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There were things I decided not to tell Laurent that evening. Not just the sordid aspects of my relationship with Catherine, but also the intimate details. To preserve not so much the image of his mother, to whom I no longer owed loyalty, but mostly to preserve myself.
I could picture Catherine relentlessly pacing her apartment in Saint Petersburg that night, imagining my conversation with Laurent and fearing how much I would share with him, or how far my truthfulness would go. She doubted I would have the courage -- and in fact, the unconditional love I felt for Laurent made me doubt myself, too. If he could only put up with so much time and attention, and by the end of the night we had reached the turning points of our story, he would have enough to digest for the rest of his life. Love me more, love me less, hate me more, hate me less -- but he would not remain indifferent to me. I was aware of how much I was risking, and Catherine knew it too.
So, I just told him how his mother and I relaxed in each other's presence and company after the boat's departure. How I had felt happy when I realized she was not willing to leave the island, and I would have at least one more week to get closer to her, until another boat came around. And I felt hopeful, too, with the new and welcome warmth in our relationship. That, at least, I had to tell Laurent -- so that he could guess how from opponents, his mother and I had become lovers.
Catherine could also calm down, once she felt assured that I would not force her to leave the Île du Blanchomme. She then ceased to be afraid of me, as she would confess many years later, when we were living as a family in rural France.
"Do you have to start with your reading at once?" We had just had sex, and a moment after we were finished, Catherine turned to her bedside table in search of a book. "Can we talk, Catherine?" I was still panting.
"It's late, and you know I like to read before bed." Catherine complained, languorously, yawning.
"Yes, I know. It's your 'bridge into dreams', as you like to put it. But this is bed, already. And do you have to wake up early tomorrow for any reason?" I insisted.
"D'accord. What is the agenda?" Catherine asked, jokingly. She was suddenly in a good mood, which seemed to happen only when she was sexually appeased.
Our son Laurent and his upbringing, our relationship as a couple spanning almost ten years then, what we had and what we lacked -- we talked about almost everything that evening. It was one of the most important -- and rare -- conversations we'd have in years, though nothing would change between us because of a few heartfelt words.
I learned that Catherine, back then at the Île du Blanchomme, had found me not just rude at first -- she had found me threatening, and invasive.
For, when I thought I was being discreet in my insistent looks of lust that scanned her whole body, and that I had managed to hide my recurrent erections, I found out it had been the opposite. Nothing escaped her watchful eye, and she had been terrified with what she saw.
"I could not sleep..." Catherine admitted. "I'd wake up to any noise in the house, fearing you were coming after me... I did not see you enter my room that first night, but I heard and saw it when you turned around and left... You were naked... I spotted your hard-on and I thought... What kind of sex maniac is he? From then on, I slept with a knife hidden under the mattress."
I gasped. "Are you serious, Catherine?" I was offended. "How could you think such a thing of me?" I smiled with bitterness. "Perhaps because at the beginning you never deigned to look me in the eye..."
"Avoiding eye contact was part of my self-defense strategy." She laughed. "Just picture my situation in that weird house with no doors... If I had to run away from you, where could I lock myself up? And there was no one around to cry for help. I felt trapped, and deeply regretted having followed my mother's advice to go to the Indian Ocean... And all the time, you ate me with your eyes, while talking about either the septic tank or the 'Blaue Reiter' or anything else... You drooled. And all along, this bloody, big cock of yours inflating those worn, dirty shorts... day and night... It was disgusting!"
I found out that Catherine ceased fearing me when she had spied on me, masturbating in the bathtub. I almost choked at the revelation.
''At that point," she continued with her revelations, "I thought... If he really wanted to, he would have raped me already, instead of jerking off in the bathroom like some frenzied teenager. Then I started realizing how handsome you were, if clumsy, like a big boy, and how you were embarrassed in my presence. And I decided to try giving up being aggressive to protect myself and to keep you at a distance. Just to see how you would approach me."
"And when that heatstroke happened... I was very weak and completely at your mercy. I felt at your disposal, lying on that bed... A ripe and peeled fruit being offered on a tray... I still had the knife under the mattress, but I was too weak to reach for it in an emergency. But while you continued to stare at me in a fever of lust, and your cock was almost always hard, your boxers inflated and sickening stained, still, you never touched me with less than so much care, great respect and even modesty... I started wondering if you were not some kind of a weirdo hermit, on a self-imposed exile, and it got me fantasizing about taking your virginity... Yet, I still feared you'd ask me to leave on the next boat, unable to cope with my presence and your desire. But when I saw you trying to disguise your happiness upon hearing my request to stay... As that second boat departed, it felt like I was arriving again on the Île du Blanchomme, and my vacation there had finally started." Catherine confessed.
And then I knew Catherine's memories about that afternoon, after the boat's departure, were not so different from my own.
She had sent me to the office to seek for the books she had been reading, and requested me to read them to her. When I sat on the floor next to the bed, from where I had been watching upon her for so many days, she asked me to lie down on the bed with her. I had kept that bed forbidden territory for me, and even when I cleansed or massaged her, I had sat on a stool beside the bed.
While reading, I had to lie down on my stomach, to hide my erection. But every time Catherine moved on the creaking bed, the entire mattress moved too, and every time she turned slightly, tugging the sheets, my cock received the leaps and throbbed like crazy, drooling all the time. If she was teasing me, she had adopted a very subtle way, and I would never have overcome the small distance between us -- I would never have taken the initiative. Or had she been experimenting with her power over me?
I tried to concentrate on the reading -- and to this day I cannot remember if it was Lacan or Bachelard that I tried reading loud very carefully, almost without understanding the meaning of the sentences, but with the best pronunciation that I was capable of -- and trying not to look away from the letters, though the half-naked body I worshiped was within reach of a breath. Once in a while, Catherine's foot would brush my arm for a second, or it was her hand that slightly touched my leg or waist, then pull out again.
When I finally went to fetch fresh water for her in the kitchen, I also had to change my underwear, which was all sticky.
That night, when I started massaging Catherine, she asked me to sit on the bed with her, claiming that the stool left me in an awkward position. I more than quickly agreed. Nonetheless, depending on me all would have happened exactly the same way -- yet another innocent, well-mannered massage session -- if Catherine hadn't taken my hand and placed it between her thighs, directly on her opening... I was surprised, my heart and my erection pounding painfully, because she no longer needed my help to cleanse her, and we both knew it.
She moistened her lips and gulped, before requesting me, "Touch me there..." She panted to my first, very light touch. And as I did not know what to do with my fingers other than fumble with her soft and wet opening, Catherine led me on. She was experienced, and I was a virgin, but none of us was embarrassed. We both moved toward the realization of an urgent desire, and we did not exchange a single word of judgment about our relative positions in that making; the only words heard were Catherine's instructions to me.
Sex, for me, has always been sex with Catherine. And through the years I graduated and post-graduated on her body and her desires. I became a connoisseur of her curves, haven't I said that already? But that first night was... was my first night -- our first --, and every word would be cliché. I think it was Lacan whom I read to her, because I remember thinking about Courbet's painting 'L'Origine du Monde', while I had the blonde version of the picture in my hands, the original depiction being in Lacan's countryside home.
Catherine's moans increased when I started to explore her moist 'Origin of the World' with my tongue, as instructed by her. The more I licked and sucked, the wetter it got, giving me more to savor, a thick nectar with a taste that I never imagined could have existed.
Despite the intense pleasure I gave her that way, Catherine never paid me back a blow job. And it seemed it was for the same reason she didn't like kissing -- in sex we could do all, but her mouth was not part of it, an organ that she reserved for the intellect, for the brilliant or sarcastic words she sought to constantly utter -- and my tongue or penis were an invasion of that sacred realm that she could not tolerate.
Catherine always tried to be discreet in her attitudes and even look indifferent to most things in life, so that it was always very difficult to know when something was pleasing or displeasing her -- until she had one her outbursts of anger, of course. Her expression of boredom matched her idea of elegance -- neither of which she could maintain during sex. If she did not like it, she would cut me sharp -- "Stop it!" -- but never without trying to fix or improve it, "Harder!", "Deeper..." And her intense, high-pitched moans were the narrative to her pleasure.
When there was poetry, and a little love between us, she was the choreographer and I, her rhythm and the dancer she commanded.
But usually there was only passion and urge, and she acted like a director and I, the diligent subordinate.
"Nasty boy!" she said, a little angry and disgusted when I kissed her, my lips still wet and sticky from her own juice. She slapped me lightly on the mouth, pushing me away and down for further explorations.
Catherine had the most beautiful breasts, small and firm, that would fit in the palm of my hands, and I was never tired of caressing and kissing them. She did not like to be kissed on the mouth, but she never complained of my tongue on her perfectly round and pinkish nipples. Unlike my calloused hands, my tongue was soft and capable of pleasing her without causing any discomfort, and her nipples hardened under the tip of my tongue, my saliva making them shiny like precious pearls I aimed for.
In a corner of my mind, I thought of the legends about that Portal Island, an Island of Births, and how the spirits in it might all have been awakened by Catherine's moans and groans, and perhaps were now surrounding us, invisible presences roaming around the bed... a haunting idea.
Unlike her, I was almost silent and could only gasp, surprised, doing my best efforts -- and perhaps, I was fearful too? Or just respectful, sensing not only the tormented ghosts of the unborn, but also the apparition I had befriended -- the beautiful boy we were going to materialize with our carnal union?
"Are you sure about this?" I asked, when Catherine's fingers guided me to penetrate her. It sounded ridiculous, because after all it was not her first time, only mine. And she laughed at my kindness, not ironically, but with a kind of joy, as it were a childish joke.
Catherine was a little disgusted when she led my cock, all wet with precum, inside her.
"You need to fix this leak," she would say in another night, when I wasn't so nervous and she was in a good mood, "it is very inconvenient..." she complained.
But it was this leak -- my dick was smeared with precum and along with her moisture -- Catherine would get quite wet herself when truly excited, so that it was actually easy to realize when she was pretending, or tense, or unhappy --, which lubricated and helped to alleviate her suffering at the beginning of each penetration.
"Go easy!" she cried, when clumsily I almost tripped all the way inside her, "You're so big..." Too big and thick for her, it seemed, and only later, when we would have sex as revenge, motivated by a grudge or anger, was that she did not mind the pain I would inflict her with my organ, that was not comfortably fit for hers.
I failed to notice how Catherine's moans had changed to a new tone of annoyance, as I tentatively pounded her. Over the years, I would be able to distinguish her groans like different melodies -- when she was pleased, and when she was faking pleasure, when there was pain in her pleasure, or when there was pleasure in the pain. But that first night, I got so lost in my own satisfaction as I penetrated her. I closed my eyes, concentrating on the incredible new sensations I felt at each trust, and just subjugated and abandoned her, burdening her with my body.
Plunging into her, I was a boy and I was the peasant, awkward and rude, riding and hitting her hard, slamming my cock inside her in a shameful frenzy. I was a complete fiasco, but at least I was quick -- the way she strangled my organ did not allow me to last. She had been taking yoga classes, I was to find out, that she had abandoned for the mantras and prayers and all the talk about deities that were terribly boring for her. But at least she had profited from learning how to gain control over her pelvic muscles... And when, shortly after having flooded her, I again remembered her existence, almost surprised to find her presence under my body, as I sought her, she refused my kiss.
It wasn't her first time, but still I managed to hurt her, and I was scared when I saw her blood on me. I was desolated.
"It's okay, it's not serious..." She was kind and patient with me once she realized my sincere repentance and how, despite my size and age, I had been just like a boy in his first time. And Louis Malle's movie 'Le souffle au couer' crossed my mind, how the mother had said to her son 'I don't want you to be unhappy, or ashamed, or sorry...'
I had the next fourteen years to try to compensate for that first clumsy, selfish and rude night. Maybe that was a problem of conscience for me only, not Catherine's desire, for she never required atonement. She was nevertheless satisfied with my commitment to satisfying her in the subsequent occasions -- and years --, and also for having achieved that kind of dominance over me, that made her even more demanding.
"And now you can quit teasing my nipple, darling. It's over." She took my hand off her breasts. Turning on her side, Catherine fell asleep soon after that, relieved, for she finally had her potential rapist in her own bed, appeased, and she no longer had to fear me.
When the island regained its immense natural silence, I realized how much it could have been of supernatural nature. On the Island of Births, the only screams that had been heard throughout the times so far were that of mothers giving birth, and the cries of babies being born... And I wondered if I had broken a taboo by making love to Catherine on that island. Surely for the first time in its history, for Herr Weissmann was not married nor had a partner. Catherine's groans and my panting on the squeaking bed -- how would they have reached and affected the spirits imprisoned in the local ether, those waiting to be born on an island that would never again allow them to? What had the legend said about no couples being allowed to live on the island because whatever babies were conceived or born on the Île du Blanchomme would certainly bear one of those tormented souls? Did that thought actually cross my mind, and were I haunted by ghosts on the night I had lost my virginity?
For a moment, I was scared of my own frightful fantasies, but I held tighter onto Catherine, who had already surrendered to rest, and watching her beauty and letting it soothe me, I ended up falling asleep, too.


