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Increasing taxes, capping greenhouse gasses, legalizing gay marriage, and backing Hillary Clinton for president -- these are the recent political and policy priorities of Mitt Romney's very biggest financial backers.
While Romney's Florida victory spurs talk of inevitability, exit polls show him still struggling among conservatives and Tea Partiers. Campaign finance reports filed this week reveal a gulf between the GOP base and Romney's funding base.
Financiers Julian Robertson, Paul Singer, and Miguel Fernandez all gave $1 million to Romney's shadow campaign -- Restore Our Future, the super-PAC supporting Mitt Romney and run by former Romney aides.
Robertson, who ran the successful Tiger Management private equity firm, was also a Romney backer four years ago. He has described Romney as being as "intellectually, morally and physically fit to be president more than anybody I've ever known." In November, Robertson gave a million dollars to Restore our Future.
Robertson is a deficit hawk, but his policy agenda is hardly ripped from the GOP platform. He favors tax increases, especially on the wealthy, as a way of shrinking the deficit. In a 2009 CNBC interview, Robertson called George W. Bush's post-9/11 tax cuts "awful," and criticized Obama for not raising taxes.
Robertson also has a big-government environmentalist streak. He sits on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund, and he has hired K Street lobbyists (including now-Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind.) to advance the Warner-Lieberman bill that would have capped industrial emissions of greenhouse gasses -- in effect a tax on burning coal and oil.
Hedge fund millionaire Paul Singer also gave Romney's super-PAC $1 million in November. Singer's Elliot Management is politically out of step with its industry: In the 2008 and 2010 elections, while the rest of the industry was giving about 68 percent of its money to Democrats, Singer's firm was giving about 98 percent to Republicans.
Singer spent a good part of 2011 rallying other Republican financial moguls in an attempt to recruit New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to run for president.
But Singer's biggest cause in 2011 was not partisan -- he spent $1 million lobbying to legalize gay marriage in New York state. That puts Singer not only far to the left of the GOP base and Romney, but also to the left of President Obama, who publicly opposes gay marriage. Singer's son married a man in Massachusetts.
Miguel Fernandez of Miami has succeeded in health-care investing in recent years, and last July he gave $1 million to Restore Our Future ---half from his own pocket, and half from an account of his called MBF Family Investments.
While Romney publicly denies he's a liberal Republican, he apparently hasn't convinced Fernandez of this. Before giving $1 million to Romney's super-PAC, Fernandez split much of his money between Democrats and liberal Republicans who faced conservative opponents.
Rudy Giuliani was Fernandez's guy in the 2008 GOP primary election, Federal Election Commission records show. Then in the 2010 cycle, Fernandez spent some money against the Tea Party: When conservative Marco Rubio announced in 2009 he was running against liberal Republican Gov. Charlie Crist for Florida's open Senate seat, Fernandez gave the maximum to Crist. Fernandez also gave to infamous porker and bailout champion Bob Bennett in early 2010 as Bennett faced a Tea Party challenge from conservative Mike Lee.
Fernandez is mostly on the Republican team, and he eventually funded Rubio and John McCain in their general elections, but he has also funded his share of Democrats, including the presidential bids of Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson and the Senate runs of Bob Menendez (N.J.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Bob Graham (Fla.) and Mark Warner (Va.).
The fourth and final $1 million donor to Romney's super-PAC is almost the poster boy for Big Republican Money, Texas homebuilder Bob Perry. Perry famously helped bankroll the counterattack against John Kerry's 2004 attempt to run on his Vietnam War record, and was a big Rick Perry (no relation) backer for years.
Unlike Robertson, Singer, and Fernandez, there's little in Bob Perry's record to turn off the conservative base. He funds conservative Republicans more than moderate ones, and he has given $7 million to the Karl Rove-affiliated super-PAC, American Crossroads, which hasn't taken sides in the primary but will back the eventual GOP nominee.
Robertson's million-dollar donation to Romney doesn't mean Mitt is a cap-and-trader or a tax-increaser. Singer's million-dollar check doesn't suggest Mitt is pro-gay-marriage. And Fernandez's million doesn't make Mitt a Charlie Crist.
But it's revealing that these are Romney's biggest donors. At the very least, it highlights the difference between the GOP's electoral base and its money base.
Timothy P.Carney, The Examiner's senior political columnist, can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com. His column appears Monday and Thursday, and his stories and blog posts appear on washingtonexaminer.com.


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The now Indian owned off road specialists, Land Rover, have decided to put their hybrid LRX concept car into production. What was interesting about the original vehicle is that Land Rover is not the type of manufacturer that tends to come out with concept vehicles, so it was nice to see that when they did, it will become an actual road going model.
The all new Hybrid LRX is set to debut sometime in the next two years. The gas/electric Rover will feature a drive unit that can run exclusively on battery power giving it the capabilities of an Electric Vehicle; and can also run on gasoline only or a combination of the two. It is also quite likely that the Hybrid LRX will receive some form of the futuristic looking Land-E concept car 's electric drive rear axle. The unit works much like BMW's advanced rear ends that replace the traditional gear or clutch driven limited slip differentials in favor of a set of electromagnets that can send electric power to the front axle, alter the inner and outer wheel torque electronically all in the search of traction.
