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Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 09:35 • by Sayer (unregistered)
I'm willing to bet that if someone ever posted a picture of a collapsed birdhouse, there'd be someone in here declaring it was because they used the wrong brand of fucking hammer.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 10:19 • by trtrwtf (unregistered)
I agree that they're evil, but is this really the reason why? Let me just play Devil's advocate for a moment:
This seems to be a good way to make the market more efficient. The supermarket still can't price the market to customer #1985763278, but they can work out how best to price goods to maximize sales - that is, to put the price at a point where the most people will think "oh, that's fair."
Yes, they make more money this way - but they do it by setting prices so as to satisfy more customers, and that doesn't seem very evil to me.
If the customer doesn't want to buy that 12-pack of soda, guess what? Nobody can make them do it.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 10:36 • by Paul (unregistered)
Unless the "seller" is the government, and the "product" is is a perpetual revenue stream for big corporations, like, say, health insurance*. Then, yeah, they can force you to buy the product with the full weight of the most powerful country in the world behind them if you resist.
Let's keep our focus on where the true evil lies.
(* P.S. Health care != health insurance. You don't buy grocery insurance do you? Yet everyone needs food to live! Since it is such an important need, shouldn't we force you to buy grocery insurance?)
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 10:45 • by Anymouse (unregistered)
Just exchange your supermarket cards with random people. Use ones found in the parking lot. Request new ones every month or two.
Don't accidently push ok and credit your account 5 million.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 11:30 • by Some Damn Yank (unregistered)
I have a QFC Advantage card, and I gave them zero personal information. I didn't give fake info, either - you just have to ask for a card and they'll give you one without making you fill in the form.
For those of you whose heads hurt from the first item but who haven't quite figured out what it's supposed to say, I present the corrected version: "They must really want your marketing information; that steak sure costs a lot if you want to buy it anonymously."
Also, the super powers conferred by the T-shirt are clearly the ability to bend the rules of mathematics. How else could $91,299.00 -> $6.49 be a 100% reduction?
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 11:57 • by PedanticCurmudgeon
True evil, you say? How about this for starters?
1. OMG health care is SO expensive!
2. I know, let's have someone else pay for it!
3. ....
4. Profit!
I suppose it would be out of the question to find out why health care is expensive and fix that instead.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 11:59 • by Meep (unregistered)
Not really, scan the dictionary for words that fit, then use bigram and trigram frequencies to pick some reasonably English-ish combinations; it'll be good enough for most clients.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 12:07 • by Paul (unregistered)
"X is expensive" == "I could make a lot of money by selling X".
So why don't some of us quit our lousy programming jobs and go into healthcare?
Oh yeah that's right you can't. Not without permission. Lots of permission. Licenses. Certificates. Inspections. Regulations. Standards. Guidelines.
And where do all those come from? Hmmm... I remember now, it is the same people whining that "OMG health care is SO expensive therefore we need somebody else to pay for it!"
Force is the problem. Freedom is the solution.
Mind you, the trivial sort of shit that people go to the emergency room for makes me piss myself with jeering laughter. No fucking health insurance for me because I'm not a sickly bag of psychosomatic hypochondria. Now FOAD.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 15:13 • by Another Idiot on teh Interblag (unregistered)
And those bastards made me apply for their card too! The nice cashier at Target tied me down while they Jack-Bauer-style tortured me until I took their card. I couldn't say "no" ... I _had_ to opt in.
For all those people who are willing to trade purchasing data for a small discount -- screw them. I don't like the deal, so NO ONE should have it.
And dammit, I just realize I fed the trolls again.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-25 20:28 • by anon (unregistered)
Now just make sure you stay away from anyone else who has cancer, and you're good to go! Healthy for life!
That's how cancer works, right?
Zip guy? I know him! I met him years ago. Now every time I see him he asks me for money.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-26 06:09 • by RvdB (unregistered)
"There is no 'I' in Michigan State University."
Wait, what?
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-26 09:23 • by Captcha:vulputate (unregistered)
I don't get it.
They cannot possibly sell you the Diet Coke for $4.99 and sell them to everyone else for a lower price. So why should they care how much you are willing to pay? They should care how much the average customer who comes to their store is willing to pay. And they don't need advantage cards for that.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-26 09:30 • by Woo woo flame war! (unregistered)
You do know that they already invented this thing called "taxes" a long time ago that function in an equivalent way right?
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-26 10:46 • by Kurt (unregistered)
Yes it's real.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-26 11:20 • by Jack (unregistered)
But that's exactly what they do!
Week 1
Poor Paul: Damn, that $4.99 Coke is expensive! I'm not buying any.
Rich Ralph: ... and I'll need another 12 pack of Coke ...
Week 2
Poor Paul: $1.99! Hot diggity! Load up!
Rich Ralph: ... and I'll need another 12 pack of Coke ...
Why do you think the prices keep changing every week or two? The store knows "If we jack the price up to $4.99, 75 customers will still buy it. Then when we lower the price again everybody else will buy."
You are forgetting about another phenomenom... Some people shop there every week. They go in and have a set list of things they need. Maybe 1 week, a different brand of cheese is on sale, so they try it. After all, its half off. Maybe they like it better, and they start buying that brand, even after the price goes back up.
Also, not everything you buy is on sale all the time. If you have coupons or know that half of your list is on sale, you go in and get everything you need. The next week, a different set of items is on sale, so you still have motivation to go into the store, even if you don't save money on some items you will save on others. The store basically uses that marketing strategy instead of just charging say, 15% cheaper across the board, because those saving seem like a good idea and it gets you to GO INTO THE STORE.
You ever seen a frys electronics ad? They have random shit in there that you just know they are losing money on, with a quantity limit. They know that once you are inside, you will spend money on things you did not come there to buy, and you will probably pay full retail for them if you want them bad enough. That is why different items go on sale on different weeks.
They don't really give a fuck about paul and ralph. Just that they got both of them to go into the store with the sale price so that they spend their money with the store.
Re: Advantage Pricing
2012-06-26 14:38 • by Daniel Smedegaard Buus (unregistered)
TRWTF here is in the calories submission.
Not the obvious math fail, but the wholly mindnumbing suggestions on how to burn calories.
Well, obviously not to me, though, as I'm one of the millions of people now crazing over the new fad: treading water. It's fun, and it takes up less space in the pool, so more people can fit in it at one time! Plus, if you pee in the water, the treading and the amount of people in your vicinity makes it virtually impossible to pinpoint you as the culprit.
