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Hello lovelies!
Today was the big Whole Foods trip! Before I set out on my quest, I managed to squeeze in a quick 45 min gym workout: 5 min elliptical warm-up, 20 min speed intervals (1 min 8mph-1 min 12mph repeated) on the treadmill and 20 mins speed intervals on the elliptical. The gym was practically empty today, which was weird because it has been teeming with people recently! So let's play Where's Wally! But with Emma instead…
Did you spot me? I'm in the middle in red. It was just me and that guy you can kinda see on the treadmill in the right corner. It was nice having some quality alone time with him!
My breakfast to fuel my workout was Ultra Bran cereal+coconut milk+ a banana:
So after my workout, it was Whole Foods time!
I knew exactly where to head first. Mission 1: Get Dark Chocolate Dreams nut butter! But alas, it was not to be seen!
The shelf label was there, but there was just loads of crunchy and smooth nut butter! PANIC! So of course, I did what all sane people do in this situation. I sat down in the aisle and took out the jars one by one to see if there was one behind them. Anything to find my Dark Chocolate Dreams!
There was one! Just one! Success! Although the people around me clearly thought I was insane, not only for wreaking havoc with the nut butter but for then squealing (yes, I squealed with joy about finding nut butter!) and proceeding to photograph it!
I'm sure Whole Foods will have learnt their lesson about not leaving free food lying around when I visit for next time!
I ended up buying the following:
Mission 4: Have an amazing lunch at WF. I thought about going down the salad bar route…
…but wanted to try something different! Much as I love the salad bar (and I really do!), I wanted to check out the vegan and raw foods restaurant upstairs.
I was in a hurry sadly, so I didn't have time to enjoy their sit-down menu, which looked awesome, but instead looked at the take-out options:
I can honestly say this was the best wrap/sandwich I have ever had! So filling and flavoursome!
And check out this stellar ingredients list:
I have never seen nutritional yeast listed in sandwich ingredients before! Or quinoa and flax seed oil for that matter!
The busy day continued after the WF trip with the annual Christmas food shop with my mum, where the bill came to over £160! So since I got back late from that (3 days before Christmas=supermarket madness!), I threw together a quick meal: wholewheat noodles in soy sauce with basil tofu and a side of baby carrots:
I'm so excited about my WF purchases! I especially can't wait to make Katie's Coconut Butter Melties and Chocolate Peanut Butter Melties!
Tomorrow morning I'm going to be making the vegan chocolate cupcakes I mentioned yesterday to take to a friend's party! Can't wait to get my bake on again! So stay tuned to see those!
And my Amazon package finally arrived! So happy! Now I have all my presents and cards, and just need to wrap! Whoop!
So what about you? How ready are you for Christmas Day? Only 2 and a bit days to go now!!! And what is the best sandwich filler combo you've ever had? Obviously sundried tomato+nut cheese is the winner in my book!
Merry Christmas to you!
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2.01x is a first course on the mechanical behavior of deformable structural elements. It introduces principles of structural analysis in applications to essential load-bearing elements, such as bars in axial loading, axisymmetric shafts in torsion, and symmetric beams in bending. The course covers fundamental concepts of continuum mechanics, including internal forces, displacement fields, stresses, and strains. The students learn to predict linear elastic structural behavior, and prevent failure, by relying on the notions of equilibrium, geometric compatibility, and constitutive material response.
2.01x was offered as an MITx on edX course in the Spring of 2013. It was taught by Dr. Simona Socrate, Professor Alexie M. Kolpak, and Kun Qian.
Many participants in MITx on edX courses come with different intentions and levels of interest and many resemble shoppers and auditors in their course activity. This report identifies four subpopulations of participants (numbers below): those who registered, viewed some course content, explored the course, and were certified [1].

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text: Editors' Review by Download.com staff / December 22, 2009 Red Crab Cube Timer is a stopwatch application designed to time how fast it takes you to solve Rubik's Cube. Those who enjoy trying to solve the cube as fast as possible can use this free tool to add some flair to the timing process. The program's interface is basic and easy to navigate but not very attractive. You can choose a plain background or one of 12 illustrated backgrounds as a backdrop for the timer, which appears at the center of the screen. All of the illustrated backgrounds have a psychedelic look that isn't particularly appealing, though some users may like them. If you don't like the colorful backgrounds, you can always go with the plain background, which is seriously plain, but at least it's easier on the eyes. The program saves your time each time you start and stop the timer, so you can use that feature to challenge yourself again and again. The timer keeps track of minutes and seconds, and you can start and stop it quickly by pressing the space bar on your computer, which makes it extremely easy to use. There's no real Help file, and selecting Help from the drop-down menu takes you to the program's Web page, which doesn't offer much information. The program is pretty self explanatory, luckily. If you're not into Rubik's Cube, Red Crab Cube Timer isn't going to be much use to you, unless you're looking for a festive stopwatch. It's free, so grab it and start twisting. read more + Explore Further Desktop Weather Widget Pomodoro Timer Sponsored Products Category Category Games Subcategory Sudoku, Crossword & Puzzle Games Publisher's Description From Red Crab Software: Red Crab Cube Timer is a multi-functional computerised stopwatch application that avid speed cubers can use to time solves. There are many features included in Red Crab Cube Timer making timing solves much easier and more suited to your way of speed cubing. The latest version of Red Crab Cube Timer, version 1.3, adds extra functionality so that you can customise the program to your needs. For example the themes section has been redesigned to allow you to create any theme you like, whether that is a background image, plain colour, or even gradients. Another addition to Red Crab Cube Timer is the statistics view where you can see your performance over time, presented through a line graph, and if you solve speeds have been getting quicker or slower. The times area, where your solve speeds appear, has also been redesigned to make it simpler to use and make it more informative. The fastest solve time in the list is highlighted in red, and a delete button is located next to each solve time. Finally there is now a written documentation in the form of a PDF file which describes and explains all of the features in Red Crab Cube Timer. read more +


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by H G Wells
30 minutes, 18 seconds
Unabridged Science Fiction Story
One hundred and one years before the films Armegeddon and Deep Impact entered U.S. theaters, the father of modern science fiction scared the crap out of Victorian London with this, the first of such death-from-above science fiction tales. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on April 23, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
Because of internationally diverse copyright laws, this audiobook is only for licensed in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. The text on which this audiobook is based is still protected under copyright in the European Union and many other countries (where pre-1923 copyrights last until 70 years after the author's death) and will remain so protected until 2017.
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a British author often called "The Father of Science Fiction." Even before the 20th century began, his fiction and articles explored invisibility, interstellar travel, time travel, and genetic experimentation. His novel, The War of the Worlds was serialized in the American magazine Cosmopolitan, and later turned into a famous radio drama by Orson Wells.
Alex Wilson is a writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His stories and comics have appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), Weird Tales, Futurismic, LCRW and elsewhere. Locus has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Website)
Alex has performed lead roles in the North American premiere of (Richard Taylor's musical) Whistle Down the Wind and (Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido's film) The Third Cord. He has recently appeared in the Deep Dish Theater productions of Hedda Gabler and Moon for the Misbegotten, and recorded narrations for Escape Pod and Night Shade Books. (Acting Resume/Reel) On early Telltale recordings, Alex is sometimes credited as "Alexander Wilson." He founded Telltale in 2004.
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Thai House Cuisine is reputed Thai restaurant in Toronto that is continuously receiving rave reviews from Thai food lovers. Our professional Thai chefs made us a world class dining establishment that reflectsvibrant colors and exotic Thai tastes.Come and enjoy made to order Thai dishes at our warm inviting atmosphere where you can relax from the hustle of life with tasty Thai delicacies.We are offering an eclectic range of Thai dishes that can be seen on our menu such as appetizers, soup & salad, salads, duck dishes, lamb dishes, curry dishes, fish dishes, wok, grills, noodles, rice, vegetarian dishes, seafood dishes, side dishes, lunch special, desserts, combos, and beverages. We have many chef`s specials on our menu like Holy Basil Chicken made with Stir fried freshly holy basil leaves with chili, garlic, onion, green bean, red pepper, & minced chicken and many others like KhaoSoi and Pad Pong Karee.
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Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce partners with Google for 'street view' inside local businesses
The Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce has partnered with Google to feature photos of local businesses in a new initiative where GoogleMaps users can take a virtual walk through participating brick-and-mortar shops.
The "Google Street View Indoors" will allow users to see inside the business, travel 360 degrees from multiple points inside the shop, and also zoom in on products, displays, signs, decor, and ambiance, according to a statement from the chamber released Monday.
The Newton-Needham chamber is the first in Massachusetts to partner with Google for the program, said chamber president Greg Reibman in the statement.
"We see Street View Indoors as yet another way to promote shopping locally, dining locally and banking locally," Reibman said. "We're pleased to be the first chamber in the state that is partnering with Google on this opportunity to let consumers look inside our many fantastic businesses."
Google allows businesses to feature up to 1,000 360-degree views to the program for a fee: it costs a business $100 for each of the first three viewpoints, and $50 for the next 12 after that. Any images added after the first 15 cost $30 each.
Chamber members are eligible for 10 percent discount; non-chamber members, who join the organization at the same time they sign up for the Google feature, are eligible for a 15 percent discount.
The images will be taken by a Google photographer, according to the chamber.
For a sample of how the new Google imaging feature works, click here.


