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|Before initiating opioid therapy, consider the evidence related to effectiveness in patients with chronic non-cancer pain. (Grade A).
|Opioid efficacy
The systematic review update (see Part A, 10: Literature Search Methods) completed to support this guideline examined the effectiveness of opioids for CNCP. A summary of findings includes:
1For effect size, most authors use Cohen's three levels (REF Cohen, & REF 2009 Updated Method Guideline)
|Examples of CNCP conditions for which opioids were shown to be effective in placebo-controlled trials *
|Examples of CNCP conditions that have NOT been studied in placebo-controlled trials
|Tramadol only
|Weak or strong opioid
* A limitation of these trials was that the duration of opioid therapy was a maximum of three months.
1. Nociceptive pain of musculoskeletal origin (e.g., osteoarthritis, low-back pain, neck pain)
Opioids showed only small to moderate benefits for nociceptive pain in improving function and relieving pain (Furlan 2006, Furlan unpublished 2010, Nuesch 2009). If opioids are required, patients generally respond to moderate doses. Acetaminophen, NSAIDs and non-pharmacological treatments are often effective for patients with low back pain and other common musculoskeletal problems.
2. Neuropathic pain
Opioids showed only small to moderate benefits for neuropathic pain (Furlan 2006, Furlan 2009, Eisenberg 2005). Patients with neuropathic pain may require higher opioid doses, in combination with tricyclic antidepressants (Khoromi 2007) or anticonvulsants (Gilron 2005).
3. Migraine, tension headache, functional GI problems
Opioids are usually not indicated for migraine or tension headaches, or for patients with functional gastro-intestinal problems such as irritable bowel syndrome (Bigal 2009).
4. Widespread soft tissue pain
The benefit of the weak opioid tramadol for fibromyalgia was small. Other pain-relief options should be considered.
The updated systematic review of opioids for CNCP included 62 randomized trials (see Appendix B-13). Opioids were compared to placebos in 47 randomized trials. The effect size for improvement in pain was medium (0.58 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.48 to 0.67, extracted from 47 RCTs). For functional outcomes, the effect size was small (0.34 95% CI: 0.25 to 0.43, extracted from 31 RCTs) (Furlan unpublished 2010).
1. Nociceptive pain and osteoarthritis.
The meta-analysis of 31 randomized trials of opioids for nociceptive pain showed a medium-effect size for pain relief outcomes (0.60 95% CI: 0.49 to 0.72, extracted from 31 trials), and small for functional outcomes (0.38 95% CI: 0.26 to 0.49, extracted from 21 trials) (Furlan unpublished 2010).
A recently published Cochrane review of opioids for osteoarthritis showed that the small-to-moderate beneficial effects of non-tramadol opioids are outweighed by large increases in the risk of adverse events. They concluded that non-tramadol opioids should therefore not be routinely used, even if osteoarthritic pain is severe (Nuesch 2009).
2. Neuropathic pain.
The meta-analysis of 13 randomized trials of opioids for neuropathic pain showed a medium effect size for pain relief outcomes (0.56 95% CI: 0.38 to 0.73, extracted from 13 trials), and small for functional outcomes (0.24 95% CI: 0.09 to 0.39, extracted from 7 trials) (Furlan unpublished 2010).
A fixed-effects model meta-analysis of 6 randomized trials of opioids for neuropathic pain showed mean post-treatment visual analog scale scores of pain intensity after opioids to be 14 units lower on a scale from 0 to 100 than after placebo (95% CI : −18 to −10; P<.001) (Eisenberg 2005).
3. Widespread soft tissue pain.There are no randomized trials of strong opioids for fibromyalgia. There are two randomized trials of the weak opioid, tramadol for fibromyalgia. They showed small benefits in reducing pain (Russell 2000, Bennett 2003). The EULAR (European League Against Rheumatism) guidelines for the treatment of fibromyalgia recommend tramadol but not strong opioids (Carville 2008).

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T-Shirt Printing Machines Market Forecast 2019 - 2025: QY Research
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Sometimes it's the small things in life that matter. A few months ago my favorite hacker Dan Kaminsky discovered a fundamental flaw in the design of the Internet. it can be exploited by almost any hacker out there, and he made the effort to manage the politics of cooperation behind the scenes with major corporations and institutions, hoping to come up with a fix before word got out. Oh and it was not that easy, because any patch would by definition highlight the flaw. As Dan acknowledges, this flaw was known previously to be a weakness… but warnings were not given adequate respect. Probably the biggest news about the flaw was the concept of the top technical IT people in the world having to quickly work together, in a-political stealth mode, to come up with a fix. This was probably the largest scale problem the Internet has seen to date.
Even more geekly interesting is the way the "birthday paradox" rears it's ugly head with the fix, meaning even if everyone executes the fix, we still have a problem that needs to be designed out of the system in the future. The Birthday Paradox is that wierd statistical fact that, in any room of 23 people, statistically speaking, it is likely that two people will have the same birthday. It always seems like a remarkable coincidence to our human minds that 2 people have the exact same birthday, but it just takes 23 people to make the odds better than chance. In this case, the fix for the DNS flaw Kaminsky highlighted relies on the random selection of a number. Since there is a finite pool of numbers to pick from, if a hacker also guesses and does it enough times at the same time, she ends up running 50/50 odds of landing on the correct number. Not too shabby, if the prize is control of the Internet.
Cool, geeky, and relevant stuff. But that's not the "little thing" that made me spit my coffee across the Starbucks table this morning. It was the second comment posted to the IT news website where Dan Kaminsky's work addressing this major Internet flaw was reported. A link to the Youtube video of Kaminsky explaining the ever-so-techy topic, in front of a small typically-geeky tech audience, which is visible to the camera. The commenter had this to add to the conversation:
Geek Alert: Dan Kaminsky on the DNS Bug of 2008…Would you bang the chick on the front row?
You gotta love this world we live, work, and play in. Video below… you can check out the chick for yourself.


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The Women's Blues Revue
The Women's Blues Revue is the biggest event of the year for the Toronto Blues Society and it has a lot of history. I remember a few years back when Shelagh Rogers christened Rita Chiarelli Canada's "Goddess of the Blues". That label stuck to Rita like velcro. Last night Garvia Baily spontaneously coined the nickname Donna "Goddamn" Grantis and the audience was definitely in agreement at that moment. She had just ripped off another fiery solo, but other times she'd be playing a simple back up part and Suzie Vinnick would be doing a complimentary thang on her guitar and everything they did elevated the song.
The song selection, the worked-out,-thought-out arrangements, the impeccable musicianship, great back-up vocals, expecially by Lindsay Beaver - wow! It's impossible to pick a favourite of the six featured vocalists. I guess Kelly Lee Evans was the one that took me highest but each singer touched different sensors in my enjoyment of music. Tanika Charles kicked it off great and had the most intermission buzz and made a great first impression on a couple of thousand people. Sacha Williamson was a bit more cerebral but then kicked ass with a Koko Taylor song. I was thinking Sabrina Weeks was the only white girl in the group but of course she was not. Angel Forest from Quebec gave a real Performance (with a capital "P,") and Sabrina Weeks brought a lot of class and connected great with the audience. She's coming back to Toronto to be part of an Etta James Tribute...and while I think of it, Kellylee has a gig back at Massey Hall with Michael Kaeshammer in the near future).
I would think the biggest draw last night was Saida Baba Talibah who delivered a great blues set for the occasion but we all know she can take it into some very far out musical territory. All these singers brought something all their own to the event but I dare anyone to say there was "not enough blues" as we often heard after the WBR in the past.
I got a few comments as we left - one former participant who thought the sound sucked and a musical buddy who thought the drummer was rushing too much, but for those who didn't attend because they never heard of those singers, they really missed out this year. Doubly so, because this was the year that the CBC ended their long-standing arrangement to broadcast the event. It's the public's loss (and the musicians' too, since their paycheck was dramatically reduced).
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Came across a great article today about Elon Musk and his newest venture. The founder and innovator behind Tesla, this visionary entrepreneur continues to expand his vision of what's possible for American consumers.
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Darcy arrived at the rescue, scrawny, 'over trained' and hyperactive in July 2014, after a change in his owner's personal circumstances left him homeless. He was 6 years old. He had been living in a car and was quite stressed with a ridge on his nose where he had been muzzled for a lot of the time. Although Darcy had previously lived with another dog, he was not generally good with other dogs, although he didn't go 'looking for trouble'. He was obedient and willing to please but seemed to find it difficult to think for himself and became very stressed when he was not being told what to do.
Darcy was underweight when he came to us and his vet records showed that he had always struggled with keeping weight on and had undergone various tests to see whether there was a medical reason for it. As he settled he put on weight and we believe that his low weight was due to stress – he is now a good (perhaps too good a) weight and far more relaxed.
Darcy could come across as intimidating as he gets very excited, very quickly and will jump up and bark, although this behaviour has decreased significantly since he has been with us. Darcy takes no notice of the horses and ponies that wander around in the New Forest and his recall is excellent.
We had thought that he would suit a rural home where he could enjoy being with someone for most of the time, perhaps in a private stable yard or a small holding where he can play ball and be off lead in a safe environment, but the perfect home has not come forward for him yet. Darcy is happy here with us and we are happy for him to stay for as long as he needs us – he has only recently been moved across to our sponsorship scheme and he is awaiting his first sponsor with eager anticipation.


