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Have you ever met someone really wonderful and then worried what would happen if they found out something about you? I think it is normal to have a past, things we regret doing, or a few skeletons in the closet. Once you get in a relationship, some of these things has to come out…eventually. I repeat: your dirty little secrets may have to be revealed in a relationship.
Now this idea probably freaks you out a bit but there is something very liberating about having someone with whom you can be yourself. Sure you can save a little for yourself to keep to your grave, but isn't it important to share things with your partner?
If you can imagine being in a relationship and discovering something about your partner, do you think you could handle it if they kept a secret? I know a lot people wait until something comes up before getting the full story, is that really a good plan?
Do you have concern about your date's dirty little secrets?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta
December 18th, 2013
6:57 am
Secrets i don't have any. I am an open person so if you ask me a question i shall answer, I was a tad wild when i was younger so depending —you may not like the answer.
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December 18th, 2013
7:24 am
If you consider it a "dirty little secret," and it doesn't affect anything about your current relationship, I say keep it to yourself. If it does affect him/her (such as you used to be a different gender), disclose it.
December 18th, 2013
7:28 am
Hey everyone
Do you have concern about your date's dirty little secrets? If it was BR (before relationship) and it can't affect me in any way then I don't need to know! And I'm not keeping a secret, it just doesn't have any benefit to being brought up, it's in the past.
December 18th, 2013
7:55 am
GOOD Wednesday Morning MIA!!!
Dirty little secrets. . . As long as it's not currently affecting the present, then let bygones be bygones.
December 18th, 2013
8:17 am
Sure you can save a little for yourself to keep to your grave, but isn't it important to share things with your partner? Yes a few things but not everything. To you it maybe nothing but to your partner it could be everything and he/she might turn things around and beat you up on your dirty lil past. I'll share the good dirt and keep the other dirty stuff to myself. No thank you on sharing every tid bit of my past.
If you can imagine being in a relationship and discovering something about your partner, do you think you could handle it if they kept a secret? depending on what the secret is, if he told me he used to be gay then I would not handle that so well , if he told me he cheated on his taxes then I wouldn't bat an eye.
Good morning!
December 18th, 2013
8:20 am
If he told me he used to be on crack or any other illegal drug then I would not handle that well.
If he told me he used to steal cars and sell it to the shop chop then I would not handle that well.
If he told me he used to work for chippendale then I would want to see proof.
December 18th, 2013
8:41 am
Good Morning everyone!
The term Dirty Little Secret is relative. If it affects me then it should be disclosed up front. If it doesn't affect me it should be disclosed as it comes up in conversation. But everyone is "affected" by disclosures differently. One person may say sex change is no big deal, many other people may be like to hell with that TELL ME.
December 18th, 2013
9:00 am
"do you think you could handle it if they kept a secret?"
1. Serial Killer – S/he was married (5-7 times) to rich people who died
2. Exotic Dancer – S/he worked as a "stripper" when s/he was in college
3. Exotic Movies – S/he is a "Porn-Star". S/he has made over 20 movies
4. Mental Health – S/he is "bi-polar" crazy. Please take your meds
5. STD's – S/he has "herpes". Please tell s/he before sex
Ladies and Gentlemen what would you do?
December 18th, 2013
9:03 am
Every person you date does not need to know every little thing you've ever done in your life….We should all know by our age that when you're younger, you tend to be a bit more wreckless and may not make the best decisions. Now if those decisions have some bearing on your current life, then yeah, spill the beans bro!
Even though I didn't play the lotto, i'm glad someone in GA finally won. Usually its some northern state or something.
December 18th, 2013
9:10 am
Morning all!
As long as not knowing will not affect me or her going forward, I'd rather not know. And if I have something that will not affect either of us, I won't mention it. Although, I'm like Lee(6:57am), if you ask me a question, expect the truth. Sorry.
December 18th, 2013
9:29 am
SlimNu – I read that someone in Atlanta is in for the sharing of the jackpot. Lucky summa….:lol:
December 18th, 2013
9:31 am
Morning All!
If you have a murder conviction, a dreadful disease, or 50 hidden kids, then let me know up front. If you stole candy when you were ten, I don't care. I don't need to know very single little thing about someone, but there are some things that should be disclosed.
There is nothing s horrible in my past that I would consider a dirty little secret. If asked a question by someone I am dating, either I will tell you the question is too much or I will tell you the truth; I am not going to lie about it.
December 18th, 2013
9:34 am
Button/Slim- The winning ticket was bought 10 miles from my job; I won $2.00. Boooo. Oh well, the $2 will buy a Powerball, better than nothing.
December 18th, 2013
9:42 am
The little dirty secrets I do have are not worth sharing. Won't do anybody any good. I'll take those to my grave. His dirty little secrets he too can keep. If it has no bearing on our relationship, he doesn't have to share. We all have a past. If you haven't murdered someone, have someone held prisoner in a home you own elsewhere, have a medical condition that will affect my health, a harem of women, a gaggle of children somewhere, I'm basically good knowing you have a past.
I only had 2 of the #s.
Good morning.
December 18th, 2013
9:47 am
I see the general consensus is if it doesn't affect our present, no need to know. We are one accord (for now).
December 18th, 2013
9:51 am
I personally wouldn't go asking a person if he had and secrets. I would guess he does and if he want to share then I wouldn't stop him. I would however keep in mind that it's his past and if it's not too tainted then I won't fly off the handle.