text: Ron Blue wrote: > > On 17 Oct 1996, Stephen Black wrote: > >>>>CUT>>> > > The question reminds me of that old principle with the quaint title called > > "the law of specific nerve energies" which was enunciated by Johannes > > Muller in 1838, long before the birth of neurophysiology (which Muller > Thanks for reminding me of this important fact. Nice post. > > This may also be my source of the 19th century speculation that "if the > > auditory and visual nerves were crossed, leaving their connections to the > > brain intact, then we could _see_ thunder and _hear_ lightning. I > > understand that this has actually been accomplished anatomically in the > > ferret (Roe et al, 1990). No word from the ferret yet on what this does > > to its perception of a thunderstorm. > Yes, I agree that if the connections were crossed that perception > would be like seeing thunder, but only due to the memories previously > stored. If done at birth the animal would perceive every thing > normally but now in new areas of the brain. Also if the total > brain mass was increased the perception would increase if reduced the > perception skills would be reduced. > > The important point is that the principle of equal potentiality > allows the brain to self organize for different functions. > Ron Blue ...I've not read the ferret study, but although the brain can massively rewire itself by sending out collateral fibers to take advantage of the available cortical "real estate" when a sensory tract is lesioned, it's not the case that all of the cortex is so "equipotent" that one portion of it can do the work of any other portion of it just as well... even if the transposed cortical areas share similar microscopic architecture, such would just not work well because the design of the brain is so tightly integrated... one cannot rewire only one pathway, one must rewire =all= pathways, so as to maintain all of the brain's Geometric consistency with the body-environment interface (in Duality Theory: the "special topological homeomorphism"; the "internal frame of reference")... ...when Karl Lashley discovered "equipotentiallity" in experiments that successively lesioned increasing portions of cortex, what he actually discovered was that "memory" is =distributed=... but the cortical areas are not "equipotent", it's just that each cortical area makes its own modality-specific contribution to all "memories"... lesion a particular cortical area, and that area's modality-specific contribution to "memory" is lost... but the memory can still be accessed via the intact cortical areas, minus the contribution of the lesioned area... ken collins _____________________________________________________ People hate because they fear, and they fear because they do not understand, and they do not understand because hating is less work than understanding.


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Collo :: Programs November 29 2013
Collo | November 15th to December 21st
Saturday November 30th | Print Signing w/ Adrian Franks | 2pm - 5pm
Special Guest DJ Sharri will set the sounds for our Small Business Saturday event
Saturday December 7th | Trunk Show w/ Samantha Marie Davis | 3pm - 7pm
You don't want to miss our first co-presentation. Warehouse Gallery is happy to host Samantha Marie Davis, style blogger and designer, for her inspiring Affirmation Tote bags Trunk Show.
Saturday December 14th | Artist Talk/Photo Walk | 1pm - 3pm
The Instagram Artist Talk/Photo Walk fuses the Instagram experience with the current exhibition Collo. Guests will have an artist + curator talk with Kaitlin Rebesco and kamau ware, who both have photographs in the exhibition. Then guest will enjoy a self-guided Instagram walking tour in close proximity to the gallery. Those with tickets will be able to get a taste of the neighborhood's at restaurants such as Black Swan and Do or Dine. At the end of the Photo Walk, there will be a print signing by Instagram artists, Geneva L. White and Kaitlin Rebesco.. Click here to purchase tickets.
Sunday December 15th | Drink & Draw w/ Anna Callner & Sam Levy | 7pm - 10pm
Enjoy a Drink & Draw event with a slight twist as you receive inspiration from accomplished cellist Anna Callner. Sam Levy will give an artist talk and sign prints. We will provide the figure model and of course the drinks. You bring good cheer and creativity. Click here to purchase tickets.
Friday December 20th | Collo Closing Reception | 7pm - 10pm
Our first exhibition will close formally on Saturday December 21st. The day before, we will host our closing reception. We will present the newly formed trio, the Power of 3 to send us off right.


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2009 Nissan Maxima - Consumer Review
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Vehicle2009 Nissan Maxima 3.5 SV 4dr Sedan (3.5L 6cyl CVT)
ReviewMy wife and I just purchased the 3.5 SV premium fully loaded. The looks of this car are great inside and out. The engine and transmission are second to none for its class and there are enough gadgets on the car to make any gadget freak blush. There are 2 modes for driving: an automatic mode or an aggressive manual mode which we found impressive. We test drove the Infinity M35 AWD prior to our purchase and the Maxima gave it a run for its money; in some instances beating it. The car is roomy and comfortable, however if youre a person over 6 tall, I recommend not sitting in the back seat with the front seats all the way back. I would be surprised if this car didnt win best car of '09.
Best FeaturesThis thing turns on a dime and has great acceleration. The navigation control center and Bose system is awesome. The double moon roof and the driver side air conditioned seats are my personal favorites.
Worst FeaturesThe leather seats are a bit stiff on the edges, but still comfortable. My wife had a hard time finding a comfortable position with the head rest since it didnt tilt back and forth. While parked, I wish the door would unlock upon pulling on the inside door handle. Gas mileage could be a bit better.
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Mulcair's budget response separates Quebec, Canada
The Canadian Press
Published Friday, March 30, 2012 6:12AM EDT
Last Updated Saturday, May 19, 2012 7:53AM EDT
OTTAWA - Thomas Mulcair may insist that his political universe doesn't revolve around Quebec, but it was hard to tell from his response to Thursday's federal budget.
Responses, plural, to be more accurate.
The freshly minted NDP leader issued two news releases slagging the budget - one aimed specifically at Quebecers, the other at Canadians generally.
It wasn't that there were budget measures that applied uniquely to Quebec, or that Mulcair had anything particularly different to say to Quebecers. The message in both releases was essentially the same.
"Stephen Harper promised to protect health care funding and never even mentioned his plan to cut old age security. Now, he is putting Quebecers' retirement security and primary health care in peril with these reckless cuts," Mulcair said in a release entitled, "The Conservative Budget: No Relief for Quebecers."
"Stephen Harper promised jobs and growth but delivered reckless cuts," said the release aimed at the rest of the country, entitled, "Conservative Budget Slashes Health Care, Pensions."
The two releases were issued four minutes apart, a half hour after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty rose in the House of Commons to present his latest budget.
A spokesman for Mulcair said the leader would be issuing other "regional" releases about the budget but even by midnight Thursday, none had materialized.
The budget was the first major political event for Mulcair since he was crowned NDP leader last Saturday. New Democrats elected the Montreal MP in large part because he was seen as the candidate best able to maintain the party's newfound base in Quebec, which delivered 59 NDP seats in last May's election, vaulting the party into official Opposition status for the first time in its 51-year history.
Cultivating the Quebec base is Job 1 for Mulcair. But, judging by rival parties' reaction to his dual budget releases, he'll have to tread carefully to avoid accusations of pandering to the province.
"Hard to understand why the official Opposition seems to have difficulty speaking with one, clear, national voice," said interim Liberal leader Bob Rae.
Rae detected the start of a possible pattern, noting that the NDP voted Wednesday against an "innocuous" Conservative private member's bill which encouraged Canadians to fly the national flag.
"I couldn't understand why," he said.
Andrew MacDougall, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's communications director, made a point of stressing that the budget is intended to "benefit all Canadians."
"We speak with one voice to all regions of the country."


