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If you are new to this series please read the intro to Ch 01 so you'll know what to expect. It isn't strictly necessary to read the earlier chapters but some of this won't make sense if you don't so I hope you will!
Just a good old threesome. Oral, straight, anal, DP, etc.
Mikes tale:
Double Teaming Amy
I awoke first in the morning and, leaving them both sleeping, went down to the kitchen to make breakfast. Guy must have heard me because he came in a few moments later.
"Bloody hell Guy," I said as he came into the kitchen, "what were you doing to her last night. We could hear her in the next room."
He laughed, "Dad, she is dynamite isn't she?"
I laughed in return, "Yes," I said, "when she gets going there's no stopping her."
"Five times dad, she had five orgasms. I couldn't keep up. Twice I licked her and then came three times in her bottom. God she's hot." Then he was serious, "Was Jo OK?" he asked. "I worried you know, worried she might change her mind."
I smiled at him, "No she was OK. Guy, I made her cum with my mouth. You're all right about that aren't you. I guess you'll be like me now she's pregnant."
He smiled his happy smile, "I'm all right about that dad. I hope you had a good time."
"We did," I said and I told him what we had done.
"Really," he said, "that sounds interesting. Do you think she'll let me do that."
I laughed, "Guy, old son, I should think it's absolutely certain. She enjoyed it, so did Lena. They were both even more interested when I suggested it might be interesting to take them with their pussies or bottoms full of liqueur. Guy these women are bloody wonderful. Now, about Amy, was it good?"
"Yes, it was. She really is something isn't she. I thought she's never stop. And swear and shout. I'm not surprised you could hear her. I had her bottom every way I know. She wanted me to have straight sex with her but I said no, I didn't want to make her pregnant. She wasn't too happy about that but she liked me in her bottom well enough."
"I wonder if she'll want to try the both of us?"
"Dad, I wouldn't be surprised." He laughed, "She'll probably wear both of us out!"
"Who'll wear you both out," said Lena as she and Jo came into the kitchen.
"Amy," I said, "she gave Guy a hard time last night."
"I know," said Jo laughing, "we heard!"
Guy swept her up in his arms. "I'd rather have you," he said kissing her, "I'd rather have you once that her a hundred times," and he kissed her.
She started to cry, "Oh you naughty man, you shouldn't say things like that. It makes me cry."
"I'm sorry wife to be," he said smiling softly at her, "but it's true." They stayed in each other's arms for a few moments the pulled apart.
"Mike tells me that you all had a good time last night as well."
Now Jo looked worried, "Oh Guy, I'm sorry. It was Lena's fault wasn't it Lena?"
Lena laughed, "Yes Guy, it was. Mind I didn't force her but when she saw how much I enjoyed it she decided to have a go."
"You don't mind do you," Jo said tearfully.
He kissed her again, "No," he said playfully, "I just hope you remembered everything so we can try it!"
She laughed, "Oh you beast, Mike's told you hasn't he. It was very, very rude and naughty, and I can't wait for you to do it to me. What is your favourite liqueur?" she asked archly.
That made us all laugh and we busied ourselves getting breakfast. When it was all ready Lena popped off to get Amy and they both came in a few moments later. Amy looked a bit embarrassed and I made an effort to welcome her in.
"Morning Amy, you look radiant," I said kissing her.
"He means well fucked," said Lena which caused a great big blush on Amy's part.
"Take no notice," I said, "of course you are but then we'd expect you to be after a night with Guy. Come on. Breakfast." We all enjoyed our breakfast and afterwards the women all went upstairs to shower together and, no doubt, to discuss last nights experiences.
Monday was a quiet day all round. I think Amy was tired out after her two days of almost constant sex. After all she'd been taken in the bottom four or five time in two days and had countless orgasms. Jo and Lena wanted to relax a bit after the previous night's naughtiness and discuss the wedding plans. Guy and I, well we were under orders to take it easy in case Amy agreed to the DP so we went out on the lake fishing and didn't catch anything!
The women decided to cook dinner that evening and they went off into the kitchen while Guy and I played chess and cards. He might take me at golf regularly and wipe the board with me at chess but at cards I was his master! They cooked a lovely meal together and we enjoyed it with plenty of wine – no sex on the agenda tonight.
When we went to bed, Guy and Jo took the main bedroom and Lena, Amy and I the second. No hanky-panky at all.
On Tuesday morning I was up first again with Guy getting breakfast. Lena whispered to me later that morning that Amy was ready to try both of us this afternoon. She was excited by the prospect but she said that she and Jo would go out after getting Amy ready. They didn't want to inhibit any of us by their presence. I mentioned it to Guy and he looked very interested indeed, I must admit I was too. Double teaming a willing woman like this is immensely exciting when you do it with another man you can trust.
"You mustn't hurt her," Lena had said, "but you must be demanding with her. She knows that. She wants to experience everything you know. She knows she probably won't ever do this again and she wants it to include everything. You must stop if she says so as well, is that OK?"
I'd smiled at her, "Of course we won't hurt her and, yes, we will stop if she says so."
"I got some condoms yesterday so Guy can go in the front as well," she said smiling, "I know you'll want her bottom!"
I smiled, "Yes, I rather think I will."
"We're going out to dinner tonight so you can have a good time this afternoon." She laughed, "I don't think she minds if she can't sit down for a day or two!"
"Is she really sure about this Lena? And are you and Jo?" I wasn't going to lie to her. "Look sweetheart, we both want to do this, we'd be lying if we said we didn't but we won't do it unless you are certain about. Jo probably needs to tell Guy as well you know. I'd like to be sure that Amy really wants it and knows what she's letting herself in for."
She kissed me, "I know you too well," she said smiling, "yes, I want you to do it and I'll ask Jo to speak to Guy. Amy will ask you both to DP her this afternoon and she'll ask you to do everything she saw in the film and anything else you can think of. Is that OK?"
"Mmm," I said thinking how bloody lucky I was to have her love me so much she could lend me out like this. Off she went to find Jo and Amy.
Lunch was a sexy meal. Amy came into the room and sat between myself and Guy. Turning to me she smiled oh so coyly and said, "I want to have you both this afternoon. Lena and Jo said I could. I may never do this again so I want to experience everything, everything you can do or think of doing." The she kissed us both. Shit, I was hard already.
"There," said Lena, "I told you she wanted to be double teamed this afternoon." She laughed, "Show her no mercy, mind don't hurt her and stop if she says so." I think she was just reiterating the rules in front of Amy so she knew she was ultimately in control of the situation.
"Jo and I are going out this afternoon so you don't need to be embarrassed by our presence. We expect you to perform you know, for Amy."
I laughed, "I'm sure we'll do our best won't we Guy?"
"Yes Mike," he said smiling at Amy, "we want her to remember it don't we!"
Lena and Jo cleared up after lunch and took Amy with them into the kitchen. They said they wanted to talk to her about this afternoon. After about an hour they came back in.
"We're going upstairs now to get Amy ready aren't we Amy?"
She looked at us coyly. God it was going to be difficult not to be very, very harsh with her! "Yes, I want to be ready for you both." Then she gave us an arch look, "Will you be ready for me?"
