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Match Facts
May 24-28, 2013
Start time 11am (1000GMT)
The Big Picture
At Lord's, as the threat of Graeme Swann and the left-armers' footmarks hung above an unusually slow and turning pitch, New Zealand imploded like a science experiment gone wrong against the swing and seam of Stuart Broad and James Anderson. With Daniel Vettori ruled out of the second Test, Brendon McCullum will now have to trust in pace at Headingley, one of the most capricious grounds in England. Even he's not sure how it will pan out.
Vettori's lack of fitness after six weeks on the sidelines at the IPL is perhaps unsurprising but, having elected not to call up Jeetan Patel, in the country and bowling fruitfully for Warwickshire, after Bruce Martin's injury, New Zealand will field a four-man fast-bowling attack of Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Neil Wagner and Doug Bracewell, with Kane Williamson's offspin for backup. When asked whether Headingley was as good a place as any to be without a frontline spinner, McCullum shrugged and said "I don't know". Perhaps he was more concerned about the batting, after a second sub-100 kneecapping of 2013, but given Wagner's assertion on Wednesday that McCullum would have Vettori to fall back on as he combines batting and wicketkeeping with the captaincy, his lack of conviction may have been reflective of a greater loss.
Vettori would have become New Zealand's most-capped Test player had he been involved but they will have to do without his great reservoir of experience - not to mention his great beard - as they seek a first Test win in England since 1999 that would help them square the series. For England, there is the chance to build up some irresistible momentum ahead of the Ashes, as well as seal the series.
For three drawn Tests in New Zealand, followed by three close-fought days at Lord's, there was little to tell between the two teams but, having punched a hole, England will now hope the dam bursts. Headingley has borne witness to some of the more inglorious moments of their recent history - Darren Pattinson's selection, Kevin Pietersen's unravelling - but, with Joe Root batting like a young Len Hutton, they will hope Yorkshire turns out in force to oversee another ecky thumping. The local bean-counters will certainly have their fingers crossed.
Form guide
(Most recent first)
England WDDDD New Zealand LDDDL
Watch out for
Stuart Broad has generally struggled to string together telling contributions with the ball in Tests - only during the 2009 Ashes has he taken five-wicket hauls in consecutive matches - but as he tore through New Zealand for 7 for 44 at Lord's, there was genuine hope that he can sustain his golden groove. Last year, he took eight wickets at Headingley against South Africa, and he has the opportunity to prey on a psychologically fragile New Zealand line-up again.
Despite a stunning 171 on Test debut, Hamish Rutherford's returns since then have been more in keeping with the struggles of his recent predecessors at opener. He got two good deliveries at Lord's, which can happen batting against the new ball, and the form of his partner, Peter Fulton, is arguably of greater concern for New Zealand, but 88 runs at an average of 14.66 since England first encountered him suggests they have done their homework.
Team news
An unchanged squad is likely to result in an unchanged XI, given the way England usually go about their selection business. Steven Finn is still searching for rhythm, but cleaned up New Zealand's tail in the first innings at Lord's to prove that pace is its own virtue, though he could still lose his place to Tim Bresnan, whose local knowledge gives him an edge.
England (probable) 1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2 Nick Compton, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Ian Bell, 5 Joe Root, 6 Jonny Bairstow, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 James Anderson, 11 Steven Finn
Vettori was not deemed fit to last five days, so New Zealand have had a four-man pace attack effectively foisted on them. England controversially dropped Graeme Swann and tried the tactic against South Africa last year, only for Pietersen to be their second-most successful bowler, meaning Williamson could be in for some extended spells. Martin Guptill will replace BJ Watling and stiffen the batting, with McCullum taking the gloves and dropping a place in the order.
New Zealand (probable) 1 Peter Fulton, 2 Hamish Rutherford, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Dean Brownlie, 6 Martin Guptill, 7 Brendon McCullum (capt & wk), 8 Tim Southee, 9 Doug Bracewell, 10 Neil Wagner, 11 Trent Boult
Pitch and conditions
Despite being bowled out for 96 in their opening innings of the county season, Yorkshire have generally piled on the runs at home, with Root and Jonny Bairstow providing the bulk of their 677 for 7 declared against Derbyshire at the start of May. Although it could be on the slow side, when the clouds roll over the pitch can still do strange things - and there are showers forecast for Friday.
Stats and trivia
England's last win at Headingley came against West Indies in 2007. Since then they have lost two and drawn one.
Stuart Broad needs nine wickets to reach 200 in Tests; three will take him past Jim Laker to become England's 15th-most successful bowler.
Three wickets or more at Headingley will see James Anderson pass Fred Trueman's tally of 307 Test wickets on the Yorkshireman's home ground.
Peter Fulton has made 34 runs in five innings on tour so far.
"Over the last couple of years there have been some high-scoring games here and it's quite similar to Lord's. If it's sunny it can be a nice pitch to bat on and we will have to work hard in every session."
England captain Alastair Cook hopes to stay on the right side of Headingley
"Dan, Mike Hesson and I spoke about how Dan was feeling and he wasn't quite confident he'd be able to get through five days."
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Why are the U.S. based investors attracted to the debt in Canada? This is primarily because the consumers in Canada have a reputation of paying off the entire bill amount each month, which is usually not the case with the American consumer. The average payment rate per month for the Canadian consumer was recorded at 47 percent in the third quarter of the year. The average payment rate for the American consumer, on the other hand, was 29 percent only (as reported by Fitch Ratings).
Issuing securities preferable over selling bonds
For fixed-income investors, credit-card balance backed bonds are highly attractive because they are reliable as far as the stream of cash-flow is concerned. This means that issuing securities is usually less expensive than selling off corporate bonds for borrowers.
Also, there has been a steady growth in the market with sales reaching 29.9 billion dollars this year. They are expected to touch $40 billion by 2017, reports JPMorgan Chase & Co. Some of the Canadian banks which are playing a significant role in boosting these figures include the Toronto-Dominion Bank and the Bank of Nova Scotia.
The banks in Canada selling ABS credit card could pick up around ten to fifteen basis points with regards to savings in the American market (asset-swapped basis, approximate pricing 78 to 80 basis points).
Exercise caution even with credit-card backed securities
To make things clear, securities backed by credit cards are not secured by collateral and are only profitable if the customers keep making the payments consistently. Also, even the prudent Canadians have had a history of being in high debts which have even surpassed the gross domestic product of the country. However, even if Canadians end up with higher mortgages, there isn't any evidence that it is has affected or will affect their credit-card bill paying capacity.


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No time for anything new, unfortunately. But I have a lot of old stuff kicking around: here, I've recycled text from my undergrad thesis on ichthyosaurs. I hope you get something out of it. Ichthyosaurs are famous for preserving impressions of soft tissue; these are preserved as black, carbonaceous films, and are known for specimens that come from Solnhofen and Holzmaden in Germany, from Barrow-upon-Soar in England, and from the Wapiti Lake area of British Columbia. Martill (1993) reviewed occurrences of ichthyosaur soft tissue preservation, citing records from the Hettangian, Sinemurian, Toarcian, Callovian and Tithonian of England and Germany [Stenopterygius quadriscissus from Holzmaden shown here].
It remains controversial how these impressions formed. The conventional view is that they are a carbonaceous residue of the animal's skin (McGowan 1991) but Martill (1987) argued that in at least some specimens these body outlines were composed of autolithified mats of prokaryotes and were often modified by preparators to create sharper outlines. Keller (1992) challenged Martill's hypothesis and argued instead that soft tissues were substituted by dense microbial mats and then repaced by calcium phosphate: body outlines were not faked, and Martill's autolithified microorganisms were merely secondary, possibly of recent or subfossil origin (Keller 1992). These opinions are not, it would seem, mutually incompatible and probably both are correct in respective circumstances [note that a similar debate has surrounded fossil feathers: see Vinther et al. 2008].
