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Show the humor in everyday life with this top fold cartoon holiday card. A cartoon depicting Santa, who can't seem to remember his password to check the naughty or nice list adorns the front of the card. "RudolphģDonnerģBlitzenģ.One of you has to be the password!" is pre-printed on the front of the card. Includes gold lined white envelopes.This card is printed on recycled card stock.W81. The inside of this card features the greeting:W81
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I thought I would share this picture I found that shows how much the Seattle skyline has changed since we were young'uns. I always tell people that I remember well when the Smith Tower was the tallest building in Seattle, and newcomers find it's hard to believe. Of course I know that this might open me up to some of Chris's old-timer jokes, but that's all right. You can click on the picture to get a larger version.Here is a brief Seattle PI article about the best places to view Seattle from, in case anyone is ever in the area. I have been up in both the Columbia Center and Smith Tower. The Columbia Center offers a much better view of course, but the Smith Tower is pretty cool because they have kept inside looking much like it probably did back in the 1930s http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visitorsguide/entry.asp?ID=12
I also have another link to share for Janelle. She is trying to get selected to be in a calendar and win a free trip. This link is not R-rated or anything, of course, but probably not for young kids either. Vote early and vote often! She is in the bottom row. http://campusgirlsusa.com/finalists.php

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Allergy & Antigen Therapy (Immunotherapy)/Asthma Q & A
For those who are susceptible to allergies or suffer from asthma, the world is full of environmental hazards, from the food they eat to the phones in their hands. At Environmental Health Center–Buffalo (EHC Buffalo), environmental and integrative medicine specialist Dr. Kalpana Patel has devoted her practice to studying allergies and asthma and helps her patients in Buffalo, New York, and surrounding areas, become more aware of the hazards around them. To learn more about managing your allergies and asthma through allergy testing and immunotherapy, call the office or use the online booking tool to schedule a consultation. Phone consultations are also available.
What are allergies?
Allergies is a catchall term to describe your body's response to something it views as a threat. This threat, called an antigen, can come from the outside or from inside in your own body. Why some people develop allergies remains unclear. Allergies can strike at any age, and there are hundreds of harmless substances that can become dangerous antigens for some people and not for others.
The easiest way to illustrate this is that while some people can eat a handful of peanuts without consequence, those who have an extreme peanut allergy, are in considerable danger if they're even around peanuts.
The reason for this is that when you have an allergy, your body's immune system produces antibodies called immunoglobulin E (IgE) when it encounters an antigen. These antibodies prompt your body to respond in different ways, including:
- Rashes, eczema, dermatitis, or hives
- Sneezing and watery eyes
- Swelling and inflammation
- Wheezing and difficulty in breathing
- Abdominal pain
- Hyperactivity, ADD, ADHD, and learning difficulties
- Chronic headaches and migraines
- Chronic joint pain, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia
In extreme cases, anaphylactic shock can occur, which can be life-threatening. It causes a number of symptoms, which may include a rapid pulse, hives, and swelling of the tongue, lips, and throat which limits your ability to breathe.
What is asthma?
Asthma affects approximately 25 million people in the United States, causing chronic problems with their ability to breathe freely. During an asthma attack, your airways swell and become narrow, making it difficult to take in air.
Asthma can develop in children and adults, and its severity varies from one person to the next. For some, asthma poses nothing more than an occasional hassle, while for others it can be life-threatening. While medical researchers have yet to identify a single underlying cause of the disease, they believe that asthma is affected by the following:
- Environmental pollutants
- Existing allergies
- Heredity
Because of Dr. Patel's work in environmental medicine, she understands the effects that your surroundings can have on your body and works with you to find relief from your asthma with the identification of triggers and testing and treatment with various therapies.
How are allergies and asthma treated?
At EHC Buffalo, Dr. Patel specializes in the following allergies and asthma triggers:
- Pollen
- Mold and mycotoxins
- Insects
- Bacteria and viruses
- Foods
- Chemicals
- Electromagnetic fields
When you come in, Dr. Patel first uses a special type of intradermal testing for mold, mycotoxins, food allergies, food sensitivities, chemical sensitivities, electromagnetic field sensitivity and many more items as indicated from your evaluation.
As an environmental specialist, she also performs a comprehensive evaluation of your indoor and outdoor environment, which may uncover mold and mycotoxin contaminations, among other triggers.
Once Dr. Patel has a clearer picture, she works with innovative immunotherapies to help your body not to overreact. Your body responds more normally to the presence of an antigen through different immunotherapies including:
- Antigen injection treatment for pollen, mold, mycotoxin, foods, chemicals, EMF
- Sublingual immunotherapy
- Low-dose allergy immunotherapy like LDA and LDI
Immunotherapy works by introducing only a small amount of the antigen into your body at a time in order to build up resistance. Dr. Patel's goal is to help you overcome severe allergic reactions and asthma attacks by working systemically with your body to reduce its over-reactive response.
If you'd like to learn more about innovative immunotherapy treatments that offer long-term solutions for your allergies or asthma, call EHC Buffalo or fill out the online form to schedule a consultation or phone consultation.


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The service entry in Canada at the end of March of Bombardier's Challenger 850 corporate shuttle, just one year from its launch here at EBACE 2005, highlights what the manufacturer reckons is the ideal solution for companies that need to move groups of employees among operational sites without the time penalty associated with airline travel today.
Bombardier's answer to the problem is a range of three platforms, the Challenger 850, 870 and 890. Based on the 50-seat CRJ200, 70-seat CRJ700 and 90-seat CRJ900 respectively, they come with a choice of standard, split cabin and deluxe interior layouts and, in the case of the 850, a price tag in the region of $22 to $23 million.
Bombardier says the split configuration, which fits a Challenger 850 with six executive seats in the forward cabin and 26 standard seats aft, is proving the most popular of the three. Both the standard cabin with its 50 seats, and the aft cabin of the split version, feature overhead baggage bins, while the 27-seat deluxe variant has bins along the right side only. The split and deluxe versions also come with a kitchen capable of providing 48 hot meals.
Bob Horner, vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said Monday that the Bombardier factory in Montreal has a production line dedicated to the 850, and while it employs fewer people than the 300 and 605 lines, "It's a profitable line." The company expects to deliver the airplanes at a rate of 1.5 per month this year. Bombardier itself installs the cabins on the shuttle-configured airframes, while Lufthansa Technik in Germany and Midcoast Aviation in the U.S. handle completions of executive variants.
In terms of performance, the 850 corporate shuttle has a long-range cruise speed of Mach 0.74. It can also cruise at up to Mach 0.8, and offers an Mmo of Mach 0.85. From Geneva it has the range to reach Reykjavik, Iceland, providing the potential for single-stop Atlantic crossings. Warranty intervals are pitched slightly above standard terms to reflect the higher usage rates of shuttle operations.
Outside Europe and the U.S., the manufacturer has sold several aircraft in both executive and high-density configurations to customers in China, and Horner said India is emerging as another interesting market for shuttles.
The Challenger 850 is sold only in completed form. It comes bundled with training–type rating for two pilots and maintenance training for two mechanics–plus emergency medical support provided by Medaire and the Internet-based computer integrated maintenance management system (Cimms), which enables customers to track maintenance requirements. Support in Europe is provided by Berlin-based Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS).
The 850 executive version is most commonly sold in a 15-passenger layout. It can be fitted with additional fuel tanks in the aft fuselage for extended range, giving it the ability to fly from Geneva to Las Vegas or the U.S. West Coast with a single stop in Newfoundland.
The first 850 corporate shuttle was delivered March 28 to Suncor Energy, a Canadian company whose business is developing the oil sands of Alberta. The airplane is operating six legs a day, six days a week, connecting three cities. They include the 350-nm plus sector between Suncor's Calgary headquarters and Fort McMurray in the north of the province, a distance the airplane covers in approximately one hour. Suncor vice president of business services Eric Axford said the company views the aircraft as "an investment in people and productivity."
In addition to lead operator Suncor, customers include the head of a Russian firm who has ordered an 850 executive model for himself and a shuttle for staff transport, and another European customer who has ordered an 870 in shuttle configuration. At last year's show Aero Toy Store founder Morris Shirazi ordered two 870s, which he said he planned to complete in VIP configuration and "operate for a couple of years before selling them on."


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By Ollie Irish
Earlier this week, Pies asked you to vote for The Hardest-Working Player In The Premier League. Now it's the turn of the slackers and shirkers.
So, in your opinion who is the laziest player in the Prem?
A few names to conjure with: Dimitar Berbatov, Dimitar Berbatov, Dimitar Berbatov and, er, Emmanuel Adebayor?
