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Feeling a White cock slowly slide out of your Asian cunt can be the worst feeling in the world.
It's the feeling of all those inches that you've been craving for your whole life slowly exit your body. It feels like an eternity, but, just like that, you feel empty again. You're hollow without a big White cock inside you and your Asian cunt feels too loose and wide without it.
He puts you on your stomach and fucks you doggy style. Your pussy is now a tailored glove, made to only fit his massive White cock. Nothing else will be able to fill you up as good as His cock.
Now he lays on your back and pounds you hard. You're keenly aware of your inferiority and you feel ashamed but he reassures you by saying it doesn't matter if you are Asian. All Asians are meant to be fucked by white men, and you're no different. It gives you relief to be reminded of what you are.
Then he cums and breeds you. You feel the warmth seeping inside your inferior Asian pussy. You're filled up and it's like taking a dose of heroin. You've been drugged up with a dose of superiority all thanks to this White Man. It's perfect bliss and you know you won't even have the urge to masturbate tonight because nothing will ever match the ecstasy of being fucked and bred by a White Man.
Author: jennifer suzuki
I have been a very confused—some might say very conflicted—girl ever since I can remember and I have always lived in a fantasy world of my own making. I was born in Japan, my mother is Chinese and my father is Japanese, and my father's mother or my grandmother was German Dutch, and I came to the United States as a teenager and lived and went to school in Maryland, and worked in New York. I lived in fantasy worlds since I was a teenager and I have always done so, sometimes so deep in my own fantasy I forgot my own identity. I no longer knew who I am. Physically I look more European than asian. My father is of mixed heritage—he has white blond hair, but he also has some distinctly Japanese features. On the other hand my features mostly resembled my grandmother, who was a full blooded European woman. Which was not something that really bothered me. Actually most modern Japanese look very European compared to the rest of asians. My father was a sadist, and my mother, on the other hand, was, in my opinion, a masochist with no self respect. Growing up, seeing my father beating my mother was almost as frequent as having dinner, and when not beating her, she was constantly being humiliated and degraded, like having to serve dinner to him naked on her knees or being tied to an utility pole only in her panties during the winter. At first I believed my mother was a victim, a unfortunate human being in the hands of a cruel evil man, but as I grew older I realized that it was my mother who enjoyed being treated this way. The initial realization made me feel she was a disgusting, perverted, sick person, but as I grew older I began to have the almost identical sexual fantasies that my mother lived and experienced through. I began to think that my mother was the luckiest woman on earth since apparently she had found a man who understood her desires and could give them to her. My dad studied and worked in America before, and during that period he desperately wanted to marry a white woman, and vehemently pursued several white women, but was unsuccessful. At the same time Japanese women were unwilling to marry him. Maybe because just like him they were looking to marry into the white race, or maybe because he had sadistic tendencies. Out of options he settled to look for a Chinese woman. Statistically, marriages between Chinese women and Japanese men have been quite common, and I personally knew quite a few couples just like my mother and father. Even here in America I knew several Chinese women who had Japanese boyfriends and those women were actually quite proud of having superior Japanese men as boyfriends. Japanese in general look much more European compared to other asians and I suspect it was the putative European appearance that attracts other asian women. Of course Japanese are not Europeans, no matter how much we try to become European, just as Jews will never be fully accepted as White Christians. I think Jews and Japanese have a lot in common. We were both persecuted by Europeans, the Jews by Germans, and Japanese by Americans, yet we both come to love our white Masters. Jews weren't officially considered white until very recently, and I think as time progresses eventually Japanese will be categorized as white in the future, though Jews and Japanese will always know that they are still inferior to their Nordic Masters. But as always the Jews will be Masters over the Arabs and the Japanese will be Masters over the rest of Asia. There is no other meaning to life, other than the degree of domination. I had an older sister who looked fully asian, as opposed to me who looked much more European. And ever since childhood I have always known for a fact that I was treated better by everyone else because of my distinctly European appearance. In school classmates would be hesitant to tease me because they always thought my father might be an American or an European man even though they knew my mother was Chinese but somehow they still were afraid of me solely because of my European appearance. The thing was that in Japanese naming system, my mother's last name automatically gets attached to mine, so for example, my name in Japanese would actually be "Suzuki Liu Jennifer", because my mother's maiden name is Liu; this way everyone would instantly know my mother is Chinese. On the other hand my sister was bullied almost everyday by upper classmates because she looked very Chinese. They made fun of her hair and clothes and told her that she looked like a Chinese pig and I had seen boys pulling down her pants and laughing at her for having a "Chinese vagina". I was a very young girl back then and I felt ashamed of having her as a sister so in school I didn't talk to her at all. When I was 12 years old, she committed suicide by hanging herself in her closet. I know this because I was the one who discovered her body. My parents would have never told me about her death if I did not saw her dead body by myself. And ever since her death a dark cloud formed over my head and throughout my teenager years I was constantly harrowed by thoughts of suicide. It was not until I was much older that I learned suicide is infectious and that had been why I was constantly thinking about suicide. The realization made me try not to think too much about death, but no matter how much I try I can never get her image out of my head. Sometimes I feel she still haunts me because I didn't talk to her in school. My parents divorced when I was 14 and I went to live with my mom in China for two years. Contrary to popular beliefs, I had never experienced any form of racism or discrimination against me when I was living in China. Most people assumed that I was an European girl and the aura of being European seemed to make me inapproachable, like the shield of Athena covering me from head to toe. Even when I was in school, when classmates would know my father was Japanese because of my last name, I had never really felt any discrimination, though I did feel they were kind of afraid of me. I had never realized how much being White meant until I was in America: the symbol of power, domination, and superiority that being White implies. Being White is being the entelechy of all that is beautiful, good and righteous. Which is strange because my nationality still is, in actuality, Japanese and as I grew older I started to look more asian. My hair has gotten completely dark and my looks started to resemble my mother's. I used to have very light-colored hair, but I just felt fortunate that I do not look fully asian like my sister was. When I saw this image [of a naked asian woman kneeling next to a black furred dog] in a Japanese SM magazine a few days ago, all of a sudden I remembered seeing my mother in a similar position when I was maybe just 5 or 6 years old. It was not a pleasant experience; it was an extremely scary and traumatic experience, and growing up I heard constant moaning and muffled screams coming from my parents' bedroom. Every evening was a nightmare to fall asleep. But knowing that many asian women were treated the same way as my mother had been treated somehow made me feel better about my own family. At least my parents were not as weird as they seemed, and while growing up I had gradually come to realize that many asian girls have the same masochistic tendencies as I do, but many were just very shy and wouldn't admit their secrets. So it seems there are many masochistic asian women out there who thrives on been humiliated and degraded just like the girl in this image; I don't know why but this image made me feel kind of normal. I have lived in the States for nearly ten years now and I have not talked to my parents, who had divorced, for several years, especially to my mother whom I had some very severe arguments with over the