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The Critical Importance of Community
Originally posted on The Consciously Parenting Blog May 10, 2010
Two weeks ago, I traveled to Tennessee to support my older son as he competed in a Pentathlon. Trying to make the trip affordable (and doable), I invited another mother from my son's 5th grade class to ride along with me and my 6 year old. I figured that she would be able to hand him the apple I brought when he wanted a snack when I was driving or watch him when I went into the bathroom. We could get to know each other and I would have some company on the 12-hour drive. I didn't expect the level of support that I received, so it got me thinking again about the topic of community and support.
What is community?
Perhaps community is the idea that we are not alone in all of this, especially parenting. We're designed to be in relationship, to reach out to one another, and to work together. I often think, somewhat longingly, to the idealized villages where everyone works together, where chores are done in community, and it is not a world where each family is alone with one person doing most of the work of organizing the family. (Of course, the reality of that world is that they need to do those things to survive… but it is something to consider. How can we bring that kind of community and support into our lives here and now?)
What does it mean to support one another?
The realization that I was experiencing support struck me when I realized that she had exceeded my expectations. So what were my unconscious expectations? As I reflected on this questions, I realized that support, to me, means that you're not physically alone. There are other people nearby, perhaps sharing expenses or helping out when asked. But I didn't realize I don't expect others to just jump in- to see what needs to be done and do it with a kind, loving heart. It was quite an eye-opening moment for me!
I think most of us have challenges with asking for help. We've learned since early childhood that we're supposed to do by ourselves. Most of us haven't had the idea of community modeled for us, like my friend clearly had. How do we create that which we didn't know even existed?
I think it takes having experiences where we feel what it is like.
We need to find those people in our lives who can bring this into our awareness so that we can even know (and feel) the possibilities. When I give homework in my online classes, asking parents to ask someone else for help with the children or household tasks- since we all need a community- most people come back the next week only having given it a little thought, without taking action. When I ask them to do something nice for another family, they usually manage to do it. We've learned since early childhood that we need to please others, without taking care of ourselves or asking for what we need.
So when my friend volunteered to get up and take my son to breakfast so that I could sleep after the long drive, I was blown away. She played with him, named his feet (Blah Blah is his right foot and Blah Blito is his left foot), and created an adorable caped man with her finger and a paper towel in the car. I watched her pour in the energy she had on reserve into my child the way I used to do when I was a nanny or babysitting for other people's children.
We all need people like that in our lives. Thanks for the reminder, Patricia!
What are your experiences creating community?
Have you had experiences where someone went over and above your expectations? I'd love to hear about it!
(And if you're looking for an opportunity to experience what it is like to be supported by other like-minded parents, don't miss our retreat coming this winter on the Carnival Paradise, sailing out of Tampa, FL January 25th!)


