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We are stoked to feature a special bloggystyle post on the amazing spanking starlet Christy Cutie, with Ms. Cutie providing the behind-the-scenes scoop on 10 different pix from various producers of the red ass variety.
Christy is a self-described born spanko with an unstoppable penchant for provoking seasoned Tops to tan her bodacious bottom to glowing hot hues of cherry red hotness.
In a nutshell, Christy has one tough tush. And she also has a blog which you can find Here. And many thanks to Christy for taking the time to participate in this fanny-flaming feature.
1. Over Clare Fonda's knee on Spanked Call Girls, also available via the Clare Pass
Spanked Call Girls is one of the first big spanking sites that I ever shot for. I was soooo ridiculously excited to be shooting for one of Clare Fonda's awesome websites! And I was even more excited to be shooting with Clare Fonda herself. . .
In fact, this scene was one of Clare's last spanking shoots EVER! I was honored to be a part of it, working alongside Clare and Sarah Gregory.
We had tons of fun this day! It was a bittersweet adventure mixed with beginning and ends, but mostly, it was a day with Sarah's and my bottom ends getting spanked.
2. The Tale of the Broken Hairbrush
Anyways, like I said before, I was really excited to be modeling for such a big site as Spanked Call Girls, but I was also really nervous—I didn't know what to expect. Would I be good enough to work with all of the veteran spanking models? Would people like me? In short, I was nervous about almost everything, everything EXCEPT the spanking itself.
You see, I pride myself on having a tough little bottom. I often brat and brag to Spankers, saying that they can spank me as hard and as long as they can, I have a high pain tolerance, and they won't hurt me at all with their sissy, light spankings.
In retrospect, this might not have been the wisest thing to say to my Spanker in this Spanked Call Girls scene! The Cameraman took my bratty challenge to heart, and beat my naughty bottom so hard that I actually cried real tears from start to finish! Not to mention the fact that the Cameraman only stopped this very ouchy spanking once his mean ol' hairbrush split in half across my poor, red backside!
I was stunned! And I'll tell ya one thing, never provoke your Spanker!…Well, unless you're a masochist—in that case, be my guest!
3. The "Exclusive Education" series on Girl Spanks Girl: Where the homework is the hairbrush. . .
One of my favorite parts about being a spanking model is getting to travel, meet and work with a ton of wonderful people. One of my first large scale group shoots was on the set of the Girl Spanks Girl's movie, "Exclusive Education, Year Seven."
I got to work with several well-known spanking models, as well as some excellent Tops (Lana Miller, Snow Mercy, Sarah Gregory, Veronica Ricci, Paris Kennedy, Phoenix Askani, Christy Cutie, Katherine St. James, Riley, Ginger S, Edanya, Koko, Kay Richards, Porcelain Ass, Cami Smalls).
In this shot I'm getting an OTK, bare bottom spanking from the lovely Snow Mercy. Snow gave me a very stingy hand spanking and later on, a very ouchy caning in which she canes me so hard that the cane promptly SNAPS in half! Once again, I must admit that I had been provoking my Spanker…perhaps I will never learn, or perhaps I am just a particularly naughty case!
4. Tennis Team Trouble from the site Sarah Gregory Spanking
Another really awesome group shoot I did was shot on location at the Texas All-State Spanking Party 2012! There were five of us naughty girls (me, Sarah Gregory, Ten Amorette, Shay Elizabeth, and Casey Calvert), all of us shooting a Tennis Team scenario for one of Sarah Gregory's websites, Sarah Gregory Spanking. The scene involved us giggling girls getting a hold of alcoholic beverages and skipping out on our tennis matches.
This is a shot of Coach Paul Rogers giving me a good old fashioned spanking for partaking in these naughty deeds! We really had a lot of fun working on this scene, as I'm sure you can imagine, especially since it was shot with a bunch of silly girls and who had been tasting yummy drinks. Such a great time, so many wonderful people, I can't wait to go back to the Texas All-State Party again!
5. The Sternwood Academy Finishing School
Sternwood Academy [check out their Clips4Sale site here] is a finishing school for young ladies located in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. I was sent here, along with my naughty cohorts (Cali Katarina, Cheyenne Jewel, Ela Darling, Heather Green, Alex Reynolds and Maddy Marks) to be sternly disciplined, spanked and shaped into proper young ladies.
In this shot, one of Sternwood Academy's teachers, Lorelei Mission, is in the midst of disciplining Cali Katarina, and myself for being the mischievous ringleaders during an outbreak of naughty behavior at choir practice.
First, Cali and I got spanked on our bare bottoms with all of the other girls, then we were made to dawn our punishment uniforms, stand on punishment crates and be caned in front of everybody! But, the punishment wasn't over yet. After the public caning, Cali and I were sent to the detention hall to receiver further discipline! All I can say, was that was a LOT of spankings. My poor little bottom was quite sore after!
My stay at Sternwood Academy was great fun! An entire weekend of spankings, giggling and fun. I very much look forward to my return visit to the Academy for Vol III!
6. Aunty Dana's naughty nieces
Speaking of weekend spanking trips, Ela Darling and I took a road-trip to visit Dana Kane in Las Vegas, Nevada. And us spirited girls were meant to be visiting our very old fashioned Aunt for the weekend.
Ela and I had a lot to learn about Aunty Dana's conservative ways…Ela and I spent most of the weekend getting our bare bottoms spanked bright pink. The best part about Aunty Dana's spankings, was that we got post-spanking cuddles and soothing bottom rubs! I love having my freshly spanked bottom rubbed!
Dana Kane is a fantastic Spanker and such an awesome person. I can't wait to work with her some more!
7. Chelsea Pfeiffer Spanks, from her flagship GoodSpanking website
Most recently, I had the privilege of shooting with the lovely Chelsea Pfeiffer! We had an awesome time shooting together. We shot a few different scenes, one in which, I was being spanked for stealing money from her purse, and the other was something I had never shot before.
We shot continuously, without stopping, for 30 mins, while Chelsea interviewed me and tested out a variety of spanking implements on me. It was great fun! I loved being able to be my pain-slut self. It was great to really enjoy the spanking, instead of pretending that I didn't love every painful minute of it.
In this shot, you can see Chelsea warming up my bottom with her hand. All of my reactions in this scene were genuine: from my ouchy exclamations of pain, to my delicious, moans of pleasure. I really hope to do more scenes like this in the future, and I am definitely looking forward to working more with Chelsea!
8. Of PJ's and the Paddle
Assume the Position Studios is one of the very first spanking sites I ever shot for! ATP Studios has some of the most beautiful spanking and fetish images in the industry. Besides, the exquisite photography, ATP Studios is known for delivering some of the hardest, heaviest and ouchiest spanking movies around.
This is perhaps the reason why I was drawn to ATP in the first place— I LOVE hard spankings! I want to be spanked to tears and have pretty marks and bruises all over my bratty bottom.
My bratty bottom loves to be spanked long and hard, but it also likes to incorporate role-play scenarios into those long, hard spankings! For instance, I have always enjoyed the fantasy of being a naughty babygirl and having my "Daddy" spank my little bottom in dropseat pajamas! Naturally, this means that I shoot as many dropseat pajama spankings as I can possibly manage.
This shot is from a set of Christmas spankings I did in 2012. I particularly loved working on this shoot, because I was being spanked in my favorite, red dropseat pajamas with my brand new leather paddle that I was given for Christmas! Yay, Christmas presents and double yay, for Christmas spankings.
9. The Busted Yardstick
Moving forward, I believe I may have mentioned that I enjoy hard spankings and I like to brat and provoke my Spanker? Well this image is another classic example of Christy Cutie Bratting! At this ATP Studios shoot, I decided to brat, sass, and talk back, making my Spanker determined to break the yardstick across my backside!
This painful endeavor took quite a few painful WHACKS before it was accomplished. But boy, was I proud that I took all of those ouchy stokes — and that my buns of steel were able to bust that yardstick right in half! I was downright giddy and ridiculously pleased with myself.
10. Punished at Assume the Position Studios
Sooo, not only am I a spanking model, but I am a true, born spanko! I've had spanking fantasies as far back as I can remember; even when I was a little girl I would make all of my toys spank one another—heck, even toy cars spanked one another!
Anywho, one thing led to another, and when I grew up I found my very own Spanker. I am involved in a real-life Domestic Discipline relationship. In other words, I'm involved in a consensual spanking dynamic, in which my Top spanks me when I misbehave. As a result, many of the ATP Studios spanking scenes and videos that we shoot together are in fact genuine discipline sessions!
This is an image of me after I had been spanked to tears in a real punishment scene. The scary paddle perched on my freshly spanked bottom, is my most dreaded and feared implement: "The Punishment Paddle"! Eeek, just looking at in this picture is making my bottom tingle in anticipation…