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Here are a few quick thoughts I have on sports and other things I probably didn't have time to mention on The Fan Morning Show, or if I did mention them I'd get yelled at.
– Penguins Forward Aaron Asham has a future in acting playing various Eskimo based roles when his NHL career is over.
– Consider chopping off your arm before seeing "Soul Surfer" the story of a courageous female surfer who returned to the sport after getting her arm bitten off by a shark. Great story, awful movie.
– Ryan Doumit's eyes are scarier than Brooks Orpik's
– I don't enjoy good weather as much as I despise bad weather.
– No matter how ugly the NFL labor situation gets, no fans will be lost and not because the game is so great. Fantasy sports nerds and gamblers with keep the fire alive.
– I hate weddings unless there is a chocolate fountain I can dip fruit in at the reception. In that case, I love weddings.
– Root Sports will soon get rid of that horrible voiceover guy trying to sound like a Pittsburgher. It's too embarrassing to leave on the air. Someone over there has to know that.
– There is a giant waste of space by the corner of 26th Street and Sidney Street down by Southside Works. With all the parking issues down there make that a parking lot instead of absolutely nothing.
– I like sneezing just once. Multiple sneezes are just annoying.
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Listen to The Fan Morning Show weekday mornings starting at 540 on Sportsradio 93.7 The Fan.


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Freezing and thawing are processes that influence plant cover, move enormous blocks, stretche long mounds of earth, break open bedrock and create patterns in stone and earth.
At the bottom of the Osa fjord there is a cultural landscape marked by great contrasts; the wide terraces and the river delta at the fjord contrast with the steep hillsides in the background, where Norddalen leads up to the mountain. There are two farms here. Osa and Sævartveit – the farm at the river mouth and the hollow by the sea.
In the sunny, steep fjord landscape along Sørfjorden on the east side of Osterøy is the farm Havrå. The small "hamlet" is one of the few undisturbed farming communities that gives us the impression of the large communal yards in West Norway in the 1700s, with houses built close together and strips of arable land.
Fyksesundet and Botnagrenda present a fine experience of the landscape and cultural history; a geographically isolated local settlement with extensive cultural contact with the outside world.
The farm Nes lies directly inside Mundheim on a forested headland in the fjord between Mundheimsvika and Bondesundet, a farm with an attractive and well-kept cultural landscape.


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No alarms and no surprises
May 7, 2007
"Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
G. M. Trevelyan
I've added a reading list page which I will update frequently.
The link is at the bottom right of every page.
Audible unlimited
August 9, 2006
Audible.com offer an incredible collection of audiobooks at great prices but with one major flaw – the Audible DRM (Digital Rights Management) severely limits the portability (and hence, usefulness) of the files. Over the last few years there have been various solutions offered to convert the Audible .aa format files (Goldwave and River Past Audio Converter being two of the most popular). Most of these haven't lasted long as Audible are not keen to allow you to use their content how you see fit. What follows is a method that, as of right now, works.
Before I begin, let me point out that one option that will always be open to you is to use a tool such as Total Audio Recorder. This will produce a great sounding copy of any Audible audiobook (in fact anything that can be played through your soundcard) regardless of what pointless 'copy protection' is used. Its single weakness is that recording is done in real-time – an 11-hour audiobook will take 11 hours to convert. If you don't have that amount of time to spare then you may prefer the following method.
What you need
1. Windows Media Player (microsoft.com)
2. Windows Media Player Filter (audible.com)
3. Total Audio Converter (coolutils.com)
What to do
When you have all of the above software installed:
1. Test that the Audible Media Player Filter is working by starting Media Player and opening the Audible (.aa) file you want to convert. Press 'Play'. A small popup will open showing the Audible chapter navigation buttons and the audiobook will start playing.
2. Press 'Stop', then press the 'Previous Chapter' button on the Audible popup. This part is vital as the conversion will begin from the position from which you left off.
3. Start Total Audio Converter and use the file browser on the left-hand side to navigate to the folder containing your Audible files. In the file list, on the right hand side, select the file you just opened in step (1).
4. Click on 'Convert to: MP3' below the menu bar and a wizard will prompt you for details about the .mp3 file you want to create. The highest quality Audible files are recorded at 32kb/s so I find that the following options work best:
Sample rate: 44100 Mz
Channels: Mono (I have never heard a stereo .aa file but there may be some)
Minimum bitrate: 32 kbps
VBR enabled: Checked
Maximum bitrate: 256 kbps (won't happen but gives it plenty of leeway)
Quality: 9
Press Finish and wait… your file is converted from nice but inflexible .aa to much more portable .mp3 at high speed and without any loss of quality.
What about the chapter stops?
The single disadvantage of converting .aa files to another format is that the Audible chapter navigation is then lost. For very long books this can be quite inconvenient. The only solution I have is to split the single file created by Total Audio Recorder into seperate chapters manually, with each chapter getting it's own .mp3 file. A great tool for this is MP3 Direct Cut. This process is a bit labour intensive, and the first couple of times can be time-consuming, but after a few tries you can easily complete the process of splitting a lengthy audiobook in less than 10 minutes.
*** UPDATE: 11th August, 2006 ***
It looks like Audible have removed the Windows Media Player Filter from their site for the time being. You can still download it here: http://www.coolutils.com/Downloads/AudibleMediaPlayerFilter.exe
Good listening, bad attitude
August 6, 2006
If, like me, you love both audiobooks and "noir" then Aural Noir is a good starting point. Despite their determination to use the word "podcast" in every review (when describing any MP3 file) and their update schedule being a little infrequent (as I write this, it's almost three weeks since their last update) they are still well worth a visit.
Aural Noir (auralnoir.com) Now defunct.
- Noir Cast (noircast.net)
Noir related "podcasts"


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Shaving Strokes Off Your Golf Game
If you are a golfer who wants some advice that you can actually use. There are certain things that you can do to shave a couple of strokes from your golf game.
The first piece advice that anyone can give you is to try to develop a good sense of rhythm in accordance to your swing and golf game. There are plenty of golfers who get themselves into a bad rhythm which influences bad habits, simply because they rush themselves through the course. The truth is by taking your time and developing a steady swing it can save you on those poorly hit shots thus saving you a stroke or two.
The second piece of advice to shave some strokes off your golf game is to change your putter to one that is more suitable to your tempo and swing. A lot of times golfers tend to use a putter that is either to light or to heavy for them. This can lead to either over hitting or under hitting the golf ball on the putting green, not to mention what it does to your line of the put. That is why many more golfers are now buying a belly putter, it's a putter with an extended shaft that pokes the golfer's belly, there able to regulate their putting stroke better since the weight has become more balanced.
The third piece of advice you can use to shave those strokes off your game is to make sure and use the proper tees. A lot of beginners seem to get better results when they tee up the ball high, the added height helps them hit the ball cleanly thus reducing them from scuffing the ground.
The fourth piece of advice that can be given to a golfer in search of shaving a stroke or two from their game is to scout the golf course before your golf game. Even if you just look at the golf course map, this way you can identify the hardest holes and try to come up with a strategy that can help you stay out of the hazard and in play thus reducing your score.
The last piece of advice that can be considered in shaving some strokes off your game is to relax when you are out there, enjoy the game and the golf course when you are out there. Many golfers tend to play with a competitive mind set making them play poorly. Tons of golfers will tell you that having a clear head and positive thinking can help you more with your golf game than any other piece of advice out there.
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Jul 12, 2018
In a two-part series, Jonathan Schwartz, the Illinois-based host of Timely Notice, discusses two recent Illinois cases penalizing insurers for breaching their duty to defend their insureds. Jonathan first breaks down the decision in Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance, where the Seventh Circuit analyzed the remedies available to the insured and/or its assignee in the event of a good faith breach of the duty to defend. While the result favored the insured, Jonathan explains why it should be considered a pyrrhic victory. In part two, Jonathan examines Rogers Cartage v. Travelers Indemnity, in which the Illinois Appellate Court mixed up the duty to defend and the duty to settle. Jonathan explains the flawed reasoning of Rogers Cartage and the ongoing trend of increasingly harsh consequences for insurers who breach their duty to defend.


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Pleasanton Partnerships in Education (PPIE) Foundation invites you to their 10th Annual Bon Appetit, a culinary event, on October 19, 2013. Pleasanton Partnerships in Education Foundation, a community-based organization, exists to enhance learning experiences for students of the Pleasanton Unified School District through a partnership of business, education and the community.