Oh wait, it says *vigorous* treading — well, then I'm out, can't stand treading with all those athletes tread training for the olympics. Too much pressure.
Guess I'll just burn those calories on my unicycle instead — it says only five minutes.
The best beef loin is usually made from "inspected and passed meat and/or poultry".
rerigerated -- [[consonant][vowel]]*
lol looks like you better take the advantage price of $3.00 it looks like the other price was for the whole cow lol too funny!
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2012-07-09 07:51 • by Anonymous (unregistered)
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Atheist don't need to convert anyone. They merely don't want theists to impose theism on atheists or other theists.
Well, some of them don't want that. Some not. Atheists are not a coherent group with an agenda.
There are plenty of other forums around that deal specifically with religion, christian, hindu, buddhist etc. There are other forums that deal with science without a religion section. So yea - why bang yr head against a wall here..
I am sure there are no conversions, but I think there is an increased understanding of others point of view i.e. what makes them tick. not necessarily a bad thing for anyone..
05-12-06, 07:56 AM #4Originally Posted by lightOriginally Posted by light
05-12-06, 08:06 AM #6ConfutatisGuestOriginally Posted by Theoryofrelativity
EVERY thread here rehashes the SAME old crap, I do not for the life of me know why the same people keep posting in reply to the same people, same topic diffrent thread.
Has an atheist EVER converted to theism as a result of reading posts here or vice a versa?
05-12-06, 08:10 AM #7Originally Posted by geeser
It has to be said though, that was nothing whatsoever to do with this website / or any other.
05-12-06, 08:58 AM #8Originally Posted by geeser
Spurious, plenty of atheists here frequently try to convert people to their way of thinking, they do it by informing theists they a e 'stupid', 'retard' and all manner of insults oh and then there are the 'arguments' that 'prove' God does not exist, what is this if not attempting to 'sway' (perhaps you feel more comfortable with that term?) the audience in their favour.
05-12-06, 09:04 AM #9Originally Posted by Theoryofrelativity
05-12-06, 09:12 AM #10Originally Posted by Sarkus
EXACTLY! So why after a few threads all dedicated to the same theme with identical responses getting exactly knowhere does it continue????? With all the same game players????????
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That explains a lot. I only superficially browse the relgion forum lately and was always thinking: what's wrong with M*W? She saw the light.
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What is the point of this forum?
Surely rational discussion in an adult mature way between people on important subjects (and I believe a belief in God or otherwise is important) is always worthwhile. Thiis sort of discussion is what freedom of thought, freedom of speech and freedom or reilgion (or no religion) is all about.
We should count ourselves all lucky or blessed (dependent on theological view) that we can participate in such, without fear of some action being taken against us, as would be likely under repressive regimes, be they religiously based or atheistic.
Statistically the more people who contribute, the more likely people's views may well be swayed or even changed one way or the other. Everyone who reads the forum may not have a totally fixed view and we shall know very little about that if they only read rather than contribute!
It is sad that often people do not read others' views and consider them, but merely contribute a slightly different version of their own personal prejudice.
It is sadder still when people have so little rational argument to contribute that they resort to personal abuse or insult.
As for knowledge and attempting to convert people, there is an argument (clearly not universally agreed) that people are born with a desire of some sort of relationship with God (or gods) but whatever the truth of that, in knowledge terms we are all born agnostic. We have no factual knowledge until we are taught it or learn it for ourselves.
In the modern western world, naturalistic atheistic views of the world are taught and often with the latest paradigm quoted as 'proven scientific fact'. So there is pressure to make people atheists and often to do that in an intellectually dishonest fashion. This is without counting such blatant anti-Christian fictional stories as the 'Da Vinci Code' being blatantly masqueraded as fact.
On the other side of the coin, we know that Islam requires by its own ideology coversion by submission (using force if necessary). On the other hand christianity which does not have such an intrinsic message is used by those who would call themselves 'Christians' as an excuse for all sorts of actions which I am sure Jesus would find totally abhorrent. People often do not follow Christ because of 'Christians' and I would urge people to consider whether that is rational and logical or not.
That said it is clear that the knowledge that many atheists have of Christian belief and doctrine and the contents of the Bible is to put it mildly somewhat thin. This often makes discussion about Christians and Christianity from their side based on a completely inaccurate impression of the true facts.
People are changed by rational discussion and logical consideration. C.S. Lewis became a Christian that way as did a much lesser person - myself!
So let's keep the discussion going but let's not believe that people are stupid or worthy of insult because they espouse any particular position. This is just not so!
kind regards to all,
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Usage of the words 'god dam, light, jesus fuck' etc does not imply the believe in god. Did someone lose faith when they say 'darn it'? Nope.
05-12-06, 10:21 AM #15Originally Posted by Theoryofrelativity
If beliefs can't stand up to scrutiny then surely one must try to understand the weaknesses, and the strengths, so that they can clarify within themselves.
So many here put their beliefs (either for or against) up to the test.
Some people are content with the result of that testing and go away with a renewed understanding and confidence in those beliefs.
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1) Each argument / collaboration might yield an opportunity to learn more about human behavior.
2) The diversity of thought process provides furtile grounds for testing psychological and sociological hypothesis without participants realizing they're part of an experiment.
3) Knowing the thought process of both 'believers' and 'non-believers' intimately makes it easier to see where the poles are and where the weaknesses / unknowns are.
4) Sometimes people learn things and change their thought processes.
5) This is a public forum and it's content contains a wealth of information that offline viewers can draw from and use in potentially concrete ways.
6) Participation in the forums helps improve a person's debating skills.
7) Sometimes you have an opportinity to develop relationships with some great people.
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I think by playing devils advocate here I can get you lot to confess your mutual 'need' for each other at least!
(atheists and theists that is)
05-12-06, 10:46 AM #19Originally Posted by thedevilsreject
what a coincidence.Originally Posted by Light Travelling
non-religious does not necessarily mean atheist, atheism is not simple non-religious.
there are some who say they are atheist that dont really understand what an atheist is, (these are usually the religious, trying to make a point.)
sarkus put it this way in regard to someone else, saying the same thingOriginally Posted by sarkus
Originally Posted by Light TravellingOriginally Posted by Light Travelling
atheism is individual, atheism is what you are, before religion has taken hold, nobody who has been atheist from birth or rediscovered it/cleared his head, would go back to being religious not without the use of drugs or getting brain damage.Originally Posted by Light Travelling
We do often talk among ourselves visit here:
Now check out these above forums and see how many idiotic religious nut jobs go in there discusing and selling their wares.
