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Earth GirlBook - 2013
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Earth Girl has realistic characters, decent pacing, and enough action versus internal monologues to keep you happy. Jarra (and all the other characters) are excellently fleshed out. Nothing any of the characters do makes you sit up and go "Yeah, right, like that'd happen." There are no love triangles. No one acts tons more mature than they should be for their age. The pacing is fantastic. None of the tech (bar the portals) used is completely unbelievable. In fact, it seems for lots of it like we're already on our way to developing it. I mean, we have versions of impact suits now.
I've seen reviews that talked about the 'subpar' world development. I have to say that the world development in this novel did not bother me at all. I like it when the author forces the reader to use their imagination. I never, at any point, felt like I wasn't given enough information to see things through.
As usual with me and stories, I would have ended the book a bit before it actually ended, but in this case really just the last bit where its really tying up (after a certain salute). I feel like the book overall would have left a stronger final impression if it had ended on a strong note, instead of how it did.
A great book. Jarra is a strong, intelligent heroine; the plot is engaging and exciting. I'm definitely planning to read the sequel!
It is a science fiction book set in the future, where most humans live on other planets, and Earth is practically deserted. Some people, however, have a genetic mutation that does not allow them to travel to other planets. Deemed 'apes' and 'throwbacks' by the rest of humanity, they are secluded and looked down upon. But Jarra, an 'ape', wants to prove to the 'norms' that apes are just as good as them. She goes undercover in a history class that is excavating ruins on Earth, planning to reveal herself at the right moment and laugh in their faces. What she does not plan is to make friends, learn more than she could have ever dreamed of, and possibly even fall in love….
Read if you like science fiction, books set in the future, strong female characters, Uglies, Divergent, etc
What a wonderful story. I couldn't wait and bought the next book from England. It's not available here yet. This story brings about a society that is believable and relatable. The handicap that traps her on Earth is her salvation. Loved it.
This book is by far the best futuristic novel that I have ever read.
Well-paced and with heaps of ingenuity and a nearly spotless internal continuity, Earth Girl manages to be both enjoyable and believable while avoiding many of the common plot elements that both SF&F and YA books are prone to. Probably my favorite YA book to date and definitely worth a read.
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Maldives, in full Republic of Maldives, also called Maldive Islands, independent island country in the north-central Indian Ocean. It consists of a chain of about 1,200 small coral islands and sandbanks (some 200 of which are inhabited), grouped in clusters, or atolls.
The islands extend more than 510 miles (820 km) from north to south and 80 miles (130 km) from east to west. The northernmost atoll is about 370 miles (600 km) south-southwest of the Indian mainland, and the central area, including the capital island of Male (Male'), is about 400 miles (645 km) southwest of Sri Lanka.
The Maldive Islands are a series of coral atolls built up from the crowns of a submerged ancient volcanic mountain range. All the islands are low-lying, none rising to more than 6 feet (1.8 metres) above sea level. Barrier reefs protect the islands from the destructive effects of monsoons. The rainy season, from May to August, is brought by the southwest monsoon; from December to March the northeast monsoon brings dry and mild winds. The average annual temperature varies from 76 to 86 °F (24 to 30 °C). Rainfall averages about 84 inches (2,130 mm) per year. The atolls have sandy beaches, lagoons, and a luxuriant growth of coconut palms, together with breadfruit trees and tropical bushes. Fish abound in the reefs, lagoons, and seas adjoining the islands; sea turtles are caught for food and for their oil, a traditional medicine.
The population of Maldives belongs almost entirely to the Maldivian ethnic group, which is the result of various peoples settling in the islands successively through the country's history. The first settlers, it is generally believed, were Tamil and Sinhalese peoples from southern India and Sri Lanka. Traders from Arab countries, Malaya, Madagascar, Indonesia, and China visited the islands through the centuries. The official language is an Indo-European language called Dhivehi (or Maldivian); Arabic, Hindi, and English are also spoken. Islam is the state religion.
Slightly more than half of the population is considered rural. With the exception of those living in Male, the only relatively large settlement in the country, the inhabitants of the Maldives live in villages on small islands in scattered atolls. Only about 20 of the islands have more than 1,000 inhabitants, and the southern islands are more densely populated than the northern ones. The birth rate for the Maldives is somewhat higher than the world average, but the death rate is lower. More than one-fifth of the total population is under 15 years of age.
One of the poorest countries in the world, Maldives has a developing economy based on fishing, tourism, boatbuilding, and boat repairing. The gross national product (GNP) per capita is among the lowest in the world. Most of the population subsists outside a money economy on fishing, coconut collecting, and the growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers (cassava, sweet potatoes, and yams), and tropical fruits. Cropland, scattered over many small islands, is minimal, and nearly all of the staple foods must be imported. Fishing, the traditional base of the economy, continues to be the most important sector, providing employment for approximately one-fourth of the labour force as well as accounting for a major portion of the export earnings. Tuna is the predominant fish caught, mostly by the pole-and-line method, although a good deal of the fishing fleet has been mechanized. Most of the fish catch is sold to foreign companies for processing and export.
The Maldives national shipping line forms the basis of one of the country's commercial industries. Tourism is a fast-growing sector of the economy. Resort islands and modern hotels in Male have attracted increasing numbers of tourists during the winter months. Industries are largely of the handicraft or cottage type, including the making of coir (coconut-husk fibre) and coir products, boatbuilding, and construction. Imports include consumer goods such as food (principally rice), textiles, medicines, and petroleum products. Fish—mostly dried, frozen, or canned skipjack tuna—accounts for the bulk of exports. The United Arab Emirates, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore are among the main trading partners. Since the 2010s, China has been one of the primary sources of imports and foreign direct investment. Boats provide the principal means of transport between the atolls, and scheduled shipping services link the country with Sri Lanka, Singapore, and India. There is a national airline, and the airport at Male handles international traffic.
Government and society
The constitution of the Maldives was adopted in 2008. The head of state and government is the president, assisted by a vice president and a cabinet. The president and vice president are directly elected by universal suffrage to a maximum of two five-year terms. The cabinet consists of the vice president, government ministers, and the attorney general. With the exception of the vice president, members of the cabinet are appointed by the president.
The unicameral legislature, called the People's Majlis, meets at least three times per year. Its members are elected to five-year terms from Male island and from each of the 20 atoll groups into which the country is divided for administrative purposes. The number of representatives from each administrative division is determined on the basis of population, with a minimum of two per division. The 2008 constitution established Islam as the official state religion. Non-Muslims cannot become citizens, and the People's Majlis is prohibited from making any law that contravenes the tenets of Islam. Other governmental bodies include civil service and human rights commissions.
The highest legal authority is the Supreme Court. Its judges are appointed by the president in consultation with the Judicial Service Commission, a body of 10 members appointed or elected from various branches of the government and the general public. The Judicial Service Commission independently appoints all other judges. There are no judicial term limits; the mandatory retirement age is 70. All judges must be Sunni Muslims. The Supreme Court bases decisions upon the constitution and Maldives law; in cases in which applicable law does not exist, Sharīʿah (Islamic law) is considered. Other courts are the High Court and trial courts.