It will be about two years before there are any hybrid LRXs cruising down the highway or traversing mountain passes, but until then Land Rover has pledged to bring down CO2 emissions from their vehicles. So in an attempt for the green oval to be a little greener, Land Rover will include stop-start technology and brake energy regeneration systems into all their models in the near future.


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Mikey and Mel have known each other forever. Can one day change what they think of each other? And will it change to something more?
Mel's POV
I was sitting up in my room, thinking of Mikey's sudden change. Why did he suddenly talk to me? I think it just sort of slipped out, but I can't be sure with him. I also thought about our hug. I didn't want to let go of him. It just felt so right.
I went down the stairs, thinking I could watch the rest of their practice when I heard them yelling at him. Then I heard Ray yell something. I couldn't tell what it was exactly, but I heard the words "MY SISTER" very clearly. I ran in to see what was happening.
I walked in to see Ray advancing on Mikey menacingly. Mikey was cowering and backing up. He was about to trip over the drumset and amps. I ran over and gave Gee a look, telling him to help me. We grabbed Ray's shoulders and Mikey relaxed a little.
"Ray stop it!" I yelled at him. I saw Frank and Bob just staring, and I needed to know what was happening. "What was he saying about me?" I asked to everyone.
"I WAS ASKING HIM WHY HE WAS DAYDREAMING ABOUT YOU!!" Ray yelled. I was in a daze. Mikey was daydreaming about ME? I thought I was the only one who had felt something when we had hugged in the kitchen. I didn't even remember letting Ray go. I just remember seeing Mikey run away with his bass, embarrassed. I came to my senses and grabbed Ray again to stop him going out after Mikey.
"Let me go!" Ray yelled.
"Only if you promise not to go after Mikey," I said.
"Fine," Ray said, disappointed.
"Why did you guys have to do that to him?" I said. Frank was the first one to talk.
"Well he wasn't paying attention so we started yelling to get his attention. I just told him to stop daydreaming about you," he said, still shocked. "It was supposed to be a joke. I never thought Ray would get so mad."
"Oh yeah, really funny joke. Just make fun of my little brother and Ray's little sister. It's all so hilarious! We're all laughing our heads off right now, aren't we?" Gee said sarcastically. He seemed really angry.
"What you too? This has got to be the worst joke of the century!" Frank said.
"I guess practice is over now since our bassist is gone," Bob said. Ray just nodded. Bob and Frank left. Ray just walked into the kitchen.
"We should look for Mikey. It's really cold out there. We don't want him to get sick or anything," I said to Gee.
"Yeah, I guess. I just can't believe that Ray got so mad. He knows how shy and fragile Mikey is. Ever since our grandmother died..." Gerard trailed off. He looked at me sadly. "You know how close they were from what I've said. He just hasn't been the same."
"I understand. We should go look for him," I said. Gerard nodded. He set off in one direction and I set off in the other. I found myself walking past the graveyard where their grandmother was buried. I remembered her funeral. Gee had sung while Mikey played the guitar for the song "With You in Your Dreams" by Hanson. She had told them that she wanted that song played at her funeral, and they played it no matter how much they hated the band. I heard talking interrupt my thoughts.
"The worst part is that I like her, that I may even love her. I had no idea until just now. I have all this time, from watching her and hearing her, but I never said a thing. And she has no clue." It sounded like Mikey. Sure enough, I looked over and saw him with his bass, sitting in front of his grandmother's grave and playing and singing to "Under Pressure". When he was done, I clapped. He looked around like he had seen a ghost, but seemed more relaxed when I said, "That was really awesome." He looked at me, disbelieving.


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NASCAR riding the crest of a wave of feel good stories
By admin | March 2, 2011
By Richard Allen
NASCAR could have hardly scripted a better start to the 2011 season if they had tried(and remember, they have been accused of such things recently). At just about every turn there has been a wave of good feelings for the racing organization.
In Daytona, the track's new pavement made for fast speeds and an unusual form of racing that created more lead changes and caution flags than the 'Great American Race' had ever seen before. The grandstands had plenty of people in them and television ratings were up over last year's pothole delayed event.
And perhaps best of all, the Daytona 500 was won by a fresh face who went on to become an instant hit with fans. Trevor Bayne also proved to be a media darling which generated an excess of positive vibes from entertainment type talk shows. For an entire week as the Knoxville native made his way around the country, NASCAR was able to bask in the glow of a warm and well intentioned spotlight.
While a young and energetic winner in Daytona offered the opportunity for NASCAR to receive exposure from previously untapped areas, the race in Phoenix gave long standing NASCAR followers something to cling to. Jeff Gordon ended a 66 race winless streak when he and new crew chief Alan Gustafson claimed victory in the Arizona desert.
In what seemed a bit strange to those who may have remembered Gordon as NASCAR's top villain a decade ago, he was resoundingly cheered as he wheeled into victory lane this past Sunday. Somewhere along the way, Gordon victories have gone from being scorned happenings by racing fans to feel good stories. Perhaps a long winless streak and the emergence of another driver who seems to win all too often can do that for a soon to be 40 year old driver.
