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Author has written 54 stories for Goonies, Inuyasha, Misc. Movies, Stand By Me, Indiana Jones, Chronicles of Narnia, Swing Kids, Newsies, Batman Begins/Dark Knight, To Kill a Mockingbird, Family Guy, Les Miserables, Don Quixote, Lion King, Nancy Drew series, Starsky and Hutch, Dead Poets Society, Interstellar, and Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew.
Name: Zoe-- with a zillion nicknames in tow
INFP, melancholic. My heart is stuck in the 40's and my mind in the 70's. I love writing and philosophy and am majoring in both at school. I do extensive historical and philosophical research, which may or my not include planning and writing arbitrary theses. (Proud nerd.) Since I've started this account, I've improved somewhat as a writer, so don't read what I wrote four years ago. I'm not interesting; I'm interested. Perpetually. Which is why I'm always leaving reviews.
What I Write: currently stuff for the Starsky and Hutch, Nancy Drew, and Les Miserables fandoms.
When I Write: (especially important) I am a college student. Ergo, I am busy. Things take a while sometimes. Sorry!
Gull and Gullibility- when Starsky's incessant singing starts to annoy others in the squad room, they plot their revenge. Humor.
Beyond the Line of Duty- "We thought we could, and damn it, we gave it our best shot!" Starsky said in the closest to raw emotion Hutch had seen him use that day. "Didn't make a damned difference in the end. For once, our best wasn't good enough." What's left unsaid in Targets Without A Badge 1, 2, and 3. Drama/angst.
But No Cigar- Matt and Kyler's wedding. Matt/Kyler, Nancy and Kit friendship. Romance.
That It Should Come To This-instead of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Welton puts on Hamlet. And instead of Puck, Neil gets the role of Laertes. Angst.
Les Miserables: The High School version- adapted musical lyrics. What are Mizzies like if put in modern-day high school rather than 19th century France? Read to find out! Musical verse, of course. Humor/parody.
The Gamine and the Bourgeois- a Jondrette girl once took a begging letter to Monsieur Leblanc. What had she told him that convinced him to help her family? Drama/friendship.
Of Edmund and Sea Serpents- a fic explaining King Edmund's great fear of sea serpents. Movie verse, of course. Humor.
Relevant literary information:
Favorite novels of all time:
1. Les Miserables
2. Kite Runner
3. Of Mice and Men
4. The Red Badge of Courage
5. Candide
6. War and Peace
7. The Scarlet Letter
8. Brave New World
9. East of Eden
10. The Bell Jar
Other favorites (and favorite nonfiction works/plays): The Pearl, Stargirl, On Revolution, A Raisin In The Sun, The Crucible, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Metroland, Little Women, Winter, A Separate Peace, The Great Gatsby, The Prince, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich, Night, To Kill A Mockingbird, Animal Farm, Kidnapped!, Dandelion Wine, The Things They Carried, Don Quixote, Tevye the Dairyman stories, The Last Valley, Lost Horizon, Ivanhoe, The Misanthrope, Timaeus, Symposium, Maurice, the Tom Quest series, Oliver Twist, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Arcadia
Favorite poets: John Keats, Robert Burns, Lord Alfred Tennyson, John Donne, Victor Hugo, Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, W. H. Auden, Wilfred Owen, Sappho, and Sharon Olds
Relevant fanfiction information:
Favorite ships:
Les Miserables: Eponine/Enjolras, some of Eponine/Montparnasse, a little of Eponine/Marius, Cosette/Montparnasse, Jehan/Feuilly, Combeferre/Courfeyrac.
Phantom of the Opera (also serves for Love Never Dies): Erik/Christine, Erik/Antoinette, Raoul playing with himself HAHAHAHAHA I'm so mean.
Narnia series: Ramandu's daughter/Peter, Peter/Caspian, Edmund/Caspian, Corin/Lucy, Jill/Eustace.
Harry Potter: Harry/Draco, Lily/Severus, Lily/James, Ron/Hermione
Dead Poets Society: Charlie/Knox, Knox/Chris, Neil/Todd, Charlie/Cameron, tie between Charlie/Todd and Charlie/Neil (threesome?)
Nancy Drew: Nancy/Sonny, Jamila/Dylan, Rose/Abby, Henrik/Alejandro, Zoe/Dagny
Favorite authors: John Steinbeck, Jerry Spinelli, John Knowles, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Edna Ferber, Sylvia Plath, Khaled Houssini, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Llewelyn, William Shakespeare, James Hilton, Sir Walter Scott, Moliere, Fran Striker, Carson McCullers
...and Samuel Clemens and François-Marie Arouet, of course. Brownie points if you know these guys. :P
And now: capricious facts, I salute you. Read at your own risk.
OK. So since I've been writing a lot of Nancy Drew stuff, I guess I had better talk about my experience with the series. My first game was Message in a Haunted Mansion, so that one will always be dear to my heart. When I started playing, Blackmoor was the new game, so I've been playing for about ten years (since late 2004). Nancy Drew made up a large part of my childhood. I'm fond of it not only in its own right but because I played most of the games with my sister, and I've got really fond memories of that. Eventually she went to college, then I went to college, so we stopped playing all of the games for the first time together. However, we have played all of the games right up to 2/3 of the way through Shattered Medallion (soon I'll be going to visit her to finish). I've also read all 56 books of the original series and all 58 books in the original Hardy Boys series, which I liked a lot better. Why? Because I never cared too much for Nancy's character in the books... she seemed too lifeless and Sue-ish. The Hardy brothers, on the other hand, had flavor, as did their friends They were seen to be fallible while Nancy wasn't. (The most concrete example I remember of this is when Joe left an envelope containing money on the fireplace mantle, from where it was stolen. I can't remember which book that was. Also--Frank and Joe returning stolen property, after which Fenton told them that it would have been better for them to leave it and see if the thief came back for it. That one's from Short Wave Mystery.) Back to the games though: my favorite until very recently was Secret of the Scarlet Hand. Its information about the Ancient Maya was fascinating, which provided for intelligent dialogue and an intriguing plot. The games that touch upon history are definitely my favorites since they take real-life events and issues--such as stolen artifacts and faked provenance documents in SSH--and add to them just a dash of the fantastical for flavor, just enough for a reasonable suspension of disbelief. Not to mention that the ending was one of the highest-stake endings (I think the highest) that Nancy has faced in any game. Plus, SONNY JOON. C'mon. Like I said, suitable grounds for favorite status, but this has changed within the last year. Silent Spy is now my second favorite game (after Shattered Medallion), although it was my favorite for a few months. For once we get to see Nancy develop significantly as a character. Granted, her character changes after being provided with new insights after each case, but the development in this game has more gravity because the situation is so personal. Other characters were compelling. The plot had high stakes. The ending dialogue was beautiful and significant. (I've just used that word twice haven't I? Ah well.) MED's now my favorite due to its philosophical nature and altruistic themes.