years, especially when she remarried after she went back to China. I was more fond of my father though I haven't really talked to him that much either because he too had remarried. Despite all the mean things I had said about my dad, he was always very gentle with me and never beat me. He beat my sister and my mother but never me and I suspect he was much more gentle with me because of my more European looks. I felt their divorce was a punishment for me, as if they had abandoned me and I never felt comfortable with either of them or their new spouses, whether it be in China or in Japan. My mother's new husband was a very cruel and domineering white man living in China and he never treated me with the same special treatment I received from my dad. And I remember one time when I went out with him people on the street mistook me for his wife and I felt so disgusted I never wanted to go out with him again and then he would yell at me and yell at my mom. I am glad to have gotten out of there. And my dad ... well let's just say I couldn't bear to coexist with his new wife either. The last time we talked was already 3 years ago. This image had brought back so many long forgotten yearnings. I miss my sister and my parents. The memory of my sister and my parents started to fade away, like wavering forms they passed before my clouded sight; their images have become a blur rise about me out of mist and cloud; their faces, and their figures have become shades of phantoms; I wanted to hold you close to me in that blessed fleeting moment when you reappeared to me in my dreams. If only I possessed the strength to draw you near. I wanted to forever remember you—you bear the images of happy days; your airy smiles still stir youthful tremors in my breast—but my memory faltered. It would have been simpler if I were already dead. I would never be seized again by those long forgotten yearnings. I shuddered at those thoughts; and a tear draws other tears. Crying is my only form of release; through crying I am channeled to the solemn and silent world of spirits; crying is my whispered prayer that lingers in a vagrant tone. I have no one to talk to. I live in solitary confinement. I have been driven to madness even though physically I stay put. My life—full of dolor, pain and suffering. Sometimes I wish I could end it. The only reason I continue to live is for otherwise I lack the courage to carry out that final act, to take me beyond and step into the unknown. It is so much better to have been never born at all, or at least to die an immediate death. How sweet and wonderful death would be. My dear Aya, I am so very sorry! A vast space of nothingness in the empty universe fills my heart. Everyday of my life I live in terror because of you. A family dog Growing up, I always felt lonely. My family dog was my only companion. He was a slightly larger than a medium sized dog, with grey and dark fur, and a nozzle that resembled a wolf. He was so cute, so adorable, and he was my only friend. I often played with him in my desperate attempts to communicate with another living being, like Madame Bovary sitting by her fire place in a melancholic longing for escape. I want out!, out of this nonchalant prison of thoughts, out of this cruel alienated society, out of these mind forged manacles whose clanking I hear like looming madness; the marks of domestication on their faces, marks of psychological slavery, marks of intellectual death; they are mere automatons, inanimate objects, so lifeless like straw men, hollow men, stuffed men. I can't bare to look at those miserable beings' faces. In a domesticated dog I see more humanity than the entire humanity. If only my family dog can take me away! And I will elope with him to a happy place, where there is no more sorrow, no more dread, no more cold metallic prison walls of the mind. My family dog was my only friend, and he was my only confidante. To him I entrusted all my deepest secrets. Sometimes I wished I was a dog: no more worries, no more sadness, no more consciousness, no more thoughts, just the need to satisfy my most basic instincts, lying by my owner's feet, worshiping him and completely dependent on him. Sometimes I wish I could have another dog just like the family dog I used to have in Japan. And he will be my husband. I will belong to him. I will be his bitch. I will obey him, crawl under his belly, gently caress his furs with my soft hands, and please him like I would please my husband. And he will be my beast and I will be his beauty. Albeit he will be a gentle beast, always so obedient to me, and yet always so much more aggressive, and animalistic; he will protect me from harm, with his sharp fangs and naturally endowed muscles for chasing down his prey; and yet he will honor me and obey me like a lover would. He will never be jealous, never be angry, as long as he is fed and watered. He will be my best friend. View all posts by jennifer suzuki


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That time of year is, inevitably, here again—that time humans ages seven to 21 dread but their parents love. Every back-to-school season sends would-be students scrambling to figure out what things they need to make another year of education as streamlined as possible, and those solutions can look different for each and every student.
We at Ars may not be on the receiving end of formal education very often anymore, but we constantly come across gadgets and other items that we wish we had when we were in school. There are also plenty of devices that we've tested in recent months that would make a great addition to any high-schooler's or college student's backpack. So if you're still looking for an essential back-to-school gadget for yourself, or for the student in your life, check out the list of Ars-approved devices below.
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- Laptop
- Dell XPS 13
- Budget option—Asus Chromebook Flip C434
- Tablet or e-reader
- Apple iPad mini
- Budget option—Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
- Smartphone
- iPhone XR
- Budget option—Google Pixel 3a
- Wearables
- Apple Watch
- Budget option—Fitbit Versa Lite
- Wireless charger
- Belkin Boost Up Charging Stand
- Budget option—RavPower RP-PC064
- Portable storage
- Samsung T5
- Budget option—G-Drive Mobile
- USB-C connector
- VAVA USB-C Hub
- Budget option—Nonda USB-C adapter
- Bluetooth speaker
- Tribit StormBox
- Premium option—Marshall Kilburn II
- Bluetooth headphones
- Sony WH-1000XM3
- Budget option—Mpow H10
- Power bank
- ZMI PowerPack 20000
- Budget option—Aukey PB-Y13
- Wall charger
- Nekteck 4-port 72W USB Wall Charger
- Portable option—Nekteck 60W Type-C Wall Charger
- Media streamer
- Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K
- Premium option—Apple TV 4K
Dell XPS 13
Our current favorite Windows ultrabook is a great option for students who need a compact, attractive machine with a lot of power. The Dell XPS 13 packs a lot into its 13-inch frame, and arguably the best thing is that most of those are customizable. You can configure it with up to a Core i7 processor, up to 16GB of RAM, up to 2TB of storage, and 4K and touchscreen panel options. That means you can get exactly what you want (and nothing you don't want) in the XPS 13 or spend only what your budget will allow. We also like this ultrabook's power button that has an embedded fingerprint reader for biometric authenticity. Its nearly 13-hour battery life doesn't hurt, either.
Dell XPS 13
Budget option—Asus Chromebook Flip C434
Compared to the nearly $1,000 XPS 13, the $569 Asus Chromebook Flip C434 is much more accessible both in terms of price and usability. It's our current favorite Chromebook for good reason—it's an updated version of the Chromebook Flip C302CA, and it has a more professional and sleek design, a larger touchscreen, additional connectivity options, better performance, and longer battery life.
It may be on the expensive side of the Chromebook spectrum, but it's still not the most expensive Chromebook you could get. And all of the upgrades Asus added to this version make it well worth the price. It's a solid machine for students who need an easy-to-use, all-purpose laptop that's ideal for online or cloud-based work.
Chromebook Flip C434
Tablet or e-reader
Apple iPad mini
Regardless of the field of study, any student can get use out of an iPad mini. iPads of all sizes are versatile, but the mini is a particularly good option for students because of its size and relatively low price tag of $399. The iPad mini is around the same size as a traditional e-reader or paperback book, making it easy to slip into a bag or backpack to tote around campus. With its various storage capacities, it can hold thousands of e-textbooks, PDFs, and other class materials, and it can even audio-record lectures if you're using the right note-taking app. The newest model also supports the Apple Pencil, so the iPad mini could be your student's main note-taking device. Some will always prefer the larger screen of the newest iPad, but we think an iPad mini has the right balance of size, features, and price for students.