Toasts and Tastes of Fall
Bon Appetit Toasts and Tastes of Fall will be held on Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm at the California Center located at 4400 Rosewood Drive in Hacienda. This festive fall cocktail party will feature fifteen culinary teams consisting of a corporate or community sponsor, a Pleasanton school principal and a local chef all competing for top honors. Each team will be offering food paired with fabulous wines. Participants can join the official judges and taste their way through the event. In addition to great food and exquisite wines, you can also enjoy a no-host bar, live music, auctions and more.
Show Your Support
Tickets for the event are $75.00. Tickets can be reserved online at: http://ppie.org/toasts-tastes-of-fall-2013/. All proceeds will assist in funding programs PPIE facilitates at various school sites and to fill grants submitted by students and teachers of the Pleasanton Unified School District.
Additional Information
Additional information relating to the event, sponsorship opportunities and event participation is available. For details, please refer to the PPIE representative below.
Contact Information
Susan Hayes
333 Division Street, Pleasanton, California 94566
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Hacienda Owners Association
4473 Willow Road, Suite 105, Pleasanton, California 94588-8570
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The General Retreats
The General Retreats is the first sale-able game I've made with my new PAX Engine. I had the idea for a puzzle game set in a war zone for a while, so I used my new engine (and some great art from 3drt.com) to execute it.
My buddy Mike S. helped a great deal, with text, VO, and pictures. That's him in a bomber jacket and hastily modified hat. I 3d printed the pipe.
It's on Steam! Click Here!
It's also on itch.io! Click Here!


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The Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (CCCEPA) magnet program at Pebblebrook High School presents the award-winning hit Broadway musical SISTER ACT February 1, 2, 3 at 8PM and February 4 at 3PM as part of the Cobb Civic Center's Anderson Theatre Encore Series. CCCEPA is a premier training program for Broadway. To date, CCCEPA alumni have performed in an astounding 62 shows on Broadway! So it's true – Broadway careers start at CCCEPA, and this production of SISTER ACT is filled with future Broadway stars!
SISTER ACT is the feel-good musical comedy smash based on the hit 1992 film that has audiences jumping to their feet! Featuring original music by Tony- and eight-time Oscar-winner, Alan Menken (Newsies, Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors), this uplifting musical was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
When disco diva, Deloris Van Cartier, witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won't be a found: a convent! Disguised as a nun, she finds herself at odds with both the rigid lifestyle and uptight Mother Superior. Using her unique disco moves and singing talent to inspire the choir, Deloris breathes new life into the church and community but, in doing so, blows her cover. Soon, the gang is giving chase, only to find them up against Deloris and the power of her newly found sisterhood.
Filled with powerful gospel music, outrageous dancing and a truly moving story, SISTER ACT will leave audiences breathless. A sparkling tribute to the universal power of friendship, SISTER ACT is reason to REJOICE!
Tickets are available at the Anderson Theatre box office (770-528-8490) or online at Ticketmaster.com.
The Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (CCCEPA) is a coeducational public magnet school housed on the campus of Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Georgia, just west of Atlanta. CCCEPA offers unparalleled training in Dance, Vocal Music, Drama, and Technical Theatre, complemented by a robust and innovative academic curriculum. Applications are currently being accepted for 2018-2019 admissions.


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Early Retirement and Mortality Rates of Blue-Collar Men
For blue-collar male workers in Austria, an extra year of early retirement, induced by a policy change, was associated with an increase in the probability of death before age 73 of 1.85 percentage points.
Many workers dream of retiring as early as possible to pursue travel, leisure, sport, and other pursuits. But the research findings in Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality (NBER Working Paper No. 25124), a study by
Andreas Kuhn,
Stefan Staubli,
Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, and
Josef Zweimüller, suggest that some individuals, particularly men, might want to postpone retirement if possible. Studying a temporary change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria which allowed workers to retire early, they find that men who retired before the normal retirement age experienced an increased risk of premature death. They do not find any statistically significant effect of early retirement on women.
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To shed light on this question, the researchers analyze a unique public program in Austria in the late 1980s and early 1990s that was adopted when that nation's steel sector underwent dramatic downsizing. The shock affected tens of thousands of workers and their family members, and to cushion the economic blow to older workers, the Austrian government implemented the Regional Extended Benefits Program (REBP). This program effectively allowed workers to take early retirement via disability insurance or old-age pension programs. The program was only available in some regions of the country.
— Jay Fitzgerald
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Besides having a really hard-to-open box, it looks like the Nexus 7 is one touch tablet as well. The folks over at SquareTrade recently put the Nexus 7 head to head with the iPad in a series of tests, and surprisingly the former won in every test. From dropping to the ground at chest level and falling into a bathtub full of water, the Nexus 7 emerged victorious. While we don't recommend you do the same thing to your tablet, and such events are not very likely to happen (even though they do), you can sleep soundly knowing that your Nexus 7 tablet can handle a lot of abuse. Check out the video embedded above and let us know what you think. Be warned though – it involves a expensive hardware treated terribly.
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Rock Bottom
I couldn't sleep tonight, usually I don't have that problem, but tonight, and yesterday... Well the last year or so, something has been bothering me. Why? What has been bothering me? It's hard to explain, it may seem stupid or childish to anybody who hasn't experienced this, but to me it's painful, it hurts just to even write this, but I think writing my experience will somehow help the healing process.
My memory is foggy, but lately I've been able to recall more and more. Some memories are surprising and shocking, but others I knew where there I just didn't want to face them, I wasn't ready to face them, at least not yet.
I'm not the only one who has gone through this, I'm not special in any way. There are dozens, possibly hundreds of men and women who have gone through this too. Hopefully I can help someone out there, give them the strength to move on, to heal themselves and to let them know; Yes you matter, yes you were born for a reason, yes you are your own person. Your not stupid, ugly or worthless. Your you and that what makes you great.
I'm twenty-one, in fact just turned twenty-one a week ago. I like to write and read, and well thats pretty much all I know about myself, I know I like to do other things but I don't know what those things are. Seriously I don't, even my husband says I never talk about me, he doesn't know anything about me, I don't know anything about me. I spent my whole life merged together with four other people, my dad, my mom, and my two younger siblings. Do you know what it's like not being allowed to have a thought of your own? To not be able to like other things your family doesn't? Thats what it was like for me, being different was met with punishment, even today I'm scared as hell to give my opinion, to say "No" to doing something I don't want to do. Because growing up, any kind of "misbehavior" was met with punishment, not just your grounded punishment, but what I now realize was borderline torture. I mean my legs gave out under me for a few days and I couldn't walk but it was a joke to my family, my punishment for you know, being a kid, and needing an actual parent. Fuck that your kid is in pain and needs a doctor. My parents were kind of crazy, no, they're not dead, just to me they are. They believed the Goverment and public schools brainwashed kids, and therefore ta-da! I was homeschooled, well more like a mini mom and a housekeeper, even after I left I was expected to come over to their house and my sisters house to clean, which I did because I thought I was suppose to, that it was my job, my responsibilty, but i won't get into that just yet. So the homeschooling, well it wasn't great, I remember in the beginning my mom trying to teach us, then after a couple minutes and us not knowing every alphabet, she would get fustrated, mock how stupid we were, yell, throw things, then lock us in the bedroom for the rest of the day, yes we stayed in that room until either she calmed down, or my dad came home, it usually was the second one. After a while our days became less and less about lessons and more about cleaning, cooking and hiding, hiding from my mom or CPS whenever they showed up, and you know when they were about to show up because my mom would get all sweet, she would pull out the school books, cook, and clean. I loved it when CPS came over, we got to eat, we were clean and my mom was nice! Of course I was to young to catch on she was acting so we wouldn't tell the CPS people what was really happening. I often think back to all those times I could have asked for help, I could have told someone, but I didn't. Truth be told, I thought all that was normal, that all moms did that, that all families acted that way, I thought CPS came to every door to do check ups on families because they were evil and wanted to take children away, at least that's what I was told. There's a lot I was told that I now know is bullshit.
I grew up in a small town, very small, so small that most people there hated my family, thought my parents were crazy. We moved a lot growing up, at least fourteen times in that one town, everytime we moved my parents would pick fights with the neighbours that had other kids so they couldn't come over and we couldn't play. I remember looking out the window in the living room and watching the other kids play after school, wishing I could play with them.