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Aldie Mansion in Bucks County Wedding. This wedding was the 1st time we ever been banished to the back of a church. But they did it nicely 🙂 Either way, it worked out lovely. The wedding was held at the historic Bryn Athyn Cathedral & the getting ready & reception was held at the beautiful Aldie mansion. I don't have to say how great Jeanine and Dan were, the pictures say it all 🙂 It was their day & we were honored to shoot it!
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10/20/18 - End of the SeasonWhile Olympic Hot Springs Road has been closed to general motor traffic at Madison Falls for a while now, the road was open for hikers, bikers and park vehicles thanks to a pair of temporary bridges. Those bridges are now gone for the season. The detour hiking route is still open, but it is longer and not good for bicycles.
The mules are vanishing too. They're probably off to their winter homes. The area is closing down for the season. It isn't going to close completely. There is a trail, but the wide easy road is closed.
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Day 805: Alarming and significant.
1/ Robert Mueller's investigators gathered "alarming and significant" evidence of obstruction by Trump that was "much more acute than [Attorney General William] Barr suggested" in his four-page letter to Congress. Members of the special counsel team told associates they believe their findings are potentially more damaging for Trump than Barr explained, and are frustrated that Barr did not adequately portray their work. The team had also prepared summaries for different sections of their 400-page report, which Barr did not use. Lawyers and FBI agents on Mueller's team reportedly could not reach an agreement about whether Trump's conduct amounted to obstruction of justice, but Barr, after consulting with Rod Rosenstein, went ahead and cleared Trump. (New York Times / Washington Post / NBC News / Bloomberg)
- The House Judiciary Committee called on Barr to release Mueller's summaries that were prepared as part of the Trump-Russia report. "If these recent reports are accurate … then those summaries should be publicly released as soon as possible," chairman Jerry Nadler said. Nadler also called on Barr to produce "all communications" about the Mueller report between the special counsel's office and the Justice Department. (Reuters)
2/ The Department of Justice defended Barr's handling of Mueller's 400-page report on possible obstruction and Russian interference, saying they didn't disclose the full report because "every page" contained protected grand jury information and it "therefore could not be publicly released." A full report is expected to be released by mid-April after "appropriate redactions." (Politico / Wall Street Journal / CNN)
- Rand Paul blocked a resolution calling for Mueller's report to be released publicly. It was the fifth time that Republicans blocked the resolution, which unanimously passed in the House last month. (Axios)
3/ Trump accused the New York Times of being a "Fake News paper" with no "legitimate sources" after it reported that Mueller's team believes that the report is more damaging than Barr has indicated. "In fact, they probably had no sources at all!" The Times story was corroborated by the Washington Post and NBC News. (Axios / Daily Beast)
4/ The House voted to end American involvement in the Yemen war and cut off support for the Saudi-led coalition. The bill now heads to Trump, who is expected to veto it – his second veto as president – and Congress lacks the votes to override him. The White House claimed the resolution raises "serious constitutional concerns." It's the first time Congress has invoked the War Powers Resolution to try and stop a foreign conflict. (Associated Press / New York Times / Politico / CNBC / The Guardian)
5/ The House approved legislation reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act with new provisions to prohibit gun sales to convicted domestic abusers and stalkers. The National Rifle Association opposed the bill and said it'd be "scoring" how lawmakers vote on the bill to measure future ratings and endorsements in elections. (NPR / New York Times / Washington Post / CNN)
Trump backed down from his threat to close the southern border. Instead, he gave Mexico a "one-year warning" and threatened to impose car tariffs before closing the border "if the drugs don't stop." (Politico / NBC News / Washington Post / CNN / Bloomberg)
Jared Kushner was among one of the 25 White House officials whose security clearance was initially denied but later overturned. A whistleblower in the White House's personnel security office said she and another career employee determined that Kushner had too many "significant disqualifying factors" to receive a clearance. (Washington Post)
Trump intends to nominate Herman Cain for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board. Cain ran for the 2012 GOP president nomination, but dropped out after sexual harassment allegations. Cain also co-founded a pro-Trump super-political action committee, America Fighting Back PAC, which claims that "America is under attack" and "we must protect Donald Trump and his agenda from impeachment." (Axios / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal)
Trump's nominee to lead the Interior Department continued lobbying clients for several months after vowing to end his lobbying activities. In November 2016, David Bernhardt filed a legal notice formally ending his status as a lobbyist, but continued his work until as late as April 2017. (New York Times)
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that white supremacy is a "persistent" and "pervasive" threat to the U.S. After the New Zealand mosque massacre last month, Trump said he didn't consider white nationalism to be a rising global threat. (CNN)
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- Books are not scrolls. [...] Permit yourself to open a book and start reading from anywhere. In the case of mathematics or physics or anything especially hard, try to find something anything that you can understand.
- Consider writing what you read as you read it. This is especially true if you're intent on reading something hard.
- I once asked Umesh Vazirani how he was able, as an undergraduate at MIT, to take 6 courses each and every semester. He said that he knew he didn't have the time to work out his answers the hard way. He had to find a shortcut. You see, Umesh understood that problems often have short clever solutions.
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What is the acromioclavicular joint?
The acromioclavicular joint (also called the AC joint) is where the collarbone (clavicle) meets the highest point of the shoulder blade (acromion).
What conditions can affect the acromioclavicular joint?
Arthritis and injury are the most common conditions that affect this joint.
Acromioclavicular joint arthritis is relatively common and causes pain on top of the shoulder region, and pain is often provoked by movement across the body or above shoulder level.
Injury can also affect the AC joint. A fall can injure the acromioclavicular ligament and capsule of this joint and cause instability and dislocation. If the force is severe enough, the ligaments attaching to the undersurface of the collarbone are torn. This causes a separation (AC separation) of the collarbone and shoulder blade and creates a bump or bulge above the shoulder. The injury can range from a little change in configuration with mild AC joint pain, to be quite deforming and very painful.
AC separation and injury diagnosis
The injury is easy to identify when it causes deformity. When there is less deformity and changes have occurred slowly with ageing and "wear and tear" degeneration, the location of pain and X-rays will help make the diagnosis. Sometimes having the patient hold a weight in the hand can increase the deformity, which makes the injury more obvious on X-rays.
A CT scan or MRI scan can also assist in diagnosing problems with this joint.
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What are the treatment options for AC joint pain?
Most injuries to this joint can be effectively treated without an operation. Rest, ice, AC joint exercises, and physiotherapy are often helpful in reducing pain and helping to return to usual activities. Ongoing troubles with pain or inability to perform usual activities may warrant surgery to stabilise this joint.
In wear and tear (degenerative) arthritis, significant pain and dysfunction may necessitate surgery to alleviate symptoms.
This is usually in the form of keyhole surgery performed by a shoulder specialist to remove the end of the collar bone and decompress this painful joint. AC joint rehab and AC joint recovery from this type of surgery is normally quick.