We both laughed, "Yes," I said, "of that you can be sure. Come on Guy," I said to him, "We'll go and shower and await Amy's pleasure. We'll be in the main bedroom Amy."
She looked a mite apprehensive now that the time was near but Jo bustled her upstairs and we followed.
Double Teaming Amy!
We showered separately and waited in the bedroom in boxer shorts. Our experiences with Lena and Jo had made us easier with each other now. The first time was a bit difficult but the girls soon made sure we lost any inhibitions. Now we were OK about performing in front of each other.
We decided that I'd be the 'director' arranging things, getting Amy into the right position, that sort of thing. Quite openly now, Guy said he'd be able to cum three times this afternoon so we planned to give her one in her mouth and two in her bottom. I was going to, hopefully, save myself for the last DP and add some more magic nectar to his offerings there.
We moved the bed to the mirrors and slid the chaise longue out into the room. It was going to play a major part in her pleasant ordeal. Settee's are really useful when it comes to arranging positions!
We sat on the bed chatting about these two wonderful women we loved and how we couldn't wait to see them showing their pregnancies. It's still amazing to me that we could do this. Talk about these lovely ladies and how much we loved them despite awaiting the arrival of a lovely young woman who was giving herself to us completely.
After a while the door opened and in came Lena and Jo. They made a beeline to us both, each hugging their respective man.
Lena kissed me then said, "This is just to show that we really don't mind. You must enjoy yourselves this afternoon, you won't get another opportunity like this for at least 10 months," she laughed, "so make the best of it!"
"Yes," said Jo laughing as well, "give Amy something to remember when she sits her grandchildren on her knee! By the way," she added smiling at Guy, "here's a little present," and she handed him a packet of condoms. "We got them yesterday. Now you can have her front and back," she ended laughing.
"She'll be down in a little while," said Lena and, with that, they both left to go shopping.
We sat waiting and, after a couple of minutes, Amy came into the room. She had a house coat on just like before and she seemed very confident, sure of herself as she smiled a seductive smile and said, "I hope you like this," and took off the coat.
Well, shit, she was dressed like Jade again. A marvellous rich red bra and panty set with matching silk stocking and high heeled shoes. My cock started to spring to attention as I gazed at her open mouthed.
"Amy my love, you've got to stop doing this, you look fabulous. Good enough to eat," I said as I momentarily forgot Guy and walked over to her.
"I hope you will," she said laughing, "among other things." She was certainly OK about what was to happen to her and, I must admit, that made me feel a little bit better. Look, it's difficult to hold back in these situations. You have a woman, you don't love her so there are none of the inhibitions that this brings to what you do to her, who is ready and willing to have a wild sexual experience. It is very easy to get carried away in the heat of sex and go too far. I had visions in my mind of her doing various things that would test her in many ways. The good thing was, I sensed she wanted that.
I held her tightly too me feeling the soft silkiness of her underwear and stockings against my skin. I kissed her and her tongue immediately pressed into my mouth, finding mine and dancing. I ran my hands over her back and her bottom, pulling her to me as my erection grew. Then Guy was behind her, as excited as I was by her body, seductively presented by her lingerie. So she was sandwiched between us and, I'm sure, could feel us pressing into her.
"I want to suck you both," she whispered in my ear. Then she turned between us, kissed Guy and sank to her knees. She started on Guy first, dropping his boxers and taking hold of his erection, almost full grown by now, and masturbating him strongly. Her tongue licked around the head before her mouth covered him, taking as much as she could inside. She sucked him for a while then turned to me, one had still on Guy, as she wanked me with the other. Her mouth now covered my cock and her tongue probed the tiny hole at the time. My hands went to her head as I began to slowly fuck her face. She looked up at me and smiled around my penis as it slid over her lips.
Then she turned to Guy, whose hands replaced mine on her head, and sucked him again. He began to move faster and harder now, filling her mouth. She was wanking him furiously, eager I suspect, for her first dose of magic nectar from his rampant penis. I could tell he wouldn't be long and, sure enough, he let out a long, "Aaaaggghhhh," and began to fill her mouth. She couldn't swallow it all and some dribbled down her chin in that very sexy way. Softening a bit, Guy pulled from her mouth and she turned to me. Looking up she opened her mouth to show me his offering then, still wanking me, she took me back into her mouth. Hell, it was so warm and tender that it was all I could do to hold off!
I stopped her and lifted her up. By now she's swallowed all of Guy's first dose except for a tiny bit on her chin which she now captured with her finger and sucked off. Time now to undress her and take control so I picked her up and laid her on the bed, kissing her all the time. Guy was busy recovering for a few minutes so I attended to Amy. I undid her bra and revelled in the taste and texture of her boobs, sucking the pierced nipples, pulling on the tiny rings she was wearing, and licking the underside. Then I moved down to her sex, biting her tenderly through the silky red knickers before removing them and biting her again. I could see that Guy was at her boobs, kissing and sucking and she was beginning to rise to her first of many orgasms.
Lifting and opening her legs I knelt in between and feasted on her sex. My tongue probed inside her pussy, laving the inner lips as I tasted the essence of her, a bittersweet heady flavour. Now and again I'd move to her clit, growing now as she became even more aroused, and sucked gently. She was moaning softly by but soon she would be screaming!
Moving her legs back even further my tongue found her tight little anus and probed again. Now she was going!
"Oh fuck yes, lick me there. Oh shit yes, yes," she yelled as I continued to test her tightness. Guy was still busy on her boobs, he had a bit of a penchant for boobs. Although he was a bottom man through and through, he could spend ages worshiping the female breast – much to their pleasure I might add.
To bring her to her first orgasm I moved back to her pussy and continued to suck and lick her there and, wetting my middle finger with her juices, pushed it softly into her anus.
"Oooohhhhh, fuck yes, yes, yes. Aaaagggghhh," was all we heard as her orgasm hit. "Oh fuck my arse with your finger, lick me." Poor Guy, she had his head pressed tightly to her boobs and I don't think he could move. I continued to finger fuck her bottom and lick her because now she was going to experience almost continual stimulation.
Raising my head momentarily I said to Guy, "Take her mouth Guy, she's going to suck you while I fuck her."
I went back to licking her pussy and clit, and finger fucking her bottom as Guy moved up to put his cock in her mouth. She grabbed it eagerly, sucking like mad. Now I moved my cock up to the entrance to her pussy before thrusting forward and filling her completely. This surprised her and she sucked even harder on Guy. At least she was quiet now, other that the sounds of her slurping on Guy's erection that is. She could hardly speak could she?
We both fucked her for a while like this but it's not the easiest for her so we both pulled out and moved her to the settee. With Guy sitting at one end and Amy leaning over the arm sucking him, I was able to get deep inside her, driving downwards into her warm and wet haven. I don't know whether she was climaxing but she was thrashing about as much as the position would allow and sucking on Guy like there was no tomorrow.
"Time to change," I smiled to Guy. I kept moving in Amy as she watched him slide on a condom ready to take her pussy for the first time. He looked as if he was going to enjoy this.
"Stay there Guy, Amy can sit on you." I pulled my erection from her wonderfully warm and tight pussy, and lifted her off the settee, and settled her on to Guy. He held his cock upright and she positioned herself and slid down the shaft.