December 18th, 2013
9:58 am
Robert actually #4 happened to me. I had been living with my ex for awhile. All of a sudden he had some sleep deprivation issues, issues on the job and a death in the family and he had an episode. So I really didn't find out until he came home one day and flipped on me. I basically had to run out of the house not even fully dressed so he wouldn't attack me. He was then in a mental hospital for about a week. I didn't know he had mental health issues or that he was taking medication and seeing a counselor to manage it. That's something you need to say up front b/c if he would have beat the ish out of me or killed me there would have been NOTHING his family could have said to mine.
December 18th, 2013
10:00 am
This is where the lines get blurred……No, I don't care about my date's dirty lil secrets….but my beau, SO, or otherwise partner, yes…..at some point, they go from being a date, to that "chic"…..but whilst they're still just a "date" then information is disseminated on a need to know basis…..
December 18th, 2013
10:02 am
I'm not saying I should have known so that I wouldn't have dealt with him but you need to know what you are dealing with. I could have handled the event/situation a lot better than I did had I known.
December 18th, 2013
10:04 am
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December 18th, 2013
10:07 am
YSIC- Oh my!
Celisea- Happy birthday.
December 18th, 2013
10:08 am
Button/MsAtl – This is one time I wouldn't mind sharing that jackpot. They both will still come out pretty big even after taxes. Boooo lol
December 18th, 2013
10:13 am
@YesSheIsCute- #4 happened to me too. Once upon a time I dated a woman who had mental health issues. She was "bi-polar" and I did not know anyone who had it or how to deal with it. She was OK when she was taking her medicine. She had no idea how crazy she acted.
I also dated a woman who was going through "menopause" which is a whole different kind of crazy. She would cry for no reason, and would have hot and cold spills. In the middle of the night in the winter she would turn the air conditioner on to stay cool. She was a mess until she went to the doctor and got some medicine to help ease her pain.
December 18th, 2013
10:13 am
Yes – WOW! Sounds like an episode of a show that would be on IDTv lol
So let's get this thang poppin'. Who would like to be the first to step up to the podium and share a secret with your fellow bloggers?
December 18th, 2013
10:13 am
Now Roberts No1 wouldn't be a problem, I'm not rich
No 3 & 4 hell aint none of us no virgins!!
No 4 hell we all crazy!!
No 5 Yea I need to know, but that goes back to affecting our relationship
The only questions I would ever ask are the general type, never anything about a past sex life, or relationships.
December 18th, 2013
10:17 am
Slim for me they are not secrets, they are things that happened in my past, I've moved on and don't even think about them. It would only be a secret if it was something I was doing now and didn't want my S/O to know about.
December 18th, 2013
10:19 am
Ladies, what would you do if you found out the man you are dating has been married/divorced/widowed 5-7 times? This is not uncommon. I have a friend from Nigeria who has been married at least 5 times in the USA. What would you do? Marry him or leave him?
December 18th, 2013
10:19 am
Single – boooo lol
December 18th, 2013
10:20 am
Robert – Um, 5-7 times sounds like a huge smoke signal if you ask me….From that point on I'd be looking for the fire…from afar.
December 18th, 2013
10:29 am
a secret….sure, why not…..
December 18th, 2013
10:30 am
@Single and Happy – #1 is a problem for all men. Men have no weapon against a "big butt and a smile-Poison". P.H.A.T. women can have any man anytime they want. It should be against the law and they should be classified as a – Serial Killer. They can kill a mans dreams, hopes and desires and wipe away all his financial gains. if that does not kill you they will break your heart and give you a heart attack.
December 18th, 2013
10:31 am
Robert- I would definitely keep my eyes open; that's a lot. I would be curious as to why- Impulsive? Killed them? Ran them off? They didn't appreciate him? Etc.
December 18th, 2013
10:48 am
Hey Gang!!
The countdown to my Christmas in Florida on!!
Happy Birthday Blackfoote, Willie & Celisea!! Make sure it's a great one!!
On topic – If it doesn't have the potential to affect the present or the future, who cares? I sure don't. That Nigeria dude? That's why I don't deal with foreigners.
December 18th, 2013
10:50 am
They can kill a mans dreams, hopes and desires and wipe away all his financial gains.
If he's that weak, maybe he should just stay single, not date and become a monk or something!LOL!!
Miss me with the drama, man.
December 18th, 2013
10:52 am
kimmie, what part of Florida?
December 18th, 2013
10:56 am
2C – Orlando.
December 18th, 2013
10:57 am
Robert, if you let a woman do all that to you then that's on you not her.
December 18th, 2013
11:03 am
"…if you let a woman do all that to you then that's on you not her" – you know my saying, I did nothing of the sort, you handed your manhood to me on a silver platter!
I agree, Single!
December 18th, 2013
11:04 am
good morning.
hey y'all.
December 18th, 2013
11:08 am
hey disco……
hey y'all, what are/were some creative ways y'all have asked for a raise…..
December 18th, 2013
11:10 am
SlimNu – heck I wouldn't mind sharing 3, 4, 5 ways with all that money.
Robert – there are meds for rmenopause? I didn't know that. I heard there are herbs that can lessen the affects of if but never heard of meds for it. I think I'm going thru pre menopause. I have to have the house cold at night and I still sweat I also go thru the mood swings too. I can tell when I'm getting ready to have a bitchfit!
December 18th, 2013
11:11 am
For me, and maybe it's why I'm still single, no woman is going to mold me into what she want's me to be, nor is she going to stop me from being what I want to be. And as far as finances, I am not going to let mine go down to impress, or bring someone else's up.
I have a co-worker who's truck broke down last week, his wife told him that when he gets another one, get a new, new one, not one that's just new to him. He said he wanted to tell her he would if she would stop getting a new one. I asked what does that have to do with anything. He said because he doesn't thing to car payments should be coming out of the same house (huh) I said then she's not stopping you, you are. Because she's not thinking that way.
