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Dear Anon
"Repeat Repeat Repeat".
If you don't like what is written, can I suggest the Tom Cruise movie, Edge of Tomorrow.
You say, "Repeat Repeat Repeat" but I think practice, practice, practice.
"Boring Boring Boring".
I think the reshaping history back towards historical fact is a good thing.
"Change the record".
Well, I am open to suggestions, what would you like to talk about, the SNP MPs clapping in the House of Commons showing they are just petty little clowns.
"Cut the crap".
I think I am cutting the mustard.
"You have a Bitter vile and twisted mind and all your imaginary commentaries"
No capital B in bitter and where is the rest of that sentence, looks like it kind of tailed off.
"It is about time you left the deceased to rest in peace shows how low you are when you resort to writing about the dead".
Your point is rather odd; I am writing about my experiences while in the Scottish National Party, are you saying I shouldn't tell the truth?
Lets get to the nub of your complain:
"It is said that the modern SNP was trained up by a former Sturgeon crony named Allison Hunter who was previously a Glasgow SNP Councillor for the Govan Ward. I found that Ms. Hunter underneath the false exterior of 'Auntie Allison' was a deeply ignorant and thoroughly nasty little woman.
I remember on one occasion being abandoned in the street after an SNP event as her, the SNP MP Chris Stephens and the organiser Richard Bache all jumped into her car and sped off down the road I had to walk back. Richard Bache was a friend of William Begg, the limbs in the Loch killer. Homosexual Begg's prison hobby is taking the State to Court on any matter."
I assume you object to these paragraphs because they are true, why should the truth about people upset you, either it is true or it is false.
If this was false, then I would agree that it would be nasty, however, given it is true, you wish me to either not write about it, or even worse in my opinion, lie.
Would being a liar make me a better person?
"Go and do something useful instead of sitting in libraries writing all this hate no wonder you are ill. For a man who brags about how educated you are this is just the pits".
Firstly, who said this was written in the Library, I wrote that post actually at home. Secondly, why do you feel making assumptions should be considered as fact? Thirdly, while awake in my university classes, I did manage to learn something, and I haven't bragged as you called it about my education. I have stated in my youth, I taught at Glasgow University, also I was the top of my class when I took fitness qualifications. I even taught half of my class how to pass the practical exams.
I did this for free, not because I had to but because I was asked by them. Their teaching and technical knowledge left a lot to be desired but I managed to get them to test standard. I also got a Vet Nurse into Anniesland College on a fitness course, it turned out one of the assessors did weight training, when she mentioned she trained in the gym, he thought it was a good idea to grill her. My trainees were the elite of the Glasgow University gym, taught to teach as well as train, she passed and was offered a place before she left the room.
In my written papers, my exam marks were 92% and 95%. People that I taught as students represented Britain, Scotland and also went to the Olympics Games, one person a rower was at both Atlanta and Sydney.
I can understand if my past successes upsets you, but I don't go bragging about it, it was something I did in my past which helped many people.
In the SNP, the leadership or cult members think they are so smart and every one else is an idiot, but that isn't the case.
As to doing something useful, I am doing something useful, I am using the Library as an educational resource; check out my latest projects.
Finally, you would have objected to this paragraph as well:
"Although I didn't protest about such ill treatment by Hunter, I did at the time think I had been put in with a group of ignorant pigs. On another occasion Ms. Hunter at a Glasgow election count thought it was acceptable to belittle me by swearing and shouting abuse at me in front of a group of people. Since, I had given my word not to cause trouble at the counts, to Bache, I didn't respond but it reinforced my opinion that I shouldn't have been active in the Pollok Branch of the SNP".
Here is the official version of how wonderful Ms. Hunter was:
I don't retract a word I say.
Yours sincerely
George LairdThe Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

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The Tuna Pole General Published Reasons document suffers from the same fatal legal flaws as the KZN Prawl Trawl GPR, including the lack of any rational connection between the decisions taken and the attainment of any policy objectives. Once again, the GPR fails to explain to what extent any of the stated policy objectives have been met, including the levels of black empowerment in the fishery post the allocation of these rights.
However, there are a number of additional concerns with the tuna pole GPR. These include the following:
1. Some 107 long term right holders appear to have been arbitrarily denied a second set of long term fishing rights. Once again, applicants are simply listed with no scores attached to their names and no scoring and weighting attaching to criteria are made available in the GPR.
2. The delegated authority states that the applications of 20 co-operatives have been reserved pending adoption of the Second MLRA Amendment Bill which seeks to, inter alia, permit co-operatives to hold fishing rights. This decision to reserve fishing rights for co-operatives is unlawful and immediately reviewable. Section 18(4) states that "only South African persons shall acquire or hold rights in terms of this section". The fact that the various fishing sector policies and applications made provision for co-operatives to acquire fishing rights before the MLRA had been amended, renders any decision to even consider an application by a co-operative for a fishing right under section 18 unlawful. An application by a co-operative ought to have been immediately excluded in terms of section 18, read with section 1, of the MLRA.
3. It is apparent (more so with the Tuna decisions) that new entrant applicants and right holder applicants were evaluated against the same criteria and that they were even ranked and compared against each other! This of course would be entirely unlawful and contrary to the evaluation processes adopted for the medium and long term rights allocation processes. The legal rationality of streaming applicants into "new applicants" and "right holder" categories was unanimously recognised by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2005 Scenematic Fourteen judgement.
As with the KZN Prawn Trawl GPR, the decision to allocate fishing rights for a 7 year period is irrational and unsupported by any legitimate, rational or lawful consideration. The decision to allocate fishing rights for a reduced period without any rational justification is in itself reviewable.
Finally, I must emphasise that because the decisions in all of the 8 fishing sectors have been taken by the acting DDG, Desmond Stevens, the entire decision-making process is susceptible to a successful judicial challenge on this ground alone. The reason for this view is quite simply that Mr Stevens lacks the very elementary and minimum qualifications as set by the Department of Public Service & Administration itself for the post of Deputy Director-General of the Fisheries Branch and as such cannot reasonably be expected to take lawful and informed decisions pertaining to the management of fisheries. One need only consider the recent findings of the Public Protector in her report titled "Docked Vessels" concerning the constitution of the bid evaluation committee that was charged with evaluating a complex vessel management tender and where none of the officials on the bid committee were remotely qualified to consider and evaluate the various tenders submitted. There are of course a number of recent judicial decisions to support this view.


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Mountain biking is said to be one of the most popular and effective forms of cardio when you are looking to burn fat, and it's true! But when biking, you should not only be focusing on the right bike for your needs but also the best mountain biking shorts as well. After all, you wouldn't want to feel uncomfortable while riding around the trail in tight clothes or ones that can't help your lower body breathe! With the many brands out there, it's difficult to find the best MTB shorts that will help you and your body perform well as you ride.
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With our latest feature op-ed, ('How to Weaken Kim's Grip') I've got DPRK on the mind. And adding spice to the popular topic–of Kim Jong-Il's supposed declining health–is news of a couple of quickly rising players in the regime succession game: Kim's little sis, 64-year old Kim Kyong-Hui along with her husband Jang Song-Thaek, and Jong-Un, the leader's mysterious youngest son.
But most interesting for me in the AFP's report is the closing quote on Jong-Un, (apparently 'a chip off the old block'), made by a certain Kenji Fujimoto, identified as a former personal chef to Kim Jong-Il.
