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Thursday, July 8, 2010
A Catfight. Literally.
My mom has a cat named Mr. Darcy, and he is the very spawn of Satan. He only has eyes for my mom and enjoys leaping out from under her kitchen table to punch people with his clawless front paws.
He got mad the other day because I wouldn't let him maul our new pup, Penny, and he popped out from under the kitchen table and went to town on my leg. He must have planned the attack because he used his back paws to slash the bottom of my leg while gnawing elsewhere.
I may have said a bad word or two.
Mr. Darcy got a timeout in the dark bathroom, where he meowed pitifully and hit the door with his pathetic clawless front paws. The girls were told not to go anywhere near him, and I went to attempt to bandage my gimpy leg with 67 band-aids.
I looked super hot at the pool that night.
I like cats a lot. I always had a cat growing up, but when I married T (an avowed cat-hater), my track record went South fast. It was like the cats sent out some sort of Tweet or email that I somehow joined the other team when I married T.
A month after we were married, our landlord's cat scratched me under one eye and the swelling made it look like T had taken a baseball bat to my face. It was so bad that my college advisor pulled me aside to tell me that she volunteered at a local battered women's shelter and did I need to talk? She didn't really buy the whole "I got beat up by a cat" story.
If I get rabies, I hope you will keep reading this blog.
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I'm laughing with you...not at you:)ReplyDelete
This is the funniest thing I've read!!!
lol! Thanks for the laugh this morning... after both kids waking up around 5:30 am, I needed a good one. ;)ReplyDelete
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I love your sense of humor. Hmm, the cats just might be out to get you...I brought an evil cat into the family. I got him in college and then dumped him at my parents house. At the time they had another cat, a pony, a parakeet and a fish. The only surviving pet is Mungo (my evil cat)....there's no evidence except with the parakeet that Mungo had any real direct connection with the unfortuante incidents but you have to wonder...He's old now and my family would be lost without him and he's not all bad he just has a temper...ReplyDelete
As you can see this story is a little too relatable for me:-)
So sorry, cat scratches hurt something awful! I hope he learned his lesson! Feel better soon!ReplyDelete
Oh, I'm so sorry, Amanda! I'm trying not to laugh at the thought of anyone named Mr. Darcy becoming violent! (Tell your Mom I love his name!) I once had a friend's Siameses cat jump up and attach himself to my waist by his claws because I talked baby talk to him...insulting, I guess! lol Hope you heal quickly!...hugs...DebbieReplyDelete
oh, I hope it doesn't hurt too bad! bad Mr. Darcy!! one of my cats once tried to go after my father in law while he was feeding her for us and she almost went out the window-luckily he restrained himself!ReplyDelete
I will definitely keep reading if you get rabies. Wonder what a rabid Amanda would sound like?ReplyDelete
You are so funny! But I'm sorry about your injuries.
Me no likey cats. Kittens, yes; cats, no. They're too much like women.
Oh my goodness, I hate to admit that I'm laughing at this post but I do hope that your wounds heal quickly w/ minimal scaring. I had a cat like Mr. Darcy too who was just an evil little thing, we ended up giving him away to a poor little old lady who needed a companion. I often felt guilty to the unassuming woman & wondered if she's still alive or if the cat finished her off.ReplyDelete
OH, I am so sorry that you were attacked like that. How rude of that kitty? I'm not a fan of cats. I'm a dog lover. Cats look at me like they have my number. Hope you heal quickly and without rabies. You don't want those shots!ReplyDelete
Sorry you got attacked.ReplyDelete
If the cat bit you and broke skin you should go to the doctor for some hard core antibiotics because cats carry worse germs than dogs even if they are up to date on their shots. I know this from my lovely cat freaking out and biting me. It was really more of a tooth scratch but they still wanted me on antibiotics.
Oh my goodness! Megilon is right, at least make sure you cleaned them really, really well (I'm sure you did).ReplyDelete
Our cat is not particularly affectionate and occasionally will attack out of the blue, too. I can usually tell by the look in her eyes that she's fixing to.
Okay, the part about the email/tweet is the funniest thing I've read in a long while. You are too funny!!!ReplyDelete
So sorry about your injuries. Durn cats! I am definitely a dog girl. I've been attacked by too many cats! Hate them!!
Bwahahahaha! Too bad it wasn't Edward. How very naughty of Mr. Darcy.ReplyDelete
I have very severe allergies. Several years ago (the first time we lived in Germany) I was having a really difficult time with them to the point where my eyes were both red and swollen (the left completely swollen shut) and my nose was swollen and raw from all the wiping and blowing (sexy, no?). I was outside walking my dog when an MP (Military Police) saw me and asked me if I needed help. I had no idea what he was talking about as he continued to ask me questions. He finally came out and asked me if my husband was beating me. Nice. I made an appointment with the allergist that week.
Sorry to say it but I am laughing at your pain right now. lol But I have MANY scars from all my years of being around cats. My best friend had a Satan cat as well, and I was the only one out of all of our friends that would attempt to mess with the cat- I wasn't scared of her no claw self! lolReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the laugh and humorous post! Too hilarious!ReplyDelete
OUCH! I had to giggle a little, but that's a nasty cut.ReplyDelete
I'm not buying it Amanda...you are in fact a vampire! You're a newborn but are playing the reverse psychology on us...right Amanda? Um, Bree Tanner!ReplyDelete
If you get rabies, I will totally keep reading your blog. But only if you post a video of you foaming at the mouth.ReplyDelete
I'm with T. I think all cats are the spawn of Satan.
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The tongue is a muscular hydrostat on the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates that manipulates food for mastication. It is the primary organ of taste (gustation), as much of its upper surface is covered in taste buds. The tongue's upper surface is also covered in numerous lingual papillae. It is sensitive and kept moist by saliva, and is richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels. In humans a secondary function of the tongue is phonetic articulation. The tongue also serves as a natural means of cleaning the teeth.[1] The ability to perceive different tastes is not localised in different parts of the tongue, as is widely believed.[2] This error arose because of misinterpretation of some 19th-century research (see tongue map).
The tongue is a muscular structure that forms part of the floor of the oral cavity. The left and right sides of the tongue are separated by the lingual septum. The human tongue is divided into anterior and posterior parts. The anterior part is the visible part situated at the front and makes up roughly two-thirds the length of the tongue. The posterior part is the part closest to the throat, roughly one-third of its length. These parts differ in terms of their embryological development and nerve supply. The two parts of the tongue are divided by the terminal sulcus.[3]:989–990
The anterior tongue is, at its apex, thin and narrow, it is directed forward against the lingual surfaces of the lower incisor teeth. The posterior part is, at its root, directed backward, and connected with the hyoid bone by the hyoglossi and genioglossi muscles and the hyoglossal membrane, with the epiglottis by three folds (glossoepiglottic) of mucous membrane, with the soft palate by the glossopalatine arches, and with the pharynx by the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle and the mucous membrane. It also forms the anterior wall of the oropharynx.
In phonetics and phonology, a distinction is made between the tip of the tongue and the blade (the portion just behind the tip). Sounds made with the tongue tip are said to be apical, while those made with the tongue blade are said to be laminal.
The eight muscles of the human tongue are classified as either intrinsic or extrinsic. The four intrinsic muscles act to change the shape of the tongue, and are not attached to any bone. The four extrinsic muscles act to change the position of the tongue, and are anchored to bone.
Coronal section of tongue, showing intrinsic muscles
Lateral view of the tongue, with extrinsic muscles highlighted.
The extrinsic muscles originate from bone and extend to the tongue. Their main functions are altering the tongue's position allowing for protrusion, retraction, and side-to-side movement.[3]:991
- Genioglossus, which arises from the mandible and protrudes the tongue. It is also known as the "safety muscle" of the tongue since it is the only muscle having the forward action.
- Hyoglossus, which arises from the hyoid bone and depresses the tongue
- Styloglossus, which arises from the styloid process of the temporal bone and elevates and retracts the tongue
- Palatoglossus, which arises from the palatine aponeurosis, and depresses the soft palate, moves the palatoglossal fold towards the midline, and elevates the back of the tongue.
Four paired intrinsic muscles of the tongue originate and insert within the tongue, running along its length. These muscles alter the shape of the tongue by: lengthening and shortening it, curling and uncurling its apex and edges, and flattening and rounding its surface. This provides shape, and helps facilitate speech, swallowing, and eating.[3]:991
- The superior longitudinal muscle runs along the superior surface of the tongue under the mucous membrane, and elevates, assists in retraction of, or deviates the tip of the tongue. It originates near the epiglottis, the hyoid bone, from the median fibrous septum.
- The inferior longitudinal muscle lines the sides of the tongue, and is joined to the styloglossus muscle.
- The vertical muscle is located in the middle of the tongue, and joins the superior and inferior longitudinal muscles.
- The transverse muscle divides the tongue at the middle, and is attached to the mucous membranes that run along the sides.
Blood supply
The tongue receives its blood supply primarily from the lingual artery, a branch of the external carotid artery. The lingual veins, drain into the internal jugular vein. The floor of the mouth also receives its blood supply from the lingual artery.[3]:993–994 There is also a secondary blood supply to the tongue from the tonsillar branch of the facial artery and the ascending pharyngeal artery.