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I find the fantasy fiction genre fun and exciting because I get to stretch the limits of my imagination. Incidentally, I've found that I have no limits…but that's another story for another day.
My point is–the paranormal elements I write about originate from my brain. Right off the top of my head. But my brain is stimulated by outside forces. Environmental influences. Conscious and subconscious input…and real life experiences.
Now, where was I going with that… Ah, yes. Paranormal activity. We've probably all encountered something we couldn't explain with science. Or thought we saw someone standing in the corner when there was really no one there. Or maybe we've had a dream that actually came true.
While I have yet to meet a vampire (keeping hope alive) or ghost or goblin or angel (not that I know of), I have to say I believe both friendly and unfriendly spirits walk among us. The unexplainable happens. I've seen it with my own two eyes, even dreamt events before they occurred.
But enough about me. I read and write the stuff. Maybe that makes me more prone to belief. There's a chicken or egg debate in there somewhere, but let's get on to more important things…
I wanted to know whether someone, who didn't usually write or read paranormal/ fantasy books, believed in real life paranormal activity.
Today, I have an answer from CJ Johnson (copywriter, ghostwriter, researcher, and blogger):
"New Orleans is an experience. It always begins with the tingling that makes its way down my spine, every time that I step foot on its soil. That tingling, the warmth, the sense of unsettled harmony from our past. It just creeps up on me and then past me in all of seconds, and then again, until I just accept it and embrace it. For me that tingling is just not the physical and emotional joy of vacationing. It's the metaphysical. I symbol it to mean that "we" welcome you, "we" being those from another time. I know that all of this country, the world even, has its pockets of mysticism, but New Orleans is its own world, in of itself. It has a history that's complex and mixed. Its people are born from those hailing from the Caribbean, France, Canada, Africa, and Spain. And up until today, a lot of Shit has went down (pardon my French) in regards to New Orleans history.
It is no wonder that the paranormal can be accepted, and almost expected in such a city. It is the largest city in the United States where one can visit a plantation. I mean can you imagine the sense of unsettledness there? So many people from today traipsing around on quarters that should be closed chapters of our historic fabric. In my opinion those spirits just travel the city, roaming, and in their subtle way letting each passerby and resident know that we are all just "visitors" in their world.
One of my favorite books is, The Feast of All Saints, by Ann Rice, and she writes with clarity on the lives of the Creoles of color in New Orleans in the early 19th century. Those Creoles have maintained a haunted existence and their legacy is spirit filled. The paranormal in New Orleans, is not from just the ordinary, it's not "Ghost Busters" or other cheesy Hollywood dreamed of notions of the paranormal. It is very real and unfortunately derived from sorrow, miscegenation, and broken promises. But is also real because it celebrates a city with a long history of people that are resilient, unbroken, and authentic. All of that culminates to a city bursting with people from times past laying claim to their city. The paranormal of New Orleans is dreamy but real, nuanced but arresting. I can't quite describe it, but its real, its here to stay, and it's their world, and the city's Grandfathers will never let anyone forget just how much the city is their own. So the tingling down my back will never cease when I visit New Orleans, and I am sure each of us can claim a little truth in the same sentiment.
How does New Orleans put you in a paranormal state of mind?"
A-ha! So I'm really not crazy.
Leave a comment. And if you missed her interview with me, check it out here.


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Another week, another Japanese-Venetian restaurant.
All'onda is the name, and in truth it's not quite like any other place, although it's not as far-out as the elevator pitch makes it sound, either. The space glows with warm invitation to passers-by on East 13th Street, who can see the communal table and bar downstairs and, through second-story windows, the main dining room. Inside, there are no terrifying beasts with Japanese heads grafted onto Italian torsos, no teriyaki calf's liver or soba pesto.
There is nothing terrifying at all. Chris Jaeckle's cooking at All'onda is recognizably and elegantly Italian, and for the most part it's wonderful stuff. Mr. Jaeckle is a sophisticated chef whose marriage of Ligurian and French-Mediterannean cooking at Ai Fiori, under the guidance of Michael White, helped the restaurant win three stars from The New York Times in 2011. At All'onda, he has teamed up with the restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow.
The relationship between the two cuisines at All'onda is less a marriage than an infatuation. It's as if an Italian menu had a raging crush on Japan and couldn't stop bringing it up in conversation.
Most of this is done so smoothly, you hardly notice. Black truffle risotto, slick with Parmesan and butter, would strike you as old school if you didn't know that Mr. Jaeckle finishes it with the rice mash left over when sake is fermented. The Japanese ingredient adds a rounded, softly fruity flavor that quietly works its way into the risotto. Far more prominent are the flecks of winter truffles, whose aroma, part onion and part animal, goes directly from your nostrils to your brain.
Long quills of garganelli are tossed with chunks of sweet crab and toasted bread crumbs. It's all very classic, as is the warm spiciness that lifts up the pasta. But the source of the spice is yuzu kosho, the Japanese condiment fermented from yuzu peel and a weaponized dose of chiles. The way Mr. Jaeckle uses it, though, nearly convinced me that yuzu kosho should be sold at Eataly.
As usual with crushes, the object of affection occasionally comes up in a context so strained you have to roll your eyes. All'onda's winning dark chocolate tart grew menacing when it came with a salty scoop of soy gelato. And the most regrettable dish I ate was an ill-advised twist on tortellini in brodo, in which the pasta parcels stuffed with unmelted cheese sat in a gelatinous, lukewarm and indistinct stock made from Parmesan and dashi.
Other slight misfires can't be blamed on Japan. The aged-duck ragù with bent tubes of pasta called lumache simply needed more depth, as if the soffritto had not been caramelized enough, and the very dark chocolate in the ragù and around the rim of the plate didn't cover the deficit.
For the most part, though, good sense and good taste prevail. All'onda just opened in early January, and already Mr. Jaeckle has come up with two dishes so appealing that he will have a fight on his hands if he tries to take them off the menu.
First, there is the bucatini with sea urchin. Sea urchin pasta is so popular now, it will probably turn up on the menu at the Olive Garden before the year is over, but Mr. Jaeckle has done something novel and delicious with it. The urchin is cold-smoked, which makes it something like briny bacon and, when folded into egg yolks, cream and garlic, makes the rest of the dish something like spaghetti carbonara from the deep. The first time I had it, the bucatini were too soft and doughy, but the next time they had the proper snap to offset their creamy sauce.
And there is the short rib for two. The side dish of saffron risotto calls osso buco to mind, but this is not another brown, sticky braise. It's cooked sous vide for three days until the meat is glistening pink-red with veins of rich fat inside, then grilled to give it a spicy black crust. It looks like pastrami, and I can't get it out of my mind.
As has been widely reported, New York law now requires raw seafood appetizers in all Italian restaurants. The ones here are generally very good, like hamachi in a soy sauce bath with strands of pickled kuri squash and tiny cubes of peperoncini. Among the main courses there is not one that isn't well thought out, from the skate under a veal glaze to the guinea hen, separated into a roasted breast and confitted leg beneath a naturally sweet purée of parsnips.
Like many new restaurants, All'onda isn't strong across the board. Service can be rushed and not exactly polished, and I can't say the soy gelato was the only disappointing so-called sweet. Affogato is no treat when the espresso tastes charred and the ice cream has big ice crystals. Panna cotta flavored with Fernet-Branca is an oddity that would be easier to bear if it were a palate cleanser before a real dessert arrives. Until All'onda gets the rest of its lineup in shape, the dense and lightly crunchy olive oil cake is your best hope.
Despite the risks, All'onda is fun and lively enough that I can imagine dropping in once a month or so for a short-rib reunion. This is late-period Chodorow, with the nightclub grandiosity stripped away. The dining room staff looks almost ostentatiously casual — none more than Chris Cannon. New Yorkers who remember Mr. Cannon in a stiffly knotted necktie standing at attention behind the host stands at Marea, Convivio, Alto or Palio won't recognize him here, where he works as a consultant. He lopes beneath the exposed rafters outfitted in jeans, a plaid shirt, a quilted vest and a backward wool cap. With a dead rabbit or two over his shoulder, he'd look like an Italian winemaker coming back from a hunting trip.
If he lopes to your table, get him started about wine. He knows who makes the good stuff in Italy, and laid the foundation for the wine list before Nathan Rawlinson took it over. The list doesn't trawl for big spenders the way some of Mr. Cannon's others have, but many of the bottles taste more expensive than they are. Especially impressive is the carefully edited selection of affordable nebbiolos and the range of 40 sparkling wines, which makes welcome detours beyond prosecco. There's a bit of sake, too, as there is in all the best Japanese-Venetian places.