Because in The Atlantic last year there was an excellent piece covering Fujimoto and his 2003 book, I Was Kim Jong-il's Cook. According to it, the North Korean dictator has a mighty fine palate, is obsessive on the aesthetics of rice and is a fan of some specific food items–including Iranian caviar, Malaysian mangos and Czechoslovakian beer. Furthermore, the 'Dear Leader' apparently has a particular affinity for pizza and hamburgers.
Considering the health hazards linked to Kim's latter fixations, I wonder whether his declining health might have something to do with a high cholesterol count…


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Bernie is a book for all ages. It has become very popular in India and the SAARC countries bordering India. Finally, the novel has become available throughout the United States through First Books. Lost and abandoned dogs on a vacation island off the coast of Maine, discover the meanings and answers to life through Wolf, an aged Saint Bernard. He shares his knowledge and philosophies with Bernie, a young black Labrador retriever, and other canines. Wolf acquires his scholarly brilliance from listening for all of his 18 years, to his master, an English college professor reading from the classics, the Bible, history and other valuable works. Bernie proves to be a motivated student who applies and matures under the tutelage of his Saint Bernard mentor. The lessons Bernie acquired are eventually applied in dealing with lifes predicaments. As in life, youth must be served and Bernie replaces Wolf as the able leader of their pack which also includes a female poodle, Alyce, and Springer Spaniel, Marion. Together the pack survive on the isolated island until they are finally rescued. All readers will profit from the lessons learned from these canines..


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The raised hat shaped clasp and frame shuts tightly and squarely together.
The inside black suede lining is clean with two leather edged open pockets.
The handle is leather is snake skin on the outer side and leather on the inside and is in good condition.
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In Happier Times
I used to go to NYC a lot. The City makes me happy all the time I am there. My heart just pounds to the beat of the subways underground as I walk on the grates that cover them. All the time I am there, I admire the architecture: a window, gargoyle, duck pond, or just a doorway. I think the architecture, from the largest building, to the tiniest flourishes, keeps visual time for the rest of the world, since it serves as backdrop for so much of the popular culture. So many of the shows seen on television and the movies are set in NYC. Why does my heart pound in the city? Why are the tourists so amazed by it? By its beauty of course, but also because the city itself is a star. It is the star of stage and screen, and we all know it from the shows.
While I was doing my dissertation, Margie took me all over the city, made sure I got all the right pictures to capture "New York City-ness" to write about. This picture above was the quintessential Seinfeld place, the diner exterior shot. (I was writing about the sense of place in Seinfeld.) These windows are recognizable by hundreds of millions of people internationally. What better windows to use to enter the Weekly Blog Photo Challenge (a good way to start the first week of a blog, n'est-ce pas?).
Margie and I talked about my moving to New York, where she lives. It seemed like such a no-brainer. Why not move to a place that makes you so happy?
When walking became so difficult and my fatigue became overwhelming, it was hard to explain, but even to travel to New York for an overnight visit began to look more like Mt. Everest or Kilimanjaro, beautiful to admire from a distance, but absurd to climb. I am not giving up on it, though.
Greg (my brother) and I were looking at mobility scooters last night by email. He suggests I get a megaphone so that I can yell at people to get the hell out of my way. I'm starting not to think this is such a bad idea. Sharan suggests that I get two so that I could have a motorcade. Even better! I can picture myself in some sort of diva wear with a Swarovski crystal encrusted scooter, with those little handlebars with streamers. Perhaps a boa (although I'm not fond of the feathers). A mental picture has formed, I hope, one that develops an image of pure fabulousness, like none you have ever known on a scooter. That's what I will do. A window from my rigor against doing this, to the crystal encrusted fabulousness. We can have all kinds of windows.
New York, at least a visit, could be in my future.
Well, hell, at least a long walk around a museum could be. Do you have any idea how much fun that sounds like?
372 days…tick..tick…tick…. (It is still, always hard to overlook that).


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What Does it Take to Bring a City Back from the Brink?
What does it really take to bring a depopulating city back from the brink? Scott Ford has some ideas.
In early 2011, still near the bottom of the Great Recession, Newsweek published a listicle of America's Top 10 "Dying Cities." Near the top of the list was South Bend, Indiana—famous as the home of the University of Notre Dame, but also an infamously troubled place.
When the Studebaker car company closed in 1963, the northern Indiana city's economy fell off a cliff. 40% of the entire city's payroll disappeared overnight, and the next few decades were a story of what Scott Ford calls "post-traumatic decline." South Bend lost 30,000 residents, as many of those who stayed put in the region moved to the suburbs.
This past decade, though, Ford—who was South Bend's Director of Community Investment before accepting a position last year as Associate VP of Economic Development with the University of Notre Dame—has been one of the key players in a remarkable turnaround effort for South Bend. This effort is still very much a work in progress, but is bearing major fruit. Today, South Bend's blighted neighborhoods are more stable, vacant homes have been rehabilitated, and its downtown is attracting new businesses, including startups seeded at Notre Dame whose founders, for a change, are opting to stay put.
South Bend's story has received some national press of late thanks to the presidential campaign of its young mayor, Pete Buttigieg. But one person, no matter how talented, doesn't steer a firing-on-all-front revitalization effort alone. For the latest episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Strong Towns president and founder Charles Marohn sat down with Ford to talk about South Bend's experience and lessons for other local governments. Among them:
Break down silos. Ford describes how South Bend merged its economic development and community development departments—in a lot of cities, those tasked with working mainly with businesses and those working with neighborhoods don't communicate well or form a united front.
Recognize the importance of the public realm. South Bend's downtown had been damaged in the post-WWII era by the conversion of streets to one-way couplets, a Cold War planning practice designed to move traffic quickly in the event of an evacuation. (Ford grimly jokes that "These have been evacuating cities ever since.") To help reverse South Bend's stroad mentality and restore two-way downtown streets that would be walkable, pleasant places to be, a team of planners and engineers executed a Complete Streets program that ended up transforming over 15 miles of street.
Cultivate allies early. The fire department is the bane of many a safe-streets advocate's existence, but in South Bend, Ford says, "We got the firefighters on board" early. Time trials with ambulances on streets that would be converted to 2-way demonstrated the time savings and improved safety. The city also saved its fire department $3 million by reallocating vehicles after a study found that 96% of calls handled by a fire truck could have been handled by an SUV.
Get results early to demonstrate what's possible. Redevelopment in a blighted, depopulated city faces a Catch-22: lenders are hesitant to finance construction without a successful, comparable project nearby to point to—but no such project exists if no developer can get financing. To clear this obstacle, the city brought in respected market research firm Zimmerman Volk to demonstrate the demand for downtown housing in South Bend. And outside downtown, Notre Dame itself guaranteed loans for new houses in a neighborhood near campus, at a time when private banks would not. Some of these houses are now worth as much as $700,000.
Do the math on every project. Ford stresses the importance of making the case for the fiscal return-on-investment of the city's efforts, from addressing vacant homes to redesigning streets. It's not about "leading by tabulation," he says, but "being able to ground those projects in fiscal merits, not just aesthetic ones, was really important to being able to gain the trust of the elected officials and the population."