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Conan O'Brien, Rectory Crasher
The Globe's Michael Paulson got the story, an interview and, with them, quite the scoop.
``As you can imagine, you do a TV show like mine, and you live in New York City, and you talk to the kind of celebrity guests that I talk to, and your job is to make people laugh, it can be easy to lose perspective occasionally on what's really happening," O'Brien said in a brief interview, standing in the unused kitchen of the new Cor Unum meal center, under the still-gleaming pots and pans.O'Brien may say that his "parents are very Catholic" but, as with Colbert, it's been observed that the trait doesn't end with mom and pop....
``I probably shouldn't even admit this, but it's still hard for me to believe -- I find it a little shocking that there are people in the 21st century living in the United States who are hungry," said the comedian, who is host of ``Late Night with Conan O'Brien" on NBC-TV. ``But obviously it's true."
The meal center -- the name Cor Unum is Latin for one heart -- is scheduled to serve its first meal this Saturday. Run by Father O'Brien's St. Patrick's Parish with one paid staffer and multiple volunteers, the center is planning to begin by serving dinner Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays, then gradually expand to dinner seven nights a week, and then add breakfast, and then lunch. The Greater Boston Food Bank has agreed to supply much of the food for the center at a deep discount.
The building, a 5,600-square-foot structure on land owned by the parish, cost about $1.8 million to build, and supporters have raised another $500,000 toward the first two years of operation. The endeavor has been funded in large part through an innovative marketing campaign, called ``labels are for jars," in which supporters have sold black T-shirts featuring derogatory labels such as ``addict" and ``mentally ill," and then have used discussions about the T-shirts to raise funds.
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Celtic boss Neil Lennon and Old Firm rival Walter Smith are dismissive of proposals for a Clydesdale Bank Premier League title play-off. The idea was put forward by Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson for the top four teams in the SPL to contest a title decider at the end of the regular season.
The Tannadice chairman believes the plan would add income and excitement to a league which has not been won by any team outside the Old Firm since Aberdeen triumphed in 1985.
But Lennon said: "I don't think it's fair at all, I think it's absolutely ludicrous.
"I saw the headlines and I didn't even bother reading them because I just think it's a piece of nonsense.
"I've been here 10 years and if you look at the gap between the top team and the third and fourth-placed team, the gap is always quite big.
"So basically you're saying your season comes down to two or three games at the end of the season? Absolute rubbish."
Lennon was only slightly more amenable to suggestions for a play-off for European places outside the top two slots.
"I think that might create a bit of an interest but certainly for the championship, absolute no-no," he said.
"And I don't know how that would affect the coefficient, there would be a possibility you don't have the three most consistent teams going into Europe. I don't think that would improve the coefficient.
"From my point of view it's one of the more silly ideas I've heard in recent weeks.
"In fact, it's the silliest idea I've heard in the last few weeks."
The Rangers chief also agreed, saying: "Probably, when we have a lot of games, people think about the games. When there are no games, they start to conjure up different aspects.
"From memory, I think they tried it in Holland on one occasion. It was one occasion and then they got rid of it.
"If you look at the Championship in England, play-offs work as long as your first and second teams get the rewards that they deserve."
The Rangers boss was more welcoming of the proposals by the SPL's strategic review group, which were set to be discussed on Monday until the weather conditions resulted in the postponement of the meeting.
Smith said: "The group's proposals seem kind of sensible. We've had a 10-team league before.
"If we feel as though going to an 18 team league isn't going to be a viable proposition, the 10 team league avoids the split.
"When we had it previously, it was a competitive environment so, if we could recreate that circumstance, that would be a good thing."
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As I've previously argued: Raise Minimum Wage To Reduce Illegal Immigration. Here I build upon this argument. Over on Half Sigma's Lion Of The Blogosphere blog I made the point in comments that high sales taxes cut spending on local goods and services and therefore reduce migration of the lower skilled toward where the higher skilled live.
Want to create a very upper class city with low social pathology? Jack up minimum wages to $15 per hour (at least) and make sales taxes 15%. Next, institute a flat rate residence tax in place of a property tax.
Why this would make a city a better place: High earners would spend less locally and therefore their presence would serve as far less of a magnet for low earners.
A determined city could pile on with even more measures:
How else to cut the demand for low skilled labor in a metropolitan area? Got more ideas?
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This seems to be a flawed solution because there's doesn't seem to be any correlation between high minimum wages and low illegal immigration. If higher minimum wages lowered illegal immigration, then California ($8.00/hour) would have fewer illegal immigrants than New Hampshire ($7.25/hour). If anything, higher minimum wages might exacerbate illegal immigration by making legal workers too expensive.
"How else to cut the demand for low skilled labor in a metropolitan area? Got more ideas?"
How about enforcing existing immigration laws? Plus, make it a felony with mandatory jail time to illegally take a job in this country or to hire someone who has no right to be here. Seeing a few employers doing the perp walk on the nighttime news would be a big disincentive for hiring illegals.
I suspect your city would have a large number of scofflaws - undocumented Mexican yard workers and suchlike. Still, as an overall blueprint, it would probably work pretty well. Unfortunately this is just a local solution, but I suppose at this point that's the best we can hope for.
make it a felony with mandatory jail time to illegally take a job in this country or to hire someone who has no right to be here.Blocked by the courts. Alabama can't even take a census to see how many children in its schools are natives, legal immigrants or "undocumented".
Neither political party in the US represents labor.
Democrats represent welfare dependency.
Republicans represent corporate rent-seeking dependency.
Labor is a threat to both.
That's going to be a little hard, considering there are such strong international economic forces out there, we should be paying more attention to. As we speak the world is being dragged into what seems a long swamp of currency wars, and the U.S. might not do so well in the end. Some even say that the long-due Big One is coming for the U.S. pretty soon. Europe too.
Well, who knows really. I should know better. Making economic predictions is never a safe bet. I just wonder why, before threatening events we sit around while all around Europe and Latin America it's all protests and demonstrations in so many major cities. I don't think I'll be able to bear peacefully the thought that we could've done so much before it happened, and did not.
Thre are some really important and very urgent topics to discuss here. I do hope we can bring them about again.
How far is America from becoming Bolshevik State? As we speak?
Are we really aware of how much freedom are we losing?
Do we see how damaged and abused our youth is?
Have we noticed what we've become, and how fast?
You do realize where New Hampshire is as compared to where Mexico is, right?
Black Death,
I'm proposing liberal solutions. They have a better chance of being enacted. Who can oppose a living wage?
Yes, labor no longer has a political party.
"Yes, labor no longer has a political party."
And the labor "elites" don't give a flying fuck. Apparently the schmucks that pay the dues don't either.
As Randall alluded, the best proposed solutions are ones that can be marketed to SWPL sensibilities -- reforms that address pressing problems as the elites imagine them to be.
Higher minimum wage as "living wage," already mentioned.
High sales tax to promote Social Justice.
Banning used car dealerships to fight Global Warming.
Banning lawn mowing to promote Ecological Diversity.
50 year roofs as a way to make urgent progress towards Sustainability.
The connections don't have to actually make sense in any practical way, they just have to seem to do so. And be accepted as such.
All hail marketing.
1. You have to keep the businesses that require cheap labor (or condone it like Home Depot's side lots full of illegals) from even existing anywhere near your city or county. You only want high-tech employers...or better yet everyone just commutes to a nearby city and comes home to nirvana.
2. Gated community with nothing inside except houses... no businesses to employ riff-raff within.
3. The city police force guards the gates, not contractors. Be careful who you hire as policemen. You want cops who are retired or otherwise monied and willing to make sure illegals or other unwashed don't gain entrance for any reason.
4. If a homeowner intends to sell his home, the Home-Owner Association has right of first refusal to buy it before the unwashed buy it and move in with four other illegal families.
You can have office building businesses that employ upscale white collar workers. Dentists, doctors, engineers, software developers. How to zone for that? We don't want a county social welfare office near us. But we do want a high tech start-up with 120+ IQ employees.
Yes, sustainability is very important. Hence the no-maintenance lawns that do not need watering. Can we use road surfaces that cost more to put in that last longer? We urgently need longer lasting stuff. None of that cheap throw-away culture.
Dual German-English and Mandarin-English immersion schools would be great. How about free moving expenses for anyone whose kid can't hack it in these schools?
Aside from the border security issues, illegal immigrants are not the problem. The problem is incentives that punish those who choose to produce wealth and reward those who choose not to produce wealth. It matters little weather those producers or non-producers are foreign or US born or here legally or illegally. I would rather let in foreigners who want to work and do not want a government handout and kick out the native born moochers who want a free ride.
The property tax thing won't work. Property tax comes out of rent.
Your change would just create a one-off windfall for owners of formerly-high-tax properties.
Mike M,
The children of the illegal aliens vote for politicians who are redistributionist. The children of illegal aliens are native born and they do not make a lot of money. They have high rates of illegitimate births, high rates of dropping out of high school, and high rates of voting for policies to take from you to give to them.
I'm sorry, I have to laugh. The first question that comes to mind is: who would want to live in such a city?
1) There would be *very* few restaurants, and those that existed would be overpriced -- a 15$ minimum wage and 15% sales tax brings the bill for 2 cheeseburgers at Chili's to over 30$. Push that up the 'niceness' chain and you're looking at a 100$ bill for a decent dinner for two, without alcohol.
2) There would be no small shops for immediate conveniences and luxuries. No more picking up flowers on the way home as a spur-of-the-moment romantic gesture, or grabbing a quick sandwich on the run. Sure there are substitutes that could be tried, but have you ever purchased flowers from a vending machine in the airport, or enjoyed the sandwich from the vending machine in the cafeteria?
3) Grocery stores, if they existed, would have limited stock and limited choice. If the labor cost of stockers doubles, expect the # of stockers to halve. You'll have to halve the # of shelves they stock, thereby halving the selection.
For those that live in Boston, imagine what would happen if half of Newbury street shuttered up, and the remaining half increased prices by 20%+. A relaxing Sunday walking the shops is over.
For the women out there: would you like to live in a city where you had the choice of paying a 50$ premium or commuting 40 minutes for your waxing? For the men, would you live in a city where you paid a 50$ premium or had to commute 40 minutes for a haircut?
If you only shop at Whole Foods and Neiman Marcus, dine only at places with a new menu developed daily, and have an assistant to fetch you coffee and handle all of life's inconveniences, then this is probably enticing.
You are overestimating the fraction of total retail cost that goes to salaries. Look at Trader Joe's where they pay much more than minimum wage. They have lots of great deals. The place to get chocolate, dried fruits, olive oil (though iHerb is cheaper on the web), and a number of other product categories.
You are also missing the labor savings of big box stores where they do not stock shelves the way normal stores do. The warehouse equals the retail shelves.
Hair cut premium: they make more than minimum wage. $50? A $15 per hour person can cut hair for 2 people per hour.
You are also missing other forms of automation. Look at fast food stores where you can interact directly with an ordering menu and slide a card thru. Just like gas stations where you do not have to interact with an attendant. Higher minimum wages would cause a shift toward lower labor ways to deliver services.
Okay, at Trader Joe's they would need to raise some (but not all) salaries by $3 per hour.
I also think that same day delivery will reduce the need for stores. Order stuff (like what you want to have for dinner) on your tablet in the morning or the night before. Go home and find it there. Saves time. UPS and USPS drivers make more than minimum wage already.
In a planned city, if there are going to be many deliveries, I wonder if underground tubes could be more efficient.
Residents ordering from a store could get it auto-delivered immediately. The entire process could sometimes be automated, with Kiva-style warehouse robots placing items in the tubes.
Side bonus: no delivery trucks adding to traffic and parking in the street when there aren't spots available.
I wonder if those Middle Eastern and Asian high-tech planned cities are doing anything truly innovative in the final plans.
If I remember correctly, there's a Middle-Eastern planned city that's having car traffic go through underground tunnels, so the surface of the city can be extremely walkable, and without being surrounded by noisy, pollution-causing cars.
RP, quite a lot goes to labor, more so than the veneer you see. Remember, the 15$ boost in minimum wage applies not just to the waitress, but the service bartender, the prep cooks, the line cooks, the busboys, the dishwashers, the janitorial staff. I've worked each of these jobs, and can tell you that would be a massive labor cost increase. A waitress would break even (as tips would be gone likely), the service bartender makes ~11-12$/hr, the prep cook is around 9$, the line cook is around 10$, busboys are 7$, dishwashers are 7$, janitors are 7$. None of these are positions that are 'easily automatable'.
That's the problem with fiats intended to manipulate the unskilled labor market. It's a job that 1) requires *no* skill, therefore no capital investment in acquiring talent or skill and 2) has little real value. This is where the automation ship crashes against the jagged rocks of reality. Nobody is going to spend a million dollars to develop a machine to replace a window washer. I can pick a random guy off the street, give him a spray bottle and squeegee and 10$ an hour for the same task.
Everyone romanticizes about automation when they see robots putting windshields on cars, but realize: this is a highly repetitive job where a simple, limited task (i.e. gluing) is performed 100s of times at the exact same 3 dimensional coordinate (the frame is in the same *exact* place, the glass is moved in the *exact* same manner) and replaces 3 union laborers (2 to hold the glass, 1 to glue). That's a complex robot, operating at perhaps 4x the speed of manual labor, so that 1 robot replaces 12 high-cost workers. The task was simple enough, repetitive enough, and the labor cost was high enough that it was worth automating. Those are 3 requirements that must be met for automation: labor per unit must be expensive, task must be simple (i.e. does not require complex movements), and task must be repetitive (impossible to reprogram on the fly, reprogramming is a massive sunk cost).
Those few cases where retail automation is utilized are done so with low quality:
Given the choice, would you buy a 2$ cappuccino from the vending machine at a 7/11 or pay 3$ for a cappuccino at Starbucks?
Would you pay 4$ for a turkey and cheese sandwich fabricated by a machine (these are the ones you see in vending machines) or 6$ for one from the local deli?
Efforts to increase minimum wage and jack up labor costs will push the prices on the more desirable (latter) choices, making them less palatable. Ultimately you'll have the choice between (automated) vending machine coffee for 2$ or (non-automated) high-labor coffee for 6$; 4$ for vending machine sandwich vs. 12$ for fresh. That in and of itself is undesirable. Given the choice between two cities based on the above principles, would you choose one with high costs and limited choice, or a city with low cost and more choices, even if it means you're unable to insulate yourself from low-skilled workers?
Those are some good points, but parts of that equation might be about to change.
This tech startup's automated gourmet burgers look delicious, and save a lot on costs. Robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour.
The company seems to have good momentum, and a lot of smart people behind it.
Even low wage jobs get automated. Consider:
Restaurants use dish washing machines and have been using them for decades. Some fast food joints use customer-facing order UIs. The fast food joints basically expect you to clear the food from your own table. Gone is most bus boy work.
Automated high quality coffee machines seem doable. They'll take market share from Starbucks because they'll use less space and therefore be locatable closer to wherever you happen to be. Some will go to Starbucks for the esthetic experience and a place to sit. But not all.
The cost of automation keeps going down. So even low wage jobs get automated. In China one restaurant uses robots. At this point in time it might not make sense economically except as an experiment.
Chinese and Carnegie Mellon experimental cooking robots show where things are headed. I suspect the robots in this Japanese restaurant are more practical.
What I think is telling: Noodle slicing robots that cost a couple thousand dollars pay for themselves in China in less than half a year.
I don't think you understand what we're trying to design here. If you can't afford to spend $100 on a night out with your wife, you're the type of person we're trying to keep down the road.
@Randall Parker,
You said "Dentists, doctors, engineers, software developers. How to zone for that?"
Anything that's not commercial office property (and ALL business goes outside the gated community I recommend--no employees get access to the housing area UNLESS escorted by the homeowner or city cop at $50 an hour), must have an Environmental Impact Study to end all Environmental Impact Studies...no one gets approved in less than 5 years, and even then you force them to pay a local-city run insurance fund. Basically, you place such a high financial and administrative burden on Home Depot to put a store close to you that they just say fuck it.
Also, no city services above bare minimum = no libraries. You want books, go to Amazon. No city-funded concerts = buy your own ticket if you want to listen to a band. No city parks--tragedy of the commons wins out every time. The school district is a CITY school district, only for families within the gated community. And the school lies outside the gate--teachers never get inside, nor janitors. Think access to an Army base--no one gets in without a computerized ID, or they go through the visitor center first to get a day pass.
I didn't mean that to sound as harsh as it did...but I'm willing to pay ungodly amounts of money for real estate that won't become worthless once it starts turning into Detroit. If that means more expensive haircuts and flowers, I don't give a shit. I've worked too hard and saved too much money for me to quibble about minor expenses when I truly care about a house that doesn't see its value go to zero. I understand you're not that well-off yet--I hope you get there some day and then you'll see what we're talking about. I've got a house in California I'd like to burn to the ground and I'd take half the insurance money without complaint (I'm renting it now for half the mortgage payment because illegals took over the state). If we can't have restrictive covenants anymore, we'll just have to be creative.
Libraries do not attract the non-reading lower classes. But the upper classes do not have a lot of need for them. I wonder who still goes to libraries. Middle aged women looking for romance novels? Moms looking to get out somewhere with the kids?
I think city-funded concerts can work if they are all for classical music. Anything that draws smarter folks isn't a problem. But how to prevent funding for purposes that attract lower IQ folks?
City parks: Yes, how to prevent the way they fail? Private parks?
Libraries don't attract lower classes? You should visit any library in California and close your eyes--then just follow your nose to the homeless dude downloading porn.
City-funded classical music is using funds of the many for the desires of the few--this is how the USA got to 3 trillion deficit spending annually. Everybody pays for their' own entertainment in my version of Galt-ville.
If by "private parks" you mean country club, then yes. My ideal city would have no public property except the police station. So if some ne'er-do-wells show just to "hang" in the rich white part of town, they can quickly be escorted from the private property they're on to the only public property in the city. And regardless of cost, I'd prosecute every shoplifter with mass media coverage of the trial, no plea-bargaining--ideally with citizens at the courthouse with placards that essentially say "you got what was coming to you for leaving your part of town."
I don't have the capital to plan and execute this fully-planned community, but I have given the idea a lot of thought over the years. Would love it if you revisited this issue every six months or so.
Having a poll tax instead of a property tax will just enrich existing property owners.