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On Penis Envy
Coveting Thy Neighbor's Member
The #MeToo movement has exposed powerful men for the dicks they are—by revealing what their penises want and have done. The surfeit of allegations has been dizzying and disturbing. It makes one question whether the bad among us outnumber the good. In a crusade sparked (in part) by the casual justification of "locker room talk," one cannot help but think about male sexuality as a zero-sum game. Unchecked power and privilege are outflanking self-control and respect.
The penis just can't help but steal focus, can it?
If men simply stopped — posturing, groping, and talking — we might just create some space for reflection. There's no doubt in our minds that sexual harassment is aberrant. And yet, men and woman find progressively more creative ways to rationalize it (see the 2017 Alabama special election). This premise subjects everyone—but women primarily—to secondhand sexual abuse. It is the pathological impact of male defense mechanisms.
Let's pretend that all men, on either side, stopped defending the accused or suggesting some cynical #MeToo witch-hunt. Perhaps we would examine our own primitive anxieties—those for which the penis has come to serve as a sort of weapon of self-defense. Simply, consider commonplace slurs: weak men are "pussies," aggressive men are "dicks."
The parallel brings to mind Freud's initial explorations into the differences between the sexes—specifically his ideas about the active masculine and passive feminine. Sure, reading Freud today requires a certain degree of cognitive dissonance. Sex in the bourgeois Vienna of the early 20th century was necessarily different from our enlightened 21st-century sensibilities. After all, back then, a woman's sexual desire was always subject to that of her male counterpart. And casual sex was seen, if at all, as something only men did.
Wait a minute…
Irony aside, Freud relied on some controversial theoretical bargains—the concept of "penis envy" in particular. Plenty of more capable feminist theorists (even at the time) have done much to dismantle the more troubling aspects of this idea. But it still bears explanation—and might serve us yet.
In short (perhaps not a great transition), Freud saw penis envy as universal to a young girl's psychosexual development. It is the basis of the psychic trauma she experiences in first perceiving a lack—not having a penis. In maturity, the girl finds a substitute for the penis she can never possess in her impulse to have a baby. Metaphorically castrated, she eventually strives to find the penis of a suitable replacement who will fill that lack (as it were) and give her the child she so desires.
Again, remember that Freud distills his ideas about inherent masculine and feminine behaviors to a more basic level: that of active and passive. The imagery is fairly self-explanatory. But it's important to keep in mind that he saw everyone—male or female—as having some degree of both active and passive instinct.
Ever the sadist, Freud doesn't spare young boys. The corollary to penis envy is "castration anxiety," a psychic experience (though sometimes literal) where the boy first realizes that he can never possess his mother because dad is calling the shots. Imagine the child who sees his dad's larger penis in the shower and worries he may never "measure up."
Freud saw the essential distinction between the sexes as one of theoretical interiority and exteriority. And penis envy came from the feelings of lack he perceived in his female patients (albeit a self-selected sample set). By now, we can safely dispense with any oversimplified application of penis envy in a clinical sense. For one thing, many practitioners have proven that Freud's understanding of women was lacking. Then again, as often happens with Freud, he preemptively defends any inadequacy—in effect, neutering future detractors. In this case, he is famous for asking the French analyst Marie Bonaparte, "What does a woman want?"
After 30 years of practice, Freud was at a loss.
But I've noticed a blind spot in our thinking when it comes to penis envy—a "hole," we could say. Returning to the topic of the insatiable penises with which we have been inundated of late: men, by virtue of their biology, tend to wear their desire on their sleeves. As such, our sexuality is presentational—located in external genitalia.
As a young boy, I remember the anxieties we had about penis size — the question of who among us had the largest and, therefore, would be king of the sexual jungle. The idea, I suppose, was that sexual pleasure (for some partner in a distant future) lay at the end of a long and mysterious tunnel that could only be reached by the lucky few in possession of an erection to match. At the time, we took our ideas of what sex meant from the softcore romps we watched on late-night cable. Pre-internet, one was lucky if he had an uncle with dusty back issues of Playboy—not that we learned much about the mutual orgasm from an airbrushed centerfold.
In the wake of the AIDS crisis, our public-school education necessarily emphasized the practice of safe sex over the pursuit of pleasure (for ourselves or our partners). Needless to say, my middle-school science teacher never articulated the intricacies of desire. Masturbation was considered a "gateway drug." And the female orgasm would be relegated to the mystery it is of popular conception—a distinctly male concept that implies a puzzle to be deciphered or, for many sad sacks, an unsolved cold case.
Just as Freud's idea is that a woman naturally overcomes her penis envy through her healthy relationship with her spouse, we assume that male maturity is an inevitability. #MeToo has fairly disproved that. Humans are aggressive, but men compete to a pathological degree. Just consider the "dick-measuring contest," an idiom for a petty competition where the outcome is irrelevant. An example is men comparing golf handicaps and fantasy-football scores. Or simply think back to the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates.
Having been both subject to and of the metaphorical contest, I have no doubt that it captures something fundamental about how men think. We have a unique capacity to invest in pointless battles. And I'm particularly interested in the meaning that precedes these petty debates. The dick-measuring contest of the mind is very real—and very unconscious.
Perhaps there's a psychoanalytic implication to the unexamined impact of penis envy in men. To be clear, this does not excuse boorish and predatory behavior. The current dialogue is and should be focused on the victims. Society (especially male) needs to do some focused listening. As an analyst-in-training, I wholeheartedly endorse this.
And yet, we love to speculate about the size of famous men's penises. Note the viral (virile?) series of photos showing John Hamm "going commando." And there are millions of dick pics, famous or otherwise, littering the world's dating apps and text threads. (Linking to examples might undercut my argument.) I wonder what it means to the gossip hounds who finally have an answer for how big John Hamm's ham is or what The Game's piece looks like. In our collective imagination, dick size seems to correlate not only to a man's sense of accomplishment but also to his sense of entitlement.
More importantly, I'm curious what these photos mean to their subjects. The Game of course took a selfie, so we can guess what he thinks. But we can also speculate what it might mean to the men not featured in those photos. Consider the celebrities with legendarily small penises. We find satisfaction in discovering that a titan of industry "disappoints" below the belt.
Which brings us back to our president. I've had an ongoing debate since Trump assured the world there was "no problem" with the size of his, ahem, hands. Surely he has a tiny dick, my friends insist. The argument is that a small penis requires over-compensation (e.g., a sports car). And yet, in another frame, a man with a large penis might embrace the power and entitlement of being the dick-swinging winner of the greatest dick-measuring contest on Earth. So, which is it: Does Trump over-compensate or feel entitled? As always, the muddy nature of human complexity requires an ambivalent "yes" to both.
And we can telescope out (the innuendos are unavoidable): the racialization of penis size could be an entire doctoral thesis. The fear and desire that white America has of and for the black male body is as fundamental to our history as foundational myths like the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. On the other end of the spectrum (need I repeat "as it were"?), supremacists localize their disdain of the Other in clichés like "you know what they say about Asian men" or the "Irish inch." And Jewish men have built an entire entertainment industry on our symbolic (and canonical) castration.
At this point, it bears noting that I'm not suggesting a sympathetic turn on the part of society to some "problem" of male sexual identity. Women have had it far worse for millennia—and, if 2016 proved anything, will continue to do so for some time.
Instead, I'd like to pose a simple question to my fellow man: How does it feel to know you might never have the biggest dick in the room?


