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Task lists. We all have them, but only some of us actually use them. One key way to ensure that you use your task list to its fullest potential is to keep it synchronized between all of your devices. So, how do you do that, you ask? With Tasks N Todos from Handy Apps. This is a killer all-in-one solution for taking away your "I forgot" approach to not getting things done.
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For starters, it syncs with Google Tasks, so if you have access to GMail, you have access to your task list. Furthermore, it stays synched up with your tablet and phone, both of which have their own respective interface. Can you start to feel your forgetfulness slip away? I hope so.
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ShellS reacted to a gallery image: A coil vase, white stoneware with terra sig, glaze, and stain
applying iron oxide to greenware
weeble replied to barb9000's topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkI've tried RIO, manganese dioxide, and copper carb on greenware. They all brush off pretty easily after a cone 05 bisque without something to fix them. The terra sigillata is a very fine slip, and it acts to fix the oxides so they DON'T brush off at bisque, so you can brush glaze over very easily. The copper carb was brushing off bisque very easily too, so I usually use the copper carb/terra sig mix on bisque as well as green. RIO and manganese dioxide however you can simply apply to bisque and rub it back with a sponge, it sticks well enough to get fun effects! HMMMMmmm, wait, its been ages since I started using the sigs with stuff on greenware, so maybe it was something else I was doing that was giving me fits. I just know I started using the sig and things started working! It might have been the Mason stains that I was trying to use on the greenware that were the problem, I normally use RIO and manganese straight, but only on bisqued stuff, and the copper carb was NOT behaving as well on the bisque. Mason stain with the sig works wonderful on greenware though. Sigh, ok, disregard that first part, I'm a tad burnt out trying to get ready for a show!
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weeble replied to adkspr's topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkI am another one who lives 2 hours from the nearest clay retailer, and it really is more cost effective to make the run. I'm not a volume producer, so 300 to 500 pounds at a time every few months, the fuel charge is only about $40 in my toy pickup. (aka Ford Ranger) I usually plan a clay run for when I need to get out of this backwater and go shopping anyway!
"how Bad Can It Get?" Craft Show War Stories
weeble replied to Isculpt's topic in Business, Marketing, and AccountingHey Mark, I see we've done some shows in common! Yep, did one was in Crescent City... wind blew over booths, street barricades, anything and everything. The vendors were all totally sandblasted and dodging traffic as we packed it up at noon. Another in Bandon, at least there though I managed to keep things from self destructing and cars wizzing by the booth wasn't an issue. A couple on the Brookings Boardwalk, but they were good shows once I had someone crawl under the boardwalk and run a line around so I was literately tied down to the boardwalk. Yep, North Country Fair. Nothing like having your booth backed up to the local liquor store that has tied a bottle opener to the corner stop sign for the duration. The falling drunks missed me that year (but got the booth next to me) and next I requested a booth round the corner some... Then there have been the Ash Rain show (Biscuit fire fall out, nasty stuff on woodwork) and the RAIN rain show - another Festival of the Arts, a few years later where my booth was in 3 inches of water most of the second day after an overnight deluge. A bunch of duds where nobody came but the vendors. The down-a-dark-hall shows where I watched the customers stream by going around the corner and mostly missing our hallway. Then there was the dead-alternator show, where my truck made it exactly half way to the show. But I had a spare battery for booth lighting, five miles of power cord and a charger in the truck, so I had the tow truck haul me to the motel I had reservations at and plugged in there. Would have been ok, except some shmuck stole the battery charger from under the truck. I drove back in daylight so it all worked out. Eventually. Oh my. There's a reason I don't do many shows anymore!
Dayem, if we got air miles for shipping distances, we'd all be vacationing someplace warm with fruity drinks! I've got three outstanding boxes at the moment, the rest have been delivered, reasonably on time, although I still haven't figured out why there was a side trip on a few of them!
How To Fire Without A Kiln?
weeble replied to Davidpotter's topic in Business, Marketing, and AccountingI fire for people outside the pottery group from time to time, but they have to properly answer a few key questions first so I can determine if I'll do it or not. Usually its just one or two items, but sometimes its a shelf or two. I charge based on how much work they want fired (ok, I'll admit, there IS a PITA factor involved!) First, they have to know (not 'think', not guess, KNOW) what clay and glaze they are working with and what the proper cone for firing is. "I don't know" is an automatic 'Sorry, but no, I can't fire that.' Because we're a local art association, I get a lot of 'oh I made this years ago but never got it fired, can you?' I have to protect the kiln, so I end up turning a lot of people down. I also look at the item and the construction, and I must admit I've turned down a few doorstops that were just so badly constructed I figured they'd be... well, explosive. For work that looks good and they're able to answer questions about the clay, I'll go ahead and cautiously fire it. Often I'll sort of isolate it from other work, on its own shelf just in case, or on a specially constructed tray in case I have my doubts about firing temps for the item, but really I've had very few problems. The biggest issue I've had is people bringing stuff in at random times, then not picking it up after its fired. I've got half a shelf devoted to 'orphans' :/ But if its been left for too long I let others finish the items and take it. I've also been known to sell it!
applying iron oxide to greenware
weeble replied to barb9000's topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkI normally sponge or brush my glaze on, but I bet if you're spraying you'll be fine just going with the one bisque. With brushing though, the copper carb was lifting, which is why I started using a terra sig base and often do the second bisque. You're just going to have to do some tests to see what the glaze/copper carb combination do.
applying iron oxide to greenware
weeble replied to barb9000's topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkI've been using copper carb in a way that might answer some of your questions. I mix the copper carb with a white terra sig just because its a handy way to stick the stuff, copper carb seems to wipe off a lot easier than RIO and mang.diox. I apply this mix to a textured bisqued piece, then wipe it off the areas I want the base clay color to show then put my transparent over and glaze fire. This gives a nice green with a wide range of light and dark areas. Adding the copper carb to the glaze directly gives a much more uniform look, less textured, so its not what I want. It makes a nice green glaze if that's what you want though. Some of the carb burns out so I don't worry about getting it all off. Applying over the glaze seems to be a bit more irregular on what burns out. As I'm looking to emphasize the texture, this works much better. A thicker layer of glaze = more movement of the color. Sometimes I'll re-bisque to lock the copper carb on before glazing, sometimes not. Its a time and patience thing! Here I wiped almost all the copper carb off the raised surface and used a semi-transparent satin white over the copper carb. then went back in and added more carb on the lip of the pot.
weeble replied to Raisinbikes's topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkOur cold here comes with humidity (something about being a temperate rain forest) so without adding heat, work NEVER dries. Sigh. Space heater to the rescue!
