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The procedure for developing new Earth Explorer missions involves the science community from the very beginning. Through a peer-reviewed selection process, this on-going user-driven approach provides tools to further understand and monitor our planet.
A call for 'Core Earth Explorer Ideas' was released on 15 March 2005. The proposals were peer reviewed by scientific teams, and also appraised technically and programmatically. Based on these reviews, the Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC) evaluated the proposals and recommended a list of six mission ideas to the Director of Earth Observation Programmes. Following these recommendations, ESA's Programme Board for Earth Observation approved the proposal to initiate Assessment Studies for six candidate missions.
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A-SCOPE - to improve our understanding of the global carbon cycle and regional carbon dioxide fluxes
The A-SCOPE mission concept aims to observe total column carbon dioxide with a nadir-looking pulsed Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL). The lidar would have high-resolution ranging capability to provide additional information on tree canopy height. In addition, aerosol and cloud layer information could be gained as a spin-off. Contextual information would be acquired by an imaging instrument. The mission would realise a spatially-resolved global carbon budget combined with diagnostic model analysis through global and frequent observation of carbon dioxide.
BIOMASS - to take global measurements of forest biomass
The objective of the BIOMASS mission is to acquire global measurements of forest biomass to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes. The mission concept is envisaged as a novel spaceborne P-band synthetic aperture polarimetric radar operating at 435 MHz and a 6 MHz bandwidth. In addition to valuable data on forest biomass, the choice of radar sensor means that the mission could also provide new information on ice-sheet thickness and internal structures in cold regions, subsurface geology in arid regions, as well as data on soil moisture, permafrost and sea-surface salinity.
CoReH2O - to make detailed observations of key snow, ice and water cycle characteristics
The CoReH2O mission concept aims to fill the gaps in current information on snow, glaciers and surface water. The objective is to improve the modelling and prediction of water balance and streamflow for snow covered and glacierised basins, the modelling of water and energy cycles at high latitudes, and the forecasting of water supply from snow cover and glaciers, including the relation to climate change and variability. The mission concept employs twin frequency synthetic aperture radars (9.6 and 17.2 GHz) in two consecutive mission phases to deliver all-weather, year-round information on regional and continental-scale snow-water equivalent.
FLEX - to observe global photosynthesis through the measurement of fluorescence
The main aim of the FLEX concept is to make global observations of photosynthesis through the measurement of chlorophyll-fluorescence. Chlorophyll-fluorescence radiation is emitted from vegetation in the visible and infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum and provides unique information about the photosynthetic activity of plants. FLEX will carry a very high-spectral resolution imaging spectrometer that allows the weak fluorescence signal to be decoupled from the reflected sunlight background. Secondary instruments will observe other variables such as vegetation temperature, which together with the fluorescence observations will allow for the assessment of light-use efficiency and exchange of carbon between plants and the atmosphere.
PREMIER - to understand atmospheric processes linking trace gases, radiation, chemistry and climate
The PREMIER concept aims to advance our understanding of the processes that link trace gases, radiation and chemistry in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. The radiative effects of water and clouds are at a maximum in this region. It is also a region characterised by small-scale processes that have not been studied by previous missions. The instrumentation will consist of an infrared limb-imaging spectrometer and a millimetre-wave limb-sounder. By linking with MetOp and the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) data, PREMIER also aims to provide insights into processes occurring in the lower troposphere.
TRAQ - to monitor air quality and long-range transport of air pollutants
The TRAQ mission concept focuses on air quality and the long-range transport of air pollutants. The objective is to understand more about the rate of air-quality change at regional and global scales, the strength and distribution of sources and sinks of tropospheric trace gases and aerosols influencing air quality, and the role of tropospheric composition in global change. A new synergistic sensor concept would allow for process studies, particularly with respect to aerosol-cloud interactions. The instrumentation concept consists of imaging spectrometers operating in ranges between ultraviolet and short-wave infrared, spectrometers in the thermal infrared, a multi-directional polarization imager and a cloud imager.
Based on recommendations by ESAC, ESA's Programme Board for Earth Observation selected BIOMASS, CoReH2O and PREMIER to go forward to Feasbility Study (Phase A).


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BEIJING, Oct 8 (Reuters) - General Motors Co's September auto sales in China climbed only 1.7 percent in September, barely benefiting from its Japanese rivals' plunging sales, in contrast to European and South Korean carmakers.
Deliveries of GM's 'Wuling' micro vans, a brand which accounts for nearly half of GM's China sales, came to 119,510, up a marginal 0.4 percent from a year earlier as a weak Chinese economy hurt small business owners, the Wuling's key buyers.
Sales at GM's car venture with SAIC Motor Corp edged up 3.7 percent, compared with a 17.4 increase in September 2011.
GM appears to have missed an opportunity to step into the gap left by Toyota Motor Corp , Honda Motor Co and Nissan Motor Co , whose sales have fallen as a result of an outbtreak of anti-Japanese sentiment in China, analysts said.
"German and Korean players are the biggest beneficiaries from the woes of the Japanese as they are much more competitive in the SUV segment," said John Zeng, Asia Pacific director for industry consultancy LMC Automotive.
Sales of Japanese cars in China have dropped since protests erupted across the country in mid-September over the Japanese government's purchase of a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Toyota's China sales fell 40 percent in September from a year earlier, and sales at Mazda Motor Corp were down 35 percent.
BMW , however, boosted its China sales by 55 percent in the month, Audi by 20 percent and Mercedes-Benz by 10 percent.
For the first nine months of 2012, GM's sales in China were up 10 percent to 2.08 million vehicles.
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I remember taking Psych10 (Journey into the Self) during my first year in UP. There was one day when we had to be in one circle and each of us were asked what our worst fear was. I was in love when I was asked that question, but I guess the fact whether I was in love or not doesn't really matter, because the answer never changed. My worst fear, until now, is change. It's a lame thing to say, (and a lame thing to make a joke about – my friends literally got coins from their pockets and shoved them into my face since I was afraid of 'change') but it's true. I grew up getting used to adjusting to different kinds of people, falling in love with their souls, their hearts, their stories. I loved treating them the same – giving them all the love I can give. But that's what triggers the fear: making people important and being important to them. You start getting attached to them and then you start being afraid to lose them, and when something comes up and things have to change, you just lie beside yourself thinking and asking why all this has to happen. I don't like changes. I don't like it when people change. I don't like it when I lose the people I met for the new them. I don't like thinking that I might have done something wrong to contribute to this change.
