web Browser
ManufacturerLG Electronics
Product Model42LV550T
Product Name42LV550T LED-LCD TV
Manufacturer Part Number42LV550T
Manufacturer Website Addresshttp://www.lge.co.uk
Marketing Information
Weight (Approximate)13.20 kg
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Blood and circuses
Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard examine the perfect symbol of Roman imperial power in their history of the Colosseum, says Nigel Spivey
The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard
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The Colosseum
by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard
214 pp, Profile, £15.99
How typical of the Romans. It's not easy making a fire hot enough to reduce solid stone. But they cut down precious forests in their province of Judaea simply to create a conspicuous holocaust of the Great Temple of Jerusalem in AD70. Some massive blocks were left - as if to state what size of edifice had been destroyed. Meanwhile, treasure and other spoils of triumph from the Jewish revolt were directly translated into the monumental embellishment of Rome, the capital of empire. Begun by Vespasian, the commander who had "subdued" the Jews, and completed a decade later by his son Titus, this was the tiered spherical arena we know as the Colosseum: a place of public recreation symbolically erected on land once taken for private parkland by the odious Nero.
To Romans it was the amphitheatre - a model for imitation throughout the provinces. From north Africa to south Wales, essentially similar structures were raised. El Djem, Verona, Nimes, Arles, Caerleon - these are among the hundreds of Colosseum-clones that appeared. Only in the eastern Mediterranean did problems arise. For in these parts, where Greek cultural values still prevailed under Roman rule, most cities already had institutional spaces of public entertainment. Such areas primarily took the form of the stadium, where athletes strove for glory; or the semi-circular theatre. In both locations there was contest, but contest pitched as virtual reality. Wrestling was a sweated mimicry of war, tragedy the shadow-play of mortal disaster. But what was to be done with the spectacle of sheer violence -men and animals fighting to the death? Archaeological evidence shows that some athletic stadia were converted for use as amphitheatres, and a number of Greek theatres were adapted - high nets rigged around the stage, for instance, to prevent big cats leaping into the audience. Yet there are records of strident Greek protests, if only on behalf of those front-row onlookers who did not care to be sprayed with blood. And this categorical distinction between theatre and amphitheatre points us to the principal fascination of approaching the Roman Colosseum as a "wonder of the world": the wonder lies not with the elegance or substance of the building as it survives, but rather with the question of what the Romans thought they were doing.
As Keith Hopkins has pointed out before, Roman enjoyment of spectacular violence is not a matter of "individual sadistic psychopathology", but seems to betray "a deep cultural difference". How much Hopkins contributed to the present book before he died last year is not easy to estimate, because Mary Beard (a Cambridge colleague) has so sympathetically overlaid it with her own voice. But it was characteristic of Hopkins to begin answering the puzzle of a peculiar Roman "taste" for violence by sceptically probing its extent. The inauguration of the Colosseum was allegedly celebrated by hunting shows involving the deaths of 9,000 exotic animals. But how feasible was it to capture elephants and rhinoceroses without sedative darts, transport them long distances, and finally cajole them to ferocity in front of a large crowd? Documentary evidence of the laborious zoological kidnap of a single hippotamus from the Upper Nile to Regent's Park in 1850 suggests that supplying the Colosseum with large quantities of interesting animals was a logistical challenge beyond even the Romans. Further and more complex calculations about gladiatorial death-rates similarly indicate a strong tendency to exaggerate, and not only by ancient writers. Christian martyrologists piously inflated the number of casualties among the faithful. (In an unsually candid reflection, one persecuted Christian witness, Origen, wondered if the total tally of Christian martyrs at Rome actually reached double figures.) There is, in fact, no firm evidence to prove that any Christian was ever torn apart by lions inside the Colosseum.
Was the Colosseum, then, always what it has become - an iconic hulk, picturesquely staffed by burly men with wooden swords, and very occasionally put to some ceremonial use, whether a mock-battle or a Paul McCartney concert? Hopkins and Beard stop short of making such a case. For even when stripped of its mythology, the amphitheatre subsists as an enclosure designed to give a maximum number of onlookers the closest possible view of a kill. Academic demonstrations of human anatomy used to be compassed in such steep-sided, eye-goggling spaces. The old bullring of Mexico City relies, to this day, on the same telescopic principle. We may agree that the daily pabulum of the Roman populace was bread, not circuses. Still the circus existed all the same; and no one went there for some harmless fun. The closest to slapstick at the Colosseum came from the so-called "fatal charades", when some myth was enacted for real: the flight of Icarus, done like a bungee jump without the bungee; or else a wretched criminal dressed up as Orpheus -given a lyre, and pushed out to charm with melodies the animals prowling around the arena. Too bad if the bears were tone deaf.
Quite how this ingenious mode of human sacrifice originated is left implicit by Hopkins and Beard. They dismiss without reason the notion that gladiatorial combat developed out of archaic Etruscan funerary rites, and offer no plausible alternative. So what was the Colosseum all about? The applications of capital punishment within the amphitheatre were conducted at midday, as a lull in proceedings, deemed a diversion only for the chronically bored. So connoisseurs of bloodshed came for more than the sight of exemplary justice. Protagonists of good entertainment were marked not by damnation but chance; made brave or furious by freedom from blame, how much more fiercely they would fight.