Public Studio Vs. Lone Ranger
weeble replied to JustPeachy's topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkIt might be I'm the odd duck here, but I'm actually the one who 'manages' the kiln and pottery group at our local art center. For the most part I make sure everyone knows the few rules we have and I load, fire, and unload the kiln. I used to let others load and unload, but after a few... incidents... I finally said nobody does it without me being there! We have the classroom space 2 afternoons a week, and a limited amount of drying and storage room - JUST enough room to dry a load at a time. Because of our limited space and the fact that we're a 2 hour drive from the nearest ceramics supply place, we've decided to go with just a few clay choices and commercial glazes. So I keep about 4 hundred pounds on hand, and people buy clay at a price that lets me pick up whatever glazes we need next time I make a run for clay. I've trained a few others in how to RTFM so they can fire, and there's a cheat-sheet with all the important info, just in case. We don't have room for wheels, so all our work is handbuilt. That really keeps the hard core production people out. I fire about one cycle a month, sometimes more, and for the most part our peeps are hobbyists working on their own projects. There are a few of us doing work at home that might be described as production work, but its still handbuilt and basically just enough to keep firing regularly! Its a good group and the dynamics work well. I occasionally get someone who's interested in joining but has no pottery experience, so I run them through a quick and dirty class I call the 'Don't Blow Up The Kiln!' class, and those of us in the group with more experience are always helping out those with less experience. I'm usually working on something 'fun' or maybe even a showy piece while at the center, as long as I can keep an eye on what's going on. I'm sort of the facilitator, I guess! At home I'm doing more production work, more complicated stuff that I can't set aside while I help someone figure out how to get that side to STAY or what color glaze works on that clay. I don't have a kiln at home, and my space is just a small area of an old barn that I've hung plastic walls around to attempt to keep some heat in. If I run the space heater for a couple hours, its almost civilized, but dang the clay stays COLD! I guess the whole point is, I take advantage of both a public studio and my home work space. I really like the ideas that get bounced around the public studio, and I may be insane, but I like helping others where they need it. The time around others really helps make the time I work alone better! I just wish my own space was WARM this time of year!
What A Great Opportunity For International Sales! Not!
weeble replied to a topic in Business, Marketing, and AccountingOh, they like Etsy too, I got one but they just wanted a high end coil pot. Of course they wanted to know the 'condition of the item' and if 'the item is still available' and unfortunately they're out to sea, and can only use Paypal, would I send my bank info. I'm sure if I'd have replied there would have been a private shipper that I'd have to pay from the money order they sent. Yeah, I might have fallen off a truck on the way off the farm, but it wasn't yesterday!
Spam Attack
weeble replied to Mark C.'s topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkYeah, I probably see the same 7, but they're all by the same poster with 2 different names, based on the topics and translation fail. You'd think they'd at least find something to do a better job translating spammish into English! I think I've seen instruction manuals translated by the same software....
Alternatives To Iron Oxide
weeble replied to synj00's topic in Clay and Glaze ChemistryCheck out Terra sigillata! Its a very thin slip thats been deflocculated and the finest particles pulled out to use. You can spray it, pour it, dab it, and color varies depending on what clay you make it from. Put it on THIN on greenware and buff with a soft cloth or plastic grocery bag and it looks wonnnnderful. Its great for low fire work, on cone 5 you loose some of the sheen but its still a nice finish. Use a couple different shades and you can get a very nice shading of colors. This is a tan clay (Laguna Weststone II) with a terra sig made from my yard clay (-it goes on babycrap green, and fires orange-) put on the greenware, then a darker brown terra sig put over it after the bisque. You can get an idea of the base color of the clay from the shot of the bottom. It's got cork on it, but the center area has very little terra sigillata on it and its almost the base clay color. dunno if this new fangled system will let you click and see the big versions, but there are bigger shots as well as a shot of the bottom of the planter on my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.556182454455843.1073741839.158972634176829&type=1
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Fyi Re: Purloined Intellectual Porperty
weeble replied to Seasoned Warrior's topic in Business, Marketing, and AccountingUnfortunately there is another side to the story.... http://faso.com/theartedge/66723/lisa-congdon-vs-cody-foster-what-about-the-photographers It'll be interesting to see how this one plays out...
Latex Removal
weeble replied to roca rule's topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkJust rebisque them, the latex should burn off just fine. It might stink, but I do this regularly with wax.
Brush Cleaning
weeble replied to capt don's topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkThe pottery group I work with has several designated 'wax' brushes, then we clean them with hot water and a squirt of 409 right after use. They're oil painting brushes with the stiffer bristles and I know a few of the older ones pre-date my time with the group and I've been there over 15 years...

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Two atomic bombs made by the allied powers (USA and UK) from uranium-235 and plutonium-239 were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively early in August 1945. These brought the long Second World War to a sudden end.*
* Military planners had confidently anticipated that a conventional amphibious assault on Japan would entail over three million total deaths among Allied and Japanese military and Japanese civilians.
The immense and previously unimaginable power of the atom had been demonstrated. In the following years several governments joined the arms race, while internationally, efforts were focussed on constraining the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation.
But from the 1950s the power of the atom was harnessed increasingly for peaceful uses, notably electricity generation and medicine. Nowhere is the transition from weapons of destruction to power for good better displayed than Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan which have come to depend substantially on electricity from nuclear energy.
Today, as the main nuclear arsenals are being dismantled and a comprehensive test ban treaty is in sight, commercial nuclear power provides a significant portion of the world's electricity. Several factors suggest that nuclear power has a much larger role to play in supplying the world's future energy needs, and this is supported by every reputable projection.
The Hiroshima bomb was made from highly-enriched uranium-235. This was prepared by diffusion enrichment techniques using the very small differences in mass of the two main isotopes: U-235 (originally 0.7% in the uranium) and U-238, the majority. As UF6 , there is about a one percent difference in mass between the molecules, and this enables concentration of the less common isotope. About 64 kilograms of highly-enriched uranium was used in the bomb which had a 16 kiloton yield (ie it was equivalent to 16,000 tonnes of TNT). It was released over Hiroshima, Japan's seventh largest city, on 6 August 1945. Some 90% of the city was destroyed.
The 21 kiloton explosive charge for the bomb detonated over Nagasaki three days later was provided by about 6.2 kilograms of plutonium-239 (>90% Pu-239), and its preparation depended on the operation of special nuclear reactors built for the purpose. During 1942, under conditions of wartime secrecy, the first human-designed reactor* had been constructed, in a squash court at the University of Chicago. It used highly purified graphite to slow the neutrons released in fission to enable further fission. This paved the way for more substantial production reactors at Hanford. The plutonium-239 generated in these could be separated by simple chemical methods, with no need for the complexities of isotope separation.
* Several natural nuclear reactors functioned about 2 billion years ago in Africa.
However, the design of a plutonium bomb is very much more complex than one using enriched uranium. Hence the need to test it, and in fact the plutonium was first used for a test explosion at Alamogordo in New Mexico on 16 July 1945, ushering in the nuclear age with all its threat and promise.
The devastating effects of both kinds of bombs depended essentially upon the energy released at the moment of the explosion, causing immediate fires, destructive blast pressures, and extreme local radiation exposures. Since the bombs were detonated at a height of some 600 metres above the ground, very little of the fission products were deposited on the ground beneath. Some deposition occurred however in areas near to each city, owing to local rainfall occurring soon after the explosions. This happened at positions a few kilometres to the east of Nagasaki, and in areas to the west and north-west of Hiroshima. For the most part, however, these fission products were carried high into the upper atmosphere by the heat generated in the explosion itself. The majority would have decayed by the time they landed around the globe.
