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- Romantic Stories : Subtle Exhibitionist, If There Is Such A Thing!
Subtle Exhibitionist, if there is such a thing!
This last Friday, Jason and I went to a Staind, Seether, Papa Roach concert in Orange Beach, AL with two "vanilla" friends. For those that don't know what that means, it means they are not swingers like us. Now, Joe and Melody both know that Jason and I swing and they are very cool with it. They are open- minded like us, so they don't mind the sexy innuendos or dirty conversations. At no time did it cross our mind to attempt to get them to join the lifestyle. They are just fun friends to hang out with. Some people can't understand that swingers can have friends that are just that; friends!
Anyway back to the night...we got a hotel room for the night since it was an hour and a half ride home. We all changed and headed out to the concert. The concert was a blast and we came back to the hotel room full of energy. Knowing ahead of time the hotel had a hot tub; we grabbed our suits, drinks and headed down. After an hour it the hot water and almost a full bottle of wine for me later, we decided we'd pruned up enough. Getting back to the hotel room, I was getting horny and yes, a little buzzed. Everyone changed into pj's and climbed into bed. The lights had not been out 30 seconds when I had my hand on Jason's cock. Feeling his cock stiffen under his man panties, I needed to have it and now. Jason stripped out of his panties and I pulled off my workout pants. Licking his fingers, Jason buried two deep inside my surprisingly soaked pussy. I tried not to moan aloud as I was trying to be respectful of Joe and Melody, but I wasn't having much luck. Needing Jason's cock in me, I lay on my back with Jason on his side as he slowly slides his cock in me. By now, I can't help but moan out loud. My pussy starts to tingle and get wetter at the mere thought that Joe and Melody can hear us. Now up until now, Jason and I had been trying to be sneaky under the covers. Needing a release that was building in me, I say fuck it, throw the covers aside and straddle Jason's cock. The room was dark but not completely blacked out. You could see shadows of people. Granted I still had a tank top on, but I was sure that you could see our silhouettes from the light coming in the sliding glass door. Now I was very wet and turned on with the fact that I knew Joe had to be watching. He's the kind of guy that would love to just sit back and watch another couple. Knowing he could see me, I decided I might as well go for broke and have fun. Melody I wasn't sure about. I was secretly hoping she was awake and watching as well. By now I'm riding Jason like a woman possessed. I lean back so the head of his cock is rubbing my g-spot. To send me completely over the edge, I lick my fingers, reach down and start vigorously rubbing my swollen clit. Now, knowing that I'm really loud when I cum, I can't help but pull in the "what the hell" attitude. It's my respectful nature kicking in. My body shakes violently as a deep orgasm explodes from my pussy out to the rest of me. I clamp my mouth shut and moan loudly behind my lips; exhaling in spasmodic bursts through my nose. My body is tight and rigid as my pussy twitches with each wave of passion. I fall forward clawing at Jason's chest as I let out a large exhale and catch my breath. As I lay atop Jason I whisper in his ear, "that was so fucking hard to not yell out". Jason snickered and said, "Yea I could tell".
Now not hearing anything from the other bed, we can only assume that they are asleep. I was really hot from my exertions, so I suggest that we step out onto the balcony and have some fun out in the cool night air. The balcony was not big and had only one small chair that would have collapsed if we both sat on it. So I held the railing and bent over as Jason grabbed my hips and plunged his hard cock inside me. Feeling a little brave again, I moan louder this time and start my dirty talk. I look around at the hotel next to us and the street below; it's 330 in the morning and no one is up. So much for putting on a show! LOL! Jason grabs a hand full of my hair, yanks my head back and proceeds to pound my pussy hard. It's amazing how the smack of skin on skin can be amplified in the quiet night air. Again it ran through my mind that they might be able to hear us. And I thought it was fucking awesome! After a few minutes of hard pounding my legs start to give out. Taking it back to the bed, Jason bends me over the bed and keeps up what he started outside. He's like a dog with a bone; he's not letting me get away. He wants that pussy and he doesn't care how much noise we make. Needing a release and not able to reach that edge doggie style, Jason has me lie down on my side as he gets on his knees and plunges into me. This is Jason's favorite position and one that makes him cum deep and hard. At this point, all thoughts of being quiet have gone out the window. Jason pounds my pussy deep as he holds my hip; he stops, lets out a deep groan and fills my pussy with hot cum.
Exhausted, I fell almost right to sleep. Jason went out to smoke on the balcony and noticed a guy outside on the balcony right below our hotel room. LOL, I'm sure he heard us. When Jason came back in, he noticed Joe heading to the bathroom. I had to giggle at the thought of him being rock hard and needing to relieve himself. The next morning we found out that Joe and Melody had heard most everything and thought it was awesome. I'm glad we have cool friends. Still, it was sexy has hell knowing that these "vanilla" friends got an eye/ear full of our sexy lovemaking.


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Fantasy gets a bad rap. While science-fiction has enjoyed something of a restoration of sanctified hipness in recent years, thanks in part to the genre-bending efforts of authors like David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Lethem, as well as a reappraisal of the works of authors like Philip K. Dick and Margaret Atwood, novels that find themselves classified in the fantasy genre can often be outright dismissed as having no artistic or literary merit. Amazingly, even the work of king daddy J.R.R. Tolkien still finds itself in need of critical defense from time to time. And while fantasy certainly has more than its fair share of rote genre exercises, including countless copycat cash-ins, it's also an imaginative space buzzing with invention and the capacity for social commentary. Sandra McDonald's Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories exemplifies the best kind of invention and social commentary that we might expect from post-modern fantasy.
Diana Comet collects fifteen stories connected via shared motifs, characters, and settings. McDonald crafts a world that inverts or displaces our own. This world, with its lands like New Dalli and Massasoit, is slightly decentered from our own: we find familiar iterations of our history here—there's war and imperialism, colonialism and poverty, homophobia and racism—but the idioms are all slightly off, displaced enough be paradoxically familiar and alienating at the same time. "Diana Comet and the Lovesick Cowboy," for instance, seems set in a 19th-century American milieu amidst a civil war (there's even a poet named Whit Waltman), yet the transposition, articulate as it is, is also nebulous, disturbing even. McDonald's spare distortion forces the reader to reconsider his own notions of cultural history, and she does this to great effect, whether taking on gender ideologies ("Diana Comet and the Disappearing Lover"), homophobia ("The Fireman's Fairy"), or racism ("Fay and the Goddesses"). None of these issues are presented glibly, didactically, or clumsily; indeed, it's through the slightest distortions of fantastic imagination that the reader must re-examine his own society through McDonald's reflective lens. Most of the stories end with enumerated discussion questions, often silly or whimsical, that serve to puncture the seriousness of the tales; they sometimes force details from our "real" world into the texts of Diana Comet in a way that's doubly disconcerting. It's a meta-textual gambit that pays off, however, both in belying any self-seriousness to the narrative proper as well as establishing a thin membrane between fantasy and reality—a membrane of questions that allows the reader to "play," to disrupt that boundary through his or her own imagination.
McDonald's world-building in Diana Comet never comes at the expense of good storytelling. With a few exceptions, most of the stories here piece together the frame of a world, leaving the reader's imagination to fill in most of the gaps. Most of the stories seem to take place in an iteration of the nineteenth century, but some to be set earlier, later, and even in a displaced future, like "Kingdom Coming," a playful apocalypse tale. McDonald's expositive restraint does wonders; too many writers of inventive fiction feel the need to tell the reader every single detail and nuance of their worlds. I think here of Ursula K. LeGuin's marvelous novel The Left Hand of Darkness, a book toward which I believe Diana Comet bears considerable comparison, particularly with respect to the exploration of how gender and sexuality functions in a society. While LeGuin's book is terrific and fully-realized, she spends a bit too much narrative energy transmitting every detail of that realization to her audience. Diana Comet is rewarding in its gaps and mysteries, as well as its ability to evoke a sense of the uncanny in its reader. Oh, I should probably add that McDonald can write; her prose is elegant, lively, wry, and spare.
Diana Comet is a smart, thoughtful post-modern fantasy that may appeal to the kids out there who have outgrown the narrative simplicity of Harry Potter and are looking for a challenge; it will undoubtedly appeal to fans of writers like LeGuin and Atwood, writers who know how to channel narrative traditional tropes of imaginative fiction through distortion and ambiguity and force their readers to think, even as they entertain. Recommended.