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5,000 square foot recreation center available only to the residents of Club Aliante. This recreation center features a fitness/gym area, locker rooms, sitting room with a fireplace, and a meeting room. There is also a private park with tennis courts, basketball courts, swimming pool and spa, tot lot and play areas.
Two holes of the Aliante golf course runs through the community. The golf club is located across the street from the community.
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International Cricket Council widely known as ICC is an organisation which look after on all the international cricket activities. All the international series are organised by ICC. Cricket rules and guidelines are made by them which to be followed by every country. This organisation also publish ranking of all cricket teams, bowlers and batsman for all the format of games ODI …Read More »
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Critical Context
(Survey of Young Adult Fiction)
Although some men composed the popular fairy novellas, they were mostly the work of women. Originally, just like Perrault's Fairy Tales, the works of the fairy writers were meant to be read aloud or told from memory like folktales. Stock situations, such as that of a beautiful maiden being forced to marry against her will, were elaborated upon and interwoven with other elements to produce stories that took an hour or more in the telling. Many of these narratives were eventually published, either individually or in collections. Judging from those that were published, storytellers would often compliment their friends or comment on recent events through oblique references within the story; in addition to such commentary, the authors primarily strove for wit, satire, playfulness, and graceful language. The most famous and successful of these adult fairy writers was Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. Her Contes de Fées (1690) and Les Fées à la mode (1695), translated together as Fairy Tales by the Countess d'Aulnoy (1856), are still widely read in French and are occasionally retold for children in English. The best known of these tales in English are "The White Cat" ("La Chatte blanche") and "The Yellow Dwarf" ("Le Nain jaune"), both of which were popular in the nineteenth century.
Charles Perrault, as a moralist, drew upon such works as Aulnoy's vehicles for philosophical examinations of human behavior and thought. Another influence on him was an older contemporary, Jean de La Fontaine, whose fables, written between 1668 and 1695, were similarly intended both to appeal to young readers and to offer insight to older ones. Perrault adapted La Fontaine's simplicity of language and brevity of plot for his new genre, the fairy (or nursery) tale. Later writers took up Perrault's ethical fairy stories, including moralist and educator Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, now most remembered for her children's version of Suzanne-Gabrielle de Villeneuve's 1737 adult fairy romance "Beauty and the Beast," ("La Belle et la Bête").