Some ancient observers - notably St Augustine - deplored the addictive magnetism of witnessing this sort of death. Others were complacent about its habituating and homeopathic effect: so death was, as it were, domesticated. But in the end it is impossible to explain the Colosseum unless one concedes that its principal sponsors - the emperors of Rome - all of them, even "good" ones such as Trajan, ultimately ruled by terror. This arena by the Palatine, the hill on which Romulus founded his city, was the looming and central emblem of their power to "play God" - to allocate life or death.
· Nigel Spivey's The Ancient Olympics is published by OUP.
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This column will change your life
Experience has taught me that there's a significant problem attached to being the kind of person who gets excited by productivity systems - to-do lists, time management techniques, personal organisers, expensive notebooks and the like. Two problems, in fact, if you count the one about being ostracised by friends and widely regarded as not quite right. But, for now, let's focus on the other one, which is that an obsession with productivity is, of course, anti-productive: a day spent tinkering with your system for getting things done is another day when you didn't get anything done. Faced with books and websites offering a multiplicity of methods for living life more effectively and happily, the temptation is to borrow bits from each until you've built some huge, Byzantine structure with the twin disadvantages of requiring hours of maintenance and being useless.
So I'm pleased to report the arrival, on the web, of a backlash - not from the smug, non-anally-retentive people who gambol spontaneously through life like lambs, but from within the ranks of the nerds themselves. This is a radically stripped-down approach to productivity, championed above all by the blog Zen Habits (, which focuses not on grand systems but on heuristics. A heuristic, loosely defined, is a rule of thumb: a very simple behavioural guideline, easy to remember and implement, which, when repeated over and over, will end up helping you achieve your aims. The idea is to drop all your finickity systems and just live by one or two of these principles. Here, culled from various blogs, are some of the most promising:
1) Just pick three things. Don't make a list of everything you plan to do each day - that way lies failure. Instead, choose the three most important things you'd like to get done, preferably including one that's meaningful-but-not-urgent (or you risk spending the whole day putting out fires, which is fulfilling only if you're a firefighter). On a good day, you'll do plenty more, but you get to count as a success any day that you do your three.
2) Do the least enjoyable task first. Otherwise known as the eat-the-frog principle: if you eat a live frog each morning, you have the satisfaction of knowing that nothing else that day can possibly be as unpleasant.
3) Think quantity, not quality. If your life is unstructured, or you often worry about whether you're doing things well enough, return to the rigidities of the factory production line. Decide how many hours you'll dedicate each day or each week to a project, and the reverse of Parkinson's Law often kicks in: the work gets done in the time available.
4) Do one thing every day that scares you - a heuristic from Eleanor Roosevelt with good sense behind it, so long as you don't apply it to how you cross the road or under what circumstances you eat puffer fish. Risk-taking is how everything significant gets achieved, but it's much more comfortable to act according to habit than to take risks - ergo, turn risk-taking into a habit.
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My mother, always the glamour puss
She was a New Zealand butcher's daughter who clawed her way up the social ladder and married a man who agreed she was a cut above. But as Craig Sherborne, her only child, grew up he had to humour his mother's increasingly dark moods, until dementia finally took hold
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Caring for an elderly relative with dementia can be a challenge. Photograph: Guardian
My mother wants me to marry her. She asks the nurses, "How do I look?" They say, "Beautiful young lady. Quite the stunner." She looks every day of her 85 years, skin turned to crumpled paper; red blue eyes in a baggy pucker. Dementia is never about telling the truth. It makes a virtue of being a liar. She nods off and wakes in different decades. One favourite is the day she married my father. That day was 56 years ago. She practises the art of lipstick on her face, pink figure-of-eights as if kissing. I'm her son, but also his facial likeness. He's dead, but I'm here as if to court her. "Give me my rings and propose," she pleads. Silver and diamonds, mini thistle-head crowns. I bring them in whenever I visit. She accuses nurses of trying to steal them if I leave them on her.
My parents were born in New Zealand. My father was the son of a South Island barber, my mother a common old butcher's daughter. Common, that's how she viewed barbers and butchers. She had too many airs for butcher forebears. When my parents went into business, North Island pubs that turned a nice penny, the word pub was forbidden. It was beneath her. "An hotel" was the proper term. And don't ever call her a barmaid.
As business got better, my mother's airs got grander. My father adored her as a regal catch. A glamour puss with her glistening beehive hair, long nails red and filed like carvings with perfect curved edges. So refined and tasteful with her fussiness over outfits. Not just outfits, but the apricot towels that matched the bathroom carpet: "Apricot, not pink," she'd say. Pink is not apricot any more than auburn hair tint is brown-blond. It was only natural, my father said, that such a woman would have her little quirks, her nerves. I called her Heels as my personal nickname. It was those high shoes she was fond of, a balancing act on little stilts.
In 1972 they sold up in New Zealand and moved to Sydney, Australia. Such stylish rungs of rich-folk there - they know how to promenade at a racecourse. A real city, not a backwater. A sign we're getting ahead in life, that we've come a long way from just butchers and barbers.