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May 19, 2014 -
The House Appropriations Committee today released the fiscal year 2015 Agriculture Appropriations bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The proposed legislation funds important agricultural and food programs and services, including food and medical product safety, animal and plant health programs, rural development and farm services, marketplace oversight, and nutrition programs.
The bill totals $20.9 billion in discretionary funding, which is equal to the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. Including both discretionary and mandatory funding for various nutrition programs, the overall bill totals $142.5 billion.
"America's farmers and ranchers do their part to put food on our tables, and this bill is Congress's part to ensure the safety, productivity, and success of our agricultural industries," House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers said. "In addition, this bill supports a variety of nutrition programs to help address one of our biggest national challenges – making sure that our most vulnerable, including children, do not go hungry."
"This bill honors our commitment to rural America and demonstrates to our farmers that they are not forgotten in Washington. From funding rural infrastructure development to implementing programs within the new Farm Bill, this year's appropriation seeks to address the needs of rural America while holding the line on government spending and regulatory over-reach," Subcommittee Chairman Robert Aderholt said.
Bill Highlights:
The legislation focuses investments in programs that support U.S. agriculture, boost rural communities, maintain food and drug safety, and provide nutrition for children, families, and seniors. In total, the bill provides $142.5 billion in both discretionary and mandatory funding – $1.5 billion below the President's request and $3 billion below the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. Discretionary funding alone in the bill is $20.9 billion, the same as the fiscal year 2014 enacted level.
Agricultural Research – The bill provides $2.65 billion for agriculture research programs, including the Agricultural Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. This is approximately equal to the fiscal year 2014 enacted funding level. This funding will support research to help mitigate and stop devastating crop diseases, and improve food safety and water quality. The funding will also support responsible investments in the nation's land-grant colleges and universities.
Animal and Plant Health – The legislation includes $870.7 million – $45.8 million above the fiscal year 2014 enacted level – for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. This funding will provide support for programs to help control or eradicate plant and animal pests and diseases that can be crippling to U.S. producers and entire agricultural industries, and includes increases to fight citrus greening and an epidemic porcine virus.
Conservation Programs – The bill provides $869 million – $43 million above the fiscal year 2014 enacted level – to help farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners conserve and protect their land. This includes $25 million – an increase of $13 million – in infrastructure rehabilitation funding to help small communities meet current safety standards for watershed projects.
Farm Service Agency (FSA) – The legislation provides $1.5 billion for FSA, which is $27 million above the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. This funding will support the various farm, conservation, loan, and emergency programs, and will help American farmers and ranchers with the implementation of the recently enacted farm bill.
Rural Development – The bill provides a total of $2.6 billion for rural development programs, which is $178 million above the fiscal year 2015 requested level. These programs help create an environment for economic growth by supporting basic rural infrastructure, providing loans to increase opportunities for rural businesses and industries, and helping balance the playing field in local rural housing markets. The bill also establishes a new Chief Risk Officer to oversee and be accountable for the $200 billion rural development loan portfolio.
Food Safety and Inspection Service – The legislation includes $1 billion for food safety and inspection programs – approximately the same as the 2014 enacted level. These mandatory inspection activities help ensure the safety and productivity of the country's $186 billion meat and poultry industry, and keep safe, healthy food on American tables. The funding provided will maintain more than 8,000 frontline inspection personnel for meat, poultry, and egg products at more than 6,400 facilities across the country.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – The FDA receives a total of almost $2.6 billion in discretionary funding in the bill, an increase of $23 million over the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. Total funding for the FDA, including revenue from user fees, is $4.5 billion, $98 million above fiscal year 2014. Within this total, food safety activities are increased by $25 million, and drug safety activities are increased by $12 million.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – Included in the bill is $218 million for the CFTC, an increase of approximately $3 million above the fiscal year 2014 enacted level and $62 million below the President's budget request. The increase is targeted to necessary information technology improvements.
International Food Programs – The legislation contains $1.7 billion for overseas food aid. This includes a $66 million increase above the President's request for "Food for Peace" grants, and a $13 million increase over the request for the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition program. These programs seek to reduce chronic hunger and increase food security by providing American-grown food, transported by U.S. ships, to foreign countries in need of aid.
Food and Nutrition Programs – The legislation contains discretionary funding, as well as mandatory funding required by law, for food and nutrition programs within the Department of Agriculture. This includes funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the Child Nutrition programs.
For the text of the subcommittee draft bill please visit: /uploadedfiles/bills-113hr-sc-ap-fy2015-agriculture-subcommitteedraft.pdf
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Carl M. "Skeets" Noftsger, 62, of Colfax passed away on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.
A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Howard Street Christian Church with burial following at Greencastle Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Coburn Funeral Home in Colfax. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials may be directed to the Carl M. Noftsger Memorial Fund, and condolences may be left for the family at www.coburnfuneralhomes.com.
Carl was born on Dec. 8, 1950, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Carl F. Noftsger and Bonnie (Grim) Noftsger. He was employed at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in the maintenance department for 32 years. He married Donna Brant of Colfax on Jan. 8, 1971. He served in the United States Navy for 12 years. He served on Mine Sweepers, USS Affray and the USS Observer as well as being an amphibious instructor.
He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Donna (Brant) Noftsger; children, Carl (Allison) Noftsger of Altoona, Mike (Melissa) Noftsger of Gardner, Kansas and Lisa Anderson of Colfax; six grandchildren, Keegan, Olivia, Jacob, Nickolas, "The Bug" – Dakota and Quentin; his mother, Bonnie Noftsger of Colfax; a sister, Martha (Dale) Savage of Newton; brothers Don (Christy) Noftsger of Colfax, and Frank (Rowena) Brugoni of Altoona. He is also survived by his in-laws, Cheryl Moyer, Diana Brant, Kim Foster, Jim (Louise) Brant and Steve Belcher, all of Grinnell and Clyde "Skeeter" Brant Jr. of Charleston, South Carolina; a special aunt Connie Eaton and several special friends, nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death were his father, Carl F. Noftsger; sister-in-law, Linda Belcher; and Uncle Marv, as well as many aunts and uncles.


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Watch The ::God Is Imaginary Videos On YouTube ::
Genesis 6:5-13. Well it does seem like they had very few options. But I would imagine that as Noah was building this massive ark in the middle of 'nowhere', some curious by standers did ask him why he was making ''an ocean liner in the Sahara'' and they probably laughed him to scorn when the reason was given. Now I am not saying that is what exactly happened but something very similar to it.


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Welcome to Kasa Kim and Kanye!
A source confirms to omg! that parents-to-be Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have plunked down $11 million for a sprawling mansion in gated Bel Air, California, just six months before they're set to get a visit from the stork. TMZ reports that the couple purchased the 10,000-square-foot residence weeks ago – before the world knew about their baby news – and immediately began renovating it, giving it an extra 4,000-square-feet of space.
Once it's complete, the Italian-style villa – which is right down the road from neighbors Jennifer Aniston, NBA star Chris Paul, and Kardashian family friend, "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis – will boast a hair and makeup salon, movie theater, gym, bowling alley, basketball court, indoor pool and an outdoor pool. For even more photos of the stunning piece of real estate, check out Zillow.com.
[Related: Kim Kardashian's Pre-Baby Bikini Body (Photos)]
"It's so exciting for them," a source tells People. "The house is gorgeous. And they really wanted and needed the privacy."
The new home is not only safely tucked away from prying eyes, but it's also a good 15 miles away from Calabasas, where Kardashian's momager, Kris Jenner, lives with husband Bruce Jenner and their two teen daughters. Although the distance may not seem far, in L.A. traffic that could translate to quite a drive.
Buying a home together is a big deal! Last May, not long after they first started dating, the rapper moved into Kardashian's abode and put his three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath Hollywood Hills home on the market for $3.995 million. A month later, that same pad was robbed while West, 35, was on tour in England. According to real estate site, Zillow.com, it never sold and was likely taken off the market.
[Related: Kim Kardashian Embraces Pregnancy Curves in Sheer Shirt, Black Bra]
Since then, whenever the two are both on the West Coast, they've been shacking up under Kardashian's roof … just like Kris Humphries did until they split in October 2011 after 72 days of marriage. The reality mega-star owns a $4.8 million five-bedroom Tuscan-style villa in a gated community in Beverly Hills, which she bought in 2010.
While their dream home is being perfected, the couple is kicking back in Paris. After spending a few days in Miami with her BFF, publicist Jonathan Cheban, Kardashian, 32, skipped the pond and showed up with her baby-daddy in France on Tuesday afternoon. Their first order of business? Shopping! After all, they're going to need plenty of new things to fill their massive home.
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TOWNSEND -- It takes $300 to keep the library open four hours on Sunday afternoon.
"We're trying to maintain Sunday hours. It's busy here," said Stacy Schuttler, director of the Townsend Public Library. Without Sundays, the library is open 40 hours a week.
Since 2010, the library has opened on Sunday afternoons during the winter. Last year, they were open for 12 Sundays.
The four extra hours give a different user base a chance to use the library. Many people work during the week and are too busy on Saturday to stop in. "It's like a treat for them," Schuttler said.
High school and college students use the library for projects on Sunday. "We're the only library in the school district with Sunday hours," she said.
The additional hours provide a different time slot for programs, too. Last year, Roger Swain, past host of The Victory Garden on PBS, drew a crowd on a winter's Sunday afternoon.
The Friends of the Townsend Public Library have come up with a way to allow the library to offer its valuable services on Sundays during the upcoming winter.
Businesses can be part of the Sponsor-a-Sunday program. A $300 donation will keep the library open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. for one Sunday from Jan. 12 to March 16, 2014.
"It's a creative way to try and continue on," Schuttler said.
The Friends have been getting the word out to businesses and getting them interested. They have approached members of the Townsend Business Association, issued a press release and posted on Facebook.
Sunday sponsors will get more community visibility from their contribution. To thank the funders, the library will feature the donor's business name on all check-out receipts and feature a display of books relating to the business during the sponsored week.
Sunday sponsors will be listed on a bookmark and on signs. The library website will provide links to the sponsors' websites or Facebook pages and include information in newsletters and press releases.
The idea was the brainchild of Karen Waxman and Carolyn Sellars, both long-term library supporters, Schuttler said.
Waxman is the vice-president of the Friends and a library trustee. In addition to being a Friend, Sellars is president of the Townsend Library Endowment Fund, a fund with over $800,000 in capital that provides additional funding for the library.
All of the positions are volunteers and help ensure the library has what it needs to be successful, Sellars said in an email.
In past years, the additional hours were funded by a private donor or by the library.
At the end of August, six of the as available slots were filled.
The Friends sponsored two weeks; Ducharme & Dillis Civil Design Group, Inc.; Portraitefx by Wallace Hill Studios; the TBA; and Radio Engineering Associates have each signed on for one week.
For information on the Sponsor-a-Sunday program, stop by the library at 12 Dudley Road or give them a call at 978-597-1714.


