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Sensual Excerpt – OBSIDIAN FLAME
This scene takes place at the outset of chapter five, when Thorne and Marguerite, through a series of adventures, end up in the Seattle One Hidden Colony. Marguerite still has dreams of living her own life as a rogue vampire on Mortal Earth, but her level of power in the ascended world has forced Darian Greaves, the worst vampire on the planet, to set death vampires on her trail. She must stick close to Thorne if she hopes to survive.
Caught in the grip of the breh-hedden, Thorne can't stay away from Marguerite and when she decides to take a shower, he can't resist joining her!
Here's what happens in Chapter 5, OBSIDIAN FLAME!
Excerpt from Chapter 5…
Life is full
Of a thousand firsts.
Savor each one.
Collected Proverbs – Beatrice of Fourth
Chapter Five
Marguerite laughed. She shouldn't have, not when he spoke of death vamp guts. She didn't know why she wasn't squeamish, but then she never had been. What he said should have made her puke. Instead, this all just felt so normal. As he lifted her to her feet, she led the way into the back bedroom. The cabin was fairly small, three-and-a-half rooms total.
The bathroom had a roomy shower but no tub.
Thorne moved to the shower and flipped on the water. He got rid of his clothes with a wave of his hand. He still faced the shower so she had a fine view of his ass. She tilted her head and sighed.
His skin was golden in color like it was permanently tanned and there wasn't a line on him. His hair hung down his back. She loved his long warrior hair, always had.
He stretched out his hand beneath the water, testing.
His left butt cheek flexed and his hamstring tightened, his calf muscle, too. She wasn't sure but her jaw may have just trembled. The man was gorgeous.
He stepped inside and turned toward her, a beautiful profile view. His cock was partially erect and in terms of pure beauty, this was her preference. He wasn't standing upright but he wasn't limp, either. She wanted to be on her knees right now and worshiping.
She waved a hand and lost her leathers. Then took a little extra care with her feather earrings, settling them on the counter.
When she turned toward him, his gaze fell to the juncture of her thighs. She'd almost forgotten how different she was down there from the last time he'd seen her.
"Wow," he murmured. "A beautiful peach." His eyes fell to half-mast.
She knew that look. She savored that look. Then suddenly she realized he'd had sex with another woman just a couple of hours ago and her temper flared. She jumped in the shower and punched his left pec.
"What was that for, hellcat?"
"You slept with someone else."
She turned into the spray and he was suddenly up behind her and moving what was now completely solid up and down her butt cheeks. He had to bend his knees to get there. This was the only thing she didn't like about their disparity in height; some adjustments were necessary.
His hands found her breasts as the water hit her face and drenched her hair.
"You smell like roses."
"I thought you wanted to talk about my visions."
"In a minute. I'm not clean enough yet."
She laughed. "No, you're not."
She grabbed a bar of soap and made a big bubbly lather between her hands. She turned into him and spread the bubbles over his shoulders and chest. He was so big. The top of her head barely reached his shoulder, which put her face at pec level, a really fantastic place to be.
She started scrubbing and getting him clean. The whole time he touched her, his hands rubbing over her shoulders, down her arms, lightly over her breasts, her waist, her hips. He teased her mound a little with the crook of his knuckle, but mostly he let her just wash him and she found she enjoyed it.
It dawned on her that because there had never been private showers in the Convent, this was the first time she'd bathed with Thorne.
She stepped aside and let the shower spray hit all that foamy soap. She helped rinse it off his chest. She lathered up again and cleaned his thighs. There was a lot of man to cover and she went all the way to his feet.
She just wasn't certain why except that she'd always loved his body.
She then ordered him to turn around. She performed the same ministration on his back and shoulders. He sighed a couple of times. She wasn't sure what that meant.
She spent extra time on his ass, working the muscles slowly, cleaning down the crack and gliding over his balls from behind. A sigh became a familiar groan.
But she wasn't done. She soaped up the backs of his legs, savoring the feel of the hair all the way down.
Of course, she'd saved the best for last and as she rose up, she demanded that he turn around once more to face her.
"I'm going to use my hand now and make sure you're really clean."
A kind of growlish-grunt came out of his mouth but he said, "I like your short blond hair. I thought I'd miss all that brown length but I don't. This look suits you."
She smiled up at him, craning her neck. "I must look like a drowned rat."
He shook his head. "Nope. You're beautiful." He dipped down and kissed her. "Now, what were you saying about getting me really clean?" He smiled and suddenly her chest felt on fire. Oh, God, she couldn't really be in love with him, not really in love with him, could she?
She glanced down and his length bobbed in front of her, hard and ready for her hands. She slid her soapy fingers over him. His back arched and his thighs flexed. "Shit, that feels good."
That same fire-laden sensation continued to invade her chest as she worked his cock, gliding up and back, taking her time, thumbing the broad crown. She liked this man. She always had. She pretended to be completely engaged in her task, but her mind had spiraled elsewhere. She kept digging up images of Thorne coming to her at dawn at the Convent, making love to her on that horrible bed, enjoying and savoring her body, each time so intense like it would be the last.
But here she was in the security of a strange unknown colony on Mortal Earth, hidden away, and she was actually spending time with him, and taking her time. She'd always been afraid that Grace would come back and wouldn't that have been embarrassing for brother and sister.
So here she was taking pleasure in doing something she'd never done with him before, just stroking him and playing with him. He was so damn hung, something of course, as perverted as she was, she loved about him.