An area in the neck sometimes called Pirogov's triangle is formed by the intermediate tendon of the digastric muscle, the posterior border of the mylohyoid muscle, and the hypoglossal nerve.[4][5] The lingual artery is a good place to stop severe hemorrage from the tongue.
Innervation of the tongue consists of motor fibers, special sensory fibers for taste, and general sensory fibers for sensation.[3]:994–5
- Motor supply for all intrinsic and extrinsic muscles of the tongue is supplied by efferent motor nerve fibers from the hypoglossal nerve (CN XII), with the exception of the palatoglossus. The palatoglossus is innervated by the vagus nerve (CN X).[3]:995
Innervation of taste and sensation is different for the anterior and posterior part of the tongue because they are derived from different embryological structures (pharyngeal arch 1 and pharyngeal arch 3 and 4, respectively).[6]
- Anterior two thirds of tongue (anterior to the vallate papillae):
- Taste: chorda tympani branch of the facial nerve (CN VII) via special visceral afferent fibers
- Sensation: lingual branch of the mandibular division (V3) of the trigeminal nerve (CN V) via general somatic afferent fibers
- Posterior one third of tongue:
- Taste and sensation: glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX) via a mixture of special and general visceral afferent fibers
The tongue is covered with numerous taste buds, and filiform, fungiform, vallate and foliate, lingual papillae.[3]:990
The average length of the human tongue from the oropharynx to the tip is 10cms in length.[7]
The anterior tongue is derived primarily from the first pharyngeal arch. The posterior tongue is derived primarily from the third pharyngeal arch. The second arch however has a substantial contribution during fetal development, but this later atrophies. The fourth arch may also contribute, depending upon how the boundaries of the tongue are defined.
The terminal sulcus, which separates the anterior and posterior tongue, is shaped like a V, with the tip of the V situated posteriorly. At the apex is the foramen caecum, which is the point where the embryological thyroid begins to descend.[3]:990
Chemicals that stimulate taste receptor cells are known as tastants. Once a tastant is dissolved in saliva, it can make contact with the plasma membrane of the gustatory hairs, which are the sites of taste transduction.[8]
The tongue is equipped with many taste buds on its dorsal surface, and each taste bud is equipped with taste receptor cells that can sense particular classes of tastes. Distinct types of taste receptor cells respectively detect substances that are sweet, bitter, salty, sour, spicy, or taste of umami.[9] Umami receptor cells are the least understood and accordingly are the type most intensively under research.[10]
The tongue is also used for crushing food against the hard palate, during mastication. The epithelium on the tongue's upper, or dorsal surface is keratinised. Consequently, the tongue can grind against the hard palate without being itself damaged or irritated.[11]
Clinical relevance
After the gums, the tongue is the second most common soft tissue site for various pathologies in the oral cavity.[medical citation needed] Examples of pathological conditions of the tongue include glossitis (e.g. geographic tongue, median rhomboid glossitis), burning mouth syndrome, oral hairy leukoplakia, oral candidiasis and squamous cell carcinoma.[12] Food debris, desquamated epithelial cells and bacteria often form a visible tongue coating.[13] This coating has been identified as a major contributing factor in bad breath (halitosis),[13] which can be managed by brushing the tongue gently with a toothbrush or using special oral hygiene instruments such as tongue scrapers or mouth brushes.[14]
Medical delivery
The sublingual region underneath the front of the tongue is a location where the oral mucosa is very thin, and underlain by a plexus of veins. This is an ideal location for introducing certain medications to the body. The sublingual route takes advantage of the highly vascular quality of the oral cavity, and allows for the speedy application of medication into the cardiovascular system, bypassing the gastrointestinal tract. This is the only convenient and efficacious route of administration (apart from I.V. administration) of nitroglycerin to a patient suffering chest pain from angina pectoris.
Society and culture
Figures of speech
The tongue can be used as a metonym for language, as in the phrase mother tongue. Many languages[15] have the same word for "tongue" and "language".
A common temporary failure in word retrieval from memory is referred to as the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. The expression tongue in cheek refers to a statement that is not to be taken entirely seriously – something said or done with subtle ironic or sarcastic humour. A tongue twister is a phrase made specifically to be very difficult to pronounce. Aside from being a medical condition, "tongue-tied" means being unable to say what you want to due to confusion or restriction. The phrase "cat got your tongue" refers to when a person is speechless. To "bite one's tongue" is a phrase which describes holding back an opinion to avoid causing offence. A "slip of the tongue" refers to an unintentional utterance, such as a Freudian slip. Speaking in tongues is a common phrase used to describe glossolalia, which is to make smooth, language-resembling sounds that is no true spoken language itself. A deceptive person is said to have a forked tongue, and a smooth-talking person said to have a silver tongue.
Sticking one's tongue out at someone is considered a childish gesture of rudeness and/or defiance in many countries; the act may also have sexual connotations, depending on the way in which it is done. However, in Tibet it is considered a greeting.[16] In 2009, a farmer from Fabriano, Italy was convicted and fined by the country's highest court for sticking his tongue out at a neighbor with whom he had been arguing. Proof of the affront had been captured with a cell phone camera.[17] Blowing a raspberry can also be meant as a gesture of derision.[citation needed]
Body art
Being a cultural custom for long time, tongue piercing and splitting has become quite common in western countries in recent decades, with up to one-fifth of young adults having at least one piece of body art in the tongue.[18]
As food
The tongues of some animals are consumed and sometimes considered delicacies. Hot tongue sandwiches are frequently found on menus in Kosher delicatessens in America. Taco de lengua (lengua being Spanish for tongue) is a taco filled with beef tongue, and is especially popular in Mexican cuisine. As part of Colombian gastronomy, Tongue in Sauce (Lengua en Salsa), is a dish prepared by frying the tongue, adding tomato sauce, onions and salt. Tongue can also be prepared as birria. Pig and beef tongue are consumed in Chinese cuisine. Duck tongues are sometimes employed in Szechuan dishes, while lamb's tongue is occasionally employed in Continental and contemporary American cooking. Fried cod "tongue" is a relatively common part of fish meals in Norway and Newfoundland. In Argentina and Uruguay cow tongue is cooked and served in vinegar (lengua a la vinagreta). In the Czech Republic and Poland, a pork tongue is considered a delicacy, and there are many ways of preparing it. In Eastern Slavic countries, pork and beef tongues are commonly consumed, boiled and garnished with horseradish or jelled; beef tongues fetch a significantly higher price and are considered more of a delicacy. In Alaska, cow tongues are among the more common.
Tongues of seals and whales have been eaten, sometimes in large quantities, by sealers and whalers, and in various times and places have been sold for food on shore.[19]
The word tongue derives from the Old English tunge, which comes from Proto-Germanic *tungōn.[20] It has cognates in other Germanic languages — for example tonge in West Frisian, tong in Dutch/Afrikaans, Zunge in German, tunge in Danish/Norwegian and tunga in Icelandic/Faroese/Swedish. The ue ending of the word seems to be a fourteenth-century attempt to show "proper pronunciation", but it is "neither etymological nor phonetic".[20] Some used the spelling tunge and tonge as late as the sixteenth century.
Other animals
Most vertebrate animals have tongues. In mammals such as dogs and cats, the tongue is often used to clean the fur and body. The tongues of these species have a very rough texture which allows them to remove oils and parasites. A dog's tongue also acts as a heat regulator. As a dog increases its exercise the tongue will increase in size due to greater blood flow. The tongue hangs out of the dog's mouth and the moisture on the tongue will work to cool the bloodflow.[21][22]
Some animals have tongues that are specially adapted for catching prey. For example, chameleons, frogs, and anteaters have prehensile tongues.
Many species of fish have small folds at the base of their mouths that might informally be called tongues, but they lack a muscular structure like the true tongues found in most tetrapods.[23][24]
Other animals may have organs that are analogous to tongues, such as a butterfly's proboscis or a radula on a mollusc, but these are not homologous with the tongues found in vertebrates, and often have little resemblance in function, for example, butterflies do not lick with their proboscides; they suck through them, and the proboscis is not a single organ, but two jaws held together to form a tube.[25]
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See also
- ↑ Maton, Anthea; Hopkins, Jean; McLaughlin, Charles William; Johnson, Susan; Warner, Maryanna Quon; LaHart, David; Wright, Jill D. (1993). Human Biology and Health. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-981176-1.
- ↑ The Taste Map: All Wrong, Scientific American, March 18, 2001.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Drake, Richard L.; Vogl, Wayne; Tibbitts, Adam W.M. Mitchell; illustrations by Richard; Richardson, Paul (2005). Gray's anatomy for students. Philadelphia: Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 978-0-8089-2306-0.
- ↑ Pirogov's triangle
- ↑ Jamrozik, T.; Wender, W. (January 1952). "Topographic anatomy of lingual arterial anastomoses; Pirogov-Belclard's triangle". Folia Morphologica. 3 (1): 51–62. PMID 13010300.
- ↑ PhD, Dr Ronald W. Dudek (2014). BRS Embryology (Sixth ed.). LWW. ISBN 9781451190380.