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After what will hopefully be wins for Wales U20 and Rob Howley's senior side on Friday night and Saturday respectively, the Students take centre stage at the home of the Newport Gwent Dragons at 1pm followed by Wales Women at Talbot Athletic Ground at 2.30.
Wales Students v England Students - Rodney Parade, Newport
Sunday 17 March 1pm
Tickets adults £5, Under 16s free
Tickets available from Rodney Parade or by calling 01633 674990
Last year saw England Students secure a comfortable win but after training together since early January, Wales are determined to make it two wins on the bounce.
"We've had some late problems with injuries but we've named a strong side and are looking forward to the game," said Wales Students team manager Adrian Evans.
"England got the better of us last year but if we repeat the performance we showed against Germany then we are more than capable of getting the result.
"Our fitness in particular was key against Germany and hopefully we'll use that to our advantage."
Wales Students vs England Students: 15 Gareth Thompson 14 Steffan Jones 13 Matt Smith 12 Will Owen 11 Ciaran Driscoll 10 Owen Thomas 9 Aled Lewis, 1 Brynley Toms 2 Greg George 3 Sean McDonnell-Roberts 4 Gus Davies 5 Jon Barley 6 Reuben Tucker 7 Kyle Tayler (C) 8 Jarad Williams.
Replacements: Dafydd Morgan, Rhodri Hanmer, Henri Williams, Oli Edwards, Rhodri Davies, James Cordy-Redden, Rhys Howells.
Wales Women v England Women - Talbot Athletic Ground, Aberavon
Sunday 17 March 2.30pm
Tickets adults £5 stand, Terrace £3 Under 16s free
Wales Women are seeking a win over England at Aberavon on Sunday to ensure there are no last minute nerves for qualification for next year's World Cup in France.
Wales have already achieved their pre-campaign goal of two victories in the Six Nations, however Italy's surprise form in the championship has put a cat among the pigeons.
Wales' win against Scotland last Sunday has now edged them in front of Italy for the last automatic spot up for grabs in the race for qualification for next year's World Cup.
"Italy still have an outside chance of overturning that but they would have to beat Ireland this weekend and we would have to concede an avalanche of points against England," said Wales Women head coach Rhys Edwards.
"But our mindset is to go out and beat England. We played well against Ireland in our first game at Talbot Athletic Ground to lose by only two points. The following week they then beat England by 25-0. We've just to go for it."
Wales Women v England Woman: 15 Dyddgy Hywel 14 Caryl James 13 Elen Evans 12 Rebecca de Filippo 11 Charlie Murray 10 Elinor Snowsill 9 Amy Day; 1 Jenny Davies 2 Lowri Harries 3 Catrin Edwards 4 Gemma Hallett 5 Shona Powell-Hughes 6 Catrina Nicholas 7 Sioned Harries 8 Rachel Taylor (Capt)
Replacements: 16 Carys Phillips 17 Megan York 18 Bethan Howell 19 Nia Davies 20 Vicky Owens 21 Laura Prosser 22 Philippa Tuttiett


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To the Editor:
This country must learn to live within its means. Congress must rise above partisan politics and do what we all must do – not spend more than we make.
Will some people feel a financial punch? Of course! But if we don't act, and act now, all of us will suffer.
I call upon the Congress to act responsibly and right now. Once again, the federal government and the major party interests simply must get together and legislate to reduce the amount of money being spent on running our government. There are no easy ways out that the other guy could be taking advantage of.
I am a Republican, and there must be an honest and equitable effort by all Republican and Democratic legislators to vote for every bit of legislation that can be used to reduce the cost of running the government.
Needless to say, the White House itself must be the final and necessary piece to the puzzle of running the country in an orderly way that will reasonably and quickly remove the national debt.
All groups must do their part. You should all write your congressman and tell them what you want done. Only then can the cost of running Congress be reduced. This should include a letter to the president, demanding that he pressure Congress to spend less.
Chuck Barr
St. Charles