Most Maldivians rely on traditional medical practices when ill; Male has a small hospital. Major illnesses include gastroenteritis, typhoid, cholera, and malaria. Life expectancy is about 68 years for men and 67 for women.
Three types of formal education are available in the Maldives, including traditional schools (makthabs) designed to teach the reading and reciting of the Qurʾān, Dhivehi-language schools, and English-language primary and secondary schools. The English-language schools are the only ones that teach a standard curriculum and offer secondary-level education. Students must go abroad for higher education. Only about two-thirds of the school-age population is enrolled in schools.
The archipelago was inhabited as early as the 5th century bce by Buddhist peoples, probably from Sri Lanka and southern India. According to tradition, Islam was adopted in 1153 ce. Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, a notable North African traveler, resided there during the mid-1340s and described conditions at that time, remarking disapprovingly on the freedom of the women—a feature that has been noticeable throughout Maldivian history.
The Portuguese forcibly established themselves in Male from 1558 until their expulsion in 1573. In the 17th century the islands were a sultanate under the protection of the Dutch rulers of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and, after the British took possession of Ceylon in 1796, the islands became a British protectorate, a status formalized in 1887. In 1932, before which time most of the administrative powers rested with sultans or sultanas, the first democratic constitution was proclaimed, the country remaining a sultanate. A republic was proclaimed in 1953, but later that year the country reverted to a sultanate.
In 1965 the Maldive Islands attained full political independence from the British, and in 1968 a new republic was inaugurated and the sultanate abolished. The last British troops left on March 29, 1976, the date thereafter celebrated in the Maldives as Independence Day. Ibrahim Nasr, the country's first president, was succeeded in 1978 by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who was reelected to his sixth consecutive term in 2003. The Maldives became a member of the Commonwealth in 1982.
In December 2004 the Maldives was damaged by a large tsunami caused by a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia. Scores of people were killed, and much property was damaged.
In the first years of the 21st century, Gayoom's government embarked on a long-term plan to modernize and democratize the Maldives, particularly its economy and political system. The plan also identified the country's legal system as inadequate. Beginning in 2003, wide-ranging reforms were instituted to improve human rights and the system of governance. A multiparty political system was created. In 2008 a new constitution was adopted that established greater governmental checks and balances, strengthened the powers of the legislature and judiciary, and allowed women to run for president. The country's first multicandidate presidential election was held in October of that year, and former political prisoner Mohamed Nasheed was elected president, thus ending Gayoom's 30 years in office.
One of Nasheed's priorities was addressing climate change, as the low-lying islands were perceived to be under serious threat from rising sea levels. His administration was hampered, however, by continuing loyalty to Gayoom among members of the legislature and judiciary. Controversy erupted in January 2012 over Nasheed's arrest of a senior criminal court judge. After weeks of protests by citizens opposed to the arrest, Nasheed resigned in early February and was replaced by his vice president, Mohamed Waheed Hassan. Nasheed claimed his resignation had been forced by the police and military. In July charges were filed against him for what was deemed to have been his illegal arrest of the criminal court judge in January. In August an official commission of inquiry backed by the Commonwealth found that Nasheed's resignation had been voluntary and that there had been no coup.
Nasheed's legal situation remained unsettled amid continued political unrest over the circumstances of his resignation. A general election was held in September 2013, in which Nasheed received a plurality of votes, outpolling the second highest candidate by a wide margin, but did not win an outright majority. A second election, in November, was won by Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's half brother, who beat Nasheed by a narrow margin. Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2015. He was granted permission to seek medical treatment in the U.K. in 2016, and from there he fled to Sri Lanka. He returned to the country in late 2018, however, days after the Supreme Court overturned his sentence.
The presidency of Yameen oversaw significant infrastructure projects in the country but lacked the charisma of Gayoom's presidency. The projects were funded in large part by China, much to the chagrin of the country's long-term ally India. Meanwhile, Yameen stifled criticism and jailed political opponents. In February 2018, after the Supreme Court overturned the sentences of many of Yameen's political opponents, he jailed two of the court's justices and declared a state of emergency for 45 days. When elections were held later that year in September, many observers expected it would be used to consolidate Yameen's autocracy. However, the unified opposition put forward a single candidate, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who received a landslide victory with nearly 90 percent turnout. Yameen congratulated Solih and initially conceded the election. Weeks later Yameen reneged and asked the Supreme Court to investigate election rigging and voter fraud, but the court did not find evidence of wrongdoing and upheld the election results. The transfer of power was successfully completed on November 17, when Solih was sworn into office.

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The Real Folk Blues wrote:Happiness is just a word to me
And it might have meant a thing or two
If I'd known the difference
Emptiness, a lonely parody
And my life, another smokin' gun
A sign of my indifference
Always keepin' safe inside
Where no one ever had a chance
To penetrate a break in
Let me tell you some have tried
But I would slam the door so tight
That they could never get in
Kept my cool under lock and key
And I never shed a tear
Another sign of my condidtion
Fear of love or bitter vanity
That kept me on the run
The main events at my confession
I kept a chain upon my door
That would shake the shame of Cain
Into a blind submission
The burning ghost without a name
Was calling all the same
But I wouldn't listen
The longer I'd stall
The further I'd crawl
The further I'd crawl
The harder I'd fall
I was crawlin' into the fire
The more that I saw
The further I'd fall
The further I'd fall
The lower I'd crawl
I kept fallin' into the fire
Into the fire
Into the fire
Suddenly it occurred to me
The reason for the run and hide
Had totaled my existnce
Everything left on the other side
Could never be much worse that this
But could I go the distance
I faced the door and all my shame
Tearin' off each piece of chain
Until they all were broken
But no matter how I tried
The other side was licked so tight
That door it wouldn't open
Gave it all that I got
And started to knock
Shouted for someone
To open the lock
I just gotta get through the door
And the more that I knocked
The hotter I got
The hotter I got
The harder I'd knock
I just gotta break through the door
Gotta knock a little harder
Gotta knock a little harder
Gotta knock a little harder
Break through the door
dunno, I've tried googling the lyrics but can't find song info wrote:Why can't I be cured
it's all inside my head you say
something's wrong for sure
I tell you all that I'm ok
mumblemumble this mind is not designed for...
turbulent times ahead
just beyond the walls
seasons full of dread
the mind cannot endure
night turns day to night again
and we feel so secure
you can't change your mind just yet
I'm all messed up
I hope you aren't bored.
(repeat, chorus)
somethings wrong for sure
it's all inside my head you say
tell you that I'm ok
why can't I be cured?!
Long Black Veil wrote:Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
Someone was killed, 'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me
The judge said son, what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die
I spoke not a word, thou it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
Oh, the scaffold is high and eternity's near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But late at night, when the north wind blows
In a long black veil, she cries ov're my bones
grabmygoblin wrote:The Real Folk Blues wrote:...
When the routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
But emotions wont grow
And were changing our ways,
Taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed,
Our respect run so dry?
Yet theres still this appeal
That weve kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again
Do you cry out in your sleep
All my failings expose?
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just cant function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again
For No One, The Beatles wrote:The day breaks, your mind aches
You find that all her words of kindness linger on
When she no longer needs you
She wakes up, she makes up
She takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!