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The picture with arthas raising sylvanas overlaps with another picture, it seems you need to reupload--Gurluas 18:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll do it in a jiffy.Dakovski 18:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
- "Balnazzar, Nefarian, Sicco Thermaplugg"
Sorry, there is no artwork for Balnazzar. As for Nefarian, Onyxia and Thermaplugg have the same problem as Kazzak, they fit between two pages, so to combine them would take a bit of work, and probably leave an ugly crease down the middle. There also quite a bit of banner overlap, which would take a long time to remove (and I don't have a photoshop, I'd have to do it all by hand). Baron Gedden unfortunately has some transparent overlap with the page banners as well as being on two pages, so no way I'd be able to fix him. Archaedas has too many problems with both background and page banner overlap even though he's only one page. Kel'Thuzad has problems with transparent elements and overlap on the page banners.Baggins 15:56, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Never mind then. Thanks very much, Baggins. Dakovski 16:25, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Night Elves
About their name: as in Tolkien's works, the peoples of Warcraft named themselves after what they first saw. Kal'dorei is a word meaning "children of the stars" because the elves awoke under a starlit night. If anything, it's the word "elf" that's more recent.--K ) (talk) 17:58, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Bolvar scan
The image quality still seems a little low. But perhaps that's a limit to the card's quality? However, your scan cut off his legs and most of his sword. Could you fix that please? Try to avoid midget images if possible (height shorter than width).Baggins (talk) 05:44, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
- This is due to the card image I used to crop the image from. I tried to avoid the watermark. Here it is:
http://warcraft-tcg.de/forum/carddetails.php?id=1685 Dakovski (talk) 05:55, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Battle of Angrathar the Wrath Gate
You do remember I told you to move the transcript first to the desired page, right? User:Gourra/Sig2 17:24, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
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Here is where everything stands.
I just oversaw the tilling of the new large plot for the Fall garden. Roughly 65 x 45. It is being watered presently. I will be dividing up the space and planting this week. Still much to be done. I will fence in the area, and paths, add some benches, etc. I have all of my seeds in now. Ready for some last minute Fall planting. I've added a few pictures of the plot, but nothing is in the ground yet.
The smaller home garden is hanging in there through the Texas heat. I've got a few crops to harvest in the coming weeks. Then I'll be doing soil amendments and light planting for the Fall and Winter. Mainly, I'll be getting it ready for Spring, since I am focusing on the large garden at the farm.


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It was another overcast morning, cool and humid. We parked at the marina and headed off onto the trails. Ryan was running with me, hoping to help me find a good loop to run, so we headed out onto the Sugarloaf Trail out along the Cape Fear River. We got a bit confused almost immediately, and Ryan was none too happy. I really didn't care. I knew I was going to be out for a while, so who cared if we took a wrong turn or two? One of our wrong turns took us to the Sugarloaf Dunes, where the trail dead-ended into a salt water marsh. There we saw four egrets and a kingfisher fly over. There were also a fair number of deer tracks in the sand.
The trails were flat (duh!), but pretty sandy, so it was slow going right from the start. However, it was really a nice place to run. Along with the marsh grasses and sand were pitch pine tree and small live oaks, mushrooms coming up through the sand (they must have been confused!) and a few cactus too. Along one stretch, as the trail intersected a marshy area, a number of small chocolate brown crabs ran across our path. I think they must have been wharf crabs. Pretty funny to look down and see little crabs skittering along in front of us!
Leaf littered trail
Nice and flat
We got even more off track a few miles in, taking a turn off the marked state trails into a big sand dune area. We followed some ATV tracks up and over a few hills, and at one point saw a few orange flags that seemed to indicate a route. To where, who knew, but we figured what the heck? In looking at the Garmin data, we were still in the park, but had meandered off into no man's land. We took a few turns out to the water, but turned back inland, and eventually stumbled across the park boundary line, which we followed and which finally dropped us back on a marked trail. We wandered through the campground at the park, following the trail through some neat old woods, the trail lined with big pine needles and twisting and turning with roots underfoot.
Our first "loop" dropped us back at the parking lot at 6.25 miles. Ryan took a look at the map while I had a snack, and devised short "inner" loop. Back off we went, through a wide open pitch pine forest in the sand, and back on a few wide boardwalks through a swamp. When we got back to the car, the Garmin was reading 8.1 miles and Ryan was ready to be done. I really appreciated that he had done those miles with me, as although the park was beautiful and the pace was mellow, my heart and head and legs just weren't into the run. I knew it was going to be a bit of a struggle to get in more miles, but I begrudgingly set out for another loop anyway. Without Ryan's company, I slowed down considerably, but hey, at least I kept going!
I followed the outer Sugarloaf loop once on my own, but carefully stuck to the marked trails this time around :-) I got in another 4 miles before getting back to the car. I came to a stop, wanting to be done, but instead, took off my pack, had a drink of water and set off for the inner loop. I figured I had another 2 miles in me at least. And I'm glad I did head back out, as I saw a box turtle along the way, and through the pitch pine forest came upon a group of bluebirds and yellow-rumped warblers flitting amongst the trees. There was also a flicker on one of the trees! Neat.
Honestly, I had hoped to get in a few more miles, but I just didn't have the energy or the gumption today, so 14 miles in 2:25 it was. Oh well, sometimes that is just how it goes. I went into the river up to my knees to clean off my legs, quickly changed and away we went. We fueled up at Flaming Amy's with some yummy burritos, and made a necessary stop at Boombalatti's for ice cream before making our way back to Wallace. Sam had lots of fun biking and swimming and doing art projects with Neenie and Pippi while we were out running, but sadly decided not to nap, so Ryan and I took her up to the playground for a bit before dinner to keep her occupied and drain her off any possible excess energy so she would sleep well tonight :-)
Higher, Mama, higher!
Headed down
Tomorrow we're making our journey home. It's been a great visit - we're definitely going to be sad to leave "the resort" and get back to reality! Thanks Neenie and Pippi!


