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For the past week or so I had been feeling under the weather, and that's putting it rather tamely. Depression, while often suppressed, will never truly be beaten, and it reared its ugly head last weekend, rendering me unable to eat, sleep or accomplish anything. By some cruel timing, I was also forced to deal with it alone for a number of days since everyone else had their schedules full.
But then came along my roommate who decided that I was no longer allowed to be sad, and she organized a day free of internet and all other adult responsible boring things. It started by making a blanket fort.
Blanketfort was only the start, but it was quite majestic. It stretched across the entire room, and was held up by a tall microphone stand with Christmas lights wrapped around it — this was our 'fire pit' and light source. We couldn't make any actual fire, so I placed my tablet at the base and played a video of a camp fire. Technology makes anything possible. At one point roommate unit accidentally turned on the ceiling fan which resulted in a pretty nifty indoor wind storm, though there was that moment of terror when we thought the fan blades might tear down our ceiling.
The rest of the day was spent eating cheap fast food, making s'mores, eating ice cream, watching TV and idly talking about everything and everybody we hated. I was introduced to a show called Blackadder, something I am sad I did not know about before. (If you're a fan of Monty Python, you'll probably like this a lot. Season two is my current favorite.)
At the end of the day, it was like sadness was not simply washed away, but beaten to a pulp and sent on its way. The company was most assuredly helpful, but so was the presence of the massive fort in my room. It has now been established that whenever one of us is sad, we will envelop the other into the comforting arms of Blanketfort and experience all the subsequent joys that come with it.
How do you treat yourself when you're feeling down, or what do your friends do for you? Have you built yourself a blanket fort recently? (And if not, what are you waiting for?)


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Well, Robert E. Howard's map is "left justified", but it's pre-cataclysmic Europe + bits of Asia and Europe. Lloyd Alexander's Prydain is "left justified", but it's a fictionalized Wales. I'm just not convinced.
Am I guilty? I'll check the maps I have convenient.
Full continent 4
Island 2
No ocean or minor intrusions of seas 3
Oceans on three sides, north vanishes into ice cap 1
Oceans on three sides, east ends in a land edge 1
Ocean on left 2
Ocean on right 2*
* - includes one where right is south
Ocean on top 1
Ocean on bottom 1
Lake on bottom 1
Ocean on lower left 2
Ocean on upper right 1
Looks like I don't have a strong bias, except that today I really want full bodies of land, be they islands or continents.
I'm not really sure that there's a dominance of "left justified" maps after you throw out those that are fictionalized versions of real world places. Google image search for 'fantasy map' turned up only three on the first page of results, all of which were Middle Earth.

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(#) xxASUKAxx 2010-05-11 12:07:20 PMawww why is frankie being such a penis >.< geebee is only trying to be nice... lol at alex runnin' down the staris my bro' is like that y'know if anythin' happens to me he's all "WTF!!" :D
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If the dishwasher in your restaurant is more than 10 years old, you are almost certainly wasting money in energy usage. On the other hand, the most recent generation of dishwashers offers real improvements in energy and water savings. Here are the features to look for and where some of those savings are.
Aside from high energy costs, the equipment's initial expense is often the highest of any item in your kitchen. You'll spend more than $10,000 for even a small single-rack machine. So let's be sure you get your money's worth when you buy.
One of these smaller machines can serve a restaurant with up to 120 seats. If your place has more than 130 seats, you'll need a rack conveyor machine. This type may cost $20,000 or more depending on size, number of tanks and accessories. After you add in a clean dish table, soiled dish table, final rinse booster heater and a few dish dollies and racks, it's not uncommon to spend $50,000 or more on a conveyor machine. It will pay to have a basic understanding of what is available on the market.
There are three basic types of dishwashers that are typically used in restaurant operations. Very small operations may be able to use an undercounter machine that has a realistic washing capacity of about 40 to 50 full place settings per hour. These are primarily suited to a very small operation or snack bar.
Do not try to use a residential dishwasher in your commercial operation because it will not meet the strict sanitation code requirements. If you use a commercial undercounter machine, remember that most local health departments require separate clean and soiled dish drain boards, separated to prevent cross contamination.
The next step up in dishwasher size is the door-type or full-height single rack machine. This machine type washes and rinses a rack of dishes in a little over a minute and can process about 90 to 110 place settings per hour. It's suitable for a small- to medium- size restaurant.
The typical door-type machine fits in a footprint about 24 inches square and delivers a tremendous amount of washing power using recirculated water.
The machines being made today also conserve water, often using only less than a gallon of fresh water per cycle. Most manufacturers make their door-type units in a straight or corner configuration.
Rack conveyor machines have the ability to clean up to several hundred place settings per hour. Their lengths range in size from 44 inches to about 10 feet. All machines start with a basic wash tank and then add other modules that may be beneficial. For example, some models have one or two different prewash modules that are very effective for scrapping and removing heavy soil from dishware. A prewash unit will cost you an additional $6,000.
If you want to take the next step up to higher capacity and better performance, then the addition of a rinse tank or an extended wash tank is necessary.
Generally, the conveyor and single rack models require an exhaust hood to vent steam and heat. However, a few manufacturers now have a feature that condenses and extracts the steam to preheat its own water. No exhaust hood is required, which will save you heating and air-conditioning (HVAC) costs and the cost of installing a hood and ductwork.
You may also want to look at other units that can now extract waste heat from hot water going down the drain to preheat water for future washes.
Knowing your operation's needs
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Flight-type machines are a fourth dishwasher style, but they are generally used in institutions and extremely high volume operations for mass feeding.
Using low-temperature or chemical sanitizer machines is one way to save on hot water costs and reduce some ventilation requirements. These machines are sometimes mislabeled as cold water machines, but all dishwashers must use hot water. The low-temperature machines just don't use the super hot 180° rinse water. Instead, they use a sanitizing chemical in the final rinse to do the job.
As an operator you must weigh the cost of the sanitizing agent against the energy savings. Also, be aware that a benefit of a high-temperature final rinse is a dishware that dries quickly. High-temperature machines are also better able to break down animal fats and grease as well as lipstick on glassware and dishes.