Apple iPad mini
Budget option—Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
If an iPad sits outside your budget, a Kindle Paperwhite is a good alternative that only costs $129. It supports a variety of file types, and its E-Ink display is easier on the eyes than most tablets' LCD panels. That aspect may be key for some students who find themselves poring over reading materials for hours and suffer from eye fatigue.
It's just as easy to go paperless with a Kindle Paperwhite as well, thanks to its 8GB and 32GB storage options. Either of those configurations will hold thousands of textbooks, so students can carry just one 6.4-ounce device with them instead of multiple chunky books. Kindle's built-in software also lets you take quick notes, highlight passages, and do more to "mark up" digital books so students can study more easily. To complement the Kindle Paperwhite itself, students can also download the Kindle app to their smartphone or computer, making it easy to access all class materials from any device.
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
iPhone XR
There are many reasons the iPhone XR has been the best-selling iPhone since its release. While the iPhone XS and XS Max are high-end, glossy, and everything you'd expect an over-$1,000 smartphone to be, the iPhone XR gives you all the necessary features that you would find in both of those more expensive handsets. It has Apple's new TrueDepth technology, Face ID, an edge-to-edge display, an A12 Bionic chipset, and solid rear- and front-facing cameras. (The rear camera on the XS and XS Max is slightly better, but the iPhone XR takes fantastic photos nonetheless.) But arguably the best feature of the XR, especially for students, is its superb battery life: in our tests, it lasted 2.5 hours longer than the iPhone XS Max and nearly three hours longer than the iPhone XS.
iPhone XR
Budget option—Google Pixel 3a
If you'd rather save some cash for textbooks, Google's Pixel 3A is an excellent value for $400 outright. Its camera is almost identical to that of the full Pixel 3, which means it's excellent in all lighting conditions and an obscene value at this price. Similarly, the 5.6-inch OLED display is more vibrant than most panels in this price range. The gently rounded sides are easy to hold, and the 3,000 mAh battery is enough to get through a typical day without trouble. Like all Pixel phones, it has a bloat-free layer of Android with priority access to three years of software updates. There's even a headphone jack.
It's not water-resistant, its plastic design doesn't feel as nice as pricier phones, and its Snapdragon 670 chip, while still speedy for most purposes, isn't as powerful or future-proof as what you'd get in a true flagship smartphone in 2019. But that's all relative: for $400, this is a better Android phone than many alternatives that cost twice as much.
Google Pixel 3A
Apple Watch
Smartwatches are great tools for keeping your smartphone at bay, and the Apple Watch is the best one to get if you have an iPhone. If the student in your life is constantly looking at their smartphone, an Apple Watch can help alleviate that by delivering all smartphone alerts to their wrist. That way, any student knows when to answer an urgent text from mom or dad and when to ignore the "like" on their latest Instagram post. The Apple Watch can also display pertinent information like calendar events and weather forecasts on its watch faces, removing even more reasons you'd whip out your smartphone. Fitness enthusiasts and athletes will like its powerful workout tracking features as well, but all students can use its daily activity tracking abilities to know when they should take a break from studying and go outside for a walk.
Apple Watch Series 4
Budget option—Fitbit Versa Lite
At less than half the price of an Apple Watch Series 4 lies the Fitbit Versa Lite, a pared-down version of the Fitbit Versa smartwatch. The Versa Lite provides a lot of value in its $129 price tag—it's a great activity and sleep tracker, it displays smartphones alerts, it has a connected GPS feature for mapping outdoor runs, and it has on-screen music controls. We also like Fitbit's mobile app because it makes it easy for newbies to see all their fitness data and change settings like watch faces, alerts, and timers on the Versa Lite. Despite its sacrifices (mostly in advanced features like NFC, onboard music, and Wi-Fi), the Versa Lite gets the basic features every smartwatch should have right.

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The design will be undertaken by a joint team that combines WSP's capabilities and Wood Thilsted's extensive European experience. WSP will provide regulatory assistance and overall project management; Wood Thilsted brings specialist knowledge in structural and geotechnical design of offshore wind turbine foundations.
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Hannity's Latest Attempt To Manufacture An Obama Religion Controversy
Sean Hannity misconstrued comments and ignored important context while critiquing President Obama's June 17 remarks on the struggle for peace, accusing the president of expressing hostility toward the Catholic school system in America while referencing Obama's education as a youth at "a Muslim school." Hannity's assertion is the most recent in a long line of attempts to gin up outrage amongst Catholics against Obama.
On the June 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity, Hannity claimed Obama "appears to compare segregation to the Catholic school system," while guest Ann Coulter accused the president of "attacking America while he's abroad."
On June 17, during a town hall meeting in Belfast, Ireland in front of the youth of Northern Ireland, Obama spoke of the importance of "breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves":
Because issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity -- symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others -- these are not tangential to peace; they're essential to it. If towns remain divided -- if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs -- if we can't see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division. It discourages cooperation.
Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.
Hannity's critique of Obama's comments ignore crucial context regarding the president's speech and location. As Michael McGough of The Los Angeles Times wrote:
Northern Ireland is not the United States. Even in my childhood, when Catholic kids were encouraged to attend Catholic schools and there was an arguably Protestant ethos in many public schools, Catholics and Protestants weren't as isolated from (or as distrustful of) one another in this country as they continue to be in Northern Ireland.
Society in Northern Ireland is much more stratified, and the role of religiously defined schools more problematic. You can be perfectly comfortable with the role of Catholic schools in the American context and worry about their contribution to estrangement between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.
Additionally, Northern Ireland has a long history of violence between Catholics and Protestants. Over a 30 year period in the 1970's, 80's and 90's, more than 3,500 people were killed and thousands more injured as a result of conflict between Catholic Irish nationalists and Britain Loyalist Protestants.
In May 1998 Northern Ireland voters approved two referendums that would become known as the Good Friday Agreement, which helped bring an end to the violent struggle between the two parties and whose 15 year anniversary was noted by Obama in his speech. The agreement created a government body that was to include both Catholics and Protestants, called for disarmament as well as the release of jailed combatants, and forced a reorganization of a police force which, at the time, was 93 percent Protestant.
Hannity went on to criticize the president's comparison of the U.S. Civil War to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Hannity focused on a segment of the speech in which Obama said "Our Civil War was far shorter than The Troubles, but it killed hundreds of thousands of our people." Obama's comment on "The Troubles" is a reference to the period beginning in 1969 that resulted in violence against the Catholic community. According to a 2006 BBC article, throughout the 70's. 80's and 90's "Loyalist paramilitaries targeted Catholics in 'tit-for-tat' killings" in Northern Ireland. Furthermore, "The Troubles" were the culmination of constant revolts beginning in the 12th century and leading to "civil war and partition of the island."
Hannity then highlighted Obama's 2007 interview with The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, in which the president described the Arabic call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset" and highlighted Obama's education at Islamic schools during his youth.
In their June publication, Playboy Magazine published an interview with Hannity in which he was asked if he was "fueling the myth that Obama's a Muslim from Africa" by referring to his time in Africa as a youth:
PLAYBOY: Trump was one of the most vocal skeptics of Obama's American citizenship. You've also said Obama grew up in Kenya. Do you regret saying that now?