In Hiroshima, of a resident civilian population of 250,000 it was estimated that 45,000 died on the first day and a further 19,000 during the subsequent four months. (Another figure is 78,500 fatalities, with 5 to 15% of the short-term ones being from radiation.) In Nagasaki, out of a population of 174,000, on the first day 22,000 died and another 17,000 within four months. Unrecorded deaths of military personnel and foreign workers may have added considerably to these figures. About 15 square kilometres (over 50%) of the two cities was destroyed.
It is uncertain what proportion of these 103,000 deaths, or of the further deaths in military personnel, were due to radiation exposure rather than to the very high temperatures and blast pressures caused by the explosions – 15 kilotons at Hiroshima and 25 kilotons at Nagasaki. From the estimated radiation levels, however, it is apparent that radiation alone would not have been enough cause death in most of those exposed beyond a kilometre of the ground zero below the bombs. Most deaths were from blast injuries or burns rather than the radiation. Beyond 1.5 km the radiation risk would have been much reduced (and 24 Australian prisoners of war about 1.5 km from the Nagasaki ground zero survived and many lived to a healthy old age).
It is relevant to note that from February 1945 leading up to the Hiroshima attack, US bombing of Japanese cities – notably Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe – by B-29s delivered about 100 kilotons of high explosives and incendiaries to urban areas in hundreds of raids, creating huge death and destruction. Some 80,000 to 100,000 people were killed in a single 300-bomber raid on Tokyo. About 80 square kilometers of those four cities was destroyed in ten days during March. Overall 67 Japanese cities were partly destroyed, 500,000 people were killed and 5 million more made homeless.
To the 103,000 deaths from the blast or acute radiation exposure at Hiroshima and Nagasaki have since been added those due to radiation induced cancers and leukaemia, which amounted to some 400 within 30 years, and which may ultimately reach about 550. (Some 93,000 exposed survivors were still being monitored 50 years later.) There was an increase in leukaemia beginning about two years later and peaking at four to six years later, and other cancers beginning about ten years later. There was no evident to suggest an increase in leukaemia at less than 500 mSv acute dose. At an acute dose of 100 mSv, an increased cancer risk of 1.05 times normal was calculated. There was concern about ingestion or inhalation of radionuclides, but fires released far higher levels of non-radioactive carcinogens.
Teratogenic effects on foetuses was severe among those heavily exposed, resulting in birth deformities and stillbirths over the next nine months. Beyond this, no genetic damage has been detected in survivors' children, despite careful and continuing investigation by a joint Japanese-US Foundation.
The major source of exposure in both cities was from the penetrating gamma radiations, and to a lesser extent from the neutrons (mostly at Hiroshima), emitted during and shortly after fission. There were two further, and smaller, sources of exposure. One, already mentioned, was due to the 'black rain' which fell in some areas, carrying down radioactive materials from within the rising cloud of fission products. The exposures due to these depositions are in general estimated to have been small, but some increased activity from the fission product radionuclide caesium-137 remained detectable for many years in soil and farm products in the Nishiyama district east of Nagasaki.
The second additional form of exposure resulted from the effect of neutrons in inducing radioactivity in various stable chemical elements such as in iron or concrete structures or roofing tiles. The total absorbed doses of radiation from these activation products are estimated to be less than one per cent of that from the neutrons which induced them. They could however have caused a significant exposure of people who entered the city within a few days of the explosions.
See also Radiation Effects Research Foundation (in Japan): frequently-asked questions.
The atmospheric testing of some 545 nuclear weapons up to 1963 caused people to be exposed to radiation in a quite different way. The Japanese atomic bombs had caused lethal exposures locally from radiation at the time of the explosions, but very little radiation more than a few kilometres away. On the other hand, subsequent atmospheric tests did not cause any substantial direct exposures of people at the time of the tests. However, the fission products released into the atmosphere caused the whole world population to be exposed to very low but continuing annual doses from fallout. In at least two instances these fission products also caused substantial irradiation to small populations exposed to local fallout close to the site of testing.
The atomic bombs used in Japan in 1945, and the bombs or devices testing during the following seven years, depended on the fission of uranium-235 or plutonium-239, mostly the latter. The explosive effect of each was equal to that of up to a few tens of thousand tonnes of the conventional explosive TNT. On this basis of comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was of about 15 kilotons – that is, of 15 thousand tonnes of TNT equivalent – and that at Nagasaki was of 25 kilotons (c 65 and 105 GJ respectively). In addition, the total equivalent of all atmospheric weapon tests made by the end of 1951 was in the region of 600 kilotons.
After 1951, however, devices were being tested which had explosive effects about a thousand times greater, and by the end of 1962 the total of all atmospheric tests had risen from the 1951 value of 0.6 million tonnes of TNT equivalent, to about 500 million tonnes equivalent. This vast increase in scale was due to the testing of 'thermonuclear' weapons or 'hydrogen bombs', which depended, not on the fission of a critical mass of fissile material alone, but on a two or three-stage process initiated by this reaction.
In a thermonuclear bomb, an initial fission, such as occurred in the 'atomic' bomb, momentarily creates conditions of enormously high temperature and atomic disturbance that allows the fusion together of the nuclei of atoms of low atomic number, such as lithium and hydrogen. This fusion liberates further large amounts of energy explosively, such as occurs in the similar reactions in the sun and stars.
In some such bombs, the high-energy neutrons released are used to set off a third stage, making it a fission-fusion-fission process. The third stage consists of the fission of a surrounding 'blanket' of uranium-238 isotope which is fissionable by neutrons of this high energy. This third stage provides about half of the yield of such a weapon.
The release of fission products is approximately proportional to the explosive power unleashed, although fusion as such does not give rise to them. From 1952 to 1962 therefore, with a thousand times more energy released in atmospheric testing than previously, the amounts of fission products discharged into the atmosphere would have increased by a much lesser factor.
To complete this tally of the total fallout to date, all atmospheric tests since 1962 appear to have increased by rather less than 20 percent the total of fission products that had been deposited by previous tests, as judged by the measured deposition of strontium-90 in successive years.
The most important radionuclides remaining from weapons testing are now carbon-14, strontium-90 and caesium-137. The global average dose from these is about 0.005 mSv/yr, compared with a peak of 0.113 mSv average in 1963. Residual dose rates at test sites are mostly low (< 1 msv/yr), apart from at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.
Twelve atmospheric nuclear explosions comprised the main part of UK weapons testing in Australia. Three were at Monte Bello Islands (WA) in 1952 & 1956, two at Emu Field (SA) in 1953 and seven at Maralinga (SA) in 1956-57.
Since the 1963 atmospheric test ban treaty, weapons tests have been mostly underground, the exceptions being by France and China. The underground tests have had no immediate environmental effect and are generally seen as relatively benign compared with the atmospheric tests.
In 1970 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed, and now has five weapons states: USA, UK, Russia, France and China. The basis of the NPT was that other states which were signatories eschewed the nuclear weapons option and in return were promised assistance in civil nuclear power development by the weapons states.
Today, 187 states have signed the NPT. The only states with significant nuclear facilities that are not party to the NPT or equivalent safeguards agreements are India and Pakistan , which exploded several nuclear devices in 1998, and Israel, which is generally believed to have nuclear capability. South Africa developed some nuclear weapons but then dismantled them, under international scrutiny, and has joined the NPT. Iraq and North Korea sought to circumvent their obligations under the NPT and this was thwarted by international pressure, but North Korea subsequently resigned from the NPT and then exploded a nuclear device underground in 2006.