They bought a liquor outlet known by the better name of "a cellars". My father owned racehorses and they won their fill. As for me, the only child, I didn't need friends. We were a family of three, and that was politics enough: a mother who thinks she's a cut above all others; a father who indulges her in the fantasy. If she was a cut above others then I was expected to be that way, too. The one benefit was that I could do no wrong. Failed exams, rudeness to teachers, no son of hers could have a flaw. The flaw was always in others. You get outside friends - outside us three - and you'll be let down by them, because they will judge you less kindly. Only we three could depend on each other. This loyalty is the definition of love.
Heels tried to climb the ladder of Sydney's racing social set. The better people she referred to as "hoi polloi". But she only got halfway up. You had to be judges or models, doctors, parliamentarians or tycoons to go the whole way. On good days she'd comfort herself that halfway up is better than no way up at all. At least you've got others below you. She and her South Island beau had come a long way from butchers and barbers.
On bad days she got drunk on cheap Riesling, drew the blinds and cursed life for its black gift of damned failure. We had a green-blue view of the ocean, but what was an ocean compared with her needs? She started to swear more. Words she had always hated as "coarse". The world was full of bastards, pricks and shits now. Her looks were always something she could trade on. Now she cursed swollen ankles, varicose veins.
My father had an idea. Why not sell out of the liquor trade and start afresh in agriculture? That's the kind of industry you feel proud to pass on to your son, wholesome through the generations. A farm back home in fertile New Zealand where, unlike Australia, it regularly rains. There's hardly ever drought. I'll finish my Sydney schooling, but each holiday we can fly to the farm where I'll learn agriculture to secure my financial future.
My mother protested - all those cows and stink and rough-diamond peasants! But he won her over with a plan to build a mansion. A white, mock-Tudor affair where they would be duke and duchess of their domain.
She wasn't what you would call farm material in her flash, Sydney pants suits, gold jewellery, sapphires, thick make-up and sprayed high hair. Her gestures so flamboyant. Her habit of talking loudly with a plum in her mouth. Yet here she was among dowdy, religious, rural folk. Not society types, but close-knit Brethren. Each holiday she waited for an invitation to a "do", a party, a neighbourly tea-and-scones put on by the local ladies to welcome her into their fold. She felt shunned, and she was not a woman to be rejected.
She would stand at the window and say, "I know they're out there. I can feel their eyes on me." She'd get me to check with binoculars if neighbours were spying on us from their own windows. One time I tortured her, the way a teenage boy will: yes, they are out there, I lied. But I made sure I told her I was joking or else one of her episodes would start. "Getting all worked up", my father called them. Fits of temper where she'd tear at her stylish hair, and yell her shit and bastard language till spit bubbled down her chin.
She decided to take the initiative in the welcoming process. She'd dolled us up, champagne in hand, for a visit to our nearest neighbour. The only alcohol they'd ever had in the house was a bottle of beer as drench for cow bloat. The only chat they cared for was about milking. An old lady, the mother-in-law of the house, kept calling from a room up the hall. "Who is it?"
"It's the new people."
"Who?" the old lady kept on calling. When she finally clicked who we were, she called, "That fancy pants tart?" My mother held herself together until she had got out the door, and then let one of her episodes explode. She insisted we sell the shit bastard farm. But the episode passed, and she began to tolerate the farm again. I called the episodes "ghost train rides" as I got used to them. She would return from the journey breezy with cheer, invigorated. She apologised for swearing.
Nobody went to see doctors about such things. Not our kind of people. Our family of three. Besides, she could turn the breeziness on in an instant if the outside world was looking and asking questions. She took the slightest questioning as an attack on her character. My father learned that the best way was to ply her with drink, which he did before midday if necessary. He wasn't trying to kill her, he had just worked out her "medicine". He took pleasure, I think, in having that edge on her, that secret to her soul. He felt important, smarter than any doctor. There was bickering intimacy in the ritual.
Sometimes I'd help by singing my impressions of crooners. I had a good voice, and serenading her made her feel "womanly again". But it was my father who was her best friend. Her two other best friends were cask wine and television. He'd go off to the races and liked to flirt with the ladies. To my knowledge, he took it no further. When he came home he gently administered more medicine.
I left them to their ritual at age 22, getting free of ghost train rides and their kind of airs. I went overseas and seldom saw them for years. A family of two was all my parents had now. The farm was sold because their only son didn't want it. He had his own airs of being a writer. There were no signs of any grandchildren. I had vowed never to have children.
I've had my chances - two marriages - but no leap of faith prevailed. What's it like to see your DNA in your offspring? Your mother's gait, your father's shoulders mixed in with features from your lover's kin? I always shied in case ghost trains would show in them. "Christ, you're just like your grandma," I feared I'd think. "Here we go again. History does repeat." You can't ply kids with drink for a ritual. You ply love and patience, commitment. I feared I wouldn't stick it out, one of those no-hoper fathers who would up and leave at the first tantrum.
My mother has been in a nursing home in Queensland for two years. Before that, she lived in her Gold Coast apartment, surviving on tea and saccharine. I live 2,000 miles away in Melbourne, so I couldn't help to cook for her. She fought letting Meals on Wheels through the apartment's fortress door. The Alzheimer's people got similar treatment. Sometimes she didn't use the toilet and pissed on the floor. When someone stepped in it she said she'd spilt her cuppa. Carers would try to coax her to the shower, but she accused them of wanting to see her nude.