As a matter of fact, all of the games of late have been of high caliber. Nancy Drew has really been hitting its stride for the past two years now. Before that, the games had a lighter flavor, never dealing with many of the deeper issues in life. No one died, and the culprits always got the retribution they deserved. In fact, the ending of Deadly Device says that the givers will always be remembered over the takers, good over evil, which simply isn't true (however I wish it were). Bad guys win a lot of the time. There was a certain amount of risk in the early Nancy Drew games, when Nancy nearly dies during a case, for example, but these risks always seemed to stop short of the grittiest symptoms of reality. I noticed this change in Deadly Device, which was the first game wherein Nancy is called in on a murder investigation since Secrets Can Kill. That game held a distinctly darker tone than the ones that preceded it. (Just ignore the givers/takers ending statement that is indicative of a sentiment that prevailed in the earlier games.) Next game: Ghost of Thornton Hall. I appreciate the fact that this game deals with mental illness and trauma as part of those "darker issues" of which the earlier games were lacking (as I mentioned before). Hard to top this game… but HER did it with Silent Spy which is by far Nancy's most personal case. When we see Nancy's cases through Nancy's eyes, what is important to her is important to us. And this is more important to her than any of the cases covered in previous games. Hard for HER to top this one too. I suspect that's why they pulled the Sonny card for the subsequent game… and man, did it pay off. Silent Spy is still my favorite, but Shattered Medallion managed to take a literally out-of-this-world theory and make it worth our time. And also the villain didn't really get the justice (s)he deserved--yay realism! It balanced fantasy and reality in a way that didn't take out the mystery and didn't seem too far-fetched. Is this the Golden Age for Nancy Drew games? If so, I look forward to the next case!
Having said all that, here's my list of favorites (and yet another testament to the fact that I've got wayyyyyy too much time on my hands):
By plot:
1. The Silent Spy
2. Secret of the Scarlet Hand
3. Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon
4. The Final Scene
5. Ransom of the Seven Ships and Tomb of the Lost Queen, tied
By background information/subplot:
1. Secret of the Scarlet Hand
2. The Shattered Medallion
3. Ghost of Thornton Hall
4. Alibi in Ashes
5. Danger By Design
--Curse of Blackmoor Manor honorable mention for scope of backstory (all quite fascinating)
By characters:
1. Haunting of Castle Malloy
2. Alibi in Ashes
3. Shadow at the Water's Edge
4. Tomb of the Lost Queen
5. The Haunted Carousel
By amount of replays (approximate):
1. Secret of the Scarlet Hand
2. Warnings at Waverly Academy
3. Secret of the Old Clock
4. Ransom of the Seven Ships
5. Alibi in Ashes
By villain (game names given, not perp names. no spoilers; don't worry!):
1. Shadow at the Water's Edge
2. Trail of the Twister
3. Tomb of the Lost Queen
4. The Final Scene
5. The Haunted Carousel
--The Captive Curse gets honorable mention because I love that villain, as well
By soundtrack:
1. The Shattered Medallion
2. Curse of Blackmoor Manor
3. Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon
4. Labyrinth of Lies
5. Danger By Design
--Danger on Deception Island and Secret of the Old Clock get honorable mention--love the jauntiness of those
--I would have counted Warnings at Waverly Academy for Mel's cello music if I could--I love the Bach Suites--but that's not actually part of the soundtrack
Favorite characters:
1. Sonny Joon (obviously), MED
2. Alexei Markovik, ASH
3. Jamila El-Dine, TMB
4.Nick Falcone, TFS
5. Henrik Van Der Hune, SSH
6. Deirdre Shannon, ASH
7. Colton Birchfield, GTH
8. Harper Thornton, GTH
9. Dexter Egan, TRT
10. Patrick Dowsett, MED
--Lillian Weiss (STFD), Mel Corbalis (WAV), Ryan Kilpatrick (TDD), and Zoe Wolfe (SPY) are honorably mentioned because I love them! More because I love them and less because they're well-rounded characters--that's why they didn't make the list.
Difficult to explain why HAU is my favorite game for characters and none of them turn up here while two from ASH do. In regards to HAU, the characters form well as a collective that effectively drive the story forward. This is a list for favorite individual characters, though, hence the inclusion of Deirdre and Alexei at the expense of Kit, Kyler, and Donal.
...and this is what happens when I've got way too much time on my hands.
NOW on to Les Mis:
Marius is dead to me, and here is why:
I strongly dislike him because he's ignorant. The fact that he knows three languages doesn't seem to help him in constructive political arguments if he compares Napoleon to every Greek god there is (I exaggerate, but surely you get my point) and gives a multiple-page rant that is deflected by three words by Combeferre. He has a poet's mind; that's fine. However, he shouldn't be shooting his mouth off when he doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. At least Jehan is lovable because he only talks within his areas of expertise (which are plentiful) instead of being pretentious about things outside of them. Also, I hate how he pines over Cosette for six months. Cosette eventually did put him to the back of her mind while going on with her life. Above there is an Eponine/Marius pairing; I only really like this for the musical fandom, where Marius' idiocy is a little more lovable. I will give Marius this: he is brave, even if he is of the reckless sort (more like Eponine than perhaps he would like to consider), and it's admirable indeed that he didn't except his grandfather's money when making a new life for himself. Let's debate!