"Oh fuck, that's good. Oh, oh, oh," she sang as she bounced up and down on his cock. Time to quiet her down a little bit. I climbed onto the settee, turned her head and filled her mouth with my erection. She reached for it hungrily, taking half inside her mouth as she moved on Guy. I held her head quite tightly and began to move more strongly in her mouth. She was still happily bouncing on Guy's erection and I could see from the look on his face that he was enjoying it as well. Her tongue was working overtime around my cockhead so I decided it might be a good time to change again.
Taking my cock from her mouth I said to Guy, "Swing round and lay flat Guy." He did, "Now turn Amy around so she's facing away." With a little help from me we managed to turn her around with taking her off his cock. She was moaning and kissing me as we did this, apparently lost in a heaven of pleasure.
Guy laid right down and now she was facing away I was able to arrange her so that her head dropped backwards over the arm of the settee. Standing, I was able to get my erection straight into her mouth and down her throat. Now I know she hadn't deep-throated before but this was just about the best position for trying.
Kneeling next to her I whispered, "I'm going to fuck your throat now Amy, do you want me too, deep in your throat."
Guy was still thrusting away at her and I don't know whether she took any note of what I said but she managed to nod and mumble, "Yes, oh yes."
I stood and placed my erection at her open mouth. She sucked me inside and I (with much difficulty, I might add) gently pushed forward until I felt the back of her mouth. "Swallow it Amy, swallow."
I must have got through to her because I felt the muscles at the top of her throat grip my cock head. I pushed and in I went, balls rubbing on her upturned nose. God, she was tight, tight and wonderful as her throat muscles gripped my penis in a vice like grip. I would easily have stayed there all day but she had to breath and this was her first experience so I pulled out. She gasped for breath and I knelt beside he head, "OK Amy, again."
"Oh fuck yes, yes. Fuck my throat while he fucks my cunt. Come on, fuck me both of you!" She was one hell of a women when she got going was Amy!
So I moved back behind her head and fed my cock into her mouth. She swallowed it all and I got into a rhythm, fucking her mouth and throat, allowing her to breathe. I didn't think I should do this for too long and, anyway, Guy should have a go so I said to him, "Guy, you've got to do this." Then to Amy, laying there looking completely sated and we hadn't really started yet, "Stay there sweetheart, you can have a longer one now."
She smiled up at me, sexy as always, "Yes please but I want you in me as well."
Guy came round and supported her head and body as I climbed underneath her and lowered her down onto my stiff maleness. She let out a long sigh as I buried myself completely inside her tight pussy. God she was lovely! She leaned back, getting into the same position so that Guy could literally fuck her throat. She looked up at him and smiled, "Come on Guy, fill my mouth with that lovely prick of yours. I want to swallow it." He needed no second invitation so he pulled off the condom and we both began to move inside her. How she did it I don't know but she took all of Guy down her throat. His face was a picture. He didn't want to cum again but he was obviously having difficulty controlling his orgasm. I thought I'd better rearrange us and it was time her bottom felt a stiff penis.


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haha hilarious -- I was wondering why some guy took my picture that day. the amazing thing is that I was googling for winter commuting clothing tips and stumbled on this site just a day later.
-Sam - 12/11/2009
- gwadzilla said...
sorry... it seems a little freaky at the time
but it explains itself online
tough to get a candid shot by asking first
and in this town... people say no as soon as a stranger starts asking a question - 12/11/2009
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Posted on 11/18/2011 7:13:25 AM PST by peopleofows
Well, the occutards have finally been evicted, leaving untold amounts of filth in their wake.
You know things are bad when even The Daily Show even starts making fun of them.
Check out the video: Portrait of Hypocrisy -- OWS Becomes the Very Thing It Claims to Hate
I love the "I'm against private property, not personal property" guy...
pretty much nails it
all their bs sounds good (to them)... until they're seen putting the plans into action.
why aren't people proposing change expected to model the effects of the change over 10+ generations?
So if they have lost Jon Stewart, have they lost the support of the elite liberal kids who watch that show,and get their news and information from Jon Stewart???
That's what cracked me up, too.
I also like "So let me get this straight...you've only been here for 8 weeks...and you already have a ghetto".
He looks like he's crying "MOM-MEEE!"
Even the Weather Channel rather objectively reported the Occutard news this morning.
How bout the guy from the "ghetto" who said that when they run into trouble, they come to us. LOL
I get nervous when too many media types become all for or all against something. THat's not a natural thing to happen.
But lets look at OWS for a minute. These people actually in the trenches doing the OWSing are clearly not very bright, on average. There is clearly an element in their crowd that is hard core communism. I'm not ready to label them all as communists though. But there is that element in their crowds. There also seems to be run of the mill anarchists involved. there are also libertarians and average democrats and independents even a few republicans. It appears to me to be a diverse group of people with just two things they all seem to have in common: lower than average skills and lower than average income.
That should be a warning sign to all of us. This is what happens when a nation starts having long lasting economic problems. The people on the bottom who are suffering the most lose their patience and get angry...and when they get angry, reason and logic are no longer valuable commodities. They don't care anymore. They are just mad as hell and are ready to make everyone aware of it.
I don't think it is constitutional to break up these protests. But the cops on the streets are not stupid. They know what is coming if these angry people are allowed to congregate long enough in large enough numbers. They will eventually transform from protestors to rioters and looters. I believe this is why the cops are beginning to lose patience with the OWS protesters. The longer the protests go on, the more of a magnet they become for all the angry people to come out of the shadows and join in.
People have the right to peacably assemble. They DO NOT have the right to take up residence in a private park. It is absolutely constitutional to throw these idiots out of the park, and to arrest them if they refuse, and to arrest them if they insist on setting up little socialist communes anywhere else, unless it is on property they own themselves.
Free speech does not give one the right to squat on private property (Zucatti Park is privately owned), to vandalize private property, to obstruct roads, bridges, and businesses, to create public health dangers, or to use public services to support them.
Somehow these spoiled brats think that civilization must finance their lives to support their free speech.
A right is something that does not require the service of another. You have free speech, but you don't have the right to take someone else's soapbox.
For the most part they are peaceful. It appears to me the cops are the first to become unpeaceful...and the protesters are reacting to that.
It strikes me as very dishonest to allow protests except when you don't like the people doing the protesting.
why don't you show us evidence they never had permission to use private property.
How about you show us the evidence that they did?
They want me to register to see the site. Not in the mood. Oh, well.
Except for yours, right?
Right, this is my personal possession. Im more against private property, not personal property.
Also, when she asked the hipsters assembled in the Deutsch bank lobby, making all the important decisions for the movement...
Ummm does the drum circle know were here?
Had it lasted another month, I'd have predicted a Festivus party.
Whoever our candidate is next year needs to put the speech where obama supports OWS on heavy rotation.
That is the connection between OWS and tea party folks(on the average). The difference, IMO, is that tea party folks are above average in skills and income abilities and thought processes...OWS is the lower half in those categories. On average.
The lower half is not going to try to solve problems with their brains. They are simply going to get mad and lash out. They will latch on to whatever dogma/ideology lets them get madder. If and when all hell breaks loose, they will be the ones there in front champing at the bit with a stick in one hand and a rock in the other waiting for the "go" signal.
I am not kidding.