In recent years, several manufacturers have developed machines that reduce water consumption by 30 to 60 percent over older similar sized machines. Except for the initial filling of the wash tanks at the beginning of the shift, the only fresh water used in dishwashers is in the final rinse.
One way these machines save water is with a simple innovation of changing the size of the water droplets in the final rinse portion of the wash. It was found that using a different size water droplet significantly increased the heat transfer to dishware, aiding in sanitation and reduced water consumption. The droplet size and scientifically designed spray patterns have been the cornerstones to reducing typical booster heater sizes by almost half in many cases.
The booster heater is used to heat water from 140° to a sanitizing temperature of 180°. Cutting booster heater size is huge since the electrical loads on many older machines are 50 kilowatts or more. Reducing that load to 30 kilowatts or less yields a significant cost savings.
Knowing your operation's needs and what is available on the market will help you choose the right capacity dishwasher for your operation. Be sure to ask and compare energy and water usage, not just initial cost of the equipment. Look for the water and energy saving features mentioned here. Then, when you get your new machine, take care of it. Perform regular preventive maintenance, including deliming.
Dan Bendall is a principal of FoodStrategy, a firm specializing in planning foodservice facilities.


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Bomgar Corporation makes Inc. 500/5000
by MBJ Staff Published: August 24,2011
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JACKSON — Inc. magazine has ranked Bomgar Corporation No. 1895 on its fifth-annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Bomgar joins retailer ideeli, Spirit Airlines, television maker Vizio, Honest Tea, Dunkin Donuts and Metrokane, makers of the Rabbit corkscrew, among other prominent brands featured on this year's list. In a […] [...]


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318 Americans die every year due to heat-related illnesses (CDC). Most of these deaths are preventable.
Being exposed to high heat for a prolonged time can lead to heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Most at risk for heat-related problems include:
1. Children
2. Athletes and exercisers
3. Outdoor workers
4. Elderly
Signs of dehydration
o Thirst
o Flushed skin
o Fatigue
o Increased body temperature
o Faster breathing and heart rate
o Dizziness
o Weakness
o Labored breathing
Monitor hydration
o Urine color: first morning urine is best indicator of hydration status. Dark colored urine (apple juice, ice tea) is sign of dehydration. Urine may change colors after taking vitamin supplement - not an indicator of hydration status.
o Body weight: monitoring weight after first urine is best time to monitor weight. May be less effective in females due to menstrual cycle.
o Sweat loss: measure body weight before and after exercise
Fluid losses are increased by
o Air temperature
o Exercise intensity and duration
o Body size and gender (men)
o Fitness level - well-trained athletes perspire more
Sports drinks
o Only need if you are engaged in intense physical activity for more than 1 hour without stopping
o However, if you are more likely to drink more fluids due to taste of sports drink, that is better than nothing
Drink before you're thirsty and drink on a schedule if outside for a long time
Avoid caffeine and alcohol - both increase urine production, therefore affecting hydration
Can lose ~ 11 cups of fluid during exercise
Adult recommendations
o 13 cups for men and 9 cups for women per day
o 17-20 ounces before
o 7-10 ounces every 20 minutes
o 24 ounces after
o **one adult-sized gulp = 1 ounces
Child Recommendations
o 4-8 ounces before
o 5-9 ounces during
o 24 ounces after
o **one child-sized gulp = ½ ounce
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|Excellent - 3 reviews
Y O Ranch Resort Hotel is centrally located in Kerrville, walking distance from Kerrville Convention & Visitors Bureau and close to Sculpture Prayer Garden. This resort is within close proximity of The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center and Kerr Arts and Cultural Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 200 air-conditioned guestrooms. C...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 3 reviews
Good 7.6
Fun, interesting, quirky place! We liked that it wasn't a cookie-cutter chain hotel. the staff was friendly and the room was large. Also enjoyed swimming in the large outdoor pool.
Facilities are a little older, so it could use some tlc.
Excellent 9.0
I like the rustic, western theme, how I grew up
|Excellent - 1 reviews
Located in Kerrville, Inn of the Hills Resort & Conference Center is in a rural location and convenient to Kerrville State Hospital and Riverside Nature Center. This resort is within close proximity of Peterson Regional Medical Center and The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 166 air-conditioned rooms...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Well planned Corporate meeting. The accommodations were great. The staff was great.
|Okay - 1 reviews
Welcome to the beautiful La Quinta Inn & Suites Kerrville TX hotel with newly renovated rooms ! We have a wide selection of features and well-appointed amenities to ensure your stay with us is enjoyable. All rooms at our Kerrville hotel come with free high-speed Internet access, a microwave, and refrigerator. Join us each morning for our delicious Free...
Overall Rating - Okay - 1 reviews
Okay 5.3
the size of the suit. the juice in the morning,
the old smell of the pellows, the breakfast , the size of the tub in the bathroom, the pool was not clean.
|Good - 70 reviews
Many guests at our Kerrville hotel are in the area to visit the campus of Schreiner University, conveniently located nearby. However, medical employees and families visiting loved ones also visit our Kerrville hotel. With the Veterans State Hospital, Sid Peterson Hospital and the La Hacienda Treatment Center a short drive away, we pride ourselves on ensurin...
Overall Rating - Good - 70 reviews
|Good - 3 reviews
Days Inn Kerrville, located off I-10 and near San Antonio, offers value and convenience, free Daybreak continental breakfast and a free newspaper. Each room in our pet friendly hotel features free Wi-Fi, free local calls, coffee maker, hairdryer, microwave and refrigerator. Sleeper sofas in all king rooms. Outdoor pool and spa. Babysitting services are avail...
Overall Rating - Good - 3 reviews
Okay 5.6
Pet friendly but not much room for walking the dog. Very strong modernized in main office are that slaps you in the face and causes asthmatic issues.