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'Dancing With the Stars' Winner J.R. Martinez Visits Pentagon
The Iraq War veteran met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
Dancing With the Stars champion J.R. Martinez was given a star-studded reception when he visited the Pentagon on Thursday. Only, unlike his stint on the ABC reality show, the stars surrounding Martinez were of the military kind.
PHOTOS: 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 13 Cast
Martinez, 28, not only met with the U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, but also Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior leaders.
Martinez, who, as an Army infantryman was severely burned by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2003, recently took home the mirrorball trophy on the 13th season of Dancing With the Stars. After his win, he received a congratulatory phone call from Panetta.
PHOTOS: Famous Alums of 'All My Children'
When he went to the Pentagon to meet with military leaders, Martinez was greeted by his many fans in the military hub. "Young military aides, seasoned officers and civilian assistants poured out of offices to meet and congratulate the Dancing With the Stars winner -- who happily accommodated every request for a handshake or photo," said Doug Wilson, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs.
VIDEO: 'Dancing With the Stars' J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff Pull it Together at the Last Minute
In 2003, Martinez was a 19-year-old Army infantryman in Iraq. He was driving a when the vehicle hit a roadside bomb, and Martinez suffered smoke inhalation and severe burns to more than 40 percent of his body. After 32 surgeries and three years of recovery, Martinez won the role of Brot Monroe on All My Children. He also serves as a motivational speaker.
Martinez will next co-host the pre-show of CNN's Heroes: An All-Star Tribute on Dec. 11.