From 1957 to 1989 the USA and USSR conducted about 150 explosions underground as part of their peaceful nuclear explosion programs. A bilateral treaty covering these was signed in 1976. See also PNE paper .
Both cities were rebuilt soon after the war and have become important industrial centres. The population of Hiroshima has grown to over one million and that of Nagasaki to 440,000. Major industries in Hiroshima today are machinery, automotive (Mazda) and food processing, those in Nagasaki are associated with its international port, particularly Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, now a major nuclear reactor supplier.
Nuclear energy has come to be an important part of the life of each city in a totally new way: today one quarter of Hiroshima's electricity is from nuclear power and half of that for Nagasaki is nuclear. Both cities are testimony to the positive benefits of a technological society which applies available energy resources to the needs of urban populations and industry.
Sources (much of the paper is taken directly from Pochin's book):
Edward Pochin, 1983, Nuclear Radiation: Risks and Benefits, Clarendon Press Oxford.
UNSCEAR, 1977 and 1994, Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation.
F. Barnaby, 1982, The Effects of a Global Nuclear War: The Arsenals, Ambio XI, #2-3.
IAEA 2004, Radiation, People and the Environment.
US Strategic Bombing Survey – summary report, July 1946.
Jane Orient, Fukushima and Reflections on Radiation as a Terror Weapon, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, 19, 2, summer 2014, p48
Information on weapons matters and tests can be found on http://NuclearFiles.org
Note: Being opposed to the spread of nuclear weapons and their testing, the World Nuclear Association does not normally comment on such. However, due to pubic interest and to complement information papers on safeguards and countering weapons proliferation, this paper endeavours to complement the factual information normally provided by the Association on the peaceful uses of nuclear power.


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This is the european version of the Motorola XOOM which is company's first ever tablet computer. It features a healthy-sized 10.1-inch capacitive screen with a very high resolution of 1280x800, a 5MP HD camcorder (front-facing cam included) and the mandatory dual-core ARM-based Tegra 2 chipset, which will allow for full 1080p HD video playback. The device surely looks sexy, as it has a large widescreen display and a bezel that is quite thin. Naturally, most of the buzz around the Motorola XOOM comes from the fact that it's the first tablet to run Google's tablet-optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. This will bring a lot more functionality to the device, as all the core apps will be redesigned so as to allow the user to take full advantage of the much greater screen size, compared to what you get on a smartphone. Even widgets will be revamped, bringing new features, tastefully dressed in a brand new and shiny interface. In addition, the tablet will feature all the known goodies that we love like an accelerometer, gyroscope and of course, Adobe Flash 10.1 Player support.


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I have been reading the Guardian for the last week. I get it on my Kindle, on which the first two weeks of a newspaper subscription is a free trial: and I have to say that reading the Guardian really is a bit of a trial for an old reactionary like me. Unlike the Independent, which does at least try to be dispassionate, every word of the Guardian is dripping in its own variety of Left-wing bias. The paper seems to me now a very long way from the vision of its most famous editor, C P Scott, who in a famous piece marking the Manchester Guardian's centenary in 1921 wrote that the "primary office" of a newspaper is accurate news reporting: in his words, "comment is free, but facts are sacred". Even editorial comment, he said, has its responsibilities: "It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair." Well, the comment in the Guardian, signed or unsigned, is to my mind sometimes so grossly unfair that it's practically unreadable: the very names of its two most prominent commentators, George Monbiot and Polly Toynbee, are almost synonymous with unfairness and spite (as Lord MacAlpine in the case of Monbiot discovered to his cost). And even the news reporting often needs to be checked against other sources.
But I digress. I mention the Guardian because of its (credible) front page splash on Wednesday: "Ukip plans to derail David Cameron over gay marriage." Nigel Farage has, it seems, spotted what many others saw some time ago, but what Cameron himself has apparently not yet understood: that this, not Europe or the economy, could be the issue which will destroy his leadership of the Tory party and lose him the election.
The main group campaigning against the change – the Coalition for Marriage (whose petition, ignored by the government, as I write has 620,505 signatures) – is warning Tory MPs that the issue could bring about what it is calling Cameron's "Iraq moment". Tony Blair needed the support of Tory MPs to win the Iraq vote after 139 Labour MPs rebelled. But winning that vote with the help of his enemies did lasting damage to Blair's authority within his party from which he never recovered. That seems to me an entirely valid parallel.
Cameron thinks this is all about the modernisation of the party and bringing it into touch with modern Britain. But if he loses the trust of his party, in the country as well as in the House, he will find himself walking on very marshy ground; and if he goes any deeper into this swamp (as he can now hardly avoid doing) it could (and I predict will) swallow him up. Members in the constituencies are resigning in record numbers. And it's not just the Guardian which is reporting that. According to Iain Martin in the Telegraph, "Tory MPs say they are getting a steady stream of letters from outraged constituents and party members who are resigning. One MP, a supporter of gay marriage, admitted that the letters have been running 6-1 against over the past six months."
And many of those who resign are defecting in the direction of Nigel Farage. That's why Mr Farage, as the Guardian tells us, "plans to put the issue of gay marriage at the heart of Ukip's campaign for the 2014 European elections". "Amid signs that Conservative associations are losing members in their droves," the paper reports, "over what is being dubbed the prime minister's 'clause IV moment', the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, warned that gay marriage could 'rip apart' the Conservative party. He plans to put the issue at the heart of Ukip's campaign for the 2014 European parliamentary elections".
These elections, it should be noted, will take place a few months after the gay marriage legislation is due to come into force (though my own guess is it could still be bogged down in the Lords, whence it may never emerge unless Cameron, with the general election looming, foolishly invokes the Parliament Act, thus signing his own death warrant as party leader).
This is how Farage explains his tactics: "David Cameron's proposal has the potential to rip apart the traditional rural Tory vote. While Ukip wholly respects the rights of gay people to have civil partnerships, we feel the prime minister's proposals will present an affront to millions of people in this country for whom this will be the final straw. The division between city and rural is absolutely huge. In my village pub in Kent they are just completely against."
Farage thinks the gay marriage issue will benefit Ukip by highlighting the impact on this country of the European court of human rights and by giving his party a touchstone issue around which it can rally. "Ukip is not a one-issue party," he says. "But the gay marriage case is closely interwoven with the European Court of Human Rights, as is so much of our life. Ukip will be seen to be a party campaigning not just about who governs Britain but about how we think that Britain should be governed."
Farage is right to invoke the spectre of the European Court of Human Rights. For, whatever legislation the government introduces to give national Churches the freedom to accept or reject the right to celebrate gay marriages in their own buildings and according to their own rites, any Church which forbids any such enactments on its premises and by its ministers will undoubtedly lay themselves open to proceedings in Strasbourg. In the words of the Anglican blogger Archbishop Cranmer, writing on the occasion of the government's original bogus "consultation" (tell us what you think, then we'll ignore it)
"The intention of the Government … presents a very high risk of Churches and Faiths being forced to marry gay people. Their right to manifest their religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance will be struck down at the Altar of Equality.