December 18th, 2013
11:11 am
2C ~ I asked for a raise 2 months ago. I wasn't creative. Simply stated why I deserved a title change, a pay increase, my work ethic, me backing up many departments and that with my college/room expenses, I may have to look for another job. HR is working on it as we speak!
December 18th, 2013
11:16 am
Button ~ are you serious in not knowing there were meds for menopause. I'm not on any, but thank goodness I don't have any mood swings (that I know of). Loss of estrogen, too much testosterone needs to be regulated. I have the hot/cold flashes and that is becoming problematic. I just don't care to be regulated at the moment. I sleep w/heat off and one window slightly open and ceiling fan on. I get very hot while under the covers. When I get a hot flash while at my desk, for some reason I can't hear anything anyone is saying to me, esp my boss. Other than that, I'm good….lololol
December 18th, 2013
11:19 am
Single – That first paragraph in your 11:11? You sound just like me. Maybe that's why I was single for so long!LOL!! But really, I had to find someone that could roll with Kimmie, just as she was/is!!! And nobody was gonna mess with my money!
December 18th, 2013
11:36 am
Single – you're single bc you want to be single. Choice not chance.
Leggs – Yes meds/herbs to lessen the affects but meds to make it go away, never heard of it.
December 18th, 2013
11:42 am
okay. just so we clear. what time is it where y'all are? I swear I've been here for a good 6/8/10 hours but looking at my clock that can't be right.
December 18th, 2013
11:49 am
Sorry Disco, it's 11:49 am EST here.
December 18th, 2013
11:52 am
O/T: Didn't win MegaMillions, but my probation is up from radio station and I guessed the cold cut artist. Won tix to Frankie Beverly contest and movie tix…woo hoo.
December 18th, 2013
11:52 am
kimmie – well at least I'm not the only one stuck on this time. dang. I have a feeling this is going to be the longest day ever.


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"Obama's position has been that the liberal, progressive wing has nowhere to go, therefore they can't turn their back on the administration. But a challenge will hold his feet to the fire and signal that we do have somewhere to go."And
"He's a con man. I have no use for him."Nader is talking about Obama. At one time, Nader could have been great.
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I've been doing some digital work mostly for fun for a while now, and when mixing colours, and creating form, I always use about 5-10% opacity and different shades of the same colour to create darks/lights
Recently I was told on another website that I shouldn't use opacity at all and I should be using flow at around 50%, I tried messing around with it, but it just doesn't seem to work as well, can anyone help explain if this is correct, or what are the advantages of flow over opacity?
Sorry if this is in the wrong section or has been asked before I couldn't find anything
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Well, I always use 100% Opacity and Flow, and if you don't feel 50% flow works for you, don't use it. A lot of artists have their special tweaks, brush presets etc they prefer to use so work what feels comfortable to you, but don't be hesitant to test different stuff.
If you know how to paint and use Photoshop, little tweaks in Opacity and Flow aren't likely to make or break things.
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Not to avoid helping with your question, but based on your sketchbook my advice for you would be to focus on your drawing. Work mainly from life and reference and the technicalities of the medium will work themselves out of your trying to achieve likeness.
Working from ref will also teach you not to compartmentalise so much; you draw isolated background-less subjects and even then you separate the various parts with black lines or other artifacts. The separations draw attention to themselves and prevent cohesion.
There is no one way to approach problem solving when you paint in Photoshop or traditionally. If you always do things the same way for every instance you aren't paying attention and you are a formula painter. That is never a positive thing.
You wouldn't go around fixing everything in your house with a chainsaw just because you were really good with it. Different settings give you different effects and a different avenue of expression, so explore what works best and gives you the best results. You learn how to use the tools not when to use them.
There is too much copying what other people do nowadays which makes everything have this sameness to it in concept art. Its an ignorant way to approach any type of art. You want to understand the fundamental principles of painting then apply them in your own painting in a unique way to solve the problems of illustration. If you are copying someone else's style you are a second rate hack. That means using someone elses preset brushes instead of making your own or using someones settings for brush pressure, brush sizes and brush shapes and all the other lazy approaches people do with digital painting.
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And then God said, "Let us make man in our likeness and our image. Let us make him ridiculously hard to draw so that poor artists everywhere will have to spend 10,000+ hours failing repeatedly before they can begin to capture the form and likeness onto a two-dimensional surface." And there was man. And it was good. And artists everywhere lost their minds.
If your method works for you, use it.
Thanks for the replies, I'll be sure to try out more settings and features to get my own feel for the program, and I said before, I really only do digital stuff every now and then for fun and to change it up a little, I'm planning on taking a 3 year Fine art course next year when I finish my graphic design course in sixth form.
I actually made a thread in the education section about recommendations but no replies yet, out of curiosity, anyone here studied in the UK or know anyone who has? any places to look for/avoid for fine art?
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I think sometimes it depends on what type of edge you want. I like working low opacity and building it up and not necessarily with the same colour, but if I'm looking for a tight edge, upping the opacity helps.
Currently doing the Start Up course, so my SB is going to be lonely
if youre able to control pressure well while drawing use flow... if not use opacity.
there really are no dos and donts... use what works for what has to be done... hard edge > hardbrush/high opacity, soft edge > softbrush/low opacity. but since an edge can be softened with a hardbrush by applying an intermediate value, where softbrushes only work to a certain extent for sharpening edges, id rather practise hard ones. yet that might be personal preference.
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Sounds to me like you don't have you tablet driver installed. 5% to 10% opacity? That would barely show up in my work. Set your brush to pen pressure and use a light hand to achieve the same effect without toggling your settings back and forth.