Some days she couldn't work out how to unsnib the fortress lock and chain. The woman downstairs heard her calling, "Mummy! Mummy!" Her husband rang me to complain that she'd be trapped if there were a fire.
One time he tried to fix her television. Nothing wrong with it - she had forgotten to work the clicker. "Press the green button. The green. No, the green," he instructed her, and wrote it down for a prompt card. She called him a bossy bastard shit and he lost his temper and swore back that he'd had a gutful. He rang me to say he was sorry. "You've got to put her away somewhere. It's time. I mean that nicely."
Five o'clock next morning she rode the lift, up, down, up, down, until it stopped going and they found her fallen over on basement level swearing blue murder about the faultiness of lifts. At the hospital she refused to undress or get into bed. She bared her teeth rather than let a doctor touch her. When I arrived, she demanded I take her home and count her rings to make sure none of those mongrel bastards had robbed her fingers.
When I refused to take her home she sat in a chair and hugged her handbag. She cursed me. "You never was worth a pinch of shit. You wouldn't treat me like this if your father was alive. Your father called you his biggest disappointment." She glazed over with a blank look as if failing to recognise me for a second.
She yelled, "You're all talking about me behind my back. You and them out there. What are they saying about me?" I told her to stop embarrassing us both.
That's not the way to handle the matter, said the Alzheimer's nurse. "You are a parent to her now, and she's your child." The nurse said I wasn't to call it a nursing home, this place we were sending her. Call it a hotel. Tell her it's a holiday. A lovely room near the water where she'll be treated like a princess. When that tactic failed and my mother hugged her handbag even tighter, doctors prepared a paste of anti-psychotic drugs and fooled her that it was delicious, soft food. She's been fed that paste daily ever since.
Two years ago the rings hula-hooped her shrunken, stick fingers like the property of someone else's bigger self. Two years here in Island wing have fed her fingers back to normal. "Say you'll never leave me," she flirts and frets. Her Mr Magoo spectacles her see-through veil. "Of course I won't," I lie, and she settles.
She says there's something wrong with the other patients. She calls them "oldies" and "maddies", "lovelies" and "cows". She watches her watch until it ticks her asleep.
She wakes in the 1970s and asks: "How's the hotel going? Done the stocktaking, Bert?"
"Yes," I reply. Bert was my father.
"Good. Mum rang the other day." She's been dead for 30 years. "She's worried about me and wants me home at her place. You take me."
"Good. I'm going to get her to mind my pennies. And I'll get her to make me a scarf."
Today a singing troupe is singing Roll out the Barrel in the lounge where the worst maddies and lovelies have been wheeled. When notes are missed there are no giggles or frowns. A saving grace, because if laughter is numbed so must be suffering. "Do you want me to take your rings off, mother?"
"I've got to go."
"I'll go with you."
"Not today."
"When you get better?"
"I'm better now."
"Maybe next time. Soon."
Soon is the other word for never.
Since writing this article, Craig Sherborne's mother has died. His memoir, Muck, is published by Old Street, priced £12.99. To order a copy for £11.99, with free UK p&p, go to or call 0330 333 6846
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Now that the Sun has turned southwards, the fainter stars will soon emerge from the night-long twilight at our latitudes. It may be August, though, before we enjoy clear views of the Milky Way as it arches high across our E sky from Sagittarius and Scorpius in the S though the Summer Triangle formed by Vega, Deneb and Altair.
The sole planet on our charts is Jupiter which rises from the ESE at nightfall to pass 20°- 25° high in the S at dawn. Conspicuous at mag -2.7 to -2.8 at the E edge of Capricornus, it is 629 million km distant and below-right of the Moon on 10th. On that night, the 5th mag star Mu Capricorni lies only 0.3° above Jupiter, with the remote planet Neptune the same distance above Mu, but barely visible through binoculars at mag 7.8.
Saturn, mag 1.0 and the brightest object very low in the W at nightfall at present, sinks to set 30 minutes before our map times and may be lost in the twilight by the July's end.
Although Venus is edging closer to the Sun in the sky, its altitude in the E at sunrise improves from 19° to 25° and it is unmistakably brilliant at mag -4.1 for more than two hours before dawn. Mars, very much fainter at mag 1.1, lies above and right of Venus, the separation growing from 4° to 16° as both planets track eastwards through Taurus.
Perhaps the only fact that connects July's two eclipses is that neither is visible from Europe. The brightness of the Full Moon is barely affected as it skims the outer edge of the Earth's shadow on the 7th. On the other hand, the solar eclipse on the 22nd has the longest totality of any eclipse this century. The path of totality stretches from India, across China and the Pacific to end well to the S of Hawaii. At its widest, to the SE of Japan, the path is almost 260km wide and the Sun is hidden for up to 6min 39sec.