Not impressed
Excellent 8.6
The staff was kind enough to open and set up the breakfast area early for an early morning start to my day. Although dated and a little run down, the motel was just fine for the price. Bed was comfortable. Breakfast was a nice bonus. Everything was is in good working order.
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Enjoy our rustic oasis in the Hill Country. Stay in one of our beautifully decorated, cedar and rock cottages nestled on a hill overlooking our pond. Walk the trails, relax by one of our pools, or visit our barnyard animals at Pecan Springs Farm. Fish in our stocked pond, hit the river in a canoe. Relax. Enjoy life's simple pleasures. Roddy Tree Ranch is lo...
|Excellent - 129 reviews
small-town warmth and big country thrills.. welcome to the Hampton Inn Kerrville Drop yourself in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, and find adventure in the midst of wild natural thrills and cowboy culture in Kerrville, just a few miles west of San Antonio. The Hampton Inn® hotel in Kerrville is located off I-10 near dining, shopping, and most local attr...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 129 reviews
Mediocre 4.0
Plenty of morning breakfast food
Fold out couch did not have a top sheet and desk had no help so they couldn't bring one up to us (in pajamas by then so ha to dress to go get it). Desk lady should never be alone!
Poor 2.0
Hotel charged full room price(pending)for incidentals. Priceline showed smoke free when it was the internet that was free. We didn't want smoking, but hotel insisted we had to take it, since booked that way. Finally worked it out.Room was okay. Had difficulties getting a nonsmoking room, since Priceline's description of the rooms is misleading. We didn't want a smoking room. Hotel said any changes had to be done through Priceline. Priceline said the hotel had to do the changes. Breakfast was not great.
|Good - 266 reviews
With a stay at Americas Best Value Inn - Kerrville / Fredricksburg in Kerrville, you'll be convenient to Kerrville Convention & Visitors Bureau and Sculpture Prayer Garden. This hotel is within close proximity of The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center and Kerr Arts and Cultural Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 45 air-conditioned...
Overall Rating - Good - 266 reviews
Mediocre 4.0
There seemed to be a musty type smell to the room. I went to Walmart and purchased some air freshener and made it better. I didn't realize it was a motel (or a motor inn) I thought it was a hotel with inside corridors. There was no coffee or breakfast.
Poor 1.0
location, employee on staff for check in
Much! Ceiling light missing one light bulb. Room was dusty. Both queen beds had numerous live and dead bugs in the sheets. Could not bare to sleep in beds. Had to leave without spending night.
|Excellent - 64 reviews
Location, Location, LocationTrail's End is a wonderful B&B set in the perfect location to tour the beautiful Texas Hill Country. We are 5 minutes to Kerrville, 10 minutes to the Guadalupe River, 30 minutes to Fredericksburg, 30 minutes to Boerne, 15 minutes to Comfort and 30 minutes to Bandera.Located at the dead end of a dead end road and perched on one of...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 64 reviews
Good 7.0
Breakfast was delicious
Wish there was activitiesOverall it was good. Just wanted activities
|Mediocre - 13 reviews
Located in Kerrville, Big Texas Inn is minutes from Kerrville Convention & Visitors Bureau and Sculpture Prayer Garden. This hotel is within close proximity of The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center and Kerr Arts and Cultural Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 96 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access k...
Overall Rating - Mediocre - 13 reviews
|Good - 319 reviews
Welcome to the newly renovated Super 8 Kerrville, Texas Kerrville and the Texas Hill Country have it all. The activities, recreational areas and natural beauty of the Texas Hill Country combined with good old Texas hospitality are all here. The hills, lakes, streams and rivers offer the perfect place for camping, fishing, hunting, canoeing, kayaking, tubin...
Overall Rating - Good - 319 reviews
Good 8.0
Location and nice appearance.
Showing signs of age but nothing too bad.
Good 8.0
The room was clean and the bed was very comfortable.good for the money spent
|Excellent - 17 reviews
Award-Winning Kerrville, Texas Hotel's Priority is You Here in Kerrville, Texas, guests experience the charm of Texas while being close to the wonders of nature. Because we're situated just off Rt-16 and I-10, our hotel's guests can easily get to nearby Fredericksburg or San Antonio. The Holiday Inn Express® Hotel & Suites Kerrville, fully renovated in 2013...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 17 reviews
Excellent 9.0
Location is good, staff were friendly, parking is ggod, breakfast was good, coffee was great.
too noisy at night. we could hear people running and banging furniture into the morning hours. also, we came back to our room one afternoon and found that the door to our room had been left open by housekeeping for several hours-not good!overall experience was good, but was disapointed the noise level was not addressed, nor was the front desk overly concerned about our door being left open.
Good 8.0
Cleanliness and size of room, options in room, breakfast options, and distance to highway.Definitely a great place to stay at an affordable price. The only issue we ran into was the housekeeping crew. They wanted to clean the room at 9:15 Sunday morning. Well, we're showering and getting ready for the day. We asked them to return later. We found out at 4 or 5 that evening that they never came back. When we asked the gentleman who works evenings if we could get our room cleaned he only said the crew had left at 3 and he had just arrived. I asked for clean towels and he gave me some. I came back down about an hour later to ask for a new makeup remover towelette and a new in-room coffee pack - he seemed annoyed, but got them for me.
|Excellent - 19 reviews
High speed internet access available. Interior Corridors, Indoor pool, Suites with refrigerator and microwave available. Close to I-10 and Hwy 16
Overall Rating - Excellent - 19 reviews
Excellent 10.0
The bed was good.
The breakfast needs to bigger.The hotel was really nice.
|Good - 98 reviews
Motel 6 Kerrville is conveniently located off Interstate 10 near Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital and River Hills Mall. We offer an outdoor pool open year round, coin laundry facility, not to mention Free Wi-Fi and Micro-Fridges in all guest rooms
Overall Rating - Good - 98 reviews
Good 7.0
Easy to check in & out.
Pool was out of order both days.
Excellent 9.0
Great location just south of I-10. Rooms are comfortable and it's fairly quiet, except for the elephants above.