The soap had a slight floral scent, but the shower had filled with that fragrant cherry tobacco scent of his, which had begun working like a couple of quick perfect fingers between her legs. Desire spun through her now.
Thorne released a rush of air like he was holding back a cyclone, then spun her gently away from the spray and eased her against the shower wall, but still facing her. He was breathing hard.
"I need you," he whispered. He got in close and spoke into her ear. The whole time she worked his cock, all the way to the base and back.
"I need you, too." Her voice sounded like rocks covered with mashed potatoes. She cleared her throat. Okay, so they were both breathing hard.
He grabbed her around the waist and hoisted her up, letting her back stay snug against the wall. She knew where he was headed, so she wrapped her legs around his waist. The position put her closer to eye-level so she didn't have to look so far up.
"Do it," she whispered but she planted a hand on his chest and pushed just a little. "Not so close, though. I want to watch."
That beautiful smile of his appeared again.
She looked down and this time she smiled because her recent wax gave her the best view she'd ever had of Thorne's cock entering her. She tilted her hips a little. His knees were bent and his thighs flexed as he pushed, just a little at a time. His cock was dark pink and rigid, a solid pole entering her and as his body pulsed and pushed, a hiss slid from between her teeth.
"So, good. I love this, Thorne. I do, I do."
"Oh, yeah." Could his voice get any deeper. "I'm almost all the way in. Shit, Marguerite, you're so damn tight. Almost like ear–I mean, like all those other times."
"All those other times?"
"Yeah, in the Convent. Never mind. Shit you feel so good."
He'd almost said 'earlier'. She was sure of it. Had he done some kind of mind-diving when she'd been bonking Jose? Could he do that kind of thing?
She might have pursued it, but he'd reached the end of her and now he was pulling back out, a slow-sensual withdrawal that brought a deep moan out of her throat. She arched her neck and he didn't wait for further invitation. He licked her throat and her vein rose so fast that she wasn't surprised that he struck quickly and started drinking.
Oh, God, she sent. She hadn't meant to do that, to enter his mind but there she was.
You taste so good.
You're so hard, rock hard.
He thrust in a steady driving pace and it was heaven. Between all that thickness moving in and out and the feel of his mouth sucking hard at her neck and taking her blood, she was on the cusp, heavily on the cusp.
But it felt different somehow, different in a really good way. That she'd thought of mind-diving made her wonder what it would be like. She knew she had power, lots of it, and she also knew that being deep in the mind of another vampire could trigger some added pleasure.
Yeah, baby. Oh, God you're blood. I can feel it working my muscles. I feel stronger. Just…just tell me what you want but damn I'm close.
I want in, as in deep-mind engagement. Now.
He'd never allowed it before because Endelle had a mind-link with him and he'd always feared she'd discover the truth and ship her ass to the Superstition Fortress.
A long pause. Maybe he was figuring out the question. Or maybe the hesitation meant something else.
The sucking slowed as did the surge of his hips.
You sure?
He resumed the heavy sucking and began pushing into her with deep thrusts. Do it, he sent.
She hissed and mentally gave a big push and suddenly she was just inside his mind as deep as she could get.
He groaned long and loud but kept pulling at her neck.
But the image that hit her brought pleasure streaking through her, bringing her close. She could see Thorne over her, making love to her, but he wasn't himself, he was Jose, or in his mind or something.
Maybe she should have been mad. Instead, she gave a cry because it was hot as hell and Thorne began to pound into her, the sound of his flesh against hers a loud slap even with the water still hitting his back.
The orgasm crashed down on her, almost as hard as the recent vision so that she was suddenly clinging to him and experiencing pleasure like she had never known before. Being in his mind was a ride or maybe the ride, the part of the experience she'd needed all this time, all these decades to really go through the roof.
And it just kept rolling, over and over, sharpening along her bare clit, streaking up the inside of her until she was pulling hard on Thorne's cock, begging him to give her what she wanted.
Give it to me, she practically shouted within his mind.
Fuck, came back to her.
He shoved into her hard, released her neck, and shouted at the ceiling.
She could feel his release and because she was in his mind, she could even experience his pleasure, which triggered hers all over again, so that as he thrust hard, she came and came and came, crying out and pressing her mound against him.
It's never been like this.
"No, it hasn't." His movements slowed, but his breathing was a harsh rasp in the shower.
"I'm shutting the water off," he said. "Damn that got cold." He must have used his mind because he didn't let go of her and suddenly the water stopped spraying. "I don't want to let go of you yet."
"You'd better not," she said. She slid her arms up around his neck then she kissed him. "I like being inside your head. That was the best fuck we've ever done together."
He nodded and chuckled. "You're a pain in the ass, Marguerite, but I love the way you talk to me."
"I'm gonna leave your head now," she said.
Again, he nodded. His lips were parted as he sucked in air.
She pulled out of his mind and it was the strangest rubbery sensation, like pulling taffy or something, until at last she left him. Still, he remained in the shower, holding her ass firmly in both hands and keeping them joined.
She wiggled her hips so that she could feel him deep inside. "This feels good," she said. She looked into his eyes, gorgeous hazel eyes. Usually, they were blood-shot, but not now. Of course, he'd been off-duty for three weeks chasing her across the country and back, which meant he'd been off the Ketel One.
Now here they were, joined like two people would be joined who'd been making love for a century. Only this had been better. Of course, they'd only had sex while she'd been held captive and he'd been worked to death as a warrior.
There was however one issue she needed clearing up.
"So, what the hell was that with Jose?"