As for boards like this one it's open for all comers, so topics seem to look alike often here in religious forum of sci, it's an ongoing debate since the first hallusinating cave men believed in gods, and few saw different.


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In binding private ruling 115 (BPR 115) the South African Revenue Service (SARS) considered the following set of facts:
- A manufacturer sells its goods to various retailers and wholesalers.
- The manufacturer wants to run a 'reward' or 'incentive' scheme to encourage sales persons to sell the manufacturer's goods.
- The sales persons are employed by the various retailers and wholesalers and not by the manufacturer and as such are independent from the manufacturer.
- The manufacturer does not have any control or supervision over the sales persons and the retailers and wholesalers may prohibit the sales persons (being their employees) from taking part in the scheme.
- The sales persons will not operate from the premises of the manufacturer but from the premises of their employers.
- Each sales person taking part in the scheme will receive a card, onto which cash credits will be loaded.
- The amount of cash credits to be allocated to a sales person's card will depend on the sales performance of that individual.
- The sales persons may use the cards at their discretion to pay for various goods and services.
- The cards will be credited from time to time from a separate bank account held by the manufacturer.
The concern, from a tax perspective, was whether the cash credits received by the sales persons would constitute 'remuneration' as defined in paragraph 1 of the Fourth Schedule to the Income Tax Act, No 58 of 1962. If it were to constitute 'remuneration', employees' tax would have to be accounted for. This is so because where an employer pays remuneration to an employee, the employer becomes liable to withhold employees' tax in terms of paragraph 2(1) of the Fourth Schedule to the Act.
In simple terms, an employee is defined as anyone who receives remuneration and an employer is defined as anyone who pays remuneration. Accordingly, for purposes of employees' tax one must have regard to whether "remuneration" is payable or receivable and not to whether there is an employer-employee relationship in common law terms.
'Remuneration' is broadly defined as "any amount of income which is paid or is payable to any persons by way of any salary, leave pay, wage, overtime pay, bonus, gratuity, commissioner, fee, emolument, pension, superannuation allowance, retiring allowance or stipend, whether in cash or otherwise and whether or not in respect of services rendered…(a) including any amount referred to in paragraph (a), (c), (cA), (d), (e), (eA), or (f) of the definition of "gross income" in Section 1 of this Act" but does not include "any amount paid or payable in respect of services rendered or to be rendered by any person…in the course of any trade carried on by him independently of the person by whom such amount is paid or payable and of the person to whom such services have been or are to be rendered…"
Without giving any reasons, SARS ruled that the amount would not constitute 'remuneration' and that employees' tax will not have to be accounted for by the manufacturer. It is, however, not entirely clear how the 'rewards' escape the definition of 'remuneration', for example, whether it is due to the independence of the sales persons or due to some other reason.
Nevertheless, SARS specifically points out in their ruling that the amounts will constitute 'gross income' in the hands of the sales persons and it will be subject to normal tax.


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Palak and corn curry is a healthy and delicious curry. I make this quite often as it is liked by all in the family and goes well with roti, paratha, poori or even rice. You can use either fresh corn or frozen corn to make this curry. Here is the recipe.
All you need is
Spinach - 250 g
Baking soda - a pinch
Oil - 5-6 tbsp
Dry red chilies - 3-4
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Onion - 1 cup ( thinly sliced )
Garlic - 5-6 cloves ( chopped )
Ginger - 1 inch piece ( chopped )
Tomato - 1\2 cup ( chopped )
Coriander powder - 3 tsp
Red chili powder - 1\2 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1\2 tsp
Corn - 3 cups ( boiled till soft )
Salt to taste
Lemon juice - 2 tbsp
Method of preparation
Pick the leaves from the spinach bunch and discard the stems.
Heat water in a big vessel and let it come to a boil.
Add 2 tsp salt and baking soda and spinach leaves in the boiling water.
Cook for 2 minutes.
Drain the spinach and run under ice cold water.
Blend in a blender to make a smooth paste.
Keep aside.
Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan.
When the oil is hot, add cumin seeds and dry red chilies.
Add garlic and fry for 10 seconds.
Add onion and ginger and fry till onions are slightly browned.
Add tomatoes and fry for a minute.
Add coriander powder, red chili powder and garam masala powder.
Add half cup water and fry for 3-4 minutes.
Remove the pan from heat.
Let it cool for 10 minutes.
Blend the onion mixture in a blender to make a smooth paste.
Keep the same pan on heat.
Add the onion paste to the pan.
Add the spinach puree and a cup of water.
Cook for 2-3 minutes.
Add the boiled corn and salt to taste.
Cook for another 2-3 minutes.
Add lemon juice and mix well.
Transfer in the serving bowl.
Garnish with fresh cream.
Serve hot with paratha, poori or rice.


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I was feeling gloomy and rather bored today..i trying to make fan art of Kurosaki Ichigo's inner hollow and i collaborated it with ghost rider and took about 3 hours,hope all like it :)
Hichigo/Bleach (c) Kubo Tite
ghost rider (c) Marvel comics
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Part 2
I felt Bitto's hand brushing against my cheeks as she woke me up. With a lot of difficulty, I opened my eyes and yawned loudly. My eyes hurt because of all the crying I had done in the washroom.
"You miss Baragaon na?"
"Yes, I do. I had papa there and friends and'"
His name made me sit upright. The hole in my chest was pulling me towards it and I clutched my chest hard. Finally, I spoke, "What about him?"
"You miss him, Miu. And it is natural. You both were staying under one roof and although there was no sexual contact'"
She went on speaking and I lost myself, remembering the details of yesterday's doings. His kisses, his touches, his voice- his manly voice- and his hold, all came back to me. I could remember the way he moaned when I kissed the length of his neck. The way he pulled me close to him after he convinced me to go back. The look of need, WANT in his eyes when my hands unbuttoned his kurta.
I missed him. I love him. I want him. ONLY him. My feelings for him increased the minute he kissed me. But now I HAD to love Akash- something that now seemed very difficult.
"Miu, Miu?! Are you listening to me?" Bitto was shaking me and I wiped the tears of my eyes.