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HSN104 - The Science of Food
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Only available to students enrolled in D301, H315, H343 OR H300, D391 students completing the Food Studies major sequence (MJ-H000003) or minor sequence (MN-H000003). H343 students at Waurn Ponds who wish to undertake this unit to meet the pre-requisite for Master of Dietetics, please contact your Course Adviser by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com H300 students at Waurn Ponds (Geelong) and Warrnambool may enrol into this unit if they wish to meet the pre-requisite requirements for Master of Dietetics - you will need to contact your Course Advisers first.
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1 x 2 hour class per week and 4 x 3 hour laboratory classes for the trimester
This unit describes food constituent's context of whole foods and diets in terms of their chemical, physical and biological properties, occurrence, nutritional significance and reactivity during processing, risk from food pathogens and spoilage agents, food preservation methods and product development.
Assessment task 1: Practical report 1 (1000 words) 25%
Assessment task 2: Practical report 2 (1000 words) 25%
Assessment task 3: Examination (2 hours) 50%
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Notes: Fourth in the Keeping Love series, after 'Keeping Love', 'Crystalline' and 'The World and the Home.'
Also: So I've been feeling like complete shit lately - combine 'utter dickhead' with 'unenviable loser' and you kinda got my designation right now, with a side order of 'pathetic little girl' thrown in. So I went and whipped up some trouble in paradise. And I apologise, because it really didn't make me feel any better. Urgh. *facedesk*
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek 2009, and I make no profit from this work.
"Commander Spock? A word, please?"
Spock turned, saving the gathered data on his padd in an almost reflexive action, as the Captain beckoned him.
"I won't keep you long," Pike said as he drew them aside, some twenty metres from the rest of the science and medical personnel. Meridia I was proving to be a hub of new plant life that could prove to be beneficial to the medical practices of multiple Federation species, and Spock's department had all breathed a sigh of relief at being able to get off the ship for several hours a day. "And it's more of a personal query than anything else. I'm not asking as your Captain."
"Understood, sir."
Pike pinned him with a scowl.
"Better. How are you and Kirk doing?"
Spock blinked. While Pike liked to know, generally speaking, who was involved with whom under his command, he had never been remotely interested in detail. He never, to Spock's knowledge, checked up on the status of those relationships. For Pike to ask about a relationship was generally bad news.
"Forgive me, sir, but has our...involvement...affected our work in...?"
"Spock," Pike waved it aside. "I'm not asking as your Captain. No, for the record. You're both as ridiculously diligent as ever. I'm asking as your friend, Spock. How are things going?"
"'Things' are going well."
Pike stared at him suspiciously. "Uh-huh. Kirk's extra workloard isn't putting a dent in the works at all?"
"'A dent in the works'?"
"Don't play word games with me, Spock," Pike pinched the bridge of his nose with a heavy sigh. "I know for a fact that Kirk's pulling twelve-hour shifts - on a lazy day. You can't tell me that that's not having some kind of effect."
Spock simply stared at him.
"Commander!" one of the lieutenants called. "We're ready to start shipping these samples up to the labs!"
"If you'll excuse me, Captain?"
"Look, just..." Pike sighed again. "I can't make you tell me anything, but...relationships often suffer when one gets promoted over the other, and not always because of the rank issue. If you need a friend to talk to, my door's always open."
Spock simply stared at him impassively, and Pike groaned.
"I don't know why I bother sometimes," he grumbled good-naturedly. "Go on, get back to your precious plant specimens. Just remember what I said."
"Always, sir."
In fact, the Captain was not wholly wrong. Since Kirk's promotion three weeks ago, Spock had seen him for perhaps seventy hours in total, excluding the periods in which he saw Kirk on-duty. And most of the seventy hours remaining involved Kirk being asleep, or hastily-shared meals in the mess.
Part of him understood. The First Officer had a lot of work - mostly boring, tedious work such as reports, personnel reviews, shift rotas, and so on - on a constant basis. Added to that came any new orders from the Captain - disciplinary action against crew members, additional rotas for away teams, and the logging of medical leave all fell to the First Officer. Add to that the fact that the First Officer had to read every intelligence report, order and data file coming in from Command, and it was no wonder that Kirk was busy. Particularly as he had not stepped down as the Communications Officer. The majority of the First Officer's work had to be done outside Alpha Shift, particularly when the communications department were in high demand, as they had been for the two weeks immediately following Kirk's promotion.
And yet now they were on a scientific data-collection mission, and the communications department were, for lack of a better term, putting their feet up. And yet Spock had seen no more of Kirk.
He understood. Kirk was busy, and duty came before one's personal relationships, and Spock had never gone into this relationship unaware that they were both workaholics.
But it didn't mean that he didn't miss him.
"Sir," Kirk's voice rang into the dead silence that was the bridge during starmapping duties, approximately eight days after Pike's somewhat odd observations. "The USS Hellenica is hailing us; Captain Moore requests to speak with you."
"Put him onscreen," Pike said, and a moment later, the cheery face of Captain Moore was beaming out at them.
Captain Moore was famously the most laid-back of all the starship captains, and had been nicknamed 'Santa' by the human component of Starfleet for his (in)famous Christmas parties. While he had no political clout, and was therefore ignored by those waiting to advance their careers, he was a very popular and affable man, particularly amongst the engineering sector of the service - probably because, like approximately 65.4% of the engineering sector, Captain Moore had a spouse and four young children, and understood the challenges of balancing a caree and a family in a way that most captains - including Pike - did not.
"Christopher!" he boomed, his teeth flashing from the depths of his definitely non-regulation beard. "How goes it on the front line, eh?"
"Dull, at this section of it," Pike smirked. "What can I do for you, Simon?"
"Some political side-stepping, I hope," Moore grinned. "I'm hoping you'll agree - are you free for a quick chat, el capitan al capitan?"
"Certainly," Pike said. "Kirk, reroute this to my ready-room. You're in charge."
"Yes, sir," Kirk sighed, signalling for his replacement and approaching the Captain's chair as Pike strode out. He didn't spare a glance for Spock, and a moment later, Lieutenant Uhura strode in to take the communications station, closely followed by a yeoman who handed a stack of padds to Kirk and disappeared again.
Spock returned his attention to his monitors, and, in a very childish moment that he would vehemently deny, wished for a disaster to distract him.
Not ten minutes later, Pike returned, looking oddly tense - as did Lieutenant Uhura when she left the bridge.
Kirk's tray banged down onto the table with unnecessary force, and he almost fell into the chair opposite Spock with a gusty sigh.
"God, I'm tired," he complained, poking at the admittedly unappealing replicator food. Spock didn't want to attempt to discern what it was supposed to be. "I just spent eight hours going over the recommended upgrades to the converters, and I've never wanted to get off a ship so much in my life. If they go ahead with the upgrades - well, sure, we'll be able to get impulse power boosted by thirty percent, but we're also increasing the risk of overheat in the primary nacelles by about sixty percent. It's ridiculous - and frankly, if I can spot that problem a mile off, why aren't the engineering staff raising holy hell about it? Don't tell anyone," he lowered his voice, "but I'm going to put in a recommendation to Pike that we shunt the Chief Engineer as fast as possible. He's a complete moron. Even I know more engine mechanics that that, and I never went beyond second year modules at the Academy."
"Thompson?" Spock asked, in an attempt to create actual conversation, and Kirk grunted around a mouthful of food before swallowing indelicately.
"That's him. I don't know how in the hell he got the job - your Lieutenant Peters would be better at the job. She's got the same qualifications, and she's not a complete fuckwit like he is. Hell, most of his own staff would be better at the job. And this is meant to be a frontline battleship; if we can't trust our engineering staff, then we're screwed. I felt a lot more relaxed before I knew what a mess that department was."
Spock supposed that, in his role at the communications officer, Kirk had simply not noticed. Everyone else was perfectly aware that Thompson was incompetent; it was politics that had gotten him the job in the first place. Everyone else conducted actual ship's business through his deputy, Assistant Chief Engineer Harper.
"Hey," Kirk prodded his hand lightly with the plastic fork. "You okay?"
"I am well."
"Sure," Kirk rolled his eyes. "And I'm the Queen of Sheba."
Spock didn't rise to the obvious bait, and Kirk sighed, dropping the fork and laying his hand over Spock's on the table top, rubbing his thumb over Spock's knuckles.
"I know," he said quietly. "I know we haven't had a lot of time to ourselves lately, and I'm sorry, I really am. It's just...shit, Spock, there's so much work I have to do. I'm just so busy - you know that a lot of the service contracts are coming to an end? Well, Chen's not been great at keeping the records updated so I have to do it in time for all of these people to have even a shot at the new jobs they want, and that's a lot of people. We're looking at a major reshuffle, and it means a lot of hours for me, and..."
"Jim," Spock turned his hand over and clasped Kirk's, strangely daring in the public setting. "I do understand."
"Understanding is a whole different thing from being okay with it," Kirk pointed out, and bit his lip. "I am sorry. I'll make it up to you, I promise. When all the reshuffling is over and my paperwork pile dies a not-so-sorry death, I'll lock us both in the forward observation lounge and make it up to you. Thoroughly. For hours."
Kirk was psi-null; he couldn't, and never would be able to, deliberately broadcast messages to Spock the way that a Vulcan could. But he had his own methods of communication, and Spock was well-versed enough in morse code to read the love you that was tapped out on the back of his hand.
Kirk was Spock's free time, and with Kirk busy, he found himself at a loose end that was quite suddenly absorbed by Lieutenant Uhura, Kirk's deputy in the communications department.
Spock had, of course, met the lieutenant before, but they had not shared so much as a conversation before one evening after shift in the turbolift, when she invited him - in Vulcan that was as close as he had ever heard to perfect from a human - to a recital by the music club.
"Ensign Astansi is performing The Windfires piece from that Andorian opera - Li'Kana. It's based off Vulcan mythology; she's really very good," Uhura added earnestly, and Spock agreed.
Uhura was correct in her appraisal of Ensign Astansi's talent (if not the talent of the actual composer of The Windfires) and Spock found himself roped into attending the weekly music club recitals, though he stuck to his reluctance to actually perform himself. He was not used to socialising with the crew (Vulcans did not, as a rule, socialised frivolously with their colleagues) but found the quiet gatherings of the music club to be...pleasant.
Lieutenant Uhura, much like Kirk, was not without her own ambitions, and while the Vulcan she possessed was impeccable, Spock was quick to learn that it was also very limited.
"They don't teach much at the Academy, which is so stupid," she said, echoing Kirk from many months previously, and smiled at him almost shyly - which she was not, and so caught Spock by surprise. "Would you mind teaching me? You have no idea what fluency in Vulcan can do to a communications career."
And so a friendship was born, out of music sessions and Vulcan lessons, and Spock found someone to fill his empty hours that Kirk had filled before. Uhura was a pleasant student, and what she lacked in knowledge of the Vulcan language she made up for in her knowledge of the Vulcan culture. Spock typically disliked teaching female students, for their tendencies to flirt shamelessly and overstep cultural lines, but Uhura made no such moves or mistakes.
Over the four weeks after her invitation to the music club, she became one that Spock would count as a friend, unVulcan as the designation was, and she began to share her personal thoughts and ideas with him. He learned of the engineer she was seeing (when possible) that served on another ship, and of her hopes that she could get a posting as the primary communications officer on that ship in the future, and of her dreams of one day starting a family, but "not until after I have a good career and a good posting under my belt, because I'm not giving up all of this effort just to pop out half-Scottish babies, thank you very much!"
Spock's social circle had quite suddenly doubled, and he suddenly understood that value that Kirk placed in his own friends, and wondered how he had not missed it before.
"Come," Spock called, and the doors to his quarters slid open to Kirk, lounging in the frame and smiling tiredly at him.
"Yeah, I know," Kirk trudged, exhaustion written in every line of his movements, to Spock's chair and hauled it back with impressive strength. "I'm too tired to do anything, I could fall asleep standing up right about now, and I can't pay you the attention you deserve. But I really, really wanted to come and see you."