My fear of change hasn't faltered. It remains the same thing I'm afraid of. It remains the same thing that terrifies me. Albeit inevitable, I choose to avoid it. Just because I don't like losing people.
Exactly why I haven't been honest with my feelings for quite a long time now. I'm terrified that once you hear the truth that I never dared to speak out, things will change. And so you'll never know. You'll never confirm. You might think of it, but I'll never tell you why or how or confirm its validity.
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Eleanor Laing has been elected as one of the three deputy Speakers of the House of Commons.
The Conservative MP for Epping Forest beat six other challengers for the right to fill in for Speaker John Bercow in his absence.
In the final round of voting, she saw off Conservative Brian Binley by 273 votes to 240.
There has been a vacancy on Mr Bercow's team since Nigel Evans stood down to fight sex offence charges.
The other candidates, all Conservative MPs, were David Amess, Henry Bellingham, Simon Burns, Nadine Dorries, and Gary Streeter.
'Thank you'
Announcing the result of the ballot, which took place earlier on Wednesday, Mr Bercow said: "I congratulate the honourable lady warmly, and I may say on behalf of my colleagues and myself that we all greatly look forward to working with her.
"In the process, I should like, I'm sure on behalf of the whole House, to thank all of the candidates for participating in the election, and for a contest which showed the House at its best."
Ms Laing added: "May I also on behalf of all the candidates who took part thank each of the other candidates for the demure and pleasant way in which this election has been conducted, and may I thank the House for placing their confidence in me to let me become part of your team."
The deputy Speaker's position carries a salary premium of £36,360 in addition to the standard MPs' salary, so Ms Laing will now receive a total of £102,098 a year.
As a Conservative, Mr Evans could only be replaced by another governing-party MP under Commons rules - although no Lib Dems applied.
Ahead of the election, Ms Laing had said: "I'm passionate about freedom through democracy, about the dignity of the House of Commons, and about its vital, essential role as a forum for national debate.
"I would like to be part of the Speaker's team, not just to keep order in the chamber but to stand up for the rights of the backbenches... against overbearing governments."
The election was conducted under a system known as the single transferable vote, where voters list their preferred candidates in order on the ballot paper.
If no candidate secures 50% plus one of the votes in the ballot, the candidate with the least votes is eliminated and their preference votes re-distributed to other contenders. This process continues until a winner emerges.
Mr Bellingham came third with a final tally of 156 votes, Mr Streeter fourth with 95, and Mr Burns fifth with 70.
Mr Amess was sixth with 28 and Ms Dorries came last, gaining 13 votes in the first round.
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I am trying to use Jarek Kowalski's EFTracingConnection wrapper (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFProviderWrappers) to get tracing of generated t-sql using EF CTP5 Code First. I got it working as long as I set
As Jarek mentioned here http://jkowalski.com/2010/04/23/logging-sql-statements-in-entity-frameworkcode-first/ a limitation is that the wrapper does not work with database creation with the SqlClient provider (Jarek uses a ObjectContext in his example. I use a DbContext). If I use a database initializer I get a System.ArgumentException "The provider manifest given is not of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlProviderManifest'." with the following stack trace
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlProviderServices.GetSqlVersion(StoreItemCollection storeItemCollection)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlProviderServices.DbCreateDatabase(DbConnection connection, Nullable`1 commandTimeout, StoreItemCollection storeItemCollection)
at System.Data.Common.DbProviderServices.CreateDatabase(DbConnection connection, Nullable`1 commandTimeout, StoreItemCollection storeItemCollection)
at EFProviderWrapperToolkit.DbProviderServicesBase.DbCreateDatabase(DbConnection connection, Nullable`1 commandTimeout, StoreItemCollection storeItemCollection) in C:\Projects\EF4ProviderWrappers\EFProviderWrapperToolkit\DbProviderServicesBase.cs:line 143
So, if I want to use a database initializer, I use an unwrapped connection. In my case in Glabal.asax.cs
DbDatabase.SetInitializer<MyContainer>(new DatabaseInitializer());
using (MyContainer context = new MyContainer())
However, if I then want to use the EFTracingConnection (in my case in a RIA Services DomainService) after the database initializer has run, I get a System.NotSupportedException "Using the same DbModel to create contexts against different types of database servers is not supported. Instead, create a separate DbModel for each type of server being used." with the following stack trace
at System.Data.Entity.Internal.CodeFirstCachedMetadataWorkspace.GetMetadataWorkspace(DbConnection connection)
at System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.DbModel.CreateObjectContext[TContext](DbConnection existingConnection)
at System.Data.Entity.Internal.LazyInternalContext.InitializeContext()
at System.Data.Entity.Internal.InternalContext.Initialize()
at System.Data.Entity.Internal.InternalContext.GetEntitySetAndBaseTypeForType(Type entityType)
at System.Data.Entity.Internal.Linq.InternalSet`1.Initialize()
at System.Data.Entity.Internal.Linq.InternalSet`1.GetEnumerator()
at System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.DbQuery`1.System.Collections.IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Server.DomainService.Enumerate[T](IEnumerable enumerable, Int32 estimatedResultCount)
at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Server.DomainService.Query(QueryDescription queryDescription, IEnumerable`1& validationErrors, Int32& totalCount)
This was not a problem in Jarek's example where he uses an ObjectContext with Code First, but it is a problem when I use a DbContext and a database initializer .Just because I use an unwrapped connection first and then a wrapped connection, EF Code First CTP5 thinks I am using the same model against different database servers, but of course it is the same database server. As mentioned it works fine as long as I dont use a database initializer and therefore only use the wrapped connection. I have tried setting
again after the code in the Global.asax.cs, but that made no difference. Has anybody else managed to get the EFTracingConnection working with Code First and a database initializer?
kind regards
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I don't think that you will be able to use database initializers with Jarek's wrapping provider since it doesn't support the necessary parts of the provider API. Also, EF identifies the type of database it is being used against by the provider type and information from that provider—this is by design and is unlikely to change. The internal caching that Code First for the compiled model is bound to the provider/type of database being used because the model itself, when compiled, is bound to the provider. However, you can perform your own caching instead—this thread has some info on how to do that: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adonetefx/thread/fb3eaba4-d12c-4eb5-b9c1-4acacd2fff3c/. You could then create a model bound to the regular SQL client provider and use this for database creation, etc, and create a separate model (from the same ModelBuilder) that is bound to Jarek's provider for the rest of your app. This is obviously more complicated than using the internal caching, but is likely to be your best bet for getting something working unless you can get Jarek to update his code to support Code First.