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Harmony has a definition in music, but more importantly in relationship building and conflict resolution. This program shares through musical experiences what it means to be "in harmony" with each other, how people have used music over the centuries to communicate internally and with each other,and what those songs can mean to us in Post-Katrina Louisiana.
As Founder and Director of OperaCréole, Ms. Joseph is deeply committed to the culture of New Orleans, city of her birth. This is most evident in her research on 19th Century classical music of New Orleans Free People of Color.
The mezzo-soprano, as OperaCréole founder, was recently covered by The New Yorker, and NPR. She was also honored as a finalist in the Arts-Based Business Pitch at the 2017 New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW), and previously as a "Standard Bearer " of Louisiana culture by being featured on "Le Grand Tour" a documentary for French TV, and with a radio interview on WWNO Radio/NPR.
Ms Joseph sang the roles of Leonor in OperaCréole's productions of La Flamenca, and Marie Laveau, in her 2015 production of Minette Fontaine. She also sang the role of Sylvia in production of Wading Home, and opera of New Orleans written by Mary Alice Rich and Rosalyn Story of Dallas, Tx., and was alto soloists for Messiah with Symphony Chorus of New Orleans at the Orpheum Theater. She sang the role of Gudrun in our 2012 production of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's lost opera Thelma.
Givonna has had featured roles in many New Orleans Opera Productions. Roles included: Mrs Noah's Gossip in Noah's Flood, Lily in two production of New Orleans Opera's Porgy and Bess, and one of the three Abati in New Orleans Opera's Manon Lescaut, and. She has been a member of the professional Opera Chorus for many years.
Ms. Joseph has performed in concert at such venues as The American Church In Paris in Paris, France and La Chiesa di Santa Susanna in Rome, Italy. She has been a soloist with the William Grant Still Orchestra, the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, and served as a cantor for Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's New Orleans visit. In the 2006-2007 season, she was a chorister with Houston Grand Opera. The creator of "WomanSong", a one woman show, she was also heard as an opening artist for Ray Charles in concert at Jones Hall in Houston, TX.
Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Givonna served as Music Director/Cantor at St. Rose of Lima Church, and Director of Education for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Waste Not, Want Not – Now on Kindle!Posted in Author, Book Information, Book News, Science Fiction, Wastes of Space with tags Author, Book News, Books, E-Book, Kindle, Rake, Ravil, science fiction, Wastes of Space, Wastes Series, writing on September 10, 2012 by darcytown
Waste Not, Want Not…Teaser ScenePosted in Author, Book Information, Book News, Science Fiction, Wastes of Space with tags Author, Book News, Books, Rake, Ravil, science fiction, Wastes of Space, writing on July 5, 2012 by darcytown
*** Note – this scene is still a work in progress and may vary (slightly) from the final version. I like to tweak things up until the last minute…and I often continue to tweak things once they're published 😉 …anyways, it's only been sorta proofed for grammar and the like so…yeah. There will be mistakes I'm sure. ***
^^^Bonus points if anyone guesses the opening scene narrator^^^
…The rebel fleet (ship of one) barely escaped Seed Planet Fifteen with their lives. They (Mica) won their first battle by bringing it green style. It wasn't a victory against the Empire, but bitches can't be choosers.
Currently, our intrepid heroes are joyriding, still flying high on their narrow escape from that puke-green swamp planet that had no redeeming qualities other than a sea of tits and ass otherwise known as the chameleon-inclined Stalkers…
Ravil peered into the blue slipstream. Her hands were imbedded in the clear panels in front of her. Her fingertips felt stretched as if she held the entire ship in her hands. She towed the craft and its occupants with her while she rode lines of light on the flipside of space. She smiled at the comforting image for a place that did not make sense. They passed through a sun, and the strands around them vibrated and sparkled like rings on a pond.
Rake sat at her side, radiating stress and protective feelings. The blood bond between a pilot and Navigator was strongest in this place. His hand stayed on her shoulder; his fingers dug into her skin. She could feel him flipping through locations in his head, places they could go. He dismissed each as soon as he thought of them, leaving her aimless. She took the ship for an epic joyride, picking a course at random. She would have been euphoric except for the fact that they had no destination and she was running out of energy. Her hands shook under the strain of holding the ship together.
She took a deep breath. "Rake! Think of something already!"
His green eyes flicked over to her scarlet ones. "Newsflash, you telling me to think of something, doesn't actually help!" He gestured to the monitors. "Oro was supposed to pick a place!"
"You're the pilot, take some responsibility!" Ravil did not take her eyes off the monitors, using the lines to guide them like rails for a train. The light around them fluctuated, grew brighter and darker as they swept past stars and planets. She longed to soar through a sun again, but if she ran out of energy, she would leave them stuck inside one and dead immediately. She aimed towards empty space.
A dark bruise marred the bright blue horizon. Its form was fluid and changing; lines of light twisted and warped around it. She gaped. "Whoa."
Rake picked up on her confusion. He stared alongside her, losing his last thought. "What is that?"
Ravil shook her head. "I have no clue."
He smiled. "Let's check it out."
"That is a terrible idea! I don't want to go anywhere near it."
Rake snapped his mouth shut, trusting her instincts.
She veered the ship away from the blot and focused on putting distance between them. Rake and Ravil cocked their heads and watched the darkness as they slipped by it.
The shadowy spot flickered. It seemed to orient on their presence.
Rake frowned. "Is it—"
"Yes." Ravil made a face. The blot grew larger as it got closer. "Shit."
Long, dark lines tore out of the blot and soared towards their ship. The vessel was wrenched to the side. Rake and Ravil knocked heads as the craft jerked. The blot reeled them in, stalling their flight. Ravil fought with the force. "Fuck!"
Rake focused on her, bolstering her concentration with his own. The tethers broke and ship bounced. Ravil regained control. She aimed the ship in the opposite direction and put all of her energy into going fast.
The darkness followed them. Bands of it roped through the light and hit their ship like a spear. Having no substance, it passed through the hull, ignored Rake, and slashed at Ravil. It hit her in the back and buried itself in her skin.
Her red eyes went wide as the breath was knocked from her lungs. She could not pull her hands away from the ship's controls to fight it. She screamed.
Rake seized the shadowy rope; the force squirmed in his grip like a slippery worm. Rake's hands burned. The darkness stabbed at him. He squeezed it. "Get off Ravil now!" He put his foot to her chair and kicked, wrenching the black spears out of her. The shadow faded, leaving him empty-handed.
Ravil hissed in pain and leaned into her controls. "Fuck!" She forced the ship away from the darkness and increased their speed.
Rake looked backwards. "What was that?"
"No clue!" Ravil gasped. Her eyes lost focus.
Rake gave her a shake. "Whoa. Snap out of it, Bebette!" She blinked and took a deep breath. He wrapped his arms around her. "Did it do anything permanent?"
"I don't know." Her words were slurred. "But I don't feel okay, Rake."
Rake grabbed the pilot's controls. "Take us into normal space, now!"
"We're not anywhere…"
The ship dropped into the black of empty space. Rake hit the ship's intercom and shouted, "I need medical in the cockpit!"
Danny's voice blasted on the overhead speakers, "We have our own emergency right now, Rake!"
Ravil unbuckled her straps and slipped out of her chair. She stared at the overhead lights. "Oh…"
Rake did a double take and reached for her hand. "Where are you going?"
Ravil held her head. "I…" She floated in zero gravity towards a wall. "Don't know."
"Sit still." Rake pointed at the floor. She kicked towards the ground and held on to the side of her chair, dazed. Rake undid his safety straps and joined her on the floor. He cupped her pale face in his hands and peered into her eyes. "Are you in any pain?"
She shook her head and her white hair floated around her face like a halo. The charred bits on her left side poked out at clumpy angles. "No, just dizzy, but it is fading." She smiled. "I feel better, really." She took a deep breath. "Like nothing happened."
"I'll double-check." She popped off a button on her half-burnt, red jumpsuit and examined her skin for injuries.
Rake stared at his hands expecting to see some kind of damage from the attack, but they were injury free. They looked like his normal callused and scarred, dark hands. "Weird."
Ravil made a clucking sound with her tongue. "No marks or anything. I'm fine." She closed up her outfit.
He frowned. "Are you sure? You just got attacked by a space blob."
"More of a space shadow than a blob." Ravil's eyes rolled up in her head. She thumped her chest and recovered. "Whoa."
"Ravil!" Rake wrapped an arm around her waist and brought her close. Ravil stayed awake, but her limbs jerked in his embrace. Rake glared at the doors to the rest of the ship. "Someone, get up here now!"
The scent of the swamp heralded Mica's arrival. The British twenty-five-year-old climbed into the cockpit with a first-aid kit in hand. He kicked away from the wall with grace that came from having lived in zero gravity before. He twisted, stopped, and dropped to his knees in front of them.
Rake and Ravil gaped at his green-tinted, mud and algae splattered, very naked body.
Mica ignored their stares and opened the kit, grabbing at supplies as they floated away. Thorny vines around his wrists twisted and grew as he moved. "What's going on? Did you hit your head on reentry?"
Ravil stared at the plants as she touched her temples. "No, I'm just dizzy all the sudden."
"Just dizzy?" Rake glared at her. "She got smacked with the dark side of space."
Mica glared at him. "You called me up here, start being serious."
"I am." Rake thought better of hitting Mica in zero gravity. "Something attacked her while we were carting your asses around. We don't know what it was."
Mica turned to Ravil. "Tell me what you feel now."
"I feel okay now…"
Rake left her to chat with Mica. He looked to the cockpit monitors, but nothing seemed out of sorts, and nothing had followed them. There were no alarms going off. Stars glinted in the distance, but besides that, it was empty space. He scraped his fingers through his shaggy black hair and looked to the ceiling. "Sammy, anything out there that I should be worried about?"
Rake's twin sister, Sammy, responded on the speakers, "Not on our end. There are no immediate threats and the ship is fully powered, fully fueled and—"
Sammy's voice cut out as the power flickered. The lights turned off. She made a sound of annoyance as the lights came back on slowly. Her personality was contained in the ship's computers and when they started to fail, so did she. "Oh-kay."
Rake frowned. "Why are you doing that?"
"I'm not, dildo-face. I think I'm still glitchy from the EMP Naked Bitches attack."
Rake glanced down at their cockpit readouts, but he had no idea what any of the Empire devices meant. This was Oro and Tasanee's area of expertise. "What is glitched out exactly?"
Sammy growled. "Oh suck."
"What, Sammy?"
"I have no cameras on most of the lower level and my internal door locking mechanisms are fucked up across the entire ship." Her dog-sized robots made a racket down the hall as she used them to smack at things in anger. "This is freaking lame!"
Tasanee got on the intercom from the docking bay, "Sammy, I'll take a look at the damage. There's probably residual errors from the power down. I can—"
"If we are not in urgent danger," Darq's voice interrupted Tasanee's. He sounded half-asleep. "Everyone should come meet us in the operating hall, I have news." A thump followed as he got dizzy and scraped at the intercom buttons in confusion. Oro spoke in the background, getting his attention.
Katarina took over. "Like he was saying, team meeting in the OR."
Mica took Ravil by the hand and stood her on her feet. "Probably for the best anyways. Darq should check you out; it's been years since I've taken proper first-aid training."
Rake followed behind the pair as they left the cockpit. The three of them floated up the stairs to the upper level. Rake eyed Mica holding Ravil's hand. "Mica, what happened to you?"
Mica kept his gaze fixed ahead of him. "We ran into the Stalkers at the base while we were getting fuel for the ship. Kennedy and I were kidnapped."
Rake gave him a once over. "So…why're you naked?"
Mica flinched, recalling the hours he'd spent tied to the ground and assaulted. He struggled to remain calm. "I don't want to talk about it."
"Well okay. Why're you green all over?" Rake examined Mica's wavy blonde hair with new green highlights. He poked at a trailing vine and snatched his hand back as it grabbed at him. "And why are you covered in plants growing like they're on crack?"
Mica's neon green eyes flicked over to Rake's then away. "I'm not entirely sure of the why or how of it, Rake. It just happened."
"You know what this means?" Rake slapped him on the back, sending him and Ravil a few feet down the hallway and Rake the opposite direction.
"Rake!" Ravil complained.
"At least you're not nuts right?" Rake caught hold of the wall to stop his flight. "You're just fucked up!"
"Yeah." Mica eyed him.
The trio arrived at the operating room as Marx and Tasanee reached the lower-level hatch outside the OR doors. The tall, copper-skinned Hunter pushed Tasanee up first, letting the petite, Thai mechanic go ahead of him. She stepped aside as he jumped through the hatchway. He snagged hold of the walls with his claws, stopping him before he hit the ceiling.
Mica tapped on the OR doors. They opened at his touch, letting them all inside. The room beyond was half-lit.
Danny, Evgeniy, Oro, Darq, and Katarina stood inside the large medical hall. They waited on the left-hand side of the room where the floor spread out over the docking bay on the level below. Straps around their waists kept them attached to the floor.
Danny was covered in a mixture of mud and blood. The forty-seven-year-old former commander hadn't slept in awhile and his face showed the strain of it.
Evgeniy didn't look much better. He had bruises and scratches across his face, chest, arms and back. He rubbed them absentmindedly as he pulled the sliced pieces of his black jumpsuit back together.
Katarina's white medical jumpsuit was soiled from mud and the tips of her blonde dreadlocks were brown and green from swamp muck, but she'd managed to towel most of the grime off and put her hair into a ponytail.
Darq could barely keep his purple eyes open. He injected himself with a stim shot to stay awake. The Rexos yawned, showing off the yellow insides of his mouth that matched his light yellow skin.
Out of those present, only Oro looked well off. The only thing out of place on the short twenty-four-year-old was his tangled, long black hair. He stayed by Danny's side, looking concerned at the older man's injuries.
All of them stayed near their two injured crewmates, two Hunters that had taken damage from the Stalkers they'd fled from on Seed Planet Fifteen. Lincoln was comatose. His body had been bandaged and tied to an operating table.
Kennedy was unconscious and suspended inside a glass recovery tank. The clear fluid inside had turned pink with her blood.
Ravil let go of Mica's hand and floated towards Tasanee. She hugged her. "Congratulations on your mating, Rat!"
"Ravil?" Tasanee grinned. "You're back to yourself! You have emotions again! What happened?!"
Ravil pointed to Rake. "He did it!" She shivered, still woozy. "He healed me."
Evgeniy patted Mica on the shoulder and handed him some pants. "Nice trees."
Mica slipped the clothes on and nodded to the Cosmonaut. "Uh, thanks, Czar."
Oro grinned at Tasanee. "Did Marx tell you what you are yet?"
Katarina hugged Rake. "You look like shit! We thought you'd died or something."
"Same to you, muddy buddy." Rake smirked. "We crashed both USDs in the mountains, so we almost died."
Tasanee ignored Oro and rounded on Rake. "You did what to my babies?!"
Rake pointed at Ravil. "Her fault! Totally, completely her fault!"
"It was not my fault!" Ravil squeezed Tasanee's hand. "He was doing—"
"Will everyone shut up?" Danny glared at them. "Stop chattering like children! This is a formal debriefing! Form up."
His former cadets jerked into position. They took a few steps back and formed a semi-circle with Darq and Danny as the focal points. Katarina retook her spot at Darq's side, keeping the boy in place against her hip. Tasanee, Marx, Ravil, and Evgeniy took their cues from the others and stood at attention.
Sammy got on the intercoms. "Is everyone in good spots?"
Rake frowned. "Good spots for what?"
The room hummed. Their feet snapped to the floor, though they remained weightless. Sammy laughed. "Your jumpsuits have magnet things in the feet to keep you anchored when needed. Sorry, Mica."
Mica shrugged. He was shoeless and floating a foot off the floor, while everyone else was rooted to the ground. "I'm fine."
Darq yawned; the circles under his eyes were as purple as his irises. He spoke softly, "Thank you, Sammy." He glanced down at his checklist. "Firstly, Ravil and Rake, what was your medical emergency?"
Ravil blushed pink. "It's nothing."
Rake caught her wrist. "Something attacked her in the place between while we were flying just now. Some weird space darkness hit her in the back and she nearly passed out while flying."
She pulled her hand from his. "But I'm fine now."
Darq looked her over. "You seem fine, though your jumpsuit indicates you took fire damage."
"That's all better."
"Then I'll see to you later." He gestured to Lincoln. "Lincoln appears to be sound with Empire tech to repair him, but Kennedy…" he looked to Marx. "I know of none of your kind that survives that type of injury. Any information you could give would be appreciated, Marx."
"I know of none either. I have not seen this type of injury in some time, barbaric." The longhaired Hunter walked over to the wall of tanks and put his hand to the glass. He gazed at Kennedy with a mixture of anger and sadness on his face. Her head was raw and bleeding where the Stalkers had partially scalped her. Marx hissed and turned back to the others. His hair writhed around his head. He looked to Danny. "How did this happen while she was in your care?"
Danny met his gaze. "We found her that way when she returned to us. By the time—"
"Then why did you not return her with Czar?" Marx's yellow eyes flashed.
Danny went pale under the Hunter's gaze. "We would not have found the village or Mica without her. Lincoln said—"
"Lincoln is not in charge." Marx snapped his teeth.
Danny recovered. "I know that! But Kennedy was adamant she help find Mica! We would never have gotten to the village otherwise!"
Mica turned a shade of gray and his hair shifted brown. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left my position. There's no one to blame for this besides myself. I should have been able to protect her better. I shouldn't have let her come with me."
Darq cleared his throat, silencing them. "I don't think blaming anyone is necessary or a good use of our time and energy. What has happened, happened. We must deal with the consequences as they are. We have injured crew."
Marx rejoined Tasanee. His hair coiled into a braid. He glanced at Lincoln. "What is wrong with him?"
Mica folded his arms. "He took injuries, arrow wounds. Then he would not return with me so I had to render him unconscious. He wanted to kill all of the Stalkers in the village, which would have been suicide."
Marx calmed and nodded. "He wanted to avenge her murder. It is the Hunter way. It would have been a good death for him."
Katarina paled. "Kennedy's not dead yet!"
Marx and Darq shared a look. Darq held Katarina's hand. "If she survives it will be nothing short of a miracle."
Mica went to stand by Kennedy's tank. His vines slipped up his arms and brushed against the tank. "Then it wouldn't be the first we've had today."
Danny eyed Mica and looked to Darq. "Can you explain what is going on with him now?"
"Yes, but…" Darq pointed at Marx. "He has things to explain and he should start to explain now."
The others looked at Marx. The tall Hunter smiled.
Danny frowned. "What does he have to explain?"
"He knows something." Darq eyed Marx. "He is the only one here not surprised over what happened. Not only is he not surprised that he is now a Resister." Marx hissed with laughter and nodded. Darq continued, "But he's not surprised about the changes in Rat or Mica."
"And Rake!" Ravil pointed. "He healed me."
Darq looked her over. "And Rake. Marx?"
Marx shrugged. "I made logical inferences based on the data that was equally available to everyone. You seem to have deduced some of it yourself. You can all come to the same conclusions if you were to think on it."
"How about you just tell us." Katarina folded her arms. She had little patience for the Hunter.
Marx grinned at her anger. "It is more fun and educational to learn things yourself."
#500Posted in Author, Book Information, Book News, Morningstar, Science Fiction, Wastes of Space with tags Book News, Books, E-Book, Kindle, Morningstar, publishing, Wastes of Space on May 27, 2012 by darcytown
Sold 5ooth Kindle book for profit today. 🙂 Yeah, it's up in the few 1000s if you include free promo copies and lending copies, but I'm not. 🙂 So…woooo! That's a milestone or something. I guess the next milestone is 1000 copies sold for profit. Maybe I'll get there in another 6 months.
I've been doing this for ~8 months, but sales didn't really pick up (at all) until December. So a nice 6 month run so far.
Maybe when I get to 1000 I'll do some kind of promo giveaway/swag thing.