The grandstands in Phoenix were also free of the vast open spots so frequently seen last year on the NASCAR circuit. And for a second week in a row, television ratings were higher than when compared to last year when the second race was held at the much maligned Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California.
Now, going into the coming weekend's race in Las Vegas, the Sprint Cup Series is being led by brothers Kyle and Kurt Busch. The Busch boys are from Las Vegas which will again offer the opportunity for feel good stories leading into the Kobalt Tools 400.
As far as NASCAR is concerned about the only thing they need beyond what has already happened would be a win by popular Dale Earnhardt, Jr. But otherwise, sanctioning body has to feel good about all the feel good stories so far.
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Joe McGrath has had a change of heart.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders traded the non-import offensive lineman to the Edmonton Eskimos on Thursday, granting the six-year veteran a request to return to his former team.
In return for McGrath, Saskatchewan acquires Edmonton's first round pick at the 2010 Canadian Football League draft and a player off the Eskimos' negotiation list.
McGrath, a native of Moose Jaw, Sask., originally signed a two-year deal plus an option with the Roughriders on February 16.
"A few days ago, Joe approached us saying he was having a case of buyer's remorse," said Roughriders head coach Ken Miller. "He apologized profusely, but said, for a combination of personal and professional reasons, he wanted to return to the Eskimos.
"Obviously, this is not what we had envisioned when Joe accepted our offer in February; but, in football, as we do in life, we adapt and go forward."
McGrath, drafted second overall by Calgary in 2003, spent his first five seasons with the Eskimos. The six-foot-five, 300-pound veteran won a Grey Cup with Edmonton in 2005.
Eskimos GM Danny Maciocia was happy to welcome McGrath back to the team.
"Joe is one of the top CFL lineman and his best years are still ahead of him," said Maciocia. "For football and personal reasons, Joe felt it was best to return to Edmonton and we're thrilled to have him back in the fold."
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On July 1, Ventnor, NJ, will see the groundbreaking of 27 luxury residences called The Waves. Seven of the units will be built on the boardwalk and the rest will be beach-block units. Here's how the pricing breaks down:
Beach-block units: 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,600 square feet starts at $749,000
Oceanfront units: 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 2,800 square feet starts at $1.29 million
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The Impact of Kindness: An Interview with Heidi Hess Saxton
- Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Cheryl Johnston: How did you come about to write Touched by Kindness?
Heidi Hess Saxton: This book was a really exciting opportunity. Basically, this book is a series of short stories. I'd like to share two short stories about how small acts of kindness can make a difference in somebody else's life and how it can also bless your own life if you make that effort. The first story is about when I was a child. I was probably about the age of 8 or 10. My sister was struggling with cancer, bone cancer, I was her older sister (I'm still her older sister). And the experience completely knocked my family financially, emotionally, they were just devastated by this experience. And that time was probably one of the loneliest times in my life, simply because all of the focus was on Chris and I felt like I couldn't add to my parents' burden by telling them what I was struggling with. And so, at that time, I didn't know who to talk to. And one of the first stories is about this old woman who ran a corner five-and-dime and she had a lunch counter there. And I found myself wandering into her soda fountain area one day, and I had 35 cents left from my lunch that day and I plunked it on the counter and ordered a Coke, and for the next hour she kept filling my Coke glass and listening to me talk and then she'd ask me a few questions. And it was just like this dam broke, all this came out of me. And to this day I remember how kind she was to me. And how she listened to me and really seemed to care about what I was going through. Thirty years later, I still remember.
Cheryl Johnston: It's really what you needed.
Heidi Hess Saxton: I guess it was, it was a big deal for a glass of Coke. Jesus talks about if any man offers even a cup of cold water in My name then I have received the reward. It was just such a grace to me at that time when I desperately needed it in my life.
A little later in the book I talk about how, financially, our family was really devastated by this experience. We had an exchange student that year, and I don't know why my parents had agreed to take an exchange student at that point, but I guess they felt like they needed to do something, because everybody had been giving to us for so long. And so we had an exchange student that year, and we had invited her parents to come and stay with us at Easter time. And about a couple months before that, Chrissy wound up back in the hospital and our financial situation just got really dire and we didn't know how we were even going to feed the family let alone these guests.
So we prayed and asked God to help us. And my father said, "Don't say anything to the people at church," because they had been so kind to us. We just asked God to take care of us. And we went to church that same day, came back two hours later, and my father noticed that the front porch door was propped open, the front door. And we went in there and there were 10 large boxes of groceries, with a big chocolate cake sitting on the top, and I remember going in there and seeing this food. And the food was great, don't get me wrong but, at 10 years old, my eyes went immediately to that chocolate cake. And that chocolate cake represented to me the kindness of God, the compassion of God, how He goes over and beyond what we really need to give us the things that really delight our heart. To this day, we don't know who gave us that food, but it came at such a critical time in my family's life. In my spiritual development it was sort of a very profound visual aid at how we can trust God to meet our very basic needs and how He goes over and above.