My digital illustration professor back in college explained that reduced opacity will create dark spots where two translucent areas overlap whereas reduced flow will create a uniform amount of color. Experiment and do what works best. There is no right answer.
If you use low opacity it will encourage equivocality.
High opacity encourages statement.
Equivocality: mystery, occlusion, ambivalence, possibility, inference, unfoldment...
Statement: clarity, instruction, finality, solution, non-ambiguity, arrival, resolution...
They are the two conditions forming a dialectic.
Excusivity of either gives you the cloud on one hand or the cartoon on the other.
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AbstractThis paper presents a simultaneous model for the joint decisions of working, studying and leaving the parental household by young people in Spain. Using cross-section data from the 1990-1991 Encuesta de Presupuestos Familiares, the model is estimated by a two stage estimation method. Endogeneity of the three decisions proves to be important in order to understand the dynamics of household formation. Our results also confirm a number of plausible intuitions about the effect of individual characteristics and economic variables on these decisions, and provide some new insights into the reasons for young people in Spain remaining in large numbers in the parental home. Most of the results are gender independent.
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Roland "Ro" Gore, 60, of Big Spring died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at Scenic Mountain Medical Center. Vigil services will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, at Myers & Smith Chapel. Family visitation will begin directly following the vigil until 9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church.
Looking back, 2012 was a turbulent year for the Crossroads area as numerous high profile incidents and court cases found their way into the headlines.
The Big Spring Police Department had its hands full early, as the investigation into the shooting death of a 27-year-old Crossroads man began New Year Day. Christopher Castanuela, 27, of Big Spring was pronounced dead at Scenic Mountain Medical Center emergency room shortly after 6 a.m. Jan. 1 by Howard County Justice of the Peace Quail Dobbs, who later ordered an autopsy.
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Dedications, construction, elections, crime, death and drought ŌĆö this was the year that was.
Soon after the calendar flipped to 2012, the Veterans Administration Medical Center was renamed after Big Spring's only Medal of Honor recipient, and just before the year drew to a close, a long-awaited re-opening nearly four decades in the making took place.
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To find one of Humboldt County's skinny-dipping treasures, check out this delightful little cove that's 12 miles north of Arcata, off Highway 101. Named after the Baker family, who are believed to own the property, the nude beach has tide pools, agates, and a quarter moon-shaped shore that's protected from view by surrounding foliage. "It's really quiet there," says Vince, an Arcata resident. "It's never crowded. And the trail is easy."
Apparently owned by the Baker family. Nude use is tolerated.
From Arcata, drive 12 miles north on Highway 101. Take the Westhaven exit to Scenic Drive, then follow Scenic north to a large, vine-covered residence sign and a rusted Private Property marker on the right (look for pulled-over cars). The quarter-mile-long beach path begins 20 yards beyond two mailboxes near the signs.
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them or they visit us. It is a team race - usually 4 boats a team.
When they visit us we sail in Enterprises. When we go there we are privileged
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The bi-annual visit of London Corinthian Sailing Club to Norwich Frostbites Sailing Club to race for the trophy between the two clubs took place on Sunday 11th February. The team from LCSC arrived at the Club House, Thorpe St. Andrew in time for the generous home cooked dinner put on by the hosts and it more than made up for the difficult journey those who had tried to come by train had endured including a bus journey from Diss. The bar prices and the generous welcome speech from the Momadore Janet Hubbard also encouraged a festive night but would the team from LCSC be on their game the next day after all the indulgence? Sunday was cold and wet and it was decided to run the two trophy races back to back so as to be in the club house for a sensibly timed lunch.
The first race started at 12.30 in a gusting breeze of about 15 to 20 mph from the South West which led to some decent racing. But the visitors had to overcome both the effects of the previous evening and boats older than most of the competitors. The boats are gunter rig and were originally built to the same hull rules as the international 14 foot dinghy. When they broke away from the International 14 foot class a new boat could be bought for £36.00.
The first race became a procession after an exiting start with Robin Johnson and Kirstin Exner from the visitors demonstrating the art of last minute course alteration to avoid collision. Norwich Frostbites filled the first 3 places with Janet Hubbard and Pat Woodcock leading the way and a lesson in the art of team racing being given by David and Kate Mackley (Its not about coming first but getting more of your teams boats ahead of the oppositions teams boats for the finish). The first boat home for the visitors was Lucifer sailed by Phil Robin and Liz StClaire.
The second race showed that the LCSC were beginning to learn. Although no one could match Mat Ellis and Jon Tyrrell for speed, Reece Tryfitt and Jenny Driffe showed good turn of speed and match racing savvy and still managed to pip Geof Coulthard and Eileen Urquart for 2nd place.
So the races finished, boats put away, no damage to any boats, another great lunch and job done for the home team with the trophy retained for another year. Jeremy Whiting the visitors team captain graciously conceded second best but challenged the home team to come to Hammersmith next year and we will see. He also presented the club with a painting of a Norfolk Wherry.
This event is definitely one for the diary and not to be missed and a big vote of thanks from the visitor to the friendship, hard work and generosity of all the home team club members who made the event such a success.
Norwich, David & Kate Macley, Mike Lees, Geoff Evans, Janet Hubbard, Pat Woodcock, Jon Tyrell, Mat Ellis, Geoff Coulthard, Eileen Urquart, David Yapp, John Gilbert, Ray Johnson, Wendy Bush.
LCSC, Jeremy Whiting, Graham Hinde, Reece Triffitt, Jenny Drife, Phil Robin, Liz St Clair, Robin Johnson, Kirstin Exner
Team racing at Norwich proved that dinghy sailing continues all year round. What ever the weather motivated members seek the thrill of sailing dinghies.