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Camp Pendleton has struck a deal with an environmental group to reduce sewage spills from the Marine Corps base in northern San Diego County.
Under the settlement agreement reached this week, the base pledged to limit the number of spills to 10 or less per year by 2017 and to notify environmentalists of spills that force beach closures.
"The settlement is an excellent agreement that gets Camp Pendleton to reduce its sewage spills over the next five years to protect human health and the environment," said Jill Witkowski of Coastkeeper told UT San Diego in Saturday's editionS.
Base officials also planned to step up inspections of the maze of sewage lines and repair aging pipes, Witkowski told the newspaper.
The group sued Camp Pendleton in 2011, saying spills from the sprawling military base harm water quality in waterways and beaches. The lawsuit claimed the base repeatedly violated the Clean Water Act and cited some two dozen spills between 2006 and 2010 that led to 400,000 gallons of untreated sewage reaching waterways.
At the time the suit was filed, Coastkeeper had been working with Camp Pendleton to remedy the problem and to get to the root cause of the spills. The group had sought an injunction, but the settlement effectively ends the litigation.
In a statement, the base noted it was committed to upgrading its facilities to prevent spills.
Camp Pendleton, home to 42,000 troops, "has made significant improvements in its wastewater systems during the past decade," the statement said. "We look forward to working with Coastkeeper to meet the standards set in the decree."
This was not the first legal action by Coastkeeper against Camp Pendleton. The group sued the base over its sewage system in 2001 and base officials agreed to fix the problems. But Coastkeeper claimed the spills continued.


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Every evening Andy and I play our double solitaire, the one I learned from my mother in law who learned it from her grandmother. It's very like the game Russian Bank in Hoyle's book of card games. We keep a running score. Andy is ahead at the moment, but I keep hoping.
He just finished a large and challenging jigsaw puzzle, a Wentworth one called High Jinks. I bought it for myself and thought perhaps we could work on it together, but this one, being tall and narrow, doesn't lend itself to that.
I first learned of these puzzles from some of my D.E. Stevenson friends who live in the U.K. Anne Stoye and I worked on one while I was her house guest in 2010. And now, my friend Geraldine from Luton has been posting about several wentworths she has been putting together. This one is fairly challenging. The books are all girls books from the past but there are repeats on those shelves which makes it tough to figure out. But Andy did it, in two nights, I think.
These puzzles are expensive, but I paid less than a third of the amazon price by going directly to the company in the UK.
I asked him if he would go with me to the Bath Church Epiphany Art Festival and this afternoon we drove over. It's a very satisfying show with work from local artists. Some of them are very, very talented.
They have two rooms filled with art as well as art in the sanctuary. I was very surprised in the room with smaller works such as jewelry and pottery and leather work to see some small origami books with DVDs which were labelled as the creations of Mary Lou Jubin. She is the aunt of my nephew's wife and I have known her for more than 20 years! But I never knew about her achievements in art and music. So, another satisfying small world event. And when I talked with some of the ladies at the reception desk it turned out that not only had they taught with her before she retired, but she is a skilled performer on the hammered dulcimer and played for three hours on the opening night. Mary Lou also gives programs at a local branch library and I think I must look into finding out when one of these is about to happen and attending it.This was my "Artist Date" for the week. It is something that is supposed to inspire one and put more joy into our lives. This certainly did all that.


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Over at Science of the Invisible, my colleague Alan Cann has been reflecting on the contemporary landscape within academic publication. Specifically, he's been thinking aloud about the role played by institutional repositories alongside (or, more radically, instead of) more formal journal publication (for example, see Wit's End, which links in turn to Melissa Terras' post What happens when you tweet an open access paper).
Prompted by Alan and Melissa's enthusiasm for using social media to promote awareness of published work, in mid-November I started to use Twitter to advertise the existence of some of the papers I have deposited in the Leicester Research Archive (LRA). Some of my tweets were retweeted by others in the community, especially Alan, who also shared some of these within his Google+ circles.
Partway through this process it occurred to me that I had stumbled into a little experiment. So in the end I selectively tweeted about 8 of the 27 documents I currently have in the LRA. Admittedly these were probably the 8 papers that I felt were of most interest to the broader community on Twitter, but this did not mean they had previously received the most hits in the archive. In fact, if you rank the 25 works that had been in the Leicester repository throughout the 6 months (May to October 2011) from most to least popular, then these 8 were ranked: 4th, 5th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 18th, 23rd and 24th= (2 documents were not added to the archive until November). Continue reading


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Guide to Kiowa Indians ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and other agency records.
To get started on American Indian Research
Indians of Montana Kiowa Indians
Indians of Oklahoma Kiowa Indians
Alternative Names and Spellings: Kiowa, Kioway, Kaigwa, Gaigwa
Ancestral Homeland:
Cultural area: Great Plains - western Montana, migrated to Wyoming and western South Dakota
Linguistic group: Kiowan
Federal Status: recognized
Kiowas Societies: Buffalo Doctor Society; Owl Doctor Society; Sun Dance Shield Society; Eagle Shield Society; only men were members of these societies. There was one society of a select older group of women known as Bear Women Society.
Pictorial history of the tribe known as winter and summer counts
Population: 1990: 10,000
1984: Total enrollment 8,602. [1]
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
P.O. Box 369
Carnegie, OK 73015
Phone: 1.580.654.2300
Fax: 1.580.654.2188
A French explorer, Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieure de La Salle, in the late 1680's, was the first to record an encounter with the Kiowa Indians.
Smallpox epidemics in 1781, and 1801 caused a depopulation of the Kiowa tribe
Inter tribal conflict with the Cheyenne - Arapaho and Sioux pressed the Kiowa to move from the Black Hill area in to the Great Plains area. In the 1790's they migrated with the Comanche into what is now New Mexico.
In 1805 the Lewis and Clark Expedition encountered some Kiowa living along the North Platte River in Nebraska, in 1806 this group migrated to southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. The Northern Kiowa and Southern Kiowa reunited in 1806
The Osage Indians attacked a Kiowa camp killing many, this became known as the Cut-Throat Massacre.
In 1849 many of the tribe suffered and died due to Cholera epidemic; more than half the tribe died.