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The lead up to Black Friday and the crazy side of retail has been pretty quiet (thankfully). The beginning of cold weather has led to lots of sweater weather, but I've been fortunate to get a 70 degree day every now and then.
|colorblock sweater | old navy
|striped shirt | forever xxi
yellow skirt | thrifted
bubble necklace | etsy
|dress | old navy
necklace | charlotte russe
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I've fucked off my probation officer. {Great}
I'm on home detention/house arrest/boredom central. Whatever you wanna call it, it's the same thing. Confined to my house & most of my property.
4 months for multiple deception charges. It's not bad. I mean, the Judge wanted to lock me up for a year. It doesn't seem like such a harsh sentence. Don't get me wrong, it's not an ideal situation leading up to Christmas & all but I pretty much stay at home 24/7 anyway.
Back to the fucked off probation officer. I have a doctors appointment today & I'm only just telling him about it today. Apparently I need to tell him about such things at least two days beforehand. That's fine and dandy but how the fuck am I meant to know when I'll be sick?
Gary, the PO is not one to piss off. {He's massive}
But how am I meant to know what to do? I'm new to all of this. I've known a few people on home D but to be honest I never asked them how much notice they gave to their PO's to attend an appointment. It simply never came up. Maybe I'll start a list of such questions in case I ever need them.
I'm a little over a week into my sentence & I'm disappointed with how slow it's been. Usually time flies. Especially with a young baby. Damn.
Gary just dropped off a whole lot of forms I need to sign & to give me the time frame I need to be in by. I also need to get the doctor to write me a note & get the receptionist to sign some absence slips.
I feel like I'm back in high school & I'm taking my report in cards around to each teacher I have that day to confirm that I did indeed attend their class & I'm not in fact off wagging in the girls toilets. I did do the crime so I really shouldn't complain too much. Self inflicted & all that but this is a blog.
My blog.
And I'll bitch to myself {& any one who will listen} as much as I like.
I'm not really sure how to end these things but that's a good starting point. I have dragged on a little too much so I guess I'll leave it with a simple sorry.
Until next time.
{112 days to go. Not that I'm counting or anything}