My parents were all about looks, so going to church earned them "good parent brownie points," they considered themselves Christians, but they didn't act like it, only that one day a week, or whenever the paster came over, the rest of the time they were completly different. It was no secret they cheated on eachother, my mom liked to tell me that they wouldn't be together if it weren't for me, in fact, she loved to tell me that every chance she got. Surprisingly after I left, they remained together, couldn't be because of me, I'm not there anymore. I think people like that love the drama, love being miserable, love to bathe in the attention they get from the pain they cause, and they love to cause pain, pain to strangers, to their so-called "love ones" and to themselves, without it they have nothing, anyways. My parents went to Bapist churches, I have nothing against any religion, but the things I have seen and heard are unbelievable, one church they had me go to was just ridiculas, they preached about how races shouldn't "mingle" with eachother, and that men rule over women and women are sinful, and should spend a lifetime of punishment for it, yeah I know! Some scary shit, I do not believe in a god, or godds, I'm Atheist. I realized I was Atheist a couple years ago. I've been questioning the existence of a god before I came to the conclusion that there wasn't any, its just us, the human race.
Growing up I started to see there was something wrong, I just couldn't figure it out, I thought there was something wrong with me because I was so different, yes I did think like they did for a while, but did I question it? Yes I did. I didn't think being gay meant you were going to hell, that schools were brainwashing kids, and that being a girl was bad. Most of the time I just agreed to get by. That's how my life, just getting by. It hurts knowing that you couldn't be you, that as a child, you didn't experience being a child, you didn't get the chance of discoverying who you are, who you wanted to be, and when you expressed that, it was shot down with critizism. I was made fun of a lot for reading, my dad believed you "caught" alzhiemors, yes you read that right, by reading to much, obviously by then I was starting to not believe anything they said.
I often question myself on why they were the way they were, but then I think "It's not my responsibilty to analyze them, they chose to be like that, they chose to be unhappy and abusive." It took me a long time to say what they did to me was abuse, I didn't believe it was, I thought abuse meant somebody had to die because of neglect, not what they did to me. It really mind fucks you when you come to the realsation that what you thought was normal, wasn't.
The day I left wasn't a pleasant one. After many years of what I assume is sexual abuse from my mom, my brother became unstable, I mean there is something psychotic about him, he became the favorite when he was younger, but as he grew my mom would shower him with stuff, he couldn't do no wrong.
I came home from the store with a small bag of grocies, not much but way more then what was already in the fridge, which was nothing. I put them away and started washing the dishes, thats when my brother walked in. I told him I got some food and was planning on making dinner if he was hungry, no big deal, right? Wrong. "You think your better then us whore?" He said. Now this didn't surprise me because he has always said things like that to me. The kitchen was small and the sink was located across the room from the fridge where my brother was standing, I just ignored him and kept on washing, he walks over and hits me in the back of the head. Now he is younger then me by a year and at the time I was seventeen, he had been taking jujitsu classes since he was fourteen. I turned around and slapped him in the face and told him to get the fuck out, thats when he punched me in the face and I went down to the floor, he got on top and started choking me, I mean he wasn't doing it to scare me, he was going to kill me and he didn't have no remorse, no second thought, he knew he would get away with it. I grabbed what I could reach off the counter, lucky it was a frying pan and hit him over the head with it, he let go and ran into the living room, I chased him screaming, I was pissed and was tired of being beaten, he locked himself in the bathroom and I tried breaking the door down, I wanted to kill him, I really did. Typing this now makes me wish I did kill him. After I couldn't break the door down, I ran to get my things and left. A friend picked me up and took me to their house, a few minutes later, my mom called and screamed into the phone, she was screaming so loud I couldn't make out what she said, but I didn't talk to her for a few days.
That was the day I realized they were crazy, all of them, I just couldn't figure out how to explain what they did to my friends, everytime I tried, I came out sounding like a spoiled brat. It's very fustrating, you have people tell you that she's your only mom, and that you should love her anyways. Why? Why does being my mom make her any different then if a stranger were to treat me this way? A fucking dog can give birth to puppies, it's not like she's special for giving birth to other human beings. I don't think I owe her anything, nothing, for be granted life, I didn't choose to be born, hell most of my life I spent praying to "god" that he would take my life away, to reverse time and make my mom miscarry somehow. Could you imagine a young child thinking that way? Now I can't, it seems impossible, but yes I did think like that and yes it is true. I didn't know what depression was until I was nineteen, I heard about it growing up, but only parents calling someone who is depressed "weak" and "seeking attention," or they're possesed. Most of the time they said it was a made up condition so doctors could sell more addictive medications to people. So those fucked up feelings and thoughts I had as a child I thought they were normal, or that "satan" was trying to get to me. I'm sill depressed, yes I haven't tried to seek help from a therapist, but I have been going onto a few online groups, and that has helped a lot, knowing your not alone in this is actually like a sigh of relief.
After I moved out, I lived on a few sofa's, one of my friends Catlyn had a child but let me stay with her, we were kind of close, she was one of those people you remained friends with even after everyone else stopped hanging around her, I found out later on why, she loved drama and loved causing trouble for everyone. I took care of her child, at the time was under a year, she still lived at home with her brother and mom. I don't want to bad mouth her but, she wasn't a good mom, I know having a kid at sixteen doesn't mean your mature, but holy crap, she did not have any mom instincts what-so-ever.
After everyone calmed down, my mom wanted me to come over for dinner, I agreed to, they picked me up, her and my dad, and drove to to their house, on the way there, I got a lecture from my dad "You need to stop this thing." He said, I just sat in the back seat and didn't respond, he continued "Family is importend, and your rebelous streak is hurting our family." I turned to him from staring out the window, "What rebelous streak? Your son tried to kill me!" I cried, thats when my mom chimed in on this "He said you started it! We had to take him to the E.R. because he had a concusion!" She screamed turning to face me. "Did he have a scratch on him? Did he?!" I screamed back, knowing my brother blows things out of poportion. "Yes, his head was bleeding! He would have died you fucking bitch! Leaving him there to die, all you care about is you, you, you!" She screamed back, thats when I pulled the collar to my shirt down and showed them the hand prints around my neck, then I pulled the sleeves up and showed them the bruises on my arm, "Did he have this on him? Or this?!" I screamed but they ignored that and went onto how I better come home and apologize to my brother, I didn't, while the car was still moving, I opened the door, screamed "Fuck you" before jumping out and walking back to my friends house.
Growing up, I heard a lot about boys and how they were evil, never mind that girls and women were also evil... Well I guess we're are evil... Around the time I started puberty, I was an early bloomer, in other words I grew breasts and pubic hair around eight, even before then my parents were against make-up, dating, in fact they were against growing up all together as ridiculas as that sounds, it's true. They hated the fact that we were maturing, shaping into adults , they did everything they could to stunt the growth, including taking away birthdays and not feeding us. We ended up growing anyways. I don't know why growing up was such a huge problem to them, it was like the older we got the more of threat we were, at least the women were a threat, but a threat to what? To becoming the next generation in the family line, maybe? I don't know, I asked one of my family members once, but didn't get a straight answer, just ended up more confused then before.
As I grew breasts, my mom became more and more abusive, before it wasn't so bad, at least that's what I thought, got hit? So what. Hair pulled? Eh, had it worse, Kicked, punched, strangled, dragged across the house? Okay maybe it was just as bad. But what hurt the most in all the abuse, was the name calling, it didn't start until after the incident. Around this time my parents opened up a business, it had a few employees. One of them was a man, he was new, he liked me a lot, I mean he would smile at me, would try to talk to me. He left after what happened, I don't know if it he was scared, or because he knew he got away with it and decided to leave before he got caught. I never told anyone the details of it, just that he "touched me" but there was more involved.
I still feel the coolness of the floor, funny how small something can remain in your mind, even after so long. The way he spoke, it wasn't mean, which I wasn't used to at the time, and I think he knew that. He called me to help him with a project, near the bathroom, at the time the bathroom was hidden between two walls. Later on my dad knocked down one of the walls to make the front of the business bigger. I of course being young, obeyed and went to go help him, the concept of stranger danger didn't really apply to me, I thought if my parents hired him then they can trust him, I should trust him. I later on found out, they hired guys straight out of jail, men with records and couldn't really find a better job. Which is really fucked up to allow them around kids, not saying all people who have been in jail are bad, but c'mon, who just neglects their childrens safety like that?
I keep telling myself this is part of the healing process, it hurts, it really does. Knowing your whole past has been nothing but one heartache after another. Of course I was confused, scared, I did the only thing I could think of at the time, I went to my mom. I told her what happened. She ignored me, didn't even look at me. Her silence meant I was in deep shit. Later that night, I got the beating of my life, I knew it was coming, but it was still surprising. After that she called me unspeakable names, names no mom should ever call any of her kids. After that day, the beatings got worse, the chores and responsiblity grew. I was no longer their daughter, I was their housekeeper, their punching bag. I became the black sheep, the out cast.