"Ya, I am fine. I just'"
"Thinking about him, right? He is a good boy, Miu, but isn't the one you can live with forever. How are you going to live your life without luxouries, comfort and with a man who isn't educated? How would you be able to cope up with it all? How-"
I flashed my eyes at her, full of tears and anger, "How would I live?! You SAW me living there! You saw that I was getting used to it! I was adapting to the changes! I don't need a man who will just provide me with luxuries. I don't need someone who will sing songs to be all the time! I want someone I LOVE! I LOVE PRITHVI! I FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM AND YOU..!!"
"It could be infac-"
"Don't you dare tell me that it was infactuation! I realized the reason why I didn't feel the sparks with Akash. I was going to get married to the WRONG guy! I loved Akash, but wasn't IN love with him! With Prithvi, everything was different. He never treated me like a delicate china piece. He taught me how to live in the village. He showed me how difficult life can be. He taught me HOW to love! And you are asking me to forget about him?"
I felt Bitto's grasping my hand tightly, "You are getting married to Akash and that is FINAL!"
And for one second, I couldn't see my Bitto. It was like she had disappeared and an all new lady had taken her place
I felt the soft material of the dupatta resting on my forehead and sighed. Today was THE day of my marriage. To Akash. The only person I discussed about Prithvi was with my best friend, Khyati. She understood how I was feeling at the moment. My bitto changed completely after that day. I lost her after my confession about loving Prithvi.
Khyati entered the room and looked at me with sad eyes. Suddenly, she dropped some lemon juice on me.
"Oh God! I am SO sorry! Come with me, Miu! I will wash the stain off!"
Once we were out of the room, she began running with me.
"Khyati, what are you doing?" I said while panting.
"Making you run away to the station! You are going to Baragaon, now! And you WILL get your Prithvi back!"
"What?!" I said but went on running.
We reached the back door and she pulled me to her car. Starting the engine, she began driving and I closed my eyes.
The drive was short and we ran upto the platform.
"Here is your ticket! And here is your suitcase!" she said handing me a suitcase which I didn't even notice and a ticket. "Now go! Your soulmate is waiting for you! And don't worry, I will manage everything here- after all, you are my sister, na!"
I got in the train and looked at her.
"Thank you Khyati. I feel bad about running away, but there is nothing else we can do! Bitto won't listen to me."
"Go and sit, Miu! No need to thank me!"
I smiled at her and went to sit and the train started to move. I closed my eyes and prayed that everything would be fine'.
The train ride was taking longer than I expected. Infact, it was taking forever! I began to think about Prithvi and closed my eyes- his possessive hold, the love in his eyes when he made me feel his heartbeat, the lust in his eyes when we were trying to get rid of our clothing'it isn't easy to forget all that!
"BARAGAON, BARAGAON!"I heard a man scream and jumped out of my trance- I was there! Quickly, grabbing my suitcase, I ran outside. All of a sudden, people became quiet- Data's daughter was back. Again.
Ignoring them, I went to a man with a jeep similar to Prithvi's.
"Bhaiya, Baragaon chaloge?"
He nodded and I sat down. The jeep bagan to move.
"You are Data's daughter, right? The one who got married to Prithvi bhaiya?"
I nodded, "Yes. And now I am back. I am NOT leaving this village now. I left everything here- everything that I have always wanted. I can't let go now."
"You came back for Prithvi bhaiya, na?"
I nodded and smiled at the man.
"Your Jodi was made in heaven. Nothing can separate both of you. I know how hurt both of you must've felt when you left the village. But I am sure that you shall have a happy married life! We have reached the haveli."
I looked at him, puzzled.
"Prithvi Bhaiya is inside. And you are not paying for this ride, bhabhiji! Parivaar wale kya paisa denge?!
"Thank you so much!" I said and ran inside but what I saw made me hide behind a pole.
"I am sorry, Data, but I am not getting married again. Meera was, is and forever will be everything to me. I can't marry Sunehri."
"Prithvi, you HAVE to marry me! I can't live without you, I shall die!"
"I am dying as well, Sunehri. Every minute without Meera is killing me! But I HAVE to live!"
His words made me cry, I couldn't belive that there was someone who loved me so much!
Facing my back to them, I said loudly, "You are right Prithvi, you aren't getting married to Sunehri."
Everyone became quiet. After a few moments, Sunehri spoke, "Who the HELL are you? How dare you interfere in our family matter?"
"Listen miss, I am interfering because I am a huge part of Prithvi's life- I am his wife!" I said and turned around. Everyone was shocked, surprised! I looked at Prithvi, who had tears in his eyes.
"Why are you crying, love? I am here- here for you! And I am not going back! I came running, running from my wedding." I said and ran upto him.
He touched my cheek and held my hands in his shaky ones. Realisation struck him, "You ARE really here?! I am not hallucinating?!"
"No, I am really here, my Rambo Singh." I said and we moved close to each other and were just about to kiss each other when I found myself flying across the room. I was pinned to a wall and Sunehri held my throat, strangling me.
"I won't let you have him, you-"
"Stop it!" Prithvi said and ran towards us. He grabbed hold of Sunehri's hands and pushed her behind. At the same time, he engulfed me in his arms.
"How DARE you touch her?! She is my WIFE! And I can't wait longer now. Data, please let us go."
We almost ran to his jeep with the entire family behind us. He pushed me against it and kissed me hard and lovingly. We broke apart too soon.
"Mandir now. I can't wait to wed you."
Without another word, he pulled me towards the drivers' seat where I looked at him, confused. To my surprise, he lifted me and made me sit on his lap! I blushed and looked away.
"I know that I am acting like a mad man but I have had enough!"
We drove all the way to the temple and he picked me in his arms. Setting me down, we ran to the temple where we saw Panditji sitting. Within 4 hours we were married- Panditji did my kanya daan!
The long wait was now over. I was sitting on the bed with the ghunghat on my head. I went to look outside the window at the full moon feeling extremely happy- my life was complete now!
Suddenly a pair of arms wrapped around me and began to plant kisses on the length of my neck. I silently moaned, throwing my head back. He made me face him and look into his eyes.