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gman: "no salesperson to talk to"This is a major selling point for online shopping for me.
jedicus: "In Nikon's case the solution has been to force everyone, online and off, to sell cameras and lenses for the MSRP. So far it seems to have worked. You'll pay the same at a brick & mortar store as on Amazon as of a few weeks ago. Canon and the other major camera manufacturers have not followed suit, at least so far. We'll see how successful the strategy is."Especially in jurisdictions where this is illegal. Like Europe.
Sounds remarkably similar to how local music scenes work. Indie venues support local bands by giving them a place to play to crowds, handling promotion for shows and a place to sell merchandise after a show. Sign me up!
Oh, also I have a free idea for reviving the independent book market. Here it is: pick out 10 or 20 authors who are good writers, but not quite good enough to make it in traditional publishing. People who'd be willing to write a book for $2000, like local micro-celebrities and college creative writing students. Get their books printed in very small runs, and sell them at a network of local independent coffee shops. Then -- this is the magic part -- have the authors do frequent readings and events at the same coffee shops where you're selling the books. So you avoid the #1 problem of small publishers, which is paying for marketing and distribution, and you also avoid the #1 problem of bookstores, which is paying for rent and staffing on a very low sales volume. The authors get some money, and they also get an official Non-Self-Published Book to put on their resumes. I think it would be perfect.
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Tales and Trails with Randy Allen
Look who got busted.
Look who's in trouble with the law!
Officials in Ohio have indicted a famous groundhog.
The indictment states Punxsutawney Phil did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that Spring would come early.
It constitutes the offense of MISREPRESENTATION OF EARLY SPRING, a Unclassified Felony, and against the peace and dignity of the State Of Ohio.
The attorney suggests that the penalty for such a misrepresentation should be the death penalty.
Read the sign
Hot new fishing lures
Country trivia.
Garth & George
History in the making!
Garth Brooks and George Strait will perform together for the first time at the ACM Awards in Las Vegas on April 7. Brooks and Strait are both recipients of the ACM's Artist of the Decade award for the 1990s and the 2000s, respectively.
Their performance will celebrate the renaming of the award to the ACM Dick Clark Artist of the Decade award in honor of the iconic figure and longtime producer of the ACM Awards.
When you dream
Ten things you never knew about dreams.
1. No one knows for sure why you dream—Doctors think dreams help people process the different kinds of "sensory input" that come in through the day. Some people have claimed experiencing eureka moments during dreams. Dreams are like an internal diary, sort of like a nightly commentary on your life.
2. You dream throughout the night, not just during REM sleep--Forget what you heard in college about dreams only happening during REM sleep. REM-sleep dreams are more common in the second half of the night and tend to seem more vivid and unrealistic. If you dream you jumped out of a plane and you saw rockets around you, that's almost certainly a REM sleep dream. Dreams during the first three of the four stages of sleep might seem les vivid.
3. You remember a dream if you awake during it--The major factor of whether you'll remember a dream or not is being awakened during the dream. If you don't wake up during the dream, the memory is gone. We're on a self-erasing tape while we're asleep.
4. Spicy foods might make you remember more dreams and nightmares--The meal makes it more likely you're going to wake up during sleep. The heavy meal has nothing to do with dream generation. It has to do with dream recall. In order to recall a dream, you have to be awake, at least for a few minutes. Our brain isn't able to convert from short-term to long-term memory while we're asleep.
5. You may be able to change bad dreams--Many therapists believe it's possible to "re-write" nightmares. People who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder can train themselves to recognize when they're in a dream.
6. The brain is still hard at work while you're sleeping and dreaming--REM sleep isn't a time of rest for the brain. The brain is being stimulated at an incredibly high level throughout dream sleep. That stimulation is what creates images in dreams.
7. It's hard to separate the function of sleep from the function of dreams--The function of sleep is to downscale things so that the brain is ready and able to learn the next morning. Dreaming is something the brain has to generate in the process.
8. Dreams may help people process and consolidate memories--Harvard researchers asked people to navigate through a 3D maze and then either nap for 90 minutes or stay awake but quiet. Nappers who said they dreamed about the experience got much better at navigating the maze.
9. Dreams do not foretell the future--Everyone wants dreams to be prophetic. But we always forget about the 500 dreams we had about phone calls that didn't come true the next day. All of these dream-related prophecies are just pure statistical phenomenon.
10. No one agrees about the meaning of dreams--Freud called dreams "the guardians of sleep." And he believed their purpose was to censor basic impulses, like aggression and sex. Some people think Freud was right, others think dreams have no meaning. And we should "treat it as a present."
Country Trivia.
Thing BIG!
Thinking BIG!
People are now spending thousands of dollars for extravagant marriage proposals-- hiring planners to help them pop the big question.
Some folks are using flash mobs and even naval ships.... also paying to have the proposal captured on video or film.
One man spent $45,000 to ask his girlfriend if she would marry him last year… $3,500 of which went to a proposal planner.
Is this OK to eat?
Would you take this on a plane and eat it?
1. What travels well--Bite-sized foods that taste good at room temperature are your best bet. EatBoutique.com recommends fruit, chocolate, and cheese cubes. If you want something a little more gourmet, go for spring rolls or hand pies or even mini-quiches.
Also try snack mixes like chocolate-dipped pretzels, hard candies and crackers. If you want to bring a sandwich, put it on a bagel. They are firmer and can handle the abuse of being shoved in your pocket. Not too much mustard or mayo, so it doesn't get soggy if you decide to nap first.
2. What if you're on a special diet?--Vegetarians find very few choices at airports. ChefSteps.com recommends mujadara, a Middle Eastern pilaf of rice, lentils and caramelized onions. It's great for a plane because it is hearty, filling and compact. If you're following a gluten-free diet, pack cheese sticks, protein bars, and a sandwich made at home.
4. What to leave home--Kimchi, runny French cheeses and other strongly-scented foods are a no-no for air travel. Tuna fish is also a no-no. It's totally rude to bring a tuna fish sandwich on a plane.