When my breasts starting developing, my mom was convinced I was getting fat, so my food intake went from getting very little to almost nothing, at fifthteen I was a hundred pounds, but I still felt obese, that's all I saw, was a fat ugly girl. My mom started cutting my hair as short as a boys cut, I wasn't allowed to shower, I wasn't allowed to use the bathroom without permission, most of the time I went outside. She would constantly accuse me of sleeping around, accused me of being pregnant, or stuffing my bra so boys will look at me. She forced me to wear heavy coats all year long. Refused to buy me panties, or bra's that fit, on many occasions she would say "Your tits are disgusting." "You back fat is gross." If a boy looked in my direction, I was screamed at, so I kept my head down, I learned to walk behind them in public so they couldn't see if someone looked at me. I stopped talking altogether, I just tried to get by, that's all. That's how my childhood was, getting by.
The house I grew up in was small, it was a one bedroom, unfinished trailer house. It was heated by a wood stove. My siblings and I shared the bedroom, and a bed. My mom would come in randomnly in the middle of the night to wake us up, either screaming, or by pulling our hair and making us clean the house she distroyed earlier that day. She once got me out of bed, I was nine at the time, and pulled me by my hair to the living room, in front of her friend she had over she screamed at me "Did you fuck your brother?!" I of course did not, but she was talking to her friend about how I was sexually active and was scared I was molesting my little brother. She didn't believe me of course and proceeded to scream about how nasty I was and how I was going to hell. Being nine at the time, I didn't cry, I just stood there and took it, I learned early that crying just made it worse, then again they didn't allow crying. After that, I slept on the floor.
My younger siblings both had a dog a piece . They were big black dogs, not well taken care of, but they lived a long time. Sleeping on the floor wasn't fun, it was hard, cold and worse of it all was the dogs, I loved them, but they never got let outside, ever, so in the middle of night they would do their business, sometimes next to my head, other times on me. My parents would get mad at me for it, because it was my fault right? My siblings thought it was funny. Our house, it's hard to describe, it was cleanish, just very used, there was always mice running around, always some kind of mold somewhere. Mom would have me bleach down the walls, which were suppose to be white but after none stop smoking from my mom, they turned a slight yellow. The carpet and furniture was white, but smoking, kids, and animals, didn't keep them white for long.
The house work wasn't easy, it involved a lot of bleach and scrubing on your hands and knee's. If it wasn't done right, then you got screamed out, things flew by your head. My dad at this point, was taking jobs else where and leaving us alone to fend for ourselves. Cooking was included in the chores, and well, when you have nothing to cook with, it's kind of hard to make anything edible. We had no running water at this point, so washing dishes was hard, I had to use old greasy water, and that never cleaned anything. Well mom wanted me to do some chores, she was sitting on the couch, smoking, watching tv, I told her the dishes weren't going to be cleaned because the water was gross, she ignored me, so I washed them in the nasty ass water. I went outside to check on my younger siblings, who were outside at the time, I was out there for a few minutes when I heard screming and crashing inside the house. I was immediantly scared, I ran to the door, just to have mom burst out and chase me in the front yard, she had a glass in her hand, she threw it and it hit me in the back of the head, I went down and she stood over me screaming, calling me names, I tried not to cry but I did anyways. She grabbed me and picked me up just to throw me onto the side of the house. She then had one of my siblings grab the glass, which didn't break, and screamed into my face "Look at it? Does this look fucking clean to you?!!" All I did was shake my head in a response. She then slapped me in the face and told me to go to my room, I spent the rest of the day laying on the floor.
My mom had this thing about "cleaning the outside" which meant all the rocks, sticks and leaves had to be in piles around the yard. it wasn't like it was dirty or anything, it was nature. We lived in the woods around this time and of course fucking nature had to be corrected. She would have us spend hours outside cleaning, then the next day do it again, she wouldn't help, it was up to us, the small children , to read her mind and make sure nature was in order. It became a daily thing, if a stick, rock or fucking leaf was out of place, we got locked outside, didn't matter if it was winter, raining, or a hundred and twenty out, we got locked outside.
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Travels in Geology: Geo-diversity and geologic history in the North West Highlands of Scotland
The North West Highlands of Scotland are sparsely populated, with rugged mountains and gorgeous valleys featuring a rich geological history. The area has the oldest rocks in the United Kingdom as well as some young landscapes freshly sculpted by ice sheets during the last glaciation. Early geological explorations and explanations of the North West Highlands proved perplexing and contentious, in part because the rocks of this region span two-thirds of Earth's history in age. Additionally, there are, in places, sedimentary layers sandwiched between metamorphic packages of gneiss and schist. How did this happen? Was the schist deposited like a sedimentary rock atop the sandstone and limestone? Was it a former sedimentary layer that for some reason was exceptionally metamorphosed relative to the layers beneath it? Throw in three separate unconformities and the picture becomes even more muddied. You start to see why multiple generations of British geology students have traveled here for field camps.
Geologists Get to Work
James Nicol, a geologist at the University of Aberdeen, disagreed with Geikie and Murchison's descriptions of the region. In a paper in 1861, Nicol advocated a role for faulting, although not thrust faulting, which hadn't been described yet. Nicol's faults were steep, and featured prominently in the cross-sectional interpretations of his fieldwork.
In the late 1880s, Charles Lapworth got involved. He was a geologist at Mason Science College in Birmingham famous for first precisely delineating the boundary between the Ordovician and the Silurian using graptolites as index fossils. Lapworth suggested that the geology of the North West Highlands was far more interesting than a mere layer cake of anomalously metamorphosed layers. Lapworth's detailed mapping of terrain around Loch Eriboll disproved suppositions stemming from Murchison's model, and he benefitted from reading about other examples in the Alps and Appalachians of what are known today as fold-and-thrust belts. He suggested that movement along low-angle reverse faults, in which the fault plane is parallel to the bedding plane, had brought schists from east to west, overriding younger sedimentary strata. In other words, Lapworth invented the notion of thrust faults, and Eriboll is where he first deployed the mechanism to explain the North West Highlands' peculiar geology. Lapworth noted that rocks along the fault plane were smeared out and ground down to make new highly foliated and fine-grained rock, which he called "mylonite." Eriboll is the type locality for that gorgeous beast.
Lapworth didn't solve the structural conundrums of the North West Highlands, but his work was the catalyst that made Geikie decide the survey needed to take another, more thorough look at the area. Survey geologists John Horne and Benjamin Peach were dispatched to conduct fieldwork in the North West Highlands. The detailed mapping by Horne and Peach was key to unraveling the enigma once and for all, and thrust faulting was the crucial ingredient in their interpretation. They were the first to decisively delineate the Moine Thrust and its parallel counterparts.
Since the thrust-faulting framework was established by Peach and Horne, additional details have been added, and isotopic dating of injected igneous units has constrained the timing of deformation. Researchers today are even dating recrystallization within the mylonites to derive dates of fault movement. The Highlands remain a hotbed for geological research, as well as a training ground for the next generation of British geoscientists.
Getting There & Getting Around
Assuming you're not walking the whole of the Highlands, you'll want to rent a car and drive to the area from Fort William or Inverness. A ferry from the Orkney Islands is also an option. A range of lodging is available in the region — both in town and in the country — and it's fun to move around and explore different places. We enjoyed the luxury of the high-end Torridon Inn in Torridon and Mackay's Rooms in Durness for one night apiece, but based more of our stay out of the hostel-like setting of the Inchnadamph Lodge in Assynt, where many geological field camps base. In addition to saving money, this allowed us to cook our own food and make use of a sauna-like drying room to dehydrate our dampened boots at the end of each day.
The Scottish Outdoor Access Code (http://www.outdooraccess-scotland.com/) permits you to responsibly visit geological sites throughout the country, regardless of whether they are publicly or privately owned. So long as you're not harming livestock or causing damage to any property (including with a rock hammer), there is no such thing as trespassing in Scotland. Roam free, geologists!
The North West Highlands Geopark (http://www.nwhgeopark.com) is a great resource for planning your visit. They offer guided hikes, interpretive programs, self-guided driving tours, and a "Rock Stop" cafe and visitor center overlooking Loch Glencoul at Unapool, south of Kylesku.
If you're planning your excursion as a geological odyssey, two books to pack are: "The Highlands Controversy" by David Oldroyd, a readable scholarly summary of a century's worth of geological thinking about the rocks of the Highlands, in particular the Moine Thrust; and "A Geological Excursion Guide to the North-West Highlands of Scotland," edited by Kathryn M. Goodenough and Maarten Krabbendam, which is a lovely, full-color guide for the visiting geologist. What follows is my own brief guide for exploring the most important rocks of this region.