Favorite movies of all time:
1. Stand By Me (1986)
2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
3. The Last Valley (1970)
4. To Sir, With Love (1968)
5. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
6. Ordinary People (1980)
7. The Great Dictator (1940)
8. The King's Speech (2010)
9. Empire of the Sun (1987)
10. Mosquito Coast (1986)
Additional note: Schindler's List is the best move I have ever seen, but it's not really my favorite movie for obvious reasons that concern excessive consumption of tissues (and tree-killing).
Favorite musicals:
1. Show Boat
2. Fiddler on the Roof
3. Finian's Rainbow
4. Les Miserables
5. Chess
Other good ones: Little Shop of Horrors, Porgy and Bess
Favorite television: Soap, Starsky & Hutch, Mork & Mindy, The Honeymooners, Dick Van Dyke Show, Brady Bunch, Hill Street Blues, Doogie Howser, M.D., Family Guy, American Dad!, How I Met Your Mother, Kings, Taxi, Third Rock From The Sun, The Big Bang Theory
Favorite quotes:
On War
"Would it be possible to attain a state of being for which events would be no more than clouds growing and vanishing before him without assertion or comment from his own identity?...Was that the significance of those fat finger-prints of a cloud? Only rebirth into such a state of being could save him...from a return to terror at the recognition that violence destroys everything, even the reason which rejects and despises it." J. B. Pick, The Last Valley
"War kills people and destroys human creation; but as though mocking war's devastation, flowers inevitably bloom through its ruins." David W. Blight
"War has its own peculiar sounds. They are not really very much different from sounds in the world of peace. But they clothe themselves in an unforgettable fierceness, just because born in danger and death." Ernie Pyle
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won." Duke of Wellington, after Waterloo
"I murder hate by flood or field,/Tho' glory's name may screen us;/In wars at home I'll spend my blood-/Life-giving wars of Venus." Robert Burns
"Glory? alas, is the rusted metal which hangs as a hatchment over the champion's dim and mouldering tomb, is the defaced sculpture of the inscription which the ignorant monk can hardly read to the enquiring pilgrim—are these sufficient rewards for the sacrifice of every kindly affection, for a life spent miserably that ye may make others miserable?" Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (Rebecca)
"They vainly purify themselves with blood when defiled with it, as if a man who has stepped into mud were to wash it off with mud. He would be thought mad if anyone noticed him acting thus." Aristocritus (Heraclitus)
"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not more than five cardinal tastes (sour, acrid, salt, sweet, bitter), yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers. The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn. It is like moving in a circle you never come to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination? The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent which will even roll stones along in its course. The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim." Sun Tzu, Art of War
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned./The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats
"The whole of my life has been devoted to acts of creation... and I cannot take part in acts of destruction... I believe sincerely that I can help my fellow human beings best, by continuing the work I am most qualified to do by the nature of my gifts and training, i.e. the creation or propagation of music." Benjamin Britten
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." Thomas Edison
"Necessity is a monster of the old world, the name of necessity is Fatality. Now the law of progress is, that monsters disappear before angels, and that Fatality vanish before Fraternity." Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Enjolras)
On Revolution
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo
"It is action, not rest, that constitutes our pleasure." John Adams
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win." Mahatma Gandhi
"The revolutionary sense is a moral sense." Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
"We are tending toward the unity of the people, we are tending toward the unity of man. No more fictions; no more parasites. The real governed by the true, such is the aim." Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Enjolras)
On Education
"Learning without due reflection leads to perplexity; reflection without learning leads to perilous circumstances." Confucius
"Both the young and the old should study philosophy, the former so that as he grows old he may still retain the happiness of youth in his pleasant memories of the past, the latter so that although he is old he may at the same time be young by virtue of his fearlessness of the future." Epicurus
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant." Epictetus
"Only the educated are free." Epictetus
"Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed." Hannah Arendt
"We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant." Neil Postman
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Gandhi
"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge." Mark Twain
"Every person permits himself the liberty of making guesses in the matter of an obscure subject with more confidence than in one which is clear, and that it is much easier to have some vague notion about any subject, no matter what, than to arrive at the real truth about a single question however simple that may be." Rene Descartes
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." Nelson Mandela
"He who first opens Chaucer, or any other ancient poet, is so much struck with the obsolete spelling, multiplied consonants, and antiquated appearance of the language that he is apt to lay the work down in despair, as encrusted too deep with the rust of antiquity to permit the judging of its merits or tasting its beauties. But if some intelligent and accomplished friend points out to him that the difficulties by which he is startled are more in appearance than reality, if, by reading aloud to him or by reducing the ordinary words to the modern orthography, he satisfies his proselyte that only about one-tenth part of the words employed are in fact obsolete, the novice may be easily persuaded to approach the "well of English undefiled," with the certainty that a slender degree of patience will enable him to enjoy both the humor and the pathos with which old Geoffrey delighted the age of Cressy and of Poictiers." Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
"Education is not implanted in the soul unless one reaches a greater depth." Plutarch (Protagoras)
"A tree. A rock. A cloud. The weather was like this in Portland...At the time my science was begun. I meditated and I started very cautious. I would pick up something from the street and take it home with me. I bought a goldfish and I concentrated on the goldfish and I loved it. I graduated from one thing to another. Day by day I was getting this technique. For six years now I have gone around by myself and built up my science. And now I am a master. Son. I can love anything. No longer do I have to think about it even. I see a street of people and a beautiful light comes in me. I watch a bird in the sky. Or I meet a traveler on the road. Everything, Son. And anybody. All stranger and all loved! Do you realize what a science like mine can mean?" Carson McCullers, A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud (Old Man)
"Examination by hatred, [is] a terrible thing." Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
On Story
"O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come." Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
"Stories give shape to experience and allow us to go through life unblind." Tomas Alex Tizon
"Irony is that little pinch of salt which alone makes the dish palatable." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On Inspiration
"I immersed myself in the place. Everything was new; everything was so different from anything I had known. At times, I'd step outside and lean back against the wall of my house, my lids curtaining my eyes. The majesty of the land in front of me was often too difficult for me to bear; it was too pure, too beautiful. It took effort, presence, simply to be in it, to gaze out upon the landscape or out into the stars, to breathe air this uncontaminated. My lungs and my blood didn't know what to do with all this oxygen. It took a period of adjustment to grow comfortable with this kind of good, this kind of real, this kind of beauty, after a life surrounded with plastic and pollution, and it made me a little high." Shreve Stockton