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The Downtown Campbell Business Association (DCBA) is pleased to award the honor of 2013 Volunteer of the Year to Deb Rohzen, owner of Simply Smashing Boutique.
Deb, one of the founding members of the DCBA, serves on the DCBA's Board of Directors, organizes and promotes the 2nd Saturday and Sidewalk Sale events, is part of the group that coordinates the annual Color Me Spring Fashion Show, and is a good friend to her neighbors.
We'd like to share with you Deb's heartfelt acceptance letter to the DCBA, so you can learn more about the kind of volunteers that power our district.
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When it comes to Downtown Campbell, I am in for a penny-in for a pound. I have been a patron of Downtown Campbell businesses and services since the 1980s and when I was compelled to open a boutique of my own, Downtown Campbell, with its unpretentious, small business, small town community vibe, was my first choice for location. So, in November of 2000, I jumped in with two feet, opened my first boutique location at The Courtyard, and never looked back.
Right away, I joined the Downtown Campbell Business Association and, working with other merchants, set out to revitalize our little Downtown, put it on the map and keep it there. We would close our business doors and walk the avenue, armed with our ideas and raising funds to afford our downtown events, which eventually evolved into what we now know as First Fridays. Yes, in those days, it was just a handful of merchants who pulled money ($20 here, $50 there) out of our pockets to make things happen - that's what I am talking about!
As my own business evolved, so did Downtown Campbell and the DCBA - adding such events as Art Walk, which has evolved into our 2nd Saturday Sidewalk Stroll event, Sidewalk Sale, Color Me Spring-A Fashion Event and, of course, our twice-yearly Downtown Campbell Wine Walk events. Downtown Campbell has grown up into a hip, artsy place-to-be and I am grateful to be in the mix at all, let alone part of the grass roots organization who makes it happen.
After thirteen years and three different boutique locations along E. Campbell Avenue, I believe I am one of the longest standing merchants in Downtown Campbell (still far behind our DCBA matriarch, Ms. Sally Howe) and, yes, I am proud. Whatever I do as a Downtown Campbell merchant and DCBA/Board member, is a labor of love and wouldn't matter a bit if not for the collective efforts involved.
I love what I do and I love where I do it. I have resided in Campbell, off and on over the past 30 years and, in fact, have just recently come back to live in Downtown Campbell - just blocks from my business. It is safe to say I consider Downtown Campbell my home...nothing makes me happier than to live, work, dine, shop and be an integral part of this "Little Downtown That Could!"
I am truly grateful and want to thank everyone in the DCBA who voted for me as the 2013 DCBA honoree. Cheers to the team players and even better things to come for Downtown Campbell!
Deb Rohzen
Simply Smashing Boutique