This determination was tested in mid February as members travelled to Norwich on the Saturday afternoon. The weekend forecast was cold and snowy. With perfect timing the snow started to fall as we approached Norwich.
We all arrived at the Oaklands hotel and checked into our rooms. Quickly followed by a rush to the bar for a few pints before dinner. The members at Norwich very kindly provided the fish & chips, a nice desert and seconds for those who wanted it.
To get the competitive spirit going for the weekend a game of darts was started, two teams, Norwich v LCSC playing a type of darts game called Killer.
It was a close run thing but the LCSC team played an unknown ace card in the form of Jenny Drife. Jenny feigned her lack of any ability to play darts before the match. When it came to the crunch she delivered the goods and so the first win went to LCSC.
The evening continued with more talking with the Norwich members over a few pints in the bar. We then retired back to the hotel only a 5 minute walk from the Norwich sailing club. A couple more nightcaps in the hotel bar had everyone ready for a good sleep.
In the morning we woke up to clear blue skies and a light wind from the NE. After a full English the LCSC team returned to the Norwich club to watch the early morning race. James Sinclair Taylor managed to get an opportunity to sail by crewing for a Norwich member in the first race of the day. This race didn't count to the team racing results.
After the race had finished the LCSC team got their sailing gear on and started preparing of the two rounds of team racing.
We were given 4 local Norwich boats to race in. The boats are easy to sail and look great. Very stable to sail and plenty of room for the crew compared to an Enterprise.
The first race was not very close racing and the first race went to the local Norwich team.
In the second team race the boats were swapped round to level the playing field. Sadly though this didn't give the LCSC team any advantage and the second race went to the locals. Though the second race did see the locals having to work harder.
With the racing finished and the safety boat up the slipway we changed and sat down for lunch. Soon after the meal had started the weather turned for the worse and the snow started again.
When lunch was finished the speakers praised the sailing of the winning team and Simon thanked the Norwich members for their hospitality and offered an invitation to race at Hammersmith in 2006. We hope they do, we will have the chance to win the trophy back.
The 2005 LCSC team, Simon Ashenden, Alan Beaney, Jenny Driffe, Kerstin Exner, Robin Johnson, James Sinclare-Taylor, Rhys Triffitt and Jeremy Whiting
adventure started early this year with the journey up. Wild winds blew everything
around, a metal "long vehicle" sign blew up into my windscreen, we
had to avoid a fallen tree and the astonishing brown clouds, that reduced visibility
to yards at times, evidenced the massive wind erosion taking place in East Anglia.
The partying started with a fantabulous dinner and general booze up!
Visits to Norwich depart Saturday afternoon for slap-up dinner, followed by
sailing on the Sunday in the classic Norwich One-Design. We sent two teams in
2000, one in 2002. Sailors and supporters welcome. Contact Ben Luddington email@example.com
Here are some photo's from the 2000 visit to Norwich:
The trophy we race for
Copyright © London Corinthian Sailing Club, 17 Apr 2002


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Spectacular 'Apes' Doesn't Monkey Around
Glenn Kenny, Special to MSN Movies
In this age of diminished expectations, many film lovers -- critics and paying viewers alike -- have come to approach any given summer blockbuster with some small mad hope that maybe, just maybe, it won't suck. That maybe it'll provide, maybe, just a smidgen of the entertainment and sensationalistic value it promises. This expectation is often particularly feeble when the summer blockbuster in question is an attempted reboot, or direr still, an attempted re-reboot, of a beloved blockbuster classic and/or its concomitant franchise offshoot.
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Such would be the case, trepidation-wise, as far as "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" -- a reconsideration of the how-apes-came-to-rule-our-planet mythology first put forward in the '70's films "Escape From the Planet of the Apes," "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" and "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" -- is concerned. Even those who don't have a particularly religious attitude toward the original classic sci-fi franchise could be forgiven for greeting this prospect with some slight dread. So it's my pleasure to report that not only does "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" not suck, but is in fact very nearly close to completely awesome, and is the best sci-fi blockbuster of the summer, in a walk, even.
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The picture begins both promisingly and unpromisingly. James Franco plays Will Rodman, a genius medical researcher working for a profit-hungry futuristic pharma. Having made a breakthrough on a brain-recovery drug, Rodman paces around, badgering his slickster boss Jacobs (David Oyelowo), saying things like, "We're ready," and, "One shot is all I need." Yeesh. Soon enough, though, we're in a very effective sequence cross-cutting Rodman and Jacobs' enthusiastic pitch to the board and the complete freakout of the lab animal on whom said breakthrough was made. The sequence ends with a bang, and then a twist, and from that point on, despite occasional provisional lapses into lazy storytelling (a period of eight years elapses, and the characters never age; the aforementioned brain-recovery drug remains available to Rodman despite the plug having been pulled on his project; and one scene suggests that Rodman and Jacobs haven't had a single conversation in the aforementioned eight years), the movie really keeps its eye on the ball.
Super-smart adopted chimp Caesar, beloved of Rodman, Rodman's Alzheimer's stricken dad (John Lithgow) (it's for his sake -- "personal feelings" that Rodman's boss has advised him against getting too caught up with -- that Rodman's so passionate about developing the brain-recovery drug) and a kindly, and wise, and hot veterinarian (Freida Pinto), is brilliant and agile but has a lousy time on first contact with the outside world. And the more he encounters humans, the more he's oppressed by them, and once he's locked up in a "primate sanctuary" run by a shady Brian Cox and looked after by a nasty Tom Felton, he really begins to acquire revolutionary consciousness. After which he rallies his fellow primates to assert their identities and forge a more lasting union, as it were.