Ichthyosaurs are often assumed to have had a large, dolphin-like dorsal fin but the evidence for this has been questioned (Martill 1987). Consequently some artists have been advised to exclude them from life restorations (see John Martin's illustrations in Martill (1991), text-fig. 10.4, reproduced below). A large, triangular dorsal fin – the first to be reported – on a Holzmaden ichthyosaur was interpreted by Martill (1987) as a prokaryote-replaced flap of skin torn from the carcass during decomposition, with later examples of dorsal fins being fakes constructed to conform with this outline. Martill (1987) suggested that ichthyosaurs used their small hindfins, rather than a dorsal fin, to prevent roll, and intimated that this may explain why ichthyosaurs retained hindfins throughout their history. Chinese Triassic ichthyosaurs with soft tissues have since indicated that dorsal fin were perhaps present as early as the Triassic* (e.g., Motani et al. 1996), there are too many Jurassic specimens with dorsal fins for them all to be faked, and Martill later changed his mind in any case: in Martill (1993) he stated 'I have little doubt that the dorsal fin and the dorsal lobe of the caudal fin of ichthyosaurs from Holzmaden are genuine features' (p. 85). Faking or embellishment of ichthyosaur soft tissue outlines by preparators is still a problem in some cases though, and it has also afflicted the shape of ichthyosaur tails (McGowan 1990a, 1990b, Riess 1986).
* Since I wrote that text, strange things have happened to the specimen concerned. Motani (2005) reported that 'the [soft tissue] outline was reported to be clear when the specimen was first examined in the early 1990s, but it was less conspicuous by 1995 when it was studied for the 1996 publication, and it was not possible to detect the outline with naked eyes in 1998 when the specimen was examined again' (p. 403).
As noted above, ichthyosaurs retained hindfins throughout their history. This is in contrast to cetaceans which had almost certainly lost external hindlimbs by the Oligocene at the very latest. It is hard to propose an explanation for this difference but presumably it relates to different modes of swimming. Riess (1986) extended his views on ichthyosaur forefins to hindfins and restored them as hydrofoils in some taxa but as simple stabilizers in others (Riess argued that ichthyosaur fins were used like wings in some taxa and that these ichthyosaurs were underwater fliers: for a discussion of this see Did ichthyosaurs fly? on ver 1). As they were comparatively large in some Triassic ichthyosaurs it is probable that they were important in manoeuvring.
Ichthyosaur skin fibres
In recent years, the big deal about ichthyosaur soft tissues has been that fibre-like structures are preserved within the dermis (Lingham-Soliar 1999, 2001) [adjacent image, from Lingham-Soliar (2001), shows skin fibres as preserved in a Stenopterygius. Inset shows close-up of the fibres present between the two arrows. Scale bar = 10 cm]. These have been compared to the fibre-like structures that are also present on some theropod fossils (notably Sinosauropteryx), the implication being that these comparisons exclude the possibility that theropod fibres formed an external, 'fuzzy' integument as is generally thought (Lingham-Soliar 2003). The idea that ichthyosaur and theropod fibres are somehow alike has proved popular among those who argue that theropods cannot be the ancestors of birds (Feduccia et al. 2005).
I am convinced that these comparisons are completely erroneous and misleading. In ichthyosaurs the fibres can be seen to either overlay bone or clearly be deep within the skin (viz, medial to the external skin surface) (Lingham-Soliar 1999, 2001, pers. obs.). Furthermore, most ichthyosaur skin fibres look nothing like the structures seen on the theropods: the only ones that do are arranged in an orthogonal meshwork and are preserved as overlapping layers that, again, were clearly embedded within the dermis of the ichthyosaur (Lingham-Soliar 1999, 2001) [reconstruction of skin fibres as they were arranged in a live ichthyosaur shown here, from Lingham-Soliar (2001)]. The structures in theropods were clearly external to the dermis, and look the same as the fibre-like structures present in taxa that have indisputable vaned feathers (pers. obs.). Structurally the fibre meshworks of ichthyosaurs were interpreted by Lingham-Soliar & Reif (1998) and Lingham-Soliar (1999, 2001) as analogues of the cross-fibre arrays seen in sirenian, cetacean and shark skin. Such cross-fibre arrays appear to assist in keeping the skin of these swimming animals strong, flexible and smooth (and, incidentally, it would be bizarre to expect such skin fibre meshworks to be present in terrestrial vertebrates like dinosaurs).
For more on the structures in theropods, see Feathers and filaments of non-avian dinosaurs, part I.
Thunniform tails
Because quite a lot (comparatively speaking) is known about the shape of the ichthyosaur tail, many speculations have been made about tail function. Thunniform (= tuna-shaped) ichthyosaurs (all of which belong to the clade Parvipelvia: for help with the cladogram go here) are conventionally interpreted as having used their reversed heterocercal tails to generate a down-thrust that compensated for natural buoyancy (McGowan 1973). Taylor (1987) stated that ichthyosaurs were not necessarily lighter than water however (a number of aquatic tetrapods are not) and that, by analogy with reinterpretation of the heterocercal shark tail (Thomson 1976, Thomson and Simanek 1977), proposed that the propulsive force from the tail may have been upwards. McGowan (1992) also compared new models of shark locomotion with those proposed for ichthyosaurs but argued that ichthyosaur bone density appeared to be low, thereby suggesting that they were positively buoyant after all (McGowan 1991, 1992). Bone density is correspondingly low in odontocete cetaceans (Felts 1966).
Shark tails vary considerably in morphology, complexity and behaviour (McGowan 1992) and it has proven difficult to model them in the laboratory. McGowan (1992) emphasised that shark and ichthyosaur tails are not strictly analogous: ichthyosaurs have a larger unsupported lobe than do sharks, ichthyosaur tails are more steeply-angled than those of sharks, and ichthyosaur tail support is bone whereas shark support is cartilage. Cetaceans and scombroids should be seen as better analogues, though there remain discrepancies. Because cetaceans have lungs, unlike scombroids and sharks, they are more like ichthyosaurs in having a variable buoyancy. Scombroids recall ichthyosaurs in having vertical tails that, unlike those of cetaceans, are internally supported by bone. Very high aspect ratios in some scombroids (up to 7 in Thunnus) are unlike those of both cetaceans (5 in Lagenorhynchus [sensu lato: the conventional version of Lagenorhynchus is polyphyletic]) or ichthyosaurs (3.7 in Ichthyosaurus) (Alexander 1989). An extreme is presented by a ratio of 10.26 in sailfish Istiophorus (Fierstine & Walters 1968, McGowan 1992). Motani (2002) showed how extant cruising swimmers (tunas, lamnid sharks and dolphins) correlate tightly with respect to cruising speed, the proportional size of the trailing edge of the caudal fin, and the oscillation speed of the trailing edge of the caudal fin [correlations shown in graphs below, from Motani (2002)]. When he added data from thunniform ichthyosaurs, they also correlated tightly with extant pelagic cruisers. One interesting consequence of this correlation is the inference that thunniform ichthyosaurs had elevated metabolic rates, given that all of their extant analogues do (Motani 2005). Incidentally, did thunniform ichthyosaurs sleep, given that pelagic scombroids and lamnid sharks apparently don't?
The large forelimbs of ichthyosaurs did not streamline into the body. This contrasts with scombroids, where the fins fold back into depressions or slots and thereby present a smooth external surface (Carey et al. 1971), but this cannot used as an argument against scombroid-style axial swimming in ichthyosaurs as the thunniform lamnid sharks do not fold their fins back into the body surface either.