You want her, you need her
And yet you don't believe her when she said her love is dead
You think she needs you
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!
You stay home, she goes out
She says that long ago she knew someone but now he's gone
She doesn't need him
The day breaks, your mind aches
There will be times when all the things she says will fill your head
You won't forget her
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!
The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Robert D. Joyce wrote:I sat within a valley green
Sat there with my true love
And my fond heart strove to choose between
The old love and the new love
The old for her, the new that made
Me think on Ireland dearly
While soft the wind blew down the glade
And shook the golden barley
Twas hard the mournful words to frame
To break the ties that bound us
Ah, but harder still to bear the shame
Of foreign chains around us
And so I said, "The mountain glen
I'll seek at morning early
And join the brave united men"
While soft wind shook the barley
Twas sad I kissed away her tears
Her arms around me clinging
When to my ears that fateful shot
Come out the wildwood ringing
The bullet pierced my true love's breast
In life's young spring so early
And there upon my breast she died
While soft wind shook the barley
I bore her to some mountain stream
And many's the summer blossom
I placed with branches soft and green
About her gore-stained bosom
I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse
Then rushed o'er vale and valley
My vengeance on the foe to wreak
While soft wind shook the barley
Twas blood for blood without remorse
I took at Oulart Hollow
I placed my true love's clay-cold corpse
Where mine full soon may follow
Around her grave I wondered drear
Noon, night and morning early
With aching heart when e'er I hear
The wind that shakes the barley
Mick Ryan's Lament, Tim O'Brien wrote:Well my name is Mick Ryan, I'm lyin still
In a lonely spot near where I was killed
By a red man defending his native land
In the place that they call Little Big Horn
And I swear I did not see the irony
When I rode with the Seventh Cavalry
I thought that we fought for the land of the free
When we rode from Fort Lincoln that morning
And the band they played the Garryowen
Brass was shining, flags a flowin
I swear if I had only known
I'd have wished that I'd died back at Vicksburg
For my brother and me, we had barely escaped
From the hell that was Ireland in forty eight
Two angry young lads who had learned how to hate
But we loved the idea of Amerikay
And we cursed our cousins who fought and bled
In their bloody coats of bloody red
The sun never sets on the bloody dead
Of those who have chosen an empire
But we'd find a better life somehow
In the land where no man has to bow
It seemed right then and it seems right now
That Paddy he died for the union
Ah, but Michael he somehow got turned around
He had stolen the dream that he thought he'd found
Now I never will see that holy ground
For I turned into something I hated
And I'm haunted by the Garryowen
Drums a beating, bugles blowin'
I swear if I had only known
I'd lie with my brother in Vicksburg
And the band they played that Garryowen
Brass was shin, flags a flowin'
I swear if I had only known, I'd lie with
my brother at Vicksburg
Stay, Jorane wrote: In the dark corner of the room, I see
Another part of you and all through
And all through these house I walk, I see you
And all through this world I see you
Now that you're gone and even though it's hard to say
I know that we'll be home together somewhere, someday
I'm running through and forest of you
And the traffic swells around my feet
I'm spinning through a forest of you
And your laughter spills into the street
Now that you're gone and even though it's hard to say
I know that we'll be old together somewhere, someday
In the dark corner of the room, I see
Another part of you I see through
But I don't care I take every part of you, I don't care
Now that you're gone and even though it's hard to say
I know that we'll be old together somewhere, someday
Now that you're gone, it's hard to say
That would be whole together somewhere, someday
In the dark of the room, i see
Another part of you
And I stay
Drunken Boat, Pogues. wrote:The wind was whipping shingle through the windows in the town
A hail of stones across the roof, the slates came raining down
A blade of light upon the spit came sweeping through the roar
With me head inise a barrel and me leg screwed in the floor
Mother pack me bags because I'm off to foreign parts
Don't ask me where I'm going 'cause I'm sure it's off the charts
I'll pin your likeness on the wall right buy my sleeping head
I'll send you cards and letters so you'll know that I'm not dead
By this time in a week I should be far away from home
Trailing fingers through the phospor or asleep in flowers of foam
From Macao to Acapulco from Havana to Seville
We'll see monoliths and bridges and the Christ up on the hill
An aria with the Russians at the piano in the bar
With icefloes through the window we raised glasses to the Czar
We squared off on a dockside with a coupled hundred Finns
And we dallied in the 'dilly and we stoaked ourselves in gin
Now the only deck I'd want to walk
Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet
And the only sea I want to sail
Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk
Where a kid crouced full of sadness
Lets his boat go drifting out
Into the evening sun
We sailed through constellations and were rutted by the storm
I crumpled under cudgel blows and finally came ashore
I spent the next two years or more just staring at the wall
We went to sea to see the world and what d'you think we saw?
If we turned the table upside down and sailed around the bed
Clamped knives between our teeth and tied bandannas round our heads
With the wainscot our horizon and the ceiling as the sky
You'd not expect that anyone would go and fucking die
Now the only deck I'd want to walk
Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet
And the only sea I want to sail
Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk
Where a kid crouced full of sadness
Lets his boat go drifting out
Into the evening sun
At nights we passed the bottle round and drank to our lost friends
We lay alone upon our bunks and prayed that this would end
A wall of moving shadows with rows of swinging keys
We dreamed that whole Leviathans lay rotting in the weeds
Ther's a sound that comes from miles away if you lean your head to hear
A ship's bell rings on board a wreck where the air is still and clear
And up above it means another angel's got his wings
But all below it signifies is a ship's gone in the drink
Now the only deck I'd want to walk
Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet
And the only sea I want to sail
Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk
Where a kid crouced full of sadness
Lets his boat go drifting out
Into the evening sun
Deportees (Wreck Over Los Gatos Canyon), Woody Guthrie. wrote:The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps2;
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"
My father's own father, he waded that river,
They took all the money he made in his life;
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, "They are just deportees"
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except "deportees"?
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.
Che Guevara T-Shirt, Shindell Richard wrote:Unburdened of their passengers
The taxis have all scattered
The hawkers move their tables out
They'll be selling no more leather
The Oslo Queen is set to sail
From the Port of Buenos Aires
The ropes are thrown and the big horn moans
As she slips out of the harbor
The stowaway is keeping still
In the dark of his container
With his blanket and his flashlight
And a picture of his sweetheart
He's rationing his batteries
But right now he can't resist her
Standing there with her long brown hair
In that Che Guevara t-shirt
As the contents of his wallet show
His plan's a little sketchy
Three hundred bucks and the bad address
Of a cousin in Miami
In a couple months with a little luck
He'll be wiring home some money
And even if they send him back
It'll make a damn good story
Late at night he ventures out
Each time a little farther
Emboldened by his wanderlust
His boredom, and his hunger
Til he's standing out on the open deck
Searching for La Cruz del Sur
But by-and-by the sky he knows
Has yielded to another
The moon shines on the shipping lanes
Off the coast of Venezuela
And as he looks out at the oilers
Riding heavy up to Texas
He sings a little to himself
Luna, luna, luna llena
While the moon, a word he's yet to learn,
Betrays him to the cameras
Now he's somewhere in Dade County
And six weeks without a lawyer
On the basis of the evidence
They could keep him there forever
The guy with the cuban accent says
"Do you recognize this picture?"