Caesar is embodied by a motion-captured and CGI-manipulated Andy Serkis, who was Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong" in the Peter Jackson remake. His work here is superb, and the film's nods to the classic originals are affectionate and apt, and some of the references are cleverer still: Naming a particularly nasty chimp who becomes Caesar's lieutenant/enforcer Koba was a nice touch. And while some of the CGI still tends to the cartoonish, for the most part it's seamlessly integrated into both the action scenes and the more character-driven stuff.
And the climactic battle between ape and man, enacted on the Golden Gate Bridge, is more than just state-of-the-art sci-fi effects-driven filmmaking; it's utterly inspired filmmaking, period. Here's hoping director Rupert Wyatt and co-screenwriters (and producers) Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver stay on the case for any future "Apes" films; one gets the feeling here that they've got both the chops and imagination to deliver quite a bit more exhilaration in this department.
Glenn Kenny is chief film critic for MSN Movies. He was the chief film critic for Premiere magazine from 1998 to 2007. He contributes to various publications and websites, and blogs at http://somecamerunning.typepad.com. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Lenovo Yoga Tablet Grabs a Design From Sony's Reject Pile
The first big product that Lenovo is launching under the celebrity auspices of Ashton Kutcher is a tablet with a design that Sony abandoned. The Yoga Tablet has a large cylindrical grip along the length of the device, which can be better for one-handed reading. It's also better at making your tablet less sleek and slim overall, which is probably why Sony discontinued its Tablet S line in favor of the chiseled rectangular design of its Xperia smartphones.


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Wonderful cookies! however, to cut down on saturated fat, I used half butter (2 oz) and half grapeseed oil (or canola oil would work). I also used 1 cup all purpose flour and upped the whole wheat flour to 1/2 cups. WONDERFUL!! Also, I got about 35-40 cookies out of one batch. Will be making these cookies year after year!
Whole-Wheat Sugar Cookies
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The best sugar cookies ever!! will be making it every year.
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text: content CoQ10 shows promise for Huntington's disease Friday, June 22, 2012. Research conducted by Kevin M. Biglan, MD, MPH of the University of Rochester and his colleagues, described in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Huntington's Disease, provides more evidence for the use of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) to retard Huntington disease's progression. Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a genetic error that produces abnormal proteins in the brain's cells. Scientists believe that these protein deposits result in oxidative stress that ultimately kills the cells that contain them. CoQ10, due to its support of the cells' mitochondria and its antioxidant effect, has been investigated as a possible agent to treat Huntington's disease. The current research evaluated 14 Huntington's disease patients and 6 healthy controls that had been given CoQ10 in a clinical trial known as Pre-2Care. Participants in Pre-2Care received 1200 milligrams CoQ10 daily for eight weeks and 3600 milligrams per day for the remaining 12 weeks of the study. Stored blood samples obtained at the beginning and end of the treatment period were analyzed for serum 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8OHdG), which has been correlated with the presence of oxidative stress in the brain's cells and has been found to be elevated in those with Huntington's disease and other neurologic disorders. While the Pre-2Care study had found a reduction in Huntington's disease symptoms after treatment with CoQ10, the current research uncovered a 20 percent reduction in 8OHdG levels in CoQ10-treated Huntington's disease patients as well as a nonsignificant reduction in subjects who did not have the disease. "Identifying treatments that slow the progression or delay the onset of Huntington's disease is a major focus of the medical community," observed Dr Biglan, who is a neurologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "This study demonstrates that 8OHdG could be an ideal marker to identify the presence oxidative injury and whether or not treatment is having an impact." He noted that "While the current data can't address the use of 8OHdG as a surrogate marker for the clinical effectiveness of antioxidants in Huntington's disease, we've established that 8OHdG can serve as a marker of the pharmacological activity of an intervention." "This study supports the hypothesis that CoQ exerts antioxidant effects in patients with Huntington's disease and therefore is a treatment that warrants further study," he concluded. "As importantly, it has provided us with a new method to evaluate the efficacy of potential new treatments." Berry brain benefit A review published online on January 23, 2012 in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry describes a multitude of positive effects for berries on neurologic function. "A growing body of preclinical and clinical research has identified neurological benefits associated with the consumption of berry fruits," write Marshall G. Miller and Barbara Shukitt-Hale, PhD of Tufts University in their introduction to the article. "In addition to their now well-known antioxidant effects, dietary supplementation with berry fruits also has direct effects on the brain. Intake of these fruits may help to prevent age-related neurodegeneration and resulting changes in cognitive and motor function." Berries have antioxidant effects, such as that demonstrated for mulberry in Parkinson's disease. Wolfberry, also called gogi berry, may have direct neuroprotective effects that are independent of its antioxidant benefits. In animal studies, blueberries have been associated with a variety of brain benefits, including a reduction in age-related increases in nuclear factor-kappa beta. Aged rats given blueberries, cranberries or blackberries have better balance and control, and a reduction in amyloid beta has been observed in association with blueberry intake in mice bred to develop specific aspects of Alzheimer's disease. In humans with mild cognitive impairment, daily consumption of blueberry juice resulted in improved word list recall and better performance in comparison with subjects who receive a placebo. "Given that neurodegeneration and cognitive decline are chronic processes, throughout adulthood, future research should also identify critical periods during which increased consumption of berry fruits is most effective and the extent to which berry fruits prevent or even reverse the deleterious effects of aging," the authors conclude. 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P!nk has a message to all the haters who claim she faked sick to get out of a performance in England -- "KINDLY KISS MY ASS!!"
Ever since P!nk pulled out of her April 22nd show in Birmingham, certain "fans" called BS on the singer's sick excuse ... and insinuated she doesn't really care about her U.K. fans.