Ichthyosaurs did not evolve a thunniform morphology directly from their terrestrial ancestors of course as the most basal ichthyosaurs were narrow, elongate animals with very high vertebral counts. Later ichthyosaurs modified this plesiomorphic long vertebral column by evolving antero-posteriorly shortened, discoidal vertebrae and deep, fusiform bodies (Motani et al. 1996). On plots of fineness ratio against caudal fin H/L ratio, Chaohusaurus (a grippidian ichthyopterygian) groups with scyliorhinid sharks while parvipelvian ichthyosaurs such as Stenopterygius group with lamnid sharks (Motani et al. 1996). Scyliorhinids and related groups are relatively sedentary, benthic sharks and may provide ecological analogues for ichthyosaurs like the chaohusaurs.
For previous Tet Zoo articles on ichthyosaurs see Did ichthyosaurs fly?, Life in the Oxford Clay sea, and Ichthyosaur wars and marvellous mixosaurs on Tet Zoo ver 1. One day I'll do the story of Alvin vs the swordfish (yes yes, swordfish aren't tetrapods. But it'll be discussed in an article on the swordfish-like eurhinosaurian ichthyosaurs).
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Carey, F. G., Teal, J. M., Kanwisher, J. W., Lawson, K. D. & Beckett, J. S. 1971. Warm-bodied fish. American Zoologist 11, 137-145.
Feduccia. A., Lingham-Soliar, T. & Hinchliffe, J. R. 2005. Do feathered dinosaurs exist? Testing the hypothesis on neontological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Morphology 266, 125-166.
Felts, W. J. L. 1966. Some functional and structural characteristics of cetacean flippers and flukes. In Norris, K. S. (ed) Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. University of California Press (Berkeley & Los Angeles), pp. 255-276.
Fierstine, H. L. & Walters, V. 1968. Studies in locomotion and anatomt of scombroid fishes. Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 6, 1-31.
Keller, T. 1992. 'Weichteil-Erhaltung' bei grossen Vertebraten (Ichthyosauriern) des Posidonienschiefers Holzmadens (Oberer Lias, Mesozoikum S�ddeutschlands). Kaupia 1, 23-62.
Lingham-Soliar, T. 1999. Rare soft-tissue preservation showing fibrous structures in an ichthyosaur from the Lower Lias (Jurassic) of England. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266, 2367-2373.
– . 2001. The ichthyosaur integument: skin fibers, a means for a strong, flexible and smooth skin. Lethaia 34, 287-302.
– . 2003. Evolution of birds: ichthyosaur integumental fibers conform to dromaeosaur protofeathers. Naturwissenschaften 90, 428-432.
– . & Reif, W.-E. 1998. Taphonomic evidence for fast tuna-like swimming in Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Pal�ontologie, Abhandlungen 207, 171-183.
Martill, D. M. 1987. Prokaryote mats replacing soft tissues in Mesozoic marine reptiles. Modern Geology 11, 265-269.
– . 1991. Marine reptiles. In Martill, D. M. & Hudon, J. D. (eds) Fossils of the Oxford Clay. The Palaeontological Association (London), pp. 226-243.
– . 1993. Soupy substrates: a medium for the exceptional preservation of ichthyosaurs of the Posidonia Shale (Lower Jurassic) of Germany. Kaupia 2, 77-97.
McGowan, C. 1973. Differential growth in three ichthyosaurs: Ichthyosaurus communis, I. breviceps, and Stenopterygius quadriscissus (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria). Life Sciences Contribution Royal Ontario Museum 93, 1-21.
– . 1990. Problematic ichthyosaurs from southwest England: a question of authenticity. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10, 72-79.
– . 1990. Computed tomography reveals that Eurhinosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) does have a tailbend. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 27, 1541-1545.
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– . 1992. The ichthyosaurian tail: sharks do not provide an appropriate analogue. Palaeontology 35, 555-570.
Motani, R. 2002. Scaling effects in caudal fin propulsion and the speed of ichthyosaurs. Nature 415, 309-312.
– . 2005. Evolution of fish-shaped reptiles (Reptilia: Ichthyopterygia) in their physical environments and constraints. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 33, 395-420.
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Riess, J. 1986. Locomotion, biophysics of swimming and phylogeny of the ichthyosaurs. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 192, 93-155.
Taylor, M. A. 1987. A reinterpretation of ichthyosaur swimming and buoyancy. Palaeontology 30, 531-535.
Thomson, K. S. 1976. On the heterocercal tail in sharks. Paleobiology 2, 19-38.
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Problems with creating new nations drive market for private island living, reveals Prive Island Estates Analysis
Aventura, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/30/2014 -- Many people dream of having a country all their own, and some go ahead and declare a patch of the Earth to belong to them alone - and under their own laws. This, of course, causes big problems with the larger government that lays claim to the land or outpost, though in rare cases, it will come to pass that the founder of a micronation is indeed granted sovereignty. Even then, there are many logistical issues. With no larger nation to call itself part of, a micronation is on its own for defense as well as all of the creature comforts that are normally provided by municipalities.
"Issues like these are likely the main reason that more people don't take the micronation route," said Michael Neumann of Prive Island Estates. "Instead, they go for the next best thing: a private island. These islands are isolated from the main country and can have a feeling of being in an entirely different nation, but come with no legal troubles. They can also have all of the amenities of modern life."
The term "private island" conjures up images of an island owned by a single person, or at most, one family. In reality, they can take many forms. One form does follow the traditional image, and the amenities on this sort of private island can range from none all the way to the maximum. The main determinant, it turns out, is usually the distance from the island to the mainland. When the island is close enough, it's possible to bring in phone lines, cable TV, and electricity. If it's way out in the middle of the ocean, nothing is going to be getting there besides what fits on the owner's personal boat.
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TREASON IN PARADISE: Commodore Frank Bainimarama and Fiji's 2006 Coup: The Inside Story
The Qarase government wanted to sack Bainimarama and replace him with recently dismissed Police Commissioner Iowane Naivalurua; Fijileaks told Bainimarama wants new Police COMPOL as "pay back" against former colleague for accepting army chief job offer
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5/10/2013 12:29:04 pm
Vinaka Victor! My boss Frank Lamusona hurriedly returned and threatened to kill Lieutenant Colonel Meli Saubulinayau, who also stood to takeover the army leadership.
7/10/2013 04:52:10 am
Right on Bodyguard. Col Mel had to turn done the post of Commander because the other senior officers told Meli that they would not support him. In doing this these bastards committed treason.
6/10/2013 04:01:02 am
I have no new stories. So repeating the old ones
Frank's Bodyguard
6/10/2013 04:53:39 am
Victor, this is the first time we at the barracks have seen a copy of the letter from Vosanibola - so what are you talking about - when you say no new story but repeating the old?
6/10/2013 02:22:51 pm
Fiji armies been the culprits and have f fiji up .We need to disband the armies .army is the biggest terrorist in Fiji.
6/10/2013 11:07:46 pm
Victor has published this story before
old news
6/10/2013 11:29:02 pm
Qarase and the SDL tried to play off the President against Commander of RFMF after they failed to play off the officers in the RFMF against Commander RFMF.
7/10/2013 12:54:22 am
How enlightening to read the then Vice President Madraiwiwi's communication with regards to Bainimarama's appointment.
7/10/2013 11:06:39 pm
Iloilo never made any decesions or wrote any letters.