"Oh, was that his name?"
"You know damn well that's his name. You were in his head, weren't you? And when you'd had sex, you didn't mean with another woman, did you? What was this, like some kind of ménage-a-trois."
"I guess," he said, with a slight shrug. "Worked for me. And it kept me from killing him."
Her shoulders dropped and she leaned her head against his neck and sighed. "I'm glad. I couldn't stand the thought of you with another woman. I know that makes me the worst kind of hypocrite when I shagged Jose, but I think I'd kill her. I'm beginning to understand why that woman with the long dark hair was so upset with me. What was her name? The one bonded to that tall gorgeous Italian?"
"Yeah, she about ripped my face off when I flirted with her man."
"I remember." His arms tightened around her.
"I'd be like that if we took this much further. I'd want to kill any woman who looked at you."
"Then tell me you understand my dilemma a little."
She lifted up, her arms still hooked around his neck. "So you wanted to kill Jose?"
"Yeah. I almost did, too. Then I worked it out in my head."
"Or his head."
"I guess you could say that."
She yawned. "You want to sleep with me tonight?"
"Thought I already did."
She thumped his shoulder. "In bed, idiot."
He squeezed her ass. "Did you actually think I was going anywhere else?"
She laughed. "No, I guess not."
He shuddered.
"What?" she asked.
"We get to sleep together…all night."
"Thorne, please….please don't get too used to this."
He gave her a soft smile. "No worries, not right now. Let's just get some rest. We'll figure things out tomorrow. And since there are Seers in this colony, maybe they'll have some insight about your visions."
He thumbed her cheek and stared into her eyes.
His gaze was full of something she didn't quite recognize except that it warmed up her chest all over again and made her put her lips against his. He kissed her fiercely, pushing his tongue inside her mouth, a kind of claiming.
She wrapped her arms more tightly around his neck.
He kissed her for a long time. Because he'd firmed up inside her again, she wondered if he was headed toward a second quick fuck. She wouldn't have said no, but suddenly she was really tired.
"Okay, bedtime." But he sighed heavily as he withdrew from her like he didn't like being apart either.
He flipped the lever and the cold water came one. "Sorry there's no hot water left."
She didn't mind the cold so much. She'd been used to it for decades in the Convent.
He stepped out of the shower as she finished up. When she finally emerged, he had a towel waiting for her, holding it wide. She stepped into it and he wrapped her up from behind.
Why the hell did he have to be such a nice guy? Didn't he know this was killing her?
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Caris Roane is the author of five paranormal novels for St. Martin's Press and several indie pubbed novellas. Writing as Valerie King, she has published fifty novels and Novellas in Regency Romance. Caris lives in Phoenix, Arizona, really doesn't like scorpions, and has two cats, Gizzy and Sebastien.
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The entire Chartiers Valley student section watching a high school hockey game against Bishop Canevin on Monday night was ejected for rowdy behavior at the Mt. Lebanon Rec Center ice rink.
Mt. Lebanon police Lt. Aaron Lauth said it's not unusual for a few students to be ejected from a game, but he can't recall an entire section ever being removed for bad behavior.
"We've had to eject students before, and groups for behavior," Lauth said, "but ejecting all the students, that's the first time I've been familiar with it."
Lauth said a Mt. Lebanon police officer working security during the game warned some Chartiers Valley student of their behavior early in the game after they were apparently chanting profanities. When that continued minutes later, the officer told "a pretty big group" that they had to leave immediately, Lauth said.
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Later in the game, someone threw a plastic soda bottle onto the ice, Lauth said. Others apparently threw coins on the ice at some point in third period of the 6-5 loss.
"The officer and the referees saw it," Lauth said. "The referees and officer were in a agreement that this was the last straw so all of the students were then ejected from the game and asked to leave."
Lauth said the referees were adamant that the game would not continue unless "the problem was solved." Other Mt. Lebanon police officers arrived to assist with the situation.
That led to a flurry of tweets from Chartiers Valley students Monday night that ranged from anger toward the police to bewilderment for the ejections.
Lauth contacted the principals at both high schools and informed them of the situation.
"They were going to take steps on their own to talk to the students about future behavior," he said.
Chartiers Valley Superintendent Brian White Jr. said the school district is aware of the situation, but unsure what, if any, discipline would be appropriate for an off-campus club hockey game.
"We can't indiscriminately discipline kids," White said. "I don't have specifics about the incident."
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Dwelling in the Household of God moves us from seeing God's dwelling place as the Temple to seeing God's dwelling place within the community of believers. The starting point now is an image in John 14:2: "my Father's house," which is given its Old Testament meaning of "my father's household." Our awareness thus moves, like that of the first Christians, from understanding "My father's house" as the Temple (John 2:16) to "My Father's Household" as a community of believers drawn into Jesus' own divine filiation. Coloe invites us to re-read the gospel from the post-Easter perspective of those who have become brothers and sisters of Jesus and living Temples of God's presence. What emerges is nothing less than a profound mysticism of the mutual indwelling of God and believers.
Mary Coloe, P.B.V.M., D.Th., holds a joint teaching position at the Australian Catholic University and St. Paul's Seminary, Brisbane. Her publications include numerous articles and God Dwells With Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel.


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Improving Sleep in Nursing Homes
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Older people living in nursing homes do not sleep very well for many reasons. Sleep disorders such as sleep apnea (when someone briefly stops breathing during sleep), and night time urination, along with the problems caused by the nighttime environment of the nursing home, such as noise and disruptive care routines can all contribute. Poor sleep can lead to other health problems or make existing health problems worse.