I know you're not kidding and I hope you're right. I think we're going to need people like them in order to right this ship. Once they're finally comforted via the ideas of the smarter half, they'll pull in the claws.
They didn't even have time to develop a middle class for their society to crush. LMAO!
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Data Versus Dogma: The Continuing Battle Over Cold FusionEstablishment science continues to turn cold shoulder despite mounting scientific evidence. by Marc J. Plotkin These prestigious publications clearly and unequivocally express the still-prevailing attitude among the majority of physicists that cold fusion is pseudo-science. Although some scientists sympathize with cold fusion's supporters, most do not even entertain the notion that their claims just might have merit. Just after the Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that cold fusion was "pathological science" not for lack of evidence, but because those scientists who should be reviewing cold fusion claims would not even discuss them. The Wall Street Journal is not exactly a fringe publication. It has been said many times that, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." Since cold fusion was first announced to the world in 1989, enough experimental evidence has accumulated to satisfy that burden of proof. Charles Beaudette, an MIT-trained engineer, wrote that, by 1996, there were multiple corroborations of excess heat being generated by means of electrochemical stimulation. Twenty researchers from seven countries had successfully replicated the original Fleischmann-Pons experiment. In their recently released report on the state of cold fusion research, New Energy Times investigators Steven Krivit and Nadine Winocur reported that, since 1989, almost 15,000 cold fusion experiments have been performed, and within the last several years, the effects claimed by Fleischmann and Pons have been reproduced at rates ranging between 83 and 100 percent. One well-known website on cold fusion, lenr-canr.org, features an on-line library of more than 280 original scientific papers that are linked to a bibliography of nearly 3,000 journal papers, news articles and books about cold fusion. In the spring of 1991, two years after the
controversial 1989 announcement, Professor Wilford Hansen of The United States Navy, through its Naval
Research Laboratory (NRL), undertook one of the more comprehensive studies of
cold fusion. NRL decided to "investigate
the anomalous effects associated with the prolonged charging of the palladium /
deuterium system." One of the labs
undertook a study of the conditions under which excess heat could be generated.
In another lab, scientists demonstrated the connection between excess
heat and the production of helium gas, which was an indicator of the nuclear
reactions generated by the cold fusion phenomenon.
Using refined techniques, the NRL team was able to demonstrate that the
cold fusion effect was reproducible. They found that, as the current passed
through the cell and the temperature of the electrolyte solution increased, so
too did excess heat production, and the heat sources were located close to the
electrode/electrolyte contact surface. Melvin
H. Miles, one member of the team, described results from experiments conducted
in Some of the world's largest energy companies had also conducted experiments based on Fleischmann's and Pons's work. Krivit and Winocur reported that scientists at Amoco Oil Corporation had found indications of excess heat being generated at rates up to 1,000 times beyond what could be accounted for by normal experimental error. Scientists working on a report for Shell Research indicated that they had confirmed the presence of up to several watts of excess heat in what they termed the "simple Fleischmann-Pons system." Not only is there a large body of data, generated by numerous replications, there are at least two working models being put forward by which manifestations of anomalous power could be predicted. During a presentation given at the Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion, McKubre described those hypotheses. The first identified loading as the significant variable. McKubre posited that in deuterium-palladium systems, excess heat will be observed if a sufficient quantity of deuterium is loaded into the palladium lattice through the electrochemical process. This hypothesis finds substantial support in the evidence, according to McKubre, in that in 51 percent of the experiments where maximum loading was achieved, excess heat was present. That percentage drops significantly when loading is reduced, even if the reduction is slight. If between 95 and 99 percent of maximum loading is achieved, excess power was observed only 38 percent of the time. With loading less than 95 percent of maximum, excess heat is observed only 17 percent of the time. The second hypothesis has to do with the observed correlation between excess heat and the presence of nuclear residues. McKubre opined that excess heat originates in a nuclear effect exhibited by crystalline metals heavily loaded with deuterium. He pointed to repeated experiments showing a correlation between heat and the presence of helium 4, a bi-product of nuclear fusion. This hypothesis predicts that where there is a strong output of helium-4, excess heat will be present in amounts up to 24 megavolts per palladium atom. What was actually observed, according to McKubre, was the presence of excess heat in amounts ranging from 19 and 45 megavolts per atom of palladium. Cold fusion has thus the achieved a hallmark of a true science - predictability. In most scientific investigations, only one
successful independent replication is necessary to demonstrate the validity of a
phenomenon and satisfy the burden of proof that the phenomenon is real.
The thousands of successful replications that have occurred around the
world, the mountain of technical papers that precisely document the presence of
excess heat and nuclear signatures, and not one but two valid working hypotheses
should be enough to constitute "extraordinary" proof of cold fusion.
The so-called skeptics, however, will have none of it.
According to Scientific American, there is no evidence that cold
fusion had "achieved any significantly new level of credibility in the eyes of
the general physics community." A Cold fusion's detractors call themselves skeptics. But there is a real difference between skepticism in the true sense and the almost religious belief in scientific orthodoxy that masquerades as impartiality. Marcello Truzzi, the founding co-chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, eloquently described this distinction. According to Truzzi, a skeptic is an agnostic, a doubter rather than a believer. Doubt is not denial, merely a recognition that a claim has not been proven. The burden of proof of anomalous observations rests with the claimant at all times. Once that burden is satisfied, as with cold fusion, the skeptics must either accept the findings or provide another explanation. If they choose the latter course of action, then by definition, they become claimants with respect to that alternative explanation. As such, they can no longer express doubts about the validity of the evidence without first examining the evidence themselves. They must master the literature and become familiar with the experimental methods and metrics common to the field. In the case of cold fusion, this means becoming fluent in calorimetry. They must then perform the experiments according to the protocols that have been established over the last fifteen years. They must identify mistakes in technique and misinterpretations of results. If those mistakes and misinterpretations are material enough, the original hypothesis may be disproved and the alternative hypothesis put forward. Only after all of these steps are taken will the skeptics be in a position to honestly express doubts about the original claims. To date, however, no refereed technical journal has presented a paper that completely and conclusively rebuts the cold fusion hypotheses or findings. The organizers of the Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion invited the field's most prominent detractors to come to the conference and disprove cold fusion claims. None showed. Instead, the "skeptics" continue to recite the catechism that there is no evidence for cold fusion, and continue to rely on a priori denunciations, contemptuously referring to supporters of cold fusion as "true believers." A favorable review by the Department of Energy that results in real projects being funded would go a long way toward making the general public aware of the reality of cold fusion. REFERENCES Charles G. Beaudette, Excess
Heat - Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed (Oak Grove Press, Marcello Truzzi, "On Pseudo-Skepticism," Zetetic Scholar, # 12-13, 1987. Michael R. McKubre, Review of Experimental Measurements Involving DD Reactions, PowerPoint Slide Presentation Delivered at the Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion, Cambridge, Massachusetts (August 2003). Sharon
Begley, "Cold Fusion Isn't Dead, It's Just Withering From Scientific
Neglect," Wall Street Journal, Steven B. Krivit and Nadine Winocur, The 2004 Cold Fusion Report, (March 2004) (www.newenergytimes.com). Toni Feder, "DOE Warms to Cold Fusion," Physics Today (April 2004). Correspondence between editors at lenr-canr.org and past and present editors at Scientific American between 1991 and 2003 (Available at http://www.lenr-canr.org/AppealandSciAm.pdf). Links
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Thursday afternoons used to involve the installation of third-down strategies. Now, Desmond Clark utilizes those days to construct a different type of offensive game plan.