Repeat Again
7/10/2013 02:39:55 am
Victor has written some very thought provoking opinion pieces in Fijian newspapers for thirty years, and also revealed a lot on C4/5 etc. I suggest if he could be persuaded to reproduce many of his pieces on Fijileaks to remind ourselves and the people of Fiji what has been happening to their coutnry. Fiji SUn has removed all of Victor's columns from its archives, and unsurprisingly so! So, go, Victor, REPRODUCE things here, to remind us and the crooks in the regime of what needs reminding, even if it means REPEATING.
Caiti Victor
8/10/2013 04:04:46 am
Repeat Again how about you go and reproduce sexually with Victor La.
Fijileaks Editor
8/10/2013 10:38:33 am
Caiti Victor
Boci Leaders
9/10/2013 06:38:41 pm
Lets make sure that indecisive leaders who fiddled while Fiji was about to be burned by Frank never reach leadership ever again.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ty Lawson scored 27 points, Wilson Chandler had 20 and the Denver Nuggets defeated the short-handed Sacramento Kings 125-117 on Sunday night.
It was the second consecutive victory for the Nuggets, who went ahead late in the third quarter and never trailed again. Denver was coming off a 109-96 home win Saturday night over Indiana, which has the best record in the NBA.
The Kings, who have dropped three straight and five of six, played their second straight game without leading scorers DeMarcus Cousins (ankle sprain) and Rudy Gay (Achilles strain). The two combine for nearly 43 points per game.
Chandler scored seven points in the fourth quarter and Kenneth Faried finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Nuggets.
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The Southern California Section of the PGA of America created the Southern California PGA Foundation to develop and administer junior golf programs as well as an increasingly wide array of other community services throughout the Section. The Southern California PGA Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization and operates as a public foundation. With a geographic area that stretches from San Luis Obispo to the Tijuana Border, from the Pacific Ocean to the Nevada and Arizona borders, the Southern California PGA Foundation brings PGA Professionals and programs to the Southern California community in ways previously unrealized.
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Ethical Dilemmas in Organ Donation and Transplantation
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Furniture Detective: Don't be led astray by ambiguous antique furniture terms
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Multiple desktops were originally added to Apple's desktop operating system in 2009, with the release of OS X 10.5 "Leopard" — but a surprising number of users are still surprised to find the feature exists at all.
Apple calls them "spaces" and they allow you to better organize your workspace 5 Mac Apps That Create Unified Workspaces From All Your Apps 5 Mac Apps That Create Unified Workspaces From All Your Apps If you struggle to manage tasks your Mac, check out these all-in-one workspace apps that combine all your web and desktop apps. Read More , reduce distractions, and focus more clearly on the task in hand. It's time to stop minimizing, maximizing, and juggling windows and take control of your precious screen space!
Why Do I Need More Desktops?
Imagine for a second you were to buy a second monitor Finally Get Two Functional Desktops With Actual Multiple Monitors Finally Get Two Functional Desktops With Actual Multiple Monitors Once you have tried working with a dual monitor setup, you'll never go back. While two monitors give you double the workspace and boost productivity, I found the setup is never perfect. In the end,... Read More for your MacBook — on plugging it in you would have two desktops, allowing you to position windows and work from both in unison. That's exactly how multiple desktops work in OS X, except you don't need another monitor in order to take advantage.
You can only ever see or use one of these desktops at once (provided you only have one monitor), but the feature still provides an excellent organisational aid that can help you stay focused by hiding distractions and reducing the need to move windows around constantly.
Rather than opting to set up multiple work and home accounts on my MacBook Pro, I use spaces to keep work and play separate. I have one desktop dedicated to two Google Chrome windows, side-by-side for editing, writing and researching. I have another for my personal Safari browsing session, along with Messages and Mail open at all times. Evernote and Apple's Calendar app is reserved for a separate space. I also keep one dedicated to software like Photoshop, Audacity and TextWrangler. And not to forget entertainment — my last desktop is for music in the form of Rdio and iTunes.
You can have as many as 16 desktops at any one time (which is probably excessive) and you can use them however you like.
Spaces & Mission Control
Apple's multiple desktop feature can be found within OS X's Mission Control screen, accessed either by pressing F3 or using a three-finger upward swipe. You will also find Mission Control in the Applications folder, and you can pin it to the dock Everything You Need to Know about Your Mac's Dock Everything You Need to Know about Your Mac's Dock It's the primary way many users interact with Mac OS X, but a lot of people still don't know some of the most basic and useful things the dock is capable of. Read More or search Spotlight for it Search More Efficiently In Mac OS X With Our Top Spotlight Tips Search More Efficiently In Mac OS X With Our Top Spotlight Tips Spotlight has been a killer Mac feature for years, with Cupertino regularly schooling Redmond in the art of desktop search. Here are a few tips to help you find more on your Mac. Read More if that's your thing.
To add a new desktop you can hover your mouse in the top-right corner, or hold the Option key to reveal it straight away. When you click this button you will see another desktop is added to the list, and clicking on it will take you straight to it.
In addition to clicking on them in Mission Control, you can navigate between desktops using three-finger horizontal swipes on a trackpad or control+arrow keys on a keyboard.
You can move applications from one desktop to another either by launching Mission Control and dragging them to the space of your choosing or you can grab the window by its title bar and drag it to the edge of the screen. After a brief pause OS X will skip to the next desktop, if it exists.
You can reorder desktops — simply click and drag them. To delete a desktop, hold the Option key and click on the "X" that appears and any applications or windows will be moved to another desktop, rather than closed or lost.
Advanced Tips
There are a few more handy tips that can make navigating and using applications with multiple desktops even easier.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Head to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts to find several shortcuts you can enable for quickly switching to a designated desktop. By default these take the form of Control+Number key depending on the desktop you want to quickly access, though you can change the shortcut if you like.
Assign Apps to Specific Desktops
It's possible to assign applications to specific desktops, so they can always be found in the same place. To assign an app to a desktop first create the desktop (if you haven't already) and navigate to it. Open your application of choice, and two finger click or control+click its icon in the dock. Under Options select Assign to This Desktop and in future the application will always open in the currently selected space.
Assign Wallpapers to Each Space
Once you've created a new desktop, you can use the standard System Preferences > Desktop & Screensaver menu to pick a wallpaper. The wallpaper you choose will remain the same, even if you reorder your desktops.
Speed Up Mission Control Animations
Do you use Mission Control a lot to organise your desktop as you open more apps? Save precious milliseconds by adjusting the time it takes Mission Control to appear by defining how long the animation should run for. Open a Terminal window (either search in Spotlight or find it under Utilities in the Applications folder) and paste the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.05; killall Dock
You can change this number to whatever you feel like, a larger number introduces more delay so if 0.05 feels a bit sudden, feel free to increase this to 0.15 or higher. In order to restore defaults, simply paste the following into the command line:
defaults delete com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration; killall Dock
It's also possible to customise the OS X dock with hidden Terminal commands 10 Hidden Terminal Commands for Customizing the Mac Dock 10 Hidden Terminal Commands for Customizing the Mac Dock From simple tweaks like adding hidden stacks for recent items, to only displaying the currently open applications – there's a lot you can do to customize your Mac's dock. Read More .
Mission Control, Quick Look & Dashboard
If you have a lot of windows on one screen it can be difficult to see what's what. If you highlight a window with your mouse and press spacebar, Mission Control will zoom in and provide you with a better view.
If you would like to get rid of Dashboard as a space, check out Justin's attempts to replace it entirely with Notification Center These Notification Centre Widgets Make Dashboard Irrelevant These Notification Centre Widgets Make Dashboard Irrelevant The Dashboard is dying. Most users ignore it, and not many developers are building things for it. Replace all of your Mac's Dashboard widgets using the new Today view in Yosemite. Read More .