"It cannot be that legislating for religious gay marriage could be justified under Article 9.2 [of the European Convention on Human Rights] but we strongly fear – as do most of the Churches and Faiths of our country that, whatever the intentions of the Government are in this regard, such will be forced on them by the Strasbourg Court – a court which has a well-established track record of forcing the United Kingdom to adopt positions, such as votes for prisoners, which are anathema to our people. We [the Libertarian Alliance] believe that this case will be no different."
I agree. The fact that whole Churches, as national institutions, may be given the right to (may even be legally forced to, in the case of the C of E) refuse to "marry" people of the same sex will not protect them at Strasbourg. Any Anglican, any Catholic, will have the right to take his own Church to the European Court, especially if other Churches have been given the right to go through some kind of "marriage" ceremony: this will simply, in the eyes of Strasbourg, compound the unfairness of those Churches who don't allow it. So the latest concessions simply hasten Mr Cameron's forward lurch into the swamp he has conjured up for himself. His leadership of the Tory Party has surely now gone beyond the point of no return. And it could indeed be Ukip which will finish him off, with the votes of many of those Conservatives who will never again (as in "never again glad confident morning") vote for the party as long as he is its leader.


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Boulder Supports Clean Air Act, Joins Urgent Call for Climate Change Action
Colorado Faces More Droughts, Heat Waves, Huge Forest Fires
BOULDER, Colo.— As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels hit a new record, Boulder has joined Santa Fe, Chicago and more than 25 other U.S. cities in supporting the use of the Clean Air Act to protect air quality and reduce greenhouse gas pollution to reduce the risk of runaway climate change. Through a resolution approved Tuesday night, Boulder has signed onto the Center for Biological Diversity's national Clean Air Cities campaign, which urges the Environmental Protection Agency and President Barack Obama to take action on global warming through the Clean Air Act.
"Boulder's leaders recognize that climate change will cost Colorado dearly, and they support one key solution: the Clean Air Act," said Rose Braz, the Center's climate campaign director. "Cities around the country, from Santa Fe to Tampa — and now Boulder — are sending an urgent message to our president and other national leaders: To avert a climate catastrophe, we need to act now."
Arctic monitoring stations recently reported that carbon dioxide levels in the region have reached 400 parts per million — a milestone that underscores the risks posed by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gas pollution. Scientists say the world's atmospheric carbon levels need to be reduced to 350 ppm to avoid disastrous climate change.
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The Center's Clean Air Cities campaign is working with volunteers around the country to encourage cities to pass resolutions supporting the Clean Air Act and using the Act to reduce carbon in our atmosphere to no more than 350 parts per million. The resolutions call on President Obama and the EPA to take action under the Clean Air Act to address climate change.
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Today, we have sad news. Another trans sister has been taken from us. See here or here for news articles about the events, and read our press release below (also available as a PDF). Please share this statement widely, and come to the vigil this Saturday, July 23rd at 7pm on the 6100 block of Dix Street NE.
July 21, 2011
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DC Trans Coalition Grieves After Violence Claims Yet Another Transgender Woman's Life
Group Calls for Solidarity in Response to Violence in Our Communities
Washington, DC – In the early hours of Wednesday, July 20th, 2011, Lashai Mclean, a 23 year old transgender woman, was murdered in Northeast DC. The murder took place near the Wanda Alston House, a housing program for homeless LGBTQ youth operated by Transgender Health Empowerment (T.H.E.). Another trans woman was present during the attack and, thankfully, escaped. The Metropolitan Police Department has no leads or possible motives, and has not classified Lashai's murder as a hate crime.
Lashai was a friend to many people in the community – including several DC Trans Coalition (DCTC) organizers who offer our sincerest condolences to those grieving this loss. We must stress once again the absolute necessity for the police and media to respect Lashai's gender identity. The least we can do to honor her memory is to respect her chosen, lived identity.
While nothing can bring back those we have lost or undo the suffering we share, we can and should confront the daily terror and anxiety that trans and gender non-conforming people face. We can do this by building networks of mutual support and solidarity that sustain our efforts to feel safe and make change. Together, we must challenge institutional racism, poverty, transphobic attitudes, lack of social services, criminalization of sex work, and other policies that jeopardize our security.
We demand that MPD make finding Lashai's killer a top priority, lest she become a repeat of the unsolved 2009 lethal stabbing of Tyli'a "NaNa Boo" Mack in broad daylight, or the 2010 assault of Chloe Moore by an off-duty MPD officer who has not been charged in the case. "Lashai's murder is yet another visceral reminder that transgender women are consistently placed in dangerous situations. These acts of violence are not isolated incidents. The recent findings of the DC Trans Needs Assessment show trans communities in DC have overwhelming concern for our physical safety," said Sadie Vashti, a DCTC organizer who knew Lashai. "Regardless of the individual motive in this case, our lives are institutionally marginalized and regarded as expendable. This makes trans women – especially women of color and those involved, or presumed to be involved, in the sex industry – far more susceptible to violence."
We continue to hope for a future where there are no more senseless and violent deaths in our communities. Lashai's memory will strengthen our resolve to continue surviving, supporting one another, and struggling for a better world. T.H.E. will be hosting a vigil July 23rd at 7pm on the 6100 block of Dix Street NE, the site where Lashai was killed.
The DC Trans Coalition (DCTC) is a volunteer, grassroots, community-based organization dedicated to fighting for human rights, dignity, and liberation for transsexual, transgender and gender-diverse people in the District of Columbia. To learn more, please visit our website at www.dctranscoalition.org. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.


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Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Title: Mary Mordor Sue
Rating: Australian M - horror.
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Y'know, I didn't choose to be evil.
No, really, I didn't. Stop laughing at me, you bastard. It's your fault I'm here, after all. If anyone bears ultimate responsibility for the failure of the quest, it's you. If you hadn't been such an intriguing one to look on in the movies, or such an interesting one to read about in the books, do you really think I'd have walked through the portal? Of course not. I would have stayed at home, writing fan fiction. But no. I couldn't get the thought of you out of my head. So I delved around on the 'net, looked around places I probably shouldn't have gone. And there it was. The spell. The one which brought me here. It looked safe enough.
Well, of course it wasn't. I know that now. For starters, I know I should have looked for an indication of where it would drop me. As it was, turning up in the middle of Mordor was something of a hint it wasn't exactly the best move I could have made, right? So I turn around to get the hell out of there, but the portal's gone.
Yeah, yeah, I know, big hint number two. Shut up and let me tell the story my way, dammit. It'll be a bit quicker, and then He'll just kill you, kill me, and it'll all be over. So much for Arda, so much for the world I knew.
Don't even bother. The chains are welded. You should be proud - it takes time and effort to weld a chain shut, and it takes even more time and effort to explain the concept of "escape-proof" to an orc. Yet He was so keen on getting hold of you He spent the time and effort. Not to mention a number of orcs in the process. You're really popular around here. Really, really popular. He really does hold grudges for a very long time, you know. So don't try to escape. I don't fancy spending much time at the bottom of the volcano, and trust me, it's what I've been threatened with. An eternity at the bottom of Orodruin. Lucky me.
Oh, yeah. I'm getting sidetracked. Anyway, I come through the portal, I find myself in Mordor, I have just enough time to realise the portal's shut the minute I step through it before I get picked up by a bunch of orcs. Apparently He'd been waiting for someone to be dumb enough to step through. I couldn't understand a word of what they were saying, of course.