And so those experiences set the foundation for me about the principles of being kind and being generous to other people and how much it can touch your life. I was a missionary in Africa for a year and I was in Eastern Europe for a while and I went to Mexico. At each of these places, I experienced the same kind of people who just, through simple acts of kindness, made a difference in my life. My co-author, Kim Boyce, was also talking about her growing-up years and some of her formative experiences. And she interviewed some of her celebrity friends like Bill and Gloria and Mark Lowry and members of 4HIM and Point of Grace, people like that. And, again, she was mostly talking to them about the organizations they represent, like The American Bible Society, Compassion International, and in each case they talk about how, through the act of giving, they receive so much more back than what they gave in the first place. In Proverbs it talks about through kindness and compassion we receive long life and honor. And it's a principle in Scripture, you reap what you sow, and God, in His grace, gives back even much more than you reap in the first place. And this book is mostly a celebration of that fact, that, as we imitate God as His children, He is faithful to make us abundant-hearted as a result of it.
Cheryl Johnston: How did you grow through writing this book?
Heidi Hess Saxton: I think one of the things that impressed me while I was writing was the difference between kindness, simple kindness and compassion. Kindness, because we are all made in the image of God, God has inherently built into us the ability to be kind. You don't have to be a Christian to be kind. There are some simply kind people who don't know Jesus. Compassion takes it another step. It is the actual life-giving force, and that as Christians we get plugged into God and the Holy Spirit. It's that ability to be able to actually give life where there wasn't life before. And, as Christians, we get caught up with the idea that acts of kindness are only good if they result in someone praying the sinner's prayer or somebody agreeing to come to church with us, or you know, some kind of spiritual agenda. But that's not really what Jesus was all about. That's really not the idea in God's compassion. There's a parable, I can't remember where exactly it's found in the Scripture, but it's about the seed, planting the seed and the seed falling on different ground. And I've come to believe that kindness and acts of kindness are sort of cultivating the soil and getting things ready for truth. I had next-door neighbors who happened to be Catholic, and I also had another good friend who was, again, Catholic and when I was in Africa she supported me every month. And this was at a time in my life that I did not believe Catholics were Christians, and I actually struggled with the idea should I be accepting money from this person if I don't believe I'll see her in heaven? Now I'm embarrassed to say I believed such things.
In the book there's another story called "Mrs. A. and the Razor." It was when I was in the hospital after my car accident, and I was laid up in the intensive care unit for about a month. And when I got out, I felt awful all over. I stunk. They hadn't washed my hair and sponge baths don't go very far. And Mrs. A., who had been my childhood friend's mother, wasn't like the other mothers I knew. She didn't go to my church, and whenever I went to her house she always had a cigarette in one hand and maybe a drink in the other, and I just assumed she wasn't a Christian. And I used to go in and just lecture her every time I saw her about how she needed to come to my church to know Jesus. And after my car accident, I was finally moved into another unit where I could have visitors, and one day Mrs. A. just walks into my hospital room armed with a basin and a few plastic bags. She just sort of got to work, propped up my legs, shaved me from my knee down to my ankle, painted my toenails, and fixed a way to wash my hair and those kind of things, and I just sat there and for the first time truly felt clean in about a month.
And I looked at her and said, "Mrs. A., why did you come and do this? What made you think to do this?" And she said, "I understand what it's like not to be able to touch your toes." She had had a bad back, and that's why she was laying on the couch all those times. She said, "And I thought you might appreciate having something like this done." And I just felt so guilty after that because I realized how awful I had been to her. I mean, it was innocent, you know. I really thought I was right, of course. But this woman was really modeling the love of God in a way that made a deep impression on me. And those kinds of acts of kindness make a long-term impression and they prepare the soil and get you ready to accept the truth in a way and a venue you might not otherwise. If somebody had come up to me and said, you need to do this, this and this to be saved, I probably would've shut them right up because I assumed I knew what it takes to get to know God. I think a lot of people in our day and age feel the same way. You know, I'm a good person, why do I need to know God personally? And those kinds of acts of compassion speak of a greater love and a greater truth that they may never have encountered before.
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|Holiday Science: Shiny or Dull?
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Hey, want to integrate science into your holiday season? There are a multitude of STEM activities that are just screaming to be shown to your students during this time of year. I find that with the holiday spirit comes the excitement to discover new and fun things. After all, the holiday season is full of things to explore.
One activity that I like to do with my students is a sorting or classifying activity with holiday themed items. They are actually getting immersed in scientific procedures, and they are learning in spite of the fun involved in this activity. You are going to let your students sort or classify articles that are either "shiny" or "dull". Go ahead make it difficult or easy, be Santa or the Grinch, you decide.
Shiny things reflect light while dull items don't reflect light well. A high interest science lesson for holiday, students will have fun shining a flashlight on items to determine whether the item is shiny or dull. Many holiday items are shiny and plenty are dull, so this activity will acquaint students with popular items associated with the holiday season. Books that might to add the experience for your younger scientists can be read to them about the activity are Is it rough? Is it smooth? Is it shiny? by Tana Hoban [Greenwillow, 1984] and Shiny and Dull by Angela Royston [Heinemann, 2003].
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[Ooh. Hmm. This has potential, yes.
This one got weird. Mostly because I had to do some finagling to get anywhere near a sadistic Thor. Oh, Loki.]