How do you use multiple desktops on your Mac? Give us your expert organizational tips.
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Hey Tim, great post!
I was wondering if there was a way I could create new workspaces via Terminal. I find myself constantly needing to break out a new workspace with a specific set of applications. My ultimate goal would be to issue a single command and spin up a workspace with all the applications I need there, and collapse it when I'm done.
Hi Tim,
I could't find an answer for my problem, so hopefully you will know how :)
Is there a way to set different kind of display settings per multiple desktop on MBPr ?
As I have need for mail to be fe. at lowest resolution and largest font, but some of my graphic application to have as more working space as possible.
Hey Tim,
Great post. Is it possible to permanently pin specific documents to a desktop space? So for example lets I turn on my computer and open two documents and add both of them to the same desktop space. Right now when I shut off my computer I lose that space and the next day I have to repeat the process.
I need help for a very annoying problem.
I can simply not live without several desktops/work spaces.
I use dual monitors and 4 desktops (This gives 2x4 desktops)
each desktop has its background picture different from the other desktop.
however the order of the screens shift constantly.
e.g. desktop which is pos 1 will be in pos 3 if I go to another desktop for a second.
is there any way to "freeze" the order of the desktops/work spaces.
so desktop 1 is always pos 1, desktop 2 is always pos 2 etc, ??
Anyone can help me please ???
I have a question. Just found out about this multiple desktop today. Is it possible to have one regular desktop with all my regular icons on it, and a 2nd desktop that has no icons at all? Basically have two totally different desktops. Possible?
thank you for the info! i accidentally created several desktops that i'd like to delete. However, when I hover over the small desktops in mission control, the X does not appear. the top edge of the small desktops appear to be underneath a blank menu bar that is blocking the X. Does that make sense? Quite annoying!
Hi! thanks for the article it was very informative!
But what about folders? is there any way to assign those to a certain desktop? i clicked over it and the options, option did not appear, hahaha
Great article! I've liked using multiple desktops ever since I found out about them. One problem I've had with them, that has become more common recently, is when I use the finger swipe to change to a desktop with adobe reader open on it, it will immediately go back to the desktop I was on before. If I swipe back a second time it will stay but it is annoying to always have to change over twice. Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas as to why this happens?
I love Workspace Screens, but I constantly connect and discconnect my MBP 2015 from an external HDMI monitor. Every connection and disconnection randomly scatters the workspaces and all the applications everywhere. I also use Parallels for Win7 Ent and Win10. WIn 7 is in Coherence mode so the appliccation windows float on Mac desktop. I just wish this was easier to manage with consistancy.
I'm looking for something like this, also. I have a MBP and a big external display that I use at the office. I would like my windows to be in the same places when I connect my external display that they were in the last time it was connected (obviously, they can't be in the same place when it's disconnected... the laptop display is much smaller). I remember seeing a utility to do this once (it was commercial software), but I can't remember where I saw it.
One thing that might help you is to turn off the automatic jumbling of desktops. In System Preferences -> Mission Control, turn off "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use". I don't know why you would ever want that. I also have "Displays have separate Spaces" turned on, which might or might not help (and might be contributing to my issues as the spaces associated with the external display go away when it's disconnected and all those windows have to go somewhere).
If I find that app I am thinking about, I'll post a followup.
Found it. It was called "Stay". Find it here: http://cordlessdog.com/stay/ It's $15.
Does anyone know if there's a way to lock individual windows to a desktop?
For example, I open two separate internet windows and I want one to stay in one desktop while I put the second in another. So that if my computer were to shut down for whatever reason, when I turn it back on, the windows will still be in their assigned spaces?
Thanks so much guys!
Thanks Tim for your reply before, sorry for the late response. My mbp is 2011, does that make it "old"? Guess so. I already did a couple of reinstallations last year and it´s been into the Genius bar a few times too and apparently, all is "good". So anyway, back to the topic about desktops, I will try again, see what happens. Thanks for your help :)
Hi Susan
My girlfiriend has a 2011 MacBook Pro and it's still going strong like a trooper, despite recently having the fan replaced. Your Mac definitely shouldn't be that slow, so it might be worth getting someone to take a look at it (I'd suggest a friend who knows a thing or two).
Without seeing the performance it's difficult to gauge whether or not you have a problem, but if everything starts crawling when you open too many programs this could signify a problem with the RAM (or alternatively, a software issue that can be fixed by reinstalling your operating system).
Good luck!
Switched from the Dark Side to Mac in 2009, I must have been in a parallel universe all this time, this is the first I've heard of multiple desktops! Lost my MD virginity when this MakeUseOf article came out a few days ago, and love it! FINALLY no more constant opening/closing and dock clicking. Great article, as are all the MakeUseOf suggestions-kudos!
@Tim, thanx for the response. Yosemite does seem to address some issues, but i strongly dislike the changes to the look. Thanx for the report though!
Hi Tim thanks for your reply. I have a 13" mbp which runs really slowly so I have to make sure I never have too many programs open at any one time although I would love to have both Safari and FF, Evernote and whatever else open all at once. Could using these desktops help or would it slow the system down even more?
I read through your response but still don´t see how they could help me although I want to know because it appears they are good to work with but I seem to be blind at the moment.... thanks again :)
Excuse my ignorance here but I´ve read this and gone through it with my mac and cannot see any difference between using these desktops or just using Cmd+tab to move to a desired app... this is how I´ve been working for years with my mac. What am I missing? :S
I never cared for multi-desktops. I've tried them under Linux and Windows (95 or 98, iirc, a powertoy) over the years. It's just another way to sub-categorize open windows. To me it seems like more confusion than its worth. Much akin to having separate browser windows for different sets of tabs. It's not something that people don't know about; it's something they don't _care_ about.
I'd much rather see better multi-monitor support. On Mavericks, it's so bad i don't use the second monitor. (After it goes to sleep, the second monitor doesn't turn back on but does does cause resizing in the first monitor, continuously, until the next reboot.) OS X's features tend to be cool until you actually use them. I stopped saying, "i love my mac" some time ago.
Thanx for the article though. It's always useful to remind us what some of the basic features are of any OS. They're often overlooked at first, until they are forgotten, and then when you need them most, you haven't the slightest idea they are already there.
I believe older Windows can use third party apps for multiple desktops functionality like:
Multiple desktops are wonderful, I have been using them in Linux for a long time. Nice to see some of the other operating systems finally starting to include them.
I use Spaces everyday. I started using it on a 13 laptop, but find that muscle memory makes it just as useful when using a larger monitor. You can set default desktops to mimic the your workflow which saves a lot of time each day - browser on one, text editor on another, mail, iTunes, and so on. Make it your own.
If you want to manage resolutions for different displays it's also best to use QuickRes. Check it out here: http://www.quickresapp.com


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An enthralling encounter was overshadowed somewhat as Mourinho berated officials, hinted his belief that there is a conspiracy against him and said the best team lost.
Pep Guardiola appears to have that effect on Mourinho, who has three wins from 16 games against his Spanish nemesis following the 5-4 penalty shootout defeat to European champions Bayern on Friday night.
It was the self-proclaimed Special One's first loss of his second spell as Blues boss and it was by the narrowest of margins.
The contest finished 2-2 at the end of extra-time, which Chelsea played with 10 men following Ramires' dismissal, as Javi Martinez netted with the last kick of the match.
Then, after nine successful penalties, Romelu Lukaku saw his effort saved by Manuel Neuer, handing Bayern victory.
A more measured Mourinho opinion was that his team, which beat Bayern to lift the 2012 European Cup, showed their outstanding potential.