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Video Game Charts by PEGI Age Rating – Week Ending October 27th
Are you looking for the most popular video games that are age-appropriate for your family?
Then you've found the right place. Here you can find our specially curated guide to the best selling games of the past week, grouped by their PEGI age-rating.
PEGI ratings are given to games in the UK by a group of experts at The VSC Rating Board. They pour through games before applying an age rating based on the content they find, granting either a 3-years-plus, 7-plus, 12-years-plus, 16-years-plus or 18-years-plus rating. Physical copies of games cannot be sold in the UK without a PEGI rating. Each week the AskAboutGames team pull apart the latest all formats game charts – which list the best selling games in the UK – before selecting the three highest ranking games from each age category, and gathering them below.
Many games below link to their profile over on The VSC Rating Board website, so you can see details of why they were granted the rating they received, and get more detail on the type of content in the game.
It's worth noting that the ratings below denote content that is appropriate in theme and tone. They don't always indicate the ability or age required to necessarily get the most from the game. A three-years-plus rated football management game, for example, won't contain content that would be disturbing for a four-year old, but it may be too complex for a youngster of that age.
FIFA 19 (PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One)
Forza Horizon 4 (PC, Xbox One)
Super Mario Party (Switch)
LEGO DC Super-Villains (PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One)
Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy (PS4)
LEGO The Incredibles (PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One)
My Hero One's Justice (PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One)*
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch, Wii U)
[Only two 12-years+ rated games featured in the UK top 40 this week]
Marvel's Spider-Man (PS4)
PlayStation VR Worlds (PS4 – PSVR required)
WWE 2K19 (PC, Ps4, Xbox One)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4, Xbox One)*
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
* New entry
Data is taken from the Ukie Games Charts 'Top 40 Full-Price Entertainment SOFTWARE' compiled by GfK Chart Track


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9 Pretty Multipurpose Makeup Palettes to Try ...
There are lots of pretty makeup palettes to choose from but the best ones are the type that offer you a variety of makeup. One makeup palette can offer you everything from lip gloss, eye shadow and blush all in a pretty little package that you can tote anywhere you want! If you're the type of gal who likes all of her makeup in a convenient package, try out one of these pretty makeup palettes on for size!
1. Too Faced Sweet Indulgence Palette
Too Faced is well known for their super pretty makeup palettes and I think they outdid themselves with this one! The Sweet Indulgence palette contains eye shadows, blush, bronzer, highlighter, a double-ended makeup brush and eye primer all in a cute tin! This might not be the type of thing you want to throw in your purse but it's great to have when you're traveling or applying makeup on-the-go!


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Cash-strapped Houston sells off $2M worth of city streets
The city of Houston held a yard sale of sorts last week, dusting off some possessions it doesn't use anymore and offering them for sale or swap to its neighbors.
In this case, City Council approved selling or swapping almost $2 million worth of city streets and utility easements. That won't correct the more than $100 million budget deficits city officials project for the next five years, but it's not peanuts.
The first example came in Manchester, where council abandoned and sold several streets and easements to the adjacent Valero refinery for $1.4 million.
The oil giant already owns the blocks immediately surrounding its facility, and the move will let the company assume the intersecting streets onto its land as part of a plan to build an office building, warehouse, security building and to add parking farther away from the central plant.
The second example also comes from the east side, around Houston ISD's Milby High School. The city agreed to abandon and sell parts of five streets and a sewer easement in and around the school campus for $431,000.
Rather than pony up that cash, HISD is instead giving the city a 7.5-acre tract next to Clinton Park valued at $443,000. The site, which sits about three miles north of Milby just east of Loop 610, had been home to the defunct Clinton Park Elementary.
Such transactions are commonplace at the council table, and city officials have ramped up efforts to jettison useless easements and strips of city land in recent years amid repeated budget crunches. It's somewhat less common for the dollar amounts to rise into the millions on the same meeting agenda.
Councilman Robert Gallegos, whose district includes both sites, said he hopes the land swap can be beneficial for the neighborhood.
"Now that the city is taking over these 7.5 acres I hope this is a partnership that maybe the city and County Commissioner (Rodney) Ellis, we could work on hopefully making a community center," Gallegos said. "There's a desperate need for a community center in that community."