And there she is with her long brown hair
And that Che Guevara t-shirt
phactorri wrote:loneliness and depression? where do you look to not find a song like that?
Levi-chan wrote:The Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac.
Dutch! wrote:Levi-chan wrote:The Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac.
I wonder how many of them know who you're talking about
Nyke wrote:grabmygoblin wrote:The Real Folk Blues wrote:...
Um, those are the lyrics to "Gotta Knock a Little Harder", not "The Real Folk Blues".
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Even State Courts Getting Skeptical About Prenda
from the quash-them dept
The "defendant" in this case, Christopher Hubbard is represented by Adam Urbanczyk, who, in previous cases, was accused by the judge of being "in bed together" with Team Prenda, for not opposing any sort of discovery. In an altogether different case, yet with some similarities to the one at hand, a defendant admitted to the court that he had agreed to be a named defendant and take a dive in not opposing discovery as part of his own "settlement."
In this case, the judge, Andrew Gleeson, clearly suspected something was up and said that he wanted to know more about the ownership and control of LW Systems. Gleeson also said that he was aware of Judge Wright's famous order in the Prenda case in California, as well as the Delvan Neville deposition in the First Time Videos case in Florida, which presents an awful lot of evidence that John Steele is uploading the videos himself, and setting them to encourage downloading -- which would certainly call into question what sort of "hacking" went on to access the files.
At the very least, Gleeson has also granted the motions to quash the subpoenas, meaning that "LW Systems" doesn't get the information it's been seeking.
Gleeson said he had questions about the complaint and ownership of plaintiff – LW Systems.While it's not a resounding push back on Team Prenda, it certainly suggests that one of the few courts in the country that was still a "friendly" home for their cases is now growing skeptical as well.
"I think I need to be careful…," Gleeson said. "This is major litigation that will take years to go through."


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Actress Amanda Bynes has fallen victim to cyber criminals after her Twitter.com blog was hacked while she remains under doctors' care in a psychiatric facility in California.
The star was rumored to have been granted Internet access on Saturday after a random message reading "I love Drake" popped up on the micro-blogging site in an apparent reference to the rapper she has both praised and savagely criticized in bizarre online rants in recent months.
I love drake
— amanda bynes (@amandabynes) August 31, 2013
However, her attorney, Tamar Armanak, has been quick to set the record straight about the tweet, insisting Bynes has not been allowed to log on since she was hospitalized for mental health issues in July.
Armanak tells RadarOnline.com, "Amanda's Twitter account has been hacked. She is at the UCLA Medical Center with no access to phones or computers."
Bynes was recently transferred to UCLA from a facility in Ventura County, California at the request of her mother Lynne, who was named temporary conservator of her daughter's estate last month when her hospital stay was extended for another 30 days.
Meanwhile, Armanak has also distanced Bynes and her family from any association with publicist Jonathan Jaxson, who has been offering up comments about the star's health progress to various media outlets.
The lawyer tells Eonline.com, "Jonathan Jaxson does not represent the Bynes family or Amanda. We are not sure why he is commenting on Amanda's health care or representing himself as a publicist hired by her family. Amanda's family continues to be devoted to their daughter's well being."
Jaxson previously hit headlines in 2011 after former client Kim Kardashian filed suit against the spokesman for making false claims about her alleged attempts to gain media attention in the wake of the reality TV star's split from husband of 72 days, Kris Humphries.


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There's no doubt that there are green shoots in the economy. The housing market, which brought on the crash, may finally be starting to recover. Housing stats bottomed in January, and it looks like the rate of decline of housing prices is slowing. The charge-off rate is falling at American Express
But now is not the time to be complacent.
Delusions of grandeur
Unfortunately, there's been very little evidence of a solid recovery. Sure, the financial crisis seems to be past, and the economy didn't collapse. After the turmoil that followed Lehman's failure, the government's quick actions to shore up the financial sector have convinced people that the government won't let another big bank fail. Consequently, the sheer terror we experienced last fall has faded to mere paranoia.
But beyond that, it's unclear when the real economy will recover. America's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was plummeting, and it now seems to be flattening out, but that isn't a great indicator of a recovery. It's almost inevitable that, without a complete financial collapse, GDP won't keep shrinking for long. A big part of the decline in GDP has been from inventories, which have been plummeting since October last year. But, manufacturers eventually have to increase output, or they'll run out of widgets to sell, and that boosts GDP figures.
What's more, the government has been throwing money at the economy to try to reverse the vicious cycle of layoffs resulting in lower corporate sales, which is leading to more layoffs. This, too, props up GDP, so it's not really surprising that GDP seems to have bottomed.
The key to recovery
But funding a recovery with huge government spending and massive debt is like using a defibrillator to treat a heart attack. It can work well in short doses, but it's completely unsustainable over the long term. Maybe General Motors and Ford
The government isn't the key to recovery. Neither are corporations. Consumer spending is what really matters, accounting for 70% of the GDP. But right now, consumers are acting as cheap as a Congressman who has to spend his own money.
Americans seem to have finally realized that taking on third mortgage to buy a second 74-inch TV for the bathroom is not a sensible decision. Household debt, which has been steadily rising since the 1950s, has actually started to decline. And consumer confidence, while improving, only looks good when you compare it to the all-time lows it hit in February.
But why should consumers be confident? The unemployment rate is 9.7%, a 26-year high, and still quickly rising. As if that weren't bad enough, 1.3 million Americans could exhaust their unemployment benefits before the end of the year.
And you expect consumers to help the economy rebound? Good luck with that.
Mixed messages
Insiders are nervous -- according to TrimTabs, the ratio of insider selling to buying in August exceeded 30, the highest level since TrimTabs started measuring the statistic in 2004. Companies as diverse as First Solar
But despite all these problems, it's still hard to form a firm conclusion. Employment is a lagging indicator -- companies hire when they need workers, not because they think that there's a chance they'll need workers next year. And insiders, like other investors, may simply be taking advantage of the huge bounce since March. Maybe we just need to wait, and those green shoots will blossom. If everything looked bright and cheery, it would hardly be the Great Recession now, would it?
It's a very confusing environment in which to be an investor. If this is the start of a recovery, the market could still run another 50% before testing the old highs. So scaling back your portfolio doesn't make sense. But if this is just an economic head fake, do you really want to relive the last few months of 2008?
The solution is to focus on value stocks. Value investing really shines right now, because it provides the best of both worlds. If you can buy a stock for 50% of its fair value, you make a 100% return if the stock returns to more rational pricing. But, since stocks tend to gravitate toward a fair price, value stocks can also cushion your portfolio during a bear market. You can get the upside, with less downside risk.
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In the Recent G.R. 2,011, Stubby has endeavored to compile the best of the Brikwars forums in an easy, likable format. The project hit a roadblock when he discovered his illustration skills weren't quite up to the task, but fortunately Arkbrik was able to step in and save the day. A few months after the turn of the G.R., Natalya took up the job and has since been posting the comics in lieu of Stubby. They can all be seen here, as well as links in the pictures for context.