"Some interruptions are worth having if they create a space for something to work in the fertile unconscious." Hanif Kureishi
"I think The Force is in you. Force yourself." Harrison Ford
"If everybody ate cupcakes, ain't nobody be mad." Kid President
"It is better to fail in originality than succeed in imitation." Herman Melville
"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important." Gary Provost
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." Ernest Hemingway
"With writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing." Paul McCartney
"Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was who progeny they are: nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." John Milton
"A writer is a world trapped in a person." Victor Hugo
On Expression
"Brevity is the soul of wit." William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Polonius)
"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of the meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words so I can have a word with him?" Laozi
On Ethics
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." John Stuart Mill
"You will know that you have not lived and died for nothing, because you will have become part of the great tradition of those who have responded to the amount of pain and suffering in the universe by trying to make the world a better place." Peter Singer
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Mahatma Gandhi
"Courtesy of tongue, when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown." Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (Rowena)
"It is the duty of one and the same man both to speak the needful rightly and to refute [the unrighfully spoken]." Gorgias
"Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension, yet—and this is its horror!—it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world." Hannah Arendt
"We must renounce the theory which accounts for every moral sentiment by the principle of self-love. We must adopt a more publick affection, and allow that the interests of society are not, even on their own account, entirely indifferent to us." David Hume
"Right conduct, with its aims, intentions, and reasons for acting, is the public counterpart to the inner structure of feeling, desire, and purposiveness which make up the [moral] agent's character. When congruence between conduct and character is achieved, the agent chooses and acts as a whole being, a complete and integrated self. Perhaps no human person can become a whole moral being in this ideal sense, but this does not take away from the duty to make as close an approach to it as one can by one's own efforts." Paul W. Taylor
"It is necessary to envision a whole Earth exemplifying a condition of fundamental harmony between nature and human civilization." Paul W. Taylor
"The goals that moral agents set for themselves in pursuing the gradual realization of the ideal are judged to be worthy of their best efforts because the ethical ideal represents a summum bonum (greatest good). Achieving the immediate, practical goals has only instrumental value. The ends and means are sought not for their own sake but for the sake of the ideal, that is, for the sake of making the world a better place by bringing it one step closer to what it should be." Paul W. Taylor
"Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through." Michael Morpungo
"From caring comes courage." Laozi
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Laozi
"The ancients who wished to illustrate a lustrous virtue throughout the world first ordered their own kingdoms. Wishing to order well their kingdoms, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigations of things. Things being investigated, knowledge becomes complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts are sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts are then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their kingdoms were rightly governed. Their kingdoms being rightly governed, the whole world was tranquil and happy." Zhu Xi
"In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who couldn't care more." John Sakars
On Life
"Fists will teach you to fight better if you have heart and head, and your fists will teach other men to let you have your share of the road of peace. But twigs and a talk will teach you to think and live better." Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley (Mr. Gruffydd)
"The meaning of life is from within us, it is not bestowed from without, and it far exceeds in both its beauty and permanence any heaven of which men have ever dreamed or yearned for." Richard Taylor
"I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far." Neil Simon
"'It is a wise man's duty to save himself for tomorrow, and not risk everything on one day.'" Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Sancho Panza)
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." James Dean
"This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Polonius)
"In simplicity there is truth." River Phoenix
"Suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character." Betty Smith, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Mary Rommely)
"Out of all things there comes a unity, and out of a unity all things." Aristotle (Heraclitus)
"What is opposed brings together; the finest harmony is composed of things at variance, and everything comes to be in accordance with strife." Aristotle (Heraclitus)
"Mortals, knowing nothing,/two-headed, wander. For helplessness/in their breasts guides their wandering mind. But they are carried on/equally deaf and blind, amazed, hordes without judgment,/for whom both to be and not be are judged the same and/not the same, and the path of all is backward-turning." Simplicius (Parmenides)
"Man is the measure of all things—of things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not." Sextus Empiricus (Protagoras)
"Persuasion has the force of necessity." Gorgias
"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." Unknown
"Our history, our lives, and our language are better described as a field of ruptures, dissociations, and misrepresentations than as a linear or narrative continuum." David Baker
"We have nothing to fear but sanity itself." Mork (Robin Williams)
"Our ability to love is our truest power, our greatest power as human beings." Paul Michael Glaser, Chrystallia
"We defy augury: there's a special/providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,/'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be/now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the/readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he/leaves, what is't to leave betimes?" William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Hamlet)
"Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable anymore." Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar." Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"Be like the bird that/Pausing in her flight awhile/On boughs too slight,/Feels them give way beneath her,/And yet sings,/Knowing she hath wings." Victor Hugo
"Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,/Time held me green and dying/Though I sang in my chains like the sea." Dylan Thomas
"For the youth who is neither an aesthlete or a scholar, the years between eighteen and twenty-one are, perhaps inevitably, years of melancholy, uneasiness and mistrust. Conscious for the first time of all the possibilities of the intellectual life, and in some cases of latent powers of his own, he rushes forward without plan or patience to storm the fortress of wisdom and knowledge, only to be repulsed time after time with nothing gained but bruises and the knowledge that he has made a fool of himself. Conscious for the first time of the importance of personal relationships, he must suffer many humiliations before he learns that, unlike his relation to his parents, love and friendship have to be worked for, carefully nourished, and above all, deserved." W. H. Auden