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Madam Speaker, we hear much hype about how bad GITMO prison is. That's where we keep prisoners of war, those terrorists that have been captured on the battlefield that have tried to kill Americans. The uninformed have compared the place to a gulag and a dungeon. I have been there and the place is neither.
Be that as it may, some POWs are treated better there than our Border Agents Ramos and Compean, who were sent to Federal prison for shooting a border drug smuggler. This is the case where our government let a drug dealer go free and put border protectors in prison for 11 and 12 years.
Most POWs at GITMO are not in solitary confinement. But the border agents have been in solitary confinement for most of their sentences. The POWs get 9 hours a day of exercise, including soccer. The border agents spend 23 hours a day in their cells. The POWs watch Arabic TV. The border agents watch no TV. The POWs receive the same medical treatment as the United States military, but one border agent was assaulted in prison and didn't see a doctor for 5 days.
Madam Speaker, only in America do we treat terrorists and POWs better in GITMO than we do border agents who went to prison for protecting the border.
And that's just the way it is.


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WEST BANK - There
will be no direct negotiations with Israel while it builds settlements
on occupied land where the Palestinians seek to establish a state, a
spokesman for the Palestinian president said on Saturday.
Nabil Abu Rdainah was speaking
after leaving a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's
executive committee in Ramallah.
envoy George Mitchell on Friday concluded talks with Palestinian and
Israeli leaders without agreement on how to keep alive peace
negotiations that are on hold due to the dispute over Jewish settlement
building. The talks began a month ago.
"There will be no negotiations in the shadow of continued settlement," Abu Rdainah said.
say the growth of the settlements, on land Israel has occupied since
1967, will render impossible the establishment of a Palestinian state in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip -- the stated goal of the peace talks.
Some 500,000 Jews live on territory where the Palestinians aim to establish their state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
(Reporting by Ali Sawafta; Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by David Holmes)


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39. Pakistani national Kamran Ahmed08.09.2016 11:47
Newlywed Pakistani man, 27, raped a 12-year-old schoolgirl less than six months after he arrived in Britain claiming the 'devil got to him'
- Kamran Ahmed previously touched girl indecently and tried to kiss her
- Raped her then said no one would 'believe a child' if she told anyone
- She eventually confessed to teacher she was assaulted 'in a dirty way'
- Ahmed, 27, was given a ten-year sentence and will likely be deported
A newly married husband who raped a 12-year-old girl and claimed 'the devil got him' as he confessed to his wife has been jailed for ten years.
Pakistani national Kamran Ahmed, 27, had been in the UK less than six months after marrying a British woman when he had sex with the schoolgirl, pulling off her clothes and telling her 'I have to do this'.
Ahmed had previously told the girl she was pretty, touched her indecently and tried to kiss her before forcibly raping her, prosecutor Tom Storey told Bradford Crown Court.
Afterwards, he said that no one would believe a child over an adult if she told someone, forcing her to carry the shame alone, which the court heard had a dramatic impact on her school work.
She was too ashamed and embarrassed to tell her Muslim family but eventually confessed to her teacher that she had been assaulted 'in a dirty way,' the court heard.
Ahmed, from Thornbury, Bradford, West Yorkshire, later confessed the crime to his British wife, saying 'the devil had got to him,' Mr Storey said.
He was jailed for ten years after he pleaded guilty on the day of the trial and will be deported after serving his prison sentence, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, told him.
Kamran Ahmed, 27, was jailed for ten years for raping a 12-year-old girl then claiming that 'the devil got him'
Mitigating, Mohammed Ramzan, said his client had also destroyed his own life.
'The case has had a devastating effect and he is extremely ashamed of his conduct and what he has done,' he said.
'He will be deported back to Pakistan after serving his sentence and he will take the shame with him.'
Mr Ramzan conceded that the girl will carry the 'torture' with her for the rest of her life.
Judge Thomas said: 'She was unable to take advantage of counselling because it was too painful and difficult to speak about what had happened, even in such a private setting.'
He told Ahmed: 'It is impossible to think that the effects of your crime on her will somehow dissipate in any substantial way.
'One fears that her future years will be very badly affected by what you did to her.'
He will 'undoubtedly and inevitably' be deported back to Pakistan, Judge Thomas stated.


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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - It was double duty for Clear Channel Chief Executive Lowry Mays Thursday.
After talking to investors at the Banc of America Securities Investment Conference in the morning, Mays sat down with former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs for a long chat before broadcasters and reporters at the annual National Association of Broadcasters Radio Show.
Mays told the NAB he thinks Internet companies will be more conservative in their ad spending. The "overexuberance" of spending that occurred last year and in the early part of 2000 "was not sustainable," he said, and Clear Channel understood that from the beginning.
Clear Channel CCU, -0.62% will stay away from cable television acquisitions, Mays said, because the business requires too much capital spending. The company prefers enterprises, like radio, that have relatively fixed costs while generating significant amounts of cash flow.
With regard to the Internet, Mays says he isn't interested in acquisitions or partnerships at this time, as the company has "a huge embedded Internet business" within itself, and a large audience to leverage with that business.
Mays bristled at reports that Clear Channel is putting salary caps on some of its sales executives. He called such a move "the very worst thing we could do," and said the company makes every effort to "incentivize" all of its employees, including the sales force. He also noted that, if Clear Channel is "conservative" in its fiscal ways, that happens to be the kind of philosophy that has made the stock radio's "best performing since 1984."
Fries blames slowdown on Olympics, AFTRA/SAG
Gary Fries, president of the Radio Advertising Bureau, said a slowdown in radio advertising that has punished stocks in the sector has not been attributable primarily to a decline in dot-com spending, but to other factors that many have overlooked.
Among those factors, he told reporters at the NAB Radio Show, are the Sydney Olympic games. Yes, the Games have been a ratings disappointment thus far, but they, in conjunction with the political season, have led many advertisers to wait before launching major campaigns. "(They're saying), let's wait until things cool off somewhat before we do this," he said.
Another problem has been a strike by the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (AFTRA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). The unions struck against advertisers five months ago over demands for a bigger share of profits from commercials, particularly ads for Internet and other technology companies.
The strike has had a definite effect on national advertising, Fries said, as many advertisers are holding off on handing out new creative assignments to ad agencies until the strike is resolved.
Nonetheless, Fries said he's "very optimistic" about fourth-quarter ad spending, as the effects of the Olympic and political seasons fade away.
Fries said he was "really amazed" at Wall Street's negative reaction to the ad slowdown, which was quite noticeable in July and August. In any case, if the radio industry can sustain ad revenue growth of 10 to 13 percent - and not the 20-25 percent it had managed in the first half of 2000 - that's still extremely good, he said.
For the full year of 2000, Fries sees ad revenue rising 11 to 12 percent from 1999 totals, and makes the same prediction for 2001.