Because the language I speak is different to the one you speak. He's put a translation spell on me - one which wears off the minute I get more than five hundred yards from the path He has chosen for me to walk. See, I'm chained, just like you are. My chains are slightly different, is all. Threats, isolation, lack of language. I'm chained to Him, for as long as He needs what's inside my head. Not likely to be much longer, either.
Anyway, I'm taken by these orcs. Orcs which look somewhere between twenty and fifty times worse than the ones they thought of for the movies, too. You can still see the elf in these ones, which is what makes it worse - there's the dream if you can just wash the dirt off, clean the clothes up, tidy them up a bit, then they'll be redeemable. They're not, of course. It's what makes it worse than just having the goblins looking at me. At least the goblins are ugly outside as well as in. Orcs also smell worse than anything I've run across before. Worse than week-old sweat, worse than a pig farm, worse than a sewage treatment plant, worse even than powdered Parmesan cheese. So on top of being shocked by the transition from my world to this one, on top of the shock of not expecting to wind up where I did, on top of all the myriad shocks which come from suddenly winding up within the ashfall of a volcano...
Yes, that's where I picked up the scars on my face. Hot cinders will do that, you know. Oh hang on, of course you know. It's where you lost the eye, after all. Stop distracting me.
So, orcs smell, and I've suffered an assault to all of my senses in coming to this place. All of which means I'm not really thinking properly when I'm being dragged off toward this tower. Mind you, given the architecture of the place - spikes, pointy bits, lots of black - I'm pretty damn certain I've not landed in MordorDisney, which means I'm panicking all the way. I've at least some idea of who's going to be waiting for me.
Stop looking at me like that. I can cope with you hating me. Don't feel sorry for me. It's my own silly fault for being a fool.
And don't apologise either. I need to be angry with myself to be able to say all of this. I can't be angry if you're being sorry for me, or if you're apologising to me for the mess I got myself into. Can't you just hate me, and have done with it?
Yeah, I suppose so. It is a bit hard to dislike people on first acquaintance. Never mind, I'm sure I'll give you plenty of reasons to hate me by the end of this.
Anyway, I got taken into the tower and locked up in a cell, along with a lot of others.
Well, of course I wasn't the only one to have been so damn stupid. I wasn't even the first to have been so damn stupid. There are another three prison levels below this one, all devoted to the Legolas Lustbunnies. Or at least, there were back then. But I'm getting ahead of myself, and getting ahead of the story. You keep distracting me. Stop distracting me. Life here isn't pleasant, and I'd rather get it over and done with as soon as possible. The longer I draw this out, the longer I get to lie at the bottom of the volcano. So, you see, it's in my best interests to get this over with as soon as possible.
I got thrown into a cell, surrounded by a lot of others just like me. Well, some of them were just like me, geeky loners. There were a few tall willowy ones. There were even a couple of boys in there.
Don't be so surprised. Of course boys can be interested in you "that way". Where in the names of all the Valar do you think some of those more... inventive tortures came from?
Yeah, most of them were mine. But we're getting ahead of the story again. We were all cooped up together, told only the strongest would live. Each day, the orcs would come and drag forth one member of our company, take them up to Him. They'd return later, generally as a mindless husk. They didn't live long afterwards. Most of them didn't have the strength to fight the rest of us for the scant food we were provided. They certainly didn't have the wits to realise they needed to eat to survive. I don't know if any of them even had the desire to survive any more. In a way, it made it easier to kill them.
Let me spell it out, okay? There were about thirty of us in there. We were provided with food enough for three. Right, there's another one, don't you frown; Chew the meat and hold it down; It's a tale they won't believe...
I'm all right. Stop fussing. I'm going to be dead in a short while anyway. So are you. So it's not worth worrying about me.
I didn't have to start resorting to it anywhere near as soon as the others, though. I used to be very fat, or at least I was when I came here. I was able to live off my hump for a fair while before I started needing to join in the slaughter. I'd been sensible enough to pack some rations, though the orcs got them before I did. I was able to last quite a while in the cell.
Of course, it eventually came my time to be dragged before Him. I'd been avoiding the meat for a few days, due to my stomach feeling a bit queasy, and it was just enough for the others to push me forward for the orcs to take. No loyalty in the cells. So I was taken, and I'd barely the energy to sob. I was so certain I'd wind up dead, so positive I'd end up a gibbering wreck like the others. At the time, life was still sweet, I still wanted to hold on to it; the thought of having it taken from me unwilling was terrifying. Now, of course, I can't wait to be relieved of my burden.
You're looking at me with pity again. Stop it. Stop it, or I'll try some of the little tricks He taught me. I told you: hate me, but don't pity me.
Pity reminds me of who I was before I started all of this, of the weakling I used to be. I've no chance of surviving, of course, but I'd rather die as what I've become than who I was. At least there's a bit of a twisted status in being important enough for Him to kill personally. Now, do you want to understand why I've become this, or not?
Well, stop interrupting, and stop sidetracking me.
I don't know if I can truly describe what it felt like the first time in His presence. I know, you've been there, but trust me, He was restrained with you. With you He was in a gloating mood, He wasn't searching for information. With me it was different. Let's put it this way: every single torture you had inflicted on you, every single one of them was mild compared to what I faced in the first minute before Him. To this day, I don't know how I escaped with my sanity intact.
Oh. That's right. I didn't.
My sanity got sandblasted away in the first moments, where my mind was scrabbling around and running before His Eye like a mouse on lino in front of a particularly nasty cat. In a very real way, I died, just like all the others. It's just enough of me survived the first onslaught to pique His curiosity.
No, I didn't "go away inside my mind" or anything so silly. I just stood there, and let Him wash over me. I didn't fight. I couldn't fight, I was so tired, so exhausted, so disgusted with myself. Yet He let me live. Even now, I wonder why.
I was taken from there, and I thought the cells were my destination again. Instead, I got taken to a room. A room, with a tub, a bed, clean clothes, and food. Food. Not the swill the orcs were giving us. Not the tattered flesh of my former cellmates. Actual food. Fruit. Oranges, in fact, and I've no idea where He got those from. Water in the tub. Covers on the bed.
None of this meant anything. I think I spent the first three days in the room huddling in a corner, afraid to touch anything.
Remember what I said earlier about my sanity having been sandblasted away? I wasn't joking. I didn't have enough of my mind left to function coherently. If I'd been put back into the cells, I would have been dead anyway. It's probably why He didn't have me put back there. I interested Him, and He wanted to look in my mind again. It was three days before hunger and thirst overtook me enough to make me venture near the oranges. I took one, peeled it, revelling in the smell of it, the feel of the zest beneath my cracked nails. I figured even if it were poisoned, I'd at least be able to enjoy the peeling for a while. At least until I encountered the inevitable razor blade.
You haven't seen my world. This is why He was so interested. The whole time He was looking in my mind for information the first time, I was running through all the various ways He would probably kill me. I didn't realise until much later He hadn't even realised half of them were possible, let alone feasible. Now there's an eye-opener and no mistake - the half-living embodiment of Evil didn't know every possible way of torturing a human. He's a fast learner though. But then, you know that.