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Wikipedia edit-a-thon brings women scientists out of the shadows
Live event will upload biographical details of the legions of distinguished women scientists missing from Wikipedia
Anyone can join the women in science edit-a-thon via Twitter using the hashtag #WomenSciWP and Wikipedia's page on the event. Photograph: public domain Guardian
In the lofty library of the Royal Society in London, and on laptops across the world, a mass attempt is being made on Friday to correct a gross injustice – the legions of distinguished women scientists who are missing entirely from Wikipedia and many traditional histories of science, or who until now have merited only a few lines.
The entries being written or expanded include that for Eleanor Maguire, professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London, who briefly gave every grumpy London taxi driver a glow of pride when her research proved their brains developed remarkably as they acquired "the Knowledge", their hard-wired interior maps of every street in London. Until today, she hasn't even a stub in Wikipedia.
The live edit-a-thon has been organised by the society and Wikimedia UK — together with the promoters of Ada Lovelace Day, which is held every year in honour of the 19th century mathematician, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, who became a pioneer of computing theory. The event in London has been booked out for weeks, but anyone can join in remotely through Twitter using the hashtag #WomenSciWP, and Wikipedia's page on the event where suggestions for women who deserve to be brought in from the shadows have already been pouring in.
The Royal Society is also placing a wealth of material online, including biographical memoirs of its women fellows, to help with the project. The material will be freely accessible until the end of November.
Other woefully neglected women include the first African American woman to become a neurosurgeon, Alexa Canada – she qualified in 1981 – who currently only rates five lines in Wikipedia.
Professor Dame Louise Napier-Johnson, a biochemist and protein crystallographer, professor of molecular biophysics at Oxford for 17 years from 1990, does better with eight lines, although one was taken up with noting her death last month, and her marriage to the Nobel laureate Abdus Salam: his entry runs to more than 200 lines.
Professor Uta Frith, a fellow of the Royal Society and one of the event organisers, said: "It is shameful that when you ask people, including scientists, to name well known female scientists and engineers, they can barely get past Marie Curie. I think this is very much because they are not in our consciousness, or they have not been given high enough profile for their work. Wikipedia is one of the first places that many people go for information, but if it's not there how will we ever learn about our scientific heroines. This event is a very small but important step towards putting these very special women in the spotlight they deserve."
Ada Lovelace does have a very full Wikipedia entry, recognising her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, which made her effectively the world's first computer programmer. She died aged just 36 in 1852, partly from a failure of science, her weakness from cancer worsened by her doctors pursuing one of the orthodox remedies of the day: repeated blood letting.
Jon Davies, chief executive of Wikimedia UK, called her "an incredible mathematician".
"It's fitting that we honour her contributions in this way. It's equally fitting that in remembering Ada we're working to acknowledge the efforts and breakthroughs of other women in science, technology, maths and engineering."
Many related events are being organised in the UK and internationally, including another group editing session at the Bodleian library in Oxford next week.
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AnnaKanda Picture Board
Hey there! This challenge is mainly judged on how you use the styling of putting multiple pictures in the wallpaper.
I don't want the pictures combined, but have them kind of like photos taped to a cork board or something with a similar effect.
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-Use only a few select characters from a certain series (Try to use no more than 4)
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-Any genre is accepted, including yaoi and yuri, as long as they are PG-13 or below
-Put links in the description for any resources used. If it's not there, I will ask you to, and if when the challenge is coming to a close and there are no links, your entry WILL be disqualified.
-Dedicate it to either me (so I know when there's an entry), or to someone you know likes the series (or maybe a friend you haven't really contacted on here in a while)
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Ever since his brother's death, seedy gumshoe Eddie Valiant (Hoskins) has hated Toons - the animated inhabitants of the '40s LA suburb of Toontown, most of whom make a living appearing in Hollywood cartoons. But when studio head Marvin Acme asks him to check up on the extra-marital activities of Jessica Rabbit, the humanoid, torch-singing, Toon spouse of our eponymous stunt-Toon hero, Eddie finds himself up to his fedora in murder, blackmail, and conspiracy. Zemeckis and animation director Richard Williams' comedy-thriller blends live action, Warners-style animation, and a typically tortuous film noir plot to delirious effect. Virtually faultless on the technological front, it also excels in terms of a breathless, wisecracking script, deft characterisation (both human and Toon), and rousing action. At its best, the humour is as cruel, violent, and surreal as vintage Chuck Jones. Supremely entertaining - especially for adults.
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Duration: 104 mins
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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriter: Peter S Seaman, Jeffrey Price
Cast: Joanna Cassidy
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Recycling Bins From Around the World (Slideshow)
Photo via starrynight via Flickr CC
Recycling bins are as varied as the people who use them. They come in countless sizes, shapes, and colors, seems like no two are the same. So we became curious - what do recycling bins look like in various countries?
We've whipped up a world tour of recycling containers. Check out bins from countries all over the planet. No ticket necessary - just buckle up and start clicking.
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Re: Problems with the "Swine flu vaccine"
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Claiming the link to Autism and other neurological damage was proven false is false itself. You are choosing the words of one bunch of scientists over another bunch.
From the original study, published in the Lancet 1998.
Note 'possible environmental triggers'. The original paper said that there might be a causal link between autism and the MMR vaccine, not that there was one for certain.
In 2004, ten of the thirteen scientists who carried out the original study made a formal retraction.