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News Highlights
November 6, 2015
Excellence in Research Award Recipients
The Friends of the University of Hawai'i Cancer Center announced winners of its quarterly Excellence in Research Award in October 2015. Each recipient was awarded $4,500 of which more than 80 percent will go back into research.
Michele Carbone, MD, PhD, director of the UH Cancer Center's Thoracic Oncology Program was a recipient for his study, Minimal asbestos exposure in germline BAP1 heterozygous mice is associated with deregulated inflammatory response and increased risk of mesothelioma.
The study published in Oncogene outlines the discovery of BAP1 as the first gene that predisposes people to mesothelioma and other cancers. The discovery will potentially allow those who are at high risk for the disease to be screened for the genetic susceptibility earlier leading to improved prognosis. Carbone and his colleagues are now following more than forty United States families affected by BAP1 mutations.
"I am very grateful to the Friends of the Cancer Center for providing this award that will be used to support the cost of testing family members for BAP1 mutations," said Dr. Carbone.
James Turkson, PhD, UH Cancer Center's chief academic lead and director of the Natural Products and Experimental Therapeutics Program was also an award recipient for his study, Hydroxamic acid and benzoic acid-based Stat3 inhibitors suppress human glioma and breast cancer phenotypes in vitro and in vivo.
Dr. Turkson and his research team discovered two chemical compounds that effectively stop the growth of brain cancer cells and breast tumors, opening the way for potential new drugs to be developed. In the study published in the journal Cancer Research, Turkson and collaborators examined compounds that inhibit Stat3, a protein implicated in a variety of cancers that include brain and breast cancers.
"It is a great honor to receive this award from the Friends. In addition to our gratitude, this support will contribute to enhancing our research activities in making discoveries that help prevent and treat cancer patients. The Friends have always been a strong support for the Cancer Center and we are fortunate to have them," said Dr. Turkson.
The Excellence in Research Award sponsored by the Friends of the UH Cancer Center, recognizes significant scientific publications on studies conducted by Cancer Center researchers. A panel of experts reviews the award submissions. The winners are selected based on how well the research advances the particular field of study, how it supports the overall mission of the UH Cancer Center, and the impact factor of the journal in which the paper was published. Impact factor is defined as a measure of the average number of times recent articles published in a particular journal are cited.


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Berry King
"Without doubt the best jam I have ever tasted. I am not a fan of jam usually, but I got some as a gift and am now hooked. Its a jar full of fruit! Their relishes and chutneys are fantastic as well. They give a boring meal or sandwich a real kick. I love adding flavour to food and can't find fault with any of Berry King's products - except sometimes it's hard to find."
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text: Stay tuned for info on a project we are proud to help sponsor! The goal is to have one million pillowcases made nationwide & donated locally to children's & women's charities, or basically anywhere that a pillowcase would bring some cheer. The goal is one million pillowcases donated in 2010! Our shop is proud to participate. Patterns will be posted, and more information to follow in mid-November! Let's get geared up to help meet the challenge!


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The WELCOME HOTEL ESSEN is the hotel of choice for demanding business travellers, trade fair visitors and culture or sports' enthusiasts. Enjoy 4-star comforts in this modern hotel with 176 rooms, in-house SunnySide restaurant and lounge bar. The hotel is ideally located for exploring the city's highlights.
- Central location suited to both business and non-business guests
- Attractive offers for your stay
- conference rooms with latest technology
- entertainment program
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Enjoy a great night's sleep in one of our 176 spacious, modern rooms or suites appointed in warm reds and browns and offering a high level of comfort and contemporary design - the ideal ambiance to relax at the end of a long day.
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- W-Lan free of charge
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The right environment inspires success and innovative ideas and that is exactly what you will find in our 10 fully air-conditioned, naturally-lit conference rooms.
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Unsere Gäste können kostenfrei die Einrichtungen und Sportkurse des Fitness-Clubs HealthCity nutzen. Nur 5 Minuten Fußweg vom Hotel entfernt finden Sie alles, was das Fitness - Herz begehrt.
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Washington: A flu jab appears to almost halve the heart attack risk in middle aged people with narrowed arteries, according to a new study.
The researchers wanted to find out if flu is an unrecognised, but clinically important, contributing factor to increased heart attack risk.
Scientists assessed 559 patients over the age of 40 who were referred to a tertiary hospital during consecutive winters in 2008-10. Some 275 of these patients had sustained a heart attack and 284 had not.
Nose and throat swabs and blood samples taken at admission and 4-6 weeks later showed that around one in eight (12.4 percent; 34) of the heart attack patients had recently had flu, compared with just under 7 percent (18) in the comparison group. Half of all the patients had had the flu jab that year.
Flu had not been diagnosed in around one in 10 of those who had the infection, indicating that it may be missed in hospital patients with other clinical problems, say the authors.
A recent respiratory infection was more common among those patients who`d had a heart attack and doubled the risk.
But after taking account of other influential factors, such as age, high cholesterol, and smoking, flu did not increase heart attack risk. But vaccination against the infection did seem to be protective, decreasing the risk of a heart attack by 45 percent.
The researchers said that extending the flu vaccination programme to 50 to 64 year olds has been mooted before, but not considered to be cost effective.
The study has been published in the journal Heart.