In the 1860's a campaign of extermination against the Indians was promoted by Governor John Evans.
The Sand Creek Massacre, on November 29,1864 occurred when the Colorado militia under the command of Colonel John Chivington attack a friendly group of Kiowa; Black Kettle's camp where an American Flag flew. The tribe had been promised protection as long as the flag flew over their camp.
Kit Carson led troops in 1864,against the Kiowa and Comanche in the Texas Panhandle area destroying 176 tipis and utilizing the scorched earth policy.
A treaty in 1865 at the Little Arkansas River assigned the Kiowa and the Comanche to a reservation in Indian Territory and proposed that a census be take at the time of annuity payment in the spring of each year.
Winter attacks in November 1868 were directed by General Sheridan, the attacks were lead by Major Andrew W. Evans, Eugene A.Carr and Colonel George Armstrong Custer against the Indians along the Canadian and Washita Rivers.
In 1868 the Kiowa moved with the Comanche to Indian Territory.
A measles epidemic killed more than 300 Kiowa, Comanche and Kiowa-Apache.
1864:' Kit Carson led troops against the Kiowa and Comanche Adope Walls in the Texas Panhandle destroying 176 tipis and employing the scorched earth policy.
The majority of records of individuals were those created by the agencies. Some records may be available to tribal members through the tribal headquarters.They were (and are) the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were charged with maintaining records of the activities of those under their responsibility. Among these records are:
Kiowa Agency Records, 1892-1947. Includes: Records of Employees, Heirship, Annuity, Vital, and School census FHL first of 23 Films 1028507 WorldCat
Methvin, J. J,. Ahpeahtone, Kiowa: a Bit of History. Part of Chronicles of Oklahoma V. 9 (1931) - V. 9 No. 3 (September 1931Digital version
Lawrence, Arthur. Biographical Indexes to Lawton / Ft. Sill residents, ca. 1834-1975. FHL film 2229379 - 2229383 WorldCat
Wharton, Clarence. Satanta: The Great Chief of the Kiowas and His People. New York, NY AMS Press, FHL book 970.3 K627w WorldCat
1927 Census, Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma.Photocopy of original records at the Kiowa Agency, Anadarko, Oklahoma.FHL book 970.466 B898c WorldCat
1900-1904 Apache, Caddo, Kiowa and Wichita Indian: Census Roll Indian Territory. by Valorie Millican FHL book 970.1 M62aWorldCat
Kiowa Indian Census, 1904-1915
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|Washington D.C. and Fort Worth
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Pre - 1880 Correspondence
M234 RG 75 Rolls 962
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Upper Arkansas Agency,1855-64
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Tribally owned land: 7,045.80 acres. Allotment[2]ed land: 201,350.17 acres.
Kiowa Agency Mission Schools of Oklahoma, 1881-1914. By Helen Deister Bolt, Polly Lewis Murphy, and Aulena Scearce Gibson FHL book 970.3 K627bh or Film 1697271 WorldCat
Downey, Fairfax Davis and Jacobesn, Jacques Noel. The Red / Blue coats, the Indian Scouts, U.S. Army. Ft. Collins, Colorado: Old Army Press, c 1973 FHL book 970.1 D758r WorldCat
Haley, James L. The Buffalo War: the History of the Red River Indian Uprising of 1874. Norman, Oklahoma" University of Oklahoma Press, c 1976. FHL Book 970.1 H137b WorldCat


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Led by Beck saxophonist David Brown, Brazzaville's exotic, globally minded indie pop was as much a product of Brown's extensive travels as it was the Los Angeles coffeehouse scene from whence most of its members came. Born in L.A., Brown had been a teenage runaway and heroin addict before cleaning up and finding a new lease on life from his love of traveling the world on the cheap. He criss-crossed Europe, South America, and Asia, picking up musical influences from the Far East, Brazil (bossa nova and Tropicalia), Africa, and France (cabaret pop), among others. Eventually, he returned to California, where he studied the saxophone at L.A. City College. There he first met Beck, and was introduced to a community of artists and musicians centered around the Los Feliz/Silver Lake area of L.A. When Beck hit the big time, he tapped Brown as the saxophonist in his touring band, and invited him to play on the Odelay album.
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after a host of criticism from customers, aol has stopped teenagers from shopping at partner stores on its network. the ban has been put in place because it was possible for minors (aged 13-17) to purchase tobacco, pornography, and alcohol.
until recently teenagers were allowed to use the shopping features through a parentally controlled screen name with the supervision solely in the hands of the parents. some of the partner shops include the likes of ebay and amazon, two shops many teenagers would have probably used this christmas to buy gifts. this will mean lost revenue for aol and shops in general across its network.
aol has advertised its parental controls heavily since they were introduced to try and promote its services as a safe place for anyone in the family to shop. this hole in the controls was a major problem, and the ban, however drastic, has solved the problem. rival msn has a much more flexible system that allows parents to specify what shops to block or even what parts of a shop to block.
the ban is set to stay in force at least until aol's new guardian software is released. guardian will give parents detailed information about what sites their children have visited, as well as exactly what they have been talking about over messenger services and e-mail.
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well, that was good planning on the part of aol. allow kids to access content as long as they are logged on under a parental screen name … if aol had really thought about it then an approach similar to that offered by msn would have sufficed. now aol's not talking about implementing those features; instead, its guardian software is set to be introduced.
i see this as a major privacy invasion for kids. logging the sites they have been to is fine, but keeping detailed information about e-mails sent and chats had is taking it a bit too far. you could argue this will keep kids safe, but i think it will limit how they express themselves with friends online–an open chat with a mate becomes something you have to be careful about, just in case you put something mom and dad won't like.
still, i am sure many parents will use it as a backup just to check now and again that everything is okay, rather than religiously checking it word for word every week. [robgeek note: i could see this as a potential addiction for some parents …]
as for banning shoppers altogether, i think it is drastic. it would not have been that hard to ban access to any site that sold 18+ products or provide restricted versions of all sites that did. filtering the content for certain screen names would not be that difficult. it would also allow kids to shop for christmas and protect some of the income aol and the shops are now losing due to the outright ban.