Last week, it meant meeting with a relocated Florida couple in Palatine to show off and answer questions about a two-story, 3,000-square foot townhome.
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Steve Fuller is indeed a confusing fellow. In my essay, I remarked that Fuller testified in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District on behalf of the religious fundamentalists who had sought to introduce Intelligent Design into the Dover science curriculum. I briefly summarized Fuller's argument as "intelligent design is worth pursuing partly because great scientists of the past -- such as Newton -- believed in God." Fuller now replies that "it matters that important science has been done by people operating from religious beliefs not so different from the ones that are legally barred as 'intelligent design.'" I thank Professor Fuller for taking the time to confirm my characterization of his testimony. Yet I confess that I remain confused about Fuller's argument. If it really is "tantamount to indoctrination" to appeal to the context of justification in order to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate science, then Fuller might as well go the full distance, and argue for teaching high school students alchemy and phrenology. One wonders why he has chosen to shill only for Intelligent Design.
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I want to reply to Arlene C. Harris, whose letter to the editor, "Grandmother mad about comments," in the July 16 edition of The Lancaster News, referred to my online comments about her daughter.
You said that I made "stupid" comments. That means I got your attention.
I don't know your daughter, but I was in a store when she approached me and started telling about a benefit to support her child, Jaylen Jackson, who was killed when she apparently got caught in the crossfire of a gunfight. I asked what happened and she told me.
I am writing in response to the article, "Should Sunday sales of alcohol be OK'd?," in the July 21 edition of The Lancaster News.
What we need to remember is that Sunday is the Lord's Day or what is generally referred to as the Sabbath Day.
Well, since Sunday is the Lord's Day, then maybe we need to ask him if Sunday alcohol sales are acceptable to him. God, what is your answer to this question? "My answer is remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy," that is the Lord's answer for sure. He is never wrong.
We want to thank those who made Mt. Calvary Outreach Summer Enrichment Camp a success. They include: John P. Stevens Foundation, parents, group leaders, bus drivers, senior helpers, Mt. Calvary Outreach board members, The University of South Carolina at Lancaster, Kershaw Swimming Pool, Kershaw Community Health Education Center (KCHEC,) KARE, Youth Serve, Kershaw News Area, Kershaw area churches and individual donors.
When the 2011 Lancaster County Recreation summer swim team season rolls around and it's time to open the county pool, a new coach and pool manager will be in charge.
At the recent Lancaster County Sharks' swim team banquet, veteran coach Midenna Anderson announced her retirement from both jobs.
Filling the void will be a task.
Anderson has dedicated the last 15 years to being the Sharks' head coach. She also served as the pool manager.
It's a job she handles well, deftly balancing the task with a smile and needed discipline.
With only a few weeks of summer vacation left, the thoughts of parents and children alike are turning back toward school and all that entails.
For many, that means new clothes, backpacks and school supplies.
But for those parents who are are out of work or struggling to make ends meet, it just means one more thing to stress out about. If you can barely pay your rent, how will you afford school supplies for your children?
Lancaster County Council should initiate a program that would allow for nonviolent offenders to serve their time at home.
Those who serve their time through the program would have to wear electronic-monitoring devices that monitor where they are through GPS, or global positioning system, technology. The technology would allow authorities to easily keep tabs on those sentenced to home detention, as GPS technology would pinpoint where they are at all times.
Maybe you sat in the stands. Maybe you were a coach. Maybe your child or grandchild played on a team.
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You moaned the dropped ball, the swing that didn't connect and the failed stolen base attempt.
You felt the adrenalin rush of the home run, the clinched glove holding the ball and the slide that worked.
You dealt with the heat, rain and late games.
An Indian Land woman is hoping to get a referendum on the ballot in November 2012 that would let Lancaster County voters decide whether they want to OK the Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages at restaurants in the county.
We not only favor putting the referendum on the ballot, we also favor approving the referendum. We believe Lancaster County restaurants should be allowed to sell alcoholic drinks on Sunday if they want to.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas will carry out on Tuesday the first U.S. execution since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month unless attorneys for a man convicted of murdering a Houston bank teller can convince a court that he runs the same risk of the punishment going awry.
Attorneys for Texas condemned killer Robert Campbell cited in their appeal the Oklahoma case of Clayton Lockett, who died of an apparent heart attack on April 29 after Oklahoma prison officials stopped his execution.
Oklahoma has agreed to a six-month stay of execution for another inmate while the state conducts an investigation of the death of Lockett, who began writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head after he was injected with lethal drugs last month. The blinds were eventually lowered to prevent viewing of the death chamber. It could take at least two months for a complete autopsy report to be received, Oklahoma officials said Monday.
Campbell's attorneys — citing the Oklahoma case that President Barack Obama called "inhumane" — renewed arguments raised earlier in Texas that secrecy over the source of the pentobarbital drug to be used could mean that Campbell is subjected to unconstitutional pain and suffering.
"Frighteningly, Texas is pursuing the path of secrecy in the midst of these deeply troubling events, and even in the immediate wake of events in Oklahoma," said Maurie Levin, Campbell's lead attorney in a federal civil rights suit. "Information about the source of lethal injections drugs — particularly in today's fraught arena — is vital."
Attorneys for the state of Texas disputed Levin's arguments, saying they were "speculative" and did not demonstrate a significant risk of pain. Texas was not using a new method of execution and did not employ the three-drug procedure used in Oklahoma, they said. Texas had carried out three executions with the new drug supply and courts already had ruled the process was acceptable, the state said.
The Texas procedures are "vastly different from the situation in Oklahoma in which an admittedly new protocol was used," said Ellen Stewart-Klein, an assistant attorney general.
If Campbell's execution proceeds it would be the fourth in recent weeks in Texas to use a lethal dose of pentobarbital obtained from a compounding pharmacy prison officials have refused to identify. Three previous executions were carried out without incident.
A federal judge in Houston last week rejected Campbell's appeal on the secrecy issue, saying his hands were tied because of rulings from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in previous cases. But U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison urged the 5th Circuit to reconsider the issue because it seemed to "shield crucial elements of the execution process form open inquiry."
Texas obtained a new execution drug supply and invoked secrecy in late March as a previous stock was reaching its expiration date. The confidentiality was necessary to keep the provider, a compounding pharmacy, from threats of violence from death penalty opponents, prison officials said.
Campbell's civil rights lawsuit joined another appeal Monday in the 5th Circuit that contended Campbell was mentally impaired, making him ineligible for execution under U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
Campbell, 41, was convicted of capital murder for the January 1991 slaying of a 20-year-old Houston bank teller, Alexandra Rendon, who was abducted while putting gas into her car, robbed, raped and shot. A companion of Campbell's, Leroy Lewis, pleaded guilty, received 35 years in prison and is now on parole. Campbell was 18 at the time of the slaying and on parole after serving four months of a five-year sentence for robbery.