The guards threw the prisoner roughly to the floor at Thor's feet with a clatter of chain.
Thor stood, Gungnir in one hand (his only for a time, as the Allfather slept, and it felt strange to hold it this way, too heavy, too tall). With the other, he waved a dismissal at the others in the throne room.
"Leave us," he said. "All of you."
As the faceless figures drained away, he gazed down at the crumpled body before him, a chill seeping into his blood.
Pale, thin, dark-haired, the red welts of the last eve's flogging still bright slashes across the knotted cord of his spine. Bare, dressed only in a flimsy cloth tied around his hips. Wrists and hands bound, the fingers bent tight to the palms and lashed there, immobile.
All limbs and bony joints, he was. Heaving ribcage. Sharp elbows. His hair hung loose from his bowed head, stringed with sweat, longer than Thor remembered it being.
And still.
And still.
"Loki," he said softly. He stepped down from the dais, dropped to one knee before the bent form. "Loki. My brother. Is it truly you?"
The only response was a high, close-mouthed laugh.
Rage snapped through him—sourceless, so far as he knew—
(there had been years, so many long years spent searching and searching and searching, for any sign, any hint, any shred of evidence that Thor's brother was not dead, even Mother had begun to believe him mad, but he knew he knew Loki still lived would have done anything to have him back and now, now, now they brought him some horrible shade of Asgard's second prince in, in chains, bound like some common thief, and where had he been why had he left why had he let himself fall)
—and through a red haze his hand shot out and seized the prisoner's chin, forcing his face up. "Look at me!" he growled.
The eyes. They were the same, yet not. Green, the green Thor knew so intimately, pale jade shot through with emerald and so wide, but—limned with awful shadows, sunken, and too, too bright, far too bright, glittering with some terrible secret.
He tore the gag from between his brother's teeth—he would have the whole of the prison guard flogged for this, for this indignity (the rational part of him, rapidly fading into nothing, whispered betrayer, silvertongue, if he speaks I am lost), but now he had to hear, had to know—
"Where?" he rasped, his voice thick with too many things at once, too many emotions, and anger was easiest, anger was most familiar, he slipped into it like a well-worn boot. "Where were you? Why did you never show yourself? What happened to you?"
"I have so missed your temper," Loki said, sweet and soft and gleaming, like silk wrapped round a stiletto. "Brother." The word slipped off his tongue, bitter, poisoned honey. His razorthin smile did not reach his eyes.
Thor gritted his teeth at the mockery—and it was mockery, of that he had no doubt, and how dare he, after everything—"I searched for you!" he shouted, gripping Loki's arms with bruising force, Gungnir lying forgotten nearby. "For endless years I searched! Every spare moment spent combing the realms—"
"I wonder, has the lady Jane forgiven you for abandoning her?" Loki interrupted smoothly, and though his tone was mild, almost idle, there was acid behind it.
"I forsook her for you!"
Loki laughed at that, a harsh glitter of a sound like broken glass. "And again you lay the blame upon me for your poor decisions," he sneered. "Such a convenient scapegoat I make, yes?"
The red filled Thor's vision, then (and if he had thought, had been capable of thought, he would have wondered at its searing intensity, at how it moved his body seemingly without his direction), and he threw Loki backwards, snarling like a wolf. Still Loki laughed at him, the shards of it cutting, and Thor strode forward and planted his boot into the center of Loki's pale chest to keep him from scrambling away.
"Ungrateful wretch," Thor said, not quite shouting but very close to it. "You test my patience with your sidesteps."
"What have I to be grateful for, O my King?" Loki's smile was infuriating, condescending, a needle dipped in venom, and Thor's knuckles creaked as he clenched his fists. "Your hospitality has been…" He paused, gazing off to the side. His tongue flicked out to wet his lips. "Lacking."
Thor yanked the belt from around his waist, folding it in half, his breath coming fast and deep with his fury. Loki's bright eyes followed his motion, fixed, like a hawk catching sight of prey.
"It is past time you learned respect, Loki," Thor growled.
He reached down, seized Loki's arm and flipped him over onto his stomach. The violence of it, the abruptness, drove Loki's breath from his lungs—yet it did not silence him, far from it; he began to cackle, high and jagged and airless, and the sound drilled itself into Thor's skull until he thought he would go mad from it.
The leather of his belt cracked beautifully against the bare skin of Loki's thigh, and Loki cried out, tears of laughter streaming down his face.
"Yes, yes, respect, teach me aah teach me!" he babbled, as Thor's belt came down on him again and again and again and he squirmed under its slap, writhed, like a serpent trying to crawl. "Aaah O my petulant child-King, O my aaha my prince of tantrums, aaanh strike me, strike mmngh yes—"
And Thor did strike, struck over and over, until Loki was screaming through his laughter and insults and twisted mockery, until Loki's thighs and buttocks were angry burning scarlet, and then he kept striking, watching bruises blossom dark and night-blue through the searing red, the red on Loki's skin and the red in his vision.
Soon Loki lost his voice completely, and the only sound aside from the crack of leather against flesh was the high reedy hiss of Loki's ragged throat.