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Vegas: M by 38
Kenpom: M by 37
M v. Baby Seal, 7:00 BTN
Who the hell is calling this game @ Crisler?
This guy is even more energetic than the regular PA guy...lord help us all if there is free pizza offered today.
I want the shutout!
Is there any way to delay the MGoBlue audio so its in sync? I dont feeel like listening to these guys.
Spike blends in so well with the student managers on the bench.
Any other predictions?
So is this team going to have an unbelievable awesome 3 point shooting day?
any streams that work?
edit: started working as i hit enter to post
The link I gave is up
Nice maize & blue canadian flag
if i'm coach right now i call a time out, pull the team aside and get into their ears - everyone is asleep!
At the end of the game, which will be greater:
Binghamton made baskets or Binghamton turnovers?
I think at this point Binghamton has 5 TO's and 4 made baskets and that's with us playing sloppy early
gotta get out of this funk to start the game
Do something crazy Mitch.
not moving without the ball well
playing down to our competition it seems
I do love the Maize & Blue Canadian (Bacon) Flag
Silky stuff from THJ
I know we'll probably win, but I should'nt have to watch this whole game biting my nails. Also, McGary seems so out of it sometimes, he's basically just a big body at this point. His passing is bothersome and his aggressiveness rebounding needs a boost.
Love Lavert's game and love McGary's hustle
Stauskas is uncomfortable open
With hand in face
Nik with the 3.
Caris LeVert is looking good early on.
For four years.
A quick recalibration is all Stauskas needed. Someone knocked his scope off kilter.
The reality for this team at its current level of pre-bloom?
Playing a lot of guys early, I like it
And sharp every day on the job.
Best coach in the nation.
Gosh Caris Levert looks sooo young!
Something like 42-25.....they need to just get their work in and have a good feeling going into Saturdays game against WVU.
West Virginia, our next opponent, is playing on CBSSports for those interested in flipping during commercials. Channel 255 on Comcast.
Longer than expected though
has some swag this year, looking much more comfortable and confident...
I would like the see him grab some more rebounds. But has looked a lot better.
its good to see Timmy making some shots early
jacking up alot of 3's right now
I'd like to see him play more, he brings good effort, energy and defense
I am pretty sure there are 50 AAU teams that could beat Binghamton
BS call there on Hardaway
Are these announcers calling the game off site in Chicago? The announcers table is completely empty on the near side of the screen...solid production value BTN.
can't be this sloppy against good teams
will get ugly (not for us BTW) in the 2nd half
Tim give the ball to somebody who is actually hitting threes...
that have been missed, keep going in and out, oh well
Just under 4 minutes in the first. 27-12.
Michigan shooting 50.0% from the field... 36.4% from 3.
EDIT: Bingers shooting 30% and 18% respectively
nice play
stauskas stop being human! just kidding you're still awesome
Trey is da man.
will Binghampton crack 40 points?
I come from the future.
No, they won't.
up 20 at half. ugly start, but i love seeing this team not get down on itself and finish the half strong.
This feels like when I get bored playing Heisman mode so I just switch it to Junior Varsity for a game to have fun.
to see us run more in the 2nd half. It would be more fun to watch against this out-manned squad
I'm sure it's hard to focus against a team they can beat 10 times out of 10. A sloppy start isn't that startling.
LaVert doesn't look as comfortable on offense, but his D and on ball D looks really good!
...you play perfection. I really want to see us execute, take good shots, play GREAT defense and just get better.
Like I've said versus some of these other trash teams - I'm less concerned with the ball going in the basket, we're going to win. But can we take good shots? Can we get the looks that WE want?
That's what I hope we do for at least 16 minutes. Execute!
only 2 of 6 or 7
Nik for 3!!
stauskas needs a hand in his face
It's a fiendish plot by Binghamtom to leave him open so he misses.
good to Morgan running the court
I know it's a dead horse, but my garsh. These guys are awful. Sounds like a student production.
"This terrible Binghamton player was a HS teammate of Victor Oladipo...what a POWERHOUSE team that must have been."
Here I was thinking the Binghamton coach was a scrub for not watching any film and totally ignoring Stauskas...little did I know he's a fucking genius.
it also appears he's wasting time by running out his shotclocks in a devilish attempt to keep our lead from reaching its full potential
how many shot clock violations is that now? at least 3
we're kicking ass now, like the way we've come out in 2nd half
Well this is fun.
Can't even justify to my wife to take back control of remote to watch the rest of this.
is the only question now
The 3s. They're so beautiful!
damn that could have been sweat
Sounds gross
lol that pass was SO high
in practice. Clearly the main weakness of this team
damn.. what happened to the defense?
Canadian Bacon is so good.
Little did we know, Trey had that play planned. The whole thing. Even the defender deflecting the pass.
where can i buy one of those maize and blue canadian flags?
They bought it custom. So you'll have to shell out some $$$$$.
Oh well my trusty red and white Canadian flag, you were cool and unique for like one game... now every has flags. Good to see Stauskas getting the Carl Hagelin treatment.
last few minutes
I live in columbus and am a buckeye season ticket holder, even though I am a michigan fan. Anyone interested in trading a game down here for a game up there?
You are not a Michigan fan. Period.
how do you figure that clown? i like basketball, i like taking people to the games.. sorry I live in Columbus. You shoukd go play on the sparty board or 11 warriors
Can we get to 80 points? Beilein is 21-0 when that happens. The pace of the game is starting to pick up.
We'll have end of the bench in for a long time. Eso will likely jack up 4 or so 3's so we've always got a shot.
If only those went in
Trey is shooting WAY too much. You're the PG, let's run some offense and work on some plays. We can get 3's any time we want...and likely make them.
Must be listening...
baby Binghamton seal
so cute, clean and innocent
fur for coats, bludgeoned
creativity around the basket
damn.. missed shots
come on Mitch.. slam that shit
I love watching McGary take the ball up the floor. Rumbling big men!!
He just wants more Kobe assists
"They've solved the riddle of the Binghamton Bearcats." LOL
I want to see McGary take it coast to coast.
He ever got that 5th star in recruiting...
He problably is more refined on offense than nerlens noel who was the number #1 player, anthony davis mainly scored on put backs and was a defensive force. Obviously mcgary isn't on that level but lack of a refined offensive game for big men doesn't really hurt their rankings.
is not red-shirting, he's too good.
It helps with our depth and rotation. Vogrich is already a bit bench player,sad for him but it makes team better
This is terrible, only good thing is watching McGary pull down boards.
Let's get Morgan, Horford, Vogrich, Burke, Albrecht some run together...I'd like to see Burke get some time at SG where we can run some plays his way. Get him that off-the-ball experience.
Keep working guys. Can't miss wide open 3s if we want to win the B1G.
This team was not focused today and yet they lead by 30
We're already such a spoiled bunch
Hardaway has been ice cold from 3 in the last few games.
Sloppy game all around.
Then again, it's great to be in a position where our 2nd leading scorer is having an off night, we have a crapload of turnovers, and we're still up by 27 points.
that Horford and Morgan were in the game together earlier. I would like to see more of Horford along side either Mitch or Jordan, I have a feeling we'll need a combo like that way more in the B1G
Not sure if it's too early to put the Illini on upset alert, but one can only remember what Norfolk did to Missouri lastyear in the tourney. Norfolk is up 26-24 with about 3:00 to play in the 1H
part of me wants to worry that they are peaking too early and are due for a streak of poor shooting.
then, i think about how they all can't go into a bad streak at the same time. they are too good and too deep.
then, on the other other hand, they play 3-4 freshmen on the floor fairly often. too young to stay this consistent.
finally, on the other^4 hand, I think HOLY CRAP THEY HAVE 4 FRESHMEN GETTING BIG TIME PT ON THE #3 TEAM IN THE NATION
This has been an ugly game offensively.
Has to be ridiculous
Well they are certainly killing our 3 average
Bring on WV.
Gah we underperformed kenpom!!! We suck...
10-0 for the first time since 1988-89. A win over WVU would tie their start.
Great as they've been so far, fans seem to ignore the fact that the team hasn't yet played much stiff competition. Wait and see
NC state just beat Uconn and Uconn took care of the thirty seven time national champion Spartans? Chill out man, they look good.
is about the only thing one can take out a total mismatch from the get go. This team works hard regardless of the lineup for all 35 seconds on defense, and on offense there always seems to be good flow and activity.


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15. Illegal, unprecedented reorganization of GM and Chrysler benefiting the UAW instead of creditors and equity holders, lucky to see 35c on the dollar
16. Insult millions of intelligent Americans / AQ victims: Hide the mutilated corpse and burial of Bin Laden in order not to insult Muslims (at least when (D) hid the hanging and burial of Japanese war criminals after WWII they did it in the name of pacification)
17. Insult millions of intelligent Americans part deux: "You Didn't Build That" "Pay Your Fair Share"
18. Doing absolutely nothing to stimulate private sector economy for years and instead focusing on nonsense like gay marriage and gun-grabbing and wasting time on campaigning and endless vacations
19. Doling out huge #s of student visas to ME Tsarnaev-types - 100K just to Saudis
20. Failing to keep a presence of any kind in Iraq as a counter to Iran adventurism
21. Doing nothing about Nork/Iranian nukes (although in the 1st case Madam Halfbright and Bubba were supposed to have sorted that one out)
The "both parties to blame" line however is faulty logic to the extreme - pure RonPaulstiltskin, Crypto-Liberal apology for the Rat-Eared Dog-Eater and his gang of (D) generates - nice try WF
The GOP did not vote for PPACA, or fail to act in Benghazi, or force Islamist / AQ "Arab Spring" coup d' etats on the ME etc. etc.
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Obama evil.
Then Republican Party has become that **** that you took. You didn't think you had to wipe...but you did anyway.
So the TP had a small brown stain on it. It wasn't as big as you thought would be there.
But no matter how hard you wiped...they were still there.
He has turned the country into Russia.
Thats why idiots like you lack the ability to post dissenting opinions online about the communist Obama.
He took that right away from you.
All you have left if waving your tiny peen here
We will keep up the good fight for you...
And I prayed to The Lord
Jesus Christ to the best way to bring the news of our great lord to the masses.
He told unto me....tell those stupid ****ers that they should die in a fire.
Suck dick you pieces of ****.
Your piece of **** "god" allowed chicks to get ****ed in the ass for a decade while Fox New God ****er was more concerned with
Walmart greeters saying "Merry ****ing Christmas......
Jesus freaks.
the emails released yesterday regarding the State Dept's response to the attacks directly contradict the WH's version of what happened
22. Winning re-election.