- ↑ Kerrod, Robin (1997). MacMillan's Encyclopedia of Science. 6. Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 0-02-864558-8.
- ↑ Tortora. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology 12th edition, chapter 17, p.602.
- ↑ Silverhorn. Human Physiology: An integrated approach 5th edition, chapter 10, p.352.
- ↑ Schacter, Daniel L., Daniel Todd. Gilbert, and Daniel M. Wegner. "Sensation and Perception." Psychology. 2nd ed. New York: Worth, 2009. 166. Print.
- ↑ Atkinson. "Anatomy for dental students 4th edition.
- ↑ Lam, L.; Logan, R. M.; Luke, C. (March 2006). "Epidemiological analysis of tongue cancer in South Australia for the 24-year period, 1977-2001". Aust Dent J. 51 (1): 16–22. doi:10.1111/j.1834-7819.2006.tb00395.x. PMID 16669472.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 (editors) Newman MG, Takei HH, Klokkevold PR, Carranza FA (2012). Carranza's clinical periodontology (11th ed.). St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier/Saunders. pp. 84–96. ISBN 978-1-4377-0416-7.
- ↑ Outhouse, TL; Al-Alawi, R; Fedorowicz, Z; Keenan, JV (Apr 19, 2006). "Tongue scraping for treating halitosis". The Cochrane database of systematic reviews (2): CD005519. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD005519.pub2. PMID 16625641.
- ↑ Afrikaans tong; Danish tunge; Albanian gjuha; Armenian lezu (լեզու); Greek glóssa (γλώσσα); Irish teanga; Manx çhengey; Latin and Italian lingua; Catalan llengua; French langue; Portuguese língua; Spanish lengua; Romanian limba; Bulgarian ezik (език); Polish język; Russian yazyk (язык); Czech and Slovak jazyk; Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian jezik; Kurdish ziman (زمان); Persian and Urdu zabān (زبان); Arabic lisān (لسان); Aramaic liššānā (ܠܫܢܐ/לשנא); Hebrew lāšon (לָשׁוֹן); Maltese ilsien; Estonian keel; Finnish kieli; Hungarian nyelv; Azerbaijani and Turkish dil; Kazakh and Khakas til (тіл)
- ↑ Bhuchung K Tsering (27 December 2007). "Tibetan culture in the 21st century". Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ↑ Sticking out your tongue ruled illegal
- ↑ Liran, Levin; Yehuda, Zadik; Tal, Becker (December 2005). "Oral and dental complications of intra-oral piercing". Dent Traumatol. 21 (6): 341–3. doi:10.1111/j.1600-9657.2005.00395.x. PMID 16262620.
- ↑ CHARLES BOARDMAN HAWES. Whaling. Doubleday, 1924
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Online Etymology Dictionary
- ↑ A dog's tongue
- ↑ Krönert, H.; Pleschka, K. (January 1976). "Lingual blood flow and its hypothalamic control in the dog during panting". Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology. 367 (1): 25–31. doi:10.1007/BF00583652. ISSN 0031-6768.
- ↑ Romer, Alfred Sherwood; Parsons, Thomas S. (1977). The Vertebrate Body. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. pp. 298–299. ISBN 0-03-910284-X.
- ↑ Kingsley, John Sterling (1912). Comparative anatomy of vertebrates. P. Blackiston's Son & Co. pp. 217–220. ISBN 1-112-23645-7.
- ↑ Richards, O. W.; Davies, R. G. (1977). Imms' General Textbook of Entomology: Volume 1: Structure, Physiology and Development Volume 2: Classification and Biology. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-412-61390-5.
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Last year, President Obama articulated an ambitious and multifaceted agenda to combat human trafficking in his speech at the Clinton Global Initiative. This week, the Administration took two important steps to advance that agenda.
In 2012, the President charged the Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships with making recommendations for strengthening the partnerships the federal government forms with community organizations, both religious and secular, to prevent and combat trafficking. The Advisory Council delivered its report of recommendations, "Building Partnerships to Eradicate Modern-day Slavery," to the President in April 2012.
In partial fulfillment of those recommendations, we welcomed more than one hundred leaders to the White House this week for a day-long convening focused on human trafficking. The gathering included heads of religious denominations, rabbis and nuns, CEOs of large non-profits such as the United Way and Girl Scouts, foundation leaders, along with human trafficking survivors and experts, all united in their interest to join forces to eradicate modern-day slavery. Participants discussed ways their organizations can work together to raise awareness and educate the public, identify victims, expand services for survivors and eliminate slavery in the goods and products we consume. We look forward to continuing to work with this group in coming days.
Last year, President Obama also called for the establishment of other public-private partnerships that would improve care for survivors of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. On Monday, the White House announced the launch of the Partnership for Freedom, a three-year public-private partnership led by Humanity United, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Partnership for Freedom will sponsor three Innovation Challenges to inspire communities to work together to identify new and sustainable ways to address some of the key challenges facing survivors of modern-day slavery. The first challenge, Reimagine: Opportunity, opened yesterday. Learn more about how to participate at www.partnershipforfreedom.org
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WASHINGTON – John Roberts is heading a Supreme Court in crisis.
The chief justice has already ordered an investigation of the leak this week of a draft opinion suggesting the court could be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case legalizing abortion nationwide. What comes next could further test Roberts' leadership of a court where his vote already appears less crucial in determining the outcome in contentious cases.
"This is a time when the court is under siege, both externally and internally now," said Roanoke College professor Todd Peppers, who writes about the court. "I just don't think the spotlight has ever been brighter on the court in recent history."
Speaking Thursday at a judicial conference in Atlanta, Roberts called the leak "appalling," according to CNN.
Roberts' court was facing challenges even before the leak, which the chief called a "betrayal of the confidences of the Court."Polling has shown a notable decline in the public's approval of the court. And there have been recent calls for term limits for the justices and for increasing the number of justices as well as for a code of ethics, particularly following reports that Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Virginia, implored Donald Trump's White House chief of staff to act to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Confirmation hearings for the court's newest justices have been contentious.
The addition of three conservative justices during Trump's presidency also means there are now five conservative justices to Roberts' right who no longer need his vote, and perhaps his moderating influence, to prevail in a case. The abortion decision could be another example of that, with the court's other conservatives prepared to go further than Roberts.
Roberts, 67, has noted the limits of his position in the past. Asked during a 2018 appearance how it's different to be chief, Roberts responded: "In many ways it's different. In the most important it's not. I have one vote. I participate in the decision-making of the court like any of the associate justices."
Still, there's a reason that the chief is called the "first among equals" and that historians refer to time periods at the court using the chief justice's name: the Marshall Court, the Rehnquist Court, the Roberts Court. The chief is the first to speak when the justices discuss cases at their private conference and guides that discussion. The chief decides who writes the opinion of the court when the chief is in the majority.
Roberts, an appointee of President George W. Bush, has faced other challenging times in his 16 years as chief. He's led the court through contentious cases on gay marriage, on President Barack Obama's health law and on Trump-era policies including building a U.S.-Mexico border wall and the travel ban.
In 2020, Roberts was in the spotlight presiding over Trump's first impeachment trial, though his role was modest. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, he led the court through a period where it decided to postpone arguments for the first time in more than 100 years and then to conduct them by telephone for more than a year and a half.
Early in his tenure, in a speech at Georgetown's law school graduation and elsewhere, Roberts explained his philosophy in guiding the court and his preference for decisions where there could be broad agreement on narrow grounds.
"There are clear benefits to a greater degree of consensus on the court. Unanimity or near unanimity promote clarity and guidance for the lawyers and for the lower courts trying to figure out what the Supreme Court meant," he said in 2006. He added: "The rule of law is strengthened when there's greater coherence and agreement about what the law is."
Artemus Ward, a professor at Northern Illinois University who is one of the editors of a book of scholarly research on chief justices, said Roberts has been "trying to achieve consensus, trying to rule narrowly." But following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal, and her replacement by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, "Roberts' vote is less powerful" because there are five conservative votes even without him, Ward said.
There's been some evidence of the impact of that already.
Before Ginsburg's death, Roberts joined with the court's four liberals to reject a challenge to attendance limits California imposed on religious services because of the coronavirus pandemic. But about a month after Barrett joined the court, the justices ruled 5-4 the other way in a case about similar limits in New York, with Roberts and the liberals in dissent.
In September of last year, the court decided 5-4 not to block a new Texas law banning most abortions in the state. The dissenters were once again Roberts and the three liberal justices.
It was the same lineup in February when the Supreme Court put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections to increase Black voting power. And in April when the court reinstated a Trump-era water rule.
"Roberts Has Lost Control of the Supreme Court," was the title of an article written that month by professor Stephen I. Vladeck of the University of Texas School of Law.
It remains to be seen how divided and how sweeping the court will be in other decisions, including a major gun ruling, that are still to be released before the court breaks for summer.
Unknown too is how closely the final opinion in the abortion case will mirror the leaked draft, which was written by Justice Samuel Alito and distributed to other members of the court in February. Politico reported that Alito had the votes of four other conservatives to overturn Roe v. Wade and a later decision that reaffirmed a constitutional right to abortion services, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The three liberals planned to dissent, Politico said, while Roberts' ultimate vote was unclear.