And then, when Loki was covered from the hips down in ugly yellowing bruises, when his skin was almost too hot to touch, when he had ceased writhing and only twitched at each strike, shoulders shaking, tears dripping from his nose onto the polished floor—
—a great exhaustion came sweeping through Thor's muscles, greater than any he had ever felt before, as though his limbs were turning to stone. His knees buckled, and he sank heavily to the ground as his rage flowed out of him in a rush, leaving him hollow and blank.
The last thing he saw, before his leaden limbs dragged him down into blackness, was Loki's sated, predatory eyes, and the dark stain spreading across the front of his loincloth.
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Another great column! My blood elf mage is a Jewelcrafter and is definitely the vain sort you mentioned that loves to show off his beautiful jewelry. His noble house was particularly known for their jewelry making, and as one of the only members that made it through the Scourge invasion, he feels particularly obligated to carry out the family trade. Mostly, though, he just adores shinies, and is extremely catty about other people's work (he refuses to wear it most of the time because he can't vouch for the quality of it).


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GreenNight said...
Mid twenties with my palatank I went into a Razorfen Kraul run. In the group there was another palatank who though he was a pro or something, relegated me to healing (no dedicated healer could be found) and started to tank single mobs, while the rest of the group also off-tanked.
Not a single consecration did he cast, I still hate paladin-healing since that day. And no, showing him how it is supposed to work (tanking one group) did not show him the light.
Gosh, I hated that run so much that I did not connect with that character in some time just to let the other paladin outlevel me so he would not ask me to heal him.


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Running backs in today's NFL have a notoriously short shelf life, and their time as a workhorse "feature-back" is extremely limited. The flip side of that is that there are constantly new options coming into the league and infusing new talent into backfields across the NFL.
Last year, rookie RB Alfred Morris exploded onto the fantasy football scene after dropping into the sixth round of the NFL Draft and set a high bar for this year's rookie rushers to measure up to. With a thin running back class in the 2013 Draft, there were no running backs taken in the first round. That means you don't have to worry about them for your fantasy team, right?
To borrow from a soon-to-all-over-TV-again ESPN College Football analyst "Not so fast, my friend!"
There are six rookie running backs every fantasy football owner needs to know going into draft day and several others that could emerge if opportunity comes their way via injury or a bigger workload. These are the six that should be drafted in standard leagues since they appear to be in the best spots. For each one, I'll give you the upside, the downside, and my verdict on where I'd draft them.


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East Lyme - Construction is slated to soon begin on the Niantic Bay Boardwalk, with plans calling for the rebuilt, steel-and-concrete structure to stretch about a half-mile along the shore by late next spring.
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Amtrak has committed to help strengthen structures along the slope by the railroad track and contribute monitoring personnel for safety during construction, said First Selectman Paul Formica.
The town has $4.9 million to rebuild the structure, which forms a 1.1-mile path with Amtrak's existing concrete walkway.
Wiese Construction, the local company hired by the town, is beginning to set up materials near McCook Point Park. The company will build an access road through McCook's, which will serve as a staging area.
Through negotiations, Amtrak agreed to an in-kind contribution for monitoring and safety personnel by the railroad tracks and for upgrading the railroad replacement. The railroad service was able to negotiate the original $1 million price for that work down to approximately $460,000 and contribute funding, so the town will have to pay about $55,000, Formica said. He said he appreciated the office of U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, for helping with the negotiations.
Amtrak spokesman Craig Schulz confirmed that Amtrak has agreed to improve the embankment and that "safety is priority number one at Amtrak and we will take all the necessary precautions to ensure proper protection throughout the project."
The boardwalk's design will feature a steel bulkhead with 8-foot-wide panels either 24 or 30 feet deep, said Formica. The construction company will fill the boardwalk with concrete and install a new railing and a new fence by the railroad tracks. The design will be similar to Amtrak's concrete portion of the boardwalk, completed last year, except Amtrak used a concrete bulkhead.
"It will give us 100 year-storm protection and require a lot less maintenance than the old boardwalk," said Formica about the new design.
He said the project is scheduled to be completed by May or June of next year depending on weather. The structure could be completed in November, but the construction workers can't pour concrete in the colder months.
The town will also have two park monitors by Hole-in-the-Wall beach to make sure people can safely go onto the beach during construction.
The town's $4.9 million for the project is from insurance and lawsuit settlements, Federal Emergency Management Agency Funds and a Small Town Economic Assistance Program grant. Wiese was the lowest bidder at $4.4 million.
"It will be a great project, and we appreciate everyone's patience," Formica said, explaining that the town wanted to build the boardwalk so it both lasts and uses the fewest tax dollars possible.
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Chelsea star Eden Hazard in the mix for a move to Real Madrid
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Shocking reports suggest Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard is in the mix for a move to Real Madrid in spite of moving just a couple of months ago. The Belgian wonder kid was bought from Lille for £32 million during the summer transfer window.
Eden Hazard made a brilliant impact in the Premier League at the start of the season, but since then his form has slowly deteriorated. The 21-year-old attacking midfielder is fighting to regain lost form, but he doesn't see playing for Chelsea in the long run.