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Idk if the full truth is being told about the reasons for getting shut down. Friends that work for the forest service said that the logging was illegal ( no permits pulled) and broke several laws dealing with waterways.
I called Bs when I first read it. There is more to it. I wonder if closing wasn't already an idea and this just expedited it. While I wanted to go back one day because I love the area I couldn't see it being overly successful when you have to pack your entire camp in and town is a good hike away. To me that sounds great but to the majority I think not. I think they weighed the best of the 2 options and decided trees are where the money was.


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Tokyoflash just posted the Ultra-Violet Watch by Infinity. It's a unique quartz timepiece that will look incredible after two tabs of acid. The watch uses two effects—day-glo hands and the "infinite mirror" trick to create a trippy amalgam. The hands light up when you press a button on the side which activates a black light LED and brings out the true majesty of the face. Bong and Skynyrd record not included.
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Chat-up king has put his top tips in dating book
WHEN Richard La Ruina talks, women listen.
When he whispers sweet nothings in their ears, they succumb to his charm.
But the self-confessed Romeo hopes men will take note of the words of wisdom in his latest book.
La Ruina believes the book, The Natural: How To Effortlessly Attract The Women You Want, is so powerful in conveying the art of seduction, that it comes with a warning.
"When you have completed this book, you will possess a kind of raw power that can at first be intoxicating," he writes.
"With this new power comes great responsibility … use these skills to treat women better, not worse.
"And when you find that someone special, offer the love and respect she deserves."
La Ruina, who has a reputation as one of the world's greatest seducers of women, will reveal all in the book, to be released next week.
Among his secrets of seduction are:
- An amateur pick-up-artist (PUA) should use two types of "openers" when first meeting a soon-to-be-seduced woman. Beginners should use an "opinion-opener", which guarantees a few minutes of conversation with a girl and goes something like this: "Do you believe in palm reading?" or "What kind of present should I get for my friend's girlfriend?" or "Do I look gay?"
- With a little more experience, he can advance to an "indirect-opener", which stealthily hides his romantic intentions: "If I didn't have a girlfriend and wasn't gay, you'd so be mine" or "My friend wants to know if you think I'm hot" or "Are you undressing me with your eyes?".
- But for an experienced seducer, who expects "super-fast" results, the "direct-opener" is a sure-fire bet: "You know what you remind me of? Someone I want to meet" or "I know this is kind of random, but I had to tell you that you're just too cute".
You may scoff, maybe even squirm a little, but it is all too easy to take La Ruina's lessons out of context.
He says his advice is not only for aspiring pick-up-artists, but also for men looking for love.
"You need to get the skills so that you can attract the women you want and not have to settle," he says.
"You also need a certain amount of experience to really understand yourself and women and to form that picture of the ideal woman for you. When you have a clear idea of what you want and the skills to attract women, you will be able to find love."
La Ruina holds courses that attract both younger and older men with very different results.
"Young guys are more open to try new things, are better at taking criticism and often have a lot of enthusiasm," he says.
"But, I remember a very successful guy in his late 50s, called Harry, who really transformed during a week-long course with us.
"He has a beautiful girlfriend now. We teach old guys to play to their strengths of high status and experience."
Believe it or not, La Ruina can empathise with the fate of lonely men.
He appears to have been a late bloomer in the romance stakes, too shy to kiss a girl or go on a date until the age of 21.
Desperate and unhappy, he decided to confront his shyness head-on by forcing himself to talk to thousands of women over the next few years.
His experiment worked. Really well.
By 2007, he had started his own dating company, PUA Training, and success followed.
The Natural is a culmination of all those years of hard work, and gives advice on body language, flirting, fashion, how to hold a conversation, how to get a phone number and, most importantly, how to "close" a seduction.
Whether it will transform a pimply teen into a slick Italian-suit-wearing Fabio is hard to tell.
At 32, La Ruina admits he is still learning, but he has totally changed his outlook towards women from that nerdy 21-year-old.
"Now that I'm older and have made up for all those missed years when I was young, I am looking for a serious relationship, even a wife," he says.
"So I'll remain a teacher, but in terms of actually getting in lots of 'practice', I intend to slow down.
"Most guys want to learn the skills and get into a relationship, so there is nothing wrong with me setting that example."
And if those three lines do not seduce a women, who knows what will?
The Natural: How To Effortlessly Attract The Women You Want by Richard La Ruina, published by Vermilion (RRP $19.95). Also available as an ebook.


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Workers will begin restoration efforts in the Caloosahatchee River 9 a.m., Saturday, October 22 at the Punta Rassa boat ramp.
FGCU scientists in collaboration with local, state and federal agencies are involved in a project that creates and restores oyster-shell reefs in Estero Bay and the tidal Caloosahatchee River.
Through public education and involvement, the project attempts to restore and enhance oyster reefs in Southwest Florida and Western Everglades estuaries, thereby improving water quality as well as habitat availability.
Work involves loading fossil oyster shells into wire mesh bags, transporting them and placing them in strategic points in the estuaries that attract natural oyster spat (larvae) and eventually form reefs.
The second phase of reef-restoration efforts will include "oyster gardening" by local citizens living along canals and rivers. Floating cages and juvenile oysters will be given to volunteers who will suspend the cages in water, and monitor growth and survival of juveniles. At the end of one year, volunteers will collect the oysters and seed them on constructed reefs.
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SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music is a community of educators, musicians and scholars in an environment dedicated to helping every student achieve his or her career and life goals.
Crane consists of approximately 530 undergraduate and 25 graduate students, and a faculty of over 80 teachers and professional staff. Crane is housed in the Julia E. Crane Music Center on the north side of the campus and has two classroom buildings (Bishop and Schuette Halls), three concert areas (Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall, 1290 seats; the Sara M. Snell Music Theater, 452 seats; and the Ralph Wakefield Lecture and Recital Hall, 130 seats) as well as extensive supporting areas. The new 97,000-square-foot Performance Arts Center opened in the Spring 2014 semester next door to the Crane Center, and includes three additional large performance spaces (a Proscenium Theater, a Black Box Theater, and a Dance Theater) as well as a recording studio with new, state-of-the-art equipment.
The Crane School was founded in 1886 by Julia Crane (1855-1923) as the Crane Institute of Music and was one of the first institutions in the country to have programs dedicated to preparing specialists in teaching music in the public schools. Throughout Crane's history the school's primary mission has been to educate music teachers with an emphasis on excellence in performance. At Crane, learning to be a teacher does not exclude or limit music performance, but uses excellence in performance as the foundation on which teaching is based. Over the years, our mission has expanded to include degrees in performance, music business, composition, and music theory and history, as well as other programs in jazz, music in special education, and piano pedagogy. Crane is proud to have many of the finest music educators, scholars and performers in the United States as members of the faculty, all working hard to make Crane a vital, innovative and exciting place.
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| Chronians: 60.000.000 (appr.)
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|Main Cloning Center, XDW Research Facility, Palace, Chrone Imperial Base
Chrone is a stand alone planet system in the Tharcan Galaxy. The planet is the homeworld of the Chronians. Chronians are thought to be the descendants of DSM colonists from Galaxia Nehellenium. The planet is controlled by the M-Throne Empire.