This study will evaluate how well a sleep hygiene intervention and a medication for sleep (ramelteon (Rozerem)) work to improve sleep in nursing home residents with poor sleep. Ramelteon is FDA approved and has been tested in older adults living in the community, but not in older adults living in nursing homes. We expect sleep to improve on the study drug along with the sleep hygiene intervention, in comparison to placebo along with the sleep hygiene intervention. Based on adverse events reported in previous samples of older subjects, we expect the study drug to cause few side effects.
Sleep Deprivation
Drug: Ramelteon
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Improving Sleep in Nursing Homes
- Sleep efficiency - Actigraphy measures- average percentage of time in bed at night asleep holding constant time in bed and recording time. [ Time Frame: 5 nights of measures during 3 study phases ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Other objective sleep parameters - as assessed by observations, daytime sleep, activity and behavior, PSG studies, Actigraphy Mood [ Time Frame: average of 3 of 5 nights of data ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|October 2007
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|August 2009
Drug: Ramelteon
This study evaluates how well Ramelteon works by measuring sleep at night and during the day. After consenting and final determination of eligibility, participants will complete a baseline phase to assess usual sleep, as well as daytime alertness and activity , thinking and memory, walking and balance (among those who walk and/or stand), and mood. Sleep at night and during the day will be objectively assessed with wrist actigraphs in all subjects. Approximately half will also receive polysomnography to assess nighttime sleep. Subjects who sleep more than 75% of the time they are in bed will not continue in the study. Subjects that do not have improved sleep with the sleep hygiene program will be randomized to one of two treatment groups - one will receive the active drug along with the sleep hygiene intervention and the other will receive a placebo along with the sleep hygiene intervention. Following randomization, subjects will complete a brief run-in phase and then enter the treatment phase. Assessment of sleep and other measures will be repeated.
The primary hypotheses to be examined in this study are as follows:
Hypothesis 1: Subjects treated with ramelteon in addition to a sleep hygiene (SHI) will have improved sleep latency, and as a consequence, a significant increase in actigraphically measured sleep efficiency, compared to subjects treated with placebo plus a SHI.
Hypothesis 2: Subjects treated with ramelteon in addition to a SHI will sleep less and spend less time in bed during the day, be more engaged in daytime activities, and have better mood than subjects treated with placebo plus a SHI.
Hypothesis 3: Changes in daytime sleep, time in bed during the day, engagement in activities, and mood will be positively correlated with improved sleep efficiency among subjects receiving ramelteon in addition to a SHI.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|65 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- After initial screening and consenting, subjects with a 5-night average baseline sleep efficiency of less than or equal to 75% will be included
Exclusion Criteria:
- Less than 65 yrs old
- Bedbound
- Resided in NH for less than two months
- Patients on Medicare Part A skilled Benefit(anticipated short length stay) - Terminal Illness
- Unstable psychotropic drug regimen (addition, discontinuation, or change of dosage of any psychotropic drug in the prior two weeks) - Use of hypnotic, antihistamine, or benzodiazepine more than once per week during the two weeks before screening
- Use of drugs that could potentially inhibit the metabolism of Ramelteon (ie: fluvoxamine, ketoconazole, fluconazole)
- Use of Drugs that induce the metabolism of Ramelteon (ie: rifampin)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00576927
|Contact: Deborah R Wittig-Wells, RN, PhD
|United States, Georgia
|A. G. Rhodes Home
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30312
|Principal Investigator:
|Joseph G Ouslander, MD
|Emory University, School of Medicine, Geriatric Division
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Joseph G. Ouslander, MD, Emory University, School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00576927 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 17, 2007
|Last Updated:
|December 17, 2007
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by Emory University:
Sleep hygiene
Sleep latency
Elderly sleep
Nursing Home sleep
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sleep Deprivation
Sleep Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Mental Disorders
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Paul McKinley - Senate Republican Leader
For lots of Iowans, August is an important month. Often, it is the month were many families and students are beginning to get ready for the start of classes and extra-curricular activities at our schools, colleges or universities. This is also the month where families may get away, perhaps somewhere closer to home in Iowa this year, for a quick vacation. It's a time when hundreds of thousands of Iowans descend on Des Moines for a unique tradition unlike any other: the Iowa State Fair.
Yet, this year it is important because of the major policy discussions happening all over our country. Unlike some years, much of the August political attention this year is focused on the debate unfolding in Congress about the future of health care in America. Many Iowans are concerned about the risky and expensive health care experiment being pushed in Washington that would hand as much as one sixth of the country's economy over to the government and they are worried about plans under consideration for a national energy tax.
However, there is important news about Iowa's state government and budget too. After a 21 percent increase in spending the first two years of his term, Governor Culver and legislative Democrats this year continued on their spending spree which ended with a $6.3 billion dollar budget ˆ the largest in state history. Furthermore, they forced through a very unpopular temporary government make-work program paid for by putting over $1 billion dollars on the state's credit card. The plan does not create any sustainable permanent jobs but babies born this year will be nearly 30 years old before this debt is paid off.
For the last three years, Iowa has not experienced a significant revenue problem - but we have witnessed a severe spending problem. While revenues to the state are coming in at levels slightly less than last year, they remain close to all-time record levels. Had the governor and legislative Democrats kept spending under control, Iowa would not be faced with unsustainable and unbalanced budgets and soaring deficits that could top a billion dollars.