5. Worst Foods to Take on a Plane--Clam chowder is not only stinky, it's potentially messy. When you bring messy food on a plane, you can pretty much count on getting bumped so your nice shirt will end up nasty and you'll end up sitting there gross for four hours. Or, worse, you can spill on other travelers. Even fruit can be a problem. When you're sitting next to someone and they're eating something really juicy or messy like an orange and it's dripping and they're slurping and dropping orange peels on your lap. That sucks. Also stay away from cheese puffs. There aren't enough napkins.
Country music trivia
The age old question.
It's the same question year after year! Why men resent women.
1. Not fighting fair--Happy couples don't necessarily fight less, they just fight better. They do it by describing their own feelings and needs instead of labeling their partner as "faulty". Research shows women are more likely to bring up problems for discussion, while men are more likely to withdraw at the first sign of an argument. When this keeps happening, women tend to start conversations on a negative note, which only makes things worse. Stick to "I-statements," like "When (this happens), I feel (frustrated, angry). What I needed was..."
2. Treating him like a child--A big issue in couples is a man resenting his partner because he feels she talks down to him. This can leave him feeling "less-than," and nothing brings about resentment faster than that. So avoid threatening his independence. No one wants to feel "managed" by a partner.
3. Involving other people in your relationship--What you might think of as harmless complaining to friends and family can actually break your man's trust. It threatens the safety of the "couple bubble" you've created together. Men find it humiliating and hurtful. If you really need to vent, consider talking to a doctor or therapist to keep things confidential.
4. Not showing appreciation for things he does right--Men will never ask for it, but regular doses of praise are important. They need to hear that their women are proud of them. Men tend to be more action-oriented than women, which means they show affection in different ways. He might empty the dishwasher as a way of saying he cares about you. Pay attention to what he does and let him know you notice.
5. Withholding sex as punishment--While women generally need emotional intimacy to make love, men express emotional intimacy through sex. When a woman turns down sex, in her man's mind, she's turning him down as a person. Using sex as a bargaining chip to get your needs met isn't negotiating-it's emotional blackmail. Withholding sex could make your partner feel less love from you and give you less love in return.
6. Trying to change him--Every person can change, but it's better to focus on our own changes, rather than our partner's behaviors. Studies show that married men tend to eat healthier and have fewer problems with drugs and alcohol than single guys-but avoid creating a relationship in which your man can't be himself. When a man feels his home is not his castle and he can't just be a guy, he'll feel like he's been put in a box where he has to act proper all the time. Sometimes, it's smarter to let the little things slide.
7. Making important decisions without his input--Research shows that money is a top source of disagreements among couples, even those with bigger budgets. In a lot of ways, money equals power and balancing power is important to harmonious relationships. Whether you're considering booking a vacation or buying a dishwasher, your partner deserves a say. The same goes for decisions that affect how you and your man spend your time.
8. Acting jealous when he looks at other women--Men are visual creatures, so it's not surprising that a typical heterosexual man would notice a good-looking woman. Women who understand this and don't take it personally minimize fights about jealousy. When a woman overreacts to a situation, her man will feel defensive and eventually resentful. So chill out.
9. Expecting immediate forgiveness after you apologize--Studies show that seeking and granting forgiveness contributes to relationship satisfaction and longevity. But beware of empty words. Apologizing manages conflict, but a simple "I'm sorry" isn't enough. To truly earn her man's forgiveness, a woman needs to show that she understands why her man is upset. Be specific about what you're apologizing for, accept responsibility for what you did, acknowledge that you what you did was harmful and ask what you can do to make it up to him. If you've gotten to the first three steps cleanly, most men will say "forget about it" to the last question.


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2012 Subaru Impreza spy shots - Click above for high-res image gallery
Subaru released a side profile shot of its 2012 Impreza sedan ahead of the car's New York Auto Show debut, and now, our trusty spy photographers have caught the new Subie out in public, revealing its fresh face. Rather unfortunately, the production-spec Impreza looks to be a pretty drastic departure from the decidedly hot concept car that bowed at the Los Angeles Auto Show last November.
The automaker is keeping quiet about what's under the hood of its new Impreza (the black car seen above looks like it might be a base model), but the brand has already confirmed that a revised version of the trusty boxer flat-four powerplant will be on hand and good for 36 miles per gallon on the highway - a figure all but unmatched in the all-wheel drive kingdom. Subaru will continue to offer the Impreza in both sedan and hatchback formats, and of course, AWD will be standard.
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Scrapebox Methods
Scrapebox methods…
Here's just a few methods I use with the fantastic tool – Scrapebox. Most of these methods are pretty basic, but sometimes just seeing exactly how it's used by others, it puts it in a more clear perspective and allows you to take these ideas and replicate. Although I urge people to try and put your own spin on them. What I will discuss here, is by no means earth shattering, however these methods work, and work very well. One thing to keep in mind is that with Scrapebox (or any other automated spam tool) – I use private proxies for comment spam, and I'll use at least 20 of them, but for other features like pinging, harvesting, and rss submitting, I'll use the harvested public proxies because you can get so many. Also – make sure you know how many threads your private proxy provider allows you to use and adjust your connection settings in Scrapebox. Some companies will suspend your account and your connections won't work if you go over the max # of threads/connections.
The obvious way to use Scrapebox is by automating comment spam, which it does very fast and very well (this post will stick to comment spam – I'll talk about other functions of Scrapebox in future posts and in my newsletter). There are many ways to use comment spam to promote your promoters (I never mass comment spam directly to a money site). For the most part, I use 2 main methods. First – there's the targeted method. It's generally accepted that its better if you get links from related sites in your niche. How true that is, I don't know but it seems logical that if you had links from authority sites in your niche, you would do better than if they were from sites that are completely not related. So taking this into consideration – the first method, the targeted method – we will harvest sites that have something to do with your niche and/or target keywords.