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One of the major signs of the last day is the Anti-Christ, or Dajjal, as he is known in Islam. Also known as the False Messiah, he is the greatest challenge the Muslim world will ever face.
The word Dajjal comes from the Arabic verb dajala which means to mix. It generally refers to mixing what is true with what is false, or what is good with what is bad, thereby causing confusion. The Dajjal will cause confusion by making people think he is good when he is actually evil.
Muslims, Christians, and Jews are all awaiting a Messiah. The Messiah, or Anointed One, is to bring peace and justice to the earth.
Muslims and Christians both believe Jesus (peace be upon him) is the Messiah.
However, Christians believe Jesus is the son of Allah and when he comes back, he will take his believers up to heaven in a rapture.
Jews do not believe Jesus will be the Messiah.
Muslims do believe Jesus (Isa in Arabic) will return to earth to establish justice. However, we believe he is to do battle with his opposite, the False Messiah, or Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal, or simply The Dajjal.
Since both the real Messiah and the False Messiah will be on earth at the same time, how will Muslims know who to follow? It is quite simple. The False Messiah will encourage people to worship him, whereas the true Messiah is a servant of Allah and will encourage his followers to worship Allah. Unfortunately, many will follow the False Messiah and worship him, thinking he is God on earth in the form of Jesus.
What Did The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) Say About The Dajjal?
Fortunately, we have a lot of information from Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) that helps us know what to look for and how to recognize the Dajjal.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) has said:
"Whilst I was sleeping, I saw myself performing Tawaaf around the Ka'bah, when I saw a dark man with straight hair, standing between two other men, with water dripping from his head. I asked, "Who is this?" They said, "The son of Maryam." Then I turned and saw a ruddy-complexioned man, well built, with curly hair, blind in his right eye, with his eye looking like a floating grape. I asked, "Who is this?" They said, "This is the Dajjaal." The person who looks most like him is Ibnu Qatan."
And in another hadith he (peace be upon him) stated:
"Allah is not one-eyed, but the False Messiah is one-eyed, blind or defective in his right eye, with his eye looking like a floating grape."
And in yet another narration he (peace be upon him) said:
I have told you so much about the Dajjal that I fear you will not understand. The Dajjal will be a short man, pigeon-toed, with curly hair. He will be one-eyed, with his eye neither prominent nor sunken. If you become confused about him, then remember that your Lord is not one-eyed.
And he (peace be upon him) also said:
No Prophet was sent but he warned his people about the one-eyed liar. He is one-eyed, but your Lord is not one-eyed, and between his eyes will be written 'kafir'.
The word kafir means "disbeliever" in Arabic, or one who is not Muslim.
With this information, we know the following about the Dajjal:
- He will be short.
- He will have curly hair.
- He will be well-built.
- And most importantly, he will be one-eyed.
What Will The Dajjal Do?
As mentioned earlier, The False Messiah will be the greatest trial mankind has ever faced. But his confusion will be even more troubling for Muslims. Why? Because unlike most others, Muslims will recognize his falsehood and will strive against him.
The Dajjal will come from the area of Central Asia known as Khorasan. This is an area that covers parts of Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan. He will rise to power with his miracles and magic.
He will travel throughout the world spreading his corruption.
The Anti-Christ will first declare himself to be a prophet of God. Then he will claim that he is God himself.
Most of the people in the world will believe in him and worship him. He will confuse people by showing them something that looks like a river of water, but is really a river of fire, and something that looks like fire but is really water.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) has warned us that if we are presented with such a choice, we must choose the fire.
The False Messiah will also have the power to control the weather and the produce of the earth. For those that obey, follow, and worship him, he will reward them with abundant crops and wealth. And those that do not worship him (namely, Muslims) he will punish them with famine and poverty.
This is why the fitnah (trials) of the Dajjal will be so difficult. You can imagine how difficult it would be to resist a following him when one is faced with hunger and death.
The Dajjal will convince people that he is a god by performing miracles similar to those Jesus (peace be upon him) performed. For instance, he will make some believe that he has brought their parents back from the dead.
He will also try to convince the Muslims as well. Some Muslims will follow him and some will not. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) has warned us to stay away from the Dajjal completely, since some people will go to him as a believer, and leave a disbeliever.
However, one of the best Muslims will recognize the Dajjal for who he is and go out to confront him. The Muslim will say "I bear witness you are the Dajjaal that our Prophet has warned us about."
The Anti-Christ will then ask the other Muslims: "If I kill this man and bring him back to life, will you still doubt me?"
The people will say "No," and the Anti-Christ will kill the Muslim and bring him back to life. Then the believer will say: "Now I know for certain that you are The Dajjaal!"
The Dajjal will try to kill him again, but will not be able.
This sort of confusion does not end here. He will travel to desolate lands and bring forth treasure and crops and wealth. Wealth will follow him everywhere he goes, and those that believe in him will benefit from this wealth.
According to one hadith, the Antichrist will be on earth for forty days. But these days are not like normal days. One day will be like a year, one day will be like a month, one will be like a week, and the remaining 37 days will be like normal days. If we take this literally, it would appear that he will be amongst us for about one year and two and a half months. But Allah knows best.
How The Dajjaal Will Die
The False Messiah will come near the end of the reign of the Mahdi. After several years of righteousness and peace, the Dajjal will appear and spread his fitnah and make things very difficult for those Muslims that still follow Al-Mahdi.
As the Dajjal increases in strength and wealth, the Muslims will appear to lose their power.
The Dajjal will conquer most of the world except Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem. As mentioned earlier, he will not be able to enter either Mecca and Medina. It may be that these remaining cities are the only strongholds left for the Mahdi and his followers.
Though he is unable to take Mecca and Medina, the False Messiah will not stop. He will lead his army to Jerusalem.
At this time, Isa (Jesus, peace be upon him) will descend and return to Earth. When Isa arrives, the Muslims will want him to lead them in prayer. However, Isa (peace be upon him) will defer to the Mahdi and follow him in the Salah.
Isa will then join the Mahdi's army and lead the battle to intercept the Dajjal before he reaches Jerusalem.
When the two armies meet a great battle will ensue. The Muslims will eventually win and the forces of the Dajjal will break formation and flee the battle.
The Dajjal will also try to escape. But Isa (peace be upon him) will catch him and kill him. The Muslim army will also chase down the remains of the Dajjal's army and destroy them all.
Final Comments
There have been many suggestions and suppositions as to who the False Messiah is. However, we must understand a few things.
- The Dajjal is a person. A human being. He is not a system or a cult or a belief or a nation.
- The Mahdi comes before the Dajjal. Not afterwards.
- The Dajjal will first claim to be a prophet and then a god.
- Those who do not follow the False Messiah will suffer a great deal. Many people, Muslims included, will be led astray by his lies.
- Isa Ibn Maryam (peace be upon them both) will destroy the Dajjaal.
Inshallah, I will continue this series on Signs of the Last Day with an article on the Mahdi.


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After three consecutive losses, Manchester United have finally managed to snatch a win to lift the spirits of David Moyes and the fans.
The roars are still rumbling at Old Trafford.
There were deep concerns ahead of the game, United having lost to Swansea just last weekend, sending them out of the FA Cup with their heads held low.
It was speculated that Swansea would be able to defeat David Moyes' side once again.
Well, Swansea City defended well for the first half, holding Manchester United to a 0-0 draw going into the locker room at half time. Unfortunately, they were unable to do the same in the second half.
Goals from Antonio Valencia and Danny Welbeck in the early part of the second half led the Red Devils to the win at Old Trafford against Swansea.
The first goal came from Valencia's shot off the rebound of Gerhard Tremmel, who made the save against Kagawa's header but couldn't reach the second shot.
Welbeck put away the second goal with half-an-hour left to seal the deal.
But what made the difference yesterday in comparison to the loss midweek?
One notable difference is Shinji Kagawa, who started yesterday's match and played every second.
The Japanese international didn't manage to snatch a goal from the matchup but he was more than involved in the entire game, putting massive pressure on the Swansea defence throughout the entirety of the 90 minutes.
The chemistry between Kagawa, Evra, Valencia, Januzaj, and Welbeck has given United enough to comeback from their losing streak.
Had it not been for several fantastic saves from Gerhard Tremmel, Swansea could have found themselves four or five down at the final whistle.
So it seems the Red Devils are back to winning ways, but can the comeback kings keep this up against Chelsea on Super Sunday?
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Everytime I pick up this piece, I give humble thanks that I'm knitting with cotton!
Lately, even indoors with cool air surrounding, the heat, as many, many of you know, has been truly oppressive. I'd hoped to be finished with this right sleeve by today, but have been just too pitiful to do much more than a few rows here and there.
But I give thanks for what I was able to do, helped along by a cooler fiber. Stitch by stitch, step by step is not a bad way at all, in fact it's the only way you can go in knitting. ;p
So it's time for a little portrait – a reality check – to see if I still have confidence in this technique or if it's time for a trip to the frog pond. (click on pix for larger version).
Up on the mannie, with a picture, there are less ways to "not see" the problem areas of a work-in-progress.
Both the tension and the characteristics of the fiber used come into focus. For instance, I see that my pick up around the armhole edge could've been neater. Although the pick up is made in the selvedge stitch area, there's some uneveness and pulling that is not expected.
Glitch Patrol: once spotted in the wild, uneven stitches can be quickly fixed with the point of the working needle. Inserted into the larger loop, you can pull on one arm of it and re-distribute the bitty extra yarn along the row of stitches by "resizing" them until you've eaten up the excess. I got really fast at this the first few times I soared with two circs and there was an area in the middle of the row (where you switch needles) that was sporadically uneven.
I think the every-other-row uneveness is a function of the edge stitch I'm using (St st), my own tension, and using cotton yarn, which is less sproingy on the average, than wool. You can see (click on the pic at left) the variation: every other row begins with a slightly smaller stitch. What is even more interesting, is that where I've ended with a knit stitch and start with a purl (on the edge of the Right Front or the Left Back), the overall edge is slightly looser/bigger. I've even read that sometimes people get a completely different gauge on the RS & WS of their stockinette. So maybe I'm a lucky dog it's mostly confined to the edges…
When you're sewing in a sleeve, you can "ease" the fabric into a well-behaved, balanced shape or area. That is basically the linchpin of tailoring.
But when you're doing this all-in-one in-the-round knitting technique, a really neat edged, stable armhole is key. Gonna have to work on that.
In the near future, that means that Sweater #2 waiting in the wings for its turn on the needles is going to become a sewn-in sleeve. It has armholes that won't function the way I'd like them to without a fuss.
Heh. Back to the drawing board anyone?