HANNITY: But he did grow up in Kenya, and he told The New York Times that he went to a school there and one of the most beautiful things on the planet is Islamic prayer at sunset.
PLAYBOY: Are you fueling the myth that Obama's a Muslim from Africa by saying that?
HANNITY: I never fueled the myth. How do you come up with this stuff? He did go to a Muslim school. He writes about it in his own book.
PLAYBOY: He did not grow up in Kenya.
HANNITY: He went to a Muslim school in Indonesia, or wherever it was, Kenya. I forget. Now you've got me. I think it was Indonesia. I'm trying to remember his biography. It's going back so long. He admits he went to a Muslim school. It's on his audiobook, if you want a tape of it--you can hear him say it himself.
I'm a Christian. All people are the children of God. I'm just telling you what Obama said in his own words. He didn't go to a madrassa, which has negative connotations, but he did study the Koran and Islam and learn prayers that he could recite with a perfect accent, according to Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times. As for the issue of his birth certificate, I thought that was one of the oddest things, a noncontroversy that the White House easily could have ended but didn't. If you've got the birth certificate, just release it and move on. That's what I said.


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My first attempt at literary writing occurred at nine years old.
That sounds precocious, and if I were a writer of any merit perhaps it would be. But I'm not and it isn't, because the truth of the matter is that my first literary effort was a childish game of mimicry inspired by a bedtime story.
I am the youngest of three children. Five years separate me from my oldest sister. At this point in our lives a half decade means nothing, but as young children five years represented a socio-cultural chasm. When my eldest sibling entered her last year of grade school I entered my first. Our needs and interests couldn't have been more different.
We had much in common, of course, not the least of which was a mother of the endangered variety. Ours was a stay at home mom whose life revolved around her three children, at least as far as we knew. PTA, Girl Scouts–all of our mother's extracurricular activities involved us. Even her actual, pre-child extracurricular activities involved us: Mom cut her high school cheerleading skirt into bits and reassembled them into a smart, wool sport coat for the toddler version of me.
That five year age difference meant that many of her parenting rituals were well established long before I came along. I simply attached to these like the caboose of a toy train being dragged around a preestablished oval. Thus I ended up attending Girl Scout camp, playing beneath her ironing board while she worked, and watching Days of Our Lives and Jeopardy with host Art Fleming each afternoon.
The bedtime ritual consisted of convening in the girls' bedroom, my mother, sisters, and me, for story time. The children rotated nights, each selecting an illustrated story from our small collection of books published by Parents' Magazine Press. We lined up along the edge of my sister's lower bunk, our mother seated between us, and we listened intently while she read.
She was a fantastic reader, by the way, one who wouldn't get too locked into the singsong cadence of a verse and would never let a character speak as flatly as his or her words appeared on the page. Mom didn't read so much as she performed. Words mattered to her, but more so in an emotional than an intellectual way. Finding the right emphasis was to articulate the emotional truth of The Cookie Tree or How Fletcher Was Hatched.
When I was a teenager she brought home a little book that excited her to no end. The book contained a single sentence, repeated page after page with emphasis on a different word:
People are more important than things.
People are more important than things.
People are more important than things.
People are more important than things.
People are more important than things.
People are more important than things.
People are more important than things.
Its punchline, if one can call it that, was equal stress on every word: People are more important than things. She loved that little book, presumably for its combination of simple truth and simple fun with spoken English. It was the last book she ever read aloud to me.
We left the little house with the bunk beds in the girls' bedroom just after my eldest sibling finished grade school. We left behind the bunk beds, too, and the PTA meetings and the afternoons with Jeopardy featuring host Art Fleming. My mother's little family was growing up, as demonstrated by her oldest trotting off to junior high school. Bedtime stories were for little kids so that, too, was left behind.
But I remained a little kid trailing a half decade behind the pace. My bed was still shaped like a race car, my prevailing interests Evel Knievel, baseball cards, and Looney Tunes. It took her a couple of years, but Our Mother of the Emotional Truth eventually realized what she had done. "When your sisters got too old to read to, I didn't think about the fact that maybe you weren't," she said to me. "Do you want to start reading together again at bedtime?"
By then I was nine years old–a man of the world, nearly double digits. I was much too mature for Old Black Witch and Just Only John, but even at that young age I was able to pick up the subtext. My mother needed a child, just for a little while longer. People are more important than things.
And so bedtime stories resumed, this time in my own bed, an audience of one for my mother's theatrical interpretations. The picture books remained on their shelf, though. Instead we read age appropriate chapter books of that era: The Borrowers, The Mad Scientists' Club, A Wrinkle In Time. She particularly enjoyed that one, with its message of love as a universal force.
I enjoyed this time together. I enjoyed the stories, but more so I enjoyed the undivided attention of my mother. A child with two siblings doesn't score such a windfall too often.
We didn't read too many age appropriate books before she upped the ante. Maybe Mom grew bored with the simple plots and the simpler dialog, or maybe she thought that I was more than I was. While I was at best an average student, each school year my teacher pegged me as an advanced reader. Perhaps my mother felt an obligation to feed that particular beast. Maybe she just thought I'd enjoy something different.
Whatever the reason, her next selection was David Copperfield, Dickens's autobiographical novel. During my own reading time at that age, I was obsessed with biographies. If library books sill held little pockets glued to their end papers and if Tarver Rendon Elementary school preserved the same books in their stacks for forty years, one could find the name "Jimmy Stafford" in a clumsy, illegible cursive repeated over and over in books about Einstein, Edison, Henry Ford, the Wright Brothers, Abe Lincoln, Johnny Unitas, Brooks Robinson, Paul Revere and the Raiders, on and on. The subject of the biography never mattered to me because biography itself was all that mattered. I loved stories about people.
Maybe that's what made my mother think that David Copperfield would make a good bedtime story. Each night she sat and read, and I dozed off in my race car bed until she barked at me to wake up because she wasn't reading for her but rather for me and if I wasn't going to pay attention then she had plenty of other things that she could be doing. I tried to stay awake, I really did, but David Copperfield was boring.
But the idea of autobiographical fiction–that fascinated me. Stories about people that weren't necessarily true, but true-ish: For whatever reason that notion struck me as the highest form of literary art. I rolled a piece of paper into my mother's typewriter and began work on my own Dickensian autobiographical novel. At nine years old, one neither has many experiences to fictionalize nor the skills to do so. My own David Copperfield topped out at two typewritten pages, about 500 words that I carried in my pocket for several weeks for fear that someone would find and read them.
We moved again not too long after that, and again routine and ritual were disrupted. David Copperfield marked the last bedtime story my mother ever read to me.
I wish I could say that the whole David Copperfield incident marks the moment that I knew I was a writer, but it doesn't. I knocked out a few stories before my childhood came to a legal end, but only in the context of classwork and rarely with anything resembling success. Regardless, I believe that those evenings listening while my mother read David Copperfield planted the seed. Many years passed before it germinated.