"All of us we will go (home) disappointed, but at the same time we go with the notion that we will have a better team," Mourinho told Chelsea TV.
"To play against the champions of Europe the way we did, with 11 (men), with 10, and we deserved to win. The boys deserved to win. They did everything.
"We got the feeling of the team we are building, the character we are building, the personality we are building.
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LUBBOCK, TX – Backed by strong opening rounds by Nils Floren and Finley Ewing IV, the 10th-ranked Texas Tech men's golf team opened the NCAA South Central Regional in fourth place after firing a 6-under 282 in Thursday's first round at the Traditions Club in College Station, Texas.
With the Red Raiders needing to finish among the top-five teams to earn an automatic bid into the NCAA Championships, Floren and Ewing's first rounds went a long way to keeping Tech in contention. Floren fired a 4-under 68 to sit in fifth place, while Ewing finished a stroke behind in a tie for sixth place following a 3-under 69.
Chris Ward, the reigning Big 12 Champion, opened with an even-par 72, while Matt Smith and Tyler Weworski completed Tech's card with 1-over and 2-over performances. Ignacio Elvira (Texas A&M), Daniel Jennevret (TCU), Kevin Phelan (North Florida), and Dustin Garza (Wichita State) lead the individual standings after each shot a 6-under 66 first round.
Texas A&M and TCU sit atop the leaderboard at 11-under each, while North Florida leads Tech by two strokes at 8-under. Wichita State finished the round in the fifth and final spot at 5-under, and Pepperdine and Auburn trail closely behind at 2-under and even-par respectively.
"I thought we played a solid round," head coach Greg Sands said. "All five guys were in it to the end, and that is good to see. It was a good start, but we've still got some work to do. We're trying to win the regional, and we've definitely put ourselves in a good position to do so."
Tech will be one of the first groups on the course Friday as the Red Raiders drew an 8:20 a.m. tee time. Fans can keep up with the live scoring via www.golfstat.com.
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Chastity with Ex as Keyholder Ch. 03bychastity_sissy©
Back at my apartment, I wanted nothing more than to just get the chastity device off of me, but I still couldn't help but be aroused at my humiliating situation. Here I was, chastised by my previous girlfriend who now controlled not only my orgasms, but whether I could have sex with another woman.
Suddenly, my phone buzzed, notifying me of a new text message.
Send me a pic of you dressed up in that corset and stockings. I want to see it before I fuck my boyfriend in a few minutes.
Quickly, I did as she instructed. Soon, she had a full body shot of me in the tight corset she had given to me as a present, as well as the stockings and high heels I added for extra points. And of course, my cock cage was dead center in front, pulsating with arousal at this humiliation. She would forever have this picture and it was just more evidence she could use against me.
After a few moments, my phone rang. Who'd be calling me this late, I asked myself.
And then I knew as soon as I put my ear to the receiver.
"You're getting fucked hard tonight. I'm extra horny," I hard an unfamiliar male voice say.
"Oh? And why's that?" it was my Ex! How cruel. It appeared she had called me and left her phone on right before having sex with her boyfriend.
"You know why, you keep sending your cute Hooters girls friends to my gym and having me work with them in their tight workout outfits. You're just trying to tease me at work...and it's working!" he said.
"I would never," my Ex said, obviously playing along with whatever fantasy game they were doing. But, she wanted me to hear. And she knew I couldn't help myself but listen to them with my cock all locked up, being dressed up in a sissy corset and nylons, listening to them having sex knowing I had no way of getting myself off.
"Well, you're going to get it now, you little vixen," the man said. "And you look so hot in that pink corset and matching stockings. You want it extra hard tonight, don't you?
"Oh...God..." my Ex said loudly, "you know I like it when you completely dominate me with your cock, and it's so huge."
"And you're taking it all. That's right."
A loud, feminine moan came next and then I could hear the slapping sounds of this guy forcefully ramming his cock deep inside my Ex.
"Oh, yes! Fuck me hard with your huge cock, fuck me so HARD!" she said loudly.
I couldn't help but have the feeling she was being a little extra descriptive, especially with what her boyfriend said next.
"Well aren't you just extra horny? You never talk so dirty. Fine, I'll fuck your pussy so hard I might need to have seconds with your ass."
"Oh God, yes, please fuck me hard and then fuck my little asshole. Please!"
"You got it, baby," he replied.
And I heard every thrust and every moan she uttered while he pounded her. All the while. I knelt on my own living room floor dressed up in a sissy little corset and nylons. I knew she was imagining me sitting there, unable to get hard or to cum, listening to some other guy fuck her. And she loved it. I had never heard her moan and groan so much during sex. And apparently, never did her boyfriend.
"How'd you get so horny, you noisy bitch? Jesus!" he said.
"Fuck me harder. Fuck me harder with your huge dick."
"Baby, I'll be fucking you until you cum. And then I'll be fucking your ass until you cum. And then, you'll make me cum all over your face. How's that, you dirty cunt?"
"Oh yes, I love it when you talk to me like that!" she said groaning even more loudly.
Taking a quick drink, I couldn't stop listening. I knew it would only make me more horny, listening to this strange man fuck my Ex...and apparently fuck her in a way I never had done before. The pure humiliation was enough to make me horny, but to add their vivid descriptions was just plain torture.
"Oh God, oh God, I'm cumming!" my Ex yelled in a loud, whine-full moan.
"Oh yeah, you cum baby, you cum over my huge cock."
Her breathing sounded very hard after she was done moaning. I could only imagine her naked, sweaty body, so spent and exhausted.
"You're not done yet, roll over. I told you that I was fucking you in the ass."
"Mhhhmm, yes, please do whatever you want with me with your giant cock, I can't say no."
And with that I heard an entirely new set of groans and moans from her. I could only imagine it, but she certainly provided the sound effects of a huge cock slowly penetrating her tight asshole.
"Oh God, I can't...I can't...It feels so good, but it's so huge...it hurts, but don't stop, please, I can do it, please, let me feel your cock deep inside my tight ass," she kept saying.
"You're going to learn how a giant, hot load feels up your ass tonight, baby. And you're going to like it because I know you're just a little cum slut deep down, aren't you?"
I couldn't believe this guy was talking to her like this, but then I understood why she was dating him. He was dominant and strong enough to exert his power over her, and she apparently really got off on it, just as much as she got off on knowing she was exerting her power over me by keeping my cock locked in chastity, listening to their sex session while wearing my sissy clothes.
"Yes, yes, keep pushing it in more. I want to feel it all in my ass," she kept saying until finally, "Oh...my...I can't stop cumming!"
"Sounds like your problem since I'm going to fuck your brains out until you can hardly talk," her bull of a boyfriend said.
"I...oh...I...oh my, yes, I can't stop...cumming...so much, too much!" she shouted.
"Nope, you gotta take it, baby. You wanted me to fuck you in the ass, so now you have to just take it."
And then I heard him slapping her ass over and over while she cried out in ecstasy, pleasure, and probably a little pain for her ass.
"You ready for this?" he asked her.
"Guh! Fuck me, yes, cum in my ass, cum hard, I want to feel your hot cum in my ass!" she yelled.
And then her bull boyfriend gave a huge cry as I heard the slapping thrusts until there was a moment of silence.
"You are so hot," he said. "I can't believe you're such a sex kitten."
"Mhmmhm," she responded, obviously momentarily paralyzed by their little session. "I feel your hot cum in my ass and it feels sooooo good. I thought you were going to cum all over my face, too?" she asked meekly.
"Well, I'm going to go wash my dick off and then we'll see how much cum is left for your face."
I heard footsteps and a door close.
"You still there?" my Ex said speaking directly to me.