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|For an overview of 10mm pistol models in various games, see 10mm Pistol.
The N99 10mm Pistol is a firearm found in Fallout 3. The pistol uses 10mm ammo, commonly found in Washington, DC and the surrounding Wasteland. It is similar to the Colt 6520, which is more common on the West Coast. It is also the first powerful gun given to you in the game.
This weapon can be used to repair the Silenced 10mm Pistol and Colonel Autumn's 10mm Pistol.
The 10mm N99 sidearm was standard issue military gear following the phase out of the N80 in 2051. The N99 was known for its ability to survive in the harshest of conditions and in many tests, as the weapon was able to reliably be restored to working condition after an extended period of time exposed to hard elements and without maintenance.
The N99 proved to stand up to its claims and as a result, is one of the most common weapons found in use in the Wasteland. While many civilian weapons were ruined beyond use in the extreme conditions following the war, the N99 is commonly able to be easily restored to working order by anyone with even the most basic knowledge of firearm mechanics.
However, an N99 in poor condition can often deliver low target and armor penetration, frequent jamming, and greatly reduced accuracy. Fortunately, the weapon was produced in great numbers and units are available for replacement parts.
The 10mm pistol is almost always a superior choice to its counterpart, the Chinese Pistol. It has a faster, more predictable fire rate, much greater accuracy, and better damage. It is generally a more common find.
In Operation: Anchorage, there's a re-skinned version of the pistol that has a black finish with brown grips, rather than the silver rusted version and has an almost infinite amount of health. Other than those characteristics it's exactly the same in the simulation as it is outside the simulation.


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This Wine-Themed Train In West Virginia Will Give You The Ride Of A Lifetime
This train ride through the mountains of West Virginia has some of the best of all worlds. Enjoy the scenic landscape, sip some wine, and work to solve a murder mystery… could it get much better than that?
Visit the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad website for more information about booking tickets.
For another amazing train ride from the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad, check out the "Wild Heart of West Virginia" trip, where you can journey to an old company town, a scenic overlook, and a ghost town.


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Vivek Chakravarthy (Manoj Manchu) is an upcoming rock star in Bengaluru who hails from a family of decorated army officers. His mother wants him to follow the same path but he isn't interested. He is about to give his first live concert on New Year's Eve with his band-mates in Hyderabad.
However, Vivek is late to catch the flight and so the band is forced to travel by road. After sometime, one of their tyres get deflated. Not having a spare, the other friends go to get the tyre inflated leaving Vivek and Lasya (Lekha Washington) alone. Meanwhile, they are attacked by a Hindu racist group. However, they manage to get out of the mess with the help of a Sikh truck driver (who incidentally gets involved in an earlier alteraction with Vivek). The band successfully reaches Hyderabad. However they suffer a minor accident there which involves a mother in labour. So Vivek and Lasya takes her to the hospital.
Saroja (Anushka) is a prostitute in Amalapuram working for Rattamma. She has a best friend Karpooram who is a eunuch. Saroja doesn't like working for Rattamma and plans to run away from there. Her dreams come true when she receives a call from Hyderabad from one of her agents. The very next day, which happens to be the New Year's Eve, she leaves for Hyderabad with Karpooram, without Rattamma's knowledge; but not before putting the local sub-inspector Bullabbai to sleep using pills. However, Saroja is arrested in Hyderabad by constables for betraying Bullabbai. Karpooram gets frees her from the inspector and they are both taken by their agent to a client. The client turns out to be yet another broker, who bought Saroja and Karpooram from Rattamma. Both successfully escape from the broker after a scuffle in which Karpooram gets stabbed. So, Saroja takes her to the same hospital that Vivek and Lasya take the pregnant lady to.


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Four Things Restaurants, Bars, and Hotels Need To Know About Dram Shop Law
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There are many businesses that can fall within the classification of a "dram shop." Dram shop is a term used to describe any establishment where alcohol is sold and consumed, including bars, nightclubs, and restaurants. Businesses can face a variety of liabilities when the distribution of alcohol is involved. Because of this, Texas dram shop laws are in place to protect against the overselling of alcohol. Here are four aspects of Texas dram shop law about which business owners should be aware.


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Moonshot ships with a tool, moonshot-webp, to securely and correctly provision credentials onto clients. The format for credential files is simple XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <identities> <identity> <display-name>[i.e. John Smith from Camford University]</display-name> <user>[i.e. johnsmith]</user> <password>[i.e. correct-horse-battery-staple]</password> <realm>[i.e. camford.ac.uk]</realm> <services>[see below]</services> <selection-rules>[see below]</selection-rules> <trust-anchor> <ca-cert>[base64-encoded representation of the IdP's root certificate in DER form]</ca-cert> <subject>Foo</subject> <subject-alt>Bar</subject-alt> <!-- Or alternatively --> <server-cert>[sha256 hash of the IdP's server certificate]</server-cert> </trust-anchor> </identity> </identities>
Inclusion of the trust anchor is vital - without it credentials may be exposed to malicious resource providers. This credential format is also used to secure communication between RP's, IdP's and trust routers.
services section is used to determine which services credential will be automatically used for - each service will be contained in its own tag. For use with a trust router, it is better to use the
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<services> <service>firstname.lastname@example.com</service> <service>email@example.com</service> </services>
selection-rules section is used to restrict which services the credential will be automatically used for - for use with a trust router, the service type is "trustidentity" for all services.
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I lie in my light-filled, love-filled upstairs bedroom on a long, body-conforming bean bag. The air I feel and somewhat hear has traveled from the ocean, over the Ventura valley and into the space that I occupy, unsolicited. A stranger to mirrors and at odds with nature, I have planned my return to the mountains from the city like a long-lost relative finally coming home. I am tranquil and unwelcome since my thoughts aren't as smooth as the wind or as joyful as the light or as differential as this three hundred dollar adult sized bean bag.
I am suffering from a paisley boredom, where the things I need to do and the things I want to do mix with the abstraction of relaxation, I thing I never do. When my hours pass unplanned, my sense of self is questioned, my accomplishments are examined, my dreams are ridiculed.
There are my myriad writing projects–all of which have passed their self-imposed deadlines–and un-tracked hours lead to lost words. It is impossible for a writer to lie or sit and simply be. For we are born to delineate, destined to catalog. Even the tranquility of a luxury mountain home cannot bend a writer's preternatural resolve to unravel the universe and her currents while fastening the truisms and trends of humanity to written permanence. Or whatever.