"I would like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention of someone I don't know who. It doesn't last, and it is good for nothing." Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Grantaire)
"Look into the storm and feel the rain." Josh Groban, Tawgs Salter, Chantal Kreviazuk, "Brave"
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." John Lennon
"Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it." Imam Ali
"My wife was a wonder. I swear she was a miracle, Jodie. She used to walk down the street; the whole Bronx would light up. I used to stare at her in amazement, think how lucky I was. Then after fifteen years, I still stared at that woman in amazement. She was all I needed, Jodie. I had the whole world right there. If I died, I could've died happy. The trouble was that she died. One day she wakes up with a lump. Six months later, ding ding, the light goes out of my life. Oh, boy. I tell you I walked around for months; I was doubled over like somebody slugged me. I went through the normal routine of daily living—I ate, I slept, I went to the bathroom—and in between these three major activities, Jodie, there was a lot of pain. I never thought I'm ever gonna fall in love again, but, a few years later, I met a redhead. Not like my wife, no. Entirely different. So, I ate, I slept, I went to the bathroom, and, one day, I laughed. The one day, I noticed, I laughed. Then another day I hummed, and then soon after, I sang. Well, I married her. Oh, Jodie, if we weren't happy, ah… In an entirely different way, see. It wasn't better. It wasn't worse. It was… different. There I was, miserable Barney Gerber, happy again. You see, Jodie, you see how smart I was? I thought, 'I'll never love again;' I thought, 'I'll never be happy again,' eh? I also thought, 'I'll never have to say goodbye again.' Ten years we were happy, Jodie. And then one day, some maniac with bourbon in his blood, something on his mind, runs through a red light—and stops Barney Gerber right in mid-song. It was sixteen months ago. Well, since then, I have eaten. I have slept. Occasionally, I went to the bathroom. And I had a heart attack. So I said, 'Gerber that's all. You're finished. Forget it. It's never gonna happen again. Once was wonderful. Twice was incredible. A third time… you're kidding yourself, come on. Third time would be asking for a miracle.' But you know something, Jodie? I don't really believe that. If I believed that, I wouldn't be here, in this hotel, letting them sew Dacron into my heart to hold it together. I wouldn't be here, begging my blood to visit my heart at least a few times a day, you know—to keep it going. I wouldn't be here at all, Jodie, if I didn't believe it could be—a third time. Listen, I know that you don't feel so terrific right now, but wait, Jodie. Wait. Someday, I guarantee you, you're gonna hear somebody laughing, and you'll turn around, and it'll be you." Susan Harris, Tony Lang, Soap (Barney Gerber)
"Neither of us knows what tomorrow is, and I'll tell you something, Jodie… neither does anybody else. Nobody knows—Robert Redford doesn't know what tomorrow is. They could decide tomorrow nobody with moles works—he's finished! But what we do know is that when we're born, we're given just one thing… time." Susan Harris, Tony Lang, Soap (Barney Gerber)
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will. I'll go to it laughing." Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." Mark Twain
"Be like a duck, my mother used to tell me. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath." Michael Caine
On Happiness
"...Is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished, and look back in your mind to eat again[?]" Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery." Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Mustapha Mond)
On Aging
"What is there, in the mention of Time to Come, that is so quick to wrench at the heart, to inflict a pain in the senses that is like the run of a sword...Perhaps we feel our youngness taken from us without the soothe of sliding years, and the pains of age that come to stand unseen beside us and grow more solid as the minutes pass, are with us solid on the instant, and we sense them, but when we try to assess them, they are back again in their places down in Time To Come, ready to meet us coming." Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
On Music
"Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and alto and mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song. O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might." Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
"If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another." Frank Zappa
"If music be the food of love, play on." William Shakespeare
"When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, 'cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for." John Lennon
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." Ludwig von Beethoven
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony." Benjamin Britten
"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die." Paul Simon
"Classical music is tight yo." Kanye West
"If the day ever dawns when composers fail to speak out through the medium of their art against mankind's seemingly illimitable folly and wickedness, the world will be a poorer place." Michael Foster, The Idea Was Good
On Tradition
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." Samuel Johnson
On Change
"We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind." Marcus Garvey
"Gaslight, when it came, made people want to read less, for comfort, perhaps, and electric light sent them to bed earlier because it was dearer. But when did people stop being friends with their mothers and fathers, and itching to be out of the house, and going mad for other things to do...[?] It is like an asthma, that comes on a man quickly. He has no notion how he had it, but there it is, and nothing to cure it." Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
"If you describe to [the English reader] a set of wild manners and a state of primitive society existing in the Highlands of Scotland, he is much disposed to acquiesce in the truth of what is asserted. And reason good. If he be of the ordinary class of readers, he has either never seen those remote districts at all, or he has wandered through those desolate regions in the course of a summer tour, eating bad dinners, sleeping on truckle beds, stalking from desolation to desolation, and fully prepared to believe the strangest things that could be told him of a people wild and extravagant enough to be attached to scenery so extraordinary. But the same worthy person, when placed in his own snug parlor and surrounded by all the comforts of an Englishman's fireside, is not half so much disposed to believe that his own ancestors led a very different life from himself, that the shattered tower which now forms a vista from his window once held a baron who would have hung him up at his own door without any form of trial, that the hinds by whom his little pet-farm is managed a few centuries ago would have been his slaves, and that the complete influence of feudal tyranny once extended over the neighboring village, where the attorney is now a man of more importance than the lord of the manor." Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
On Types
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." Mark Twain
"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead." Thomas Brackett Reed
"A person's character is his fate." Stobaeus (Heraclitus)
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird." Paul McCartney
On Dissonance
"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable." Daniel Webster
On Chivalry
"'Ease, luxury, and repose were invented for soft courtiers; but labor, unease, and arms alone were designed and made for those whom the world calls knights errant, of whose number, though unworthy, I am the very least.'" Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Don Quixote de la Mancha)
On Other Animals
"Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished 'shooting,' my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy." James Stewart
"When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard." River Phoenix
"To kill creatures for fun must be the very dregs." Donald Watson
"If a being suffers, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering—in so far as rough comparisons can be made—of any other being." Peter Singer