Around Durness
Tarbet, Handa and "the Lewisian"
The Lewisian gneisses are cut by a suite of approximately 2.4-billion-year-old mafic and ultramafic dikes called the Scourie Dike Swarm. This feature is thought to have resulted from an ancient episode of tectonic stretching. A new round of deformation and metamorphism followed the Scourie dikes' intrusion about 1.7 billion years ago, and, as a result, the texture of the exposures varies tremendously from place to place. There are massive outcrops that appear to retain their original plutonic textures, and there are sheared-out zones where all the minerals have been flattened and aligned.
The "multicoloured rock stop" — a road cut — north of Laxford Bridge is a good place to try to wrap your mind around all this. The outcrop itself is a study in complexity. Utilizing the principle of cross-cutting relationships, tease out which of the many units came first, second, third and so on. There's a reason they don't call it the "Lewisian Gneiss Simple." Use the nearby informational sign erected by Scottish National Heritage to check your answers.
Beaches, Straits, Castles and Unconformities
The beach at Achmelvich is a gem — an idyllic cove with a well-regarded hostel and outcrops of Scourie dikes splitting the Lewisian gneiss on both headlands. In places, the dikes have weathered away, leaving corridor-like hollows with vertical walls. Stroll these corridors and contemplate the surging mafic magma that pulsed through them when Earth was half as old as it is today.
Just to the north is Clachtoll, the anglicized name for A' Clach Thuill, which means "split rock." It is the best spot to examine the sedimentary strata of the Stoer Group, which includes the oldest fossils in the United Kingdom: 1.2-billion-year-old microbially induced sedimentary structures (like stromatolites, but in the Clachtoll Formation's red sandstone). The fossils appear as crinkly, ultrathin layers of mud surrounded by, and disrupted by, sand. The shape comes from the way the grains of sediment were bound together by flexible, stretchy microbial mats resembling the skin that forms atop a warm pot of soup. Microbial mats like this are the sort of thing we might expect to find on Mars if life ever existed there, offering motivation for any future interplanetary geologist to take a good look and train their eye at Clachtoll.
Assynt at the Heart of It All
Base your final stay in the North West Highlands in the town of Assynt along the shore of Loch Assynt, the nucleus of the geologist's North West Highlands. This freshwater lake trends east-west across the north-south structural trend of the rocks. Hence, by driving inland from Achmelvich to Inchnadampf, you cross many of the major rock units of the area.
This area hosts two more unconformities to marvel at: On Assynt's northern shore, the Proterozoic-aged Torridonian red sandstones were laid down over the Lewisian basement rocks, leaving a 2-billion-year gap. The contact between these two units can be examined in roadside and loch-shore outcrops. Gazing south across the lake, you can see another unconformity, where the sandstones of the Cambrian-aged Eriboll Formation dip gently eastward off the east slopes of the mountain called Beinn Gharbh. The bulk of Canisp is Torridonian, implying 500 million years of erosion between the two units. But their relative orientation implies something moderately bizarre: that the Torridonian rocks were first deposited, then lithified, then tilted about 15 degrees to the west, then eroded down, then the quartz sands of the Eriboll Formation were deposited, then lithified, then the whole package was tilted 15 degrees back to the east, returning the Torridonian to more or less its original horizontal orientation in the process! The fact that both episodes of tilting were the same magnitude, but in opposite directions, is unique in my experience.
Also along Loch Assynt's shores lie the ruins of the 16th-century Ardvreck Castle. After clambering up its ruins, visitors can gaze over a panorama that includes outcrops of the famed Cambrian-aged Ardvreck Group, a collection of sedimentary formations mapped by most British geology students in their field camp experiences. The coolest thing about the Ardvreck Group is it shows the same sequence of sedimentary rock types of the same age as the North American continent. Whether you're in the Appalachian Mountains, the Grand Canyon or the North West Highlands of Scotland, Cambrian and Ordovician rocks show a near-identical sequence of sandstone, shale and limestone that records a global rise in sea level. You can view these along Loch Assynt in road-cut outcrops of the various units, some of which show "bonus" features like igneous intrusions and faults.
On the road from Assynt to Ullapool, check out a classic outcrop of the Moine Thrust at Knockan Crag. This hillside has been well developed as an interpretive site with numerous sculptures in addition to the geological attractions. A rock wall showing the relevant rock units greets you. It's a great opportunity to examine slabbed and polished specimens of the various members of the Ardvreck Group: You can see the many "worm" burrows that give the Pipe Rock its name, or the tiny cone-shaped fossils called Salterella, which are the namesake of the Salterella Grit.
Knockan Crag visitors can continue uphill to a life-sized set of statues of the British Geological Survey geologists Peach and Horne, and press a button to hear them (well, actors) discuss their work in the Highlands and on this very hill. A covered kiosk stands nearby with informative displays and a clever rendering of the landscape in cut glass where audio yields the correct way to pronounce the names of the landscape features in Scottish Gaelic. Full of newfound understanding, visitors can then hike up the hill to a series of outcrops of the Moine Thrust itself, with its namesake schist thrust over Durness limestone. There is a 500-million-year difference in their ages, and the older one is on top!
Among structural geologists, the Moine Thrust is legendary. To stand there, with your finger on this ancient horizontal fault plane, is to commune with the minds of Peach and Horne and Lapworth. This is the cradle of a vital concept in tectonics, without which we'd have a much harder time explaining places like the Himalayas and Glacier National Park in Montana. In that sense, a visit to the North West Highlands is not only a delightful recreational sojourn, but, for a geologist, an intellectual pilgrimage as well.


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ASUS Maximus Formula (Special Edition) review
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General System Performance
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (3.00GHz) LGA775
- x2 1024MB Corsair XMS PC3-10600 CAS7 Module(s)
- x2 1024MB Corsair XMS PC2-6400 CAS4 Module(s)
- ASUS Maximus Formula (Intel X38)
- ASUS P5E3 Deluxe (Intel X38)
- ASUS P5K3 Deluxe (Intel P35)
- OCZ GameXStream (700 watt)
- Seagate 500GB 7200RPM (Serial ATA II)
- ASUS GeForce 8800 GTX (768MB)
- Microsoft Windows XP Pro 32bit (SP2)
- Nvidia Forceware (163.76)
- Intel System Drivers (8.4.0)
Here the Maximus Formula looks very much the same as its P35 and X38 sister boards. The SiSoft XII 2008 network performance was almost identical on both boards, while hard drive and audio performance was also much the same. All three boards use the same network and audio controllers, which can explain the similarities in the results.


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When you think of The Flash, you think of speed, right? Well, sadly that's not the case for the upcoming solo Flash movie, because no-one appears to know when shooting will actually start.
Or if they do, they're keeping Billy Crudup in the dark.
Crudup, who's signed on to play Barry Allen's dad Henry in the film, revealed in an interview with BadTaste that he has no idea when filming will begin on The Flash.
"No, I don't [know]," he admitted. "It's unclear at the moment."
There is some comfort for fans of the Scarlet Speedster, though – the delay isn't due to any problems nailing down a director; it's actually Ezra Miller's fault.
"I think [it's because of] Ezra's schedule," Billy said. "Ezra's a busy man, he's very popular – and excellent."
The Flash is slated for a summer release next year, but with a distinct lack of a director and a busy lead actor, we're not feeling wholly optimistic about that.
Related: The Flash's Grant Gustin makes it clear there's no rivalry between him and Justice League's Ezra Miller
On top of that, it was revealed earlier this year that The Flash is reportedly undergoing a complete re-write by Joby Harold, who executive produced Edge of Tomorrow.
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Salvation is back with an all-new episode this Monday, August 27th at 9:00pm ET/PT. This season has brought with it new alliances, new foes and a whole lot of new problems to solve for Grace Barrows (Jennifer Finnigan), Darius Tranz (Santiago Cabrera), and Harris Edwards (Ian Anthony Dale).
CBS Local's Matt Weiss spoke to Finnigan to catch up on the new season and discuss the challenges of being a new parent while working on set.
MW- Hey Jennifer, nice to talk to you again!
JF- You too, but we're always in different cities when we talk!
MW- I know, one day we'll finally get to have one of these talks in person. But the current season of Salvation has been so much fun to watch, I've really enjoyed how there are so many shades of grey this year. There are all these different groups with their own motivations and perspectives, how has the show changed as a result of all these new factions?