What's interesting to me is how closely as a reader I've stayed on course since that age. All of my favorite writers–Twain, Kerouac, Thompson, Vonnegut, Fante, Miller, Bukowski–wrote about themselves, in some cases exclusively. I have no patience for plot-centric stories that read like a marble tumbling predictably through a wooden maze, nor do I have any interest in elaborately constructed worlds filled with minutiae I must remember in order to follow the story. People are more important than things. It's true in life, and it's true in stories.
My mother is gone now, and I doubt she ever knew how much those evenings meant to me, or what course of events she set in motion simply by reading a story. I know those evenings were important to her, however. Before she died she had amassed an entire closetful of Parents' Magazine Press books, the same illustrated stories she read to her children before they grew too old to listen. Multiple copies of Jerome or Miss Suzy or whatever simply meant that she could leave a copy to each of us, and then to our children, and on and on until her closet was empty and many bedroom shelves were full. It was a closet full of things she gathered for people who were more important.
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I visited Halifax, Nova Scotia, last week to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Coast, Halifax's kick-ass alternative weekly newspaper. The paper brought me to town to do Savage Love Live. I took questions for two hours in the auditorium of a brand-new Halifax high school that has a full bar. (First you have socialized medicine, and then marriage equality, and now bars in high schools—what's not to love about Canada? Oh, right: Stephen Harper, tar sands, porn laws.) The place was packed, the audience was rowdy, and things got dirty. Here's a selection of Halifax's questions and my answers.
Current celebrity crush?
Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
My boyfriend broke up with me 10 times over the last two years. But this time, he says he's committed. Am I stupid?
You may or may not be stupid (impossible to tell from a short question written on a green index card), but you do meet a popular-if-somewhat-annoying-but-sometimes-eerily-accurate definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again—doing this boyfriend of yours over and over again—and expecting different results. Tell him this chance is his last, and don't take him back a 12th time.
My partner is obsessed with Shania. He's gay. Is this normal?
It's gay normal. Sometimes it's a Shania, sometimes it's a Cher, sometimes it's a Gaga or a Madonna or a Rihanna. My gay husband is currently obsessed with a Katy Perry. Maybe you and I should start a support group?
Married straight lady. My husband recently told me that he is bisexual. I couldn't imagine something hotter! But he is also EXTREMELY monogamous. Suggestions? I want to have fun with this!
Strap-ons—like the ones they sell at Venus Envy, Halifax's education-oriented sex shop and bookstore—are fun. Or, hey, you could push your husband to adopt the "gay normal" definition of monogamy: If you two have threesomes only with each other and one additional hot bi guy, then all your threesomes are EXTREMELY monogamous.
I'm a kinky, poly guy who meets awesome kinky, poly girls on the internet. Everything is great, except I never know when or if to go in for a first kiss. With my girlfriend, it took me six months to build up the courage! Thanks!
None of the kinky, poly girls I've met in Seattle, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Madison, Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago, etc. are what you would call shy. So I bet if you told the kinky, poly girls of Halifax during your pre-meeting, internet-enabled conversations that you prefer to let the KPGs you're with make the first move—including going in for that first kiss—you won't have to worry about making the first move.
Will you tell us about your first sexual experience?
Is it weird that I, the girl, want to have sex more than my boyfriend?
Is it inappropriate for me to flirt and attempt to have an affair with a married coworker?
Yep. Affairs with married coworkers are hot in theory and messy in practice. I would urge you to be careful—and considerate. Maybe this guy is dying to cheat on his wife, maybe he's looking for someone to cheat with, but if you sense that he really, really wants to stay faithful and your flirtatious attentions are (1) torture for him but (2) harder and harder to resist, do him, his wife, and your karma a favor and go fuck someone else.
What ground rules should be set for a friends-with-benefits situation?
The most important ground rule: Be friends. Too many people are pointedly unfriendly to their FWBs because they don't want their FWBs "getting the wrong idea," i.e., they don't want their FWBs to think they might be interested in something more serious. The result? Lots of FWB situations are all B and no F. No friendly gestures (friends sometimes give each other gifts), no friendly assistance (friends sometimes help each other move), no friendly concern (friends are there for each other during a crisis). Don't want your FWB to get the wrong idea about your intentions? Use your words to tell your FWB that a serious romance isn't in the cards. Then make a good-faith effort to be a friend to your FWB.
How can I go about financial domination in a smart way? (I'm a 19-year-old girl and I'm looking to Dom.)
Most men who submit to financial domination—making cash gifts to a Dom—expect a little something in return: some attention, some pictures, maybe a Skype session now and then. Be warned: Once your images are out there, they're out there. And an angry, vindictive "sub" might post your pictures online, or a careless sub could lose his computer and someone else could steal and post your photos or web chats.
Any plans to retire?
Give up an advice column? No way. They'll have to pry my column from my cold, dead hands just like they pried Ann Landers's column from hers.
How do I make cum taste better?
"Cum" is not a word. We don't have three-letter alternate spellings for other four-letter words that have sexual and nonsexual meanings. You wouldn't write "I know this guy who sucks and he's a mean dick, but he's so fucking hot, I want to suk his dik." So there's no need to misspell "come" to give it a sexual connotation. The proper spelling works just fine. But in answer to your question: Come is an acquired taste. No one likes Guinness the first time they drink it, right? But soon you're happily knocking back pints of the stuff. Same goes for come.
My partner is a neat freak and a control freak in everyday life, but in bed she's a whore. Is this normal?
Nope, but it sounds awesome—dirty sex is always more fun in a spotlessly clean apartment.
Is it true that some men like a finger in the butt during a blowjob?
It is true that some men like a finger in the butt during a blowjob. Some men like two fingers, some like more. Some men like it in the butt generally. How to determine if the man you're blowing likes a finger in the butt? Take his dick out of your mouth and ask. —Dan


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I am once again back in Kansas, visiting my parents. My days are mostly filled with trips to Bartlesville for my Dad's radiation, several trips to grocery stores and bakeries throughout southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma, and driving around Independence, with my dog, looking at old houses and buildings. My Dad is doing well, all things considered.
I get a little bored, our entire day revolves around a 10 minute radiation session. That's not a complaint, it's kind of beautiful really. Ten very important and hope filled minutes.
I like the downtime. I like taking my dog Ricky out with me for a walk or a drive. I take him to Riverside Park and we walk around the fountain. Tonight, after two days of rain, the sun had returned, with a few lingering dramatic clouds. The trees a little greener, the sky bluer, I wondered if maybe this was the most beautiful spot on earth. Had I really travelled the world in search of paradise when all this time it was yards away from me?
I've said it before, but I can't believe that after dreaming, moaning, bragging during my entire childhood that I would someday leave this hick town, that I am back, in awe of its beauty. Also, charmed by peeling paint on old Victorians, haunted by houses in varying states of decay.
When I am in New York City, another place I once called home, I walk and walk and walk every day that I am there. I try to walk down every street and avenue. I ask myself when I was last on this block? Have I ever been on this block? I'll see a structure, something noteworthy like a 100 year old church or a miniature park or a just a bakery and wonder, did I know about this and forget or never notice it before?
And here, in my most hometown of hometowns, I find myself doing the same thing. I drive down streets just for the sake of taking it in, recovering old memories, like the SCF lock-ins at the Nazarene church or the carnivals that blanketed the Washington school playground or that library that I spent so much time in growing up, reading about people who lived in faraway places.