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Today's campus is more reactionary than the objects of its frequent vituperation.
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online
Employment rates for college graduates are dismal. Aggregate student debt is staggering. But university administrative salaries are soaring. The campus climate of tolerance has utterly disappeared. Only the hard sciences and graduate schools have salvaged American universities' international reputations.
For over two centuries, our superb system of American public and private higher education kept pace with radically changing times and so ensured our prosperity and reinforced democratic pluralism.
But a funny thing has happened on the way to the 21st century. Colleges that were once our most enlightened and tolerant institutions became America's dinosaurs.
Continue reading "The Troubling Plight of the Modern University" →


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What is Four Years With a One Year Cliff?
Four Years with a One Year Cliff is the typical vesting schedule for startup founders' stock.
Under this vesting schedule, founders will vest their shares over a total period of four years. The one year cliff means that the founders will not get vested with regards to any shares until the first anniversary of the founders stock issuance.
Upon the one-year anniversary, the founders will each vest 25% of their total shares. Vesting will usually occur monthly after the cliff expires.
Here's what a "4 Years with a One Year Cliff" vesting schedule looks like in a legal document:
"…25% of the total number of Founder1's Shares shall be released from the Repurchase Option on the one-year anniversary of this Agreement, and an additional 1/48th of the total number of Shares shall be released from the Repurchase Option on the corresponding day of each month thereafter, until all of Founder1's Shares have been released on the fourth anniversary of this Agreement."
The "Repurchase Option" is simply the company's option to repurchase Founder1's unvested shares upon Founder1's departure from the startup company. Also, you should note that vesting schedules trigger other complex issues such as tax, so please don't simply copy the above text and paste it into a stock purchase agreement.


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The Chief Executive of Culture, Paulino Plata, has presented this Tuesday in Seville the planning of the XXIII edition of the "Arte Flamenco" Mont-de-Marsan Festival, that will be held in this french city, from the 4th to the 9th of july, and in which artists like Israel Galván, Rocío Molina, Agujetas, María Pagés, Milagros Mengíbar, o Arcángel will be participating.
In the act, Plata has been accompanied by the Delegate of Culture of "Conseil Général" of Las Landas, Jean-Louis Pedeuboy, and also by the artistic directors of the Festival, François Boidron and Sandrine Rabassa. The Director has pointed out that thank you to Mont-de-Marsan "the Flamenco gets into you, and this for Andalucía is a very important fact, because we want to spread the horizons of the "jondo"art.
The Festival will held between the 4th and the 9th of july and through its stages will pass the first figures of the purest flamenco. That's why, in the Françoise Miterrand space, with a capacity of 2.500 people, we will be able to see María Pagés with her show "Mirada", made to celebrate the 20 years of the dancer and choreographer from Seville.


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We have some group word $w$ in $k$ letters. We say a $k$-tuple of group elements $\vec{g} = (g_1, g_2, \ldots , g_k) \in G^k$ satisfies the word $w$ if $w$ gives the identity at $\vec{g}$. More precisely: The word $w$ is an element of $F_k$, the free group on $k$ letters. The $k$-tuple $\vec{g}$ specifies some homomorphism $\varphi_{ \vec{g} } : F_k \longrightarrow G$ by the universal property. In this notation, $\vec{g}$ satisfies $w$ if $\varphi_{ \vec{g} } (w) = e$.
For a finite group $G$, we are interested in the probability that a random (uniformly chosen) $k$-tuple of group elements satisfies the word $w$. Call this probability $p_w(G)$.
Now consider some family of finite groups, each injecting into the next:
$$ G_0 \hookrightarrow G_1 \hookrightarrow \ldots \hookrightarrow G_n \hookrightarrow \ldots $$
Is it true that $p_w(G_n)$ converges to a limit?
For instance, if the word $w$ is $x_1 x_2 x_1^{-1} x_2^{-1}$, then an easy group-theoretic argument shows that $p_w(G_n)$ decreases monotonically.
For the word $x_1^2$, the sequence need not be monotonic, but seems to converge anyway.
Does anyone know a proof that the limit exists? Or have a counterexample?


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The news-sharing website Digg will be acquired by technology investment firm Betaworks, according to blog posts put out by both companies.
Betaworks paid just US$500,000 for the social media pioneer that once secured $45 million in financial backing, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The companies did not disclose the purchase price.
Betaworks will merge Digg with News.me, a news-sharing app for iOS devices that Betaworks also runs.
"We are turning Digg back into a startup. Low budget, small team, fast cycles," Betaworks said in its blog post.
In January this year, Digg briefly kindled hopes that it would revive from a long slump, boasting of a 35 percent jump in page views. It attributed the jump largely to integration with Facebook's open graph API (application programming interface), which allows users to share on Facebook what they have found through Digg.
Betaworks founder John Borthwick will lead the joint News.me-Digg project when the acquisition is complete. Digg's current CEO, Matt Williams, will become an "entrepreneur in residence" at venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz, a Digg investor.
Cameron Scott covers search, web services and privacy for The IDG News Service. Follow Cameron on Twitter at CScott_IDG.


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Salt of the Earth.
On December 01, 2008, the Confederate B120 Wraith set a new world land speed record. We send our congratulations to the CMC crew and the B120 Wraith for breaking the world land speed record at the histroic Bonneville Salt Flats. The Wraith took a speed of 166.459 in the A-PF 2000cc push rod and unfaired class, shattering the old record of 141 mph.
As a tribute, we are re-running our orignal story as seen in Robb Report MotorCycling, now Ultimate MotorCycling. Enjoy!
The salt plays tricks on your mind—the look of it, the sound of it—crunching beneath your feet like the ice of a vast, frozen lake. You expect it to be cold but it's not. These are the hallowed grounds of speed at the Bonneville Salt Flats in western Utah. For decades men have wheeled machines out onto the salt and pointed them to the distant horizon, intent on testing the limits of their creations—the limits of their dreams.
Breaking the salt-muted silence, the incongruous skirl of a bagpipe greets the first blush of this particular dawn with a rendition of "Amazing Grace." The music becomes an anthem for the congregation of gathering racers, a solemn reminder of all the tears and hopes that have been absorbed by this endless expanse of salt. Like so many ethereal elements out here, the music, at first, seems merely an aural apparition, yet another of this landscape's mirages. But the bagpipes are real. We're not hearing things. (Click image to enlarge)
The drone of the Scottish pipes issues from the edge of the pits. Silhouetted against the breaking dawn, the bagpiper and two flanking men form a trio. Before them—presented as if in offering to the sun of the new day—sits the Confederate Wraith XP-1. The motorcycle, born in the voodoo vortices of New Orleans, is at rest here on the Utah salt. Its carbon-fiber backbone, the most prominent of the contiguous, intersecting design circles that form the flow of this machine, elicits memories of another brethren of speed; the Cyclone boardtrack racer from the high banks of yesteryear.
J.T. Nesbitt (left); and Brian Case (right) with their creation, the XP-1 Wraith. (Click image to enlarge)
The man breathing life into the bagpipes is J.T. Nesbitt, the creator behind the Wraith. Next to him, watching the sun crest the horizon, is Confederate Motor Company founder Matt Chambers, the soles of his shoes already caked with moist salt. Completing the trio is Brian Case, President and CEO of Foraxis, a Pittsburgh-based industrial design firm.
These men have arrived at Bonneville, far from their homes, via an arduous sojourn measured as much in conviction and passion as in miles. They have come not to prove something to the other competitors, not to prove to the clock, but—perhaps more important and exigent of all—they've come to prove something to themselves.
This day represents the culmination of two solid years of work in bringing the Wraith to fruition. To fathom the commitment necessary to bring this motorcycle into the realm of a functioning, innovative platform, consider that Nesbitt took a vow of celibacy in the six months leading up to this moment, in order to focus all his romanticism, all his strength on the task at hand. Case poured countless hours into marrying Nesbitt's artistic hand drawings with the pragmatic realities and demands of computer engineering. The two men collaborated in taking the cerebral, theoretical design concept of the Wraith—a distinct departure from traditional design, built without a single weld—and bringing it into industrial tangibility. The ever-present Chambers presided over the business to allow these determined alchemists their passions and intense follies in the cloisters of the Confederate Motor Company factory. In the process, a production motorcycle has been born. And now they are here. (Click image to enlarge)
Two days of rain arrived before the nomads of speed, leaving the salt wet and slow. A silence has settled over the entire pit area—a contingent comprised of perhaps a hundred two-wheel competitors—as everyone waits for the salt to dry out. Teams try to dissipate the boredom, busying themselves with mechanical tasks to pass the time. They're eager to get onto the salt, to get to speed. They come here, year after year, to experience the seduction and trance of the most unusual of motorized competitions.
To race on the salt is a very private affair. The opponent is the ephemeral invisibility of speed. Racers will tell you about the stimulated silence they experience when making a run, their perception of movement deceived by the endless expanse. For at speed, with eyes focused on the remote mountain range, there is no sensation of drawing closer. The distant peaks stay where they are. When the sun is directly overhead, the shadows are non-existent and a sense of direction evaporates along with the sensation of time.