Basically, I'll start out by harvesting wordpress blogs from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and AOL. There's a lot more wordpress sites than Blog Engine or Moveable Type – and they work better/faster (although you find more unmoderated with the other two so it's good to use those too). I'll use my main keywords that I'm trying to dominate – but usually those are too specific to harvest enough sites, so I also throw in a bunch of more general, but RELATED keywords. The more keywords – the longer it will take to harvest, but this is a numbers game – you want to get thousands or hundreds of thousands of urls. The more the better, because many will be duplicates, many will be moderated and unless you write some amazing, on topic comments, they won't get approved. That's one benefit to doing a keyword/niche targeted campaign, because although there's less targets, more comments are more likely to get successfully posted because you can write comments about the niche. If they are on topic with the blogs you are posting on, it's more likely they get approved.
So harvest your blog list with targeted and general niche-related keywords. Hopefully you'll get a nice big list. If not, use different but related keywords. Remember, this is just to get a big list of blogs, it doesn't have to be the exact keywords you want to target. Then I'll of course remove the duplicate URLs. Now – removing the duplicate domains depends on a few things – how well my comments are spun or how many comments I have, and also the # of proxies.. I remember doing a run a few weeks ago, where I actually spammed my own blog – FOUR times with four different posts… BUT when I was looking at the comments – they were from different IPs (from diff. parts of the country) and the names/emails were different, AND the sites that were being promoted were different, AND the comments were completely different (not only do I spin the comments using The Best Spinner – but I use LOTS of completely different comments). So it really looked like different people commenting on my site. So if you do spam the same site's various blog posts – just make sure you are able to make it look different from each other. And this varies depending on how much time I have… So sometimes I'll remove duplicate domains, sometimes I won't.
About the comments used – this varies a lot with me as well. It depends on a lot of different factors: the amount of time I want to spend on this project (usually not a lot – remember, this is just mass comment spam!), whether I'm doing a targeted campaign, or whether I'm just going for lots of links, and so on. So for doing targeted campaigns – I use on topic comments – comments that have my keywords in them. Sometimes I'll write a bunch myself (again, depending on how much time I want to spend), or sometimes I'll do a method like comment extractors. When you use comment extractors – just remember to go over the list and remove the pointless ones (you'll get them), remove the vulgar ones, remove the short ones, remove any with URLs, etc… Then I'll take my comments and put them through everyone's favorites in The Best Spinner. Then I put it up in Scrapebox and let it rip.
About the websites list in Scrapebox. This is the list of sites you are promoting. You don't want to put too many URLS on there. You just won't get the # of links per url to make it worthwhile. So it might mean you have to do a few runs, but that also gives you more/different blogs to spam (since you will harvest using other keywords) so it's a good idea anyways. I always keep it under 10. But the # will vary depending on how many blogs I harvested. If I'm doing Blog Engine, or Moveable Type – there's going to be a LOT less, so I'll probably only promote a few (3). The other thing you have to keep in mind is Akismet and other tools like that will ban a URL from being promoted, so if you only put 1 URL in there – you probably won't get a lot of successful posts because it will get banned (I don't know how fast it bans a URL, but why push it). Or it may work fine that one run, but if you try to do more runs with that URL, they may not be as successful. Anyhow – it's good to have a few urls promoted, but not too many.
About the names list – some people use the names generator to make it look more normal, and some use keywords since that is where the link will be on. If you use keywords, your success rate will go down. How much, I'm not sure, but it will definitely be less. I do both. I use the regular names, and keywords – and I mix up the list.. I definitely use more regular names than keywords though. With the emails – I have it create about 20 emails with one fake domain name, and 20 more with another fake domain name, and I do that about 3-5 times so that it's not all using the same domain name. That's another way it could block you and lower your success rate.
So now you have your targeted blog list, your website list, your names and emails and comment list. At this point – you can use the new blog analyzer to remove the bad urls (some of the harvested urls will no longer be pointing to a good page or site)… or you can let it rip.
That's it for the targeted comment spam campaign. Now let's go for the bigger numbers game.
There's only really two big differences between the two..
First – it's the keywords… This won't be a targeted list. Targeted lists limit your scope. Here, we want to get the biggest blog list that you can. So you're going to want to use VERY general keywords and you're going to want to use a LOT of them. Remember – when scraping/harvesting Urls, you are limited to 1,000 results PER keyword. That doesn't mean you can only get 1000 results, it means you can only get 1000 results for every keyword you scrape. So the more keywords, the more results – but if the keywords are too similar, you'll get a lot of duplicates which is just wasting time. So you want to come up with a big list of varying, completely different keywords… Keywords like: celebrity, computers, entertainment, education, money, sales, sports, games, work, etc… Hopefully you get the picture. Come up with as many general keywords as you can. And you can have Scrapebox scrape more using those keywords to get more, but just remember that it will produce more duplicates that way – but you will get a little more. Using those types of keywords, you will get a LOT of blogs to spam.
Second – the comments. Since you aren't targeting a specific niche, it's hard and/or pretty much impossible to come up with on-topic comments since you are spamming such a broad selection of blogs and niches.. This is where you want to stroke the blog author's ego.. I always mix it up – I include comments related to my niche I'm promoting because a lot of blogs aren't moderated and the comments will get through so you might as well have your keywords in the content. But on moderated blogs, those probably won't get approved since it's probably not related to the blog post. So I mix it up. I'll use pretty generic comments, talking about how great the post is (you can now add things like %BLOGTITLE% to the comments and it will put the page title there – its good to make it look like you are actually writing the comment), etc.. There's two schools of thought on this – come up with really ingenious comments that will get approved, or just put whatever, keyword stuff, and a bunch of links since only the unmoderated sites will allow them.. I try to do both.
Third – depending on the size of the list you harvest, you can add more sites to the website list. If you have a huge list, you might want to because of the sheer volume of comments you'll get. If you get 5000 links to a Squidoo lens, you might get complaints, your lens might get deleted, or the links might get discounted due to the speed and volume of your link velocity.
That's it for now. I hope this was helpful. I'll definitely be writing about some more methods on how to use Scrapebox, in the future… (or I might save them for my newsletter subscribers, so don't forget to sign up! )


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On this date in 1701 after being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd was hanged in London.