"I can't imagine her last moments," Rendon's cousin, Israel Santana, said last week. "She had no chance. Think about what hell she endured ... the agony she had to go through."
Campbell would be the eighth inmate executed in Texas so far this year.
Even before the Oklahoma problems, questions about execution procedures had drawn renewed attention from defense attorneys and death penalty opponents in recent months. States have scrambled to find new sources of execution drugs after several drugmakers, including many based in Europe, refused to sell their products for use in executions.


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The German legend wants to make sure that the Bavarians do not make the same mistake with the 20-year-old as rival Borussia Dortmund
The 20-year-old, who is one of Europe's hottest attacking talents, reached an agreement with the German champions last month to move from BVB in the summer for a fee in the region of 37 million euros.
Rummenigge says Bayern won't make the same mistake as its rival, after Gotze had a buy-out-clause in his contract allowing him to move on without Dortmund having a say on the transfer.
"[Gotze's agent] attempted to negotiate for a buy-out-clause, but this request has been rejected by us [Bayern Munich]," Rummenigge told Bild.
"None of our players have buy-out-clauses in their contracts."
Dortmund is believed to be unhappy with the way Bayern dealt with the signing of Gotze but Rummenigge has played down such allegations, citing Dortmund's hurt at losing such a key player as the main reason for its anger.
"I don't think Bayern lack class. I think our colleagues [Dortmund] are just disappointed to lose good players," he said.
"I'd be angry as well if tomorrow someone snatched away Franck Ribery!"
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CMG Investment Advisors, LLC has announced the names of the individuals selected to participate on the firm's Advisory Board.
The board was created to serve as a sounding board regarding CMG's plans for organic growth, new product development and acquisitions.
CMG Investment Advisors, LLC is a SEC registered investment advisor that specializes in managing alternate investment strategies, and each member of its Advisory Board provides specific skills and experience that will assist CMG the company through its aggressive growth plan over the next 3-5 years..
'We are fortunate to have such outstanding leaders in the investment, business and academic world serving on our Advisory Board,' says Steve Blumenthal, the president and founder of CMG.
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Maltose-induced structure of the human cytolsolic sialidase Neu2
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Function[NEUR2_HUMAN] Hydrolyzes sialylated compounds. Evolutionary ConservationCheck, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMedGangliosides play key roles in cell differentiation, cell-cell interactions, and transmembrane signaling. Sialidases hydrolyze sialic acids to produce asialo compounds, which is the first step of degradation processes of glycoproteins and gangliosides. Sialidase involvement has been implicated in some lysosomal storage disorders such as sialidosis and galactosialidosis. Neu2 is a recently identified human cytosolic sialidase. Here we report the first high resolution x-ray structures of mammalian sialidase, human Neu2, in its apo form and in complex with an inhibitor, 2-deoxy-2,3-dehydro-N-acetylneuraminic acid (DANA). The structure shows the canonical six-blade beta-propeller observed in viral and bacterial sialidases with its active site in a shallow crevice. In the complex structure, the inhibitor lies in the catalytic crevice surrounded by ten amino acids. In particular, the arginine triad, conserved among sialidases, aids in the proper positioning of the carboxylate group of DANA within the active site region. The tyrosine residue, Tyr(334), conserved among mammalian and bacterial sialidases as well as in viral neuraminidases, facilitates the enzymatic reaction by stabilizing a putative carbonium ion in the transition state. The loops containing Glu(111) and the catalytic aspartate Asp(46) are disordered in the apo form but upon binding of DANA become ordered to adopt two short alpha-helices to cover the inhibitor, illustrating the dynamic nature of substrate recognition. The N-acetyl and glycerol moieties of DANA are recognized by Neu2 residues not shared by bacterial sialidases and viral neuraminidases, which can be regarded as a key structural difference for potential drug design against bacteria, influenza, and other viruses. Crystal structure of the human cytosolic sialidase Neu2. Evidence for the dynamic nature of substrate recognition.,Chavas LM, Tringali C, Fusi P, Venerando B, Tettamanti G, Kato R, Monti E, Wakatsuki S J Biol Chem. 2005 Jan 7;280(1):469-75. Epub 2004 Oct 22. PMID:15501818[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences


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A Fire Breathing Dragon
Leave a CommentIt is all over but the "chuting." International Space Station Keepers unleashed the SpaceX Dragon Capsule at 0949 GMT (5:49am EDT) and sent the history-making capsule on a fiery ride toward a spot in the Pacific about 500 miles west of Los Angeles.
I got up early this morning to help shed some light on this for the viewers of CNN Early Start. You can see my appearance here.
Ahead for Dragon is a series of "burns" (rocket firings) leading up to the Big One – a nine minute and fifty second braking de-orbit burn beginning at 1451 GMT (10:51am EDT) which will slow the craft down just enough to stop its revolutionary free fall.
Dragon is slated to splashdown at 1544 GMT/11:44am EDT.
With the shuttle fleet pickled, chocked and either in – or on their way to museums, Dragon is the only vehicle designed to haul cargo back to Earth in tact. Freighters from Russian, Europe and Japan are more like trash incinerators – as they do not have heat shields and parachutes designed to insure a safe landing.
Dragon is carrying just shy of 1400 pounds of cargo. More than it hauled up.
On board, about 300 pounds of crew preference items (lots of mementoes for friends and family), 200 pounds worth of scientific experiments, and nearly 800 pounds of station gear including a pump for the station urine recycling system (yes, they drink their own pee up there…).
Dragon will re-enter the atmosphere like a streaking meteor – as its ablative heat shield burns away – protecting the spacecraft from the searing heat.
A small flotilla of SpaceX vessels are near the imaginary bullseye in the Pacific – ready to pluck Dragon out of the water and start steaming toward the Port of Los Angeles. Some of the cargo will stay inside Dragon as it is trucked back to the SpaceX facility near Waco, Texas. Some items that have a shorter shelf life will be retrieved and returned right away.
SpaceX and Dragon had an astounding run for a first-of-its-kind test flight. Take a look at the objectives NASA laid out for its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services flights 2 and 3. You can put a check on nearly every box – except for the last two items – a safe landing and a recovery of the cargo.
Assuming all goes well, SpaceX will begin for-real cargo missions to ISS later this year. The Falcon 9 rocket earmarked for the first of twelve of these cargo supply runs is already at the Cape. The Dragon capsule being built for the job sits in the factory in Hawthorne – a short walk from the company's Mission Control room.
Departure Operations – as Planned (in GMT)
2012-05-31 09:35:00 ISS releases Dragon
2012-05-31 09:50:00 Departure Burn 1
2012-05-31 09:51:36 Departure Burn 2
2012-05-31 09:57:44 Departure Burn 3
2012-05-31 09:58:06 Dragon Yaw maneuver
2012-05-31 10:03:11 TDRSS pointing
2012-05-31 10:45:10 Reduce Apogee Burn
2012-05-31 10:45:40 Unlatch/Close/Latch GNC Door Prep
2012-05-31 12:10:40 GNC Door Closure
2012-05-31 14:40:58 TDRSS omni
2012-05-31 14:50:58 Deorbit Burn
2012-05-31 15:00:59 Jettison trunk
2012-05-31 15:28:05 GPS Blackout Period
2012-05-31 15:35:35 Drogue Chute Deployment
2012-05-31 15:36:32 Main Chute Deployment
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Boeing packs more production into Renton 737 plant
The 737 factory is a hive of activity as Boeing busily reshapes the interior to accommodate more planes and more workers.