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Welcome to Hall of Hatred within the HTML Shop of Horrors. Today's exhibit is a subject of intense hatred and a figure of derision — without further ado, let's see what hideous creature it is:
<marquee>The Marquee Tag</marquee>
And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Has there ever been a good use for a marquee tag? It never stops scrolling, it can never move at a pace that is suitable for reading and it draws unwanted attention to itself. It's like the Paris Hilton of HTML elements.
Frankly, I'm glad it's dead — or at least it should be.
But where does all this anger come from? It is always best to see for yourself as we delve into the number of ways that a Web developer can take an annoying element and really pimp out its annoyance.
If you thought there was only one way to read marquees, you would be wrong. To make people wait even longer to read your text, you could invert the direction, as well as annoy just as well in Arabic too!
The default value was "left", therefore inversion meant you had to change the direction property to "right". Presumably "left" and "right" referred to the direction in which to scroll towards. It would take a while for someone to figure out that "ltr" or "rtl" would make more sense. At this point in time we were left just having to know the implicit meaning of "left" and "right".
But why stop there when you could do both? To do this, we would need to use the Behavior property.
If you gave the Behavior property the value "alternate", it would make the text change between left to right and right to left.
That wasn't all it could do: with a value of "slide" the text would enter from one side and stop when it hit the other side of the container.
The default behaviour for Behavior was "scroll". Who'd have thought it?
Perhaps you only wanted to annoy your readers for a little while, then you could limit the number of times the marquee would loop by giving the loop property a numerical value — provided the reader was still on your page at that point.
After the specified number of loops the text scrolling would stop and depending on the Behavior would either disappear (behavior="scroll") or remain behind (behavior="slide").
However, if you wish to ensure that the marquee would annoy forever, you could give loop a value of -1 and it would never cease. For Mozilla based browsers, this is the unchangeable default.
Changing the effect
When you wanted to tailor the marquee's scrolling to fit your design needs, you could use scrolldelay and scrollamount.
Scrolldelay specified the amount of time in milliseconds to wait before updating the marquee.
Scrollamount specified the number of pixels to move when the marquee moved.
With a good combination of numbers, you could really ramp up the annoyance factor.
I'm not dead yet
Just when you thought it was safe to return to the Internet, it seems that the marquee tag has returned in zombie form in the CSS2 specification.
The horror will return when browsers can render this correctly:
<style> p { overflow: scroll; white-space: nowrap; marquee: slide infinite } </style>
Here's hoping that browser developers will have enough taste to prevent the return of the marquee.
Who am I kidding though? The MySpace kids will love it.
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Some would say that it is a long way from software engineering to journalism, others would correctly argue that it is a mere 10 metres according to the floor plan.During his first five years with CBS Interactive, Chris started his journalistic adventure in 2006 as the Editor of Builder AU after originally joining the company as a programmer.Leaving CBS Interactive in 2010 to follow his deep desire to study the snowdrifts and culinary delights of Canada, Chris based himself in Vancouver and paid for his new snowboarding and poutine cravings as a programmer for a lifestyle gaming startup.Chris returns to CBS in 2011 as the Editor of TechRepublic Australia determined to meld together his programming and journalistic tendencies once and for all.In his free time, Chris is often seen yelling at different operating systems for their own unique failures, avoiding the dreaded tech support calls from relatives, and conducting extensive studies of internets — he claims he once read an entire one.


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Like a lot of you, I look back wistfully upon a time when Richard Dawkins was a name to inspire admiration, and not one whose mere mention immediately triggers an "Oh shit, what has he said this time?" response. Over on Twitter, where he's cultivated a reputation for (to put it politely) shooting from the hip and being nearly as reactionary as any Teabagger, his latest gem goes something like this:
A university is not a "safe space". If you need a safe space, leave, go home, hug your teddy & suck your thumb until ready for university.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) October 24, 2015
Hmm, okay. And yet, oddly, in 2013 (*corrected posting date), the Richard Dawkins Foundation website was favorably reporting on this:
'Secular safe zones' offer campus shelter to atheist students
The small sticker on professor Robert Schmidt's office door isn't just a decoration — it's a beacon of safety for students who feel they are being singled out for their lack of religious beliefs.
The blue, green, yellow and pink rectangle signals that Schmidt's office at Utah State University is a "Secular Safe Zone" — a place where students who are atheists, agnostics or just questioning their faith can go for advice about dealing with bullying, discrimination and other forms of aggression.
"Being an ally to 'create safe spaces in which secular students can question, criticize, and discuss topics and issues important to them' feels right to me," Schmidt said from his Logan office, quoting the goals of the Secular Safe Zone program. "All students should feel safe on campus." [Emphasis added.]
Yeah, this is one of those moments best addressed by a Fillion GIF.
Addendum: Sadly, it didn't take me long to find another example of Dawkins being a bit two-faced. I noticed this tweet exchange…
@indented She's already been invited. They are trying to get her disinvited. That is censorship.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) October 24, 2015
…and remembered that, in the wake of Elevatorgate and "Dear Muslima," Dawkins got some personal revenge by demanding Rebecca Watson be disinvited from Reason Rally. #Awkward.


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I knew the homie and Cen-Tex rapper Big Gibz had a new track with Pirscription called "Pass Me The Lighter" that would be the follow up to the highly successful "Body Bags" they did, but I didn't have any expectations for it and didn't know what to expect. Soooo, with that being said…..
I got a new record to add to my playlist
Take that as me saying this shit jams, it's got a laid back beat (S/O to Dat Trill Meskin Gibbie) and the hook (a sample from Gibz verse on Body Bags) combines for perfect riding music.
"Pass Me The Lighter" - Graphics by trojantownstudios.com
Gibz verse is first, he delivers and keeps it all about the subject at hand with a memorable verse followed by Pirscription who has been on point lately and keeps his string of dope verses going. Rasheed delivers maybe the most solid verse of the song, with a unique flow it felt good to hear again.
But then……. an almost akward pause in the song, that loses you in the smokey atmosphere of the moment.
Just when your mind gets to the top of the roller coaster, Juan Gotti from the Dope House fam catches you off guard as the entire track screws itsself slower, to an old school Texas flow pace. With a screwed outro featuring Cyp D Hype from the "80′s Babies", this record is a perfect addition to any smoking mixes, so download it, and before I leave…. could you please PASS ME THE LIGHTER?
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Hello everyone.. well anyone really Haha...
Wowzers I can't believe how long it's been since I was here & actually able to get in.
Well I did get married & yes we are still together & very happy :)
Since the wedding we have been abroad 3 times, Got a new furbaby Ziva the pug.
We also lost our dear furbaby Chelsea,she was 15 yrs old & had a good fun filled life ♥
My husband was adopted as a baby & just a year ago we tracked down his real mum, Brother & sister, All is still good!
We also moved to our brand spanking new build home in February & we love it :D
I've also managed to shift my stopped smoking weight , I've lost 2 & half stones now only got another 1 & half to go!!
I have no idea when I will be getting back into making Templates,Masks Ect... I have been trying to slowly get back into Tagging & have managed to make more this year so far than I did in the last 2 years :o) So I'm getting there slowly......
It's nice to see I still have my followers & I do hope to bring something new, One day!
For now I will just be popping in now & again, Maybe add a few Tag's I have made :o)
Well that's about it really, been lovely to get back in here!
Hugs & Love


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Government seeks public and industry input on value capture
Media Release
16 November 2016
Joint release with:
Angus Taylor
Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation
Using 'value capture' to help deliver more infrastructure is the subject of a discussion paper released today by Minister for Urban Infrastructure Paul Fletcher and Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation Angus Taylor.
New transport infrastructure delivers economic value—for example property prices typically jump near a new rail station. Tapping some of that value to help fund the cost of the infrastructure is an increasingly common technique.
The discussion paper examines the potential to more widely use value capture funding to supplement the billions of dollars each year already spent by all three levels of Australian governments on infrastructure.
It sets out a range of options for the Australian Government to action to stimulate the use of value capture in the development and delivery of infrastructure and describes various potential value capture approaches—including tools already in use by state and local governments.
Minister for Urban Infrastructure Paul Fletcher said the Australian Government was seeking public and industry input on the value capture concept.
"Many states and territories already use value capture funding models to support major upgrades," Mr Fletcher said.
"Similarly, developer charges are commonly used by local government authorities to help deliver utilities for new housing developments.
"If we are to make better use of value capture, governments must first understand why beneficiaries might be willing to pay for projects; identifying who these beneficiaries are and when they might materially gain from projects funded through this method."
Assistant Minister for Cities Angus Taylor said there was a need to find new funding models within the constrained fiscal environment.
"Government is getting smarter about linking transport investment with long term planning for affordable homes, closer to where people work and closer to services like schools and hospitals," Mr Taylor said.
"Through City Deals, we are looking at changing the way we fund infrastructure.
"Encouraging public private partnerships to pay for road and rail corridors where land values will increase, can be a wise way to invest taxpayers' money."
Submissions on the discussion paper will be open until 3 February 2017.
For more information on how to provide a submission, visit https://infrastructure.gov.au/valuecapture