Also, though, I discover new things, like an apartment building or a miniature park or a bottling plant and wonder, did I know about this and forget or is this completely new to me?
And while I drive, and sometimes stop and take pictures, I wonder, why am I doing this? Is this going to make me smarter? More successful? What am I gaining here?
To be honest, I don't know. The other day, a friend, in all kindness, commented, "Your sincere wistfulness at the past is a lovely memory of the midwest." I had to laugh as I wondered, am I the Miss Havisham of bloggers, weeping for a time that only lives in my memory which means maybe it never existed anyway? Am I the sentimental guy buying Don Draper's Kodak Carousel slide machine?
From that Mad Men episode: "This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels – around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved."
If you're still with me, I reckon it's because you have a place that holds that kind of weight for you too. I know I can't say it better than Matthew Weiner, or Jon Hamm, but this week, these drives, these discoveries, these memories, they have fortified me.
Maybe just as all children, whether they are close to their parents or not, must eventually make peace with the people who raised them, we must all make peace with the places that raised us too. Am I the only one who sometimes blames a weakness or failure in myself on the town that raised me? That thinks, I would have had so much opportunity if I'd just been raised in New Jersey?!?! (If I am the only one, don't tell me, let me wallow in my delusions.)
But this place, it's pretty special. And not just because of Miss Able and William Inge and that first lighted baseball game. Much of what I am today is because of her. And just as we carry the people we love with us in our hearts, even when separated by miles and states, we carry with us, any place that we have ever called home. And Independence, I know this now, will always be my home.


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This is a serialization of the new book written by Carl Flowers, owner of Silveus Plantation, the subject of "Groton's Anonymous Mistress." The 300-year-old home is accessed by Kemp Street near the boundary of Groton and Dunstable.
Part 20
By Carl Flowers
As for supplying Lowell (during prohibition), James Jr. took care of that when runners came to the Mistress. She was in the perfect spot because of her isolation and remoteness from other human activity. In addition to the Mistress's location, prohibition laws may not have been actively enforced.
In 1928 Edward J. Leavitt, Groton's Chief of Police, was charged and found guilty of corruptly accepting gifts or gratuities so that he would refrain from enforcing the liquor laws of Massachusetts.
John H. Trayne, a Groton Selectman, Assessor, Overseer of the Poor, and the Superintendent of Streets, was also charged and found guilty of conspiracy to corrupt town officials for personal gain, but got off on the charges of violating the state's prohibition laws.
Frank A. Torrey, another selectman and assessor, was found guilty of conspiracy to corrupt for personal gain. Other Groton men were charged and convicted, but their names were withheld and referred to in their indictment as John Doe, Richard Roe, James Doe, Frank Roe, and Robert Doe.
Edward Leavitt, John Trayne, Frank Torrey, and the unknown individuals, were on the Ku Klux Klan list of office holders to be booted out of office in the 1927 Groton Town Elections because of their non-enforcement of prohibition laws. George Lawrence was endorsed by the Klan over Frank A. Torrey, but Torrey won. If George Lawrence had been elected, there would have been enough votes on the board of selectmen to remove Edward J. Leavitt from office as Groton's Police Chief; thus, his indictment.
John H. Trayne would have been the other selectman in favor of keeping Leavitt as the chief of police. One's curiosity has to be aroused about the five unnamed boys, relative to their being the other office holders the Ku Klux Klan wanted out of office, because of their manufacturing, transporting, and selling of intoxicating liquors. As assessors, Trayne and Torrey had to know the location of every moonshine operation in town. State statute required assessors to make annual visits to every building in town for the purpose of making street and resident lists. They may not have known the location of every still, but they had to know where the majority of them were located.
James Jr. didn't actually involve himself in making any of the moonshine. Instead, he siphoned it from barrels brought to him from surrounding farms. There were plenty of them close by. One of the larger stills in the area was known as the, "still at the old Krugal place". It was about a mile and a half from the Mistress. Because of its size and location, this may have been the only still to supply James Jr. with moonshine. It was easily accessed from the east by Nashua Road and the west by Longley Road.
Rather than using either of these public roads, an old cart path was probably used that ran over the property just around the corner from the Mistress off of Groton Street in Dunstable. When the liquor arrived at the Mistress, it was siphoned from the barrels into five gallon cans so that it could easily be picked up by runners and delivered to speakeasies in Lowell.
As a young man, Jerry Simmons of Dunstable remembers seeing the front of the barn stacked with five gallon cans. Even Lillian's great nephew, Leroy Johnson, knew something was going on with the bootlegging business. One thing is certain: James Jr. didn't transport the five gallon cans.
They had to be delivered by someone else because James didn't drive, didn't have a driver's license or own a motorized vehicle.


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August 20, 2013— -- When the American Medical Association classified obesity as a disease, Nikhil Dhurandhar, a researcher and vice president of The Obesity Society, said he welcomed the news as an acknowledgment of the challenges people face fighting the battle of the bulge. But he wondered if the declaration went far enough.
Like a growing number of experts, Dhurandhar believes the accumulation of excess fat is likely to have multiple causes beyond a potato-chip-and-couch-potato lifestyle.
Dhurandhar likens obesity to other chronic diseases. Just as the term cancer covers the numerous conditions that occur when abnormal cells divide out of control, obesity may not be a single disease but rather, a group of diseases tied together by the symptom of too much body fat, he said.
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"It may look the same on the outside, but what triggers the condition varies from person to person and may require a different treatment to control," he said. "Down the road, we need to figure out why people become fat and then tailor their treatment to address the underlying causes."
Dhurandhar's own studies at Pennington Biomedical Research in Baton Rouge, La., focus on obesity-causing viruses. He discovered the viruses in chickens back in the 1980s and has since associated the presence of certain viral antibodies in the bloodstream of humans to increased body weight.
In one of his landmark studies of 500 people, 30 percent of the obese patients tested positive for the virus, compared to only 11 percent of the lean individuals.
Dhurandhar is quick to point out that he doesn't believe most obesity is infectious in nature, but said that the discovery of a "fat bug" should be a wakeup call to researchers, physicians and anyone struggling with their weight that there may be more to shedding surplus pounds than simply cutting back on calories and putting in a few extra treadmill sessions.
"What good does a starvation diet do if obesity is caused by a virus?" he asked.
Beyond viruses, scientists have identified at least 84 other potential contributors to obesity, Dhurandhar said. They range from genetic to biological to psychological to environmental. Currently, there are about a dozen of these obesogenic culprits under serious study in labs around the world, he noted.
READ MORE: 7 Surprising Effects of Obesity
For example, numerous studies now associate lack of sleep with an expanded waistline. Other studies have found that exposure to certain insecticides and plastics disrupt gut bacteria, which may stimulate appetite, slow digestion and accelerate fat storage. And some studies propose a link between the lifestyle habits of great grandparents and their great grandchildren's weight status.
"Not all the causes will wind up being treatable or preventable -- you can't do anything about what your great grandparents ate -- so we will have to focus our efforts on the ones we can control," Dhurandhar said.