Earlier this week, the non-partisan Legislative Services Agency (LSA) released a new report showing Iowa's receipts for the month of July are down six percent over a year ago ˆ a number that amounts to roughly $23 million dollars. LSA showed personal income tax collections are down 6.1% over last July and corporate income tax revenues dropped by 42.1%. The report also shows a $40 million increase in sales tax collections to the state, but this is simply the result of the final implementation of the state takeover of the penny sales tax for school infrastructure. Those tax dollars come into the state and every dollar is immediately refunded to the school infrastructure account. Those dollars are not net new dollars to the state government available for state general fund expenditures.
Even though the LSA numbers accurately reported a slight dip in revenue to the state, Governor Culver, using his own budgeting tactics, proclaimed that revenues to the state actually increased by $4.7 million dollars. Unfortunately, Governor Culver included the school infrastructure money that cannot be spent for general fund purposes in his calculations and therefore is misleading the taxpayers of Iowa about the true fiscal picture of the state. With record deficits looming as a result of unbridled spending, Iowans need to be presented with all the facts ˆ not more partisan spin - so they can make informed decisions about which direction their elected officials should proceed.
To get Iowa's economy moving in the right direction, Senate Republicans have offered and proposed bold solutions that will make our state more competitive, more friendly to creating jobs and allow Iowans to keep more of their hard earned money. Iowans expert a straightforward and transparent government that reflects the wishes of the people it is supposed to represent.
As the summer begins to wind down, as students and teachers head back to school, as families take a few days to get away on a vacation or head to the state fair, we are again reminded how lucky we are to live in Iowa where people are hardworking and independent and our towns and cities value that core Midwestern sense of community that makes our state so unique. Amidst some of the challenging economic times facing this state, there is a great reason to be optimistic about the future.
I understand that when optimism about the future exists, opportunity abounds. Let us not squander this opportunity to give Iowans more of a voice in government, keep government living within its means and enact real common sense solutions that help individuals, families and communities realize their dreams right here in Iowa.
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"Most people just don't get it," said Ron, bemoaning the urban politicians that continue to whittle away at funding for county fairs and the ag extension service. "It's all about the kids learning real life."
To their misfortune, urban children have much less opportunity to connect with real life. They look at some farm kid working on his show steer every day for months. It is beyond their comprehension. "Why," they think, 'Would anyone want to waste their time in such a mindless pursuit?' and then they whip out their Game Boy and fall into a trance.
Thank goodness there are some politicians, corporations and influential associations that DO get it. As farmers and livestock raisers continue to decline in numbers, it is even more critical that parents, county agents, ag teachers, 4H leaders, scientists and teachers instill in the next generations the realities of life that farming depends on. Does America want to become a net importer of food in fifty years?
I appreciate Mrs. Obama's garden, Whole Foods specialty markets, organic and natural producers. They have a niche market. But who is going to feed the other 99 percent of our burgeoning population, much less a hungry third world?
Those kids, our kids who are fitting steers, doing chores, picking apples, showing hogs, driving the grain truck, learning to weld, riding pens, irrigating strawberries, managing a pasture, hosing the milk room, stacking hay and learning to read the sky are assimilating the mountain of knowledge that it takes to make dirt and rain into food.
Farm kids start learning the land and the livestock when they are old enough to carry a bucket. When they help with the daily chores they are practicing. It's like taking piano lessons or tennis lessons except what farm kids learn has a much more profound objective; feeding us all.
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When a Coworker Gets Special Treatment
Some advice for when a manager plays favorites.
How do I deal with a manager who clearly gives special treatment to a coworker? She is very irresponsible, and yet my manager takes her lateness to work as almost cute behavior on her part. A couple of times, my coworker did not even show up to work but my manager never took appropriate action. They have a good relationship, and any other manager would have already fired my coworker for her behavior. How should I handle this situation? It makes me sick sometimes.
Well, you really don't know what's happening behind the scenes. Maybe your manager did take action--it's unlikely that you would know about it. Your manager wouldn't share that with you, and your coworker, if she's like most people, probably wouldn't confess to you that she's in trouble.
There could be other explanations, too, that you wouldn't have reason to know about. Maybe she's getting her work done, so your manager isn't too concerned about her lateness. Or, your coworker could have a health condition that causes absences, and she could have worked out accommodations for it with your manager.
Of course, it's also possible that what you see on the surface is all there is to it, and you have an irresponsible coworker who's getting away with her bad behavior. If that's the case, then maybe your manager is simply a bad manager and not willing to address it with her. There are certainly plenty of bad managers out there -- maybe even more than good ones -- and you'd have a lot of company if you have a boss who doesn't know how to hold people accountable.
But no matter the explanation, the answer for you is the same: Aside from being annoying, is this affecting your work? If not, you should stay out of it because it's really not your business. But if it does impact your ability to do your job (because you have to take on her work when she's not there, or you're dependent on her work in order to do your own job), then you can raise it with your boss from that perspective, keeping the focus on that aspect of it. (You should also raise things that aren't affecting you if you think you manager doesn't know and would want to, but in this case she appears to know.)
There's sometimes an exception to the rule above, and that's if it's significantly affecting your morale. Personally, as a manager, I want to know if my people are demoralized by a coworker's behavior. To be clear, I don't want to hear about it over and over, but I do appreciate a one-time heads-up, delivered in a professional way. But be aware that not every manager agrees with me and yours may not, so it's a judgment call.
Ultimately, you can only control your own work, and that's where you should keep your focus.