Finally, after days of waiting, the salt is deemed suitable to run. But the course is not "fast." Everyone is off their pace, robbed of as much as fifteen miles per hour by the wet salt. Out here, the loss of fifteen miles per hour is devastating. (Click image to enlarge)
The Confederate team pushes the Wraith to the staging area. More waiting. Then, at last, their time on the salt is at hand. They roll to the line. Rider Chris Roberts, eyes focused ahead on the famous measured mile, fires the engine. He feathers out the clutch gingerly and the Wraith's wheels begin churning up a light spray of salt as he progresses through the gears, gradually, carefully building momentum. The Salt Flats, though known for speed, reward patience. Top gear, and the Wraith's engine builds rpms.
Nesbitt, Chambers and Case watch their Wraith as it makes its maiden run at Bonneville. This moment embodies two years of dreams, two years of questions. J.T., his face red from the harsh sun, utters, "It's a symphony of sound." Tears streak down his cheeks as he watches the motorcycle pass through the trap at speed, the sonorous V-twin's exhaust note swallowed up and dissipated by the landscape. The three men stare in silence at the diminutive spec as it floats away on a mirage spilling out in the distance.
Their timing in the trap is somewhat inconsequential. Just to be here with their creation is the victory. Given the sluggish conditions of the salt, many of the competitors chose not to run and have packed up and departed. Plagued by the ghosts of engine tuning created by the altitude, Nesbitt, Case, Chambers and Roberts are happy with an initial run of 131 miles per hour. A subtle vindication echoes in the voices of other competitors. They are complaining of tires slipping on the wet salt. Roberts smiles; he and the others know that their Wraith never broke traction. The platform has proven its stability.
Bonneville – the mountains of the moon.
The men of the Confederate Motor Company pack the Wraith into their van, like a wild animal reluctantly returning to the confines of its cage, safe in the knowledge it will be let loose to run again. Across the country, machines will be returned to garages. The salt will fall silent as engines are modified, designs improved, and dreams are forged anew. Men will repair to their homes and conceive new ways to go faster than before. And the salt will be waiting for them.


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For the fifth year running, Grand Hotel Excelsior team members will be organising a Santa's Swim. Colleagues, guests and members of the public are invited to swim in the clear, chilly waters of Marsamxett Harbour or make a splash in the hotel's swimming pool. The event will take place on Saturday 3rd December 2016 and all donations will be in aid of the Malta Community Chest Fund.
As a tradition, the hotel themes its Christmas activities, and the selected concept this year is Beauty and the Beast. On the occasion of this year's Santa's Swim, Beauty and the Beast characters will be joining as Santa's special guests to do a brave dive for charity.
Each swimmer will receive a Santa hat upon registration. We will be serving well-deserved warm drinks and home-made cookies to all participants after the swim. Facilities for showering and changing will be available. A certificate of participation will be presented to all swimmers. Those who are not willing to brave the cold water are still encouraged to come and show their support.
Once again, present and former local Waterpolo players are being invited to participate in an exhibition match. At 9.45am the MCCF representatives will start collecting the donations and registering the participants. The band of the Malta Police Force will bring joy with live Christmas music and will be welcoming the participants at the Grand Hotel Excelsior lobby at 10am. This activity is being endorsed by the Malta Community Chest Fund and H.E President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is expected to attend.
The American Autoclub MALTA will be supporting the event by organising a static show in the Yacht Club area. Each participant is kindly asked to make a donation of €10 upon registration in aid of the Malta Community Chest Fund. Those participating will also be in the chance of winning a Dining Voucher for Two. T&C Apply. Participants are encouraged to register for this charity event by contacting the Grand Hotel Excelsior Christmas Desk on 21250520 or email email@example.com


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U. S. Custom House, Monterey, records, [1847-1865?]
Ubero Plantation, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico [graphic].
UC Berkeley athletics and a life in basketball : oral history transcript : coaching collegiate and Olympic champions, managing teaching, and consulting in the NBA, 1935-1995 / 1997.
UC Berkeley's Cowell Hospital Residence Program : oral history transcript : key administrators and California Department of Rehabilitation counselors / 2000.
U.C. Pup hot dog stand advertising postcards, Berkeley, Calif. [graphic].
UCB album 1911-1914.
Ulrich, Albert [Photographs from the Albert Ulrich papers].
[Uncle Sam hat and placard used in San Francisco Peace Parade] [graphic].
Uncle's mining advice letters : Boston, [Mass.] to Fred : ALS, 1903.
Unemployed Cooperative Relief Council of California records, 1932-1933.
Unidentified German diary.
Unidentified tintype portraits [graphic].
Union Club of the City of Oakland records, 1877-1905 (bulk 1877-1878).
Union Construction Co. photographs of ship construction [graphic].
Union League Club photograph album [graphic].
The union movement, the California Labor School, and San Francisco politics, 1926-1988 : oral history transcript / 1993.
Union Oil Company tanker collision near Cliff House, San Francisco, Calif. [graphic]
Union Passenger Terminal, Paramount Studios and downtown Los Angeles photographs [graphic}.
The Union Vedette and the Sweetwater mines : notes of an interview ... with Adam Aulbach at Murray, Idaho : ms.S, 1931.
United Ancient Order of Druids, Guadalupe Grove, No. 100 records, 1894-1955
United California Industries 1916 campaign [graphic] : [Anti-prohibition ephemera].
United Church of Christ. Northern California Nevada Conference. Photographs from the United Church of Christ, Northern California Nevada Conference records [graphic].
United Church of Christ, Northern California Nevada Conference records, 1851-1960.
United Hebrew Benevolent Association constitution and by-laws, 1885.
United Railroads of San Francisco records of payments, 1909.
United Shipyard Workers, San Francisco ephemera, 1977.
United States 32nd Congress Senators and Representatives of states and territories, 1852.
United States 4th Cavalry in the Mojave Desert, the Sierra Nevada, and stationed in Yosemite Valley [graphic]
United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Records concerning the military service of John Van Deusen Du Bois and Joseph Heger : and related papers, 1851-1949, (bulk 1851-1857).
United States, Army, 18th Engineer Railway records, 1917-1975 (bulk 1917-1920).
United States Army, California Battalion of Mounted Riflemen muster rolls, 1846-1847.
United States Army, California Battalion of Mounted Riflemen muster rolls, 1846-1890.
United States. Army. Correspondence, reports, and memoranda concerning Forts Laramie and Kearny, 1842-1876 : Washington, D.C., 1885.
United States Army, Dept. of Texas orders, special orders, etc. : ms., 1848-1855.
United States. Army. New Mexico. Correspondence regarding Indian affairs in New Mexico, 1848-1887.
United States Army on the Mexican border, 1915-1916 [graphic]
United States. Army. Papers relating to Fort Bridger, 1865-1875.
United States. Army. Reports relating to the U.S. Army's military expeditions against the Indians of the Pit River area, California, 1850-1861.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Papago Agency. Records, 1912-1946.
United States, Bureau of Indian Affairs records, 1851 Aug. 9 - Nov. 19.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Records of the Colorado River Indian Agency : Arizona, 1879- 1914.
United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) Records in case of John Sullivan v. José Orena et. al. : DS, 1855.
United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) Records in the case of Francis E. Parker v. Thomas Day et. al. : DS, 1865.
United States, Commission for Ascertaining and Settling Private Land Claims in California maps.
United States currency collection, 1776-1876 (bulk 1862-1867).
United States, Custom House, San Francisco records, 1848-1901.
United States, Custom House, San Francisco records, 1849-1912.
United States. Department of Justice. Records relating to the Mussel Slough affair, 1880-1881.
United States. Department of the Treasury. Office of the Secretary. Letter to the president Andrew Johnson : Washington, D.C. : LS, 1868 Aug. 17.
United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Records in the case of the United States v. John Banfield : DS, 1853.
United States District Court, Northern District, California sales books : Vols. 1 and 2, 1851 June 17-1887 November 4.
United States. Farm Security Administration. Office of the District Engineer, San Francisco. Papers relating to the Yaqui Indian housing project of Guadalupe, Arizona, [ca. 1943]
United States. Farm Security Administration. Photographs of migrant camps [graphic]
United States Forest Service in the Sierra Nevada photo album.
United States. General Land Office. Records of private land claims in Arizona and New Mexico, 1877-1915.
United States. General Land Office. Records relating to Suscol Rancho cases, [ca. 1863-1886]
United States General Land Office reports by California Deputy Surveyors concerning establishment of Mount Diablo : San Bernardino and Humboldt Base Lines and Meridians in 1851-1853.
United States General Land Office selected material from field records in Colorado and New Mexico, circa 1865-1890.
[United States Geological Survey in California and Nevada photograph albums].
United States historical records and documents : ms., 1681-1919.
United States, Internal Revenue Service receipts for special tax on the business of wholesale liquor dealer F. Frapolli & Co., 1906-1916.
United States investors in Mexico (Jimulco Mine (Coahuila, Mex.)?)
United States military along the Mexican-American border during the Mexican Revolution photograph album [graphic].
United States military invasion of Veracruz, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution postcard collection [graphic].