"Tumne meri nafrat kii junoon dekhi hain, abh mere pyaar ka junoon dekhogi! Jis insaan ne aaj tak kissi se pyaar nahi kiya, voh sirf ek insaan ko humesha ke liye pyaar karega. I will love you till the day I live'"
I couldn't control myself and crushed my mouth to his. He carried me bridal style and pushed me against a wall. In a quick frenzy, we removed our clothes. While he explored the length of my neck, I unbuttoned his kurta and pushed it off. He undid the dori of my blouse and unpinned the dupatta from my hair. Then, we kissed each other while removing my jewellery. We were keeping everything on the table next to us.
Soon, he opened my hair, letting my wavy hair free. I tugged at his hair and he set us on the bed. He looked in my eyes as he peeled off the blouse and my lehenga.
"Oh God, you are so beautiful'" his lips moved down, kissing my chest and paying extra attention to the sensitive spots, biting and marking me as his.
"Don't stop! Please!" I writhed against the blankets, trying to guide him to my womanhood.
"All in good time."
I couldn't believe that this was real. He was really here. I kissed him hard before he slid down my body to my womanhood, paying attention to it. Something snapped inside me for the first time and I knew what it was.
I rolled us over and loved his body. We seemed to fit together. I peeled off his dhoti and looked at him naked for the first time- he was so handsome. I loved every bit of his skin. He moaned when I paid attention to his manhood.
Soon, we were lying on the bed, him on top of me, kissing deeply. He spent more 2 hours just loving me, worshipping me.
"You are a goddess, Meera, I can't take your virtue without loving you'"
"I have had enough wait, please make love to me Prithvi!"
He looked in my eyes and began to enter me slowly. I bit my lip, trying not to feel the pain.
"Almost there, love, it is going to hurt."
He slid past my barrier and I gasped loudly. We looked at each other with tears in our eyes. We moved, gently. I couldn't believe that this was my Prithvi. The man who detested me was now loving me. And not only mentally, but physically as well.
We moved faster and faster until I snapped again and saw stars. Prithvi stilled inside me and then collapsed on top of me. My legs wrapped around him, holding him in place.
The next day, Akash and Bitto came to Baragaon, searching for me. When they came to our house, Bitto nearly fainted. The reason being that Prithvi and I were about to make love again while I was sitting on his lap! But we were clothed- only that Prithvi's kurta was on the floor and my hair was open!
I apologized to them. Bitto never forgave me, but Akash did. Although Bitto was staying at Baragaon now permanently, she didn't talk to me again. She accepted out marriage though.
Prithvi was an excellent lover. He was cheesy and corny and at the same time he could claim me as his ANYWHERE! We were very happy- finally wedded and loving each other! I was exteremely happy to be Mrs. Meera Prithvi!
I never knew that falling in love would be this intense, the reason being that we hated each other because Aisi Nafrat, Toh Kaisa Ishq?! But it was out Junoon which made us fall in love unconditionally!
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Plastic Rat said...
I totally agree with you!
Which is why I believe Blizzard is failing. I have an 80 year old grandmother who plays. She struggles to hit the keyboard due to severe arthritis.
With Naxx, I would set her up on follow, give her a pencil and she'd randomly stab the keyboard. This was ok and she got to see Naxx, get some epix and her DPS wasn't that bad.
With Ulduar though I feel Blizzard really isn't being fair. She can make it past the Flame Leviathan if we put her in the gun seat of a demolisher, but after that she just dies constantly and the raid leader complains about here sub 2000 DPS.
She really hopes they'll make the vehicles on Flame Leviathan work on autopilot so she can drive them one day.


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ONB COLUMBUS: With the announcement that a potentially job-rich steel plant decided to pull the plug on locating in Ohio because of electric rate uncertainty, Gov. Ted Strickland, who had called for his energy plan to be passed by the legislature last year, laid the blame of the job losses on Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted for delaying the passage of the bill.
The company considering Ohio was Steel Development LLC, a scrap-based still mill owned by a group of American and European steel executives. The group was exploring Ohio for its $1 billion facility that would have employed 500 people, according to a report in the Mansfield News Journal (MNJ).
A steel plant official said the uncertainty of knowing what the cost of electricity would be over a multi-year period was reason enough to look elsewhere. The steel plant, which uses electric arc furnace technology to turn scrap metal into flat-rolled steel to be used in domestic infrastructure.
"We should have been able to give that company that information. If this bill had passed expeditiously, as I had asked, if it had been dealt with in a timeframe that I think was appropriate, we may have saved this $1 billion investment." [Gov. Strickland, MNJ]
With Ohio's economic conditioning looking pale from the loss of so many jobs over the years – it had a net loss in 2007 of 12,200 non-farm jobs – combined with a projected budget deficit in mid 2009 of between $733 million and $1.9 billion, letting hundreds of good paying jobs slip away because electric rate information wasn't given is another blow to the Buckeye State's midsection.
It experienced similar heartache last year when it lost out to Virginia as the site for an expansion of Rolls-Royce's North American operations.
Strickland's comprehensive energy bill was introduced last fall and passed the Ohio Senate in late October. The Ohio House, under Speaker Husted's leadership, decided to slow walk it, some say, to coax contributions from interested parties like FirstEnergy Corp., American Electric Power Co. and Duke Energy to Republican Senate and House campaign coffers.
Husted, a term-limited Republican from Dayton who has plans to run for the Senate and who is rumored to have his eye on the office of secretary of state in 2010, has delayed the bills transit through the lower chamber by refashioning it in ways that will surely result in future negotiations with Strickland and the Senate.
While the House version of the energy bill has yet to address the areas of marketing and regulation that the Senate version spoke to, Husted seems to have gotten religion on alternative energy. As recently as today, reports show Husted has crafted a new bill that doubles down on renewable energy provisions and imposes fines on utilities that don't meet specific benchmarks.
Husted's born-again calling to the tangible benefits that could be realized from promoting the further deployment of renewable energy from wind and solar, among other alternative energy sources, is gaining cheers from environmental and consumer groups who historically saw Republicans as a backstop for the interests of big energy producers.
The Republican plan Husted is steering contemplates the imposition of fines on utilities -- who would be prohibited from passing them onto consumers -- who fail to meet specific renewable energy benchmarks.
"Punishment has always been a good incentive for me in life." [House Speaker Jon Husted, Toledo Blade]
Normally left standing at the altar in energy debates, the Ohio Consumers' Counsel (OCC), the state's residential energy advocate, commended Husted for "adding important details to ensure economic benefits will be gained for consumers and businesses" that will "capture the untapped potential for green energy and technologies available to reduce our usage."