Seek out opportunities to innovate. South Bend, equipped with a Code for America grant, brought in a team of 7 fellows to work as an in-house consulting service to organizations in the South Bend region. They helped find efficiencies in local government, such as writing a route optimization algorithm for solid waste collection. And they helped South Bend turn into a place where innovators feel welcome. Increasing, startups that emerge from Notre Dame stay put, instead of their founders moving to bigger cities.
Want to hear a lot more from Scott Ford about South Bend's efforts to steer a better course? Check out his conversation with Chuck Marohn on this week's Strong Towns Podcast.
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Ok just a warning it takes a bit to get to the sex as this is mostly the setup. tell me what you think. Addicted Part 1 I cackled with joy as I got home and dumped the paper sack onto my bed.
"this is the best idea ever" I said to me self as I spread my new purchases out on my bed. Hundreds of nicotine patches, dozens of bottles of liquid nicotine that is applied orally and wont soak through the skin, its designed to replace smoking with nail biting but I had a better plan for it. I picked up and examined a small pouch that held a few ounces of a super concentrated nicotine/Prozac solution it is as illegal as it is addictive.
Why did I buy all of these highly addictive chemicals? Samantha, the girl I have been after for years just broke up with her boyfriend and she is coming to my house to spend the night until she finds her own place.
To be clear I do not want to be her little boyfriend and date her and all that sweet bullshit. I want to OWN her, I want her to be my bitch, to do what I say, and never ask why. What that has to do with this dangerous paper sack will be clear soon, I locked it in the bottom drawer of my night stand and got ready for tonight.
I cleaned the house some and set some wine in the fridge, thawed some ice cream so it would be soft when the inevitable "cry over ice cream" part of this shit came to be, I set out chick flicks and blankets for her.after all I am Jack, the perfect friend who would never ever hurt poor Sam in her time of need.as far as she knows. Sam is a girl I have known for 7 years, we met when we were 15 and been friends ever since. She has always been something of a goth, she has always been pale and had a nice little ass.
Ever scene she was 15 she has had it, nice a round, tight but small. It's the exact kind of ass I enjoy, she grew tits late, not until she was 17 and even then they were small, even now at 22 she still has a b cup.
Ive always been a friend to Sam never trying to make a move on her always just being there for her. Now that does not mean I never wanted to or never got my kicks. When I was 15 I used a camera hidden in my bathroom to take 10 pictures of her showering. When I was 17 I offered to tune up her computer and installed a worm that let me take over her webcam any time I wanted and broadcast it to my computer with no way for her to tell.
Before I up graded a few years ago I had at lease 6 hours of her masturbating recording.
I got to watch her bloom into a woman this way. She is still skinny, still has a nice little ass, and still has those tiny tits.
And soon she will be mine. At about 5pm Sam (I like calling her by her nickname, even though she hates it) showed up at the door a mess, eyes running with too much makeup worn runny by tears and wearing a shitty looking T shirt sweat pants. Just disgusting, a woman like that should dress her best at all times.
Ill save you the dreary and long period of grief of her douchey "bro" of a boyfriend dumping her. At about 10pm the wine had the best of her (I gave her damn near all of the bottle) and passed out in the guest room.
I gave her an hour before making my move, I crept into the room nicotine patch in hand and applied it to the inside of her left thigh.
I woke up at 5 am with an alarm and snuck in to take it off. The around 9 when she woke up I asked how she felt. She told me "Just fucking amazing Jack thanks for last night, I dont know why but I just feel so.good!" I smiled to my self upon hearing this.
It worked, she got a buzz from the patch! Now to hope she got nice and addicted, "Samantha" I asked "would you like me to make you some pancakes while you shower?" she stretched and nodded "pancakes sounds great" and headed to the shower. I went back to my room and grabbed a small pinch of the nicotine/Prozac combo that's so incredibly addictive.
I sprinkled it into just her pancakes, which I made up with a whipped creme smile with cherries because after all I am the most perfect friend ever. She ate them up, every bite she moaned and ate with a small orgasmic pleasure while I smiled and watched my magic at work. "ohmigod Jack how did you make these!" I was pleased that she enjoyed my chemical concoction as much as she did but her speech would have to be something we would fix.
I put on my best smile and told her sweetly "that is my own special recipe Samantha, just eat and enjoy". She left shortly after that to spend the day with her mom who had offered to take her in for a few weeks while she recovered.
I nodded and told her good bye and how she could stay anytime and hoped she found someone new, it was some grade A convincing bullshit if I do say so myself. As you have probably guessed fine reader I am not "normal" and you are right. I am a sociopath, I feel no empathy for others and feel no wrong for my actions. I should be on medication to fix it but I would rather just fake it and enjoy a life of freedom. It allows me to do shit like what I am pulling with Sam that no human who feels guilt could.
What is going to happen dear reader is that when she wakes up tomorrow morning she will go through withdraw, she does not smoke and does not know about the patches I slipped on her in her sleep.
When she wakes up tomorrow she will feel like shit and not know why, she will spend the day miserable and asking "Why? Why am I feeling so fucked up?" she will feel cold, she will get the shakes, she will cry. Then she will think "its Jack.Jack made me feel so good, with out Jack I feel like shit" she will ask to come over and I will keep dosing her until she is my slave, My name is Jack and I am evil. Late the next day I was sitting in my living room drinking coffee and reading a collection of Poe short stories when sure enough I heard a knock on the door.
I opened it and there was Sam standing there tears in her eyes and duffel bag in hand "Jack I feel awful, I left here feeling great but now.can I stay here, Please?" she looked down and rubbed her arm when she said please, she was already turning submissive for me. "of course you can, stay as long as you like" I took her bag to the guest room and made use home made pizza. Once again during her sleep I put on the patch and took it off before she woke up. I kept this up all next week (she moved in the rest of her shit on Wednesday) until Friday when I did not give her the patch in her sleep.
She woke up the next morning early for her around 8 and gave me a big hug "i didn't sleep well last night Jack, could I take a nap with you?.in your bed?" once again she looked away. I smiled, this was it, she has officially become addicted to me she now feels she cant even sleep without me.
"of course Sam here sleep right next to me" she closed her eyes and relaxed, she fell into a light sleep quickly and I slipped a high dosage patch onto her arm.
The reaction was near instant, within 45 seconds she relaxed and shortly after she fell into a much deeper sleep. I took this time to drip some of the oral solution into her mouth.
It's a far too concentrated solution for this to be safe to do often but I don't care,i slip off her patch a hour later and she woke up around 11 am. I had slipped under her and placed her arms around me like she had done it. When she woke up she had the biggest smile on her face, just like a junkie who got her fix. She looked at me and kissed me, I kissed her back and cuddled with her.
Perfect, she was now mine. "Sam I need you to clean while im gone shopping today" this statement was the test, I called her by her nickname that she hates and told her to clean which she hates more. She looked offend for a second before she thought about it and nodded "yes Jack, anything else?" ha! It worked like a charm! She was now my bitch and there was nothing she could do about it!
"no Sam nothing else for now" I left for the store and when I came back 3 hours later the house was spotless, all of my laundry was clean and folded, the dishes were done and the carpet was vacuumed, Sam was cleaning my shower when I got home, it was the only thing left in my entire apartment. I gave her time as I put up the food I bought before calling her into the room "Sam, come here". She rushed into the room and stood before me "yes Jack?" she sounded eager and nervous "you did good, you may relax now" her shoulders visibly sagged "thank you Jack, may I shower?" she looked hopeful and I allowed it.