The early history of the planet is not well known. Prior to colonization, the planet was probably orbiting a star which exploded in a supernova since trace radiation can be observed on the planet. The planet should have been very distant from its former star because the planet has a very unique type of life on it. The atmosphere is full of Lila-violet colored microorganisms that produce light. Although the planet is not orbiting a star today, it is illuminated by its own atmosphere. The planet's young core still produces heat to increase the surface temperature to an average level of 25ºC. The planet is covered with 80% land and 20% water.
Order of Chrone
Order of Chrone is a state that controlled the Chrone System for more than four hundred years. After joining the M-Throne Empire the order become a semi-autonomous government. In the emblem of the Order, the DSM logo can be seen in the middle surrounded by the silhouette of a particle creating core.
The order is ruled by a small council that contains a total of four members. This council is called the High Council of Chrone. The head of the state and the council is called High Lord of Chrone. Other members are the minister of internal affairs, the minister of foreign affairs, and the minister of technology. Members are selected with a democratic vote if a member dies or quits or if the High Lord thinks that he is incapable of maintaining the position. The officials of the Order and Chronian civilians outside Chrone wear dark purple / yellow colored uniforms in accordance with the emblem.
Science and Technology
The Chronians are very interested in science and technology. With advanced genetics and nanotechnology that extend their lifespan to hundreds of years, they are practically able to stop aging.
They abandoned the normal breeding rituals hundred years ago and they produce clones of their ancestors. Sometimes married couples design their own children with mixing their genes to create new clones. Other than manipulated clone children the government also produces a small amount of standard clones for military duties. Production of standard clones is limited after the joining of the M:Throne Empire. The clone production technology is different than the technology used by the Minerse civilization. In Chronian cloning units, the clones do not grow naturally - instead they are constructed. The cloning units consist of a cloning core and a cloning tank. In the cloning core the new cells are produced according to the gen coding and transported to the clone tanks. In the tanks the bodies are constructed in the cloning tanks cell by cell. The cloning core uses materials from the nutrient tanks.
One of the most important inventions of the Chronians is the particle creating core. The core can produce subatomic particles using dark energy instead of normal energy. The created particles are fused to atoms using a particle fusion device.
Chronians mainly use energy weapons and no projectile weapons. Sonic weapons are also used. Before the joining to the M-Throne Empire they had interplanetary missiles but they abandoned these weapons in accordance of the Imperial Law.
The military of the Order consist of a small planetary force and a limited space force. The forces are relatively small but equipped with high tech weapons and vehicles.


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Dr. Brent: "You know Mr. Nightshade, smoking isn't good for you. It causes all kinds of health problems and it's expensive. You really should try to stop smoking."
Mr. Nightshade: "Yeah, I know."
Next visit, a few months later.
Dr. Brent: "So Mr. Nightshade, how are you doing with smoking?"
Mr. Nightshade: "I quit."
Dr. rent: (rather shocked and dumbfounded) "Wow! That's great! What finally made you decide to stop smoking?"
Mr. Nightshade: "God told me to stop smoking."
Dr Brent: "Err, that's wonderful that you stopped smoking."
Next visit a few months later:
Dr. Brent: "So, Mr. Nightshade, how are you doing?"
Mr. Nightshade: "I'm fine, but I'm smoking again."
Dr. Brent: "Oh, why's that?"
Mr.Nightshade: "God told me to stop smoking, so I stopped smoking. But the more I thought about it, the madder I got. I like to smoke, so why should God tell me to stop smoking? It made me really mad. I wasn't going to let God tell me what I can and can't do, so I started smoking again and I told him to be quiet."


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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Perfect Grilled Cheese
The combination of basil, mayo, garlic, and cheese is so savory and the red onion and tomato give extra body to the sandwich. I'd suggest mixing different types of cheese when making this sandwich to add more depth to the flavor. I've been eating these sandwiches for weeks and would love to take the time now to show you how to make the perfect grilled cheese.
There are three tips to making the perfect grilled cheese:
- Use lots of cheese
- Keep the frying pan on medium - low heat
- Use lots of butter
So first, here's how you put the sandwich together.
Take your pesto mayo, which is just equal amounts of pesto and mayonnaise mixed together, and spread it on a piece of bread.
Layer with a piece of cheese (my favorite is white American cheese) and pieces of tomato.
Layer with a second piece of cheese and slices of red onion.
Layer with a third piece of cheese and spread more pesto mayo on the second piece of bread.
Melt about 1/2 tbsp of butter in a frying pan over medium to low heat. When the butter begins to bubble, place the sandwich in the frying pan.
Spread butter on the top piece of bread and when the underside is golden brown flip the sandwich and cook on the other side. Leave the stove on medium - low heat so the sandwich cooks slowly and all of those layers of cheese have time to melt. At this point, you can also cover the pan with a lid to allow the steam to melt the cheese.
Remove from heat and enjoy! You're welcome.
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Yum! I've always been a simple grilled cheese lover, but I will definitely try your pesto mayo recipe, that sounds amazing!ReplyDelete
I'm drooling. Want this NOW :) Love the pesto and mayo combo! So creative.ReplyDelete
wow -- I am so trying that. Yum. It's lunch time too. And I was just going to get a smoothie and try and be healthy. Now that's out the window.ReplyDelete
Okay I was gonna steal this but then I saw the mayo. So if you could just remove that I shall resume stealing it out of the screen. For some I cannot eat mayo, makes me wicked sick. Otherwise this sandwich is the bomb.ReplyDelete
Pesto mayo is such a great topping. I HATE mayo, but add pesto and it is yummy!ReplyDelete
@Erin Haha I'm actually not a huge fan of pesto but mix it up with some mayo and it has a completely different flavor. Who would have thought?ReplyDelete
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Create a comfortable place to gather with this four-piece sectional group with a right-facing chaise and armless loveseat. The chaise sectional piece adds cozy seating to your sectional where you can stretch out. The soft microfiber in a neutral Patina color is a versatile look in any decor that is also easy to care for. Six square accent pillows with a contemporary leaf motif one side and hidden zippers complete the sectional. Rounded track arms add unique style that is contemporary, yet casual. T-style attached back cushions, loose welted box cushions, and block feet in a dark finish add further eye-catching design.
The Patola Park - Patina 4-Piece Small Sectional with Right Chaise by Ashley Furniture at Gill Brothers Furniture in the Muncie, Anderson, Marion, IN area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
The Patola Park - Patina upholstery collection adds joy to your home's decor. Sophisticated contemporary design and numerous configuration options allow you to create a sectional perfect for your home, whether you have a small space in a condo to a large family room. The soft corduroy-style microfiber in a neutral Platinum color is a versatile look in any decor. The casual contemporary style strikes a balance with comfort and style for your home's living room.
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Wastewater treatment isn't a pretty process, but officials from the Kent County Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Milford say a new wave of federal funding will help improve the facility's energy efficiency and environmental concerns, as well as extend service to more families.
Wastewater treatment isn't a pretty process, but officials from the Kent County Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Milford say a new wave of federal funding will help improve the facility's energy efficiency and environmental concerns, as well as extend service to more families.