"There can be no defense of eating flesh in terms of satisfying nutritional needs, since it has been established beyond doubt that we could satisfy our need for protein and other essential nutrients far more efficiently with a diet that replaced animal flesh by soy beans, or products derived from soy beans, and other high-protein vegetable products." Peter Singer
"Cruelty is acknowledged only when profitability ceases." Ruth Harrison
"If the use of animal food be, in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and the barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims. They are called into existence by human artifice that they may drag out a short and miserable existence of slavery and disease, that their bodies may be mutilated, their social feelings outraged. It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery." Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Never again may blood of bird or beast/Stain with its venomous stream a human feast,/To the pure skies in accusation steaming." Percy Bysshe Shelley
"There are times, and these are not infrequent, when tears come to my eyes when I see, or read, or hear of the wretched plight of animals in the hands of humans. Their pain, their suffering, their loneliness, their innocence, their death. Anger. Rage. Pity. Sorrow. Disgust. The whole creation groans under the weight of the evil we humans visit upon these mute, powerless creatures. It is our heart, not just our head, that calls for an end, that demands of us that we overcome, for them, the habits and forces behind their systematic oppression. All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realization of the third stage—adoption—that demands both our passion and our discipline, our heart and our head." Tom Regan
"When we raise and slaughter animals for food, the wrong we do to them does not consist simply in our causing them pain. Even if it became possible for us to devise methods of killing them, as well as ways of treating them while alive, that involved little or no pain, we would still violate a prima facie duty in consuming them." Paul W. Taylor
"When we look at this conflict between human civilization and the natural world from an ethical standpoint, we do not see it as a brute, uncontrolled and uncontrollable struggle for survival. We view the competition between human cultures and the natural ways of nonhuman species as something that can exemplify a moral order. By imposing constraints on our own lifestyles and cultural practices, we who are moral agents have the capacity to replace the chaos of a world torn to pieces by human greed and voraciousness with a well-ordered moral universe in which both respect for wild creatures and respect for persons are given a place. There is no reason why, together with humans, a great variety of animal and plant life cannot exist side by side on our planet. In order to share the Earth with other species, however, we humans must impose limits on our population, our habits of consumption, and our technology. We will do this to the extent that we have genuine respect for the natural world and the living things in it." Paul W. Taylor
"Most of us in the contemporary world have been brought up in a thoroughly anthropocentric culture in which the inherent superiority of humans over other species has been taken for granted. Great efforts will be needed to emancipate ourselves from this established way of looking at nonhuman animals and plants. But it is not beyond the realm of practical possibility. Nothing prevents us from exercising our powers of autonomy and rationality in bringing the world as it is gradually closer to the world as it ought to be." Paul W. Taylor
"When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that." Paul McCartney
"Crime is madness. Madness is disease. Whenever the cause of disease shall be discovered, the root from which all vice and misery have so long overshadowed the globe, will lay bare to the axe. All the exertions of man, from that moment, may be considered as tending to the clear profit of his species. No sane mind in a sane body resolves upon a real crime. It is a man of violent passions, blood-shot eyes, and swollen veins, that alone can grasp the knife of murder. The system of a simple diet promises no Utopian advantages. It is no mere reform of legislation, whilst the furious passions and evil propensities of the human heart, in which it had its origin, are still unassuaged. It strikes at the root of all evil, and is an experiment which may be tried with success, not alone by nations, but by small societies, families, and even individuals. In no cases has a return to vegetable diet produced the slightest injury; in most it has been attended with changes undeniably beneficial. Should ever a physician be born with the genius of Locke, I am persuaded that he might trace all bodily and mental derangements to our unnatural habits, as clearly as that philosopher has traced all knowledge to sensation." Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Vindication of Natural Diet
On Justice
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." Thomas Jefferson
"For if we tried to be as honest as we could,/And everyone was decent, fair, and virtuous,/Most of our virtues would become superfluous,/Since what we use them for is helping us to bear/Our grievances, when other people are unfair." Molière, The Misanthrope (Philinte)
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just." Blaise Pascal
"Never give the people a false light. Principles wither and grow pale in your constitutional cave. No half-measures, no compromises, no grant from the king, to the people...Right is only right when entire." Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Courfeyrac)
On Wealth/Materialism
"One of the things most quickly learned in theatrical work is that people as a whole get satisfaction from seeing the rich get the worst of things. The reason for this, of course, lies in the fact that nine tenths of the people in the world are poor, and secretly resent the wealth of the other tenth." Charlie Chaplin
"A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils." Daniel Webster
"We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mindset, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success." River Phoenix
"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem." John Lennon
On Euphemism
"Plain speech matters because when we speak clearly we are more likely to speak truth than when we retreat into slogan and euphemism; avoiding euphemism takes courage because it almost always points plainly to responsibility. To say "torture" instead of "enhanced interrogation" is hard, because it means that someone we placed in power was a torturer. That's a hard truth and a brutal responsibility to accept. But it's so." Adam Gopnik
On Sleep
"When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly bodies. Instinctively he consults them when he awakes, and in an instant reads off his own position on the earth's surface and the time that has elapsed during his slumbers; but this ordered procession is apt to grow confused, and to break its ranks." Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
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In response to Mary Smith (Nov. 11 letter to the editor), increasing taxes by adding another massive government boondoggle to the wasteful, inefficient and unconstitutional bureaucracies we're already saddled with is certainly not the answer to addressing the "dire issue of our failing economy."
We have the best health care system in the world, and the bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives does nothing to reform health insurance; it is a power grab based on a manufactured crisis, and doing nothing would absolutely be better. However, we can fix the problems with health insurance without giving control to the federal government.
This is America. We're supposed to be free to make our own decisions, good and bad. Where did this "entitlement" mentality come from?
The way this issue has been handled from the beginning by Democrats is disgraceful.
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METAIRIE — Outside linebacker Martez Wilson will miss 2-4 weeks with a dislocated left elbow, Saints coach Sean Payton said Tuesday.
Additionally, inside linebacker Curtis Lofton sat out with a sore back while Tom Johnson has a hip issue, Payton said. While Lofton will be day-to-day, Johnson could miss up to a week.