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In this study, we combined morphological classification, DNA phylogenetic analysis and reproductive cross experiment to solve problems on speciation and gene introgression in major reef-building corals Genus Acropora possibly arising from mass spawning. At first we isolated a mini-collagen gene encoding a nematocyst capsule protein from A.donei and A.nasuta and determined the whole DNA sequences of them for about 5000 base pairs long respectively.Primes for PCR were designed according to the comparison of the genes, PCR amplification of a part of the gene was succeeded that spans from the 2nd exon to the 3rd exon from 14 species of Acropora. Obtained DNA fragment sequenced and compared by neighbor-joining method to figure out intraspecific polymorphisms and interspecific divergences. On the other hand the Acropora corals were subjected to experimental cross to ask reproductive isolation of the species. Results are following, 1 : A.nasuta and a morphologically similar species showed interspecific fertilization and their DNA differences are larger in intraspecies than in interspecies suggesting gene introgression by hybridization, 2 : A.nasuta and A.formosa, morphologically far related species, fertilized interspecifically at high frequency and A.formosa possessed two types of DNA sequence belonging to A.formosa group and A.nasuta group suggesting A.formasa as a hybrid species of A.nasuta and an unidentified species, 3 : a major table coral A.hyacinthus has small DNA variation but fertilized by small number of combination within this species suggesting rapid appearance of reproductive isolation in this species. Thus evidences were obtained to understand how Acropora evolving forming 'metaspecies' through mass spawning.
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In 2010 and 2011, many community members helped out as volunteers and laborers to build this beautiful eight-sided structure that provides light in the darkness and warmth in the cold.
In March 2012, we learned that this place helps community to experience the cycles of life together – through birth, baptism, initiation, marriage, planting, harvests, sickness, and death – finding the JOY present in everything.
Once upon a time, we 2 legged animals, called human people were losing our way. We came together on a grassy knoll surrounded by mountains, streams, forests. A fire was lit from that place ~ the wind, sun, rain ~ brought hope, connection, community and visions of a future growing together, living together. The light from the knoll reached out and inspired other fires to be built in fields, forests and hollows. There was a renewed sense of purpose of humanity in relation to self, to others and to non-human beings. Like a lighthouse, this place brought peace and healing and inspired others to do the same. And every new moon closest to the spring equinox there was dancing and feasting there.
We call that place Atsila galvquotiyu Tsunilawisdi adanelv ( Sacred Fire Council House: ah-gee-la ga-luh-kwo-tee-you dzoo-nee-la-wee-es-dee a-da-nay-luh)