Seattle Times aerospace reporter
The new mall and residential buildings facing Boeing's 737 assembly plant in Renton stand as a reminder that a decade ago the company sloughed off excess land, and city officials made contingency plans for a possible future with no jet plant.
Now Boeing is grappling with the opposite problem: How to pack into its smaller Renton footprint the three full assembly lines it needs to build its single-aisle planes at a record pace.
Renton is crucial to Boeing's competitiveness as the sole location for 737 assembly, while Airbus steps up production of the rival A320 jet family at final-assembly lines in Europe, China and by 2016 at its newly announced plant in Mobile, Ala.
The inside of the Renton plant is a hive of activity as Boeing busily reshapes the interior to accommodate more planes, and more workers.
Within the next five years, the company will hire hundreds of new production workers, perhaps close to 1,000, to staff two assembly lines of the current best-selling 737 and one line of its newest variant, the 737 MAX. Boeing will also add hundreds of engineering jobs for the MAX.
"I don't think anybody anticipated this back in 2003, 2004," said Alex Pietsch, the new head of Gov. Chris Gregoire's aerospace office, who formerly led the city of Renton's economic-development efforts. "It's really astounding."
Ahead of the Farnborough Air Show that opens next week in London, Boeing gave a tour of the factory and provided new details of its expansion plans.
Eric Lindblad, vice president of 737 manufacturing operations, is tackling the challenge of making everything fit.
"We have to figure out how to get lean," said Lindblad, brimming with energy and enthusiasm. "Our employees are highly motivated to be the ones to build the 737 MAX. It's a wonderful impetus for continuous improvement."
Boeing's transformation of Renton shows an appetite for growth that contrasts sharply with the gloom in much of U.S. manufacturing.
Last month, construction workers laid concrete to extend one of two assembly lines for the current 737 NG model.
Boeing has already earmarked the space for a new third assembly line where by 2015 it will begin building the MAX.
And in an adjacent building where the 737 wings are put together on an innovative moving line, engineers were clearing the decks to install a second identical line.
In all this remodeling, Boeing dismantles and moves major fixtures only after installing new ones close by so that production is uninterrupted.
Nose-to-tail lineup
On the first of the 737's two assembly lines, seven of the planes sit nose-to-tail along the length of the building.
Fuselages delivered by train from Wichita, Kan., come in at one end; completed 737s, ready for delivery, roll out the other end through big doors facing Lake Washington.
A new assembly line for the MAX, parallel to this existing 737 line, will soon take up half the building.
But right now that area is a sea of prep work on engines, galleys, lavatories and tails.
Lindblad said the clutter will all be moved somewhere nearby on the Renton site to make room for the MAX.
While the first assembly line is already a model of efficiency, pumping out 21 jets every month, Renton's second line for the current 737 is housed in a slightly shorter building and can make just 14 jets a month.
Boeing's target of 42 jets per month by spring 2014 requires that second line to match the output of the first.
Since seven 737s won't fit nose-to-tail inside the shorter building, Boeing is reshaping the line to turn at a right angle and squeeze in a seventh assembly station.
Meanwhile, in a separate building, Boeing has significantly sped up how it makes 737 wings.
After five years of planning by a team of Boeing engineers, machinists and managers — helped by experts from Japanese consultancy Shingijutsu — the company in 2010 remade its wing manufacturing as a slower-paced cousin of Toyota's automotive moving assembly line.
The wings used to be built in heavy, towering fixtures; mechanics had to ascend tiered decks to work on the wings, which hung vertically.
Now the wings, lying flat as if on a dining table, move through three assembly stations and are advanced by a robotic tug every 5 hours and 22 minutes.
The plant builds 31.5 pairs of wings a month this way.
Off in one corner, 3.5 sets of wings a month are still built on the old vertical fixture.
Having worked out almost all the bugs from his new system, Lindblad is preparing to take down that fixture and install a second horizontal wing-assembly line.
On Boeing's current plan, the production rate in spring 2014 will be 20 percent higher than today. Then in 2015, Boeing will introduce the third line to build the MAX, which will mean more hiring.
"We definitely will bring new people on," said Beverly Wyse, head of the Renton plant. "We'll pull the most experienced workforce to the new airplane."
After the MAX line is perfected, Wyse said, Boeing will tweak the two existing lines so they can also build the MAX model.
According to the most recent filings with the state, more than 10,500 people work at Boeing Renton. About 4,800 are blue-collar production workers.
Boeing has made no detailed employment projections, but the rate increases already planned and the move from two to three production lines suggest a 20 percent increase in the production workforce toward the end of this decade is certainly possible.
Local government will work to help Boeing find all the room it needs.
Pietsch, the state's aerospace point man, said a proposed extension of Metro's Rapid Ride bus line to the plant could free up some of the 25 percent of the remaining Boeing Renton footprint now used as surface parking for workers.
Yet the crucial key remains Boeing's drive toward lean manufacturing, pushing constantly — and so far successfully — to produce more, faster and in less space.
Thinking lean
"Do I think it can all fit in?" said Pietsch. "Sure. Boeing has been incredibly effective in leaning out the production lines."
Still, he said, Boeing might not have sold off the 65 acres across from its factory — retaining about 145 acres — if it had foreseen the ongoing rebirth of the 737 program.
"I don't know if they'd have made the same decisions had they anticipated ... the global demand for this class of airplane," Pietsch said.
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So sorry to everyone who wasn't at SXSW last week: You're probably going to be bombarded with SXSW-related music news/videos for at least the next two days. It's an inevitably. Yuck haven't had time to put out a new video, or whatever. So...
That Lil B show me and publisher Dave Park both got sick of waiting for--it was the closing act at the Fader Fort by Fiat--was apparently a mess, as Lil B went on for more than an hour and a half. That would have made it my longest show at SXSW by a wide margin and probably everyone else's too (by contrast, the longest show I saw was TV on the Radio's set at Stubbs, and that was only 45 minutes). But the show ended properly: With a surprise appearance from Diddy and Odd Future to perform "Sandwitches." You can watch the video above, along with a break in the middle as Tyler threatens to beat up whoever beaned him with a beer can. Lil B and Diddy wisely stick to the back of the stage to avoid the melee. It was hysteria. It was Wolf Gang.
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love the chaos. love the energy.
Looks cool.
Backing track is WHACK tho.
lulz, the Yuck bashing has been pretty pervasive/great during all da prefix's SXSW coverage...
Yeah, I do not like them, at all. Seriously, thanks for reading all the stuff H0gy.


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Morrissey Says Paul McCartney Should Ditch Knighthood
Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:59:39
Morrissey and Paul McCartney are two famed vegetarians. Moz says that Maca can prove his commitment to animal rights by ditching his knighthood.
Moz says that Maca could step up his animal rights stance by distancing himself from Britain's royal family and give up the knight title, which he received in 1997.