With that, he dropped heavily into Spock's lap and curled both arms around his neck, bringing them together in a slow, tired, but pleasant kiss that chased away Spock's doubts easily, brushing them aside like fragile cobwebs, and setting up residence in their place.
"I've been neglecting you again," Kirk murmured against his mouth, and kissed away any reply. "And I can't fix it right now, but I reiterate my promise. You, me, the observation lounge, and thoroughly."
"I look forward to it," Spock said quietly, brushing his hand up under Kirk's shirt to feel the smooth skin of his warm back, and the skittering pleasure and contentment and Kirk's usual possessive edge lurking in his nerves.
"Come to bed," Kirk whispered. "I just want to hold you for a bit, but I'll fall asleep. So come to bed with me."
He dragged himself from Spock's thighs and stripped efficiently, leaving his uniform in haphazard piles on the deck, before pulling Spock up and stripping him down as well, pressing kisses to the bared skin as he worked, and pushing him towards the bed.
"I miss waking up with you," he said, as some of sort of unasked-for explanation, and Spock allowed himself to be pushed down into the bed and rearranged into Kirk's position of choice. They settled with Kirk's arms locked in a lazy embrace around Spock's chest, and a stream of idle thought washing over Spock's skin and ghosting along the hairs on his arms.
"Sleep well, Jim," Spock murmured, and felt a kiss land at the juncture of his neck and shoulder.
"I love you."
Spock brushed his slack hands, where they twisted together at his own waist, and hummed a soft agreement as the love - tinged with a strange anxiety - washed through to meet him.
"So there's a different title for the priests of Gol, but not for ordinary temple priests? Hey, Kirk," Uhura added as Kirk appeared with his lunch tray and sank into the seat beside Spock.
"Affirmative," Spock returned, bumping Kirk's fingers with his when he noted the tense expression. "Is everything alright, Jim?"
"Fine," Kirk shrugged, glancing between the pair of them. "Learning Vulcan, Uhura?"
She nodded, rather than speaking through a mouthful of pasta.
"Fair enough," Kirk said, and began to attack his replicated whatever with undue anger.
"Jim, I do not believe that your meal is still alive and in danger of escaping," Spock admonished quietly.
"Yeah, well, I have to be back on the paperwork before the command meeting this afternoon," Kirk said tightly. "Busy again."
And within thirty seconds, only consuming a third of his meal, he was gone again, leaving behind confused stares and bewilderment.
"What's the bug up his ass?" Uhura wondered aloud.
"I do not know."
"Dismissed," Pike said, sitting back at the end of the weekly command meeting. "Spock, Kirk - a moment."
The rest of the command crew filed out, leaving a still-tense Kirk (who had had a collection of padds at his elbow throughout the meeting) and Spock seated, both eyeing the Captain in mute confusion.
"I'm not going to beat around the bush here," Pike said. "Spock, Moore wants you to transfer to his ship for the next contract year."
"What?" Kirk exploded.
Pike held up a hand to silence him. "Moore's Science Officer, Commander Choi, is under question of compromise and has requested a year's transfer to another ship to counter such question. She's married to Moore's CMO," he added helpfully.
That made sense. Officers high in the chain of command often came under question of being compromised when it came to their spouse or significant other, particularly when said partner was also a high-ranking officer. A common - and usually successful - way of counteracting such questions was to accept service contracts aboard separate ships for a lengthy period - usually a year or two years - before returning to shared duty. It was not, of course, mandatory, but many officers found their careers stalling without such proof.
"Captain Moore proposes...an exchange," Spock surmised.
"Exactly," Pike said, and glanced between the two of them. "Frankly, it wouldn't hurt the two of you either."
"Hold it, Kirk. Your official records are quite clear - according to them, you entered a committed relationship when you both appeared aboard my ship. Since then, neither of you have left it. Kirk, you know as well as I do that you are very unlikely to make Captain of any vessel if you've got a compromise question hanging over your head - and it will be your head, because nobody in the brass is going to believe a Vulcan can be compromised. We all know that's bullshit, but it's you they'll be questioning."
Kirk was going an alarming shade of pink.
"The exchange is only for a year, and it would be excellent ammunition against compromise charges when you're up for promotion again, Kirk," Pike said, and glanced sideways at Spock. "Nobody's going to make you do it, but I suggest you both seriously think about it. And a little distance could help the strain you're both under."
"With all due respect, sir, I don't appreciate outside comments on my relationships," Kirk said through gritted teeth, and Pike rolled his eyes.
"Then reprimand the whole ship," he said, "because everybody's noticed it. Just talk it over. Spock, I'll need your answer by the end of the week."
"If..." Spock said, and Kirk shot an icy glare at him. "If I were to accept such an exchange, what would happen at the end of the service year?"
"We'd swap you back," Pike replied. "Moore is quite clear on that one; he wants Choi back. Looking at her service record, I can see why. You'd be right back here at the end of the year, Spock; hell, I wouldn't be considering it if it meant permanently losing my best scientist."
Kirk was still wearing an expression somewhat similar to that of a man being slowly strangled by someone that he very much disliked.
"I'll leave the two of you to discuss it," Pike said, and bowed out gracefully.
The doors had barely slid shut behind him when Kirk slammed both hands down onto the table and snapped, "If?"
"It was merely a hypothetical question, Jim."
"And an unnecessary one! You can't possibly be considering it!" Kirk exclaimed.
"Oh my God," Kirk groaned, closing his eyes. "You are."
"Captain Pike is correct; a separation would be beneficial to your career and your chances of promotion, and..."
"And six weeks ago, you wouldn't even be considering this," Kirk snapped, "and suddenly you want to go off with Uhura to some other ship and leave me for a whole damn year - tell me, Spock, what am I supposed to think about that?"
"Lieutenant Uhura has applied to transfer?"
"I was unaware..."
"No you weren't."
Spock tensed, very aware that Kirk had, effectively, accused him of lying. "Jim, I was wholly unaware of the lieutenant's career choices and I certainly have no intentions of 'following' her to another posting. But a separation would be..."
"Spock, what the hell am I supposed to think? You barely speak to the woman, then suddenly you're going to the music club with her and teaching her Vulcan and eating every meal with her!"
Spock clenched his jaw. "You are supposed to trust me, Jim. She is a friend; nothing more."
"Well, it sure looks like more."
Spock rose. "I will not discuss this issue while you are so agitated."
Kirk shot to his own feet. "I'm telling you what it looks like, Spock! She takes up more of your time than I do, and you don't even work with her, not really!"
"If she 'takes up' my time, then it is purely because I see very little of you. I have tried to be understanding, Jim, but what else am I to do? Sit in my quarters and wait for you to have a gap in the paperwork in which to see me? The lieutenant approached me in friendship, nothing more."
"I know I've been busy, but..."
"Jim. Last night was the first night in four weeks that we have slept in the same bed. We have not had sexual relations in longer, and our last conversation that was not about your duties occurred on our 'date' on Deep Space Four."
"So your response is to go running off to some new posting for a year and never see me in that time?" Kirk exploded. "What the hell, Spock? Is this some passive-aggressive way of breaking up with me? Are you breaking up with me?"
"No," Spock said evenly, "but I have the distinct feeling that you, or rather your jealousy, is breaking up with me."
With that, he swept from the room, without pause to hear Kirk's reply.
Two days later, he found himself in the transporter room with five others who had accepted transfer requests or deals to the Hellenica, including Lieutenant Uhura. He had not seen Kirk in those two days, and felt married to the pain in his side that spoke of the loss of quite possibly the greatest relationship in his life - past and future - and wondered if a year would be long enough for that pain to die, or only grow and defeat him.
"Did Kirk not take it well?" Uhura whispered as they stepped up onto the transporter pad.
"No, he didn't," Kirk's voice interrupted as he swept into the room. "Commander Spock, a word? I won't keep you long."
Spock remembered Pike's enquiry into the status of their relationship with those very words, and felt a pang of bitter humour at the thought as he stepped down.
"Ensign, I'll send the Commander over once I'm done debriefing him," Kirk threw coolly at the transporter operator's head, and marched Spock across the hall into a small conference room, engaging the privacy lock before turning to Spock.
He looked haggard, for lack of a better term. His eyes were painfully dry, and his lips raw from what Spock could only assume was continual biting. He looked tired in a way that Spock had rarely seen him - pinched, almost, as he had after Spock's near-death from hypothermia only a few months ago.
"I'm sorry," Kirk blurted out. "I'm so sorry. I'm a completely jealous, selfish, self-centred prick and I'm so sorry."
Spock stared.
"I just...shit, I was so overworked and stressed, and then suddenly you were going off to the music club with Uhura when you'd always ignored her before, and started teaching her Vulcan and eating every meal with her when I never got to see you and...and shit, Spock, she's a knockout. She's a complete knockout, and so are you, and I got...I got scared. I got scared and I got jealous and I got angry, and it's no excuse for any of it, but I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry."
He ran both hands through his hair, staring down at the deck for a moment before glancing back up at Spock and resuming.
"I'm just...I'm a possessive bastard. I know I am. And you were suddenly spending all your time with this gorgeous, clever woman and I could just see it. I could just see you choosing her over me, because she wouldn't neglect you like I've been doing, and she'd be with you all the time, and...and it was stupid and idiotic and I'm sorry. It was completely illogical because I know you wouldn't, I know you wouldn't cheat on me, but I just...I let these stupid, stupid doubts get in the way and now you're going to go away for a whole year, and I'm going to miss you so much and I'm..."
He paused, struggling, then his face twisted in a crumpled picture of sheer desperation.
"Please don't leave me," he croaked.
Spock opened his arms.
In a moment, Kirk was there, collapsing into the embrace with fervour and clinging to Spock's back and shoulders like a lifeline. He was shaking slightly, a fine trembling working its way through his muscles, and his breathing was shaky against Spock's neck, where he buried his face and inhaled sharply through his nose.
"Please don't break up with me," Kirk begged. "I love you. I love you so much; I love you with my whole being, and please don't break up with me. I love you more than anything in the world; you are the world, and I've been neglecting you and just a stupid, jealous bastard, and I'm so sorry, but please don't break up with me, please."
"I will not break up with you, if you do not break up with me," Spock said.
"Never," Kirk breathed, squeezing tightly. "I couldn't. I couldn't ever. I love you so much, and I'll be better, I promise. When you come back, I'll be fucking perfect..."
"I doubt that."
"But I'll be better," Kirk insisted. "I won't be so stupid; I won't take you for granted anymore; I won't get jealous of your friends. I promise. Just, God, come back. Don't leave me over this, please."
"I will return, Jim," Spock murmured, smoothing a hand over Kirk's hair and cupping the back of his neck briefly. "It is only for a year."
"You have to comm. me, every week. Every night if you can," Kirk insisted, still clinging on. "And you have to tell me how you are, honestly how you are. And you have to see off all those people who aren't blind and who notice just how amazing and attractive and gorgeous you are. And you have to come home, at the end of that year. You have to come home. Promise me you'll come home."
"I promise, Jim."
Kirk drew back, and kissed him hard, as if trying to steal Spock's soul out from under him and keep it on the Enterprise.
"Be safe," he breathed against Spock's mouth. "Please be safe."
"I will endeavour to..."
"No. You will."
Spock did not reply, opting to return Kirk's kiss instead, and he felt the shaky sigh of acceptance against his mouth as he drew back.
"You...you better get going," Kirk swallowed, still not letting go. "You, um, don't want to be late. Comm. me tonight. Please."
"I will."
"I love you," Kirk whispered, eyes wide and pleading. Spock registered the look of guilt, and wondered when it would fade.
"I will be back, Jim," he murmured.
"You better be," Kirk finally let go, stepping back but taking Spock's hand with him. "I'll hold you to that. And...and when you do, I'll take you out again. Another big date. Fancy meal and everything."
Spock squeezed his hand and let go.
"I love you," Kirk said again, disengaging the privacy lock.
"And I you," Spock said.
Kirk walked him back into the transporter room and, without a care for the gawping ensign, drew Spock into a long, heartfelt kiss, in which guilt and love and possession and shaking anxiety crossed between them.
"Same time next year, then?" Kirk chuckled wetly, stepping down.
"Godspeed, Commander."
And he was gone.