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Why are only Super Bowl ads funny? Why are companies so serious online?Posted: February 7, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: advertising, digital marketing, funny, Super Bowl, TV 1 Comment
If you Google the best Super Bowl ads, the one thing that all the lists of ads have in common is that majority of so called 'top ads' are designed to make us laugh. I've been involved in marketing for several decades and at no point have I come across research that says if you make people laugh they will then go out an buy your product. Which then begs the question do the agencies create funny ads because these ads work, because they enjoy making funny ads, or because such ads win awards? I suspect the answer is 'all of the above'.
The fact that the most expensive ads of the year are also the most amusing does make me wonder if marketers are missing an opportunity for the other 364 days of the year (actually 365 this year). Why isn't humor used routinely? Why instead do most ads try and stimulate some other emotion such as fear (ING – what's your number, All State's Mayhem ads)? Watch the Acura ad from this year's Super Bowl that featured Jerry Seinfeld and the car barely gets a look in. This may be because you can't yet buy the car, or because they paid so much to get Seinfeld that they want their money's worth. Whatever the reason, the humor makes you remember the ad. This is more likely the reason. Again though, why don't more ads make you smile?
I don't watch much live TV. Indeed the Super Bowl is one of the few times I watch a live broadcast and even then, I'm hardly gripped. I am British after all. I know the 'live' piece is a major reason why the ads are so highly priced. You have a massive audience that is watching live, rather than recording it to watch it later. This means that few people are doing what I do normally – fast-forwarding through the ads. But would we fast-forward through ads if they were a part of the entertainment in the same way Super Bowl ads have become? I suspect many would not.
Back in the late 1980s I recall going to movie theaters at least 10 minutes before the start time so I could watch the adverts from people like Levi's. This was a golden era for advertising. Adverts were made by the likes of Ridley Scott and they were visually stunning and generally entertaining. They were in short a part of the event, not an annoyance you sought a way around.
As marketers look to embrace digital channels I wonder if there is a lesson in here. Should we be ensuring that we make the marketing channels as engaging as the content the customer is really looking for when they go online? You bet. This is of course why so many brands are trying to crack social marketing. Again though, I do wonder if brands are missing a trick. So many brands that have engaged through channels such as Facebook and Twitter do so in a relatively serious way. I'd urge these brands to think again and look at those funny TV ads. After all, we like to remember the good times. So if brands want to be 'Liked' perhaps they need to focus more on making us smile 🙂
The Internet is THE marketing channelPosted: January 18, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Earlier this week I read about how the Internet advertising industry continues to grow at an incredible pace. It's still smaller than traditional channels such as TV and print but while these channels stagnate, the Internet, it seems is growing like the proverbial weed. This will not surprise anyone in marketing. We all know that fewer people are reading newspapers and sitting down to watch the news on TV. Despite this, many in marketing still view the Internet as just one of several important channels. If anything they view traditional channels as still having the edge. Is this because they still spend large percentages of their budgets on big TV ads that we all avoid with our DVRs? Or is it because we view traditional media as the root of content and the Internet as merely a convenient distribution channel? Whatever the reason I'd suggest such thinking is outdated. The Internet is, in my book, now officially king. Youth audiences view the Internet as their primary source of content to the point where they almost ignore traditional forms of media. Even older audiences, thanks to smartphones and tablets, are now turning to the Internet as their first point of content consumption. Think about it. When did you last use a physical newspaper as a real source of news content? Today's news is real time and completely digital. We simply don't wait for the printed word anymore. TV still plays a role on major news items like the death of Osama Bin Laden but even there the Internet helps us get deeper perspective and raw content. But the Internet offers more than just content delivery. The Internet has become a fabulous research tool, enabling us to price and quality check products and services in ways that were unimaginable a decade ago. The Internet now handles the sales and support of a large number of products and in some cases has revolutionized whole industries – music, books and video being obvious examples.
All of this shows that the Internet has become an incredibly important channel for businesses, governments and other organizations. But my belief that the Internet is now THE marketing channel is perhaps best illustrated by imagining a day where the Internet was shut down. Just think about how difficult it would be if you could not use the web, email and VOIP? It would be catastrophic for some businesses to lose the Internet for just a day. Imagine if it went away altogether? Replacing the role the Internet plays in commerce is hard to imagine. We now use the Internet to drive so many aspects of our business. Again, though it shocks me that so many people in marketing are not viewing the Internet as king. From where I sit, the Internet is THE marketing channel and the sooner people start putting the Internet first in their marketing plans the better. The disappearance of newspapers would be sad and irritating but we'd survive. Losing cable or satellite TV would in some cases be desirable. I for one could live without Judge Judy and Oprah for a very, very long time. But if you unplug even a portion of the Internet, commerce would grind to a halt and democracy would take a huge blow. So when you next sit down to write that marketing plan on your computer or tablet, make sure the first thing you work on is how to harness the full potential of the Internet. It's a fabulous place that, while not perfect, quite simply rules.
Has Apple changed the game with Siri?Posted: October 5, 2011 Filed under: Apple, search | Tags: iPhone 4S, New types of content, Search, Siri 3 Comments
Few will have missed the unveiling of the iPhone 4S. Central to the launch was the introduction of a voice activated assistant which allows users of the phone to talk to it and get information or perform commands. Questions such as "do I have any meetings on Friday afternoon?" change the way we think about a mobile phone. I use my smartphone as a communication device and as a source for information but even with a highly visual interface I don't really enjoy searching for content on it. It's just not a big enough form factor. Voice commands change all that. By simply talking to it, I can get the information without having to type it several times. I think voice will change the way we use smartphones but also what kind of content we access. The old adage that only get what you ask for applies. When we type we express ourselves very differently from when we talk, so what we get back is different. It's the difference between calling someone to ask a question and emailing them. We get subtly different content. I've no real idea where this takes us but I'm pretty sure that we'll see an explosion in news types of content that voice driven requests will create. As someone yesterday suggested, imagine using the voice command to enable your phone to talk to someone in another language. An instant translator if you like. Lastly, voice commands pushes natural language searching miles forward and as we know, when we improve search we improve what we find. When we improve what we find, people get very rich…
PR PROs should drive insight not just newsPosted: September 1, 2011 Filed under: News, PR, Twitter | Tags: Insight, news, PR, pr consultants 3 Comments
PR agencies do more than drive news BUT they do tend to focus on the news cycle a great deal for obvious reasons. Yet PR has to recognize that the way we consume news has changed drastically in the last five years. Five years ago people had a primary news source, either via broadcast or a daily newspaper. Today they have a broad array of news sources that includes these same outlets, albeit online, but also includes bloggers, friends and people they follow on Twitter or are connected to on LinkedIn. In such a fragmented market for information it is harder for companies to control their message. This makes it far more important that companies determine the insight they want the news to create, which in will in turn drive the way they engage with the brand. Yet all too often companies are so focussed on how to best to get the news out that they spend little, if any, time on what the news means and what they expect the people who should be connected to that news to do as a result. In a world where we are drowning in information, the brand that goes the extra mile and helps us figure out how to make use of that information will win. For PR agencies this means changing the way we think about the news cycle. We need to work with our clients to make sure they understand the real and or desired implications of the news they want to promote. There's an old saying – there's no such thing as bad news. Perhaps PR consultants should worry less about the news and more about the insight. Insight drives behaviors and actions and without these a client may well wonder why they engaged with you in the first place.
EBAY IS A MEASURE OF BRAND VALUEPosted: June 14, 2011 Filed under: brands, eBay, Measurement | Tags: brand value, eBay, measure 1 Comment
There are lots of ways to measure brand value. For marketers it's a very important metric, which is why they often end up spending large amounts of money trying to measure it. It occurred to me yesterday that, while not perfect, eBay provides a very good way to measure the value of a brand. This thought sprang from the fact that the Blackberry Playbook is already being sold at a discount on eBay. For a product that has only just been launched this speaks volumes for the current state of the Blackberry brand. Indeed eBay can give you a very accurate read on consumer sentiment towards the 'value' of a brand through this kind of price analysis. eBay can go further though. The site gives you a clear sense of the popularity of a product both by the volume of products being sold and by the number of bids on each product. Lastly it gives you a measure for the reliability of a brand. Search on digital cameras and you will find a host of 'broken' items. If you were to tally the number of broken items as a percentage of those for sale by brand you would a) demonstrate what a sad geek you were and b) get a read on how reliable that product was. I'm sure people with more brainpower and time than I have could come up with a host of other eBay metrics that would help derive the value of brands. At the very least though, I would highly recommend that marketers scour eBay to get a sense of the competition and of the community around their or their clients' products.
How many Fortune 100 CEOs use Facebook or Twitter?Posted: June 6, 2011 Filed under: CEO rankings, Facebook, Twitter | Tags: CEOs, Facebook, Fortune 100, Twitter 6 Comments
Back in 2009 the numbers were very small. Only two used Twitter or Facebook. Two years later and things have improved dramatically, well at least in percentage terms. Based on our latest research, just four Fortune 100 CEOs have Twitter feeds and while the total number of Facebook users approaches 700 million, just nine Fortune 100 CEOs make some use of Facebook accounts. The four using Twitter are:
Warren Buffett – Berhsire Hathaway – @WEBuffett
Michael Dell – Dell Computer – @michaeldell
Brian Dunn – Best Buy – @BBYCEO
Craig Herkert – Supervalu – @herkc
When it companies to the companies themselves it is a very different story. All but 19 of the Fortune 100 companies have Twitter feeds and almost all the CMOs do. What is interesting is that Apple has no Twitter feed, nor does its CEO while CMO was recently lauded for his use of Twitter. Jobs also has no presence on Facebook. The absence of top CEOs on Twitter may seem surprising to some. These CEOs would likely all attract large followings and could use their accounts to add to the company's personality through their tweets or Facebook updates. The challenge seems to be one of time and priorities for many. What several rightly want to avoid is have a ghosted twitter account. If they are going to tweet they want to be the ones doing it. Ghost tweets (tweets written by someone in their team on their behalf) lack authenticity and may in some cases give the impression they have too much time on their hands – not something investors would like to think.
So while I think the number of CEOs who tweet is bound to rise, especially as younger CEOs take over from today's generation, I suspect it will be a long time before even half the top CEOs are tweeting. Twitter, Groupon, Zynga and several other companies will likely have gone public by the time we get to anything approaching a high percentage. Until then, you can continue to follow the fake Steve Jobs tweets like the one shown above. Who knows, their tweets may prove more interesting, even if they're not very accurate.
It would be easy to view the low CEO numbers as a sign that all is not well in social marketing. Quite the contrary. Indeed it's great to see the number of businesses that have embraced Facebook and Twitter at other levels. These social networks are now used to engage with a host of different stakeholders from customer, though investors to analysts. Indeed the level to which brands are now engaging online communities is staggering and goes a long way to explain why traditional forms of media are fighting for survival. So while Fortune 100 CEOs may be taking things very slowly, the businesses they oversee are most definitely not.


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MADISON, Ala. -- Halloween seems to be here early this year as the creepy clown craze continues. One town after another all around the country continue to report sightings of the costumed figures.
But why are we so afraid of clowns?
"As infants what we go through in our development is something called face recognition-- we know the two eyes, nose, mouth, we learn that pattern, it becomes familiar and comfortable to us. Then we see something like a clown that is close to that pattern recognition, but not enough and it's not safe...it's not familiar," explained licensed professional counselor Charlotte Baldwin.
Baldwin said Hollywood films turning clowns into monsters are also to blame for the widespread fear.
"Clowns used to be fun, they weren't thought of as frightening...but Hollywood has taken them and made them dark characters," Baldwin said.
Recent creepy clown sightings are perpetuating the distress. The mysterious figures often lurk outside in the dark and thanks to social media and a 24/7 news cycle, if you weren't afraid of clowns before seeing the images, you probably are now.
Baldwin said if you have young children it's best to keep them away from these images and scary movies so they won't develop life-long fears.
"Particularly really young children have a difficult time understanding the difference between real and make believe and don't always have the expressive ability to talk about it," Baldwin said.