On this date in 325 C.E.the First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church was held. Bishops gathered to discuss the Arian question regarding the relationship between God the Father and Jesus, the date of celebration of the Paschal/Easter observation and how high and pointed their head wear should be.
On this date in 1568, Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
On this date in 1631 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop took the oath of office and became the first Governor of Massachusetts.
On this date in 1940, Hitler's German soldiers took and occupied Brussels, Belgium.
On this date in 1836, Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia. [Ed. note: Yuck! and Guh!]
On this date in 1939, the first commercial FM radio station in the United States was launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
On this date in 1932, ten weeks after his abduction Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh was found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
On this date in 1949 Siam officially changed its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.
On this date in 1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States. This was the first Opposite Day.


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a teen wolf au in which everyone is an android
"I think it's kinda cute." Kate props a hand on her hip and peers through the observation glass at Sc077's testing chamber. "Look at him with his big creepy robot eyes and his little bugs in the code. Adorable."
"This is more than bugs, Katherine." Allison's executive processors start calculating escape routes whenever Dr. Gerard's voice sounds like that. "Watch."
Sc077 asked her to call him Scott yesterday. Allison does, and wipes it from her memory before it's logged as data. She carefully doesn't think about why. Scott is entering the immersion program now, making his way towards his objective with careful, measured uses of his special enhancements for strength and speed. Allison likes watching him. She likes that her enhanced eyes are the only ones in the room that can track his movements.
The program wavers. In Scott's path is a human child, injured. Allison's eyes narrow. They've done this same experiment with her; she preformed adequately. She called emergency services for the child without slowing her pace.
Scott stops. He bends down, reaches out a hand to the child. She can sense him modulating his voice, soft and calm and with the motherhood harmonics from their sound templates. Allison glances at Gerard. That's wrong. Scott has done something wrong.
Kate and Gerard turn away from the screen as the program terminates.
"I knew Alan's stupid Synthetic Soul program was shit. This is why we should keep programmers within the family," Kate comments. "Is the other one fucking up too?"
"See for yourself." The other observation wall clears. This one's call number is very long, St0186529374. Scot calls him Stiles. Allison doesn't know why. He's sitting at a terminal, plugged into a data field. Allison watches the screen; logic sets. Analysis, inference and synthesis. She performs well on those but after roughly 90 minutes finds her attention sort of…wandering.
Stiles is fast, faster than Allison is at least. His fingers dance over the input keys, check check clear, check check clear.
"Watch this." Gerard alters the program from his terminal. Allison catches a glimpse of it as it goes past, and cross-references with her web uplink. That's not a logic set. Her processors don't return an answer for it.
In the room, Stiles frowns. His fingers dance; hesitate; try again. Check. Check. Check check check check check check—
"Oh good, you broke it," Kate starts—
The center of Stiles' left eye sparks, just a flash, and then the program dings. Clear.
"What the fuck?" Kate leans over the screen. "He doesn't have the programming for that. Whatever that was."
"Insight. Lateral thinking. Inspiration." Gerard's voice is doing the thing again. Allison stands very still. "And the alpha model? Compassion. Empathy. Nurturing. This is more than mere bugs in the code, Katherine. We have two bona fide ghosts in the machine."
As one, they turn to look at Allison. For some reason her homeostasis maintenance systems start functioning at heightened levels. She thinks she might be trying to sweat.
"May I be of service?" she asks, standard phrase, basic programming, no understanding of what is going on other than that she might be required.
Kate grins. "At least our Argent models are still working right."
"Indeed." Gerard is still watching her. Allison meets his gaze with eyes she knows are flat and lifeless as any other machine's, and very carefully doesn't think about the roof of the facility, the wind in her hair, the clear 'off-limits, you may not enter' note in her programming. She tries very hard to keep out of her mind the knowledge that she has done what not even Scott and Stiles have yet managed to do:
Skull Violin
Pacific Rim AU in which Herc and Stacker are both single fathers who get called into school because their respective nine-year-olds decided to pick a fight. Several fights. Everyone is very disappointed.
"I'm sorry," Herc says when they're alone in the principal's office. "It was probably Chuck's fault. He - he's been having some difficulties."
He's too tired to make it sound nicer; he'd been up at the police station until four am, working on a dead-end case. He runs a hand over his face, half-hiding a yawn and half-checking for stubble - the man sitting opposite him had that effect on people. He was so well-dressed it was almost painful; a CEO, Herc guesses, or a lawyer.
"Not at all," Stacker Pentecost says (and Herc would have been skeptical if his own name wasn't Hercules, for God's sake). "Mako's had some difficulty with moving. I'll be sure to talk to her."
That explained the English accent.
Actually, Mako and Chuck are friends - they just have a funny way of showing it. But that doesn't mean their dads need to be friends too. Or like, see each other a lot. A lot a lot. Seriously dads. Stop. Stop it now.
I would literally sell my soul for a scene where Scott goes around to his friends one by one and just talks to them about his being an alpha now and the option of being part of his pack, because he doesn't want to be that kind of alpha, doesn't want to force them into anything and to be honest he's a little nervous. But everyone basically says "Of course we're in your pack, you beautiful werewolf princeling (✿◡‿◡)"
(Lydia tries to be flippant at first, well it's not like I'm going to be the only supernatural left out of your little club, I had enough of that last semester, but in the end she softens and gives Scott a genuine smile)
(Allison hugs him and squeezes him tight because she's so proud, and she's proud of herself too, because she can look him in the eyes and tell him that things with the Argents will be different from now on)
(Isaac makes some dry comment about being honored to be the first and only actual wolf in Scott's pack, but the easy way he falls into step at Scott's back speaks louder than words)
What if Stiles put his hands on Scott's shoulders, looked him in the eye and said "I will follow you to the end, my brother. My captain."
"My king."
"Shh, it's not every day I get to quote Lord of the Rings, just go with it. Let it happen."
"I'm not kissing your forehead."