More than $7.5 million in funding promised by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will support two efficiency projects and extend county sewer service to 155 homes and three businesses in Paris Villa and more than 100 homes and businesses in London Village, both unincorporated areas near Magnolia.
Over the last three years, the wastewater treatment plant has received more than $28 million in funding from state, county and federal sources for research projects and upgrades that will allow the facility to reduce energy expenditures by 15 and reduce air emissions related to stand-by power generation by about 80 percent, according to Hans Medlarz, director of Kent County Public Works Department, which oversees the only wastewater treatment plant in Kent County.
Included in the $7.5 million in new funding is a $632,000 loan and a $1,894,000 grant that will help pay for the Paris Villa/London Village sewer extension project. Sewer services initially will be extended to Paris Villa, followed by London Village in the second phase of the project. Both developments currently depend on private wells and on-site septic systems.
Levy Court Commissioner Jody Sweeney said the cost savings of the project are important, but secondary to how residents will be affected.
Paris Villa was built in the 1940s and 1950s as a low-cost expansion of Dover Air Force Base, he said, and many current homeowners are second-generation residents whose parents moved to the area because of the base.
"In talking to these people about what's coming, and explaining to them why we're doing it, how we're doing it and the cost to them, almost everyone is accepting that we've worked hard to keep their costs low," Sweeney said. "Yes … it's less money for the county government, but it really is less money for the people who live here and we appreciate that."
A USDA loan for $5 million also included in the new funding will pay for upgrades to blowers and the addition of a single-unit, plant-wide power back-up system. The nearly 25-year-old blowers, which Medlarz described as "vintage," will be replaced with equipment that has been on the market for about five or six years, he said, and will eliminate vibration and friction issues that increase energy consumption.
"The $5 million from the federal government is the last piece of the puzzle," he said July 2, when Delaware's U.S. senators joined county and federal officials in announcing the funding.
U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said the new funding will address areas of past growth – places like Paris Villa – that haven't been handled until now.
"This is taking, I think, an appropriate federal role through USDA, making sure there's financing available, making sure that these projects and programs are being done at a quality level, but really the leadership, the insight, the resources and the plan have been done here in Kent County," he said. "This is a great way to lay the ground work for a vibrant Kent County moving forward."
U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), who has visited the Milford treatment facility many times over the years, recalled a visit to a Wilmington facility during his first campaign for state treasurer, when the plant could be smelled from a mile away. That's not the case with wastewater treatment plants anymore, he said.
"Most people I've seen have no idea how advanced you are here in Kent County, in treating wastewater in an environmentally friendly way," he said. "And with this investment … you'll be doing it in a more energy efficient way."
LOCATION 139 Milford Neck Road in Milford
NUMBER SERVED More than 130,000 residential, commercial, industrial and municipal users
LOCATIONS SERVED All Kent County municipalities except Viola, Marydel, Houston and Woodside
GALLONS TREATED More than 12 million each day
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cat coughs while purring - Answered by Dr. Van Lienden
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Hi there,
I've got a nine year old cat named Jake who is remarkably good natured (and pleasantly plump at 16.5 lbs). About a month ago, we got a new kitten from a rescue shelter. Jake wasn't too happy about the addition, but aside from not sitting on our laps as much as he used to, he was pretty much the same guy.
Suddenly he stopped eating as much as he usually did, and walked sluggishly around the room. Also, when he purred, he would cough, and as the purring continued, he would make a noise as if he was going to vomit, but wouldn't. (Kind of like a really bad cough).
We took him into the vet, explaining his symptoms, and they put him on an IV saying he had a fatty liver problem. We've got him back home now, where he is eating and moving like he used to, but the cough while he purrs still persists. It only happens when he's purring.
I called back the vet, and they said they didn't treat it, but that I should just wait on it. It breaks my heart to see him like that, and know that by making him purr I could be making him feel bad.
Any idea what this might be, and how to alleviate it? It seems as though the new kitten has ear mites - could this be related somehow?
I'd appreciate any information you might have.
maybe you should put the cat on a diet
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Around half a dozen small "suspected homemade bombs" detonated near a Communist Party office in the coal-dusted Chinese city of Taiyuan early on Wednesday, Nov. 6, according to state newswire Xinhua.
The official news agency said that one person had been killed and eight others injured, one seriously. A photo of a man lying on the street has circulated on Chinese social media, along with images of ball bearings that were scattered on the ground. State broadcaster CCTV reported that 20 vehicles were damaged.
Xinhua reported the Taiyuan explosions, which occurred around 7:40 a.m., with remarkable alacrity — in contrast to the news blackout that followed the Oct. 28 incident in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, when an SUV drove through crowds of tourists and erupted into flames, killing two bystanders. That attack, in which the three occupants of the vehicle also died, was later blamed on members of the Uighur ethnic minority, who are concentrated in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. Government officials described it as "terrorism" masterminded by Muslim radicals.
As China's income gap widens and the Internet allows for stories of official graft and abuse of power to circulate, instances of social unrest — sometimes violent — have proliferated. Hardly a month goes by without some aggrieved individual blowing himself up or inflicting harm on others through homemade devices. Earlier this year, a man who was disabled after being beaten by security thugs in southern China detonated a small bomb in Beijing's airport. He was the only one who suffered major injuries from the explosion, and his case elicited online support from Chinese who wondered why he felt violence was the only way to publicize his plight.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
IF: Punch Line
"I heard there is a gorilla at the end of this Punch Line."
Not much time for drawing much more that line drawings; alas I must try to stay fresh somehow.
12 comments:
- RAWVOLTA said...
well.... thank U for posting on my website, but I see U are an one incredible artist, U!;-)
much hugs!
- June 18, 2008 at 5:15 PM
- elizabeth said...
Nice. Love the crowd of people apparently standing in line for... something they don't know, but maybe, possibly a gorilla. So typical.
- June 18, 2008 at 7:48 PM
- nina seven said...
funny...i love "the punch line"! I first thought of a clothing line with clenched fists hanging from it, but went with the punch drink instead. Thanks for your comment!
- June 18, 2008 at 9:26 PM
- Laura Marsh said...
As with the orc art, nice detail! Love the spit flying out of the dude's mouth & the gorilla is great. Good work!
- June 19, 2008 at 10:16 AM
- lauren said...
i love the facial expressions and your take on "punchline".
- June 19, 2008 at 12:46 PM
- Dot said...
how simple and clever! i like it...
- June 19, 2008 at 12:47 PM
- ValGalArt said...
i'm impressed! I always post old stuff unless the topic somehow relates to my current work. So anybody that can do a new work just for IF is tops in my book :)
- June 19, 2008 at 2:11 PM
- Josh (musarter) said...
Thank you everyone for your comments.
Val: I try to make something specifically for IF, Monday Artday, and ChaDes when I can. This happens 60-70% of the time. I need to keep things fresh and draw as much as possible.
- June 19, 2008 at 3:28 PM
- Rui Sousa said...
really great, excellent!
regards and thank´s for the comments.
- June 19, 2008 at 7:23 PM
- Michael said...
Great work!
I like the lines you create...
- June 19, 2008 at 8:32 PM
- Anthony VanArsdale said...