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|aol (10:41am est wed nov 20 2002)
that's a lame solution. if msn can allow parents to block certain shops or even certain *parts* of a shop, why can't aol? i'll tell you why, because their staff isn't very intelligent. every piece of software they touch goes down the crapper, with the exception of winamp – and the only reason that is still alive is because of justin frankel (i think that's how you spell his name). :)
i bet time warner is regretting the buyout lately …… – by bye
|ao-hell (11:38am est wed nov 20 2002)
ah yes… let's restrict peoples' right to actually being a parent, and make things so financially difficult for them, that parenting itself is a chore they have no time for. that will make it easy for us to convert their kids into good little consumers!
i think this is absolutely atrocious. the us needs to start focusing on parents being required to bring their children up. if you rely on software by aol to do so for you, don't complain when your child turns up a drug dealer, or a religious zealot. if you don't spend time with them, they'll find people who are willing to do so… and quite often those are the worst type you'll ever have to deal with… whether it's because they want to make money from you, or rape your mind and force you to become just like them for the sake of their own peace of mind in beliefs they feel unsure about.
nice work, aol… i hope you all grow up someday, read something other than financial papers and bibles, and go to a university again… this time with the intent of actually learning something, rather than just for a piece of paper to make you rich. =p – by maximumcat
|privacy invasion? (12:25pm est wed nov 20 2002)
children do not have a right to privacy. too many parents give their children enough rope to hang themselves. my child knows his boundaries, and i check often to see if he has crossed them (he has, as most kids will). he then loses his access for a while. we don't use aol, just a regular cable account. the biggest problem is the kids know more about computers than their parents, which is wrong. would you give your child a power tool to use that you didn't understand? or let them drive a car without knowing how yourself? if the parents aren't informed, the kids can run around them technically. – by virtualman9000
|i don't want my kids monitored. (12:43pm est wed nov 20 2002)
the job and sole right to monitor my children falls to me. i don't want aol monitoring what s/he decides to do online.
how long do you guess till we some case about a child being taken from a home on evidence received from an aol monitoring program alleging a parent was not properly supervising a child.
sorry, this one steps over the line. if i want to select that my child can't go to a certain area of aol i think its a good idea, having aol monitor and log my childs activites is not a good idea. – by america on log.
|why? (1:12pm est wed nov 20 2002)
…does anyone still use aol anyway?
msn is a far better choice if you must stick with one of these services. – by jj
|aol: your friend and babysitter (1:44pm est wed nov 20 2002)
ok..so now not only are the federal government, the state school system, and a dozen governmental agencies going to make sure your children are protected and behaving, but now aol is getting in line to be the next one to do parents' jobs for them?
maybe i am old fashioned, but how the heck does a kid get tobacco and porn delivered to his house without his parents knowing? how does he make credit card purchases without his parent knowing? where are the parents?
this is another example of the absent parent expecting society to raise their kids and protect them from harm. why are these parents complaining to aol? maybe they should monitor their kids a little closer. anyone who would let a teenager on the internet unsupervised is either extremely ignorant of what is out there or just plain neglectful. expecting the government or a private company to enforce morals and responsibility on your kids is ridiculous.
|do your homework! (2:04pm est wed nov 20 2002)
get a afterschool job. help out arround the house. – by tech
|america (2:31pm est wed nov 20 2002)
full of fear
enough said – by america
|hahahaaha (4:31pm est wed nov 20 2002)
fuck the parents give me porn!!!! – by bofh
|my speech part1 (5:05pm est wed nov 20 2002)
kids look at pr0n, im 16 and i know i do. its tru kids know more about technical kind of stuff then parents do. kids have always looked at dirty magazine, well internet pr0n is easier to come by and if you take away inet pr0n they will just go find some magazines or videos. my parents dont really care as long as i keep it away from my lil bro for a couple more years. i have lan parties with my friends and we leech lots of pr0n. the fact is its too late to try and get kids to stop watching pr0n no matter what you do. im a pretty good kid generally. i have never smoked anything never used any kind of drugs the only time i drink is during a speacial event (even thoe my dad says i can drink with my friends as long as we are at my house i choose not to), i have had many chances to have sex and i have choosen not to. i dont know where you come from but where i come from thats a good thing. all my friends drink and do drugs and i dont. parents dont understand that their kids do drugs not to fit in but because they like it, at an early age i was taught that drugs and other crap like that is bad so i odnt do them. even thoe my parents drink i know not to until im 21. the problem is the parents not being able to raise their kids. my parents are deff not "super parents" they drink they go out and it makes my lil bro cry when they go out till 5 am and dont call, i doesnt bother me my brother is very sensitive you have to understand. but they did a good enough job that im as good a kid as any. i cant stand the fucking jesus freak parents because if you dont let kids do stuff they want to do it more. – by h3n74i^_-
|my speech part2 (5:05pm est wed nov 20 2002)
i talk openly with my parents about everything! my dad said he would rather not have me smoke pot but i wanted to try it to ask him so that he would amke sure it isnt tainted. thus giving me an option and i guess it seems when kids get options they make the right ones but when they are forced not to do something they do it.
the fact is there is nothing that can fix our society, its stuck the way it is on a downward spiral because the parents are too fucking busy not caring or caring way to much.
]cd[h3n74i^_- on irc.gamesnet.net #cd-clan
|:d (8:10pm est wed nov 20 2002)
first of all, aol-plus is a fine service for your everyday average user. the aol service will only trouble more advanced users, so if you're advanced, don't use it, and don't bash it. that's like bashing the content of a 2nd grade textbook when you're in 10th grade.
as far as aol logging your conversations: it is already done. aol automatically keeps a cache of data transfer over their networks for obvious security reasons, the guardian software will most likely allow you to view your child's chat logs from files saved on a local disk. though i do not support this idea. children should be allowed to talk with their friends without having to fear being monitored by their parents. you don't actively monitor your child's phone conversations do you? why would it be any different over the internet? (if you do monitor your child's phone conversations then you have some overprotection issues to deal with.) i'm not here to tell you how to raise your kids: but children are people too, encroaching upon their privacy is only going to prod them away from you. – by :d
|aol and privacy (8:53pm est wed nov 20 2002)
kids do have a right to privacy, and aol's service for parent/child monitoring should be illegal. the management that allowed this service should be fired, and the parents that use this service should learn how to communicate with their kids. i would be very hesitant to interact with any business that aol is directly involved with if this company thinks this is a legitimate service. – by didntvoteforbush
|progressive move… (10:47pm est wed nov 20 2002)
good, keeps them ( the future gen.) from becoming empty headed thoughtless spenders…
there is hope? – by bassie.