I wanted to be silent and pretend I wasn't, but her smartphone would show we were still connected.
"Yes," I said quietly.
"Did you like that? I got so horny knowing you were listening, hopelessly locked up in chastity. This is so great. I know you're probably a little frustrated, but it's only day one."
"Day one? How long are you keeping me like this?"
"I should just tell you as long as I want, but I'll be nice since I'm happy and had an orgasm the likes of which you never gave me nor will you ever have. I will let you out a week from the time I locked you up, but only so you can clean up your naughty bits. I will supervise. You will not get to cum. You will get hard, I'm sure, but you are not allowed to cum. Just because I let you out to clean things doesn't mean I let you orgasm. No, I'm thinking in terms of one orgasm a month if you are lucky."
I could hardly believe what she was saying. Only days before I was used to jerking one off quick before work. I couldn't imagine only one orgasm a month. How the hell would I be able to do that?
"Please, c'mon, this is crazy!" I protested.
"I did my research today. Orgasm control is key to chastity because the moment you orgasm, you might not want to be locked up anymore. Since I love having my ex as my chastity bitch, I don't want to take that chance. So if you have a problem with the one orgasm a month, don't worry about it anymore because you aren't getting it. I'll just milk you like I read about. Once a week and that's all you'll get. Oh, here he comes!"
There was rustling and then I heard him speak.
"Don't worry, I washed everything for you. Now, I think I promised you some cum on your face. Get on your knees for me."
I could only imagine my Ex in her sexy outfit, submitting to this huge, muscle bound male. How could he be ready again already?
Then I heard him groan as the sucking sounds made it to the phone. Though it was futile, I stroked my panties, where my cock should have been, but instead was locked away, unable to be touched. Regardless, I stroked the chastity device willing myself to believe I could feel it, causing only more and more horniness, but never any relief.
"Yeah, that's good, take it all. I love it when you choke," he said to her. I could only imagine he was stroking her cheek as he said these things.
On the other end, I still tried in vain to get any relief possible from massaging the outside of the cage, but it was no good. It did its job, keeping me mercilessly teased without any way to get direct pleasure to my cock.
"Oh yeah, oh yeah," I heard him groan.
"So you're going to cum all over my face, are you?" she asked sweetly.
"You know it."
"Are you going to let me wash it off right away?" she asked in between mouthfuls.
"Hell no, you're going to have to sit there for a few minutes enjoying my cum all over you, and then you can clean yourself up."
There was a surge of intensity after he said this as they both moaned loudly, her because the humiliation was just what she wanted and for him, because she obviously was working her tongue a little extra in anticipation.
Finally, I heard him utter a loud moan and could have sworn I heard the sound of cum splattering against skin.
"Oh, yes, I love seeing your face covered in cum, baby," he said.
"Mhmmm," she moaned.
"I'm gonna go downstairs to grab a beer. You can kneel here on the floor until I get back," he said as I heard footsteps fading away.
"How are you doing over there?" she said quietly into the phone. "How's that cock reacting to this? Knowing another man's cum is all over my face and inside my pussy at this very moment."
I could barely stand it. The humiliation, the outfits, the chastity, I was so beside myself I wanted to burst like a piece of popcorn.
"Please, this...this..."
"This is torture, hon. And I know you're getting off on it just like I am, except the difference is I can't let you cum. Like I said, orgasms are the key, the epicenter of my control. The chastity device is just my means to your orgasm-deprived end. Be glad I'm talking about milking you. At least then you get some measure of pleasure, but it's mostly just to clean you out. My quick research tells me it's nowhere near an orgasm."
"Please, this has definitely gone far enough. Very entertaining and very clever, I admit, this whole setup. Your wits are beyond me at this point and I applaud you for this, but please, this can't go on."
"Oh it will. Be ready for my visit after work tomorrow. I think he's coming back so have a good, chastity teased night!"
And then the call disconnected.
Holy crap, had I really signed away having orgasms? And why were having orgasms such a big deal to me? Maybe because I was selfish and loved the pleasure it gave me, or maybe it was the release, or maybe it's just biological that males need to orgasm more often than females because we produce so much damn semen all the time.
Either way, I couldn't fathom what she was talking about doing to me. No orgasms? The thought did indeed make my heart race and my cock come to life inside the chastity cage. Ugh, why did I have to get the small version? I had absolutely no room for any type of increase in size of my penis.
And my penis wasn't horribly small by any means. It was about six inches when hard, so to keep it confined to this tiny cage was indeed a miracle.
I loved my orgasms. Who doesn't? I loved having my fantasies acted out in my head and then being able to feel my hot cum shooting through my cock. But, deep down in a dark, secret place, I had a nagging feelings that I would love even more the feeling of constantly being unsatisfied.
Like Sartre had said, perhaps the journey was better than the destination. Maybe my Ex was right about me. It was hard to admit that maybe I loved the build up to an orgasm more than the actual orgasm itself.
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Burt The Butcher wrote:chipperjones wrote:pounder3 wrote:The only thing with with 8-12 hour time limit is the difference in geographic areas. This may cause a problem, may not. Just something to think about.
i'm in a very different time zone i assume than most people in this league, and in my fantasy hockey draft, where we did it the same way, it didn't create an issue (i'm hours ahead of the eastern time zone). it's the only way to do the draft. no time limit, no end to draft. it might get annoying for some people that there are times where everyone is online and it's my pick, but it's the middle of the night for me, but it wasn't an issue in my hockey draft, and i'm a responsible owner so i always get my picks in as quick as i can. i don't stall for no reason.
I was thinking the point made pounder was maybe 8-12 hours was not enough time due to differences in time zones. i think we should set it at 12 hours, and if it becomes an issue for some teams, we can adjust.
if we make it more than 12 hours the draft will take forever. teams can pm lists of their next players to the commish and he can make picks for teams that have this issue.


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C-K Thumping Market
by Rob Landley
Austin, TX (Aug. 17, 1998) -- In the past few weeks, we've had a lot of days like Friday where our portfolio beat the market by falling more slowly than the indices did. While that might not sound comforting, we believe that it counts just as much to beat the indices on down days as it does to finish ahead of the market on up days.
The final aim is outperformance of the market's average return, as measured by the S&P 500. Given that nine out of ten mutual funds have lost to that average in the 1990s -- while charging considerably more than a simple index fund -- and given that the Cash-King Portfolio is free for anyone on the planet to read (with trading commissions down to $5 through online brokers), you can understand why we expect this column to be one of the most popular financial features online over the next decade. It's simple, convenient, logical, and aren't we a bunch of fun to hang out with each afternoon?!
Ok, strike the last one.
Now, why did we beat the market again this past week? Stock market gurus like to call it a "flight to quality," but then they rely heavily on the latest news without much concern for financial education. If they'd flip flop those, we'd have less drivel about why the market did what it did on any given day, in any given hour, and we'd have much more focus on how to find that quality that people are ever flying to.
But, that's just me being a curmudgeon again.
Let's take a look at the numbers for the week:
Cash-King Last This Change Gap Inc. $62.56 $62.94 +0.6% Cisco $96.88 $96.44 -0.5% Intel $86.69 $86.19 -0.6% T Rowe $35.13 $34.63 -1.4% Microsoft $105.88 $104.25 -1.5% Pfizer $103.63 $101.19 -2.4% Coca-Cola $80.44 $76.81 -4.5% AmEx $101.13 $93.69 -7.4% Fool Four Last This Change Chevron $77.38 $80.13 +3.6% Exxon $66.94 $68.38 +2.2% Kodak $83.56 $82.50 -1.3% GM $71.06 $67.81 -4.6% S&P 500 1089 1063 -2.4% Total C-K $22,703 $22,337 -1.6%
All told, since our inception the Cash-King portfolio is up 11.69% versus gains by the S&P 500 of 6.14% (as of Monday market open). Imagine for a second that those were annual gains, and play along as we compound the differences between the two rates over the next 40 years. If the S&P 500 were to grow 6.14% per year over the next four decades, then our $22,337 would grow to over $242,000. If, instead, our portfolio grew at that 11.69% per year over four decades, the account would grow to $1.86 million.