The OCC said in a press release that Husted's "inclusion of benchmarks to ensure that utilities make needed progress and the adoption of a more ambitious energy efficiency standard matter greatly and will help lawmakers and consumers send the message that they care about managing the costs of power, both on their monthly bills and on the environment."
This may be fine and dandy for 2025, but for 2008 and the near future, the announcement that a major employer has turned the lights out on Ohio because politicians have delayed passage of such an important bill is not the news Strickland and state officials want to send to other prospective employers, who may see what happened to Steel Development and decide not to even bother spending time in Ohio.
John Michael Spinelli is a former Ohio Statehouse government and political reporter and business columnist. He now serves as the OhioNews Bureau Chief for ePluribus Media Journal. Find ONB archives here.
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We're wasting enormous resources as a nation.
We have empty housing stock and industrial plants in one state, and yet we're busy bulldozing farmland to build more housing in another. I really think we need a National Planning Commission to look at the US, assess future growth, and try to encourage effective reuse of existing plants and housing.
Different states have different assets. And yet, as far as I cant ell, we seem to be encouraging the worst growth possible across the nation.
is still very unfocused from a central planning standpoint. Government, by and large, is merely a zoning referee for private sector interests. Illinois actually has a planning statute that provides some thoughtful checks and balances to how development occurs.
A couple years ago, an Ohio House subcommittee issued a report on growth and land use. It incorporated comments from a broad cross section of the public, from individual citizens to government planners to thoughts from think tank researchers. The buzzword then, as it is now, is "urban sprawl," the term that describes the seemingly unfettered rambling expansion of tract housing and retail development, whether needed or wanted, onto farmland because its cheaper to build out than up. Of course, as outward expansion occurs, and builders and contractors are applauded for this effort by elected officials who benefit from campaign contributions from this sector, strains on services are experienced. From basics like police and fire, to infrastructure basics like water and sewer to servicing new further-out developments with roads able to accommodate the expansion, tax bases are challenged.
In a nutshell, it recommended the following:
1) Urban Homestead Zones;
2) New Funding Source for Agriculture Easement Purchases;
3) Impact fees for counties and townships;
4) Impact fees for Public School Districts;
5) Expanding transfer of development rights;
6) Planned County status;
7) Reauthorization of the Clean Ohio Fund;
8) Township land use plans;
9) Township subdivision regulation;
10) Township zoning;
11) State Tax Credits for Historic Rehabilitation;
12) Equalizing Community Reinvestment Act tax breaks for rehabilitation;
13) More Accessible financing for rehabilitation and Infill developments;
14) Zoning for aggregate facilities;
15) Protect our farmland
To my mind, based on my fairly extensive travels in Europe, the lost child in all this growth is the complete absence of public transportation. As a nation, we are devoted to cars. We have sacrificed rail and bus systems on the altar of car manufacturers, the petroleum class that fuels them and the road-builder complex that builds the spider web of roads necessary to have it all work.
Ohio has done little to really incorporate Smart Growth policies in top-down legislation. With the housing bubble now bursting, we're seeing that suburban homeowners are as likely as urban dwellers to fall victim to home foreclosures. We know from the example of Portland, Oregon what a comprehensive, smart planning system can do to stop "sprawl" from ruling the day. But Portland remains an exception to the rule of most government planning bureaus that seem to exist to assist private sector developers in building what ever they want where ever they want because they've gotten financing from some bank or lender.
Maybe the housing crisis will bring a halt to farmer Jones' land turning into a thousand roof tops overnight. The Surge in Iraq was designed to give Iraq government leaders the space to make important government decisions. Maybe the surge in home foreclosures will give space for a new look at the quality and quantity of growth.
Jimmy Carter tried to get people to turn down their thermostats, put on a sweater, and drive 55 to conserve oil. He pretty much got vilified for it. Mass transit does play a role. Rail transport is heating up as gas prices make transporting goods over rail cheaper. If the pattern holds, there won't be any way around a new national transit program.
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would be too good to believe. In 1977, I got my first job in Ohio government, working in the Ohio Senate. It was during this time I recall that the Ohio Rail Development Authority was established. Thirty-one years later, I may be wrong, but I don't think a single mile of track has been put down. This is how blind we seem to be in this state and this country to rail transportation.
Discussion about what should be in a stimulus package to take us out of the path of an oncoming, speeding recession has touched on the need to update our infrastrucutre; reflective of the spirit embodied in FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps. Sure, bridges and roads need repair and updating. If I were the next president, I'd pursue a national rail program with the same zeal that President Eisenhower pursued in the 50s to build out of a national highway system. We could reduce tonnage on our roads, increase passenger traffic, allow people to live in one location and work in another, and redesign our urban areas around rail nodes. Most important of all, it would be a huge job creator -- after all, we Italians and Chinese and other immigrant labor groups built the first transcontinental railroad. I'm sure there would be no shortage of workers who would do the same today.
As for President Carter, I always thought he was doing the right things. But political conservatives have rewritten his history to make it seem like he was a southern Don Quixote tilting at energy windmills. As we see from columnist Paul Krugman's article today, Carter's administration actually outperformed those of Reagan and Bush One in growth rate. But history has been unkind to him. The media only remembers the rise in oil prices from the first oil embargo that came at the end of his term, stagflation (which were sort of in now) and the debacle of the Iranian hostages.
France, along with other European countries, has a great rail transit system. Now, as their high-speed TVG trains gain in popularity, they have an aggressive program to extend them to all parts of the country. About the size of Texas, France knows it has a good thing and is rail expansion plans are just another example of what good, public-interested government can do when good people are working in it.
But after 31 years of no light rail, let alone high-speed rail in Ohio, I find it totally unrealistic that the oil and auto lobbies wouldn't fight to the death to stop any roll out of a national rail transit system as you've envisioned.


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- 07-26-2013 07:51 PM - permalinkSweeney RoadYou are welcome! Kaiyoum has a Legion of Merit award, by the way, which is what the '++' means. The Legion of Merit is awarded to horses which have 75 points, with a minimum of 30 in breeding/in-hand and 30 in performance. A very good stud.
- 07-26-2013 07:32 PM - permalinkAs You WishThanks so much for all the information. I will see if I can get a hold of her owners. I will let you know what I find out. I am going check out the link you sent on Arabianbreeders.net.