United States, Mint, San Francisco records, 1850-1879.
United States National Housing Agency records, 1943-1945.
The United States of America, plaintiffs, vs. George T. Davis and Lee Gim Keong, defendants : no. 32648 : reporter's transcript : typescripts, 1950 Dec. 4-21.
United States Office of Indian Affairs, Navaho Agency field records, 1880-1905.
United States, Office of Indian Affairs, St. Louis Superintendency Field records, 1807-1855.
United States. Office of Internal Revenue. District of Nevada. Records of monthly reports for revenue stamps for taxes on beer, spirits, tobacco : ms.S, 1876-1883.
United States Office of Internal Revenue, Utah District, assessment lists, 1863-1872.
United States Office of Internal Revenue, Utah District, field records, 1862-1878.
United States. Patent Office. Letters patent granted to Clark D. Page : DS, 1879 Sept. 23.
United States Philippine Commission report : Manila : typescript (carbon), 1900 Nov.
United States propaganda posters of the First and Second World Wars from the Elsa S. McGinn papers [graphic].
United States, Quartermaster's Dept. correspondence, 1848-1857.
United States. War Department. Correspondence, reports and related papers re establishement of Fort Weller in California, 1858-1859.
United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.) Records from the Coordinator of Statistical Projects, Works Progress Administration, 1935-1937.
United Way of the Bay Area records, [ca. 1917-1972]
University of California at Berkeley campus and students [graphic]
University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering, professor and dean; UCSC chancellor; universitywide chair of the Academic Council and vice president, Educational Outreach, 1952-2003 : oral history transcript / 2003.
University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Geography records, 1913, [undated].
[University of California, Berkeley photographic views].
University of California, Berkeley. School of Librarianship. Papers for a class in advanced bibliography , 1950.
University of California, Berkeley views [graphic].
University of California Department of Mining and Metallurgy student reports, circa 1902-1914.
University of California lands, finances and investment : oral history transcript / and related material, 1966-1967.
University of California loyalty oath controversy material, 1949-1952.
University of California Merced oral history collection, 1987-2001 (bulk 1997-2001)
The University of California Office of the President and its constituencies, 1983-1995 : oral history transcript. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, 2002.
University of California (System). Academic Senate. Northern Section. Papers relating to Lincoln Steffens as a student at the University of California, 1886-1888.
University of California's Cowell Hospital Residence Program for physically disabled students, 1962-1975 : oral history transcript : catalyst for Berkeley's independent living movement / 2000.
University of Oregon cruise [graphic] : [to Alaska, visiting points in British Columbia and Washington State]
The University, the community, and the lifeblood of business : oral history transcript / and related material, 1967-1968.
The University's Class of 1912, Investment Banking, and the Shurtleff Family History : oral history transcript / and related material, 1981-1982.
The University's Role in Housing Service : oral history transcript / and related material, 1966-1970.
The Unknown internment : oral history transcripts & tapes, 1985-1987.
Unpublished biography of John Colter : and related materials, 1926-1936.
Upton Sinclair collection of letters, 1932-1957.
[Uribe y Girón photographs of Guatemala City].
Ursula Griswold Bingham motion picture collection [motion picture]
Ursula Griswold Bingham pictorial collection [graphic].
[U.S. Army 4th Cavalry in Hawaii photograph album].
[U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph album of Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System].
U.S. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) minutes for sessions held at Los Angeles, 1857 Sept. 6-1859 Mar.
U.S. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) rule book, 1855-1911 (bulk 1870-1911).
U.S. District Court records relating to land cases ; DS, 1856-1905.
The U.S. Forest Service: research, state forestry and FAO : oral history transcript / and related material, 1963-1975.
U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories photographs of Yellowstone [graphic]
U.S. Mint gold receipts : San Francisco, Calif. : holographs, [185-?].
U.S. Navy blimp and two views of Oakland's Lake Merritt [graphic].
U.S. Service Induction Center, Geary St., SF, 1940s.
Ushin, Stefan N. Diaries and notes, 1874-1895.
Using applied geology to discover large copper and gold mines in Arizona, Chile, and Peru : oral history transcript / 1999.
Utah biographies, 1935-1940.
Utah, Board of Trade records : DS, 1879-1884 (bulk 1879 Mar. 8-May 2)
Utah miscellany, 1837-1953.
Utah miscellany, 1880.
Utah questionnaires, 1936-1939.
Utah questionnaires, 1937-1939.
Utah sketches : ms., 1880.
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One of the areas where Windows 7 noticeably improves things as opposed to Windows XP (and Vista) is the visual customization. But what if, instead of the default widgets, you want to try something else. Let's say a third party software that is focused on managing desktop gadgets, skins and even themes. Rainmeter is the perfect example for such a demand and its latest version 2.1 proves one more time its detailed and comprehensive approach towards dektop customization.
Rainmeter comes with a variety of handy applets that can provide useful information such as weather, RSS feeds, calendar, e-mail, news, notes, clock, and much more. Moreover, you can view stats of your computer components such as CPU usage, download and upload speed, hard-drive condition, RAM usage and much more. With version 2.1 comes also the option to control your audio player directly from the Now Playing tool which can be activated and located on any Rainmeter layer. It support any player including the popular AIMP, Foobar2000, iTunes, MediaMonkey, MusicBee, Winamp, VLC Media Player, or Windows Media Player.
Rainmeter comes with a default theme called "Illusto" and optionally, three other different (recommended) theme suites, "Enigma", "Gnometer" and "APB". All list themes are gorgeous and highly customizable. However, for those who aren't crazy about these themes, there is a wide variety of themes around the Internet thanks to the enthusiastic community of fans. Features also vary from theme to theme but they can be reconfigured in many ways, as each individual module can be dragged and dropped anywhere wherever you want on the screen.
If you're using Rainmeter for the first time, you should install the Recommended themes: Enigma, Gnometer and APB. To change between these themes, right click Rainmeter's system tray icon and go to themes. In there, you should see all the installed themes. To add, remove or configure a gadget of your current theme, right-click on the Rainmeter skin and from there, you can change the skin, edit skin parameters, change skin position, add other widgets (such as clock, disk, feeds, network, weather, Facebook, Twitter, etc) and much more.
Pluses: Free; open-source skins; enthusiastic community; highly customizable;
Drawbacks / flaws: Quite hard to understand and configure. You'll have to spend some time reading the documentation if you want to use this program at full power.
In conclusion: Rainmeter is a highly customizable desktop platform that allows you to add and drag around sidebar gadgets that can offer you all the information that you need: feeds, tweets, Facebook, calendar, mail, network, notes, system and much more.
version reviewed: 2.1
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Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gagdgets, or dashboard widgets for the Mac. Rainmeter skins provide you with useful information at a glance. It's easy to keep an eyeRead more
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Grilled Vegetable Couscous
3 cups sliced zucchini
1 pound asparagus, trimmed
1 small red onion, cut into 1/2-inch thick slices
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 red bell pepper
Salt and black pepper to taste
1 cup of uncooked couscous
1 tablespoon minced lemon zest
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cups halved cherry or grape tomatoes
½ cup chopped fresh parsley
¼ cup chopped scallions
3 oz. feta cheese, crumbled
Preheat the grill to 350°F. Brush the grill plate with oil. In a large bowl, toss zucchini, asparagus, and onion with 2 tablespoons olive oil; season with salt and pepper.
Halve the bell pepper, removing the seeds and membrane. Grill vegetables (including bell pepper), until charred, 5-6 minutes. Chop bell pepper, zucchini, asparagus, and onions into bite sized pieces.
Cook couscous according to package directions adding the lemon zest; set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the lemon juice and 2 tablespoons oil. Add couscous, grilled vegetables, tomatoes, parsley, and scallions; season with salt and pepper. Top with feta cheese and serve.
yield: 9-10 servings
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How to Easily Fix 'Can't Install WhatsApp' on Sharp Aquos S3 High Edition
No doubt, WhatsApp is king when it comes to instant message application most smartphone like Sharp Aquos S3 High Edition users use in this mobile age that we are now. Far from just giving users that best experience they deserve while chatting with their family and friends using. New features are being rolled out to make the app even more amazing to use like voice/video call or group video call. So far, this has made app grown to over two billion monthly active users.
Usually, essential application like WhatsApp comes preinstalled on new Android smartphones like Sharp Aquos S3 High Edition along with other apps like Facebook etc except for devices that were announce WhatsApp won't be rolling out update for.
If for any reason it starts malfunctioning (which rarely occurs) or was not added after a factory reset or firmware flashing then, you will need to get it back.
There are three ways to download and install WhatsApp on your Sharp Aquos S3 High Edition:
1. Before you consider doing anything else to get your WhatsApp fully installed on your Sharp Aquos S3 High Edition you need first of all logon to your Google account on Google Play Store. Next, type "WhatsApp" without double quote in the search bar to pop up list of related apps. Most times the application you are looking for will be among the first three displayed. Simply click install and wait few seconds or minutes for download and installation of WhatsApp to be successful.
2. This option is when you tried installing directly from Google Play Store and it isn't working (because of your version of Google Play Services). Search for WhatsApp using a browser and download it from a secured website directly from your Sharp Aquos S3 High Edition. After that, you will have to allow unknown source installation before installing the app.