JF- There's just so many more threats than solely an asteroid. There's so many groups vying for power and it's just upped the ante, we are getting it from all sides now. Obviously last year the major threat was an asteroid that was very clearly the problem we were trying to solve. This year has gone in so many different directions which I think has added so many facets and layers to the mythology of the show.
Related: Jennifer Finnigan And Ian Anthony Dale On 'Salvation' Season Two
MW- And as a result of all these different players in the game, the various threats, how has Grace changed?
JF- Well we always knew she was a strong, smart character but I think we've just seen that in spades this year. We've seen a lot of her weaknesses and flaws but the one through line that remains is that she will always fight for what's right – what she believes is right. I love that, in that sense, she hasn't changed at all.
But shes's seen so much, experienced so much and lost so much that she's really grown as a person, as a woman, we're about to see her as a mom again – which I'm really excited about. She is a very strong woman and I have a major girl crush on her!
MW- Has your preparation changed at all this season as the show has grown and evolved?
JF- No – the only thing that's changed my preparation, or often times lack thereof, is being a new mom [laughs]. It's tricky sometimes juggling playing a character that you're very passionate about but also wanting to be very present as a mom. There have been some very dark moments for Grace where she really goes to a dark place and as an actor you have to put yourself there for a few hours if not more.
I was very careful to not have that energy around E.J., my daughter. Whereas before having a kid I would prepare quite a bit at home – I tend to now leave my work at work. So I do all my prep at work now. Now keep in mind she was also at work with me all day so that was tricky as well. But I figured it out, my life is strange and she's going to be a little gypsy like me [laughs].
MW- That's great though that you've been able to find that work balance. I think that's so important.
JF- It is the hardest thing I've ever done. Ian, Santiago and I talk about that. Just how we have these reams of lines to learn and how when you get home you can't just close the door like you used to and spend two hours working on your dialogue and your character choices. Santi has a toddler knocking on his door, Ian and I have babies. Things have changed in a big way.
Related: Jennifer Finnigan On Grace Barrows, "I Just Immediately Connected To Her"
MW- And this show in particular where you're dealing with really heavy subject matter, I assume there has to be some level of decompressing when you get home…
JF- Yes, absolutely. I have to say the darker the material the goofier I am in between takes. I need to lighten it up a little bit [laughs]!
MW- This Monday's episode if called "Prisoners" what can you tell us about what's coming up next for Salvation?
JF- I can tell you that we see Zoe again, that Rachel (Drance) is coming back and I was so happy to see that development. It was, for me, a very big piece that was missing this season for Grace. In season one it was such a part of who she is, being a mom. We just had too many stories to tell at the beginning of the season to incorporate the Grace-Zoe arc as well but I was hoping we would get back to her eventually – and we are! And she is coming back to town with some big news.
MW- That's a great cliff hanger, I like that. Well thanks so much as always Jennifer and hopefully we can talk again soon!
JF- Absolutely, thanks Matt!
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Asian Tribune is published by E-LANKA MEDIA(PVT)Ltd. Vol. 20 No. 110
Lalin's Column : More Ministerial Howlers and 3 wise men
This was the first time that the SL public has heard that it was the Rajapakse 'regime' alone that waged 'war' on the terrorists. Successive SL governments, starting with the UNP in 1977, had done it 'their way'.
Rajapakse Regime: This included giving JRJ's relative and not the Commander of the Army the task of wiping out the insurgency in 1979, a dream that ended in a nightmare. It included considering extra ordinary methods learned from books like 're settlement' (re location of Northerners to the South) as in the 1950s Briggs plan in the Malayan Emergency. One President gifted weapons and ammo etc to the terrorists hallucinating about making friends with the terrorists- treacherously.
Then there was the signing of a much reviled and questionable 'Cease Fire Agreement' (CFA) with the terrorists. The CFA elevated them to the same status as the Government. A signatory had been led to believe by an alternative policy planning NGO among others, that the terrorists could not be defeated. It may have led to over one third of SL being under the terrorists had it not been revoked by the 'Rajapakse regime'. The concessions in the CFA led to the near decimation of the elite under cover troops of the Special Forces. Those responsible were not charged with treachery. SL were stunned again when in 2002 they also saw their military officers on TV shaking hands and even saluting the terrorists. This was encouraged and desired by the government!
How can they have the arrogance to dictate to us where we should go or which countries should be our friends. Gaddafi is my friend. He supported us when we were alone and when those who tried to prevent my visit here today were our enemies. They have no morals. We cannot accept that a state assumes the role of the world's policeman'' (Nelson Mandela – on his visit to Libya for the African Council Meeting- 1997Minister (political) Eran Wickramaratne (EW) on 19th or 20th Aug, in response to a Al Jazeera TV interview question on the plight of the Northern Tamils after the 2015 general elections, dismissively and off the well worn cuff said 'It was the Rajapakse regime that waged war on the Tamils' or words to that effect.
This conflict was not against the Tamils but the Northern Terrorists. However it was President Jayewardene (JRJ) from the same party –UNP- who in 1977 during the race riots that declared 'war' on the Tamils. It was not MR 20 odd years on.
The Northern insurgent movement had not resorted to terrorism in 1977. After the last communal riots in SL In 1983 under JRJ's watch, tens of thousands Tamils seeking retribution if not revenge were driven out of the South, mainly Colombo. They queued up in thousands in Jaffna to join a roaring terrorist movement. Those tens of thousands that fled abroad began to provide the terrorists with money and propaganda. They looked to avenge their kin in their now desperate search for Eelam (separate state) and to escape any more communal frenzy and lesser national status. Fortunately the majority, not the government, woke up. Their actions had boomeranged horribly on innocent Sinhalese. They never attacked Tamil civilians again.
SL was called a 'pariah 'state for decades by these very same 'friendly' states less India, but no one else. India believed at that time that SL was becoming a US vassal state and undermined SL's efforts to overcome the 'terras' as the troops called them.
It was the Rajapakse government (regime?) on 19 May 2009 that brought the conflict to an end suddenly to usher in peace total and complete. Captured terrorist cadres numbering 12,000, being about 30% of the terrorist fighting cadres, were rehabilitated and released within a year. It was a giant step towards national reconciliation.
Paradoxically SL was accused by its 'western friends' of 'war crimes' advised by some local 'policy' collaborators. It is a supreme irony that the USA DOD now says that the deaths of civilians used as human shields when attacking defences held by terrorists is not a crime. The original accusation was invalid in international law as repeatedly stated by Dr Neville Laduwahetty and confirmed by Sir Desmond de Silva QC.
What then was this Rajapakse 'regime'? Unless of course all governments of SL that are democratically elected and have a 2/3rds majority are called 'regimes' when or after combating and defeating terrorists.
One can be vague and wooly, dismissive and derogatory when unable to give credible answers or appear completely clueless but still offer inane responses.
'Traditional Friends'. Earn W switching to foreign relations said that SL would now get back to her "traditional friends in the West" and India as well. SL had never ever gone away from India to begin with. China it was said would no longer play an important role. They may be taking bets on this during the IPL in India. Some SL ministers have a strained sense of humour.
The Westerners were colonizers at first. SL was under colonial rule for nearly 500 years. The colonial rulers left behind a well established, rich, English speaking, Anglicized elite it could rely on in the future. In the Philippines it was Marcos. They have done so now.
When the SL conflict was ending, the West attempted to interfere and rescue the terrorist leaders. If they had succeeded, the terrorists could probably have regrouped and made preparations to continue the fight another day.
The Malayan 'Communist Terrorists' (CTs) did so under Chin Peng who had escaped during General Templar's command (1952-4) returning after the Emergency was declared ended in 1960. Thankfully the western 'friends' were rightly spurned in SL by the Army, SLN and SLAF that knew, spoke, thought and acted totally unlike the Anglicized civilian elite.
Over the past 5 years SL was also pilloried at Geneva by the 'friends'. Would that those who pray to Western Gods remember when on TV what 3 gifts they brought to the East. They started with 'social diseases' that decimated populations from Asia and Africa to Hawaii. They became rich on the labour of slaves-a act more heinous than genocide. What right, God given or not, have they to try to enforce Human Rights in 3rd world countries (only those that do not have nuclear bombs) especially the USA that violates them by the hour, all around the world, beginning from USA itself?
Subsequently 'friendly' India 'invaded' SL in 1987. The human rights record of the IPKF equaled that of the terrorists. They were hated in Jaffna. It lost 1,200 soldiers at the hands of the very same terrorists it had ironically trained, armed and supported logistically. Individual acts of bravery could not hide their mediocre performance. It gave the terrorists world wide publicity and later misled the USA especially.