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Alan Greensan, the chairman of the US central bank has given his backing to George Bush's planned tax cuts believing they will help the economy rebound from its current near stagnation.
He also thinks they should occur "sooner rather than later" because current US growth was near zero.
He did however warn that tax cuts alone can never halt a recession because they are rarely able to be implemented in time by governments.


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Splash Damage turned 10 years old this year and not ones to pass up an opportunity to party, we decided to have ourselves a little celebration. Things started off at the office with delicious TapirCake* before venturing up into London for champagne, food, and lots of reminiscing about the past decade of the Damage that is Splash. To top it all off, we brought along some tapir cut-outs created by Media Artist J 'pinflux' Hay, which saw plenty of use (more so as the evening and beverages went on, we have to admit).
Even better, we've put together a bunch of memorable/embarrassing/glamorous photos, so all of you can check out the work and eye-safe parts of that day. Magnificent.
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* - cake not actually made of tapirs
Following the success the Electronic Sports League's massive Brink tournament this summer, Europe's largest e-sports organisation has just announced a brand-new tournament for the PC version of Brink. Dubbed the Autumn Cup, it'll take the form of a 5 on 5 double elimination tournament, with the action kicking off on 28 September - that's exactly one week from today. Prizes include €1500 in cash as well as access to the ESL's Premium service.
Sign-ups are open right now - head over to the ESL's Brink section to enlist!
This year's Golden Joystick awards are on the home stretch and we're thrilled to see that Brink is among the finalists in the Best Shooter category. We'd like to extend a huge Thank You to everyone who took the time to vote for Brink - without you, this would not have been possible.
On a related note, now's your very last chance to cast your vote in this year's Golden Joysticks if you haven't done so already. Voting is set to close late tomorrow, and there's some great hardware and games up for grabs, so you might even walk away with some cool swag. The winners will be announced in a champagne-laden ceremony on 21 October.
This week's Community Question is all about your favourite multiplayer game modes. Splash Damage's games have traditionally been all about objective-driven gameplay, but there's a whole bunch of different game modes out there that people enjoy.
So, what we'd like to know from you is the following:
Which of the following multiplayer game modes do you like and why?
We've assembled the most common choices in a multiple choice poll attached to the comments thread of this post, allowing you to easily pick as many (or as few) modes as you like. In addition to voting in the poll, please also let us know why a particular mode appeals to you and what you enjoy most about it.
Go on, vote now! We look forward to your replies.
We've got another Community Question to hurl your way and this one's of rather epic proportions. Splash Damage has been going for 10 years now and during that time we've produced quite a few multiplayer maps. Things started off in earnest with our map pack for the Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Game of the Year Edition. This was soon followed by Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Doom III multiplayer, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, and this year's Brink. With so many maps offering up different play styles, universes, and objectives, we're after the one you think is the best map we've produced to date.
Which brings us to today's question:
Out of all the maps Splash Damage has produced over the years - including those for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, and Brink - which one is your favourite and why?
We've listed out the most popular choices from each of our games in the poll attached to this post, so please have a look and cast your vote. Oh, and don't forget to let us know why you think your pick is the bestest of all time; that sort of feedback is always great for our designers. Also, if your choice isn't listed in the poll, just select "Other" and tell us all about that obviously glaring omission in your reply.
Let the map battle commence!
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Reports from practices are not many right now cause a lot of skaters arrived later than scheduled due to snow and fog, so far I read Amodio was training in the afternoon, Brezina had an injury on his shoulder, no Fernandez , nor Joubert there.
Reports from practices are not many right now cause a lot of skaters arrived later than scheduled due to snow and fog, so far I read Amodio was training in the afternoon, Brezina had an injury on his shoulder, no Fernandez , nor Joubert there.
Fernandez is there already, with the rest of Team Spain.
The rink looks so wear down and crappy in that picture of Amodio.
Seems like everyone arrived fine and safe. Just to make it clear- a lot of flights were delayed in Europe and some skaters, not Russians only, arrived later than planned. The first Russian group with ice dancers arrived earlier on Sunday with no troubles. The flight from St-Petersburg with Plu, Liza, K/S, Mishin, Gosviani, Moskvina, Urmanov arrived via Vienna as it was scheduled on Monday evening. The second fight from Moscow was unluckily stucked in Budapest due bad weather in Zagreb. But they got stucked later too when Zagreb was already accepting flights because the orginal Aeroflot flight was on superjet that wasn't fit for this type of weather . Therefore the skaters and officials had to wait for airbus that finally delivered them to Zagreb. In total their flight was about 20 hours with about 16 of them sitting in the airport (not hotel). I hope this quite tiring experience won't affect physical conditions of the skaters.
Plu at the press conference said that his back injury is still around but not that much anymore and that he wants to defent his title again and will do his best for that: https://www.facebook.com/isufiguresk...type=1&theater
Anna's new dress: http://pic.twitter.com/KK4G5jJf
Piseev said to R-media that Trankov seems isolated from everyone and nobody wants to disturb him. He again said that it was entirely Max's decision to compete and the RusFed couldn't possibly insisit on his participation in such situation. Tanya looks very "feeling" for him:http://twitpic.com/bxaam0
Anna's dress is stunning. She and Meryl Davis always have the best dresses IMO
What is the matter with Trankov? Sorry I ask but it seems to be gotten past me.....
His dad died unexpectedly just three days ago, so no Grand Prix was not because of it.
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Because society makes them think that way
This is not true. If this is the case, only skinny girls will get married.