Payton said Wilson will require a brace when he returns. While depth might seem like a question, Payton said Wilson's absence will give the younger players a chance to get on the field.
"We've got enough numbers and it's really just getting a chance to see these guys in team drills and one-on-one pass rush drills," Payton said.
At the long end of the spectrum, Wilson would be out until the final week of August. That, however, would allow him to return for the first week of the regular season.
Receiver Marques Colston remains on the physically unable to perform list, though Payton said he's "making progress."
Jonathan Vilma, meanwhile, missed much of practice and afterwards, showed off a set of stitches across the bridge of his nose. Vilma said the cut occurred during 9-on-6 drills when Mark Ingram forced the linebacker's helmet down onto his nose.
The rest of those who were out have been out. Receiver Jarred Fayson (dehydration) hasn't practiced yet while linebacker Ray Shipman (hamstring) missed his second practice.
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Nasa Bends The Rules To Get Two Rovers To Mars
Space is a premium in space. So NASA ended up folding two rovers inside a shipping container, and then unfolding them when they landed. This story originally aired on All Things Considered on June 9.
NPR science correspondent Joe Palca has a new series. It's called Unfolding Science. It's about how things fold-up and unfold. In this story that aired earlier, Joe tells us about a scientific mission that unfolded on Mars.
JOE PALCA, BYLINE: When NASA decided to launch a six-wheeled, solar-powered rover to Mars, there wasn't much time to get things ready for the 2003 launch window. So engineers were told, listen up boys and girls. Just use the same landing system you used with the Pathfinder rover in 1998.
That rover bounced to the service in a shipping container protected by inflatable airbags. But the new rover, known as Opportunity, was much bigger than Pathfinder. So the question was, could you fit a five-foot-long rover in the same shipping container that a two-foot-long rover fit in?
ROB MANNING: And the answer is you could if you're willing to fold everything up.
PALCA: Rob Manning and his fellow engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory were willing. So they got folding. Anything that stuck out got tucked in. The solar panels...
MANNING: Each solar panel had two folds.
PALCA: The six wheels got folded inward and stored under the rover's body. The five-foot-high mast that held the rover's stereo cameras...
MANNING: Oh, yes. The mast itself had to be stowed sideways across the top deck, hidden inside the folded solar panels.
PALCA: And the robotic arm.
MANNING: Folded right in front, tightly-knit, right against the chest of the rover - also underneath the solar panels.
PALCA: In the end, they did it. They squeezed the rover into its tiny shipping container. In fact, they did it twice, squeezing Opportunity's twin rover called Spirit into an equally small container. Now, all that folding saved space, but it made for complications.
It meant including a lot of actuators and motors and the like, all having to function perfectly and in the right order to accomplish the unfolding. But once on Mars, they all did. First the solar panels unfolded to charge the batteries, then the mast so the camera could have a look around.
MANNING: Altogether it took us about a week to get the rover stood up, wheels locked in position and then to turn and drive off the lander, which was very exciting.
PALCA: Of course it was, because unfolding science is always exciting. Joe Palca, NPR News.
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Released: Oct 01st, 2006
Running Time: 102
Companies: Blue Balls, Bacchus Releasing
Distribution Companies: Bacchus
Cast: Chico, Erotic, Ty (IV), Sexcyone, Mice Man, Lil Red, Tez, Anonymous (I), Kochiece, Amari (II)
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"F.I.L.T.F." = "Fathers I'd Like to Fuck, has five scenes, the last two less interesting than the first three. Right away, a young baldy on the edge of a bed undresses and sucks a regal-looking bearded man. He keeps sucking the man while the man rims him. Regal then fucks Baldy in kingly silence except for Baldy's gasps, with no haste or showiness. They jack side-by-side. Sexcyone is also lordly, permitting two youths to suck on him and then bend to offer him two asses to fuck in turn, gently at first then harder and harder. When ready to shoot, he allows them to jack on either side of him. In a storage room, a big man jacks himself with a slim youth's mouth, then, after clutching their two big, moist cocks together, rims him open for another quiet fuck, during which he bends to kiss the youth's tits and mouth. The two young men in the fourth scene look very close to the same age. The darker fucks the lighter uneventfully. In Scene Five a conspicuously younger man fucks an older like a zombie.
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I got my mortgage with Wells this past Spring/Summer and they were good to me. If you are indeed correct about the SL's deferment status you may be okay. You may be required to submit a LOE, but can't you go back to the SL lender and ask them to remove the lates since they are apparently in error?
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The timing of the S-3 filing just 2 weeks before the Q2 rather that afterward, I believe is done with forethought. Taking into consideration that we have just undergone an offering that negatively impacted the share price, the filing of a much larger offering possibility can have a deleterious effect on the PPS. This would definitely be the case if the E.R and CC prove disappointing. However, and this is just my guess, with management having knowledge of a report that will make us a profitable ,or near profitable concern. investor confidence will soar along with the share price and a positive view and trust that management will wisely control the offerings. I pluralize "offerings" as I strongly believe they will not brashly utilize a singular large offering as the majority will be retained on the shelf to avoid a poison pill takeover
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When the private offering came out @ 1.60, ECTY stayed up in the 1.80s for the next few weeks after that ..I was scratching my head over it ...It finally did fall a month later under 1.60 ...
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Look for a profit in Nov. based on the new pricing structure of using a public charger ..
bud. It had no business staying up there. Marxe was scratching his head also when he was able to sell 1.60 shares with 2.04 five yr warrants for 1.95 after the offering.I told you many times it does not generally follow the market. Looks like u and aj finally believe me. The object is to try to take the luck out of it as much as possible but with ecty its luck,luck and more luck to trade this thing profitably, and a bit of kahones.are needed
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July 28, 2010 -- One in five beaches off the Gulf of Mexico has been closed this season because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a new report issued by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental action group headquartered in New York City.