This year the Sunday Times discovered that Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who ran the study, had received more than four hundred thousand pounds from lawyers trying to prove that vaccines are unsafe. A legal aid fund, attempting a lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturers, paid nearly three and a half million pounds in an attempt to find suitable evidence.
Furthermore, the British General Medicine Council has begun an investigation into Wakefield. There are two grounds. The first, based on claims by journalist Brian Deer, are of serious professional misconduct, involving totally unnecessary surgical procedures that in one case caused life threatening injuries.
In addition, evidence has arose indicating that during the study Wakefield suppressed and falsified data to better support the results he wanted.
So it's not really a case of "choosing the words of one bunch of scientists over another bunch". It's a case of deciding who is more reliable.
On the one hand you have the vast majority of scientists. Yes, many work for 'big pharm' and could conceivably be covering themselves. But many others are independent and have no such motivation. Included in their ranks are ten of the original group, who have removed their support after the many flaws and conflicts of interest came to light.
In the other group, you have a tiny minority, the greatest of which is known to be on the take, and suspected of unethical proceedings and scientific fraud.
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Re: Fantastic Four inspiration - Angry Red Planet?
The main inspiration for the FF was Jack Kirby's earlier series Challengers of the Unknown for DC. Both feature teams of four heroes whose abilities reflect the four classical elements, but in the former case they were non-powered men with different specialties (a miner, a pilot, a firefighter, and a diver, or something like that) while in the latter they were given superpowers reflecting the elements (changeable Reed is water, invisible Sue is air, and the other two are obvious).
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Dustin's secret past becomes not so secret in tonights all new Real World Las Vegas
On tonight’s all new Real World, the roommates learn about Dustin’s (or should I say Spencer’s?) scandelous past which involves web cams, nudity, sex, and other guys. Yes, Dustin did tell us in the beginning of the season that he was involved in a life web cam show called ‘Frat Pad’ but he didnt tell ay of the roomates or go into much detail about what exactly happned on the show. Well, google Dustin Zito and Frat Pad and you too will see what I saw, which was penis, penis, and more penis. No seriously, and on top of just seeing his package, I found pictures of him showering with other guys and engaging in a little risque behavior with them as well.
So this web cam show he breifly talked about is a bit ore serious than he let on. Now this wouldnt be as big of a deal if he wasnt “dating” and sleeping with his roommate Heather. Poor Heather is going to be crushed tonight when she finds out exactly what Dustin was up to before he arrived in Vegas and made his way into her life. Heather tweeted on Monday “@heathermarter Wednesday’s #realworld episode breaks my heart, can’t watch without crying" My heart breaks for her just watching the previews and reading that tweet! But to find out exactly what goes down and how Heater and Dustin’s relationship is going to change tune in tonight at 10PM on MTV for an all new episode of The Real World!
"I feel very harshy judged" -Dustin Zito
Last nights episode of the Real World was one of the most intense episodes I have ever seen. Usually the episodes are full of drunks, drama, and perhaps some broken glass. But last night got so deep that even I felt a little uncomfortable and uneasy at different times throughout it. Dustin’s past is first revealed to Nany through ex-cast mate Adam who tells her that Dustin is all over the internet and is involved in porn under the name “Spencer”. Nany immediately tells Naomi and the two contemplate telling Heather. But coincidentally Heather receives an e-mail from her mom explaining what Nany just found out, that her “boyfriend” used to do porn. My heart immediately broke for Heather. I could not imagine finding out the guy you have been basically dating and sleeping with had kept something that big from you. Dustin sees Heather is upset to which Heather asks if there is anything he hasn’t told her about himself. By the look on Dustin’s face you could just tell immediately that he knew what she was getting at.
Initially, I wanted to side with Heather and dislike Dustin for keeping it from her. But the more we learned about his old ‘job’ the less I disliked him for keeping his mouth closed, and the more I started to feel bad for him. Soon after the girls found out about “Spencer”, Leeroy and Mike found out too. Now, personally I don’t think it is anyone’s business but Dustin and Heather but this is the Real World and everything about you is going to be scrutinized by every roommate and all of the viewers. Leeroy at first seems to take it better than Mike, who I felt blew the whole thing completely out of control. Mike was acting as if no one else has a past they may not be proud of, or some secret they want to keep to themselves. Mike even went as far as to say “he lied to us about everything”. Okay Mike, now let me get this straight, Dustin keeps one thing about himself private and that means that he lied to you about EVERYTHING? No, I don’t think so. A house meeting takes place after a clearly distraught Dustin came back from some alone time outside of the Real World house.
The roommates question him and I felt Dustin did a pretty good job explaining himself and the reasons he got into that industry at the time. Dustin revealed that at the time he had no direction in life and when he was approached for this web cam show, which he describes as a house full of straight guys living together being taped 24/7 who did occasionally engage in sexual acts, he couldn’t turn it down. He even described the man who ran the show as a “father figure” which to me shows that obviously Dustin had issues at the time and was searching for something or someone to guide him in the right direction. Honestly, I’m sure we have all done things at one point or another that we aren’t particularly proud of and that’s okay because its life and how would you ever learn from things if you did it all the right way? The episode ends with Mike giving Dustin a letter that Dustin told us said “basically said he hates me” and with most of the roommates in agreement that Dustin should go home.