Alison Green is the author of Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Leader's Guide to Getting Results . She is chief of staff for the Marijuana Policy Project, a nonprofit lobbying organization, where she oversees day-to-day management of the staff as well as hiring, firing, and staff development. Her writings have been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Maxim, and dozens of other newspapers. She blogs at Ask a Manager.


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A reminder of the implications of Evan Turner's great excellent playoff performance, and what he's been up to this off-season.
Peja Stojakovic, famous for his exploits with the Sacramento Kings, earned his first NBA championship on Sunday night when the Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat to win the 2011 Finals.
From 2001 to 2011 the Dallas Mavericks have been nothing short of unpredictable. That's why it's anyone's guess whether they'll win Game 3 tonight against the Miami Heat in Dallas.
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Dirk Nowitzk and the Dallas Mavericks had a nice win to start the series against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Look for the Miami Heat to bounce back in Game 2 against the Chicago Bulls.
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Tinker with Molecular Dynamics for Fun and Profit
Molecular dynamics computations make up a very large proportion of the computer cycles being used in science today. For those of you who remember chemistry and or thermodynamics, you should recall that all of the calculations you made were based on treating the material in question as a homogeneous mass where each part of the mass simply has the average value of the relevant properties. Under average conditions, this tends be adequate most times. But, more and more scientists were running into conditions that would be on the fringes of where they could apply those types of generalizations.
Enter molecular dynamics, or MD. With MD, you have to move down almost to the lowest level of matter that we know of, the level of atoms and molecules. At this level, most of the forces you are dealing with are electrical in nature. Atoms and molecules interact with each other through their electron clouds. Several packages are available for doing this type of work, such as GROMACS and GAMESS. In this article though, I take look at TINKER.
Unlike most of the software I've covered in this space, TINKER isn't available in the package systems of most distributions. This means you will have to go out and download it from the main Web site. There are binary files for Linux (32-bit and 64-bit), Mac OS X and Windows (32-bit and 64-bit). Although these should work in many cases, you probably will want to download the source code and build it with the exact options you want. You can download either a tarball or a zip file containing the source code for TINKER.
Once it is unpacked, change directory to the tinker subdirectory. There are a number of subdirectories named after the various operating system options available. Because you're using Linux, you will want to move to the linux subdirectory.
will find a series of subdirectories for each of a number of possible
compilers. For this article, I chose to use the gfortran compiler. Inside
the gfortran subdirectory, you will find a number of scripts to handle
each of the build steps. The first step is to run
compile.make to
build all of the required objects. These scripts need to be run from
the location where the source code resides, so once you know which
set of scripts you are going to use, move over to the subdirectory
tinker/source. From here, I ran
to compile all of the source code I needed into object files.
next step is to combine these into a single library file by running
../linux/gfortran/library.make. The last step is to do the linking
with the system libraries to create a final executable. This is done by
You now will have a full set of executable files, recognizable by filenames that end with .x. These executable files then can be moved to any other location to make them easier to use.
You should find that 61 different executable files have been created. Each of these executables handles some separate task in the analyses that TINKER is designed to do. I look at only a few different executables here to give you a flavor of the types of tasks that you can do.
The first is
analyze.x. This executable will ask for
a structure file (in the TINKER .xyz file format) and the type of
analysis to run. The output you get back includes the following items:
the total potential energy of the system; the breakdown of the energy
by potential function type or over individual atoms; the computation
of the total dipole moment and its components, moments of inertia and
radius of gyration; the listing of the parameters used to compute
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The next executable,
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trajectory file (or restart file) as input too. These two programs are
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The executable
monte.x provides a
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scan.x executable takes
a .xyz structure file as input and finds an initial local minimum. From
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modes to try to find other minima. Once it has searched along each of
these modes, it then will terminate.
A number of these 61 executables are
support utility programs that do non-computational work. For example,
the executables
xyzint.x and
intxyz.x convert back and forth between
the .xyz structure file format and the .int internal coordinates
formatted file.
For all of these programs, the specific details of how they work is determined by a keyword file (with a filename ending with .key). TINKER uses a huge number of keywords to decide the specifics of any particular run. For example, you could set a single bond stretching parameter with the keyword BOND. The keyword CHARGE will set a single atomic partial charge electrostatic parameter. A full listing of the keywords is available in the TINKER documentation.
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The story takes place on an unknown planet in the not-too-distant future. On this world, a surge in crime involving dangerous, miniature robotic weapons known as Custom Robos occurs. Those that manipulate the Custom Robos are commonly called "Commanders," and through specialized training, they learn to manipulate the robots' actions through the use of brain waves.
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KINGSVILLE — Mae M. Bort-Keidel, age 92, of Gageville Monroe Road, Kingsville, passed away peacefully on Monday, August 12, 2013, at the Ashtabula County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
She was born Sept. 2, 1920, in Beach, W.Va., the daughter of James and Lula (Dunkin) Bailey.
Mae was a home maker and enjoyed flowers and gardening. She enjoyed spending time with her family, all of whom remember her as a giving person.
Mrs. Keidel is survived by her daughters, Delores Lute of Kingsville, Christine (Bill) Fredrickson of Seattle, Wash. and Jackie (Tom) Hatmaker of Ashtabula; sons, Terry (Kathy) Bort of Kingsville and Ted (Linda) Bort of Alvin, Texas; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Irene Whepley of North Kingsville.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, Don Bort and Marty Meeker; four sons, Garfield Parsons, James Parsons, Thomas Bort and Timothy Bort; and several brothers and sisters.