While she showed I cooked our dinner and once again I laced her food with me nicotine/prozac powder. I gave her a much heavier dose this time. She wolfed it down again, and seconds after finishing her meal she was all over me "Jack can we.can we have.sex? Please?" she was practically begging for it and whispering in my ear, convinced 100% that it was me that she was so addicted to and not a chemical cocktail I had slipped into her blood.
I took her into my room and ordered her to strip, she was at first offended then I gave her a stern look and she quickly striped nude and sat on the edge of my bed, arms crossed looking down. She was the picture of submission.
"bend over Sam, now" she quickly stood up and bent over at the waist away from me, exposing her per little pale ass. I grabbed her sides and shoved her face into the bed as I rammed into her in one movement, no foreplay, no checking if my bitch was ready, just pure fucking my bitch. Her hot cunt enveloped me as she moaned "Please Jack be gentle" I grabbed her tits and twisted them nice and hard.
"WHAT the FUCK did you just say? Did you just ask me how to fuck you after YOU came and BEGGED me to fuck you like a whore?!" she was crying at this point, not sobbing just tears "N-no Jack, i-Im sorry I will never do it again. i-ill be a good girl I s-s-swear" I gave her a good spank before I kept fucking her "that's what I thought" I rammed her harder and harder.
I pushed her onto the bed, her knees tucked up to her chest her ass still hanging in the air. I kept fucking her like a good little submissive whore. I gripped her by her hips and pulled her back into my as I pushed in.
Every time I forced my self deeper into that tight little cunt I pulled her back into me. Her tight fuckhole wrapped around me stretching to try to accommodate me. I could tell my new bitch had never been fucked quite like this, she gasped in surprise every time I shifted position slightly and moaned every time I my cock reached deep into her nearly reaching her womb from her first hard submissive fuck.
I gasped with sweat rolling off my face as I kept my pace up. God this whore hadn't been fucked in months, her cunt was tight and only getting tighter as she got closer and closer. She arched her back and pushed into me while gasping "oh oh o-o-o-oh!" she was close, I could feel her cunt twitching and pulsing around my cock more and more quickly and losing all rhythm of its pulses. "i l=l=loooove you Jaccccck!" she cried out as she came onto my cock, I could feel her hot wet juices squirt onto me as I pushed deeper into her and felt my balls tense up.
I pushed her deeper into the bed as I came into her, shooting my hot load into her as deep as I could. "TAKE IT WHORE!!!" there was a pause as she was offended, I gave her ass a hard spank to remind her who she was addicted to.
She shamefully mumbled "im your.cum whore" before falling forward into bed cum oozing out of her cunt. I reached into my night stand and slapped my biggest dosage patch onto her right ass cheek before falling into bed next to my whore. END OF PART ONE Thats it for now, i would like to get feedback to this before i get too much into Part 2.
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Bob Conspiracy: Master Shitterson March 4, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Today's comic is based on an actual email (almost word for word) that I received from Bob on Wednesday night.
Also the term "Kentucky Shitters" is what we call it when you walk into a restroom and it smells as if a truck driver held his shit all the way from Kentucky before pulling into your neighborhood to drop off a load. It can be a lethal experience if you're not careful.
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Arrived the wished-for day; through cloudless sky
the coursers of the Sun's bright-beaming car
bore upward the ninth morn. The neighboring folk
thronged eager to the shore; some hoped to see
Aeneas and his warriors, others fain
would their own prowess prove in bout and game.
Conspicuous lie the rewards, ranged in sight
in the mid-circus; wreaths of laurel green,
the honored tripod, coronals of palm
for conquerors' brows, accoutrements of war,
rare robes of purple stain, and generous weight
of silver and of gold. The trumpet's call
proclaimed from lofty mound the opening games.
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Continuing on from the previous (Part 1) a few more observations for visitors to this great country. These aren't unique to Italy, however; I've seen a lot of it here. The over abundance of high pressure tat sales people on the streets. This isn't designed to offend or stereotype people, but the reality is that most of these people are from Africa. They will generally be pretty easy to spot on the street as they tend to dress is what I think must be some kind of traditional clothing but it's loud and at times quite garish.
When we travel we tend to want to find and experience only the positives of a place and for the most part that's generally what happens, however; along with the good always comes the .. not so good. This post and the one or maybe 2 that follow aren't so much as to cast a bad light upon this amazing country but rather to help visitors know of differences here to where they likely come from. Some of these will be procedural differences in how things are done, some will be down to cultural differences here in Italy. I'm only writing based my experiences between Italy (so far as I've experienced it) and place I've lived.
So, lets see what knowledge I can impart on you wouldbe travellers to Italy! I've only been living here for 2 1/2 months as of this post, I'm far from an expert on all things Italian .. especially when it comes to parlando Italiano.


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Day 10: #30DaysOfGratitude
Sabrina Kapp
Friday, November 10, 2017
Success in any business depends on teamwork, cooperation, and support for one another. Thankfully, that spirit is alive and well in our schools. Whether celebrating significant accomplishments or standing by one another during life's challenges, our students benefit from a staff that truly cares about one another.


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Saturday, July 14, 2001 -- Kanawha State Forest, WV
Rattlesnake Trail 50K Ultrarun (iPO Event Id#: 2702)
Story and results provided by Mickey J. Jones
[Overall Results]
Also see coverage from the: 1998, 1999, and 2000 Rattlesnake Trail Ultras.
The RTR 50k is a single loop course consisting mostly of single and double track trails in rural West Virginia and has very little paved or gravel sections. The course has almost 5000 feet of climb in nine different uphill sections. As anyone running the race can attest the aid stations are amply stocked with a variety of items. Once, a runner told me that he dreaded our aid stations and I asked why, his reply was that he knew if he was at an aid station that he would have to climb again after leaving it. The course can be technically demanding in the later portion of the race with some steep and narrow rock sections.
There were a lot of problems in the area this year prior to the race with flooding and high water. Fortunately none of our trails or Kanawha State Forest was affected. There were areas within a short distance away in Boone and Raleigh Counties that were devastated by flooding and declared disaster areas.
The 2001 Race Champion is Evan Sandt (PA, 4:04:45) who essentially led the race from the early going. He ran a strong, evenly paced race. He was challenged early by the Male Runner-up, Sid Gillispie (WV, 4:10:34) running in his first ultra trail race. The 2001 Female Champion was Anne Riddle (NC, 4:31:54), she is also the past female course record holder and she was closely challenged through most of the race by the eventual Female Runner-up Floren Ansley (GA, 4:37:12).
The Male Master's Champion was taken by Doug Hansel (OH, 4:24:37). Larry Miller (VA, 4:29:48) who was being pushed from behind by Greg Sousa (GA, 4:31:34) then took the Third Place Male finisher. Female Masters Champion was Robin Cannon (WV, 4:41:59), she was also really thrilled when she actually got to see the namesake of the race, a four foot rattlesnake in Dunlap Hollow. It didn't need to be moved out of the trail for runners to proceed. During the 1999 race, there were two men runners stopped in the middle of White Hollow Trail due to a rattlesnake laying there. This is on the last section of the race, when the eventual female winner in that race, Joni Adams (WV, 5:19:25) stopped, got a stick and put the snake over the hill and continued on her way. I'm not sure how the guys tell this story in other circles, but I'm sure the snake has reached anaconda size proportions by now. The Third Place Female award was taken by Sally Brooking (GA, 4:48:01) who edged out Karen Shiley (PA, 4:48:12) in a good finish.