Wait, what? Dustin should go home because you learned he has a past in the porn industry? Are we not in the year 2011 where sex seriously isn’t that big of a deal and hell, even hooking up with someone of the same sex isn’t a huge thing? I’m still confused by why they think him leaving is a good idea and I can’t wait to see what happens on the next episode and how, if ever, this situation will cool off. But to end this post I’m going to leave you with some tweets from the cast members made during and after the episode.
Tweets from Dustin (@dustinzito)
That was the Toughest moment in my Life! #whatdoesntkillmemakesmestronger
Tweets from Naomi (@naomiMTV)
B4 anyone hates think abt all the courage it takes to put ur life on blast!!
Tweets from Nany
@dustinzito only god can judge you, boo <3
Tweets between Dustin (@dustinzito) and Mike (@mikerossMTV)
Mike Ross- I wish you guys could actually read what the letter said…freeze frame your tv…He clearly did not read it
(Dustin, in reply to Mikes tweet) @MikeRossMTV i even let my friends read it mike mike!! same response
More tweets from Mike (@mikerossMTV)
I am not judging dustin…I just think he is setting a bad example by not learning from his mistakes…He has a chance to send a message…to the world
Hey guys…Don’t think you have no options…This is America, there is so much you can do…Community College, trade school, military…@RoyLee25 didn’t know what he wanted to do, and hes a trash man making 50k a year #realworld – (what was tweeted after Dustin admitted to getting into the industry when he felt stuck and with no immediate life path)
For the record, I want nothing at all to do with @dustinzito I’m going to the bar y'all..I’ll read all your tweets and make a statement tmrw – (No farther “statments”/comments have been make by Mike)
Tweeted by Heather (@heathermarter) following the show
@heathermarter said: I was always up front in that house that I found girls attractive. Just like Dustin has done “gay acts” but feels marriage should be between a man and woman, I can have my sexuality but can have a preference of the sexuality of the person I date/sleep with. My views also evolve as I grow and learn, & i appreciate the fact that I’ve gotten to mature my views on a male’s sexuality from being a part of the show. If I had been any other roommate in the house I would have been completely supportive of Dustin. I still tried to be, but it was hard because I was confused and hurting myself. My biggest issue was feeling like someone I felt so close to and talked to about everything, kept something from me. Dustin had time to contemplate his involvement with the show and prepare for the revelation, I was bombarded while under a microscope. I’m not perfect, but I do my best.
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Season 1, Episode 8 Reunion
First Aired: November 20, 2012
Kate attends a high-school reunion the night before Thanksgiving, and Will suggests that she stand up to a woman who bullied her when they were students. Elsewhere, Ben and BJ are keeping a secret from Kate.
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a person who freaks out when a little spelling mistake has occured or has be a constant little asshole about it.
person a: here's my thesis for the pythagoream theorem
by Tim June 16, 2005
4 more definitions
1)A person who is usually educated but can't stand spelling errors. Especially common ones
2) Someone who doesn't get the joke from the shirt saying "Your retarded"
1) My English teacher isn't a spelling nazi. She spelled "English" wrong.
2) Melissa Peach: *reads shirt* Your retarded what?
Me: You don't get it?
Melissa Peach: That's not right.
Me: *shakes head and murmurs* You're retarded.
by Encycl07pedia October 03, 2006
In essence, in a chatroom context, a person who insists on rectifying the spelling errors of anyone by rephrasing the said line accordingly. To remain faithful to their cause, they must invariably make no spelling mistakes whatsoever of their own, otherwise he/she is engaging in hypocrisy, in turn, looking like an oblivious dumbass. Further, they justify their cause by asserting that the victims' spelling is "imposible" to read.
What the prick fails to realise is how needless his/her cause really is, seeing as he/she is perfectly capable of construing the sentence containing the spelling errors sufficiently to be able to rephrase it suitably. Ultimately, he/she incurs embarrassment and looks like a total douchebag, as a result.
Random chatroom: Aimee(5) = Spelling nazi. vicki cee(4) = Victim
Aimee(5) (Says to vicki cee(4)) i think you mean 'and I can spell'
vicki cee(4) (Says to Aimee(5)) no a ment a can spell
Aimee(5) *No i meant i can spell
*5 minutes later *
vicki cee(4) (Says to Aimee(5)) wot u have got agent me newayz
Aimee(5) (Says to vicki cee(4)) "wot u have got agent me newayz" .yeah makes no SENCE
by Joey Moore January 10, 2007
even if everyone reading if can understand it just fine!
they love the feeling of superiority that comes from correcting other people.
an older name for the spelling nazi and one we still use to this day but to a lesser extent is : SMUG.
some chronic conditions have been recorded when the subjects tried to fix 1337...
johnny: OMG my teacher just ripped a students ears of, she gona get arrested!!!
spelling nazi: by "of" i`m guessing you meant off and by "gona" i think you meant: probably going to.
and you not black dude so stop trying to sound like a nigger!
by kalixxx December 11, 2011
A person who annoyingly fixes the spelling of people when someone is speaking a different language.