I prefer a cheerful lady. Even if she is overweight, never mind.
Because it's more expense to go out to eat
If the basis desire of a man is anything to go by he is visually aroused before anything else. A fat person is unlikely to do that to the majority of red blooded males unless they are fat themselves and have low expectations.
I love all shapes and sizes of women.
Cause they're too weak to handle them. lol
Society and the Image they portray as Sexy --and its not over weight females
This is a generalization and generalizations are unfair. Sure, most of us are attracted by the qualities society has taught us are most desirable in a mate and yes, society is a biased, grossly unfair teacher in this regard, but not of us buy into the stereotypes. Do you like overweight guys? If not then you're NOT part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I've listened to overweight guys talk about how they want a slender woman with a great figure and I've also heard overweight gals talking about how they want a slender guy with washboard abs.

If you, yourself, aren't able to see past appearances and judge people by who they are rather than how they appear, then you're guilty of the same sort of bigotry you resent and condemn in others.
I do ..Some overweight girls are very beautiful its just hard knowing they arent trying to be healthy or that they gave up on it. If youre doing your best to change and live right Ill see it, and people can tell, thats one thing but if youre just eating everything and sitting on the couch , guy or girl, go right ahead. I like moving and improving myself everyway i can. ...Im out. =)
i like 'em
Sir Mix-A-Lot does.
Hey fatty bum; bum

Sweet sugar dumpling

Hey fatty bum; bum

Let me tell you something

Just because you are big and fat

Don't believe I'm afraid of that

Slimness is no recommendation

I'm the king of creation.....
I like them.
Some do! There is a taste for every body type, even amputees!
I like women...and some of the one's I like are overweight.
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Paul Celan as comics creator, or not.
Paul Celan as comics creator, or not.
Spiegelman claims a similar kind of tension, a similar difficulty of representation. But his art does not justify the claim. On the contrary, the use of caricature, which Priego sees as emphasizing the problems of communication, actually finesses it.


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West Virginia Mountaineers Football: Dana Holgorsen Calls "Game of His Life"October 6, 2012
West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith isn't used to staring at the turf.
Especially when it's at eye level.
The Texas Longhorns' much-aligned defense answered its critics with an impressive display of power and brute strength for three-and-a-half quarters.
They got to Geno Smith.
But when it mattered most—late in the fourth quarter—the defense was done in by a masterful display of coaching by Dana Holgorsen and the Mountaineers came away with a 48-45 victory in Austin, Texas.
Don't kid yourself. Mack Brown is a helluva coach but the mad scientist Holgorsen schooled the master when it mattered most.
In the fourth quarter.
Granted, the 28-27 score at the half wasn't indicative of the whole story. J.D. Woods dropped a touchdown pass and Andrew Buie stumbled and fell short of the end zone after a reception. West Virginia usually can "make up" for lost opportunities but doing that against a bunch of blue-chippers wearing burnt orange would prove to be much more difficult.
The Longhorns' front four put pressure on Geno Smith all day long. I said pressuring Smith was one of the keys to the game. Smith was sacked three times in the first half.
Prior to this game, Smith had been sacked only four times in his previous four games.
At the half, Mack Brown was doing a great job of keeping Smith somewhat contained, if there is such a thing.
How rattled did Smith get? Midway through the second quarter on a third-and-14 from his own nine-yard line, he fumbled the ball after Alex Okafor jarred the ball loose from his hand, and Jackson Jeffcoat recovered the ball in the end zone for a Texas touchdown.
Still the Longhorns' defense wasn't perfect.
West Virginia running back Andrew Buie weaved and bobbed on a 26-yard screen pass that featured numerous missed tackles by the Texas defenders. Geno Smith then threw a strike to Stedman Bailey for a touchdown four plays later to give the Mountaineers a 34-31 lead with 4:32 left in the third quarter.
But Texas responded with a 12-play drive ending with Joe Bergeron punching it in and the Longhorns reclaimed the lead, 38-34.
It was as if the Longhorns were playing poker with the Mountaineers: the Mountaineers would ante up and the Longhorns would see their score and then raise them. Meanwhile, Geno Smith was pacing the sidelines waiting to get back into the game with Dana Holgorsen holding an ace up his sleeve.
His mind.
While West Virginia was scoring with speed and finesse, Texas was scoring with smash-mouth football, winning the war in the trenches, making Smith pay if he stayed in the pocket too long.
But in the end, all that didn't matter.
Even after a missed pass interference call on Texas' Quandre Diggs—who was draped over J.D. Woods on a critical third down—West Virginia came back and converted on fourth down.
They wouldn't be denied. Holgorsen didn't even break a damn sweat.
Smith would later connect on a laser to Stedman Bailey for another go-ahead touchdown. Back and forth it went, Brown and Holgorsen playing poker. On a crucial 4th-and-13, David Ash's pass was broken up by Pat Miller, and Texas walked off the field empty-handed.
That would be the game-changer.
And then again, maybe it wouldn't be. Late in the fourth quarter, Okafor again knocked the ball out of Geno Smith's hands deep in West Virginia's territory and Texas teammate Chris Whaley recovered it.
Things looked promising for Texas. But quarterback David Ash, on a 3rd-and-8, would have to chase down an errant snap which led to a 4th-and-22. Longhorn kicker Anthony Fera missed the 41-yard field goal attempt.
And it's here where Holgorsen schooled Brown. When it mattered most.
Instead of running a typical two-minute no-huddle offense, the Mountaineers drove down the field in a long, methodical fashion using Andrew Buie to chew up the clock and keep the Longhorns offense off the field.
Wasn't that supposed to be the Longhorns' game plan?
West Virginia produced an eight-play drive in which Buie carried the ball seven of the eight plays and scored a touchdown from five yards out. It was oh-so-not Mountaineer-like yet oh-so-beautiful to watch. Like a poker player holding pocket threes and betting the hand hard. Unexpected. But when everyone folds and he wins the hand, you have to appreciate the beauty of it.
Brilliant. Masterful. And in-your-face football.
Holgorsen turned the tables on Mack Brown's game plan. He coached a brilliant game. He held his poker face. Oh, you clever man. FOXSports color commentator Charles Davis said that "Dana Holgorsen just called the game of his life."
So far, he has. And there's more to come, no doubt.
It was a game for the ages. It left you breathless. True, when Texas is winning, all is good in college football.
But the torch has been passed. And Dana Holgorsen is holding it.