But today, P!nk fired back via an open letter on her website ... saying, "I am a human being, therefore I am able to catch illness. It is beyond my control -- and I can't apologize for that."
"And you know what I've been performing through the last week? ROTA virus. Look it up. I challenge any one of you to do what I do while sick with that. You couldn't do it."
FYI -- Rotavirus is no joke. According to the Center for Disease Control, rotavirus causes "severe watery diarrhea, often with vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain."
P!nk actually concludes her letter by apologizing to her "loyal and understanding fans" ... saying, "I am so so sorry if I've hurt you in any way."
"For the rest of you," Pink adds, "Kindly kiss my entire almost back to healthy ass."
"severe watery diarrhea, often with vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain." Sounds like she ate at McDonalds.
Pink is fit beautiful talented and ambitious. Give her a break
Cripes people get sick. Move on ya bunch of beyotching freaks. Pink shouldn't even dignify their complaints by responding.
I thought ROTA virus only lasted one or two days anyway. She is acting like it is going on for weeks. I am not saying that she isn't sick, but I don't know if she is correct in her diagnosis.
I think if you have diarreah, it cleans itself out pretty fast. Maybe she has some kind of parasite or ameabas that are keeping her sick. I think a virus just flushes itself out pretty fast.
I can't believe she felt the need to respond, after seeing her in London she was clearly unwell and the Rota Virus has been flying around here for weeks, yeah it does last between 24-72 hours but she has an ear infection also and the after affects of rota are awful due to the internal bruising from being sick but nothing to actually bring up because you can't even keep water down. Plus keeping the tour going and looking after a near 2 year old she isn't allowing herself to heal. And now to the ones saying she isn't an entertainer, please watch her tours on YT and watch her hang, twirl, swing upside down whilst singing live....yeah LIVE! and all this "she's a man" bollocks, oh please I challenge you to go to the gym and work out like her? It's always the couch potato's who think women with abs are ugly. Do a few sit ups guys, it helps! :)
Personally, I'm not a fan of Pink. Meaning, I don't have any of her albums or listen to her regularly. Mostly what I know of her is her Award Show performances over the past few years. There is ONE thing I believe about Pink. This woman, BRINGS IT, all 100%. She's not only a singer, she's a true performer in every since of the word. She could do her own Cirque Du Soleil show. She seems to give it her all, on and off stage. Her work ethic seems entirely too apparent for anyone to suggest otherwise. Stop instigating, Harvey. Stick to what you know -- The Kardashians and Biebs.
I had the virus and it about killed me had to get fluids and everything that crap is nothing to mess with! I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
I'm sure all the minimum wage laborers out there who perform actual manual labor while sick and injured really feel for you... what with you having to prance around on stage while your tummy hurts. What a brave soul. Shut the **** up. Go down to your local Home Depot and ask a handful of the workers waiting outside what kind of hell they've ACTUALLY WORKED through because they can't afford to take a day off. Broken bones, debilitating illnesses that would have someone like pink in a hospital. And this bitch is bragging about being able to "do what she does" (like I said: prance around on stage dancing and singing, something people do FOR FUN in their spare time) while she has a stomach virus. Shut. The. ****. Up. Bitch.
I'm sorry this sounds so negative but I watch people I know struggle for absolute minimal pay through so much worse and they never complain, let alone brag about toughing it out. For millions and millions of dollars, I'm sure any real laborer could prance around for two hours no matter how sick they were.
Oh come on, who'd think P!nk would lie about that sh!t. She'd brag about giving anyone the middle finger, even her fans, and they'd love her for it. So what are we even talking about?
Good for her! Whiners


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Social media analytics: The what, the how and the why
Seminar presented by the IBM Centre of Excellence in Business Analytics
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Developing insights from internal data and market information seems quite elementary compared to the potential of Social Media Analytics. A 2013 report on Social Media Analytics by McKinsey & Company titled "How 'social intelligence' can guide decisions" highlights the new opportunities rich real-time data from social media offers decision makers and suggests that "Social-Intelligence Literacy" is fast becoming a critical asset for executives.
The three speakers at this event will give an overview of how to use Social Media Analytics to gain a competitive advantage, what is possible and why it's worth investing in Social Media Analytics to shape real-time decision making. They will showcase some recent exemplars of Social-Media Analytics in action.
Dev Mookerjee, IBM Global Technical Ambassador - Social Analytics
Samir Mahir, CIO, Tennis Australia
Elly Bloom, Head of Social Media, Westpac Group
Time:12.00 pm - 1.30 pm
12.00pm Registration and Lunch
12.30 pm Presentation
Venue: Karstens
123 Queen Street
Cost: $35 per person
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Definition of deteriorate in English:
deteriorateSyllabification: de·te·ri·o·rate
Pronunciation: /dəˈtirēəˌrāt /
verb[no object]
Become progressively worse: relations between the countries had deteriorated sharply (as adjective deteriorating) deteriorating economic conditions
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- Indeed, as far as the railways are concerned, they are far worse and set to deteriorate further in the short term.
- There is growing unrest in Hong Kong over deteriorating economic and social conditions.
- If bond prices rise, it could imply that experts reckon economic conditions are deteriorating.
worsen, decline, degenerate; fail, slump, slip, go downhill, wane, ebb
informal go to potdecay, degrade, degenerate, break down, decompose, rot, go off, spoil, perish; break up, disintegrate, crumble, fall apart; photodegrade
late 16th century (used transitively in the sense 'make worse'): from late Latin deteriorat- 'worsened', from the verb deteriorare, from Latin deterior 'worse'.
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- According to Hillman as well as Hillman and Ursprung, liberalization has a deteriorative effect on economic performance until a cultural adaptation takes place.