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For the seventh consecutive day, Tropic Thunder is the number one film at the box office. Another $3,257,597 on Tuesday represents a 9.3% decline from Monday's $3,590,742. This is not a large drop relative to most first Tuesday performances; however, there is a bit of cause for concern. Yesterday was a sensational day at the box office overall. Only three films in the top ten had lesser box office on Tuesday than Monday. The other two titles in decline were Star Wars: The Clone Wars, down 2.1% to $1,338,022, and Mirrors, down 3.7% to $1,128,295. Clearly, all three major new releases this week performed in similar fashion. The only anomaly was Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which was up a spectacular 9.4% from Monday's $450,857 to Tuesday's $493,410. Yes, it's only $43 thousand but every little bit counts on small indie releases like this. For the major studio titles out last week, a Tuesday decline was a given. The problem with Tropic Thunder is that it had by far the steepest decline at 9.3% when nothing else fell more than 3.7%. There is the difference in scale between a $3.3 million performer and a pair of performers in the $1.1-$1.3 million range to consider, but Tropic Thunder is showing signs of deterioration.Before you come in with both guns blazing on BOP Feedback, hear me out on this. Pineapple Express is a title I think you would agree is not showing the usual longevity for a title of its pedigree. Comedies run indefinitely, but its $1,579,790 Tuesday is only 13% of its opening day performance. It's also reflective of only 6.8% of the title's opening weekend. For comparison, Knocked Up's 14th day in theaters reflected 24.3% of its first day of revenue as well as 7.7% of its opening weekend. If you want to use Superbad as a comparison since it was later in the summer, that title's 14th day represented 14.1% of its first day and 5.5% of its opening weekend. So, Pineapple Express isn't doing as well as either one relative to first day revenue and the only reason it's beating Superbad on 14th day to opening weekend holdover is because its biggest day of box office isn't included in its first Friday-Sunday tally. Given that Superbad made roughly $42.6 million from its 15th day on and that Pineapple Express isn't holding up as well, it may not make $100 as it currently stands at $65,880,810. Don't get me wrong. It's still a massive hit. It just isn't the leggiest of films from Team Apatow.


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Rockfalls are part of the natural evolution of cliffs. Due to their unpredictable force, they can often overcome manmade defences and pose imminent danger. Researchers at Cemagref, the French land management research institute based in Grenoble, have been exploring ways to 'design' forests to act as natural barriers to falling rocks.
Often the result of erosion processes and climatic factors, such as rainfall and temperature variations, rockfalls are something of a geological certainty, says Frédéric Berger, a research engineer at Cemagref. 'What is upslope will eventually finish downslope.'
Berger thinks that well-thought out forest management can offer an effective defence mechanism, with trees intercepting and dissipating the kinetic energy of rocks. He asserts that well-structured stands of trees and a variety of forest developmental phases can beat traditional methods, such as man-made net structures. 'It is not possible, for economical reasons, to put nets everywhere, [and] in mountain areas, the slopes are very often covered by forests,' notes Berger.
He adds that, as well as fixing nets on living trees, or using logs for rockfall barriers, other natural methods include designing the forest so that the trees are positioned to divert the rocks' trajectories. 'It costs less to manage forests than to replace them with civil engineering works – the main question is to determine where the forest offers a sustainable and efficient solution. Our tools are dedicated to answering this question.'
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Berger's team is developing and trialling three simulation models which they hope will help predict how and where rockfalls will occur. Rockfor.NET is a rapid assessment tool, freely and publicly available on the internet. It is a 1D model that quantifies the protective capacity of a forest stand, and predicts the number of 'curtains' that would be required to form a protective area.
The other models are RockforLIN, a statistical 2D tool used to build up a geographic information system, and RockyFor, which simulates trajectories of falling, bouncing and rolling rocks in 3D. 'RockyFor allows a more thorough analysis of the rockfall hazard because slope irregularities are taken into account, and it provides spatially explicit output. Moreover, it explicitly simulates the impact of falling rocks against trees,' says Berger.
The team has already used the models to make the Risk Prevention Plan for a commune in Veyrier du Lac in France. 'Two days after the presentation of our results, an event occurred and its run-out zone was exactly the same as the ones obtained with our models,' says Berger.
The models can be applied to forested areas across the globe, with 25 private companies currently using Rockyfor3D, and Rockfornet in the USA, Japan, Australia, Turkey and the EU. Berger adds that although the models have not been trialled in all possible situations because of logistical reasons, 'we are developing a community of users and a web exchange platform in order to communicate their experiences, knowledge and success and non-success stories. The goal of this is to improve our models with the information coming from the users'.
Management tools
According to Berger, there are many measures that forest managers can take to optimise the protective capacity of forests, such as guaranteeing the sustainability of an efficient forest, avoiding clear cutting and oversized regeneration gaps.
Although man likes to think he can master nature, Berger thinks that it is healthy to be a little scared of it and not over-estimate man-made protection. 'A 100% protection doesn't exist.' As with town planning schemes that cut unnecessary street clutter, such as fences, signs and crossings to encourage drivers and pedestrians to be more aware of each other, he hopes that 'working with the forest will help to develop a real risk culture so people will develop more intelligent and responsible behaviour in risk prevention'.
The Forestry Commission's Barry Gardiner, based in Midlothian, UK, an expert in forest modelling, says that 'this is absolutely brilliant work that is at the cutting-edge of the subject'. He is particularly impressed with how Cemagref's research validated its computer models, predicting the trajectory of rocks falling down slopes and crashing into and bouncing off trees. 'The models have the physics fully calculated and incorporated and are very realistic. The result is that they are able to determine the best arrangement of trees to dissipate the energy of rockfalls and to plan strategies for protecting slopes, roads and the public,' he adds.


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text: Share: Comments Print August 28, 2008 at 6:43 PM Comets game thread Posted by Jayda Evans STORM WINS: The Storm improved to 4-2 without Jackson, defeating the Comets 66-49. It wasn't great as only Bird scored in double figures with a game-high 22. She had zero assists, leaving that to Wright, who had five. LYTTLE HURT: F Sancho Lyttle was smashed by Yolanda Griffith on a play with 6:11 remaining the game, drawing a foul but unable to get off the court on her own. She smacked the court several times and wallowed in pain, limping off with an apparent hurt left leg. She was carried to the visitor's locker room. She had 10 points and 10 rebounds and was solidifying my pick for Sixth Woman of the Year or Most Improved. Storm leads 58-40. GAME OVER: Is this Team USA? The Storm is up 52-34 and Houston looks nothing like the team that won five consecutive games prior to the break. The loss of Hamchetou Maiga-Ba (ankle) hurts, but didn't think it would be this much. Can't even say it's the KeyArena crowd, since the score has them socializing amongst themselves. And it's not like the Storm is lights out. Bird has 20 points, but no other player has more than six points. We'll see if the Comets can find a pulse in the final quarter. POURING IT ON: Yeah, the Storm worked hard during the break. The bench came in and added one of the biggest sparks of the season, helping the Storm take a 38-24 lead into the break following a jumper by Shyra Ely and another three-pointer by Bird. The Comets are making tacky mistakes and can't get a basket to fall. Thompson glanced over at press row with a pissy look that froze the water in my bottle. The Jet City dogs are the halftime entertainment. FIRST SHOT: Bird's still hitting threes, so it almost doesn't matter. But Thompson is on the board, making her first basket with 7:27 remaining in the half. A fan rubbed it in belting, "Hey Tina! This ain't China is it?" Thompson was Team USA's second-leading scorer (12.8), leading the Americans in points in three of the eight matchups. Storm leads 26-17 with 5:33 remaining in the second quarter. BIRD'S THE WORD: Bird is playing like it's Beijing. She nailed back-to-back buckets, one a three-pointer to help the Storm close out the first quarter with a 18-11 lead. The Storm is doubling and tripling Thompson, limiting her to two attempts, making none, in 10 minutes. The Comets are shooting 23.5 percent overall (4 for 17). The Storm isn't any hotter (35 percent), but their defense is as if they never had a break. CASHING IN: Cash just checked in with 5:04 remaining in the first quarter. Storm is up 9-2 with Hodges scoring the Comets' opening basket. STRONG START: The Storm was 0 for 4 from the field to open the game, but with 6:16 remaining in the opening quarter, they haven't allowed Houston to score and lead 7-0. It's dicey, expected with a monthlong break. Wright is making plays and Little is still muscling her way inside for rebounds and put backs. It's been a minute since I've done one of these, so excuse any rust. I am happy the Storm is back. Congrats to Team USA and all for winning gold, but I only like watching competitive basketball and the Olympics were a huge disappointment (and yes, I realize the Aussies were injured). The only rise I got was that pseudo dunk Candace Parker almost had at the end of the gold-medal game against Australia. I was ripped by a friend for saying this, but I'm glad she's attempted the shot — although the rookie needs to learn not to rush. Six seconds is a long time to pull it off. My friend thought it was poor sportsmanship, but I say bump that! It's the Olympics and on that stage you go hard until the final horn because it'll take four years for you to be back — if you're so lucky. Anyway, WNBA play is back and it'll be full of drama, especially out West. Storm coach Brian Agler released his starters and thankfully I don't have to shave my head, G Sue Bird is starting. But her former college teammate Swin Cash is not. Agler played it off as G Tanisha Wright being "a starter all season" and wanting Cash to catch-up from her missing practice over the Olympic hiatus. If you'll recall, Cash had a cortisone shot in her lower back and choose to take the fine/benching to broadcast the Olympic women's basketball games for NBC from their studios in New York instead of rehabbing in Seattle. If she's pulled from the lineup to catch-up, that's basically a benching right? Agler said it's a game-by-game situation. KeyArena is starting to fill up and the public announcer already gave props to Olympians Kelly Santos (Brazil), Jackson, and Americans Bird and Tina Thompson (Houston). Let's get rolling. Here's tonight's starting lineups: STORM F Sheryl Swoopes F Camille Little C Yolanda Griffith G Tanisha Wright G Sue Bird COMETS F Tina Thompson F Roneeka Hodges C Michelle Snow G Tamecka Dixon G Shannon Johnson Tonight's officials are Kurt Walker, Shelley Nakasone, Scott Twardoski. Comments