|kids rights (6:01am est thu nov 21 2002)
by taking away all of a childs liberties you remove the chance for them to evolve their sense of right and wrong. all kids need the chance to do things wrong. you cant protect them forever and when you finally unshackle them they will just let go and do all the things you wouldn't want them to do because they have never known the freedom to choose. i agree that they need a little supervision but what aol is doing and becoming is fascist. – by tsu
|please don't ban our privacy (11:59pm est fri nov 12 2004)
i know this is 2 years out of date, but basically, i don't like it if my internet interaction is being monitored. that's an invasion of privacy. aol musta gone outta its mind or something. keeping an eye on what we do, how we do, where we do, that's like keeping an eye on every single move we do. then, when people get older, and as agreed from above, and heard from someone else, people start doing things that parents would never want them to do. so it's best to learn from mistakes rather than "omgggg liek i want my child to be the most perfectest straight 100% a+ student ever to go to harvard and become the most bestest student in ever of history!!!11 and not konw any of those bad things in this world!!11" – by sticker


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Parents Stage Walkout Over Planned Parenthood's Graphic, Violent Sex Ed in Public SchoolsJew surname.
Sex education in public schools has gone off the deep end. Gone are the days of handing out birth control and practicing putting condoms on bananas. These days your kid is more likely to come away from school with more sexually deviant knowledge than single gay dudes in New York City, thanks to Planned Parenthood's comprehensive sex ed program that has somehow made it into public school curriculums. These programs teach dangerous and violent practices like BDSM, asphyxiation, gender-bending, anal sex, and let's not forget "rimming," which can saddle your kid with nasty parasitic infections.
Her comrade on the PP roster is Naomi Aberly, who is married to Larry Lebowitz. Amazing coincidences, that is all. Any other thought is anti-Semitic, GOYIM!
Why Supporting Planned Parenthood is a Jewish Issue
A Planned Parenthood employee advises an undercover investigator, posing as a 15-year-old girl, on how to experiment with sexual bondage/sadomasochism, including gagging, whipping, defecation, emulating pornography, and going to sex stores to "get educated." Footage was obtained by Live Action at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains in Littleton and Lakewood, Colorado.
In 60 years, America has gone from watching "Leave it to Beaver" to full-blown sexual deviancy. It's almost like someone is trying to destroy us from within.
"Our race is the Master Race. We Jews are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in a speech to the Knesset quoted in Begin and the Beasts," New Statesman, June 25, 1982 by Amnon Kapeliouk


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Relaxing at home with my favorite face masks
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Microsoft's all-in-one PC, the Surface Studio, is finally here. After tablets and laptops, the Microsoft Surface family has also expanded to desktop computers.
After the launch of the Microsoft Surface Book last year, the Surface Studio is one of the most exciting products to come from Microsoft's kitty this year.
Features and specifications
"At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With Windows 10, Microsoft Surface and the medium of Mixed Reality, we aim to empower the builders, the makers and the creators with the tools to create, collaborate and express themselves in new ways," Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft, said in a statement.
"We totally believe that Surface changes the way you produce, the way you create, the way you learn," Panos Panay, who leads Microsoft's devices team, said at the launch event. "The product I'm going to show you is all of that - but it's one step further. It's going to seem familiar, but it's going to feel different," Panay said.
He then unveiled the Surface Studio, touted to be the "world's thinnest LCD monitor ever built" at 12.5mm.
Features of the Microsoft Surface Studio
The 28-inch PixelSense touchscreen display is contained in a forged aluminum enclosure. The display outputs 13.5 million pixels, according to Panay, which is 63% more than a 4K television.
Microsoft Surface Studio supports expanded colour output, called as "TrueColor", imperative for photographers, videographers and designers.
The display has a 3:2 aspect ratio. The device also offers 'True Scale' with 192 pixels per inch pixel density display where 1mm on the screen equals the 1mm in the real world. The device is powered by 6th generation Intel Core i7 processors, has an Nvidia GTX 980M GPU in the top model and with a 965M in the lower-priced variants.
The device comes with a special controller in the form of a Surface Dial. The PC also features a zero gravity hinge and sits at a 20 degree angle, ideal for architects, painters, artists and writers.
The devices supports a variety of peripherals, including the Surface Pen and a new radial accessory, the Surface Dial. The Dial can be put directly on the studio to pop up menus and many other features like adjusting volume, screen brightness and much more. The Studio offers connectivity options like audio, SD card, Mini DisplayPort, ethernet, and 4 USB 3.0 ports. The built-in microphone array makes it easier to activate Cortana, Microsoft's Windows 10 assistant.
Microsoft also announced the Windows 10 creators update along with the Surface Studio. The Creators update aims at making 3D content available to millions of Windows 10 users as soon as possible.
This includes the biggest-ever update to the classic Paint app - now known as Paint 3D.
Microsoft's hardware division is ramping up competition targeted to numerous Windows PC vendors including Dell, Lenovo, HP, among others. The device is also taking on Apple iMac, which is already a hit among professionals.
It will be interesting to see how Microsoft's Surface Studio competes with Apple's upcoming Mac-related event.
Price of the Microsoft Surface Studio
The Surface Studio is now available for pre-order, at a starting price of $2,999 (Rs 2,00,333).
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Who needs this kind of coverage?
Boat insurance policies can be likened to a hybrid homeowners' and vehicle insurance policy. Those with bigger boats, such as yachts, will benefit most from a policy that closely mimics a homeowner's insurance policy while those with smaller recreational craft will need coverage that is more like an auto insurance policy. At the very least, boat owners will likely need to obtain to coverage that is for bodily injuries and property damage. This will include injuries that occur on the boat and injuries or deaths that might befall other parties.
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Boat owners would be wise to learn the aspects to their boat insurance that are not like their vehicle and homeowners policies. For most boat owners, coverage will not be designed to be in effect throughout the year, with insurance coverage generally becoming active during the seasons in which the boat is put on the water. Additional coverage is also available for any damage that might occur during the off-season.
Another piece of the insurance puzzle is how quickly a boat can depreciate in value. Just like buying a car, the minute you fire up your boat's engine and take it out for your first cruise it will quickly decrease in its value. This is where an agreed value policy can be helpful; this kind of coverage enables the boat owner to have the boat replaced or to be provided with the cash value of the price that was previously agreed upon before the policy was purchased. Market value policies have coverage that is limited to the current appraised value of the boat, taking into account the amount of depreciation.