There were 2,239 beach closings and advisory days issued along beaches in Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, and Mississippi since the April 22 spill -- a number that is 10 times higher than beach closings and advisory days in these areas for any reason in 2009, says David Beckman, director of the NRDC's water program. To date, there have been no official beach closures or advisories in Texas, which also is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred about 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., after an explosion and fire damaged a Transocean oil rig, causing it to burn for hours and sink. As a result, oil has streaked shorelines along the Gulf.
Calling the oil spill an "'unprecedented and unfolding disaster," Beckman says that "oil has heavy metal and toxic chemicals that you may be breathing in on a contaminated beach." Coming into direct contact with the oil may cause a host of health problems including headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and skin rashes and irritation.
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Jon Devine, an attorney with the NRDC's water program, says that "we need to take new and strong action to make sure that companies have adequate clean-up procedures in the event of another disaster and change policies to make sure something like this doesn't have to happen again."
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Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman Darnell Dockett sent out a few tweets late Monday in what is likely a response to a reported on-field incident he had with teammate Kerry Rhodes as the end of the Cardinals 7-6 loss to the Jets on Sunday.
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Jennings' Euro trip could cause changes
Published: Friday, July 11, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 11, 2008 at 12:16 a.m.
Perhaps someday well look back and call Brandon Jennings a revolutionary figure a Moses (Malone) in long shorts if you will.
Jennings, one of the nations top prep basketball recruits, announced his decision to take his game to Europe next season rather attend the University of Arizona. He plans to enter next years NBA draft, becoming the first high-profile American player to select such a path.
Good for him.
When the NBA implemented its requirement that players wait at least one year after high school before entering the league, it ensured that something like this was going to happen. Jennings, you see, has yet to qualify academically for NCAA play.
Instead of waiting to see if he could raise get his standardized scores to meet the minimum level, Jennings picked Door No. 2.
Kevin Garnett did the same in 1995. After struggling to qualify academically, KG declared himself eligible for the NBA draft right out of high school. The Mauldin, S.C., native wasnt the first but he did start the wave of prep stars to skip college.
For some, like Kobe and LeBron, it was the right move. For others, and the list is long and not distinguished, it was the wrong move.
As the cautionary tales grew and the quality of play in the slipped, the NBA took action by barring legal adults from offering their services from potential employers and, in theory, forcing prep phenoms to spend at least one year playing college basketball.
Supposedly, this rule is as good for the college game as it is for the NBA. With the seasons weve seen from players like Kevin Durant, Michael Beasley and Derrick Rose, its hard to argue to the point.
But these one-and-done players arent good for the college game and the college game has little to offer them in return.
While dominating college competition did Beasley progress as far as it would have had he spent that time competing in the NBA? No.
Worse still, the obvious one-and-done players are making a mockery of the term student-athlete. Well, theyre making an even bigger mockery of the term. Big-time college athletics have long been something of a farce.
Now, basketball players who would have been in the league but are in college and know theyre an upcoming lottery pick dont even have to attend second-semester classes.
Student-athletes indeed.
Expect more kids to follow Jennings example and begin their pro careers as soon as they can. Its a risk, any holes in Jennings game are more likely to be exposed in Europe than at Arizona, but for some, its a risk worth taking.
Its past time for the NCAA to step up and restore at least of modicum of credibility to March Madness.
The best decision would be for the NBA to drop the age requirement and allow 18-year old high school graduates to declare for the draft if they want while establishing that if you step foot on a college campus, you have to wait three years before re-entering the draft.
The same rule works well enough for baseball.
Ive never had a problem with kids leaving college early to sign multi-million dollar deals. Bill Gates left Harvard early to start Microsoft and things worked out OK for him.
I do, however, have a problem with kids coming to college knowing that their one year on campus will be their last.
Credit Jennings for refusing to continue the charade.
And like KG before him, expect other players to follow Jennings lead. For some, its the only option left.
Hopefully, if enough players begin essentially bypassing the NBAs ridiculous age-limit, real change will occur. It may become the only option left.
In the unlikely event that actually happens, well look back and call Jennings, a visionary. He led players, and fans of both college and the NBA, to the promised land.
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- May 16, 2013
THE Mater Hospital could have saved the state of Queensland one billion dollars by taking over Queensland Health's payroll system.
The privately run hospital has today provided a dramatic contrast to QH's $1.2 billion payroll fiasco, showing how to bed down a successful system for under $10 million, and all without a hint of drama.
The privately run hospital believes its payroll system could be replicated sucessfully by Queensland Health for as little as $172 million, effectively saving the state more than billion dollars.
The hospital's chief information officer Malcolm Thatcher has fronted the Queensland Health Payroll Inquiry, revealing how the private sector successfully managed something the public sector so spectacularly bungled.
The Mater has around one tenth of the 78,000 staff in Queensland Health but shares much of the same complex awards system which brought the health payroll to collapse.
Mater followed the Queensland Government's timetable, starting its new "Kronos" payroll system project in 2007 and finishing the project by 2012, all for $9.1 million.
A key difference appears to be the Mater's insistence on a try-before-you-buy strategy.
The hospital requested a physical demonstration of exactly how the system would work before they signed on the dotted line.
"That was done at their (the vendor's) expense," Mr Thatcher said.
The $5 million payroll inquiry is examining all facets of a massive outsourcing contract won by IBM in 2007 and which included the health payroll - then flagged as a $6 million component of the deal.
After under- and over-paying thousands of Queensland Health employees since it went live in 2010, the collapsed system continues to be a drain on state finances and is predicted to cost the tax pay $1.2 billion.
Mr Thatcher said the $9.1 million cost for the Mater system was all inclusive, including rostering and payroll implementation, staff training, staff backfill for training time, project management, payroll implementation, vendor fees and system hardware.
"The Mater rostering and payroll system could be deployed statewide for QH and then handed to QH for ongoing operations at an estimated cost of $172 million," Mr Thatcher wrote in a statement.
"This project would take approximately three years to complete based on full co-operation from Queensland Health."
When the Mater heard of the problems with the Queensland Health payroll system in 20120 it offered to come in and help.
"That offer of assistance was not followed through by Queensland Health," Mr Thatcher told the inquiry.
The Health Minister did meet with the Mater last year, following the change of government.
The inquiry continues.