Aston Villa forward Christian Benteke, who is a close friend of Eden Hazard and plays with him for Belgium, has revealed that Eden Hazard is plotting an away move two year down the road. Christian Benteke's statements have come as a huge surprise to the Chelsea board, who were thinking about making Eden Hazard the new face of the club.
After recording exceptional performances with Lille for five years Eden Hazard has made a promising start with Chelsea. The versatile forward is easily one of the most deadly players in the Premier League, which is why Chelsea would fight tooth and nail to renew his contract when it nears its expiration date.
"I am not surprised at Eden's success with Chelsea, and he can do even better," Christian Benteke told The Sun in a recent interview. "He has the qualities needed to become an even greater player. His dream is to join Real Madrid, so I don't see why he can't join them in a year or two."
Christian Benteke further revealed that Eden Hazard was feeling pressure because of high levels of expectations. Well, Chelsea is dreaming of finding him to be of the same mold as Frank Lampard. The highest goal scoring midfielder in the Premier League, Frank Lampard is on the verge of making a move out of Chelsea.
This means Eden Hazard will be burdened by more responsibility next season. Christian Benteke explained that Eden Hazard was the kind of player who relished challenges and wanted to test himself at every turn.
"He has already told me what his life is like with the high levels of expectation," Christian Benteke continued. "He has been signed for many millions of pounds and he will always have the pressure of his price tag. He will forever have to do more than the others, he is condemned to always be at the top of his game.
"He realizes this and he relishes the challenge. His fantasy football takes off some of the pressure on him. Eden dares to try things and is not afraid to face up to his responsibilities."


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Village Cricket Match To Broadcast Live Over The Internet
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InfoLab21 researchers have helped a village community achieve what could be a world first for cricket fans.
The thwack of leather on willow from a village cricket match will be broadcast live over the Internet on Easter Monday thanks to superfast broadband provided by Lancaster University as part of a long term research project looking at providing broadband and wireless networks to remote places.
University researchers and engineers have provided a 100Mbps fibre connection into the Village Institute at Wray, Lancashire, and supplied special boxes to homes across the village to create a 'mesh 'network providing Internet access to hundreds of homes. The community has campaigned hard for internet access to support their village and the University was happy to help as computing researchers are using the network for research purposes.
Video footage from the village cricket match can be uploaded thanks to the fact the new network can upload and download content equally quickly and the idea has caught the imagination of media, bloggers and tweeters including Stephen Fry.
InfoLab21's Dr Nicholas Race, who leads the Wray research at Lancaster University, said:
"We first began working in Wray in 2003. At that time the community had no access to broadband, and so the idea was that in building a wireless mesh network around Wray we could offer the community Internet access but at the same time use that infrastructure for research at Lancaster.
"Since then the activities in Wray have really gathered momentum, and the University is working with the community on a whole range of research projects.We've also recently deployed a next generation broadband network in the village, which provides the community with access to one of the fastest Internet connections in the region. The symmetrical nature of this connection - enabling people to download and upload at equal speeds - is really important in allowing users to become producers of content."
The work in Wray has been partially funded by the European Union project P2P-Next which is building a platform to support the future delivery of television over the Internet. Lancaster's role within P2P-Next is in evaluating this technology with real users as part of a large-scale technical trial, known as a Living Lab.
The infrastructure in Wray forms part of this Living Lab, enabling villagers to watch and broadcast TV quality content - such as the cricket match - from their armchair or even the village green.
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The Mobilizing Men for Violence Prevention International Survey
Welcome to the information page about our most recent project: an online, international survey of men who have attended events related to gender-based violence prevention, or who are engaged in violence prevention work in an on-going way. This survey is available in English, French and Spanish. The survey will be available online after July 15, 2013.
The goals of the survey are to:
- Learn more about what brings men to violence prevention events and longer- term violence prevention work
- Hear what men think about these events and how they are impacted by attending
- Learn what might encourage more men to get involved in ending violence against women
- Learn how men become involved in an on-going way to end gender-based violence
We are interested in hearing from men who have attended a single violence prevention event AND from men who have been working on the issue of violence against women for any length of time.
IF THIS DESCRIBES YOU, PLEASE CONSIDER TAKING THE SURVEY. You can learn more about the survey and take it here: http://umichssw.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ekXEYmczky0Xrdb
We also hope to offer our survey as an evaluation tool for prevention practitioners. If you are hosting or organizing a gender-based violence prevention event for men, and would like to gather information about participants' perceptions of how the event impacted them, please feel free to CONTACT US for more information about using the survey as an evaluation tool.
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"In fact, the developers want to penalize spamming dispels by allowing dispel abilities to consume mana even when there's no target. This means players will need to proactively dispel"
Reactively. Spamming dispels (currently) is proactive dispelling. Dropping cleansing totem and popping an Abolish effect are proactive dispelling. "Proactive" means anticipating a problem and acting against that problem before it happens, so that it's addressed when it happens.
The design philosophy encourages, perhaps even demand, not attempting a dispel until there's something to dispel; this is reactive, not proactive.
justinwarren said...
What're you trying to say, AJ? Sandslice, thank you for writing this as it saves me some time doing the same thing.