"Well fine, if you wanna be totally inaccurate." And Stiles kisses Scott's forehead while everyone else in the school courtyard rolls their eyes because ScottnStiles.
Game of Thrones AU | The Night's Watch as a SisterhoodI pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.
i want leonardo dicaprio to be nominated for an oscar for the great gatsby and i want him to win but if he doesn't, i want him to just go
and walk onto the stage, take the statue and walk out completely calmly and everyone else just lets him
i think one day leonardo dicaprio should be the host that reads the nominees for best actor and when he opens the envelope to see who won it turns out his name is printed neatly in the center and he chokes up a little and his eyes water and his cohost takes the card and exclaims LEONARDO DICAPRIO!! and the audience cheers and leo cries and his supporting actors and actresses come up and hug him
i dont care if this goes against oscar tradition i just want leo to be happy
or maybe you'd be…… looking for alaska
my dream is to one day make enough money to remake the movie twilight so that everything is exactly the same except edward cullen is played by kanye west and kanye west doesnt have a script and isn't even aware of what the plot of the movie is, he's just kanye west reacting to twilight in real time
not sure if the hug will happen
If I had this, i'd be rich.
Where can I get this?!
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How do you feel about death?
How do you feel when thinking about death, your own and other's?
Edit: Extra (totally optional) question: what are your preferences for your funeral?
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Jan 6 2014: I'd just focus on this life since this is the only life I could be certain about and if there is indeed something after the "dentist" then I'll know when I get there..If not, I'd probably not worry about it since I would no longer know what it Is like to be me...in the end I just have to go with the flow of things.
Nadav Tropp 30+Jan 7 2014: If you're wondering whether it would have made me a "better person", then the answer is probably no.
Looking at most organized religion in the country where I live, if anything, religion and belief in an afterlife serving as motivation for it would have made me more conformist to racist policies, behaviors and establishments, while also a fair bit more jingoistic.
The role of organized religion where I come from isn't just making donations to the poor and serving as a community center. Some of the religious organizations do those things, some even do them well, but many others are busy with things like cultural and ethnic repression, and doing everything in their power to avoid assimilating into the secular world and embracing science, modernity and economic progress (poor people are more likely to find religion enticing, as is statistically well documented, therefore to keep people "of the truth faith" they must stay poor).
As an atheist, I avoided much of the indoctrination inclining me to buy into many of the above ideas, which frankly disgust me. If the price I pay for it is worrying over what happens to me when I die, so be it.
Jan 6 2014: Hi Peter,
One question: how could you establish value for this life if you know you are going elsewhere? In this case, wouldn't life be just an emergency? Something you have to go through until something better comes along?
I would figure you would not value you this life if you knew you had another that was possibly better but of course I've been wrong before. I just can't see the connection of how this life would be more valuable than the next (that is assuming there is an afterlife)
Jan 7 2014: Hi Orlando.
The value of this life lies in the effect it has on the next life. Jesus majored on love, both for God, & my fellow humans. If we can love as we ought in this life, then we build up treasures in the next life.
I see it as a win-win scenario; I get a kick out of loving folks & it brings the hope of a better afterlife, what can be wrong with that ?
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I love it when people remember the little things. All the tiny, seemingly insignificant parts of you that were barely mentioned once in a conversation long ago. Your favorite ice cream flavor. A song you were singing. A story you told from the day. When that happens to me, I feel like I'm leaving a pale imprint on the world. Light, but there. Noticeable if you're looking. I feel as if someone besides me cares about me and my life and the things I hold close to my heart. It's the best feeling in the world.


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- 1 (3-ounce) package Oriental-flavored ramen noodle soup mix
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- 5 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
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32-year-old Sandra Nixon Thompkins is in jail charged with First Degree Domestic Violence.
Police in Prattville say she got into an argument with her husband in front of a home at 206 Meharry Street. Police say Thompkins ran over her husband, 37-year-old Gene Earl Thompkins, and dragged him to the bottom of a hill on the deadend street.
Mr. Robert Smith, Jr. lives next door. He says he heard the couple arguing Tuesday night around 9:50 and came outside to see what the comotion was all about. "Him and his friend was standing there still talking and in a few minutes she stomped it, put it down in gear and stomped it and the next thing you know she just hit it, bump, and he was hollering,' said Smith.
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A messenger backpack may sound like trumped-up marketing-speak, but in the case of the Crumpler Seedybar, it's actually accurate. It's designed like a messenger bag, but with two straps, like a backpack.
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It has the bulletproof Cordura construction, buckled closure, and minimalist design you expect from a good messenger bag, with the dual straps (and support) of a backpack. The only thing missing is the ability to swing it around and open it while biking, but you probably don't need that unless you actually are a bike messenger.
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An Even Sterner Review: Introducing Relative Prices into the Discounting Debate
AbstractThe Stern Review has had a major influence on the policy discussion on climate change. One reason is that the report has raised the estimated cost of unmitigated climate damages by an order of magnitude compared to most earlier estimates, leading to a call for strong and urgent action on climate change. Not surprisingly, severe criticism has been levied against the report by authors who think that these results hinge mainly on the use of a discount rate that is too low. Here we discuss the Ramsey rule for the discount rates and its implications for the economics of climate change. While we find no strong objections to the discounting assumptions adopted in the Stern Review, our main point is that the conclusions reached in the review can be justified on other grounds than by using a low discount rate. We argue that nonmarket damages from climate change are probably underestimated and that future scarcities that will be induced by the changing composition of the economy and climate change should lead to rising relative prices for certain goods and services, raising the estimated damage of climate change and counteracting the effect of discounting. We build our analysis on earlier research (Hoel and Sterner 2007) that has shown that the Ramsey discounting formula is somewhat modified in a two-sector economy with differential growth rates. Most importantly, such a model is characterized by changing relative prices, something that has major implications for a correct valuation of future climate damages. We introduce these results into a slightly modified version of the DICE model (Nordhaus 1994) and find that taking relative prices into account can have as large an effect on economically warranted abatement levels as can a low discount rate.
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