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Brian Boyce
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The sound of rain tapped on the barn, like the echo of BB guns fired 20 years ago.
Parke County roads were jammed with festival traffic this weekend, as thousands flocked to Mansfield, Rockville and all towns in between. But unbeknownst to all but a couple dozen regulars, on a small farm northwest of Bridgeton, the Covered Bridge Festival Olympics were raging on Saturday afternoon. The manifestation of childhood friendships, the games drew not only a group of men in their 30s, but now their wives and children.
"This is our 20th year out here," explained Matthew Sullivan, 36.
Meanwhile, dodge ball was under way on the east side of a large red barn as players ran about wearing colored beads while others chomped down hot dogs.
Owned by his uncle and aunt, Brad and Ruth Rukes, the Parke County farm first hosted the gaggle of Terre Haute North Vigo High School students as campers on opening weekend of the Covered Bridge Festival. Friends in high school during the mid-1990s, the guys have returned to the site each year for 20 seasons, bringing their own families from places such as Indianapolis, Chicago and New York.
Brad, now 56, recalled the tradition's origins as BB gun wars in the woods, where his nephew and friends liked to play.
"Actually, they started a few years before that," the retired carpenter said of the 20-year mark, noting he and Ruth have no children of their own. "These are my kids here."
Autumn's colors painted the 12-acre compound of farmhouse, barn and outbuildings. Ruth said the couple first moved there about 30 years ago and have been personalizing it ever since. Markings in the main barn's concrete floor are difficult to discern, but denote its construction date as either 1901 or 1907, making it more than a century old.
"When we first moved out here, the loft didn't even have the boards nailed down," she laughed. "We had no idea it was in such good shape."
But this weekend, music poured from a stereo near a refrigerator lit by neon signs. A hand-crafted bar sits by wooden poker tables, and the whole ground floor resembles the clubhouse it's become.
"Yep, that's all I do with it," Brad said, describing it as a party barn.
And for their nephew's friends, then teenagers, it was the perfect place to birth a tradition of camping and games.
Taryn Stanley stood off to the side of the grassy playing field where races were under way.
"I belong to the crazy guy in the red shirt," she said, pointing to her husband, Jay.
Still residents of Terre Haute, the couple attended Terre Haute North with Sullivan and began hanging out at the Parke County farm on Covered Bridge weekend. This year their two small children came along, and Taryn remembered her own years there hanging out with the guys.
"I just think it's neat that these guys, after all these years, make time to get back together. It's a testament to their friendship that they do that," she said.
Sullivan said the group chooses a different theme each year, and 2012 brought a third round of Olympics. Bead necklaces of gold, silver and bronze represented medals for events ranging from sack races to a homespun pentathlon, and a campfire blazed near the "eternal flame" they'd lit at opening ceremonies Friday evening. His 16-year-old nephew Lane played the national anthem on an electric guitar for the ceremonies.
The weekend also includes a trip to The Bean Shack in Bridgeton for breakfast of biscuits and gravy, a routine they've done so long the owners know each of their names.
"We've been doing that for 20 years now and we've never missed," he said proudly.
Clouds darkened a little Saturday afternoon, but Jay Stanley said the group is indifferent to weather.
"There was one year we were out here when there was six inches of snow on the ground," he said.
Ruth remarked that even as kids, the guys never gave them any trouble out there regarding behavior, policing themselves well enough. Both her and Brad's parents were there Saturday, and over the years, the other guys' parents come out as well, she said.
"It's all family and friends and the families keep getting bigger," she said.
Visitors sign sheets of plywood with the year scrawled across the top, and Lane said he's enjoyed playing with the guys since his own earliest years.
"It's really fun," he said. "It's just a really cool get-together."
In 1997, Sullivan suffered a debilitating accident while diving, but neither that nor the growing distance of hometowns has changed the group's resolve to re-unite each fall.
"These guys mark their calendars like Christmas," he said, megaphone in hand.
And there will be no shock to those there Saturday if the gang's still at it in 2032.
"I sure hope so. I think if you ask, to a man and woman they'd say yes, we have another 20 years in us," Sullivan said.
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It was the flash of light that has flickered over N.C. State basketball for 30 years now. The light has a name, Jim Valvano. He was the coach who hurled that meteor of a 1983 national championship basketball team across the skies, and made stars of unknowns and champions of a group of players whod never have dreamed of what he made of them.
Except that, of course, he made them dream it.
Now, in the 30th anniversary year of the Cardiac Pack, ESPN celebrates the team and the coach with Survive and Advance, a documentary about that championship campaign (nine wins in a row that at times seemed miraculous) and the coach who a little more than 10 years after his greatest moment died of cancer at the age of 47. It is a story made for drama and for tears and there are plenty, but it is neither overly dramatic nor overreaching.
(ESPN debuted the show Sunday night, as the NCAA tourney was about to get under way, with Wolfpack 1983 star Dereck Whittenburg as executive producer. The network will be showing it again in the next weeks, accessible through its website, espn.com.)
Appearing throughout the program is Valvano himself, before his illness had weakened him, giving a speech about motivation and inspiration and leadership. Seeing him in that setting, the magnetism and the brilliance are even more apparent with 30 years perspective. Its easy to understand how he could motivate young men to overcome their limitations.
Its also easy to understand why, after the championship and the adulation, he could have become pulled in a multitude of directions that took him away from coaching basketball, including becoming the universitys athletics director. Whittenburg, a man with keen perception of human nature and great love for Valvano, acknowledges the coach just didnt have time for all the demands at hand.