Morrissey said he was amused to hear that McCartney was miffed that the Staples Center in L.A. was going meat-free for the former The Smiths singer, since the venue didn't the same so for the songwriting legend. Moz called it a victory for the animals, not for him as an individual. He said, "I know he works tirelessly for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), but he also loves the British royals, whose treatment of animals is abysmal. The Queen herself wears enough fur to blanket most of Russia… yet Sir Paul gives her the thumbs up! If he cared passionately about animals, he'd return his knighthood. He doesn't need the Queen's approval."
Those are big words.
Do you think Morrissey has a point? Should McCartney give up his knight status to make a statement about animal rights?
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- It's done a lot of players a lot of good. And obviously, this drug is a drug where it's dose-related. Anything in overdose will destroy your liver. I mean, look at cigarettes and look at liquor. Cigarettes says on the packet, this will kill you; it will cause cancer; and you're still smoking it.
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Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scotland's national poet, is most famous for his song Auld Lang Syne. He is placed on the Mall across from Sir Walter Scott, another Scottish literary figure. Burns is depicted sitting on a tree stump and his poem to his love, Mary, is written on a scroll at his feet.


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Thursday, February 22, 2007
My feet - my burden
Dear Marc, following a week of hard work and no play, my boss told me to go get myself something nice at Liberty.
First off, I had lunch at the art cafe, in the company of an issue of Australian Gourmet and travel. We shared a plate of perfectly scrambled eggs and silky smooth salmon on toast. Plus the requisite pot of tea. Gourmet told me to finish off the meal with an terrifically tart lemon tart. I obliged.
Full and content with life, I wandered about Liberty. I started with shoes. Sadly, my feet have now spread so much that I can only wear trainers with orthopedic soles. I walked around the shoe department like a diabetic in a candy store, like a recovering alcoholic in a bar. What I want will hurt me. I can't buy shoes. I might have to shell out for surgery instead. I've read up on the surgery I might need. Post-operation recovery requires at least 6 weeks on crutches. I think they mean per foot.
How do people manage?
How will I manage with two kids while I'm on crutches. I'm sure you have nothing to say about this, but perhaps someone reading this has had a similar experience.
All the women on my mothers side of the family share my kind of troubled feet. My aunt swears by her MBT's. I'm curious, but not sure my current feet will fit in them.
To my great sorrow, I could not buy shoes. I went looking for the second item no privileged western woman can live without, the perfect cardigan. I found two and bought both that top one from KIND and a second one from Rützou.
I'm sharing the pictures here, cause this might be the first and last time they are seen without coffee spills, porridge stains and traces of mud. I have a dream, to be the kind of mom that stays elegant through play and meals. But I know I am not her.
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- Eebs said...
Excellent purchases.
I feel like a waste, though. I have normal feet and just cannot make myself care enough about shoes to fork over entire paychecks for them. Can you help me, E? How can I make full use of the feet that I've never considered a blessing until your blog? - 6:51 AM
- -e said...
Perhaps it's an age thing, perhaps not. Perhaps my longing is the result of exposing myself to one of the finest stores of the world.Stay away from Liberty!
Consider your lack of interest a blessing. You don't envy alcoholics, do you?
-e - 6:58 AM
- Lola is Beauty said...
ooh, love the green top, what a gorgeous green, is that the rutzou one? love rutzou. ahhh, am top addict
love your purchases. the hearth one got amazing in you! u are gorgeaus friend!
love denise
ps im happy that eebs came back, i missed her too... - 2:59 AM
- Eebs said...
Haha, Eebs has been here all along!
Anyway, E, you make a good point. Still, I feel like I am missing out on something huge with shoe fetishes (and, let's be honest, fashion in general).
Some people just get it, you know? Like with all things, some people were just born into fashion. I, unfortunately, was not, and my attempts seems schoolgirlish and uninspired.
That's why I need you. :) - 6:23 AM
- My Marrakech said...
Darling girl, I am afraid that I am going to have to advise you to get that surgery. Ever since I have seen those beautiful MJ white boots on your blog, I have been dreaming about them. What's 6 weeks of recovery in return for so many weeks of bliss in the very most perfect shoes?
- stringbeanjean said...
you are astoundingly pretty.
nobody will even think of looking at yr orthopaedic shoes. - 4:48 PM
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(NewsUSA) - As warmer days beckon us outside, some folks just can't wait to host an outdoor summertime soiree.
But it is tempting to overspend on decorations and accessories for a party. Adding a touch of uniqueness to your party while avoiding humdrum tiki torches and Japanese lanterns can quickly add up if you're not careful.
Here are four budget-friendly ways to add some character to your outdoor get-togethers:
1. Make it colorful. For a fast way to give your party a sense of retro style, color-coordinate your bowls, plates and cups in an attention-grabbing neon color.
Most discount stores sell plastic tableware in neon colors: pool blue, grass green, sunshine orange and party pink. These items are inexpensive enough to buy in multiples, so if you plan on hosting several parties, you can use one color per occasion, then invite guests to your "blue party" or "orange party."
2. Pep up your decor with peppers. Add a memorable touch by serving condiments or finger foods in hollowed-out green, red and yellow peppers.
Simply cut the stems and fill the peppers with ketchup, mayonnaise, barbecue sauce or any other appropriate item. Depending on the pepper's color, you may even be able to coordinate them with the rest of your tableware.
3. Create a field of dreams. For a whimsical addition, if the party is taking place on your lawn, purchase a variety of silk flowers and plant them upright in the ground. You can use them to mark paths through the yard or to the food tables and seating areas.
As with the tableware, silk flowers are inexpensive at stores and are economical enough to buy in large quantities. They're also more durable than real flowers and can be used again and again.
4. Find unique ways to deter bugs. Certain herbs and flowers can repel insects. For instance, sprigs of parsley or tansy may help keep ants at bay, while lavender or mint could drive flies away.
Set up decorative bowls of the herbs in various spots near the guests' seating. A larger bowl can be the striking centerpiece of a table.
But to keep your food extra safe from unwanted company, purchase mesh food covers, which also can be found at variety stores.


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Does the idea of an egg in your cocktail make you a bit queasy? Or worse does it make you want to run from the room in fear of your life? Well relax it's all in your head. A raw egg white helps unify the flavors in diverse ingredients. What is doesn't do is add an eggy taste, nor does it create a slimy texture. In fact a properly shaken egg white in a cocktail creates a soft silky foam that rises to the top; oftentimes in dramatic fashion.
Still many people raise their eyebrows just at the thought of raw eggs. That's because raw eggs have been a bit vilified by the food-a-phobes lately.
Eggs have traditionally been an important part of many classic cocktails. These include sours, flips and nogs. Without the egg these drinks lose something important. But convincing the food-a-phobes to embrace the egg in its raw form is very difficult. While it's true raw eggs carry some risk of salmonella, with properly stored, fresh eggs the risk is very low. Only 1 in 20,000 eggs has any salmonella bacteria in it at all. The odds of getting salmonella from an egg are extremely remote. You have a better chance of dying from accidental drowning (1 in 1,000), being killed in a massive storm (1 in 3,000) or slipping and falling to your death (1 in 6,500). Don't get me started on car accidents, because I know you still drive. Besides there are now pasteurized eggs that remove the threat of salmonella poisoning entirely. However, if you have doubts follow your conscience or the advice of your doctor. If you still have doubts all I can say is you're really missing out on something. GREG