SL's long time Eastern friends meanwhile were fully supportive through thick and thin, good times and bad and worse. Especially so when SL was taking heavy casualties, both military and civilian, from 1983 to 2009. Pakistan, China and Malaysia stood out prominently as true friends even after the conflict ended.SL was successful because of its servicemen and women in the defence forces, its political leadership and its Asian friends.
Ministers are welcome to be selective about what they think the war achieved to boost their Government. So can the citizens who however remember, think differently and care for the nation.
Grandpasser. Who was it, to belittle his own army, when the terrorists were driven out of Elephant Pass in 2008 that said it was actually Grandpass and Killinochi was Madawachchi? He thought he was funny. Others described his act differently as it was in time of war.
He said another mouthful about 2 weeks before the 2015 elections, when rival gangsters had a shoot out while a UNP election effort was taking place at Bloemendhal,. Two people, totally unknown to the general public, were sadly killed. The minister was only interested in alleging that it was the work of the UPFA. The Police determined it was gang warfare. They did not shift from that stance despite pressures exerted.
If what the minister alleges was true, why was it that he, a mountainous target dwarfing his supporters and their leader to boot, not even shot at? Did the gangsters not recognize him?
The Minister also alleged that there was a coup attempt in January 2015. Since then there has been nary a word on that most serious charge. He and credibility remain poles apart. Does he care? Who does?
Sirasa TV and Gaddafi (G)'s death. The leader of the entertaining 'Satana' trio on Sirasa TV decided at a Brains Trust after the general elections to emphasize a particular point – 'gratitude'. This was to show that great development works are not necessarily always appreciated. He analogized about fate of the defeated SL Presidential candidate Rajapakse and Libyan ruler Gaddafi's death (by murder).
Gaddafi, according to him, was confronted by a rebel militant (in Sirte) when he was hiding/stuck in a sewage pipe. Apparently a civilized exchange took place with Gaddafi reminding his captor(s) what he had given to the people. He pleaded not to be killed.
The Satana TV leader explained that it was Gaddafi that provided his people what Arabs, living in barren desert land desire most, water. This was provided free on tap to every Libyan. The rebel apparently retorted that Libya however did not have democracy and freedom. That was the end of Gaddafi, said on TV by a British broadcaster many years ago, to be the only incorruptible if not popular national leader in the world.
Actually Gaddafi provided not only free water, but free education, fuel, electricity and hospital care etc too. Twenty (20) loaves of bread could be bought for less than a dollar. There was interest free housing, farming development and vehicle purchase advances and marriage incentives including houses for newlyweds among other benefits. But under his predecessor King Idris, who Gaddafi overthrew, the western (USA) oil companies and Idris took everything. Idris left the Libyans having little water even to drink, dirt poor, miserable and angry.
The water was piped from nearly 3,000 kms away from an aquifer found by accident when digging for oil in Sarir. It was the longest man made 'river' ever built. The aquifer may last 1,000 years. Some others say it will last only 60 years. Whatever.
But Gaddafi while lavishly sponsoring nationalist freedom movements in many parts of the world, also sponsored terrorists. He was held responsible for downing a passenger plane over Lockerbie in Scotland. His time had come according to the western 'friendly nations'. However the downing of an Iranian passenger plane by the USA Air Force, killing all the passengers over Bander Abbas in the Persian Gulf, was not considered terrorism! He was on the assassination list of some western nations. He survived numerous attempts especially by the USA until he was overthrown by western conspiracies.
In Libya gratitude takes different forms.
As soon as the rebels knew it was Gaddafi they started torturing him as only the Arabs well know how. He had earlier been injured by grenade fragments. Bleeding and weak he pleaded for his life 'Please don't shoot'. They "stabbed him in the rear with some kind of stick or knife". He called out "God forbid this. Do you know right from wrong?" He was murdered in the West's 'battle cry' for an Arab Spring, supported righteously by their drones and bombers.
A few years later the US Ambassador who may have been led to believe liberty and democracy existed in Libya, was brutally killed by Libyans. Did his killers ask for 'freedom and democracy' too? Was that gratitude for giving 'freedom and democracy to Libya, US style? Pity Gaddafi.
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As of Jan 2009, Jennifer is a practicing Comedy Goddess Level 8. In the year 2000, Dawn French grew Jennifer from a crystal. This renders her intelligible for Big Brother, the one and only reason she has never entered.
Girls On Pot[edit]
Girls On Pot was a 2 Series sitcom about
The Young Ones Mands, Cands, Jen, Shell, and their landlady Lady Carlton. Jen's character was..actually who was Jen's character ?? Well anyway anyway anyway, the show revolves around these four girls' lives and what sneaky business they get up to in the upper part of the flat.
•Mands (Fawn Aroma Drench) likes girls..yes she does..she's not fully out of the closet though and won't admit it to anyone-except that time with electrical-handyman-Hugh. Yeah, Mands was so hot for penis him she'd Fry that Laurie anyday.
- Jennifer Marsh (no stop dog breath..who played Jen ??) is the brainbox of the lot. Its that time of the month again and no-we're not penis talking about the big red P-and its up to Jennifer to clean the house while Mands gets her Razzle fix in.
- Shell (Ruby Wachs) pays the rent out of her whore's handbag, snorts like a pig and eats her own phlegm *ghurhg ghuruhg ghurhhg*
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Matt GroeningTracey Ullman) does not pay the rent because of her Oesophagus problem. Because she can't have a proper osmosis, she has to somehow get Shell (Lube E Wax) into the acting business and star in a low budget film which was later penis nominated for a TERRY'S award.
Cands left in series 2 because she had to write her show in between little bits of The Simpsons..
Absolutely Fabulous[edit]
or Ab Flab as it is known commonly worldwide, is a British sitcom written and created wholly by Lube E. Wax. It focuses on the lives of The J Team..Also known as:
- Little Piece Of Dribblepiss Saffy (Saffron Burrows),
- Her mother-Fashionista and allround tracksuit-wearing, living legend, comedy goddess BABE--Edina 'Eddie' Monsoon,
- Eddie's BFFL Pasty Stone-real name Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone,
- Eddie's Mother and Saffy's Gran (I can't remember her name.Hold on-IT'LL COME TA ME),
- And Eddie's MA, Queen of the Fax Machine, Bubble DeGrin.
Ab Flab was made into 5 series, in which all of them won a BRIT award, as well as the 5th series, which was nominated for a TERRY'S Award but, unfortunately was won by 'It's me, your comedy chocolate parter DAWNIE FRENCH.'
Private Life[edit]
Is obsessively in love with Madonna, and after many attempts to woo the ageing hag, including sending her bags of Jennifer's own hair and fingernail clippings, in 2008 Jennifer dressed up in Madonna's own lycra and sunglasses, in an attempt to appeal to the singer's narcissistic side.
Jennifer suffers from a rare disorder whereby her leg bones can spontaneously fall out. They can, however usually be reinstated by a rousing rendition of 'Walking in The Air'.
Every time Jennifer licks her bottom lip, an Angel gets its wings.
Interesting factoid #24.3: Jennifer looks good in leather.
Sexual Life[edit]
It is a little known fact that upon viewing both of Jennifer's naked breasts, one's organs instantly liquefy. For this reason, Ade never has sex whilst wearing his glasses.
Jennifer and her slapstick master turned farmer-rockstar husband, Adrian Edmondson moved to a farm in Devon, in order to extend their repertoire of sexual games and noises.
When either partner is away with work, a lucky beast from the farm is brought into the marital bedroom, to fill in the empty gap on the other side of the bed.
Has the uncanny ability to incite the loss of virginity with just a look.
Has shagged Russell Brand and David Attenborough.
Public Life[edit]
In 2004, Jennifer stunned Britain and most of the world, when she brutally attacked the Queen who made the fatal mistake of asking where the 'funny one' was, resulting in her Majesty's hospitalisation. She is still waiting to be charged.
Jennifer is generally regarded as much hotter than Madonna.
For a brief, but happy period, Jennifer worked at The Comic Strip, she was one of the most popular dancers, until it was discovered that her tits, whilst being alarmingly realistic, were in fact, fake, and she was fired on the spot.
She declined to appear on Fame Academy, instead choosing to whore out her now ex-best friend (and true writer of Ab Flab) Full Wax, and he own husband, Hillary Edmond. She is now responsible for nineteen shows currently screening on television, and occasionally letting her daughters, Belly, Beetle and Frayed, out of the house and appearing in one of the shows, Jammin' Jerusalem, providing they pay a small fee.
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- Queen of the Yeast
- Let Them Eat Steak
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