In the view of Richard Gus Gusler, Raleigh attorney, former NCSU student body president and owner of the Players Retreat across from the NCSU campus, the documentary isnt about basketball. Its people, he says. With Valvano, some people said he didnt care about the players. Thats so wrong. Those guys worshipped him and they still do.
Gusler was called by Valvano a couple of times when players got into problems. He talked for two hours (about one player), Gusler said. He was physically ill. Another time, after a kids name got out (as part of a minor incident) he was sitting there crying. Sitting at his desk and crying. He said, How could they do this to this kid?
No wonder then that Gusler and other alumni and fans still are angry about a spate of publicity following a book publication about corruption in the basketball program and an NCAA investigation. In the end, it turned up relatively minor problems with players selling surplus gear and tickets. But Valvano was bought out and departed N.C. State. There have been four coaches since, all in a way seeking to return the basketball program to the glory wrought by Jimmy V. The current team begins a run for a championship tonight.
The NCAA investigator who appears on the show wrote Valvano when all was done and told him if he had a son hed want him to play for the coach. And he was the guy who did the investigation! The NCAA went through all this material, and found there was no cheating. None of the most serious charges was true. But some people still want to believe it. Gusler said.
The players from that 1983 team, grayer, heavier and with 30 years worth of lines and living behind them, met for filming at the Players Retreat this past August, on a morning before the restaurant opened. They talked about their departed coach with deep emotion, and toasted Lorenzo Charles, the burly player who scored the winning basket in the national championship game against the University of Houston. Charles, a bus driver, died in an accident in June of 2011 in Raleigh.
Jim Valvanos last hurrah came on a 10th anniversary celebration of the 83 championship in February of 1993, when he led a crowd at Reynolds Coliseum in chorus of the fight song and said goodbye.
In one of the current films most powerful moments, Whittenburg goes back to Reynolds, with the lights dimmed. He looks to the rafters, and the tears stream down his face. Nothing need be said. Gusler is right. The story isnt basketball at all. Its people.
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Fun, straightforward and accessible, the cartoony platform brawler Knack ($59.99; rated E-10+) is a solid launch title for the new PlayStation 4 console system. Its gentle and kid-friendly, but veteran gamers will find lots to like. And it nicely showcases the PS4s revved-up graphics and controller options.
Plus its just pretty lovable overall, with its retro pulp adventure story and unique lead character. That would be Knack, a kind of sentient magic golem built from the relics of a long-lost civilization.
Knack was created by the Professor, a kindly old sort who hopes to use Knack as a force for good against mankinds resurgent enemy the goblin army. The goblins, it seems, have recently made a technology leap of their own, graduating from battle axes to fighter jets. Thats going to be a problem.
As the game begins, Knack is just a little feller, toddler-sized. But as he progresses through any given level, he absorbs nearby relics as power-ups, growing in size and strength as a sort of magnetized clockwork beastie. Enemies that require four or five hits to defeat as Little Knack can be smashed with one punch by Big Knack. Those very relics are also central to the story itself, and the source of the goblin menace.
In other words, the nature of Knacks existential dilemma powers the mechanics of the gameplay. Its always a good sign when story and design lock in like this. With Knack, the designers have found a new twist on a very old brawler game template no mean feat and theyve wrapped it all in solid storytelling and character development.
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Well, relative to the genre, mind you. This is still a beat-em-up game at its core and the majority of gameplay is combat, with a smattering of puzzle-solving and collecting. As the game progresses, both the story and the fighting elements expand, and everything is designed to keep your interest piqued.
For instance, in later levels, Knack is able to absorb other substances from the environment -- ice, wood, metal -- and grow to King Kong proportions. These new elements also open up new combat options. Wood Knack can light himself on fire and smite enemies with burning fists of doom. But the fire will eventually burn out, reducing Knack back to size. Ice Knack can hammer enemies with frozen fists, but sunlight will gradually melt him down.
As Knacks combat abilities evolve, so do the enemies, and the game provides a fresh assortment of bad guys with each level. Creativity and humor are given priority, and thats a good thing. The various goblins and robots are more goofy than scary as they hurl weird weapons at Knack -- boomerang bombs, oil globs, mini-tornadoes, this sort of thing.
The supporting characters are developed as well. Allies may not be what they seem, and Knack has a surprisingly engaging mystery story that plays out nicely.
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None of which would matter if the game didnt work on the basic level of the cartoon brawler. But it does. The control scheme is simple and responsive, and the fast-paced fights require rhythm and timing. Individual enemies attack in particular patterns, so you need to think tactically.
The game also offers a co-op two player mode, but I found Knack much more enjoyable as a solo romp. The game is carefully paced so that the fighting and platforming is broken up by gorgeous cut scenes that show off the PS4s superior processing power.
One thing to watch for: The checkpoint system is rather unforgiving. Respawning during battle often requires replaying several minutes of tedious platforming sequences, and if you quit out of a chapter before completing it, you have to start that chapter all over. There must be a reason for this design choice, but I cant figure it out. As my stalwart 10-year-old play-testing partner phrased it: This is so epically stupid.
Knack isnt going to pop your eyeballs with stunning next-gen visuals, but its a very pretty game, with sophisticated art design and some clever variations on the old beat-em-up blueprint.
Also new this week: The flood of launch titles for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 continues, along with a handful of smaller X360/PS3 games and expansions, including Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, Ben 10 Omniverse 2 and Zoo Tycoon.


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