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Prices breached $53 a barrel, their highest level since the futures contracts were introduced 21 years ago, before eventually closing at $52.67.
UK-traded Brent crude oil also hit a record high, reaching $49.20 a barrel, before ending the day at $48.90.
In Nigeria oil unions began a surprise strike over re-organisation plans.
Although Shell said output was unchanged, it helped push prices up
"We're in uncharted territory. There aren't many reasons to sell and there's lots of reasons to buy oil," said David Thurtell at Australia's CBA bank.
World oil prices have hit a series of new record highs in recent weeks as global supplies struggle to keep pace with soaring demand in the US and China.
Supply constraints
The steady erosion of the oil industry's spare production capacity has made prices highly sensitive to the threat of supply disruptions.
Independent port inspectors SGS said that Royal
Dutch/Shell's Nigeria crude loadings will go "on hold"
because of the two-day strike by Nigerian oil unions that began on Thursday.
SGS said the strike by the Nupeng and Pengassan unions was against Shell management reorganisation plans.
Shell pumps about a million barrels a day of Nigeria's total output of 2.3 million barrels a day.
'Cushion eliminated'
Prices are also rising because it will take longer than previously thought for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to recover from damage caused by recent hurricanes.
The US government said on Wednesday that it could take up to 90 days to restore production at offshore drilling platforms that were destroyed by Hurricane Ivan.
The hurricane put seven platforms out of action as well as damaging mobile rigs and springing leaks in oil and gas pipelines.
Ivan also disrupted operations at refineries in the Gulf, which are currently working at 90% capacity.
"Ivan has completely eliminated the cushion of spare distillate stocks in the Atlantic basin," said Yasser Elguindi of Medley Global Advisors.
"Across the globe there is rising oil product demand and little spare refining capacity to meet it."
Official figures showing that US crude oil stocks rose by a lower than expected 1.1 million barrels to 274 million barrels in the week to 1 October also supported the market.
Price rise 'still manageable'
Experts say that worries about security in the Middle East and sabotage in Iraq are also helping to keep prices high.
And some believe that recent price rises partly reflect an increase in speculative trading in oil, as investors look for quick returns by buying and selling oil futures.
US crude prices have now risen 60% since the end of last year, prompting economists to warn that higher energy costs could push global growth lower in the months ahead.
David Robinson, the deputy head of the International Monetary Fund's research department, said on Thursday that the IMF's forecast of 4.3% global growth in 2005, issued last week, was already out of date.
He said the IMF would revise the figure down to about 4% if it were to put out its forecast today.
"There are clearly downside risks to global growth because of oil prices looking forward," said Mr Robinson.
However, while he said the oil price surge was "distinctly uncomfortable", he added it was "still manageable".
When adjusted for inflation, oil prices remain below the all-time peak they hit in the wake of the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.
Then, one barrel of oil was worth the equivalent of $80 in today's terms.


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Tuna is a store cupboard staple in my house and in almost all Maldivian houses, In my home we buy in cases not just one or two cans. Its usually the tuna cans in oil that is used I dont like the ones in brine or water.
I saw this chilli tuna recipe by Julie Goodwin an Australian Master chef winner , who wrote this recipe on Australian Women's Weekly Magazine. ( big fan of Australian Women's Weekly, always look for the magazine , when I go abroad or love reading it on line).
I have adapted mine that its become to fiery hot thanks to the addition of another local favorite scotch bonnet chillies and curry leaves. I didnt use cream but used a teaspoon of Kraft Cream cheese spread and a little milk.
Recipe : Spagetti With Hot Chilli Tuna Sauce adapted from Julie Goodwin's Chilli Tuna Spagetti
Serves 3 -4 ( depends on appetite)
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic , chopped ( not grated)
6 curry leaves,
1/4-( 1/2 if you like it super hot!) piece of scotch bonnet finely chopped or use 2 green chillies
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 can of peeled chopped or whole tomatoes ( break the tomatoes up if using whole )
1 teaspoonful Kraft Cream Cheese Spread
1/4 cup milk
1 1/2 can tuna ( 2 cans is too much and 1 is less), flaked
1 tsp sugar
olive oil about 2 tbsp
Heat oil in a large deep frying pan or wok or big pot, soften the onions , garlic and curry leaves till translucent.
Add the tomatoes and 1/2 can of water ( swish the water around the can before pouring the contents into the pan). Add sugar and pinch of salt , pepper and if you are making this only for adults, the scotch bonnets. (if making for kids add the scotch bonnets at the end after removing some mild sauce for the kids or use 1 green chilli instead)
Bring to a boil and simmer covered for about 10 minutes, the sauce will thicken and reduce. Give a stir, add Kraft cream cheese and milk and tuna. Taste adjust salt . Cook 1-2 minutes.
While the sauce is cooking, bring a large pan of water to boil with a generous amount of salt. Once it starts to boil add spagetti, give a stir , and then cool al dente as per instructed on the packet or box.
Drain ,reserve 1/4 cup of the water. Toss the drained pasta into the sauce( the sauce should be simmering over a very low flame) along with the water , heat up 1 minute and switch off and serve!!


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My iPod touch 2nd generation has been acting up - I've been trying to turn it on but it won't start up. It stays at the boot screen and every minute or so it goes to a white screen for one second then a black one for another then it goes back to the boot screen.
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Today I took my daughter to see Disney's recently released "Zootopia". At one point, my daughter may have set aside her popcorn and quietly taken my hand. At the end of it, I might have teared up, just a little. But probably not for the usual reasons. (Or more accurately, in addition to the usual reasons.) [Read On]
Zootopia: Why We All Should See This Movie
Catching up, on how I'm a wuss, and what-have-you.
Hey, there. :waves: Oh, I've how missed you all. How I've missed my teensy tiny little old blog. Where do I start? It's been a crazy few months: the never-ending kitchen renovation was completed, officially, last week, praise Jesus. My chronic "seriously-I-don't-have-the-plague" cough – which is far past tiresome – is finally getting a more serious [Read On]
Things My Mother Taught Me
This Sunday is Mother's Day, and for the third year in a row, I won't be able to get back to the U.S. to spend time with my Mom. I really miss her. My mother is a lovely woman. She has a great sense of humor, cares very deeply for people, is easily hurt, and [Read On]
My little family unit is well into the first week of our "Great 2011 Med Adventure" – which I'm thankful we have the opportunity to experience – but I'm finding that the things that are sticking with me the most are the simple things. The quiet moments sitting on a park bench enjoying the view. [Read On]
The Simplicity of Childhood
This afternoon, after checking in at our hotel and wandering out for a bite to eat, we went for a walk in the neighborhood. After a morning of travel with a lot of "behave…or else" threats hanging over their heads, the kidlings needed to blow off some steam. We found a lovely park with a [Read On]
Redemption in the form of a little Knight
Today is World Book Day, which means (if you are a parent) that you have likely spent last night the past few days scrambling around trying to find some sort of costume to reflect a character from your child's chosen book. While I am a book lover, I suck at creating costumes. The mention of [Read On]
Happy Birthday to my Hubs
Dear Pete, Today is your birthday. I made you a cake, chocolate (my your favorite), but don't have much to offer you in the gift department – not because your birthday is so close to Christmas in as much as because you are not a materialistic person, and so you never ask for much. (Unlike [Read On]
Project We: And so it begins
I am a blogger. My kids know this. So far, they haven't asked to read it. I am about to venture into new, scary territory. I'm embarking on an adventure….with Boo. Project We. Project We is the product of my blogger friend/idol Jenny and her daughter Olivia's inspiration, a method of togetherness on the interwebz, [Read On]
Dogs Don't Wear Shoes
If you stop by my house at, oh, say, 8pm on any given evening, you will find me mopping. I know. It's sad. Really, really sad. I hadn't expected the floors to get THIS dirty. We are a no-shoes-in-the-house family. The Hubs has been strict about this to the point that my kids typically pull [Read On]
Reinventing Yourself
For most of my life, I've defined myself by my job. Not the smartest of ideas, honestly, especially when you aren't happy in your job. Don't get me wrong, I liked what I did, but the environment was way more stressful than I needed for some time. Then, I had kids – and my life [Read On]