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Amateur prospect Dalton Smith has become the first Sheffield boxer to be selected to be part of the Great Britain Podium Potential squad - hopefully a fast-track towards Olympic stardom.
It means the 17-year-old fighter from Woodhouse, Sheffield, is now publicly funded to help him concentrate solely on his sport and reach the top.
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Tesla drives Sustainability and Technology Metals for a homerun, Uranium goes bull and Gold stocks rock again
InvestorIntelReport Month-in-Review (February 2014): The Rare Earth Leaders Index (FTSE: REEL) closed at 313.83 February 28, 2014 — up +5.97% for the month. InvestorIntel Rare Earths & Technology Metal members up +17.91%, Graphite & Graphene up +13.58% and Cleantech also up +6.67% due to growing support for Environmental Waste International Inc. Comparatively global equities fared well, with both the MSCI world index up +4.81% and the S&P 500 index similarly rising +4.31% for the month of February 2014.
InvestorIntel Gold, Base & Precious Metals members up +20.46% with Carlisle Goldfields and Tinka Resources leading the pack. Uranium & Nuclear Energy +15.10% up as news around nuclear energy plans in Japan and China boost uranium prices for 2014.
Having spent the day at PDAC 2014 yesterday, which is unquestionably the largest resource conference in the world; the buzz on the floor was Tesla Motors. If Tesla shares soaring +619% in the last year and being the fastest growing automotive stock in at least two decades was not enough in itself, Tesla Motors announced last Wednesday in a story by the NY Times "…that it planned to invest about $2 billion in a large-scale factory to produce cheaper batteries for a mass-market electric car within three years." Additional contributions of $3B from unnamed investors injected into the factory by 2020 makes this $5B deal a win-win for all of us involved in the electric car supply chain. This includes all of the graphite, lithium, and critical materials needed for the anticipated demand in Tesla and all of the other electric vehicle roll-out models we anticipate later this year. This makes it a good time for political leaders to join the House of Cards television audience and rally around issues of sustainability and critical materials.
Take Ucore Rare Metals Inc. for instance, who has been leading this charge with significant leadership support from the Alaska Government for their initiatives. Placing their check books firmly on the table towards insuring U.S. sustainability, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority has made steps to back up their commitment by placing under consideration the approval of up to $145 Million in long term bonds to finance Ucore's Bokan-Dotson Ridge Project. Shareholders responded with a round of applause as Ucore's patriotic shareholders saw shares rally with OTCQX: UURAF up +71.26% and TSXV: UCU up +58.18%.
Alessandro Bruno recognizing this anticipated demand for graphite in electric cars at the onset of the week and wrote a story on the demand for materials required in lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Luc Duchesne responded favorably by taking the technologies around batteries future forward with an article titled — Graphene: the emergence of a new type of rechargeable battery. While batteries spiked our social media records this weekend, it was Star Minerals Group Ltd.'s CSE: SUV moving +180.00% this month that I congratulated Jim Engdahl at PDAC for. Cognizant that it is early days for Star Minerals, I must remind you that this was the same management team that literally built 'share fans' for Great Western Minerals Group in the early rare earth movement in 2009.
Started my morning by posting the interview with Simon Britt titled GeoMegA's rare earth separation process and resource update catalyst for shareholder revelry. If you're surprised by the term 'revelry' you may appreciate this more when you learn that Geomega Resources Inc.'s TSXV: GMA was up +117.24%.
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Stans Energy Corp.'s OTCQX: HREEF up +35.96% and TSXV: HRE +27.27% after starting the month with an update on their international arbitration proceedings. Last week they announced Q3 2013 Financial Statements after confirming that they had been granted a special Russian technical export licence both on the 27th of February.
Peak Resources Ltd.'s ASX: PEK was up +39.29% for the month as new Managing Director Darren Townsend increases shareholder confidence and Alessandro makes a compelling case for Peak in his piece Tanzania has one of the highest grade rare earth deposits in the world.
I saw Matamec Explorations Inc.'s team on the floor at PDAC working hard and pressing the flesh with a good crowd at their booth yesterday. It is always with pleasure to see hard work paid off as Matamec's OTCQX: MHREF +28.45% and TSXV: MAT +20.00% moves north yet again with news on their gold project and if you want an update on the compelling advantages of Matamec — check out this story: Matamec to gain from cooperation with Toyota and Quebec's mining strategy.
A lot of growing interest in Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. as TSXV: ZEN moved up +28.42% and OTCQX: ZENYF was up +27.65% due to their hydrothermal graphite being confirmed as 'special and rare'. On our site alone, the article Alessandro Bruno did about the Lakehead University study was the #1 most viewed article of the month.
We all know that Rare Element Resources Ltd. has been a stealth like player in the rare earths sector, and it was nice to see NYSE MKT: REE move up +12.58% and TSX: RES +11.18%. We have Randy Scott in our office on Wednesday morning for an interview so that we can get an update and share it with you.
Hastings Rare Metals Ltd. ASX: HAS moves up +11.11% again as the relatively new Chairman Charles Lew takes the helm of this well known heavy rare company. And then there is Mason Graphite Inc. whose stock continues to move north as TSXV: LLG is up +10.00% and OTCQX: MGPHF is up +8.70% as we receive regular updates on their new investment and associated financing with graphene player NanoXplore.
I would like to tell you that PDAC is a smashing success, but for the first time I can remember, you could still get a hotel room in Toronto the week before the event. One CEO confessed that there was a striking shortage of blue name tags, which indicate that a person is an investor; and that he had more sales people selling him than he had to sell. This said, our winter weather was the catalyst of what several investors from London told me was the reason that they were not attending after the BMO conference in Florida this last week. I asked a few more players what they saw, and many commented on a cautious optimism but said they are following the money, and the one consistent message is that raising capital is still very challenging for a resource exploration play.
Ran into 1 investor that I am aware is involved in overseeing the investment in a good solid 100+ companies and he confirmed that they were redirecting funds into technology and biotech. Rockstar (one of my market sources) and I spoke yesterday and he said the same thing that his team were heavy into tech and biotech – life sciences, animal sciences – and that "everything in the biotech world is going to go up 100%." He went further stating that Biotech and Technology have the money for M&A, and follow the tech deals with big data storage, and related software – in other words, if you do not have your head in the "Cloud" Universe, it is time to do so. I did get him to agree that energy efficiency is good, but he said that Cleantech would not perform as vibrantly as the other techs, although he said he would not bid against Tesla as they were their own force to reckon with. Forecasts of course, are like opinions and seemingly everyone has one, so allow me to remind you that the rising tensions in Ukraine with the Russian military "settling in" as an occupying force in Ukraine will undoubtedly affect markets this week. And we all know what fear does…it drives gold.
Back to the floor at PDAC, and yes, Jack Lifton will be updating us from China this week via video and then he will be in Malaysia next week. If you want to see the numbers from February, the video features from or view the Top 10 most viewed articles on InvestorIntel, log-in to InvestorIntelReport, or click here to become a member.
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