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They weren't gay.
They weren't gay.
Only one of them was, and you might as well ask what happened to Bananas in Pajamas and H.R. Pufnstuf.
"Theres death on the horizon,
and Ill run to behold your sacrifice..."
Thanks Captain Oblivious. I didn't figure that out the first time, but for the sake of sanity, tell me again what the thread is about?
"Theres death on the horizon,
and Ill run to behold your sacrifice..."
Телепузики это круто!
I think that everyone finally realized how creepy they were and buried them with Barney.
if those things weren't gay nothing is......including me.
FPNYAnnoying JUBBERS since 2003
Teletubbies always looked a bit drug-inspired to me. I think In The Night Garden is made by the same people. If so they must be on some really serious shit because all the characters in that proqramme look well zonked.
I wondered as well. Even though I found them a bit odd, me and my nanny watch barney a lot when I was in kindergarten. I guess I really liked dinosaurs back then.
I think some things are better watched while high(not advocating drug use of course)...Teletubbies is one of those things....
Artificial flavours gone wild.....
Makes me want to eat some fruit loops
They got a Permaban for persistent frontal nudity and their threads were expunged. Corny in Yul Brynner voice: "So let it be written. So let it be done."
But What Happened to the Banana Splits: "One banana, two banana, three banana, four. Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more."
Or, George of the JUNGLE?
they ran into the cabbage patch kids getting lost on 123 sesame street after dark and an altercation happened. pretty much the cabbage patch kids became the cabbage patch baby killers just like elmo became a child molester.
Tinkie winky, dipsy, la-la, poh.
They gave me the hibbie jibbies
The teletubbies are before my time but I once called one of my teen friends a member of the "Teletubby generation". He got really annoyed and then later told me he had been scared of them from the age of 3.... bless!
Always fight or what or who you believe in


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page 72 of the ISNVD 2012 abstracts:
He does not say if he treated the stenoses that were only present at complete exhalation? My understanding has been that those may be deceptive physiological stenoses that do not warrant treating, since they go away on their own as the patient inhales. He is looking specifically at the effects of respiration on azygous stenoses. It is an important area of research.Azygos compression and effect of respiratory cycle during CCSVI venography.
Michael Arata Andrew, MD
OBJECTIVE. Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) is venous
hypertension of the cerebrospinal veins resulting from a flow obstructing lesion in the
jugular and azygos veins. It is most often are result of venous valve malfunction.
Extrinsic venous compression in these veins may also result in flow obstruction. It has
been suggested that the compression of the azygous vein is a result of respiratory
motion rather than a fixed lesion. We retrospectively reviewed the azygous venographic
images obtained during the CCSVI procedure. Azygos venogram technique included
imaging at full inspiration and after complete exhalation. Evaluation of the relative
frequency of azygos vein compression during CCSVI venogram and the effect of
respiratory motion on the degree of compression was undertaken.
MATERIALS AND METHODS. A database search was performed of all CCSVI procedures
performed over a two month period starting July 2011. Review of the
azygos portion of these venograms was undertaken. Determination of the presence of
significant stenosis, defined as 50% or greater was performed. If a significant stenosis
was present the lesion was compared to assess for change associated with respiration.
RESULTS. Over the two month study period, 54 CCSVI procedures were performed
and had azygous imaging performed with full inspiration and complete expiration.
Compression resulting in significant stenosis was identified in 26% (n=14). The
significant stenosis was only present at complete exhalation in 19% (n=10). Stenoses
of greater than 70% did not change with respiration (n=4).
CONCLUSION. Venous compression of the azygos vein can produce flow obstructing
lesions in up to 1/4 of patients. Imaging at full inspiration is helpful to identify fixed flow
limiting lesions. Fixed lesions that do not change with respiration tend to be of a more
significant degree of stenosis


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By Kenneth S. Baer and Jeffrey B Liebman
"For decades we have known that the retirement of the baby boomers would be a monumental event for the economy. But now that it's happening, many fiscal policy makers are acting as if the boomers are eternal teenagers and are turning a blind eye to how the boomers' aging changes how we should approach economic policy. And this affects two of the central issues of the negotiations: how much the government should spend and how we can cut unemployment. "


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On Friday, February 18, 2011 Tomorrow's Youth Organization hosted a delegation from St. George's College in Jerusalem. The group of 25 visitors came to TYO as part of their 14-day exploration of the Holy Land and their encounter with its various persons within it. While at the TYO Center, the group met with TYO's Spring 2011 Interns, participants from the FWEN project and the Center Director who provided an overview of TYO's programming and activities. The group also enjoyed a hearty Palestinian meal prepared by FWEN participant Nehaya.
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Lawyers for the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will square off Friday before a federal judge in Oakland in the first round of a legal battle to continue the commercial oyster operation in the Point Reyes National Seashore.
At stake is Salazar's decision in November not to renew a 40-year lease that gave oyster farm operator Kevin Lunny the right to commercial operations in 2,500-acre Drakes Estero, a five-fingered estuary that features extensive eelgrass beds and a harbor seal colony.
The decision, hailed by wilderness advocates, gave Lunny's company 90 days to shut down a business that plants and harvests 8 million oysters — worth about $1.5 million a year — from the near-pristine estero. The deadline was subsequently extended to March 15.
Four days after Salazar's Nov. 29 decision, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit filed a federal lawsuit alleging it violated federal rules and was based on faulty science.
"The government has doubled down on bad science, refusing to listen to anyone who tells them anything to the contrary," said Amber Abbasi, an attorney for the group Cause of Action, who will argue Lunny's case on Friday before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
Abbasi said she will ask for a temporary order postponing the oyster farm closure until the legal case is resolved.
The closure, Lunny's lawsuit said, would cause "immediate irreparable pecuniary and nonmonetary harm" to Lunny, his company and its 31 fulltime employees.
Cause of Action is a government watchdog group that provides legal services at no cost to clients.
Abbasi said the case zeroes in on legislation authored by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2009 giving Salazar sole discretion to renew the oyster company's permit for 10 years.
The permit granted by the National Park Service "provided for renewal" and Feinstein's measure "fast-tracked" the process, Abbasi said in a telephone interview.
"If the government is not going to issue a permit, you have to be treated fairly," she said.
The lawsuit alleges that the Interior Department failed to comply with rules for an environmental study that would enable Salazar to make "an informed, reasoned decision" on the permit.
Stephen Macfarlane, a Department of Justice attorney, declined to comment on the lawsuit.
In a response to the lawsuit filed Jan. 9, the government asserted that Salazar's action was not subject to environmental rules and that the "allegations of scientific misconduct are baseless."
The response noted that Salazar's own memo said the decision was "based on the incompatibility of commercial activities in wilderness and not on ... data that was asserted to be flawed."
Further, it said the financial harm cited by Lunny was "a foreseeable consequence" of buying the oyster farm from a previous owner in 2004.
In closing, the government asserted that establishing "full wilderness status" to the estero "fulfills a principal goal for the seashore that Congress defined over 36 years ago, and is therefore manifestly in the public interest."
The six-year battle over the oyster farm's status sharply divided the West Marin community and attracted global interest.