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At the end of each fall and spring term, Dakota State University recognizes part-time undergraduate students who have earned at least a 3.50 system GPA in their coursework during that academic term.
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After a recent burglary at an Asheville pharmacy, police hope surveillance photos will help solve the crime and previous burglaries at the same business.
Asheville police said on Nov. 10, someone broke into Blue Ridge Pharmacy at 948 Tunnel Rd. about 4:50 a.m. The burglar broke out a front window with a tool then fled with prescription drugs, police said.
The burglar was described as having dark hair, wearing a white T-shirt that hangs long in the back, jeans and a zip-up jacket that had some sort of label on the top back part of the jacket, possibly orange in color.
This was not the first burglary at the pharmacy. Police said they have several others since 2009 that remain unsolved. In all of the burglaries, police said the front window was broken, a tool was left behind and an unknown amount of prescriptions were stolen.
On Jan. 26, 2011, about 3:45 a.m. someone broke in and stole prescriptions including a pint-size bottle of liquid Cheratussin codeine cough syrup, police said. They said the burglar that time was a large-build white male wearing a black toboggan, thick plaid jacket, gloves, baggy blue jeans, dark brown or black shoes or boots.
There were also burglaries between 3 and 5 a.m. on Jan. 23, 2009, March 5, 2009 and March 2, 2010.
Anyone who can identify the man seen on camera or has information on the burglaries is asked to call police at 828-252-1110 or Crime Stoppers at 828-255-5050.
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Utah Symphony | Utah Opera will celebrate the music and arts of China in the Silk & Spices Festival, kicking off with a Utah Symphony concert on Friday, Jan. 31 — the first night of the Chinese New Year — and continuing until April 22. The multidisciplinary festival, which includes Utah Opera's March production of the Puccini opera "Turandot," also will feature lectures, dance concerts, film screenings and food presented by other Salt Lake City-area arts organizations and restaurants.
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'The Five Elements' » Utah Symphony concerts will feature Qigang Chen's "Wu Xing (Five Elements)," which explores the belief that the five elements of water, metal, air, wood and fire control the phenomena and create connections in life. Thierry Fischer conducts the performances, which also feature Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Conrad Tao. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 8 p.m.; Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City; $18-$55 ($5 more on concert day); utahsymphony.org.
Chinese New Year Festival » A celebration of the holiday with music, dance and crafts. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2-4 p.m.; Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South; free; slcpl.org.
Trade and Travel on the Silk Road » Lecture by curator Luke Kelly, workshop for teachers and tour of Silk Road-inspired art. Wednesday, Feb. 5, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City; free, but registration is required; umfa.utah.edu or 801-585-7163.
'The Turandot Project' » Documentary film about Zhang Yimou's 1998 production of "Turandot" in Beijing's Forbidden City, where the opera had been banned for decades; a Q&A with Utah Opera artistic director Christopher McBeth will follow. Tuesday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m.; Salt Lake City Main Library auditorium, 210 E. 400 South; free; utahfilmcenter.org.
Shen Yun » The touring troupe portrays 5,000 years of Chinese civilization through classical Chinese dance and music. Tuesday and Wednesday, March 4-5; Weber State University Browning Center, 1905 University Circle, Ogden; tickets start at $50; tickets.shenyun.com/event/shen-yun-2014-ogden-2014.
Online learning » Lessons by Sue Neimoyer of the University of Utah School of Music will give background on Puccini's "Turandot" in connection with the Utah Opera production. Free; available February through April at utahopera.org/onlinelearning.
'Turandot' » Utah Opera presents Puccini's final opera, the story of an icy princess who poses a series of three riddles to her suitors and has them put to death if they answer incorrectly. March 15, 17, 19 and 21, 7:30 p.m., and March 23, 2 p.m.; Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City; $18-$83 ($5 more on performance day); utahopera.org. With 30-minute pre-performance lectures by principal coach Carol Anderson and post-performance Q&A sessions with artistic director Christopher McBeth.
Pre-opera Southern Chinese dinner » Dine and learn about southern Chinese fare. Wednesday, March 19, 5:30-7 p.m.; Hong Kong Tea House, 565 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City; $30 per person, including tip; 801-533-NOTE.
Utah Chinese Folk Orchestra » Traditional Chinese instruments and music. Monday, March 24, 7 p.m.; Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City; $10 adults and $5 youth; 801-533-NOTE.
'Farewell My Concubine' » Screening of Chen Kaige's 1993 film spanning 50 years in the lives of two Peking Opera stars. Tuesday, March 25, 6 p.m.; Salt Lake City Main Library auditorium, 210 E. 400 South; free; utahfilmcenter.org.
'The Three Questions' » Children's Dance Theatre brings to life the story of a Chinese boy who must answer three questions to become emperor. Friday and Saturday, March 28-29, 7:30 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee March 29; Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City; tickets start at $17, with half-price admission for children 12 and younger; arttix.org.
Chinese Music for Western Instruments » Utah Symphony associate principal second violinist Wen Yuan Gu joins pianist Hsiang Tu. Monday, March 31, 7 p.m.; Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City; $10 adults and $5 youth; 801-533-NOTE.
Utah's Pioneer Silk Industry and Modern Silk Art » Demonstration by silk spinner Judy Guinn, Lisa Buckmiller of Centerville's Thomas Whitaker Museum and silk artist Anna Marie Coronado. Saturday, April 12, 10 a.m.-noon; Utah Opera Production Studios, 336 N. 400 West, Salt Lake City; $5; 801-533-NOTE.
Northern Chinese dinner » See South Salt Lake's new Chinatown and feast while learning about northern Chinese dining. Thursday, April 17, 5:30-7 p.m.; Ho Mei, 3370 S. State, South Salt Lake; $30 per person, including tip; 801-533-NOTE.
'Hero' » Screening of Zhang Yimou's colorful 2002 martial-arts film; a Q&A session with fight choreographer Paul Kiernan will follow. Tuesday, April 22, 7 p.m.; Salt Lake City Main Library auditorium, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City; free; utahfilmcenter.org.
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I think this is clearly an attempt by Blizzard to gauge the community reaction to gold selling in WoW. The entire BOE aspect versus the BOA of previous pets/mounts is a clever way to do this versus the model that will be used in Diablo III. I do find it curious how Blizzard had said there were "no plans" to bring the real cash AH to WoW and now this new pet shows up. I don't think this is a coincidence.