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Friday, December 24, 2010
Pure Evil (aka Chocolate Pate)
So, I know I am super late. I'm November and it's Christmas. I had a small disaster with my original cake which I made in November. It became known as "the dirt cake" and it took me awhile to shake off that failure. I will attempt "the dirt cake" again next November. It will not beat me!
The success: Chocolate Pate with Espresso Whipped Cream
If you're on a diet don't even make it. Don't even look at it. It's evil.
I used to make this at an old place I worked. The original recipe had old coffee in it and a crushed walnut crust. I didn't want to do that since I'm allergic to nuts. It also came out more fudgy than pate-y. So I combined an internet recipe and the old one to get this.
24 oz. semi sweet chocolate chips
1/4 pound unsalted butter
6 whole eggs
2 egg yolks
4 egg whites
Well buttered cake pan
for whipped cream:
1 pint heavy cream
powdered sugar
instant espresso or instant coffee
Pre-heat oven to 325
Melt butter and chocolate in top of double boiler stirring occasionally
Whip whole eggs and yolks until lemon yellow and fluffy.
once chocolate is melted, pour hot water from double boiler into water bath
Whip egg whites into a meringue
Once chocolate is cooled to room temperature, fold egg mixture and meringue into chocolate
Pour into pan and place pan into water bath
Bake for one hour at 325
Thirty minutes in, rotate the cake. Be gentle.
Cool completely in the fridge.
Whipped Cream:
Dissolve 1 tablespoon instant espresso in 1 tablespoon warmish water. Let it cool. I put it in the freezer. Add 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon Nicole's homemade vanilla and one pint heavy whipping cream and whip it!
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Bloomberg: Sick Leave Bill Is 'Disaster'
Mayor Michael Bloomberg all but vowed to veto legislation that would mandate paid sick leave for all workers in New York City, arguing the bill would be "disastrous" for small businesses.
Bloomberg, who has previously voiced grave concerns about the bill, delivered his strongest statements yet against the legislation when asked Thursday about ongoing efforts to strike a compromise between supporters and opponents of the bill.
"It would be a disaster if the government tries to get in to run small businesses. If they run the bars and restaurants, they'll try to run everything else," he said. "This is going down a path which is a terrible, terrible idea and would be disastrous for New York City."
The mayor pointed out that New York City businesses account for 10% of all new private-sector jobs created this year in the U.S.
"If you want to lose those jobs and lots of others, you start letting the government run small businesses," he said. "And if they run one business, they'll run the other one. And if they have a cap on it this year, next year they'll raise the cap."


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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Career change often begins with a jolting disruption, like a job loss, a health problem or family issues.
For Becky Loyacano, 57, change began with one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed Loyacano's home in Slidell, Louisiana in 2005, it also crushed the New Orleans native's work selling disability insurance.
"After Katrina, there was no job because there were no accounts to go call on," she says.
Following the storm, Loyacano moved twice, but despite her experience in insurance sales and as a buyer and manager for a sporting goods retailer, the recession made finding work a challenge - especially as an older worker.
Still, Loyacano's story has a happy ending, and highlights a solution to a critical issue facing the country: How to help older workers stay on the job.
Participating in a three-year initiative in 10 cities that offered strategies for supporting older workers, Loyacano found new work through a plan that placed workers in paid temporary internships. The program, which allowed workers to try new jobs while gaining experience and education, is a model that could be replicated in other parts of the country.
Working longer is one of the most effective ways to boost retirement income, reduces reliance on nest-egg funds, and allows more contributions to retirement accounts and higher monthly Social Security income through delayed filing. Indeed, staying employed longer will be more important if retirement benefits like Social Security and Medicare are reduced.
Meanwhile, the nation's labor force is getting grayer by the day, and more older Americans are also remaining employed.
Last year, 20 percent of workers were 55 or older, up from 12 percent in 1996, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by The Urban Institute released last week. And about 17.9 percent of people aged 65 and over were employed in 2011, up from 10.8 percent in 1985, according to the AARP Public Policy Institute.
These workers face steep challenges in the labor market. Although those over 55 have enjoyed lower-than-average jobless rates (6.3 percent in April compared with an 8.1 percent national average), those who do lose their jobs are out of work much longer (60 weeks for workers over 55, compared with 38.5 weeks for younger workers).
Loyacano found help through an Indiana workforce agency that was participating in a national initiative. Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, the Aging Workforce Initiative (AWI) issued a total of $10 million of grants to 10 non-profit and state-run workforce agencies to help them train older workers and connect them to jobs in high-growth, high-demand industries.
The AWIs also had technical assistance from the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, a non-profit organization that provides adults with learning assistance and career guidance.
The AWI projects, wrapping up this year, suggest there are practical ways to help older workers reboot their careers.
Some experimented with reverse job fairs, in which jobseekers are in the booths and employers make the rounds to interview them; others used websites to match mature jobseekers with prospective employers. Several trained "career navigators" to update older workers on current job-market realities.
Lafayette, Indiana-based Tecumseh Area Partnership (TAP), which aided Loyacano, combined its internship program with a "career transition hub" offering weekly job-hunting classes and support. The sessions included networking, online job hunting and using volunteer help to build resumes.
The TAP initiative has served more than 330 job seekers, largely in their late 50s or early 60s, and placed more than 60 percent in paid full or part-time jobs. The internship program has a 50 percent success rate.
TAP's internships target high-growth industries in the Lafayette area, including advanced manufacturing, information technology, health care and transportation logistics. The goal is to help older workers explore new career options, burnish their resumes and to ultimately land new positions.
"We've had some people who felt the need to change their careers, and some who already had worked in a given field but wanted to learn new skills," says Susan Perkins, TAP's strategic initiatives manager.
Loyacano decided to pursue a new career in health care and secured a grant to take classes in medical practice management. She found a valuable four-month paid internship at a local neurology practice, which later led to a full-time position.
For Loyacano, the neurology internship marked a critical turning point in her career transition.
"It was a great educational experience and confidence builder," she says. "Going into an internship, you don't know how you'll feel in a work environment."
All told, the average cost for placing each of 18 TAP interns worked out to $5,320. While that might sound steep, it's money well spent against the backdrop of a looming retirement-security crisis facing many baby boomers.
(The writer is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Here is a cute a way to make some new bracelets out of necklaces that I bought on a whim. I have been making jewelry for years, but when I was a teenager the cheapest way to make something great was by taking apart old out dated jewelry to make something new.