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Harvard opens its 2010 season at the Iona Meet of Champions
Sept. 18 (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard cross country team announced its 2010 schedule Monday. The schedule features 10 competition dates, as well as a preseason scrimmage at Iona Sept. 10.
The Crimson kicks off its 2010 slate with the Iona Meet of Champions Sept. 18 at Van Cortlandt Park in New York. Six days later, Harvard travels to New Haven, Conn., to take on Ivy League rival Yale Sept. 24. On Oct. 2, the squad will take part in the Wisconsin Inter-Regional meet and will send runners to both the Brown Invitational and the Pre-National Meet in Terre Haute, Ind., on Oct. 16. The Mayor's Cup will take place Oct. 24 as Boston-area schools will race at Franklin Park and the Heptagonal Championships begin five days later at Van Cortlandt Park.
The NCAA Regionals are slated for Nov. 13 at Hammonasett Beach State Park in Connecticut and the IC4A/ECAC Championships are the following weekend at Van Cortlandt Park. The 2010 NCAA Championships will be contested Monday, Nov. 22, in Terre Haute, Ind.
"I am really excited about this year's schedule," said director of Harvard track and field/cross country Jason Saretsky. "It will give our student-athletes a great mix of competitions as well as some opportunities to race on a few new courses."
Harvard looks to improve upon its strong 2009 campaign which saw the men finish sixth at Heps and the women turn in their best performance at the league championship since 1995 with a runner-up result.


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Lake Winnipeg has made an inauspicious list after being declared "Threatened Lake of the Year, 2013" by the Global Nature Fund.
Not a great surprise, according to environmental activists.
"Scientists have been warning us about Lake Winnipeg's future as far back as 1969," said Vicki Burns, Outreach Coordinator for the Lake Winnipeg Foundation (LWF). "They warned that we needed to decrease the nutrients that are causing the toxic blue-green algae blooms back then. Yet, despite these warnings the action to clean up the lake has been very slow. However, the embarrassment that goes with a global recognition of such dubious distinction, is actually galvanizing the LWF and our important partners. We are more determined than ever to save our lake."
However, Burns noted that the quality of the lake can be "stymied, and ultimately, reversed." Burns cited Lake Constance, bordered by Switzerland, Austria and Germany, which the LWF said was considered even more polluted than Lake Winnipeg and has now been cleaned up so well that it provides drinking water to surrounding communities.
According to Burns, the LWF is currently leading development of an action plan that will focus on science and is engaging and collaborating with key stakeholders in the Lake Winnipeg situation.
"Perhaps more than we recognize, Lake Winnipeg has a strong global connection because of its home in Canada's vast prairie region known as the World's Breadbasket," added Alex Salki, chair of the LWF Science Advisory Council. "In our quest to feed the world, we are nevertheless fueling Lake Winnipeg eutrophication by removing the nutrient buffering capacity of wetlands, altering natural stream courses, and reducing habitat biodiversity. And of course, we are all aware of the urban and municipal impacts on the lake as well.
Udo Gattenjohner, of the Global Nature Fund, said while Lake Winnipeg is one of the largest lakes in the world, it's "dramatic environmental problems" are less well known. Gattenjohner said "recent changes in Canadian polities seem to be eroding the protection, particularly of vulnerable water ecosystems – and it is disappointing because this does not really fit with our image of Canada."


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Mets fall to Padres in the bottom of the ninth
Venable hit a leadoff home run in the ninth inning to give San Diego a 4-3 victory over the New York Mets on Sunday.
He sent a 1-2 slider from Pedro Feliciano (0-2) just inside the right-field foul pole for his team-high 17th home run, increasing his career high.
''I bunted (Saturday night) and I got a chance to see some sliders from (Feliciano),'' Venable said. ''I had an idea what it looked like. He threw me two fastballs before that pitch. In the back of my mind, I was hoping he was going to throw me a slider and he threw one that caught enough of the plate and I hit it out.''
Venable, who also drove in a run in the fifth, extended his career-best hitting streak to 15 games, the longest active streak in the majors.
''Will's amazing with the way he has been swinging,'' Padres starting pitcher Eric Stults said. ''It's not only swinging the bat but it's his defensive play and stealing bases. He's doing everything. He's playing like a five-tool player. When he comes to bat, we're expecting him to do something and (Sunday) he did.''
Venable, the Padres' talented but enigmatic outfielder, followed a four-hit game in an 8-2 win Saturday night with his first career game-ending homer.
''He went down and got it,'' Feliciano said. ''It was low, but in, and kind of went middle-in, and he dove and got it straight up and it went out. It was surprising.''
Huston Street (1-4) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win.
Matt Harvey tossed six solid innings for the Mets and regained the NL lead in strikeouts. New York split the four-game series and is 4-6 on an 11-game road trip, its longest of the season.
Harvey, who did not walk a batter, had his 16th no-decision but lowered his ERA to 2.25, second-best in the majors behind Clayton Kershaw's 1.80.
''It's been happening quite a bit,'' Harvey said about the no-decisions. ''I need to go out and not give up runs like I did in the fifth inning. If I don't do that, maybe I'm still in the game.''
The 30-year-old Venable is playing in his fourth full season with San Diego and has played parts of five seasons with the club. But he has never experienced the kind of success he has had this season, particularly in the second half.
Since the All-Star break, Venable is hitting .370 in 27 games. The lefty's last three homers have come off left-handers after he hit only five in his career against southpaws before his current streak.
Venable said he has ''focused on my rhythm at the plate, which allows me to throw everything out the window as far as going up there with a check list trying to figure out what I am doing physically.''
''I'm going up there and just seeing the ball and hitting it,'' he said.
Said Padres manager Bud Black: ''He has conviction in what he is doing.''
Yonder Alonso led off the San Diego eighth with a walk against Gonzalez German and went to third on Chase Headley's one-out double. Chris Denorfia's infield single scored Alonso to tie the score 3-all.
Feliciano relieved and, after a groundout, intentionally walked Nick Hundley to load the bases. Jaff Decker flied out to end the inning.
Pinch-hitter Andrew Brown followed a two-out double by Omar Quintanilla with an RBI double off the center-field fence against Eric Stults in the seventh to put the Mets ahead 3-2.
Harvey rebounded from a subpar outing, allowing two runs and six hits. He struck out six to increase his season total to 187, five more than Kershaw.
The right-hander lost his previous start 4-2 to the Dodgers, giving up four runs and eight hits in six innings with a season-low three strikeouts.
Stults permitted three runs and six hits over 6 2-3 innings.
Justin Turner reached on a one-out double in the New York first and scored on Marlon Byrd's double. Wilmer Flores added a sacrifice fly in the fourth.
San Diego tied the score at 2 after Logan Forsythe was hit by a pitch leading off the fifth and Hundley singled. Following a sacrifice bunt, Venable's infield single brought home one run and Alexi Amarista's sacrifice fly knocked in the second.
NOTES: Mets manager Terry Collins hasn't decided who will fill RHP Jenrry Mejia's spot in the rotation. Mejia was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with a sore right elbow, and New York called up RHP Greg Burke from Triple-A Las Vegas. Asked if Mejia's season might be over due to a bone spur, Collins said: ''I can't say I know for sure, but it certainly doesn't look very good. There has been plans to do surgery on his bone spurs in the offseason, and now I would assume more sooner than later.'' ... The slumping Headley, who was given Saturday off, batted fifth for the first time this season. ... The Mets head to Minnesota to play a makeup game Monday afternoon, with RHP Dillon Gee (8-8, 3.79 ERA) facing RHP Kyle Gibson (2-3, 6.27). ... San Diego hosts Pittsburgh on Monday night, with RHP Andrew Cashner (8-7, 3.87) facing Pirates LHP Francisco Liriano (13-5, 2.68).