"I have to fag."
"There is a mark there, it's fàg not fag."
"Shut up, spelling nazi."
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Eloquence of Elementary Birdsong
Posted Jan 09 2011 5:24pm
Mrs. Thomas taught us to play it on our recorders in the third grade: A - B, as simple as it gets, so why is the song of the black-capped chickadee, repeated over and over on a winter morning, so stirring? In 1889 Bradford Torrey called the chickadee the "enlivener of our winter woods; who revels in snow and ice, and is never lacking in abundant measures of faith and cheerfulness, enough not only for himself, but for any chance wayfarer."
Hearing this bird just the other morning, its two-note "phoebe" call, while I trudged in my heavy coat, the sun barely buttering the tops of the humped, hardened snow, I couldn't prevent myself from picturing the tune emitted, not from the pincering bill of the round little bird, but from -- of all things -- the pursed lips and puffed cheeks of my grandmother, dead now two years.
Grammy was so decorous and modest and feminine a sort (so un-blowsy in every possible way) that the last thing you expected her to do was whistle, but it happens she was a fine whistler who delighted us grandchildren, whenever telling from memory one of the stories in "The Adventures of Mabel," by Harry Thurston Peck, by reproducing the sound of the Lizard King's magic whistle. Perhaps one of the things we loved about it, that short string of notes with which Mabel, once she'd learned how to make the sound herself, could befriend any animal she met, was the unlikelihood of it coming from Grammy's lips. Perhaps this unlikelihood lent credibility to the whistle's magical quality. Too, I could not whistle, not even the "funny little wheeze" Mabel makes when first she tries; in this regard, the whistle lay beyond my reach, making it even easier to believe it was truly magic.
A few days ago, crunching across the crust of the calcified snow, which in the morning light gave up its secret crystal properties, glittering now in spangled waves as I crossed it and the sun struck out a new lode of jewels here, and then a new one here, and then a next, the birdsong kept on and on.
Two thin notes, nothing more. And still so plainly, so prettily, a song.
According to "Life Histories of Familiar American Birds" by Arthur Cleveland Bent, "It is a matter for conjecture whether the phoebe note is a true song...Perhaps the deciding point in determining a true song is the manner in which the bird delivers its notes." And here he returns us most satisfyingly to Bradford Torrey, who writes of having risen early one morning in 1885 and spying a chickadee, which had lately made a home in a neighboring apple tree, standing
within a few feet of his apple branch door, throwing back his head in the truest lyrical fashion, calling 'Hear, hear me,' with only a breathing space between the repetitions of the phrase. He was as plainly singing, and as completely absorbed in his work, as any thrasher or hermit thrush could have been. Heretofore I had not realized that these whistled notes were so strictly a song, and as such set apart from all the rest of the chickadee's repertory of sweet sounds; and I was delighted to find my tiny pet recognizing thus unmistakably the difference between prose and poetry.
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4 Replies Latest reply: Nov 18, 2012 6:54 AM by Marcel Hoefs RSS
Ututil error _execv() failed, err=2
Marcel Hoefs
Has anybody experienced the following error when executing SQL Developer's command line utility for unit testing ututil: _execv() failed, err=2*
My system has the following characteristics:
- Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
- SQL Developer 64 bit
- JDK 64 bit
- Oracle Enterprise Edition 64 bit
Based on information found on the internet and Oracle Support this seems to be a supported combination.
Any help is highly appreciated.
• 1. Re: Ututil error _execv() failed, err=2
Jim Smith
I see this all the time with 64-bit SQLDevelope main programr.
It seems to be is harmless.
I suspect it is the initial executable trying to run something that isn't available on 64-bit windows before it launches java.
• 2. Re: Ututil error _execv() failed, err=2
Marcel Hoefs
Hi Jim,
Thank you for your suggestion. But isn't it strange that a certified combination of software components doesn't work? I agree that it is a harmless phenomenon for the SQL Developer GUI, but it prevents the use of ututil. This is exactly the component I need to use.
I can of course reinstall everything using the 32 bit versions, but I very much would like to hear why this is not listed as a known issue in the 64 bit version of SQL Developer.
• 3. Re: Ututil error _execv() failed, err=2
Jim Smith
I'll admit I don't use ututil, but if I run it with no parameters, it continues after the exec error with a usage message.
_execv() failed, err=2
ututil -run ?
ututil -exp ?
ututil -imp ?
Is it that error which is stopping you using it or something else? I've not seen any other reports of it not working on 64-bit windows
• 4. Re: Ututil error _execv() failed, err=2
Marcel Hoefs
Hi Jim,
You are exactly right. I wrongfully assumed that the error meant that ututil didn't work. But is does despite the "_execv() failed, err=2" error.
Thank you for pointing this out to me.
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id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc focuses 18108 Custom code for different post formats in twentyeleven murky "I wanted to be able to customise the post format in twentyeleven, but regardless of the format, content-single was used. Therefore, in single.php changing the line to get_template_part( 'content-single', get_post_format() ); ?> would maintain current behaviour, but would allow a child theme to override behaviour for certain post formats by adding content-single-status.php (and so on). " enhancement closed normal Bundled Theme 3.2 normal duplicate has-patch
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