Special thanks need to be given to Greg Helbig (WV, 5:43:23) for providing the sponsorship assistance that enabled us to provide pre and post race food at the same level we have in past years. We lost some corporate sponsorship connections that we had in the past. Greg is also working toward having a series of trail races in West Virginia. This year's finisher award was a brass medal on a marble base. Touch of Glass in Hurricane, WV made the overall and finishing awards and Randy Mooney of Ron's Sporting Goods from Peytona, WV printed the shirts.
Some usual blood & gut awards were handed out at the finish since it was obvious that a couple of individuals became very intimate with the natural surface of dirt and rocks. Larry Miller and Floren Ansley were awarded engraved sandstone rocks. At the time, it was not realized that the overall winner of that award would be determined later.
Once again, good friend and fellow runner, Bill Gentry (VA, 5:25:42), became directionally challenged and got lost on Middle Ridge. This was at the same place he was lost the last time he ran the race and discovered when he got into a spider web across the trail that he probably missed the turn. This year, he ran on out to the point that the trail went two different unmarked directions. He was quoted as saying that he thought you went right, and once again he took someone with him on his extended journey. We have lobbied some connections with the Department of Highways to get a big orange turn sign for Log Town Trail next year. It was good the trio of Rob Apple (TN), Wes Fenton (OH) and Art Moore (OH) strolled across the line in 7:16:28 in excellent spirits.
One of our regulars, Ron Hart (OH, 4:46:51) came off the first hill that goes down Rattlesnake, vividly saying something about killer bees swarming up the hill. Since we know Ron really well, we had to be convinced. It seems that a hornet's nest had fallen onto the road and several people were stung in the process of running through the area. It was probably not a good time to remember the statistics that more people die from bee stings than do from snake bites each year. One runner that was stung, Marty Toth (PA, 6:25:23), was allergic to bee stings but got though the ordeal. Rick Freeman (PA, 4:55:28) another of our Pittsburgh connection confirmed our worries about the bees, and we would also like to thank Rick for his post race help in the finish area. It was good to see a growing group of people participating in this event like the Lancaster Ohio area runners. Last year, flu symptoms and other minor issues kept Angie Buckley (OH, 5:25:58) from running the race, but this year her husband, Mike, brought those symptoms with them in the form of their few month old baby. Our congratulations on the new addition to their family.
Each year we give two awards to runners in memory of two local runners who were inspirational in their spirit and support of this race, ultrarunning and as friends. They both succumbed to the effects of cancer too early in life. They are some of the reasons I wrote what I did, and had it printed on the back of the race shirts. Both Dennis and myself have a hard time presenting these awards without getting visibly choked up. The Rosemary Platt Memorial Award was presented to Marlene Moore (WV, 6:39:08), who was also a good friend and runner with Rosemary. The Dave Berry Memorial Award was presented to John Sheets (WV, 6:15:38). John has helped this race with personal sponsorship every year and he is only able to run once per week on Sunday mornings, our typical training time at Kanawha State Forest. We have listened to him ramble and instigate for years. If you have run with him, at this race or other venues, you can attest that he is full of something, but that big something is also called friendship and compassion.
One of the local long time ultrarunners, John Porter (WV, 5:49:05), has been bringing a larger contingent of runners from local high schools and colleges to train on part of the course over the past few years. This year a number of them decided to run the entire length with respectable finishes: Josh Sheets (5:49:03), Dylan Drinkard (5:49:03), Michael Smutko (5:53:38), Mike Dolan (5:53:39) and Jordan Workman. It looks like being race director also means that we need to be versatile since one of the runners from the Beckley, WV crew; Milton Webb (WV, 5:48:00) locked his keys inside his vehicle in the campground. He was ready to break the window to get his running stuff when we used some of our Boone County intuition and tools to get in the vehicle.
This year's Oldest Finisher Award goes to seventy-one year old Dick Cozart (FL, 7:48:05) who was originally from WV and finally gets a chance to run a race near his home. We appreciate that his brother was a big help with some other runners this year. This year's Anchor Runner was finisher was Beth Terry (GA, 9:59:54) who finished just under the official cut-off time especially after taking an adventurous route.
As the Race Director, it was my decision not to let a runner continue after he fell and cut his head very deep. He had considerable blood loss, symptoms of shock, possibly dehydrated due to loss of fluids in the hot afternoon and was not demonstrating a clear level of cognizant reasoning. We could not allow him back on the trail because of his injury and the lack of any direct contact with race support personnel should he became lost or injured again. He was being assisted at the last aid station and only had three more miles to travel, but that section has both a steep climb and downhill that is not easily accessible. He was very, very distraught by being pulled from the race since he has finished over a hundred races and this would have been his first DNF. This runner called me and reported his finishing time for the last section of the race and the time for his first section after he went to the hospital and was sutured. He indicated that he just had to finish. I admire his dedication and courage, but have to question his sense of reasoning after having such a serious injury. It would be unfair to the other finishers to just add his two times together. But, I can only trust his conviction that he returned to the course to finish and indicate that the last finisher did so in a total elapsed time of 14:15:00.
In the distant past, I have been against some intermediate cut-off times, but in the last few years we have had to implement some cut-off times. These have been for the finish, halfway and probably at the last aid station in the future. Before you criticize that decision, think of the difficulty in recruiting volunteers that don't understand running 50k and who are spending an entire day helping you do something you like to do. Also, we have seen a growing number of people entering these events that realize the difficulty involved. I try to just remind people this is not a 5k and cannot be approached with the same 5k mentalities. As ultrarunners, we all think that we can push through any pain, obstacle or even against good experienced advice. This is a sport of personal challenges that has limitations that everyone will face at some point. When running in these events, you have to remember that while you are participating and enjoying the event, there are a number of volunteers, and I stress the word volunteer,` who have been on the course working hard to insure your and other participants fun, safety and continued participation.
We would like to thank John Hendley, Kanawha State Forest Superintendent, for his continued support along with the help of Dave Toler, his wife and John Boardman. They were a critical part of making sure that things went smoothly through the day and insuring that the course had been cleared of growth and major storm damage prior to the race. Also, they graciously let people utilize the pool and shower facilities after the race. It seems their generosity was tested when my youngest son, Justin, became a pain to the lifeguards concerning the diving board, which resulted in his eviction. We would like to thank the Kanawha Valley Ham Radio Operators for their continued assistance and tracking of runner locations and aid station needs. Like I have said on numerous occasions, this race would not be a success without volunteers. Those included: June and Jerry Hicks (Rattlesnake and Black Bear Aid Stations), MaryAnn Hamrick and Aaron Hamrick (Linde Trail), Paul Hamrick and Jody Pauley (Ballard Trail), Terry and Adam Tomlinson (No. 1 Store Trail), Gary Phillips (Dunlap Hollow), Forrest Allen (Polly Trail) and others whom I have failed to name or mention at the other aid stations. There was some other assistance from Josh Jones, Steve Marshall and Sandy Jones at the finish line and other areas. We also had additional individuals that were very helpful at few of the aid stations and I ask their forgiveness, since I can't remember all their names at this time.