3. Finally, you get the app installed by asking a friend who have the version of WhatsApp that works on your Sharp Aquos S3 High Edition to send via Bluetooth.
After trying the above methods to get WhatsApp installed on your Sharp Aquos S3 High Edition and it wasn't successful. Then, you might want to consider doing a hard or soft reset or follow our guide on how to flash Sharp Aquos S3 High Edition back to its factory state when you purchased it during which all the apps were functioning correctly.
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How will you contact your family and friends during an emergency?
Here are a few easy steps to start your emergency communication plan:
Here are a few easy steps to start your emergency communication plan:
- Understand how to receive emergency alerts and warnings. Make sure all household members are able to get alerts about an emergency from local officials. Check with your local emergency management agency to see what is available in your area, and learn more about alerts.
- Discuss family / household plans for disasters that may affect your area and plan where to go. Plan together in advance so that everyone in the household understands where to go during a different type of disaster like a hurricane, tornado, or wildfire.
- Collect information. Create a paper copy of the contact information for your family that includes:
- phone (work, cell, office)
- social media
- medical facilities, doctors, service providers
- school
- Identify information and pick an emergency meeting place.Things to consider:
- Decide on safe, familiar places where your family can go for protection or to reunite.
- Make sure these locations are accessible for household members with disabilities or access and functional needs.
- If you have pets or service animals, think about animal-friendly locations.
- Examples of meeting places:
- In your neighborhood: A mailbox at the end of the driveway, or a neighbor's house
- Outside of your neighborhood: library, community center, place of worship, or family friend's home
- Outside of your town or city: home of a relative or family friend. Make sure everyone knows the address of the meeting place and discuss ways you would get there
- Share information. Make sure everyone carries a copy in his or her backpack, purse, or wallet. You should also post a copy in a central location in your home, such as your refrigerator or family bulletin board.
- Practice your plan. Have regular household meetings to review your emergency plans, communication plans and meeting place after a disaster, and then practice, just like you would a fire drill.


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Sleeves can be divided into three major types: Shrink sleeves, wrap-around sleeves, and stretch sleeves. Each individual sleeve type offers its own unique features and applications.
Offering full product decoration of bottles, containers, canisters, and more, shrink sleeves have successfully gained a footing over the last 30 years. With the sleeve, you can decorate the product with 360° graphics, you may form the sleeve so it fits very different and also very complex shapes, and you may even offer a tamper-evident solution to the overall packaging.
Wrap-around sleeves offer high-speed application for very large product series. Overall, it is safe to say that sleeve application is a valid alternative to traditional wet-glue or pressure sensitive labels. Today, the sleeve market makes up app. 15% of the global label market.
The primary sleeve materials are PVC, PET-G, PP, PLA, OPS, and PE for shrink, wrap-around, and stretch sleeves. Performance and price are the common denominators for these materials. The increase in oil prices is driving up the cost of polymers. Therefore, there is a large pressure on development of thin films, co-extruded films, and other films with innovative functions.
The Nilpeter presses are developed for multiple substrates. Our presses administer advanced tension controls, as well as web temperature management. These two challenges are the predominant factors to be mastered in order to achieve successful high-speed sleeve printing. Nilpeter delivers machines for sleeve printing based on offset technology, UV-flexo technology, water-based flexo technology, solvent-based flexo technology, gravure technology, as well as digital InkJet technology. Combined with various value-adding enhancements, our sleeve solutions are the broadest and most competitive in the market for high quality sleeves. Learn more about the multi-substrate flexo presses, the FA-4* and the FA-6*.
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I consider you a friend, Douglas. Together, we have shared many adventures, from waiting in line for the Star Wars: Episode I premiere to meeting Mark "Dukat" Alaimo at ComiCon 2001. Your friendship is as valuable to me as my Michael York-autographed DVD of Logan's Run.
But when it comes to reasoned, thoughtful, and informed discussions on the Green Lantern continuum and its place within the larger DC universe, I hold friends to the same high standard I would strangers or anyone else.
So long as you insist on clinging to your, quite frankly, bizarre opinions on the Emerald Knight's 60-plus-year history, it is not worth my time to engage you in purposeless noisemaking. Rather than become agitated, as I've allowed you to make me in the past, I will simply serve notice that I will not entertain any future Green Lantern discussions with you until you have come to a more mature place in your development as a fan. When you are ready to have a serious conversation about Green Lantern, you have my e-mail address.
I can forgive your unwillingness to recognize that Hal Jordan is, and forever shall be, the greatest Green Lantern of all time. After all, though I can never hope to understand it, the world is peppered with otherwise intelligent persons who inexplicably lack the sense to see Hal's towering superiority. But Kyle Rayner? This way lies madness, Douglas. At the very least, name John Stewart as your favorite. Or Guy Gardner. Or any of the countless Silver Age Lanterns. Heck, even Abin Sur is more interesting than Kyle. When he enlisted Kyle, Ganthet himself merely said, "You'll do." Is that your idea of a ringing endorsement?
I mean, if you are hot for Jade or something, you could simply say so, and no one would think the less of you for it. But don't couch your opinions in a false respect for Phase III Green Lantern that supersedes any enjoyment of the Silver Age. You might as well read Aquaman if you're going to act like that.
In particular, I am baffled by your insistence that being "more powerful" makes Kyle a better Lantern. Are superheroes always superior when they're invincible? If Superman was better when he was able to move entire solar systems, why, then, was John Byrne enlisted to reinvent him as a more vulnerable character who can get injured by his foes and even killed? Because to hear you tell it, Douglas, Superman was "ruined" by the '80s revamp, long before the ridiculous electrical version.
By your twisted logic, Green Lantern's ongoing "Ion" story arc ought never end. Instead, Kyle should simply retain his infallible godlike powers forever, enshrined in comics history as the most powerful (and, therefore, best) superhero of all time.
But this is hardly the only belief of yours with which I take extreme umbrage. I find particularly laughable your naïve conviction that Hal's vulnerability to the color yellow damages the comic's storyline rather than adding excitement. Are you intentionally trying to miss the point with comments like, "You would just have to shoot him with a yellow bullet"? Jumping fish hooks, how many times do I have to explain: NO, he can't use the actual BEAM to stop such a bullet, but he can GRASP solid things with it to use as a shield! And this is just one example! Think creatively, Douglas, or at least consult the Silver Age issues.
And don't drag me into that same stale argument of yours that Sinestro would beat Hal every time if they fought in real life. For some strange reason, you continue to insist on defining fighting skill in terms of brute strength. Don't you see that in a power-ring duel, strategy and reflexes are of the essence? Only an emotional child could spend hours arguing that Sinestro is a better fighter than Hal Jordan, in the face of my lengthy, point-by-point rebuttals. Oh, and, by the way, Superman must also suck, because you'd just have to shoot him with a Kryptonite bullet, right?
Perhaps I am overstating my case. It is not the actual idea of Kyle Rayner to which I am so opposed. But in the hands of a writer like Judd Winick, why does DC even bother printing it? I'm not even going to get into his contempt and utter disregard for the sanctity of the established Green Lantern continuity; I'd only be rehashing my comments already made public on the dccomics.com message board. For purposes of this discussion, I will focus strictly on Issue #137. Did Mr. Winick say to himself, "Yeah, Hal Jordan may be the savior of Sector 2814, but it's not like he ever befriended a gay teenager. Now, that's a superhero!" Who on this planet has ever said to themselves, "Say, I wonder whether gay people are actually okay folks just like you and me. I sure wish Green Lantern would weigh in on the matter"? Somebody needs to tell Winick that homosexuality is not a hot-button issue, but that #137 is most definitely a lame one!
And may I remind you that you would not even be a Green Lantern fan had I not lent you my "Superman: Last Son Of Earth" Elseworlds two-parter, which, incidentally, was returned to me seven weeks later with an ugly brown smudge on the lower-right of page 37 of Part One? Oh, and then there's your allegation that the concept of the Green Lantern Corps is "ripped off" from Doc Smith's Lensman novels. I'm not even going to dignify that charge with a response.
I don't want this temporary madness on your part to jeopardize our friendship, Douglas. Now, after all, is a critical time for GL fandom. The runaway success of Lord Of The Rings makes a Lantern movie a genuine possibility, given the heightened general interest in movies about rings that possess great power. But while such a prospect is exciting, it will take a unified fan base to bring about the kind of feature film Green Lantern has so richly deserved for so long. Together, the world's GL fans can make their voices heard and help create what could and should be the greatest superhero film of all time. As long as it's based on the Silver Age comics. And Tim Burton isn't involved.
In conclusion, Douglas, I want to make it clear: You are still my friend. And I do not hate you. Though, frankly, deep down, I find myself pitying you.
It is ridiculous to let our friendship falter because of a juvenile disagreement about a comic book. I therefore await your e-mail of capitulation, as soon as you see fit to send it.
Oh, and I want my Legends Of The Superheroes bootleg back by Friday.
Larry Groznic is a noted fan-community luminary and sought-after expert on the topics of British television, spy-fi memorabilia, cosplay, RPG adventuring, and limited-edition collectible maquettes. He lives in Cedar Rapids, IA, and is single.