Christopher Ochner, director of research development and administration at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York said he agreed with Dhurandhar's idea that there could be multiple contributors to obesity, but said it complicates matters to classify obesity as multiple diseases.
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"At the end of the day, we still have the law of energy balance to contend with," he said. "If you ingest more than you expend you are going to gain weight, period."
Dhurandhar conceded that eating and exercise play a significant role in obesity, but said that role is not as well understood as the general public thinks.
"We've focused almost all our resources on the so-called 'Big Two' of diet and exercise for more than 50 years and it hasn't helped," he said. "We will have to move beyond 'eat less and move more' if we want to make progress."
Ochner said he agreed that trying to lose weight and keep it off in the long term by exercising and cutting back on calories has less than a 1 percent chance of succeeding. He acknowledged that the reasons for weight gain vary greatly for each individual and the precise formula for energy balance through diet and exercise is nearly impossible to determine.
"There is literally, there is no difference between an emaciated person starving to death and an obese person on a healthy weight loss diet in terms of physiological reactions," he said. "That is going to be a tough problem to solve."
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Piglet squidRichard E. Young and Katharina M. Mangold (1922-2003)
Helicocranchia contains three recognized species. Voss, et al. (1992), however, suggest that as many as 14 species may exist.
- Helicocranchia pfefferi
- Helicocranchia papillata
- Helicocranchia joubini
Species of Helicocranchia are small, oceanic squid (100 mm ML) characterized by having a very large funnel and small paddle-like fins that attach to a portion of the gladius that rises above the muscular mantle. They exhibit a gradual ontogenetic descent from near-surface waters as paralarvae to lower mesopelagic depths as near-adults.
Brief diagnosis:
A taoniin...
- with exceptionally large funnel relative to head and arms.
- with fins which project dorsally in advance of mantle apex.
- Arms
- Tentacles
- Clubs with suckers only.
- Tentacular stalks with two series of suckers and pads nearly to stalk base.
- Funnel
- Funnel valve absent.
- Funnel organ: Dorsal pad with 3 slender papillae.
- Funnel extremely large.
- Mantle
- Tubercles absent from funnel-mantle fusion.
- Fins
- Fins paddle shaped.
- Fins insert on short rostrum-like structure of the conus of gladius which projects dorsally in advance of mantle apex (photographs below).* Toll (1882) suggests that the solid extension of the conus is not a true rostrum but was evolved independently for this peculiar support of the fins.
- Photophores
- Single ocular photophore. (Difficult to detect in some species.)
- Arm-tip photophores absent. Click on an image to view larger version & data in a new window
Figure. Left - Posterior and lateral views of the ocular photophore of H. papillata, 60 mm ML. Drawings from Voss, 1980, p. 383. Right - Ventral view of an eye of H. pfefferi showing the yellowish ocular photophore on the medial face of the eye, 35 mm ML. Photographed aboard the R/V G. O. SARS, Mar-Eco cruise, central North Atlantic by R. Young.
One of the most distinctive features of this genus is the extremely large funnel that extends well beyond the beaks. This feature, which recalls the large snout of a pig, gives the squid its common name. Characteristics are from Voss (1980).
Life History
The large funnel is present in the paralarva and makes generic identification of paralarvae easy. There is a near absence of an optic stalk making the eyes nearly sessile.
Figure. Dorsal and ventral views of a paralarva of H. pfefferi, 3.4 mm ML, Hawaiian waters. Drawings by R. Young. The scale bar is 1 mm.
With increased age and depth of occurrence, Helicocranchia, becomes reddish in color probably as they start to mature sexually. Near sexual maturity many cranchiids apparently lose their tentacles. The insitu ROV images on the right below show that loss of tentacles is, indeed, normal.
Vertical distribution
The distribution of Helicocranchia pfefferi from Hawaiian waters shows a clear pattern of ontogenetic descent with squid occurring in progressively deeper water as they get larger. Diel vertical migration does not seem to occur in this species. The dominance of nighttime captures for young stages is a result of the low sampling effort in shallow depths during the daytime and doesn't indicate the daytime absence of small squid at these depths.
In the Atlantic Lu and Clarke (1975) show a similar vertical distribution pattern for Helicocranchia pfefferi. Most captures at less than 30 mm ML were made between 100 and 200 m. Around 30 mm ML an ontogenetic descent began although their largest specimen (49 mm ML) was taken between 300 and 400 m. Presumably the size/depth trend would continue for larger individuals.
Geographical distribution
Species occur throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and, in the Atlantic Ocean, in north temperate waters (Voss, 1992).
Lu, C. C. and M. R. Clarke, 1975. Vertical Distribution of Cephalopods at 11° N 20° W in the North Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 55 (2): 369-389.
Toll, R.B. 1982. The comparative morphology of the gladius in the Order Teuthoidea (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in relation to systematics and phylogeny. PhD. Dissertation, University of Miami, 390 pp.
Voss, N. A. 1980. A generic revision of the Cranchiidae (Cephalopoda; Oegopsida). Bull. Mar. Sci., 30: 365-412.
Voss N. A., S. J. Stephen and Zh. Dong 1992. Family Cranchiidae Prosch, 1849. Smithson. Contr. Zool., 513: 187-210.
Young, R. E. 1972. The systematics and areal distribution of pelagic cephalopods from the seas off Southern California. Smithson. Contr. Zool., 97: 1-159.
Young, R. E. (1978). Vertical distribution and photosensitive vesicles of pelagic cephalopods from Hawaiian waters. Fish. Bull., 76: 583-615.
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Local poet Costa i Llobera masterfully transmitted the beauty and classical resonance of "The Pine Tree of Formentor", which is still revered at the Literary Conversations held since 1959 at the present-day Hotel Barceló Formentor. In a similar vein, the town's commitment to the world of culture remains firm to this very day. Tales that are within your reach to listen to, feel, experience or share with whoever you may wish. If you'd like to receive alerts about free activities, concerts or specific shows, or you'd like further information on any of the content on this site, all you have to do is sign up. Start planning your holidays right now!
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Pollença, a place with stories to tell
Picture a place where verdant pine-clad mountains descend to meet an intensely turquoise sea. A town where stunning backdrops, a fascinating past and friendly locals are part of everything you do.
Imagine for a moment the authentic character of a dynamic town, with lively and creative people making Pollença a place with a full of content.
The town, with its old quarter, is the hub of social activities. Outlying resorts round off the destination: the Port, with excellent accommodation and tourist amenities, and Cala Sant Vicenç, with some of the best hotels on the island.
And, of course, the Formentor peninsula. Its famous hotel, its viewing point or its lighthouse have been sources of inspiration for politicians, artists and thinkers alike. Now you can discover them too.
Welcome to Pollença, a place with stories to tell.
How to get to Pollença
The distance from Palma Airport to the town is 60km and the journey should take around 45 minutes.
- Leave the airport and follow signs for Palma on the Ma-19 motorway.
- After just over 4km, turn off at Exit 3 and join the westbound lane of the Ma-20 motorway.
- After 2.6km, on the outskirts of Palma, turn off at Exit 3 and join the Ma-13 following signs for Inca/Port d'Alcúdia.