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Massive Telescope Enables Students to Map the Skies
Massive Telescope Enables Students to Map the Skies Above Los Angeles City College
By Jessica Brecker
The iconic dome of the Griffith Observatory looms high on a hill overlooking Los Angeles City College. Inside is one of the largest public solar telescopes in the world. In its shadow, on a viewing deck perched on top of the Science and Technology Building at LACC, is a similar, though smaller, dome.
LACC has eight telescopes that are impressive in size, and one massive reflective telescope with a 28-inch wide mirror.
"This is the biggest telescope in the district," said physics professor Dean Arvidson. "I don't think Cal State LA has one. I mean, it's big enough that you can do research with it, you can see details."
The department has a name for its pride and joy.
"We just call it The Webster," said astronomy professor Paul McCudden.
The Webster was the result of funds from the Walter O'Connell Endowment. Walter O'Connell died in 2006, but LACC remembers the beloved physics professor with a memorial lecture every semester. The last one was in May 2013.
During the Memorial lectures Physics professors from Cal Tech give enlightening discussions reminiscent of O'Connell's series of lectures, Innovation in Science. O'Connell's legendary lectures started in 1958, and took place every Friday at noon in N Hall. Topics included Concerning Ashby's Design for a Brain, which explored the "similar behavior between living organisms and computing machines," according to the September 1958 issue of Collegian.
The school received $341,000 from the Walter O'Connell Endowment in 2005, to fund scholarships, awards, and distinguished speakers, according to the May 2005 issue of Collegian. The telescope was a welcome bonus.
Because the machine cost thousands of dollars, students were advised to use care.
"Please do not touch it at all," McCudden said of the precious mirror. "If you touch the mirror I'm throwing you over the edge."
The meaning of McCudden's only partially tongue-in-cheek statement does not go unnoticed. Nobody touched the mirror.
McCudden's class meets every Monday evening for astronomy lab.
As the sky began to darken last Monday, McCudden told his class that The Webster tracks the stars too, a necessity since stars and planets are always moving.
Many students were huddled around the tables nearby, mapping out the stars and measuring the Pleiades. They did this to the red light of small desk lamps.
"It's red, so when we look up at the stars, it's not as disturbing as white light would be," said student Marcy Mejla. "Our city has so many lights that it's difficult to see how many stars are out."
This phenomenon is known as "light pollution," and to escape it, one has to travel out of the city and to the desert. McCudden and Arvidson host star parties for students who want to experience this, and according to both professors, The Webster comes apart and fits into McCudden's Rav 4. When it arrives at its destination it is simply reassembled and is good to go.
On Monday night the telescope was in its home inside the LACC observatory dome. Students climbed up a special set of stairs and used the supplied rail to lean on as they looked through the eyepiece, careful not to touch the telescope itself.
The Andromeda Nebula was viewed through The Webster. The Nebula is about three million light years away, and appeared as just a bit of fuzziness.
At a recent star party in Bryce Canyon, The Webster revealed more.
"We went with the Astronomy Club in May 2012," Arvidson said. "There was an annular eclipse. The moon was a little farther from the earth, so it was smaller in the sky. It passed directly in front of the sun, but it was a little smaller than the sun, so you can see a little ring of sunlight, it was the most amazing thing."
One of Arvidson's students had an iPod with him and played the Johnny Cash song Ring of Fire as they viewed the spectacle.
But there was plenty to see from the roof of the Science and Technology Building, even unaided by telescopes. A satellite was plainly visible to the naked eye as it cruised through the sky. McCudden used a laser pointer to help show students various constellations. To the north, towards Griffith Observatory, Polaris, or the North Star, was visible. McCudden also pointed out Pegasus, which appeared as a big square to the South East, a star marking each corner. To the west was Cygnus, which McCudden described as "the swan swimming through the Milky Way."
On Dec. 5, at 5 p.m., Venus will be visible and will be next to the moon. To students looking up from campus, this will appear to be an extremely bright star. Monday, students peering through the smaller telescopes were able to see Venus as a crescent-shaped planet, much like the earth's moon in miniature.
"In a few days look for comet ISON," Arvidson said. "Right now it's passing right behind the sun and it's passing very close to the sun, the sun may melt it and burn it up, then it just disappears. But if it survives, it will come back around the sun and we will have a good view of it starting next week, on Monday. It could be, people are saying, it might be the comet of the century, a super bright comet."
On Friday, December 13, at 5 a.m. students are invited to come up to the third floor of the Science and Technology Building to view the comet, providing it doesn't burn up. Saturn will also be visible at that time.
"I hope part of the goal is to have students say, 'this is my universe, I am a part of that,'" Arvidson said.
The Astronomy Club will be making telescopes next semester, and the kits have already been ordered. Student will be allowed to keep the telescope they make.
For more information of the astronomy club email club president, Soma Ali at: email@example.com. The club also has a facebook page at:


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On February 27th, 2010, 800 Clevelanders from around the city enjoyed the first ever Brite Winter Festival held at Hart Crane Memorial Park, at the corner of Columbus and Merwin in the Flats. Guests included Pop Up City enthusiasts, CWRU graduate and professional students, people from the art community, fans of the bands, and residents of the Ohio City, Tremont, and Flats-Oxbow neighborhoods.
Music & Activity lineup
Music: This Moment in Black History with the Uncanny Xe La and The Hot Rails played inside a inflated cube made of plastic sheeting, and LOVED it.[/aside]
Art: Local artists in a variety of media. Participatory art included throwing snowballs laced with tempera paint onto a canvas that will serve as the backdrop of a future piece.
Fire: Two bonfires enjoyed by all, particularly with a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate.
Food: Profitable business for Sainato's Restaurant, who served Italian food and beer indoors, and Gypsy Bean, who served hot food, sweets, and hot drinks outdoors.
Sporting fun: Giant skeeball was a giant hit. Snowball fights and snow fort building were impromptu and lots of fun. Guests also enjoyed cornhole, ice bocce ball, and chalkboard graffiti.
Sponsors and partners
Organizers: CWRU Graduate Students
Partners: CWRU, Pop Up City, Ohio Canal Corridor, Cleveland Plays, Sainato's Restaurant, Flats-Oxbow Association
Gold Sponsors: Gypsy Bean & Baking Co., K&D
Silver Sponsors: Mulberry's, Cleveland Plus
Bronze Sponsors: Bon Appetit Management Company, Center for Civic Engagement and