I can't stand that they're taking away this proactive nature of dispelling (that you can't spam dispel advantageously.) It took a lot more skill to be able to correctly anticipate certain CC's in PvP than it will to simply have to wait for your friend to turn into a sheep to realize "oh, I gotsta clik teh dispel key naow." Never has the issue been "mindlessly spamming" the dispel button just "hoping" to get something dispelled sooner or later. I am appalled that Blizzard is going against this kind of, well, proactive planning and foresight that has always set apart the strongest players and their bumbling counterparts.
Well, I ended up writing a lot anyway :x


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This advice is designed to provide basic guidance to traders. It is not a complete or authoritative statement of the law.
Where any underground petrol tank or compartment is permanently taken out of use it must be rendered safe by one of the following methods:
Tanks to be abandoned in place
Any tank to be abandoned in place should be rendered safe
1. by filling with cement slurry using the following procedure.
2. by the use of RG22 HYDROPHOBIC HARD FOAM. This is a specialist process and can only be undertaken by an appointed contractor.
Any tank to be removed should be rendered safe before excavation work starts.
For a tank without leaks the following initial procedure should be followed
Excavation work should be carried out with the tank in the filled condition and with suitable precautions to avoid sparks. When the tank is ready for lifting any water used should be emptied and all openings immediately closed. Water should be disposed of by a hazardous waster disposal contractor.
Alternatively the tank may be rendered gas free by the internal application of an inert gas by a competent person.
For a tank with leaks, all residual petrol should be removed, and the tank 'bottomed out' (see paras 1(a) and 1(b) above) and the atmosphere in the tank inerted by means of carbon dioxide, nitrogen or nitrogen foam. (See guidance on these inerting methods in HSE Guidance Notes CS 15). Inerting should be maintained during the excavation process any fault in the tank shell should be sealed as soon as it is exposed and the atmosphere in the excavation should be monitored throughout the process in case of leakage of inert gas or of the presence of a flammable atmosphere arising from petrol leakage.
Any excavated tank should be indelibly marked on two sides with the words PETROL - HIGHLY FLAMMABLE in letters not less than 50mm high and should be water filled or remain inerted, as appropriate, pending disposal.
Any tank which has been removed from its excavation should be disposed of safety as soon as possible. Preparation for and removal by road should be in accordance with the provisions of the current legislation in force at the time.
The person responsible for removal of a tank from a filling station should ensure that the recipient of the tank is made aware of the tank's previous use and of the need to take adequate precautions against fires and explosions when dealing with it.
Cleaning or demolition of any tank on site should not take place without the agreement of the appropriate authority.
The location of any abandoned tank should be recorded in the site register and brought to the attention of any person who subsequently becomes responsible for the site.
Further the Trading Standards Service should be made aware of the final destination of any tank which has been removed from the ground.
The tank may be used for the storage of diesel or gas oil providing the petrol tank has had all residual of petrol removed from it, and been 'bottomed out' (which involves the removal of that quantity of petrol and deposits which remain below the pump suction pipeline, using a hand pump or a flame-proof electrical pump.) This procedure should be performed by a specialist contractor.
The tank must be filled totally in order to dispel any petroleum vapour. It is important to remember to drain down the pump and pipelines thereby removing all petrol before introducing an alternative fuel.
The Petroleum Officer of the Trading Standards Service must be advised on which course of action it is proposed to take to render a decommissioned tank safe and have the opportunity to be in attendance when tanks are filled.
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Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson asked Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for help in cleaning up the city's crime problem. What she received instead was help in cleaning up the police department.
It is a report the mayor should take to heart.
The report on Gary Police Department issues released Thursday by the Indiana State Police and Pence found plenty of problems at the department. Pence offered state police assistance for training, technology review and as an evidentiary pipeline between Gary and the State Crime Lab.
Other recommendations involve freeing Chief Wade Ingram to make drastic reforms and freeing up money for additional officers and equipment. The City Council must accomplish this.
The city budgeted for 246 officers, but only 236 positions are funded, according to the report. And only 222 officers are on the force.
Equipment issues stem from inadequate financing from the City Council. The city lacks a replacement schedule for police cars, for example, and has purchased them through grants. A majority of the patrol vehicles are 2010 models or older. The average mileage for newer models is about 47,000, and the remainder of the fleet averages about 99,500 miles.
Some of the vehicles have bald tires. "Officers informed us they were told there was no money for new or replacement tires," the report said.
Ensuring the safety of officers as well as the public should be a primary concern, and that includes providing safe vehicles.
The report takes issue with how the officers are deployed, too. Gary has 40 percent of its staff dedicated to uniform patrol operations, but the national recommendation is 60 percent, the report said. Redeployment is warranted.
Discipline is an issue, which can and should be addressed with a whole host of reforms.
The report should be used as a catalyst for Ingram to do the necessary shake-ups in the department.
A qualified but independent group is needed to review the recommendations and find workable solutions for the Gary police.
A first priority is to let Ingram -- who is a good cop -- run the department without outside pressure. The chief must run the department without usual Lake County-style political influence.
Empower Wade to make the necessary changes that will improve the department and its response to the city's crime problems.