Hey Josh! this is a Great punchline! :D
thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving the kind words... you have some Terrific artwork here!!!
- June 25, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- robertc said...
haha... that's really funny! nice line work too.
- June 30, 2008 at 11:17 PM


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"Polish under-23 World Championship gold medalist Pawel Szczepaniak has explained the circumstances that led he and his brother Kacper down the road to a positive doping control for EPO at the World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic. He insists that just weeks prior to the competition, where his brother finished just behind in second place, the brothers had yet to be involved with the seedy world of doping...
Now the talented young riders have learned their lesson about doping the hard way, and realize that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. "My life is ruined and my brother too, " concluded Pawel. "Kacper hardly eats. All he does is sleep and stare straight ahead. We both go to a psychologist."
The anti-doping authorities need to wake-up and reshape their education modules to better reflect what resonates with and influences young riders so they won't dope. I'm telling you, it's not just appeals to fair play that will stop doping. Szczepaniak's father earns 250 euros per month as a bus driver. Had the sorcery that led to victory not been discovered, the brothers' new contracts could have helped the family to increase its monthly earnings by an order of magnitude! But trotting out charts and statistics about long-term health risks and the unenviable possibility of becoming a uniballer before one's career is over are weak countermeasures.
Morality and ethics have to be taught in the rider's home, and this must be carried over into his club and amateur teams. If, like Matt Decanio, a U-23 finds himself in a foreign country, isolated and lacking a support system and confronted with enormous pressure to begin doping under team orders, it's the moral guidance established at home that will help him to avoid the rot for as long as it takes to either arrange extraction or figure out how to beat the dopers at their own game (note: here's where I think Bike Pure adds practical value: it provides a means by which geographically-scattered riders who don't wish to dope but are confronted with the pressure to do so can connect with each other and others in the anti-doping community to gain support and find the strength to stay clean).
In the right here right now, trotting out casualties like Pawel and Kacper, and even me, for God's sake, and letting us tell our stories as we struggle to rebuild our lives has the potential to add a dimension - an element, even - to anti-doping education targeting riders who are already likely to have access to products like EPO and who might be considering actively whether or not to use. I'll admit that I haven't organized peer-reviewed research to test the effectiveness of dollars spent on different forms of anti-doping education, but I guarantee that unless radical changes (or AUGMENTATION of curriculum) are made in the content and the messaging, the same-old-same-old "I Compete Clean b/c..." and "Fair Play Matters" is NOT going to deliver the impact that our anti-doping education HAS TO PRODUCE for our INTERNAL CONSUMERS - the athletes whose minds we're trying to reach.
Sure, juniors and U-23's need to all receive a standardized anti-doping education that deals with such topics as the concept of strict liability, and advises athletes on how they can reach a drug reference line (should it be available in their country) to check the legality of medicines before they pop a pill or inject. Hit them with the feel-good, "Play Fair because Life's Fair and Better that Way" slogans. Whatever. But then drag before them real live, breathing, shattered human beings who - much like them - are only there in their disgrace because of the same kind of love of cycling that's driving the new riders. Make the kids uncomfortable - but make the penalty phase of doping something less abstract and much more real for them. Granted, the dopers whose stories you focus on have to be ones who have Phoenix's for cousins and are working to rise-up out of the ash of their doping disgrace - and it sounds like at least one of the Szczepaniak boys sees the possibility of a new future. Poor Kacper is still shell-shocked - but what, are you surprised? People dope because they want an unfair advantage that will let them ride their bike faster than their competitors, and in doing so obtain so benefit otherwise inaccessible. Doping comes with a cost, some obvious, most hidden, and unfortunately, anti-doping education is not as sophisticated as it should be in order to help our young athletes make the best long-term choices.
I hope that the powers that be will consider the most effective ways of changing the peloton's mindset when it comes to doping - not just what is safest, simplest or closest to the model designed by the fella who came before you.


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Marlboro-based GlycoSolutions, which tests biological drugs for safety and consistency, is hiring.
Since July 2012, when I last spoke with Elizabeth Higgins, GlycoSolutions founder and chief executive officer, the 11-year-old company has broadened its services and is enjoying a big spurt of interest from clients.
GlycoSolutions is a contract research organization that helps biotech and pharmaceutical companies with drug development. Drugs can take at least 10 years and a billion dollars to go from finding a candidate compound to a product that consumers can use. Getting there requires companies to survive a gauntlet of tests designed to determine if a potential new drug is effective, safe and can be manufactured at high quality and at a cost below the price the company charges customers.
GlycoSolutions helps clients assess whether a drug candidate is promising and develop manufacturing processes consistent with rigorous quality standards.
Dr. Higgins worked at Boston-based Genzyme before founding GlycoSolutions, where she set up and led the glycobiology group that analyzed carbohydrates in Genzyme's protein therapeutics products. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Guelph in Ontario and her doctorate at the University of Toronto. She also has an MBA from Boston University.
In a June 17 interview, I asked Dr. Higgins what had been the biggest change in her business in the past 11 months.
She answered, "There is a huge shift in the amount of business we're seeing � in a positive fashion. In the previous couple of years, the demand for our services was more spotty. It was hard to get people moving on our projects."
Dr. Higgins attributes the increase in demand to three factors: More biotech startups getting funded; an increase in pharmaceutical company outsourcing; and more demand in emerging markets.
Unsure why more biotech startups are getting funded, Dr. Higgins offered: "Perhaps it's because they are getting deals with bigger companies or that some of their competitors are conducting initial public offerings," whetting the appetite of venture investors.
Pharmaceutical companies are also getting smarter about outsourcing, Dr. Higgins said, because they realize contract research organizations such as GlycoSolutions "have expertise that is valuable in drug development. They ask themselves: 'Why reinvent the wheel?' They can save six months by hiring a CRO instead of developing the skills themselves."
Similarly, she sees emerging markets as getting more interested in hiring CROs. "A lot of countries (such as India and China) are trying to get things going," she said. "They are getting more objective about what they can do well and what they should outsource."
The growth in demand for GlycoSolutions' services is spurring Dr. Higgins to hire.
"Hiring is at the top of my list," she said. "We have eight people now, and I would like to add two more. I am looking for scientists with BS or MS degrees with experience at local companies or recent graduates."
Dr. Higgins believes that GlycoSolutions will attract talent due to its work environment. "We have a lot of fun here. If you are working for a biotech or pharmaceutical company, you may have spent years working on the same product or process. We see a lot of different problems, and people enjoy the variety."
Bullish on GlycoSolutions' future, Dr. Higgins said: "We are seeing more longer-term jobs � those lasting from three to six months. In the past, we would watch things get going and then drop off. But demand for our services looks more predictable now. I don't know why we are getting more long-term jobs. But things have changed. Maybe it's because we are more established � this is our 11h year in business. And clients we worked with in the past on a particular drug are done with Phase I and closer to an approved drug, so they are coming back to us to help."
GlycoSolutions plans to stay in Marlboro, moving from Worcester because the rent was getting too high. "We will stay in our current space," she said. "It has room to grow."
Peter Cohan of Marlboro heads a management consulting and venture capital firm, and teaches business strategy and entrepreneurship at Babson College. His email address is email@example.com.