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Puello chooses not to talk about Biogenisis link
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Mets prospect Cesar Puello declined comment on an ESPN report connecting him to a South Florida clinic that has been linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
"All the questions are going to the Players Association," Puello said Wednesday. "I'm here to play baseball, and we can talk about baseball."
When pressed, Puello said, "I got to go work," and walked away.
An ESPN "Outside the Lines" report Tuesday evening linked Puello, Astros (and former Mets) outfielder Fernando Martinez, Padres shortstop Everth Cabrera, A's reliever Jordan Norberto and Padres reliever Fautino De Los Santos to Biogenesis, the clinic reportedly connected to stars such as Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun and Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz.
Sources told ESPN that the new names were on a list that appeared to identify players who received drugs.
Major League Baseball is currently investigating the clinic, and the Mets deferred to the league in a statement Tuesday evening.
"Because of the ongoing investigation, we have no comment," the team wrote. "We refer all questions to Major League Baseball."
Puello, ranked the 14th-best Mets prospect by MLB.com, is coming off a disappointing 2012 season that saw him miss nearly two months with a broken left hamate bone and a hamstring injury. The outfielder finished with a .260 average, four home runs and 19 steals in 227 at-bats at Class A St. Lucie.


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Carrie Fisher's life is a perfect storm of funny. Not many folks are privileged enough to have Bob Dylan show up at one of their cocktail parties wearing a parka and sunglasses. Even fewer are capable of coming up with the perfect zinger for the occasion: "Thank God you wore that, Bob, because sometimes late at night here the sun gets really, really bright, then it snows." Fisher's big, beautiful brain is the perfect filter for a life too trippy and surreal for fiction.
I like to think that in every soul-shattering trauma lies an amusing anecdote. Fisher's life beautifully illustrates my theory: she's capable of wringing the breeziest of laughs from the most horrifying of experiences. Her delightful new memoir Wishful Drinking delves deep into the seldom-explored lighter side of alcoholism, parental abandonment, drug addiction, manic-depression, and what used to be called "electro-shock therapy" but now is known by the more sensitive term, "frying yer brain up but good to chase away them demons and spooks and brain-bogeymen and whatnot". Oh, and waking up one morning next to a dead gay Republican. And marrying a gay man. Yes, Fisher has learned to laugh long and hard at unspeakable traumas: madness, death, divorce and most harrowing of all, the dialogue of George Lucas.
Fisher has lived to tell the tale, and what a tale it is. Fisher was born in the white-hot epicenter of fame, the progeny of Singing In The Rain superstar Debbie Reynolds and Jewish crooner Eddie Fisher, who the lady-author lovingly depicts as a neglectful, perpetually pot-addled gold-digger and shameless media whore. Seriously. Fisher accomplishes the formidable feat of crafting thumbnail satirical sketches of George Lucas, ex-husband Paul Simon and her dear old dad that are unsparing yet strangely affectionate. Fisher's chapter on Star Wars for example, begins,
"Forty-three years ago George Lucas ruined my life. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. And now, seventy-two years later, people are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to bee that big of a hit.
Yes, of course I knew. We all knew. The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression—and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expression for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.
Not only was he virtually expressionless in those days, but he hardly talked at all. His only two directions to the three of us in the first film were "faster" and "more intense."
Incidentally I like to think that if anyone is ever crazy enough to let me direct a movie my only two directions will be, "More gay!" and "Less gay!" What more really needs to be said? In Fisher's telling, Lucas comes off as a sort of emotionally retarded idiot-savant, an overgrown boy genius utterly devoid of social skills yet blessed with a fierce conviction that there is no underwear in outer space. Hence Princess Leia's fabled bralessness.
Fisher grew up with a bifurcated perception of Reynolds as both her mom and as a magical creature of show business, a genially insane glamourpuss with only a vague conception of how human beings are supposed to behave. For example Reynolds was so terrified by Fisher's youthful experimentation with hallucinogens that she had Cary Grant, who famously dabbled with LSD for psychoanalytic reasons, call Fisher, who he had never met, and deliver a stern lecture to her on the dangers of LSD.
Fisher possesses both the kind of surreal experiences no one else has and the ability to distill those peculiar events into the perfect anecdote. In the case of the Grant story, Fisher transforms that bizarre conversation into a free-floating, digressive tangent that touches upon receiving an unexpected, Reynolds-engineered call from Ava Gardner, making a Wizard Of Oz-themed film with Chevy Chase, Eve Arden and a small army little people and her fame-crazed dad strolling up to Grant at Grace Kelly's funeral and blurting out "something along the lines of, 'My daughter Carrie is addicted to acid, and I'm very worried about her. Would you mind maybe having a talk with her?" Blam! Cue second concerned phone conversation with Grant about Fisher's non-existent LSD addiction.
Life has given Fisher an embarrassment of riches to write about as well as a rich treasure trove of embarrassments, most, if not all, inflicted upon her by her well-meaning but extravagantly clueless parents. Despite Fisher's Hollywood pedigree and strange history as masturbatory fodder for multiple generations of hairy-palmed sci-fi geeks I saw a lot of myself in her. I suspect anyone who has ever wrestled with the black dog will feel the same way.
Wishful Drinking began as a one-woman show. It doesn't always transcend its roots. It sometimes feels less like a proper book or memoir than a generous collection of kick-ass cocktail party anecdotes. At worst, Fisher's tendency to reduce the world to an endless procession of one-liners feels glib and cheap and some of her zingers are redolent of quip-happy hacks for hire like Bruce Villanch. It's neat that Fisher is able to glean such goofy, self-deprecating humor out of her battles with mental illness but there's something to be said for letting trauma ache and bleed a little.
At one hundred and fifty-six photo-heavy, text-light pages, the punningly/terribly titled Wishful Drinking is over not long after it begins. But its breeziness proves much of its charm. Fisher is terrific company, even if she inevitably leaves us hungry for more.
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Hi guys, we have Torquere Press and it's anthology Snowed In (the MM one, not to be confused with the FF Snowed In anthology by Torquere 😉 ) we have a great excerpt and a fantastic giveaway so enjoy the post and click that giveaway link <3 ~Pixie~
Snowed In
Lynn Townsend, Jessica Chase, Kassandra Lea, Leigh Ellwood, Logan Zachary, Tray Ellis, Emjay Haze, L.J. Hamlin
Snowed In is a wintery blend of frost, snow, and romance from eight of Torquere Press' M/M authors.
Winter storms are dangerous, and in Celibate Cold by Lynn Townsend, Topher finds himself stranded in one when his car slides into a ditch. Alone and scared, he tries to walk home in the blizzard but ends up at Chase's house, desperately in need of help.
Can an accident on Luke and Tom's annual hike lead to them becoming more than good friends? Find out in Jessica Chase's Falling for Love!
In This Winter's Night by Kassandra Lea, Barry is devastated when he realizes he spends more time talking to his horses than his boyfriend—but that's about change.
These snow angels have a devilish side! Huey and Tommy think their neighbor Marshall would be a naughty, fun addition to their snow day in Snow Angels by Leigh Ellwood.
In Snow Job by Logan Zachary, winter doesn't always come with a chill—sometimes it's smokin' hot! For Lance and Leo, snowbound and icicles are about to take on whole new meanings.
Beau and Leon are two strangers on a chairlift. When Leon—the "experienced" skier—laughs at himself, Beau looks at him in a whole new light in Taking the Fall Line by Tray Ellis.
In Snowy Reunion by Emjay Haze, Steven wonders if he even has a boyfriend since Jonathan walked out after their last argument. But Jonathan surprises Steven during a ski trip and it just might save their relationship.
Seeking the elusive Yeti is Joel's passion, but he finds more than he bargained for in Adventures of a Yeti Hunter by L.J. Hamlin.
Celibate Cold by Lynn Townsend
Chase squinted. Of course it wasn't a yeti, he thought. But the creature who was stumbling in his direction was covered in snow from the thighs down and his coat was thick with ice crystals. He had a hat crammed low down over his ears, but no gloves, and his sleeves were crusted with more snow. He'd probably fallen a few times, to judge by the smears of white down his front.
By the time Chase had identified the intruder as being nothing more than a man, his visitor was nearly to the porch. The man's teeth were chattering so hard that he couldn't seem to force intelligible words out. Chase caught a few mumbled syllables.
"Well, you look like three miles of bad road," Chase said. He helped the man up the stairs and then impartially started brushing snow off his back, not really paying attention to where his hands were until the man startled when Chase's hands came down on his ass, smacking snow away.
The stranger whirled, his brown eyes wide.
Chase held his hands out to his sides, harmless. "No point in trackin' that all in m'house, man, and you look a bit chilled to do it yourself."
The man nodded, stomped off his feet as best he could, which wasn't very well. Chase sighed. The guy was wearing fucking Oxfords, for Christ's sweet sake. He'd be lucky if he had any toes left at all. Fool.
"Sex," the man said.
"What?" Chase had to have misheard that. He stuck a finger—snow covered, and cold—into his ear as if to clear it out. Or wind up his brain. "What did you say?"
"Six. Six miles of bad road."
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