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"The Woman in Cabin 10," by Ruth Ware, was published in 2016 and became a New York Times Bestseller… a reputation it deserves. I devoured the book in one day, deeply regretting that I hadn't taken it with me on a train ride and wait at a doctor's office (my husband was with me and I wanted to be polite and not ignore him for a book, foolish decision).
Note: I won this book from a Goodreads giveaway. My opinions are my own.
Laura "Lo" Blacklock is a struggling writer at travel magazine "Velocity." She's been there for years without a promotion when, due to the illness of a higher up, a plum assignment drops into her lap. She gets a chance to cover the cruise ship "Aurora," a sparkling miniature gem of a ship that will intimately house rich and influential people. Her task is to interview and report on them and the exciting ship, and hope she can hobnob her way into advertising money for the magazine.
Things kick off to an inauspicious start two days before she's scheduled to leave, though, when a burglar breaks into her flat, robs her, and barricades her in her room. Luckily for Lo the burglar hasn't taken her passport and she's able to get on the ship on time… after an unexpected PTSD driven physical altercation with her long time boyfriend, Judah Lewis. Once on the ship, Lo is primed to have a good time, experience a bit of luxury, and further her career. But she can't stop thinking about the burglary or the fight she and her boyfriend had. And when she hears a large splash at night, she isn't entirely sure if she imagined it… or if a body was thrown overboard with her as the only witness.
Lo is a deeply flawed woman, one grappling with functional alcoholism and a fear of commitment, a history of mental illness, claustrophobia, and a recent bout of PTSD from the burglary. She has a small selection of coping skills from CBT sessions that don't seem to help her cope very well, and medication that's better than nothing but doesn't help as well as it could. She feels very solid, very real, and likable. She's a grounded character. And this makes her horrific adventure all the more harrowing. We, the readers, are already rooting for her and invested in her well being.
"The Woman in Cabin 10" is a pretty traditional "was there a crime or is the crazy lady crazy" story, set amid Agatha Christie-style "closed room" (or isolated ship) opulence. If there was a murder, after all, the murderer couldn't easily get off the ship. Especially since the passenger list, and crew, of the "boutique" (small) ship are likewise small. Meanwhile, there's swarovski crystal, raw silk, and plush carpet everywhere Lo turns, leaving her feeling a bit out of her element.


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October 31, 2012
FNC Exclusive: 8/16/2012 Classified Cable WARNED Benghazi Consulate Couldn't Withstand 'Coordinated Attack'..
No Mr President, this isn't going away anytime soon thanks to 'whistle blowers'.
Catherine Herridge at FOX
The U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an emergency meeting less than a month before the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, because Al Qaeda had training camps in Benghazi and the consulate could not defend against a coordinated attack, according to a classified cable reviewed by Fox News.Update: Catherine Herridge and Rep Chaffetz on Greta:
Summarizing an Aug. 15 emergency meeting convened by the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Aug. 16 cable marked SECRET said that the State Departments senior security officer, also known as the RSO, did not believe the consulate could be protected.
RSO (Regional Security Officer) expressed concerns with the ability to defend Post in the event of a coordinated attack due to limited manpower, security measures, weapons capabilities, host nation support, and the overall size of the compound, the cable said.
According to a review of the cable addressed to the Office of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Emergency Action Committee was also briefed "on the location of approximately ten Islamist militias and AQ training camps within Benghazi these groups ran the spectrum from Islamist militias, such as the QRF Brigade and Ansar al-Sharia, to Takfirist thugs. Each U.S. mission has a so-called Emergency Action Committee that is responsible for security measures and emergency planning
The details in the cable seemed to foreshadow the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. compound, which was a coordinated, commando-style assault using direct and indirect fire. Al Qaeda in North Africa and Ansar al-Sharia, both mentioned in the cable, have since been implicated in the consulate attack.


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20th Century Fox has unveiled a brand new trailer for Kingsman: The Golden Circle which gives us our first look at the upcoming flick in all its explosive glory.
Following the panel at SDCC, where Halle Berry apparently downed half a pint of Whiskey, 20th Century Fox released the first trailer for the sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle. The new trailer introduces us to The Statesman, a secret allied spy organisation in the US, which the Kingsman look to for salvation after their HQ is destroyed by a ruthless enemy.
That enemy is of course Julianne Moore who plays the role of Poppy who has been previously described as "Martha Stewart on crack."
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It finally happened. I am surprised that it has not happened sooner.
This semester I had in my class - 2 Kaylas, 2 Emilys, 3 Michaels, 2 Matthews, and 2 Saras.
I had downloaded their final project papers to make comments on my local laptop and save a PDF version of each commented paper to upload to the students as a supplement to the completed rubric.
I logged into Blackboard, went to Needs Grading and pulled up ungraded assignments for Emily #1. On my laptop, I had open the paper for Emily #2. I completed the rubric associated with Emily #1 based on the work of Emily #2. When I went to grade the work for Emily #2, I discovered my mistake.
It would have been so nice to be able to reassign the completed rubric mistakenly associated with Emily #1. Instead, I had to do a lot of copy/paste to save and manually transfer what was written.
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Very closely related to Idea #1. My students often make the same mistakes again and again (e.g., spelling and grammar errors, forgetting to write an introduction and conclusion). It would be really nice to be able copy a completed rubric from a repository or from one student to another.
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