Anyway, after I finally mustered up the courage to eat my first orange, and found it good and sweet and oh-so-wonderful, I curled up on the floor, hoping to die in my sleep. No such bloody luck, unfortunately. When I awoke again, I found myself still in the room, but the fruit had been replaced. Apricots this time. Apparently He had seen them in my mind, and realised they were my favourite fruit. Still no razor blades.
That day, I washed my hands and face, using water from the tub, then went back to sleep again, expecting to wake up dead. So it went on, for another few days. By the end of a week of actual conscious near-coherence, I was eating a full meal each day, wearing the clothes He provided, washing on a regular basis, and sleeping in the bed. After all, if I was going to die, I may as well die with a memory of comfort. Then I was taken back to His presence again.
No, I wasn't dragged. I actually walked. I was curious myself - I wanted to know why He'd put me into such a place. He actually explained it when he offered me my options.
Oh yes, I got offered options. Just the standard two: join him, or die in an unutterably horrific manner. I chose to join him. Life was still sweet, and I didn't realise quite how foolish I was being to hope I could outwit him. He offered me all of my hearts desires, after all. What's not to like about such an offer?
Look, the alternative was back to the cells, all my limbs paralysed and power of speech removed, but mind wide awake and screaming the whole time while my former cellmates ate me. Just for starters. I signed on the line. Life was sweet, I'll say it again. I'd got hooked on life at a very early age, and I didn't want to try giving it up then. Put yourself in my place, then tell me you wouldn't have taken the chance.
I thought as much. Anyway, afterwards I got taken back to the room, and left alone to recover from what had happened to me. I was provided with the orcish healing draught, which helped bring me back to much of my former strength, although I'll never lose the cinder burns on my face. I was beginning to think I'd gotten away with it when He came to me.
Oh yes, He put on a physical form, and came to me. A physical form much like yours, in fact, although there were a few fingers missing. He came to me in the night, offered me the pleasures of the body, and I accepted. Yet, while He was driving my body to distraction, enjoying my willing submission, He was raping my mind, tearing it apart for the information He wanted. It was an ... interesting experience. It was one which I was to get used to, and even come to like. Eventually, I came to want it, to need it like air and water. While He was enjoying himself with me, I could feel I was alive. If He were to appear before me now, I would be on my knees before Him, begging Him to do it again, to give me His exquisite combination of pleasure, pain, comfort, torture, submission, domination. I would let Him do it to me until it killed me. He is addictive, if you let Him be.
It was my mind He got the information He needed from. Not much information, but just enough. He sent me back to get the things He wanted. He gave me gifts, of course, before He did this. I was given power, charisma, enough gold to be able to buy most of the planet, and the knowledge of what He wanted me to do. With the combination, I was able to do His bidding, buy Him the mercenaries, the technology, the spies He wanted. I was also very tightly leashed. I needed Him. I needed what only He could do to me. Sex was nothing compared to it. The desire for Him flowed through my blood, throbbed in my veins. As I said, I'm in chains just as strong as yours. He has me tied to Him, rather than to the cell wall.
When did it start to crack apart? Oh, but you see, it didn't. If things had cracked apart, you wouldn't be chained up in front of me. If things had cracked apart, the oh-so-precious Steward of Gondor wouldn't have fallen for the one who could understand him so very, very deeply. The one who could give him the pain he desired so much, the degradation he wanted so very dearly. Once Denethor was broken to my will, the palant�ri belonged to Him. Saruman had come over to Him of his own free will. I was merely sent as a keeper, a watcher to make sure the wizard didn't decide to defy Him.
Oh, the rumours were a bit exaggerated. I don't bathe in blood every night. No more than once a week, honestly. Oh, and the one about the virgin hobbits? Pure fabrication. For a start, it's far too difficult to find a hobbit on this side of the Misty Mountains at all, let alone on this side of the And�in. And having found the hobbit, why waste time questioning them about whether or not they're virgin. They're all too damn coy for it, and it would interfere with the exsanguination. Oh, and you only need four of them to fill a bath, not a hundred. Or so I'm told.
Well of course I'm mad. I have to be. If I'm insane, I can do what He needs me to do - nobody expects sense of a madwoman. Anyway, when your little hobbit friend started on his daft quest to destroy the Ring (good idea, by the by; pity it didn't have a hope of working) He was watching the whole time. He sent out the Nazg�l to distract you all. After all, if you all thought you had the real Ring, you'd be kept busy by it - a large number of the leaders of Men, Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits, all out of the loop, all concentrating on what happened to be a decoy.
Oh yes. It was a decoy. See, one of the things He picked up from my mind when he was in there was a list of things which were hints and tips for an evil overlord. One of which was "If I learn the whereabouts of the one artifact which can destroy me, I will not sent all my troops out to sieze it. Instead I will send them out to seize something else and quietly put a Want-Ad in the local paper". Once I'd explained to Him what it meant, He agreed with a little plan I came up with, which was to just hire a sneak-thief in Hobbiton to replace the Ring with a near-identical decoy. The "Ring" Frodo had was designed to simulate the One - it changed size, it showed the "ash nazg durbatul�k" and soforth when it was dropped in the fire, it even made Frodo invisible and drew the Nazg�l to it. But it wasn't the One. He had that for about ten years before the quest even started.
Why not let the quest go on? It kept you all busy, and looking in a completely different direction. Plus, He thought it would be so cute to see your faces when Frodo dropped the "ring" into Orodruin, and He was standing there intact. He was right. It was. I was watching it all on palant�r. I would have thought you'd have been suspicious when it appeared Sam wasn't affected by the silly thing. I mean, Frodo got a classic case of the placebo effect - Frodo thought the "ring" he carried was the One, so it let Frodo show up all the nastiness and evil inside his soul. Of course, He liked that. I think He took notes, in fact. Expect to see a whole batch of new rings hitting the shelves any time soon.
See, this is the difference between the world I come from and the world you live in. My world is full of nasty people thinking nasty things about one another. We're all much closer to Him. You're all innocents here. Even He was comparatively innocent when He first started rummaging around in my mind. He had no idea of the capacity for darkness humans carry within them, and how little is required to let it out. Even the black N�menoreans were fairly innocent. I think it's the effect of too much contact with the Valar. Even at your blackest, even at your darkest, none of the humans I've encountered here have come even vaguely close to my own capacity. Scary, no? Especially when you consider I used to be a fairly ethical and nice person back home.
You're looking all pitying again. Do I have to hurt you more to make you hate me?
Well, yes, it would be nasty of you. And better than I'd expected, even at this stage.
Anyway, you know how the rest of it turned out. The Gondorrim and Rohirrim wiped out the combined orcs and Easterlings at Pelennor, and romped off to try and wipe out the Dark Lord himself. The "ring" got dropped in the volcano, the Dark Lord came out of his fortress, grabbed himself a couple of hobbits, a few choice Men, and the elf and the Dwarf. You wound up as my toy. Lucky you.
Now, now. You were lucky. The others are still His toys. Especially the hobbits. I could almost be jealous of them - He spends so much time in their company. But then, they don't know Him as I do. They haven't learned to enjoy what He does. Yet. But I know they're close. Frodo particularly - there wasn't far to go, after all. When it happens, He won't need me any longer. He'll have all the toys He needs. Besides, I'm getting dangerous. I'm too insane, too unpredictable for His purposes. While He thinks I've been ... enjoying myself here, with you, my dear, I've been off destroying Nazg�l, sending orcs off to different places, terrifying Saruman. I've been a bit limited in what I could do, but I think my last little trick will take the game.