I hate to sound like I'm throwing a lot of rocks in this article, but the subject of e-mail registration has left me in a little bit of a quandary. I like the convenience of having the information and the ease for people registering, but my problem is when some individuals do not show-up without notification, nor pays their entry fee after registering. My position is, since I have assigned one of the limited numbers of race openings to these individuals, that this registration is a contract to pay the entry fee unless cancelled in the appropriate time period.
Although the personnel from what used to be www.WVOutside.com, now known as www.IplayOutside.com, were unable to attend due to prior commitments, you can still check for results and information on the past, present and future races. Also one of their reporters and participants, Lew McGrath is recovering from a serious accident; we wish him a speedy recovery. I do not know if we will ever get the www.WVTrailrun.com web site updated with all of the information but my e-mail address is still the same at firstname.lastname@example.com. By next year's race I will put the race information and history in a format that everyone can use. I know we have been trying to do that for some time now, but I'm sure everyone knows the rigors and pressures of family life, community involvement, career growth, continuing education, and still trying to train and run to some resemblance of a schedule.
Unfortunately, this will be the last Rattlesnake Trail Run that I will serve as the Race Director. That duty now falls solely to the capable hands of Dennis Hamrick who was the co-founder and co-race director of this race with me. I will still help as much as possible and may even get to run it now. The unfortunate part is for me personally, and not the race nor the runners, since the race will be continued without my direct assistance. I have decided to relocate to the north-central portion of Florida to further my engineering and management career. It was a terrific opportunity that I couldn't refuse for my family and myself. Although I have relocated, my West Virginia and RTR 50k ties will remain strong, but also don't be surprised if there is not a new 50k planned in north-central Florida near the Live Oak - White Springs area.
Please plan to support next year's race currently scheduled for July 13th, 2002 with Dennis Hamrick as the Race Director and with the assistance of Glen Jarrell as the new Co-Race Director. Glen has helped us with the race every year, and has run the course on numerous occasions, and is a good friend and a better runner than I will ever be.
My gratitude and thanks are extended to everyone that has made the Rattlesnake Trail Run and Snowflake 50k races a success in the past and will help to insure the future of trail running. As you run on the trails and through woods just leave only footprints and especially don't antagonize any polecats.
Gotta Run,
Mickey J. Jones
Race Director


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If before I wasn't thin enough, I'm now condemned for not being 'normal', and 'normal' today is a bodacious figure, with high sex appeal, oozing femininity. Apparently.
Every news article, blog and body issue special of our favourite magazine blames an unhealthy distortion and mold of 'beauty' depicted in the very newspapers and glossy fashion mags' we consume daily. Not to mention the movies, television shows and music clip videos that 'feature' underweight women or an unrealistic portrayal of what is beautiful and normal. We see these stories, these articles that attack models for being skinny and victimise the women who fall pray to the pressure. Unfortunately most of these stories are featured opposite an advertisement or editorial containing exactly what they oppose and are rendered irrelevant anyway.
Feministic media, so opposed to an 'ideal' beauty, has created a whole new one. Most ironically, it contradicts everything these body-image-conscience women hated to begin with.
As a result of the backlash, we have created a war on thin, 'Skinny vs. Curvy' and it's not reserved to those featured on runways or covers. It's anyone. A thin girl on the street, the dieter in the office, a size 6 and size 12 in a change room. Plus size modelling is the answer according to these corporals of 'realistic' beauty. But through the language and images used, they are really just replacing one ideal with another.
And what's to happen to the girls who are naturally thin, or lead a healthy lifestyle? Well they are now segregated for being unhealthy and outside the new sexy, curvaceous 'norm'. Robyn Lawley, the Miranda Kerr equivalent in the plus-size market, was featured on the front cover of The Australian Magazine quoting,
"I'm normal size, I wish we could all be known as models, rather than plus size. It's the skinny models who should be called minus size".
While the first part of that remark makes sense, models shouldn't be segregated according to their division, she complete
Let it be known, I am in no way underestimating the seriousness of health issues influenced by the media's portrayal of 'beauty' and ideal weight. I am rather highlighting the notion that amongst the strife and fight against 'anorexic' models, a new bread of overtly sexy, curvaceous hourglass shapes now haunts the magazine pages as the new body-to-be and aura to personify.ly undermines her comment by stating skinny models should be labelled as "minus-size". There it goes. 'Us vs. them', 'skinny vs. normal'. This isn't a social revolution, this is a war.
As misogynistic as it is, it's all about 'tits and ass'. Sex appeal, bodacious curves, flirty smirks, little to no clothes and throw in a raised brow for good measure. If your overweight, apparently you're supposed to be super sexual about it. Too bad if you don't have a lovely booty, a little junk in the trunk, or some bosom on top and a cinched waist in between all that, because that's what 'plus-size' models are representing. Apparently this is what's normal? Further embedding sexual ideals, these images of supposedly 'bigger' women are accompanied with words like 'over-heated', 'hot', 'voluptuous', and 'sexy'.
Well-known plus-size model, Kate Upton, was featured in GQ Magazine recently promoting such. The slide show of photos online accompanies statements like "blonde bombshell" and "voluptuous curves" with suggestive words like "burst" and notes her "several memorable provocative videos". Upton's' pictures borderline soft porn, which I suppose could be excused for the target audience of a men's magazine. Or should it?
Perhaps such a figure, which doesn't fit designers' samples of size 6, is so alien that the only way to show it off is to strip it naked or skimp it out? Our 'skinny' ideals are being replaced by curves and increased sexuality. This is not displaying an acceptance of diversity, but a clear exchange of one version of 'perfect' with another. And other than Kate's 'chest puppies', does she even look close to 'plus' to you?
Despite her smaller frame, Kate Upton doesn't escape the skinny vs. curvy scrutiny. Pro-thin blog, Skinny Gossip, describe her as a "squishy brick" followed by, "Is this what American women are "striving" for now? The lazy, lardy look? Have we really gotten so fat in this country that Kate is the best we can aim for? Sorry, but: eww!"
A plus-size model can vary anywhere up to an Australian size 16 or 18; however, the most successful models tend to maintain a size 10 average. Crystal Renn, a 'plus-size' model from the U.S, appeared on the Today morning show in Ame
rica after she was photo-shopped to look thinner, much to her anger. Leslie Goldman, co-host of the program, wrote about their interview afterwards, addressing the fact that Crystal Renn is no way 'plus-size'.
"The main physical characteristic that jumps out and whomps you upside the head the first time you lay eyes on Crystal Renn in person: She is not big. Not in any way, shape or form. If you and your BFF, on your cattiest of catty days, were drunk, PMS-ing and had just swallowed a bottle of mean girl pills, and Renn walked by, you still wouldn't think to comment on her weight. If you ever saw her shopping in the plus-size department of a clothing store, you'd think she was picking up a gift for a friend."
One of the most interesting points in Goldman's post, was how at a size 10 herself – a size she had previously thought was thin – she felt more insecure after comparing herself to Renn, knowing that at her size she would also be considered 'plus'. It's intriguing that comparison, regardless of shape, can still result in insecurity.
The main argument against 'anorexic' models is that they don't represent the majority of women. Plus Model Magazine reported,
"Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today she weighs 23% less."