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6/03/2009 11:46am, #11
Call me clueless but what's the point?
I could go out and buy a 10th dan in Judo. Probably could find one in less time then it would take me to type this but WHAT IS THE POINT?
That paper would no more make me a tenth dan in Judo then paper wings would make me a bird. Even if I had near the skill required for a first Dan in Judo and bought the degree *I* would know I wasn't a tenth dan. That knowledge alone would sour it.
How do people live with themselves with this crap?
6/03/2009 11:58am, #12
Their site is great. They have 4 yellow belts and 15 10th dan black belts.
You got to love it. :icon_chee
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6/03/2009 12:56pm, #14
Also, go look at any website or any place really. People have a natural propensity to believe the people with the most "accolades."
Just in case that is sarcasm.
I watch people demand respect because, they have 4 or 5 ranks in made up pay for play ranks. Uninformed people jump to their defense and their ego gets fed. In many cases, people will shut up if you can produce the credentials. It doesn't matter whether you are right or wrong.
6/03/2009 12:56pm, #15
I guess the feeling is that by having a few people in who are legit... it gives the enterprise some legitimacy.
I guess it is a way to make a few bucks. It is sad though. Before these places were so ubiquitious there were other ways this drama got played out. It was probably better when a guy had to go to another live human being though, and that is how it used to be.
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And he was really doing the "strong-arm" approach too. Almost demanding and sometimes down right telling us that we "had to do this" if we wanted our next rank or a choice location to teach at.
Nothing new, just new players.
6/14/2009 8:18pm, #17
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As a member of IIMAA I would like to invite all of you to attend the upcoming Martial Arts Seminar, being hosted by IIMAA July 16-18, 2010 in Orlando, FL (maseminar.com). I believe the level of training provided by IIMAA member instructors and guest instructors will put to rest some of the aformentioned controversy. I realize there are numerous organizations out there looking to make a profit by selling rank certificates. However, IIMAA's goal is to unify martial artists of all styles and to remove all of the politics that have plagued the martial arts. Please take the time to review the website www.iimaa.net and maseminar.com. This will at least clear up some of the erroneous information posted earlier in the blog. I am not looking to get into a blog war and will not be responding to any negative comments. For those of you taking the time to review the website and have legitimate questions; I would be happy to try and answer your questions. Be well and train hard.
6/14/2009 8:27pm, #18
You spammed one of our members offering him 50% off on (paid) rank testiing while plugging your Hall of Fame. I think the intentions of your organization are pretty clear on their face.
If you want to argue the point I do have some questions.
1) How many people have you tested for rank over the last three years? Please list their names.
2) Please list every rank tested for and in which martial arts, for example Dan Jones, 2nd degree in Akido.
3) Please list who passed and who failed these tests.
4) Please list everyone awarded a rank who did not have to test, please also provide the name of their arts and the belt degree awarded to them.
5) Please tell us by year how much your organization collected (gross earnings) from such testing.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
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Sam, you really, really, expect a real honest answer?
This scheme and the "Hall of Fame" awards make me feel that I have to take a long shower just to get the stink off.
Good luck with getting a straight answer from these guys.....
6/14/2009 11:25pm, #20
I wonder if anyone ever has gone: Wait a second, are you telling me that my 10th dan black belt in Sifu Sensei's generic reality based ancient traditional modern scientific system is somehow devalued by the fact that I bought it on the internet for half price?!?
Forget diligent hardcore training and sacrifice, for this week only you can become equal to the founder in your chosen martial art for half price! That's right, for a mere $990 you can snap kick your master to the face and make him do push ups.
Never again will you have to listen to those pesky 9th Dan black belts who often know nothing!!! By purchasing our product today at HALF ITS ORIGINAL PRICE They will HAVE TO ASK YOU for advice on a technique! If you don't show it, it is only because you are too d34dly and are reserving your hidden knowledge for 10th dans only.
But wait, there's more, if you use a credit card in the next 15 minutes, we'll throw in an EXTRA 8th dan blackbelt in your choice of Kukkiwon TKD or TCB Martial Arts (Elvis Presley's Taking Care of Business). Edit: TCB 8th Dan belts- Out of stock.


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At this time of year we all look towards the New Year.
Resolutions are made (and sometimes kept!) and the simple prospect of the change of year creates a sense of opportunity. This year more so than for some time.
As a country we are better placed than we have been for years. Fewer people are out of work and more people are in work than ever before.
Our factories including those manufacturing locally have woken up from the recession and Britain will have the fastest growing economy in the West in 2014. But these things don't just happen.
A few short years ago our economy was the equivalent of a car crash. Since then it has been hard. Pay cuts and pay freezes, changes to pension arrangements and retirement ages and changes to benefits have all had their impact.
For some unemployment remains a spectre and for many there is still an awareness of recovery but not yet a feeling of personal benefit.
As we move into 2014 we will all feel the benefits of economic recovery but it will be steady and, for the country, affordable. As a nation we must not through away the long-term benefits of a sustainable recovery and real, rather than artificial growth.
There is no point in going through the pain to throw away the gain at the first sight of solid recovery.
During 2014 more people will find jobs, more people will become exempt from income tax and so keep more of what they earn and fewer people will live their lives on benefits. As a country and as a county we will make more and sell more.
It will also be a crucial year for the UK. As a nation we will learn if Scotland wishes to remain part of the Union, we will get a clearer picture of where the EU is going after the Euro zone crisis and ahead of our referendum on whether to remain in or to leave in 2017 - subject of course to who wins the next General Election.
And all through 2014 the people who caused the 'car crash' will be trying to persuade you to give them back the keys!
Interesting times!
With my very best wishes for the New Year, Simon


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This is a special request from some one who wanted to learn how to make this a longneck dinosaur out of balloons.
Long necks were always my favorite growing up. I had a fascination with dinosaurs and I still remember my pre-school. There was a play room where we would play every day and every single day I would go to the corner where the dinosaur toys were and play with a plastic long neck dinosaur toy. I'll blame the movie "Land Before Time" which was so sad but I still loved it anyway! That movie also let me to believe that dinosaurs affectionately licked their newborn babies like dogs.
Anyway, back to the subject here, ahem, er, let me grab a tissue real quick...
So, I don't often get asked to make this balloon for kids, usually when I say I can make a dinosaur they all want it to be a T-Rex. It is nice to know how to make this one though, just so you're ready the next time some one asks you for a long neck dinosaur balloon animal.
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What's Wrong With America
28th October 2013
John Hinderaker nails it.
Lenin wrote that the only question in politics is "Who-whom." Filling in the ellipsis, the question is, Who is screwing whom? Sadly, many Americans–based on recent election results, perhaps a majority–are now Leninists. In their eyes, government is merely a means to steal someone else's money. They rebel only if it turns out that they are on the wrong end of the screwing. This is, to put it very mildly, not what the Founders had in mind.


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Rene Mayer, a Jew, agreed today to become French Premier-designate. He will present himself to the National Assembly tomorrow. M. Mayer was named Secretary of Communications in 1943 by the provisional government set up by Gen. Henri Giraud during the Nazi occupation of France. He is a financial expert and a leader of the Radical Socialist party.


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Sylvia redid for me so you can see the pictures following my post. Thank you, Sylvia, so very appreciated
I hope this works correctly. I did not remember how to save and didn't see a save. Nancy should a picture be visible when I preview or just the links?
The Harry Potter and Star Trek quilts are some I had started for the grands, but it was...oh I don't care for that any longer, or it doesn't match my room. really??? Anyway, I have tried mt hand at quilting these just on my sewing machine. My quilts started with squared corners, but somehow I did pick up some wonkiness. The duck or goose has the waves through the panel, and just stitch in the ditch in the two other areas, Harry Potter has a diagonal stitch though the panel and stitch in the ditch. The Star Trek quilt is a combo of diagonals and stitch in the ditch.
This was good practice in quilting, now if I could have had a windless photo op, and a more guided assistant! But, hey, I will keep him! I do think with the arthritis in my hands, I should try to find an inexpensive quilting machine for charity quilts. I can't pay for quilting the charity quilts..


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Amir of Kuwait state visit to UK: photos
THE Amir of Kuwait, His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, is on a tour of the UK. He's met Queen Elizabeth II. ER said: "Is that you, Sabby?" He replied" It is. Amir! Am really ir!"
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