- Molecular mobility within preserved biological materials provides a first approximation of the rate of deteriorative reactions that ultimately affect shelf-life.
- In a seminal article, Leopold defined senescence in plant cells, along the lines previously proposed by Medawar, as 'the deteriorative processes that are natural causes of death'.
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text: I'm gratified by my 14-month partnership with the Guardian and am particularly proud of what we achieved together over the last five months. Reporting the NSA story has never been easy, but it's always been invigorating and fulfilling. It's exactly why one goes into journalism and, in my view, is what journalism at its crux is about. That doesn't mean that the journalists and editors who have worked on this story have instantly agreed on every last choice we faced, but it does mean that, on the whole, I leave with high regard for the courage and integrity of the people with whom I've worked and pride in the way we've reported this story.Glenn Greenwald says goodbye to The Guardian Thursday. Having been there for only 14 months, he heads over to a new endeavor with a pre-launch blog here. I, myself, am very excited to see how this will all end up. Also like how Greenwald ended his column with a call to action, "I hope everyone who believes in basic press freedoms will defend those journalistic outlets when they are under attack – all of them – regardless of how much one likes or does not like them."


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Kamakura Corporation Named to World Finance 100
September 24, 2014
Stress Testing, Default Risk, and Bond Trading Volume
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Bank of America: A Pre-Stress Test Credit Risk Report Shows Dramatic Progress
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On Tuesday, we looked at the volume of trading in sovereign credit default swaps by dealers and non-dealers as reported by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. The surprising conclusion was that the 20 sovereign names on which trading was reported by DTCC had only 1-10 contracts traded daily by non-dealers. In today's blog, we look at trading in the corporate names reported by DTCC.
As in Tuesday's post, we analyze data on credit default swaps reported by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation on www.dtcc.com for the week of April 26-30, 2010. Our purpose is to get some feel for the depth of trading in corporate credit default swaps.
We again note this table, taken from www.dtcc.com, which shows a huge $14 trillion volume (notional principal, US dollar basis) in all credit default swap contracts during the week.
More than 2.1 million credit default swap contracts were traded. Of greater interest, however, is the fact that almost 1.8 million of these contracts were traded between dealers, 83.7% of the total number of trades. Only 16.3% of the trades, 351 thousand, were bought or sold by non-dealers. Our focus in this post is on the number of non-dealer trades in corporate credit default swaps on the theory that they are the true "end users" of credit default swaps in the long run.
As we reported on Tuesday, six firms in the United States represent 99.6% of all CDS trades outstanding. This proportion is based on data reported by the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as of year end 2008. This confirms the very high degree of concentration among CDS dealers:
The raw data from DTCC reports on 222 reference names in which there were at least 50 new trades or assignments of existing credit default swap contracts on all entities traded during the week of April 26-30, 2010. Twenty of these entities were sovereigns and the rest were corporates.
In the following tables, we report the statistics reported on www.dtcc.com on the number of new CDS contracts traded for each of the 200 plus corporate names. We ignore assignments of existing contracts. We seek to answer this question: how much was the true demand by real non-dealer end users of credit default swaps on corporates? We can use the estimate from the full week of trading of CDS contracts reported by DTCC, in which 83.7% of all trading was dealer to dealer and 16.3% was by non-dealers, our true "end user" of the credit default swaps for corporates. We also apply the average notional amount on all CDS trades by non-dealers of $6.9 million per trade in a modified version of the table above. We present all corporates reported by DTCC in order of highest volume to lowest volume:
The low daily volume of trading by non-dealers is, as in the sovereign case, very surprising given the high level of prominence of credit default swaps in the financial press. In order to see daily trading volume by non-dealers more clearly, we use a histogram of daily average CDS trades by non-dealers.
130 of the 202 corporate reference names have an average of 5 or less trades per day by non-dealers. 149 reference names have 10 or less trades per day by non-dealers. Only two corporates have more than 40 trades per day by non-dealers. In tabular form, we report the distribution of average daily non-dealer CDS trades by number of reference names.
The table makes clear a very surprising fact. Of the almost 2,000 corporate reference names on which credit default swaps are traded, only 72 names had an estimated average of more than 5 trades per day by non-dealers according to the data reported by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. Only 2 names had more than 40 trades per day.
The financial press has breathlessly lapped up stories about intra-day movements in credit default swaps as if the CDS market had the depth and breadth of trading in common stocks. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Among the data reported by DTCC, 83.7% of what small volume there is consists of dealer to dealer trades. The risks of collusion in such a tightly controlled oligopoly are very high, and figures quoted for corporate CDS levels have to be analyzed, as we said on Tuesday, with both hands on your wallet.
We close with this question for the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation: Why have the designers of your web site consciously blocked the ability of users of the web site to cut and paste the volume statistics like those we report on today?
Donald R. van Deventer
Kamakura Corporation
Honolulu, Hawaii
May 13, 2010


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Chance of snow at Super Bowl forecasted at just 30 percent
East Rutherford, NJ, United States (4E Sports) – Super Bowl XLVIII between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks will probably push through Feb. 2 with just a 30 per cent chance of snow at MetLife Stadium at said date.
The weather forecast by weather.com also noted that East Rutherford, N.J. will have a high temperature of 35 degrees and a low of 25 on Feb. 2.
NFL officials have said they could change the time or day of the game in the case of a severe snowstorm.
The current kickoff time is 6:25 p.m. ET.
Eric Grubman, a league vice president, said it would require 24 hours to move the game time and 36 hours to switch days.
He offered no details of what would happen if heavy snow hit on Super Bowl Sunday.
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