- After almost 40km, turn off at Exit 40 (signposted Pollença), cross the bridge over the motorway and join the final 10km stretch of road to Pollença.
Public transport
- At Palma Airport there are taxi stands and coach stops with information about fares and routes.
- A taxi costs around 70 euros, slightly less if leaving from central Palma.
- The website of the local public transport company (TIB) has information about coach routes and timetables:
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Thanks to the organizers and volunteers for making SQL Saturday #108 an overwhelming success. I'm just wrapping up the day following the Redmond SQL Saturday held in the Commons on the Redmond Microsoft campus. Greg Larsen and all of the organizers did a fantastic job to make this a successful event for well over 300 attendees.
With his usual flair and wit, Buck Woody gave the key note address; talking about cloud services, service oriented architectures and how to make yourself valuable and indispensible in the IT database marketplace.
Thank you for all those who attended my session on dashboard design with SQL Server Reporting Services.
I enjoyed Mark Tabladillo's insightful presentation about SQL Server data mining and particularly how to use PowerShell to create and manage mining models.
Kevin Kline from Quest Software educated and entertained us with SQL Server trivia questions. I spent the afternoon talking shop with members of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT) and caught up with several of the other MVPs and speakers including Aaron Nelson, Jes Borland, Hugo Kornelis, Mark Simms, David Eichner, Wes Brown, Stacia Misner, Buck Woody and Kevin Kline. Nice job, everyone.You just can't compare SQL Saturday to any other event with headliner speakers from the industry conferences and authors of the leading industry books, speaking for free to support the community. If you are not attendee a SQL Saturday close to you, plan to attend one at your next opportunity.


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I love you. I really do.
Out of all Lebanese restaurants, you might be my second favorite. A close second at that. Sorry, but nothing can top Batroun's Pizza Royal (and they don't make my wallet go drastically thinner too).
My relationship with you can be abusive sometimes, mostly from your part both to my wallet and my cholesterol levels. And despite that, I keep going back.
But this is not about me loving you. It's about you not loving me as much. You see, you, as a franchise, can be categorized as somewhat xenophobic (Dubai doesn't count). How so? Have you looked at how your branches are spread out across Lebanon?
Take Beirut as the center. Your branches are located all around Beirut. The furthest one to the North is in Kaslik and the furthest one to the south is in Verdun. So say I'm spending summer in my hometown in the North, I cannot eat your Diner Mite 220 unless I go all the way to Kaslik, where I have to wait for ten or more minutes so I can be seated in the non-smoking section. And during summer, the City Mall branch has waiting times that can go to about 30 minutes. To say business is overflowing would be an understatement, right?
So why don't you invest in spreading out more to the North and further to the South? I'm not saying go all the way to Akkar or the Southern border but you know, Batroun or Saida would be a good stopping place, no? I'd even take Jbeil if Batroun is too far for you.
You see, your rival Crepaway is already spreading out way more than you do. Their Batroun branch has been doing quite well for a few years now and they're opening up a new branch in Jbeil. I don't like Crepaway as much as I like you but they're more accessible, and therefore, more prominent in the Lebanese scene. Look at it this way: more people would readily go to the more available place, right?
The new branches don't need to be a full blown architectural design like the new Batroun McDonald's. They can be a small place enough to keep business in the positive range in small Northern cities and enough to satisfy the appetites of your customers whose lives do not revolve around the Lebanese capital.
A hungry Lebanese citizen.


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I just finished my 4th WW meeting this week. I was supposed to lead the "this is what the program is all about" part of the meeting for new members, but there were no new members, so I just did it for the leader, who was a perfect stand-in. She gave me some great feedback and said I did "an excellent job." YAY. I have to say, attending 4 meetings a week really does have a way of increasing one's awareness during the week! When I got home I immediately looked up the points for my lunch (which I don't always do) and made some good choices. Have y'all tasted those Imagine soups? Besides loving the name, they have some incredible new flavors. I recently tried the Corn and Lemongrass and it is soooooooooo yummy. And healthy. That was my lunch!
So today my mentoring leader told me that for my next session on Monday she wants me to…… lead the whole meeting!! Eeeeeeek! I wasn't expecting that until the END of next week! Next Thursday, I will not only be leading the whole meeting, I'll be observed by THREE people (plus all the members) – my mentor, my leader that I work for, AND the territory manager! Yikes. Nerves. But I have been having a lot of fun planning for this meeting, and I'm going to practice a lot over the weekend.
I went to the art store on the way home to get a tube carrier thingie for my flip-chart pages. For anybody who has ever been to a WW meeting, you know that flip charts R us. Which I actually love. It allows me to bring out my inner artist! I'm going nuts with the smelly markers! Woo!
If I "pass" the two sessions next week… it will be official, and hopefully I will be in the pipeline for my own meeting… somewhere!


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Modern humans no brainier than neanderthals, study finds
By Kate Seamons
Published May 02, 2014
It's a well-ingrained stereotype: That Neanderthals grunted their way through life as less than brilliant "club-wielding brutes." A new study published in Plos One says that just isn't so.
Scientists have long theorized that early modern humans had a cognitive advantage (which translated, they posited, into a better diet, better weapons, and better communication) that allowed them to survive when Neanderthals did not some 40,000 years ago.
Wil Roebroeks at the Netherlands' Leiden University was one of two researchers who dug through archaeological records looking for research to support the idea of a dimwitted demise, but instead found "there is no archaeology to back them up."
Adds Dr. Paola Villa of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, "The evidence for cognitive inferiority is simply not there." In terms of being able to communicate and work as a team, they point to a sinkhole in France where Neanderthals are believed to have steered hundreds of bison to their deaths; food remains at cooking sites suggest a diverse diet that included pistachios and wild olives, a press release notes.
Villa says part of the issue is that Neanderthals have long been compared to humans who came after them (in the Upper Paleolithic period) rather than those who were their Middle Paleolithic contemporaries.
Quips Villa, "It would be like comparing the performance of Model T Fords to the performance of a modern-day Ferrari and conclude that Henry Ford was cognitively inferior to Enzo Ferrari." So why did they die out? Roebroeks and Villa think the answer is a complex one, but note that interbreeding with modern humans may have produced infertile male offspring, the Guardian reports.
(And there's more evidence that Neanderthals weren't the brutes their name suggests.)


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Professor Danny Quah (LSE)
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Many writers have noted how the international system might be on the cusp of a change, where the "America Century" will no longer describe world order. If, however, the challenge to the established... Read more
MEC Seminar
Sir Adam Roberts (Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Oxford University), Dr Michael Willis (HM King Mohammed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, Middle East Centre), Rory McCarthy (DPhil candidate, Oxford University), Professor Timothy Garton Ash (Professor of European Studies, European Studies Centre)
16 February 2016 - 5:00pm
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South Asia Seminar
Dag Erik Berg (Göttingen)
16 February 2016 - 2:00pm
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There has been a tendency in caste studies to explain the origins and existence of caste, relying on structural approaches to explain how it is produced and by whom. This paper seeks to step aside... Read more
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Preparing your application
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- CH social security number (756…). If you live or work in Switzerland, you can find this on your AHV card or on your CH health insurance card.
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