This is a great way to transform something you loved but never got much wear, into a great new updated piece of jewelry. I also threw in a couple of new bracelets from some great new beads I found.
Bracelet Styling & Restyling
- Random necklaces
- Soft Flex Medium Stainless Steel Nylon Coated Wire 20 lb test diameter .019 in. 30 ft string
- Crimp tubes or beads (I used a 2mm bead)
- Flat needle nose pliers
- Crimping pliers
- Jump rings
- Clasp
The necklaces are super easy to change-up. Just bend the jump rings with your pliers and remove the chains.
Measure for your wrist and reattach your plain jump ring to one end and the clasp to the other using needle nose pliers.
Super easy and looks great!
First take your wire, a crimp bead and a jump ring. Cut the wire to around 11 inches. Add crimping bead, add the jump ring then insert the wire end back into the bead. Crimp aka. smash your bead with your crimping pliers (for a better explanation of this process~ See videos below).
Add your beads and then do the same for the other end of the bracelet adding the clasp.
Instead of getting really deep on how to crimp a bead, I provided a couple of videos with step by step explanation of this process. I don't know about you but I learn by watching someone else. These two videos are great examples of the crimping process.
- Artbeads.com
- Ester Esses for About.com
Once you get the hang of it you can make almost anything!
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Because Hair Balls has been busy shopping for a decent Halloween costume this week, we needed help in writing about this latest batch of lovelies available for adoption at the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care. So we turned to members of our fantasy cricket league, which happens to include esteemed authors both living and deceased. These folks were only too happy to lend their unique gifts to the cause, and we just can't thank 'em enough!
Gumby (Raymond Carver) A1004092
This deaf dog, a ten-month-old pit mix, was a stray. He was picked up September 17. I had never been around a deaf dog before and didn't know what to think. I fixed myself a drink and sat down to watch some TV. "You better adopt him," my wife said. She really liked this deaf dog, my wife. This was a year ago. I didn't know what to tell her. She said this deaf dog was real sweet. I took another drink. "What does he drink," I asked my wife. "Real funny," she said. But I wasn't kidding. I was thinking of what it must be like to be deaf. It just made me want to drink more.
Izzy (James Ellroy) A1005023
Izzy was out in back. Izzy was relaxing in the sun. What's up, Daddy-O? Stray pit. Year old. She was too cool for school. Cocaine white and leather brown. She had cute in spades. Brooks felt kicked in the gut. Brooks felt his breath go. Brooks felt like he was going to boo-hoo-hoo. Fucking dog. Snap out of it, Brooksy. Snap-snap. Brooks caught himself -- all stiff and starched. Bingo, baby. Open the car door, and Izzy's in like you-know. Fucking L.A.
Maggie (Ernest J. Gaines) A1005596
Me and Snooks seen Maggie out by the pallets, and Snooks said she was the mos' sweetest dog in the parish. I asked Snooks what kind he thought she was, and Snooks said he wasn't the guessin' kind, but if he had to guess, he'd guess that, whatever she was, she got the German shepherd in her. We knew she was a year old, and her coat was light brown like Mama's biscuits, mixed with the blackest black, like that hat with the wide brim and the veil that Miss Jane always wear to church on Sunday.
Star (Cormac McCarthy) A1005823
The rot woke in the morning and looked out on the horizon, at the sun that was breaking through like a boil, splintering dawn's ashy taurpulin into rivulets the color of blood and bile and nightmares. In ten months of life searching for An Owner, she was a tatterdemalion, crouching behind black basalt as the swelling, choking clouds of dust first approached, followed then by the screeching savages, spears glistening with the gizzards of the children they had skewered before the eyes of the mothers they ravaged with rancid appendage and the fathers they hacked with machete and bits of sharpened bone. Star wondered if she was destined to walk the road alone forever, or if she would wake one day and everything would be new again.
Angel (Ernest Hemingway) A1000556
It was the fall, and the war was always there, and there was of course the rule that only certain people could adopt black cats that month. It was a rainy fall that fall, and there were a lot of cats there. There were cats whose owners had grown tired and given them up, like Angel. Angel was three months old then, and she had his photograph of that time in the box, when the war was there, but we did not go to it. There were the cages, and there was the grass beyond, and beyond that the city and Spain and the bulls. The cages were old and we slept. There were people who would come through and look and talk, and sometimes they talked of the war, and sometimes we would listen.
Blacky (Charles Bukowski) A0991122
I was a black cat, and it was October, so I knew I wasn't going anywhere for a while. They had this rule where you had to get special permission to adopt a black cat in October because they were scared of Satanists. Since I knew I was probably going to be there for some time, I figured I'd get to know as many of the females as I could. I'd wake up, fix a drink, and try to find one who was my speed. There was this little tabby for a while -- at two months, half my age. She said she liked my poetry but after a while I didn't like her always coming over to my cage, so I gave her the boot, but in a kind way. She called me an asshole and I said no one ever accused me of being anything more. Then there was this siamese who was kind of exotic, but crazy in that siamese way, and we drank a lot and pretended to have fun, and then one day I snapped out of it and told her I wished I had a home. "YOU'RE A GODDAMN BLACK CAT!" she yelled. "YOU AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE!" I stumbled down the kennel aisle while she was still screaming.
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Smokey (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) A0999440
The scent of bitter almonds always reminded Smokey Alejandro Fernandez de la Pina of the time before BARC, when, as a stray much younger than his two years, he would forage for cassava and yams by the banks of the river, where the gypsy women boiled the eyes of lizards and burned almonds in hopes that the angels would smile upon the crops. One morning, when the honey sun was blazing a hazy amber, Smokey saw an angel, his wings frayed and his eyes sunken like death pressed them in with his bony fingers. He told Smokey Alehandro Fernandez de la Pina that he had been waiting one hundred years for God to fix his wings. "I've been waiting two years for an owner," Smokey said, approaching the forlorn and crumpled creature. "We will wait together."
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The Rat and Parrot Bar
The Rat and Parrot Bar is located on the main strip in Ayia Napa, Ayias Mavris. It is open from early evening through to the early hours and operates from April through to November.
The Rat and Parrot is an older style bar with wooden furnishings and it shows sporting events and popular UK TV shows on big screens.
The closest hotels to Rat & Parrot Bar are Millies Apartments and Cleopatra Apartments.
Other bars in the same area as the Rat and Parrot are Taffy's Bar and Craigs Bar.
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