This was construed to mean models are getting thinner, when in reality people are getting bigger! The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that over half the adult population is overweight or obese, which has increased from 44 per cent in 1995. Personal trainer, Michelle Bridges, from The Biggest Loser wrote in an article regarding the 'Danish fat tax', that the promotion of a healthy population is "not about plus-size models, body image or eating disorders. It's about quality and quantity of life." She continues, "The more we get bogged down in the social acceptance of obesity the more difficult it is to make change – profound change – to our health and quality of life". Amongst the praise for body shape variety within our media, we should not let vital notions of health and well being go astray.
We are told that this is the plus-size revolution, what average-weight women have been longing for, and yet seats to plus-size fashion shows remain empty. Last year's Sydney Fashion Festival sold only 64 tickets out of 500 to its Big is Beautiful show, despite other shows during the event selling out. It is an increase however on 2009, when only 13 tickets sold to the same Big is Beautiful event. Editor of Harpers Bazaar, Edwina McCann, understood the low sales and responded, "I d
on't think the consumer is as obsessed with [plus-size] as the media is. I think the consumer is quite happy to accept the fact that a model, like an Olympic swimmer, is usually an exceptional beauty and doesn't look like the rest of us."
So, does it all just come down to selling a magazine, clothing and every other purchasable item involved? Surely not.
There has not been a change in body image, but rather a change in what is perceived as the 'ideal', which still alienates and excludes the majority of women everywhere. Instead of viewing beauty as all inclusive, we are still looking to find the 'perfect' version of us who we can look to and admire, and when we still cannot achieve their level of 'perfection', we attack and condemn it for being unreachable. Plus size models are just bigger girls photo-shopped of dimples, vains, uneven skin-tone and wrinkles. What's different? Nothing.


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"A special transmission outside the scriptures,
Not founded upon words and letters;
By pointing directly to one's mind.
It lets one see into one's own true nature and thus attain Buddhahood."
Bodhidharma, Founder of Cha'an (Zen) Buddhism and First Patriarch
Although little is known about the life of Bodhidharma, as the founder of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism his influence permeates the culture of Asia and now the West. The story of his life has been preserved in legend.
Bodhidharma was invited to visit the Emperor Wu of Liang, who was a great patron of Buddhism.
The Emperor had built many monasteries, and he asked Bodhidharma what merit his generosity had earned. "No merit," said Bodhidharma. Startled, the Emperor asked Bodhidharma the supreme truth of the Dharma. "Vast emptiness; nothing holy," replied Bodhidharma. Finally, the Emperor asked, "Who are you?" "I know not," said Bodhidharma.
Bodhidharma traveled north to the Shaolin Temple. For nine years he sat in meditation in a cave near the temple. According to legend, at one point he was frustrated by his own drowsiness and so ripped off his eyelids.
Hui-k'o, who would be the Second Patriarch of Ch'an, stood in the snow outside the cave. To show Bodhidharma his sincerity to learn the Dharma, Hui-k'o cut off his arm and said, "Your disciple's mind has no peace as yet. Master, please, put it to rest." Bodhidharma said, "Bring me your mind, and I will put it to rest." Hui-k'o said, "I have searched for my mind, but I cannot find it." Bodhidharma said, "I have completely put it to rest for you."


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Billboard recently caught up with Mr. Porter (a/k/a Denaun Porter) to discuss his contributions to Eminem and Royce Da 5'9″'s acclaimed collaborative EP Hell: The Sequel. During the interview, Porter revealed that Bad Meets Evil's reunion EP isn't the only Shady/Aftermath project to which he's contributed beats. The Detroit producer revealed that he has two tracks featured on Dr. Dre's long awaited Detox. Porter discussed what it was like to produce for such a HIp Hop icon and why he's willing to wait for as long as it takes to hear Dre's third solo LP.
"[My two songs are] really different," he explained. "I didn't want to do what everybody else was doing and…send him a weed-smoking song. Dre's like a big brother to me, so I know what to approach him with, and the songs we did for him are totally different."
Porter added, "I don't care when it comes out, really. It doesn't matter to me if it ever comes out. I understand the pressure he's got on him, everybody asking for it. He's just real particular about songs. If it comes, it comes. If it doesn't, it doesn't. He can do whatever he wants."
Denaun Porter also discussed what it was like to work with the newly reunited Em and Royce. He said that it was very satisfying to see the two emcees to reconnect on such a project. He even added that he was stunned by how Eminem was able to jump back in to the violent, drug-addled mind of is alter ego Slim Shady without compromising his sobriety.
"I believe for those two guys it was a lot of, 'Man, I wish we could've done this a long time ago. I wish this would've happened back then,'" he noted. "For them I felt like it was a really gratifying experience…I had this feeling that Em would be right on it, but we were thinking about how Em could talk about being on drugs and everything being that he wasn't in that place anymore. But it turned out crazy. He wound up jumping right back into that character, and that showed how clear-minded he is, to be able to remember what to say and how to say it when it came to that concept."
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The relation between field size and decrease in critical rate (CFF) of a flickering field stereoscopically superimposed on a contralateral steady image is reported. Two designs were used. In one, luminances spanning a 6-log-unit range were variously combined in fields which were both 1.5°, 3°, or 9° or in which the flickering field was the smaller image. The other design utilized the same luminance combinations but the flickering image was 6° and the adapting field was varied from 9° to 1.5°. Results indicate that if both fields are initially 1.5° then increasing the size of both fields or of just the adapting field does not further decrease CFF. But if the size of the flickering field is increased to 6°, CFF of the 1.5° central portion of the flicker field which appears superimposed on the 1.5° adapting field is markedly reduced, while the flickering annulus shows the threshold reduction expected with equal-sized 6° fields. The center of a fairly bright 6° flicker field viewed with an adapting field 4.5° or less and flashing at low frequencies appears steady. Several interpretations of the results (macular dominance, corresponding points, monocular cross-regional interaction) are discussed.
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ELLSWORTH — At its monthly meeting on March 7, the Ellsworth Planning Board approved an $8-million renovation and development project presented by Woodlawn Museum.
The decision comes two weeks after the Board of Appeals authorized the demolition of three buildings on the property. The board approved the plans under the condition that Woodlawn meet Fire Department standards for water-pressure and flow-rates.
The project was approved after several months of meetings between Woodlawn and the Historic Preservation Commission, which voted against granting the certificate of appropriateness required for the buildings to be removed. Woodlawn appealed the decision and won when the Board of Appeals voted on Feb. 26 to retroactively approve the certificate.
The Planning Board heard public comment during the March 7 meeting, at which point resident Penelope Houghton spoke about concerns she had regarding communication with the organization over the years.
"My overarching concern is what kind of neighborly relations Woodlawn has extended," said Houghton, adding that she lives near the museum and had voiced several concerns that she felt were not all appropriately addressed.
Houghton cited fire safety, traffic, drainage and public education regarding "certain behaviors that need to be limited in a residential area. Drinking, smoking, garbage, things like that" as issues she had raised in the past. Houghton said she has seen visitors to the museum throw cigarette butts out of their car windows while driving out of the driveway.
In response to questions from the board about traffic, representatives from Woodlawn pointed to a page in the application indicating an increase of 97 vehicle trips per hour at peak times during events, and said they are working to address drainage issues that may arise.
The plans include an 8,000-square-foot visitor center capable of holding over 300 people, depending on the way the space is configured.