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Fayetteville City School System will operate on a 9/1 calendar starting this next school year, moving away from the 9/2 schedule by which it has operated for 10 years.
The city's board of education began eyeing the change late last year as extended contract funding continued to dwindle. Those funds had been used to provide student remediation during one of the two weeks of break each fall and spring.
"It has been extremely successful, but the funding by which it was done is gone," Dr. Janine Wilson, director of schools, told the board of education late last year, referring to the intersession remediation.
If remediation could not be offered in one of the two weeks each fall and spring, system leaders questioned the wisdom of keeping students out of the classroom for two full weeks, especially in the spring as TCAP testing looms.
Working with a committee of teachers, system leaders developed and then proposed a 9/1 calendar which was approved by the board of education last week. With adoption of the 9/1 calendar starting with the 2013-14 school year, students will attend for nine-week terms and have a one-week break each fall and spring, instead of the usual two. Remediation in an after-school setting will be offered through grants and what little extended contract money remains.
"The 9/2 (calendar) served its purpose, and it served us well," the director told the school board last week, noting the loss of extended contract funding and increased accountability call for the change.
"As we've discussed, things are changing daily in education in Tennessee," Wilson said. "We have much more accountability placed on us and the students."
With the new calendar, students will begin the 2013-14 school year on Aug. 5 this year. The school year will end on May 22, 2014. Fall break will be Oct. 7-11, which coincides with the Lincoln County School System, and students will have a full week off during Thanksgiving week, Nov. 25-29. Christmas break will be Dec. 23 through Jan. 3.
Spring break will be March 10-14, but that week does not coincide with the county school system's break, which is March 17-21.
The city system will also observe as holidays Labor Day on Sept. 2, Martin Luther King's Birthday on Jan. 20, President's Day on Feb. 17 and Good Friday on April 18.


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Agent or part-owner of a firm, who may have been a ship's chandler, from Fairhaven and New Bedford, Massachusetts. Includes personal expenses and business accounts (large bills for firms and small bills for labor, repairs, food, blacksmithing, and other items and services). Cash book is made up of six smaller cash books bound together; also contains lists of deaths in the family and notations of the lading of several ships.
- Fairhaven (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Merchants--Massachusetts--New Bedford--Economic conditions--19th century
- New Bedford (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Nye family
- Nye, Thomas, 1768-1842
- T. and A.R. Nye (Firm)
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Easy Like Sunday - Eventually.
Flynn: This new tree is lovely and comfy with plenty of room for napping. Zzzzzzzzzz.
Eric: At last! That's much better.
Flynn: Hmphh! Might be for you.
25 comments:
I have a feeling you will make it work! Happy Easy guys!ReplyDelete
You both look happy!ReplyDelete
Have a great easy.
Cat tree wars! Can't wait for the next installment.ReplyDelete
YOu guys are lucky to have such nice cat trees. We have a very small one for the cats the live here with me, but I know they would love a bigger one.ReplyDelete
Nubbin wiggles,
Dueling cat trees!ReplyDelete
Have a great Sunday boys=^Y^=ReplyDelete
Thanks for the heads up on being able to go back to the old set up! I figured it out and was happy to have it back...stupid Google, they ended Picnik today also :( Holly
At least each of you have your own tree top!ReplyDelete
Truffle and Brulee
Wow! What great looking cat trees! Ours is just shredded to bits and its wobbly. I gotta show your to Mommy!ReplyDelete
I'm visiting because Queen Penelope is still under the weather. Wow! All this blogging and visiting sure cuts into my outside play time!
Have a great Day
Good thing you each have your own and don't have to share one it could be worse. :)ReplyDelete
Well, at least there are two of them! xoxoReplyDelete
*** whispering**** "bonjour boys"!ReplyDelete
Awwwwwwwwwww, take it easy you two :)xxReplyDelete
Flynn, how did that happen. You had the good place. Guess that Eric must have been sneaky. Maybe it is time to switch back now.ReplyDelete
You are lucky that you each have your own cat tree. Enjoy!ReplyDelete
Flynn I sympathise with you as Hannah always seems to get the most comfy place for a nap.ReplyDelete
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
I laughed at these. I have a feeling that the old one will be comfy though as it is well worn and loved.. Hugs GJ xxReplyDelete
Me too is having an easy sunday since it´s pooring rain outside :(ReplyDelete
Your home too looks like a dormitory ! Yawn !ReplyDelete
Happy Earth DayReplyDelete
Good thing you each have your own and don't have to share one it could be worse. :)
Well, one is bigger and newer, but the other tree is worn-in and more comfy!ReplyDelete
Cat tree harmony. The world could learn a thing or two from you guys.ReplyDelete
Happy Earth Day!
Katie & Glogirly
They both look inviting to us!ReplyDelete
Eric looks so blissful sleeping.ReplyDelete
OH boys, I wish my mommy would buy me even ONE tree! xoxoxoReplyDelete
You should have two new cat trees! ;)ReplyDelete


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1972: On THE EDGE OF NIGHT, Liz phoned Jim to say she was on her way back to Monticello with Orin.
1975: ANOTHER WORLD expanded to an hour full-time, the first daytime soap opera to go to 60 minutes daily. Liz told Alice it was all over between her and Mac thanks to Rachel. Iris promised Mac to do everything she could to make Rachel feel comfortable. Rachel agreed to let Mac handle Jamie's visits with Steve. Robert and Lenore spied on them from across the restaurant as Mac told Rachel that after many lonely years he had found in her something to look forward to.
On May 3, 1974, the show had aired a one hour special featuring Steve and Alice's wedding. It did well in the ratings leading to the decision to go to 60 minutes full-time.
1987: On GUIDING LIGHT, Alexandra (Beverlee McKinsey) remembered good and bad times with Simon.
1988: Actor Brent Collins died at age 46. He was playing the role of Wallingford on ANOTHER WORLD at the time of his passing. He previously played Mr. Big in AS THE WORLD TURNS.
1997: Actor Vince Williams died at age 39. He was best known for his work as Hampton Speakes in GUIDING LIGHT. He also played Lamar Griffin on AS THE WORLD TURNS and Joe Morgan on LOVING. His final role was Dustin Carter on ANOTHER WORLD.
1997: Aaron Spelling's SUNSET BEACH premiered on NBC. The show ran until December 31, 1999.
2009: Taylor Spreitler debuted as Mia McCormick in DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Bonnie Franklin (ex-Sister Celeste, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) - 69
Michael Wilding Jr. (ex-Jackson, GUIDING LIGHT; ex-Alex, DALLAS) - 60
Scott Bryce (Frank, DECEPTION; ex-Craig, AS THE WORLD TURNS; ex-Dr. Crosby, ONE LIFE TO LIVE) - 55
Andrea Thompson (ex-Genele, FALCON CREST) - 53
Greg Lauren (ex-Brett, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) - 43
Dick Billingsley (ex-Phillip, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS; ex-Scotty, DAYS OF OUR LIVES) - 38
Danny Pintauro (ex-Paul, AS THE WORLD TURNS) - 37
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you would like to submit a piece of soap opera history for this daily column, please email it to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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10 Reasons why April is Awesome for Pet Parents
April is a wonderful month all around: winter's chill begins to fade, the sunshine brings out happy faces, and everyone begins to prepare for the fun of summertime. But for pet parents, April is one of the best months of all. Here are ten reasons why April is even more awesome when you have a pet or two in tow:
10. Warmer Weather!
The warm weather can cheer the chilliest of spirits, but it makes caring for your fur-kid even more enjoyable. If you're like us, you love taking a walk in the park with your pup. And meow's the time to even let your kitty bask in the outdoors (if they like that sort of thing).
9. April Showers
There's something so enjoyable about snuggling up to your kitty on a rainy day, or stomping through puddles with your pooch. Pets just make rainy days brighter. Even those of us who dislike the rain can appreciate our pets' greeting us on our way in the door after battling the weather.
8. Baseball is back
Bark if you love baseball! Baseball season is one of our favorite time's of year, and it's made even better by the fact that many parks are allowing fans to bring their pups to games. Plus, 162 games watched from the comfort of your home are only made better by the constant, loving presence of your furry family.
7. Earth Day
Though we shouldn't need a reminder, Earth Day is a great day to put new habits into practice towards sustainability and green living! Saving electricity / gas / cleaning up the neighborhood – all activities that are made much more fun with a pup or kitty around.
6. The Freshpet Truck is back!
In the New York metro area, start to see more of our Freshpet Food Truck for dogs and cats in action!
5. More patches of sunshine near the window
Sometimes it's the little things, like lounging under a patch of light streaming in through the window. April is sure to deliver the first of many springtime warm patches, something that only pet parents truly can appreciate.
4. Plant life in bloom
The flora and the fauna start to peek out, which inspires us to dress up in fresh bright colors.
3. Farmers Markets
We love fresh produce, we love healthy eats, and we definitely love places that we can flock to with our pets. Farmers Markets are back, and we're definitely into it. Pet parent bonus: you may find an adoptable pup or kitty while you're there. There is always room for one more!
2. Ice Cream season begins
For some of us, ice cream season never really ends; but for those of us who save cold treats for warmer weather, time to grab a cone (or a cup) for the first time in months. A tasty treat for your pooch as well? Well, that's quite the bonus. Check out our ice creams and yogurts here.
1. April is National Pet Month!
An entire month to celebrate our pets? Why yes, that is a great reason to love April indeed.