You want an explanation? I suppose so. Well, this syringe here holds a nice little dose of insulin I was able to pick up back home, before He pulled me back. I've kept it in reserve all this time. The last meal I fed you, dearest, dearest Aragorn, six days ago, contained a secret ingredient. Not much. Just a little ring. A little, little ring. A little Ring He is going to miss terribly when He realises it's halfway down your gullet, when you get thrown into the volcano. It's such a terribly convenient garbage disposal, after all. And a six-day dead corpse isn't even fit for orc food. The orcs can eat me instead. I'm sorry about the cyanide, love, but it had to be done. You couldn't very well lead the armies of the West from inside this cell, and there's no chance He'd let you out alive. He hasn't found out about the ring. Yet. Call it my last little gift to a world I learned to hate.
Death isn't so very hard, after all.


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Anyone have recent contact with Russell Apiaries? Placed an on-line order for queens with them on Jan 20. Payment went through but I have never received an order confirmation from them and all attempt to contact them have failed.
Anyone have recent contact with Russell Apiaries? Placed an on-line order for queens with them on Jan 20. Payment went through but I have never received an order confirmation from them and all attempt to contact them have failed.
Check the older post "Russell apiaries" started on 2/22/12
Yes,that's when I placed my order,made a mistake on post I started About date.Are you with Russell ? I never received confirmation and they will not answer my E-mail,Why not ? Yes and you got my money.
Before man took over bees there was nature,it did a better job.
green2btree's location is in Iowa. I doubt he is associated with Russell's.
List of Certified Beekeepers in Mississippi
Do not understand what is going on with this company. As soon as I get time I will be contacting the Mississippi Attorney Generals Office to file a complaint against Russell Apiaries.
Had just posted above note when I received an email from Russell Apiaries! They are supposedly going to forward my receipt/order confirmation. Don't know why they are so hard to contact but maybe I can rest easier now.
As i remember he was on vacation with his family i also have sent him and pm about getting some virgins from him and he did contact me then i wrote him again and still waiting to hear from him i also called and all i got was a voice mail. If you run a company i would think someone should answer the phone but i guess not. I have one of his queens and really like her and wanted some virgins but i guess i will try some one else i have found some others but i do not know if they will be as good as russells queens. He really does need to contact people that want his queens thats good for bussiness but he does have good queens i give him credit on that .
Thomas Yancey
As with any business, consumers "vote" with their pocket book. Instead of complaining about this or that, I simply buy elsewhere. While on a trip this last week, I pulled into a station to fill up with diesel. Sign on pump said "pay inside first." I walk all the way in from the farthest pump and the casher says "how much?" I said "I want to fill it up." She said "you have to give me an amount to purchase." I said "I don't know what it will cost to fill it up." She said "that's the way it works." I said "See you later, I'll go buy my fuel across the street." I did, and I was able to use my credit card at the pump and the price was the same as the other one that gave me grief.
I don't care how good a product is, if I experience poor costumer service, I buy somewhere else.
Regards, Barry
Hmmmmmm customer satisfaction? Pretty radical concept Barry.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Barry has a point if you can not be there to help some one with your product then i would go else where if i can get the same product and can talk with the person who is selling if you do not talk with your customers then they will go else where. Which any time i order bees or queens i always talk to someone that can answer my questions and give me some feed back on what they have.
Thomas Yancey
If you are dissatisfied with the company and would like to buy from somewhere else, by all means, do so!
Russell has more orders than he can fill. Many more are standing in line behind you to try and place an order. It's more like the Soup Natzi than it is like a limousine ride. Service might not be stellar, but the product more than makes up for it.
Again, you personally may view the product as the most important element in grading a company, over service. When there are many other companies that produce an equally quality product, then standing in line putting up with poor customer service isn't necessary. My point in all this is, instead of trying to get "your" supplier (whoever it is) to do better in serving "you", move on to one that will.
Regards, Barry
Barry, have you purchased a queen from Russell?
It's an irrelevant question. Like me asking you have you purchased a queen from Weavers or Koehnen or Glenn or Rossman or Kona. This thread isn't about queen quality. I'm addressing the OP about service.
Oh, I forgot . . . Olivarez, VP Queen Bees, Purvis . . .
Regards, Barry
No, I am not associated with Russell's, I just saw the earlier post where people said they were not able to contact Russell's.
Oh, I forgot . . . Olivarez, VP Queen Bees, Purvis . . .[/QUOTE] you left off gia, wootens , glens , fergusons , kinda long list . For those i missed sorry ,,,Ohh that kelley hygenic is a good bee .


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JoshWedin wrote:kelderic wrote:It is a cool concept, although I am surprised no one has expressed concerns about how unsafe it is to give locations.
It was briefly mentioned elsewhere in the thread. Most people have put their marker near where they live, not right on their house. Also, no one is being forced to do this. If someone isn't comfortable with it, then they shouldn't do it.
Also, most of the safety concerns with online privacy are to do with young children - and virtually all of us are (hopefully) mature teenagers or adults. I don't see any real 'dangers'.
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The offseason has been full of change on the coaching front for the Vancouver Whitecaps, but new boss Carl Robinson hopes some of the key on-field leaders remain with the club in 2014.
Robinson spoke about the status of defender Jay DeMerit and midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker during a conference call with reporters on Thursday, and indicated both players are in his plans for the upcoming season.
"I spoke to Jay just before Christmas about re-signing and trying to get him tied down," Robinson said. "Contract negotiations with him and his representatives have been flowing very nicely and I think in the coming days or a week or so we'll come to a conclusion on that."
DeMerit, 34, was the first player signed by the Whitecaps when they entered MLS in 2011. Injuries slowed him down in his first season with the club, though he still made 21 league appearances, and the club captain became an MLS All-Star in 2012 as the 'Caps made the playoffs. A torn Achilles tendon in Vancouver's 2013 season opener sidelined him for most of the season, though he returned to the lineup in September and started the final six games of the campaign.
Robinson mentioned DeMerit's health but did not appear to be overly worried about the defender's prospects: "Clearly, healthy he will be a big part of this club moving forward."
Instead, the coach emphasized DeMerit's leadership qualities in wanting to keep him for 2014.
"I made it clear on day one that Jay is a leader on the club and organization," he said, "and he's got a lot of respect from everyone within the organization and I want him to be a part of that moving forward."
- Check out more Whitecaps news at VancouverWhitecaps.com
With DeMerit out of the lineup for most of 2013, newcomer Reo-Coker took up the leadership mantle for the team and was a mainstay in the lineup, making 32 league appearances at several positions. Robinson indicated that he is planning on including the 29-year-old in his plans this season.
"The club exercised Nigel's option, and until I'm told anything different I look forward to having him back, because he's a big piece of this club moving forward and a huge asset for us," Robinson said.
"[Reo-Coker] is in good spirits. I told Nigel my plans for him. I expect Nigel to be back with a big smile on his face," the manager added.
Additional reporting by Dan Itel.


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