Woodlawn plans to use the space for events and exhibitions. The carriage barn will be removed and rebuilt with new and salvaged materials and the parking lot will be expanded. The caretaker's house at the back of the property will be demolished, and the workshop will be enlarged and turned into a space for housing the museum's collection of carriages and sleighs.
The plans also call for a pantry to be added at the back of the event center, along with a lobby, gift shop and ticket counter. There will also be a small exhibition space, staff meeting rooms and a gallery. No alterations will be made to the iconic Black House that overlooks Surry Road, and artifacts will be moved during renovations.
The board also approved final plans for four residential duplexes and 11 self-storage buildings on the site of the former NewLand Nursery on the Bangor Road. Atlantic Landscape Construction purchased the 9.5-acre site in June of 2017.


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It's unfortunate the challenge, satisfaction and just plain fun of squeezing a gun's trigger isn't more widely reported, or known. This thought occurred to me on recent days while shooting at Oakdale Gun Club in the east metro, joined there on given outings by a few score or more of other shooters, each sighting in a rifle, targeting clays with a shotgun, or otherwise plinking away, sometimes with handguns.
Anyone who does it will want to do it again.
On Wednesday, for instance, at Oakdale, I had my .270 with me, and like shooters benched on either side of me, I was profoundly interested in hitting a bull's-eye 25, 50, 100 and 220 yards out, a feat not as easy as Hollywood movies suggest. Ultimately, a steady hand and Zen-like coolness are required. Also a good gun helps. And good ammunition.
It's the latter and its relative scarcity that might surprise a lot of deer hunters in coming weeks.
Example: The other night at Cabela's in Rogers, the ammo supply in some calibers, .270 not least, resembled that of a mom-and-pop convenience store somewhere in west Texas. OK, that's a stretch. But you get the idea: Ask for a premium Federal or Winchester or Remington brand of center-fire ammunition and in response you might get the same shoulder shrug I did.
"It goes out,'' a clerk said. "As fast as it comes in.''
Of course anyone who's been awake the past year or so has heard, if only generally, about the fast clip at which guns have been selling, particularly ARs, the so-called "assault-style'' rifles.
A lot of these are chambered .223, and that ammunition has been flying off the shelves. But so have .22LR ("long rifle'') rimfire cartridges, in part, as Guns & Ammo magazine has reported, because this ammunition is relatively cheap. Also, more ARs chambered .22LR have come on the market in recent years, and target shooters can push a lot of ammunition through these babies fairly cheaply, and minus the recoil and noise that accompany capping bigger cartridges.
OK, but why are Twin Cities retailers having trouble keeping "deer cartridge'' supplies intact — with firearms whitetail seasons still a few weeks away?
Joe's Sporting Goods in St. Paul, for example, limits customers to two boxes of rifle ammunition per customer, a practice some other retailers also follow.
That said, some loads aren't available at all. Looking for a particular .270 cartridge the other day, for example, I called two Gander Mountain stores (Woodbury and Rogers), Fleet Farm in Oakdale and Hudson, Wis., Joe's, Capras Sporting Goods in Blaine, and Cabela's in Rogers.
Result: Only one of these stores had the ammunition I wanted — two boxes of it. The others had none.
"Regardless what has been said online, it's not a government conspiracy,'' said Mike Bazinet of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearms and ammunition industry group headquartered in Connecticut. "The government is not buying up all the ammunition so the public can't have it.''
Ammunition makers, Bazinet said, are running at full capacity, 24-7. Yet demand isn't being met. And with deer seasons yet to open, one is left to assume at least some hoarding is occurring, whether for fear of the government, fear of higher-still ammunition prices in the future — or whatever.
Said Bazinet: "Cabela's might say at a given store that customers can only take two or four boxes at a time, but when they pull a pallet full of ammo onto the floor, it goes out the door in a hurry. People get on their phones and spread the word to their friends.''
Steve Hornady, president of the ammunition company that bears his name, spoofed the shortage and the presumed government conspiracy behind it in a YouTube video.
In the short flick, Hornady suggests his employees are cooking hot dogs and heating pizzas on machines that should be making rimfire and centerfire loads, thus slowing production.
More realistically, Bazinet said, some ammunition companies don't want to increase production capacity, only to find demand waning in a year or so.
"And the way manufacturing is today, materials are delivered to plants on a just-in-time basis,'' he said. "No one wants to pay for a warehouse full of supplies to lie around, waiting for demand. So the supply chain can be an issue.''
The good news is that some ammo is always available.
So pick up a box or two, no matter the brand or bullet size, and perhaps we'll meet at a gun club some day, squeezing off a few rounds.
Anyone who does it will want to do it again.


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Anton Krupicka
Mountain Running®
Great success for the 10th edition of L'Olla de Nuria, the iconic race & vertical in the Catalan Valley for the first time supported by La Sportiva
More than 700 runners took part last weekend at the 10th edition of L'Olla de Nuria, for the first time supported by La Sportiva, running the 21,5km route with 2.700 metres+ in the famous Catalan valley.
The weekend began on Saturday morning with the 2nd edition of the Vertical Olla, where the only-up specialists faced 1.580m of positive difference in only 6km. At the starting line, the best athletes in the vertical world, as Salomon athlete Laura Orgué and Pere Rullan, of Team La Sportiva who showed that the injury that kept him out of Zegama two weeks ago, is now history.
The first to arrive on the top of Torreneules Gran, was Pere Rullán with a time of 1.09.08, improving his previous time in the race. The Joan Freixa followed with a time of 1:13: 10, 32 seconds ahead of 3rd classified Agustí Roc. In the women race, Laura Orgué grabs the gold with a time of 1:21: 46 ahead Fatima de Diego - 01.33.42 and Alba Segura - 1.38.08
The day continued in the afternoon with the conference "L'Olla de Càpsules", a concentrate of technical talks with Miquel Ylla, the renowned cardiologist who highlighted the consequences that have excess sports on the heart. To talk about the importance of physical training was the winner of the day Pere Rullán. Andreu Calvó followed him for giving the strokes necessary to interpret a map and don't get lost in the mountains. The auditorium of the Hotel Vall de Nuria was full of spectators ready to enjoy the short video of the 2nd Vertical Pot and the race briefing with the final pasta Party dinner, which was amanetzat to traditional Catalan music.
The day after, the Nuria atmosphere began at 6:40 with the arrival of the first rack runners at the departure area, where txalaparta welcoming runners before the briefing of directors Pep Bisquert and Jordi Godayol. Minutes later, the 10th edition of L'Olla de Nuria, officially started under the eyes of hundreds of runners and spectators.
The first junior athlete of LaSportiva Joan Casas arrived minutes after 1.26:55 of race. Marc Vizcaino followed three minutes behind while Arnau Aranda completed the podium with a time of 1:30: 32. For the main category, in the male race the Salomon athlete Jan Margarit won with a time of 2:18:13, followed by Antonio Alcaide with a time of 2:23: 40 and Oriol Cardona 2.25.18
In the female race Laura Orgué grabs the second consecutive victory at Olla de Nuria completeing the race with a time of 2.52 and became the winner of the reolla with her victory Vertical Pot and Pan. The second classified, Clàudia Sabata reached the finish line 11 minutes later. Completing the podium, Tina Bes in 1.25: 05.
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