Seemingly small differences today can prove enormous tomorrow.
Ok, let's take a look at the news from our companies last week:
Possibly the best news of the week was that Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) sold the last of its Medical Technologies group, the Howmedica orthopedic products unit, to surgical products make Stryker Corp. for $1.9 billion. Pfizer has decided it needn't try to be Johnson & Johnson, instead choosing to focus tightly on its high-margin drug business. (Isn't it nice to own a company that sells off a subsidiary for nearly 2.5x sales because it wasn't valuable enough for Pfizer shareholders?)
That's a big part of the reason we picked Pfizer over J&J. Since we can diversify our portfolio into as many different stocks as we want, why would we want the individual companies we invest in to diversify away from whatever makes them the most money? The sale of Howmedica gets Pfizer out of the orthopedic products business and leaves it with another $2 billion to invest in its higher-margin pharmaceuticals business. Way to go Pfizer!
There is no force on earth that can stop Tom Gardner from talking at length next week about Gap's (NYSE: GPS) recent conference call (click that to read it), but I would recommend dropping by the Cash-King companies folder to run the numbers on this most recent quarter. In terms of our C-K criteria, they look pretty darn nice! This made for the second-best news of the week for our portfolio.
I didn't see a whole lot of news from Coke (NYSE: KO) this week. Here are a couple of articles. On the fifth of the month, TMF compared the current market to the Nifty Fifty in the Evening News, using Coke as the first example. And Reuters released an article a few days later comparing the current market to the Nifty Fifty, using Coke as its first example (High Nifty Fifty valuations). Let's just hope folks recognize that the investor who bought Coke stock at its high in the winter of 1972, right before the bear market, and then held it through to today would have earned pronounced market OUTperformance. Pretty nifty.
T. Rowe Price
As always, there was little news on T. Rowe Price (Nasdaq: TROW), but the company was footnoted in an interesting AP article on how individual investors ignored the recent market turbulence: Slide Doesn't Panic Small Investors.
American Express
Our dog of the month of August, American Express (NYSE: AXP) continued lower on concerns about its exposure to the Asian markets.
Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) sold more stuff, got some big contracts, and was challenged by new start-ups, none of which I'd actually call news...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) spent the week in court again. (Did I really NEED to say that?) It hasn't had much luck lately, having been forced to turn over the Windows 95 source code. (It turns out it can't force the Department of Justice to sign a non-disclosure agreement -- no surprise there.) It also can't limit the amount of testimony Bill Gates and other Microsoft executives will give to the court. And it can't even keep reporters out of the courtroom while he's testifying. Naturally, Mr. Softy has filed a motion to dismiss the entire case.
But, the boxers aren't even in the ring; the real action hasn't yet started. And I expect cases like this to play a very large role in Microsoft's business over the next fifteen years. Here are some interesting recent articles about Microsoft:
1. Judge Says Gates Must Face Prosecutors
2. Web Developers Criticize Microsoft and Netscape
3. Computer Users Fight 'Bloatware'
4. Microsoft Countersues Justice Department
5. States Still Probing Microsoft Office
6. Microsoft Office 2000 to Open on the Web
7. Microsoft Wants Dismissal of Antitrust Suit
That's enough reading for the week. I'll postpone discussion of Intel for now, but wow, how about that rebound?! Go Intel.
I hope everybody survived last Monday intact. I'm told there was another one scheduled for today, and that Mondays are slated for every week over the next fifty years at least. Even when the markets are down, I think we can get through them, Foolishly.
- Rob Landley (Oak)
Stock Change Bid AXP +2 7/16 96.13 CHV + 13/16 80.94 CSCO +1 11/16 98.13 KO +2 1/4 79.06 GPS +1 5/8 64.56 EK +3 1/16 85.56 XON +1 3/16 69.56 GM --- 67.81 INTC +3 3/8 89.56 MSFT +3 1/16 107.31 PFE +3 7/16 104.63 TROW + 3/8 35.00
Day Month Year History C-K +2.44% -1.00% 14.41% 14.41% S&P: +1.97% -3.30% 8.23% 8.23% NASDAQ: +1.56% -2.90% 9.99% 9.99% Cash-King Stocks Rec'd # Security In At Now Change 2/3/98 24 Microsoft 78.27 107.31 37.11% 2/3/98 22 Pfizer 82.30 104.63 27.13% 5/1/98 37 Gap Inc. 51.09 64.56 26.37% 2/27/98 27 Coca-Cola 69.11 79.06 14.41% 6/23/98 23 Cisco Syst 86.35 98.13 13.64% 2/13/98 22 Intel 84.67 89.56 5.77% 2/6/98 56 T. Rowe Pr 33.67 35.00 3.94% 5/26/98 18 American E 104.07 96.13 -7.63% Foolish Four Stocks Rec'd # Security In At Value Change 3/12/98 20 Eastman Ko 63.15 85.56 35.50% 3/12/98 20 Exxon 64.34 69.56 8.13% 3/12/98 15 Chevron 83.34 80.94 -2.89% 3/12/98 17 General Mo 72.41 67.81 -6.34% Cash-King Stocks Rec'd # Security In At Value Change 2/3/98 24 Microsoft 1878.45 2575.50 $697.05 5/1/98 37 Gap Inc. 1890.33 2388.81 $498.48 2/3/98 22 Pfizer 1810.58 2301.75 $491.17 6/23/98 23 Cisco Syst 1985.95 2256.88 $270.93 2/27/98 27 Coca-Cola 1865.89 2134.69 $268.80 2/13/98 22 Intel 1862.83 1970.38 $107.55 2/6/98 56 T. Rowe Pr 1885.70 1960.00 $74.30 5/26/98 18 American E 1873.20 1730.25 -$142.95 Foolish Four Stocks Rec'd # Security In At Value Change 3/12/98 20 Eastman Ko 1262.95 1711.25 $448.30 3/12/98 20 Exxon 1286.70 1391.25 $104.55 3/12/98 15 Chevron 1250.14 1214.06 -$36.08 3/12/98 17 General Mo 1230.89 1152.81 -$78.08 CASH $94.76 TOTAL $22882.39 *Please note: On 8/4/98 $2,000 cash was added to the
portfolio for future investment. This will be reflected
in the numbers as soon as possible.
*The year for the S&P and Nasdaq will be as of 02/03/98


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Jul 6
Posted by Roberta Branca
I took over 20 photos the night I went to view the sand sculptures created on Hampton Beach on the New Hampshire Seacoast by master sculptors from all over the United states and Canada. This was one of the few that didn't come out blurry. It also happens to be the first place winner. I didn't understand why every picture was accompanied by the warning: "This image is blurry. Do you want to delete it?" Dejectedly, I would choose "yes" for most of them, although I kept a few. Finally my friend Ellen told me, "you have to hold your breath." Sure enough, that held the camera still long enough to get this shot. I imagine creating these sculptures is something like that: an image comes to mind, and as the sculptor begins to shape and smooth the sand, they hold their breath so as not to disturb the fine contours of their creation. So to is writing: an image comes to mind, and you focus your concentration on just the word coming out on the screen as you type. Nothing else matters until you get to the end of what's in your mind. Then you breathe again.
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