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April 6, 2016
The differences between the Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials
October 4, 2015
Let us now discuss "the Conservative advantage among bigoted, ornery, vote-crazy oldies"
Believe it or not, the end of the seemingly eternal federal election is finally in sight. We're getting to the wind-up stage of the campaign and we can now expect certain evergreen political topics to be discussed as we wearily struggle down to the wire. Colby Cosh covers one of the biggest "issues" of every federal election:
The parties are running low on ammunition in the election that never ends, and I can sense, like a tracker laying an ear to the ground, the approach of conversations about demographics and the getting-out of the vote. With this campaign sub-season — suitably located in the autumn — will come talk of "gray power"; dread of the Conservative advantage among bigoted, ornery, vote-crazy oldies; and, above all, the suffocating hatred of the young toward the liver-spotted hands that grip our levers of power and ward off change.
I rarely speak of Baby Boomers without a generous helping of contemptuous spittle. But the great equalizers, pain and death and dementia and distraction, are now starting to take them. The people I call Turnout Nerds obsess over youth voting: it seems unnatural to them, even revolting, that fewer than half of people under 35 bother to struggle to the polls, choosing to deny us their breezy new ideas and their orientation toward the future. (Not that I can see much actual evidence of either quality.)
They do not talk much about what happens to voter turnout once Canadians have passed their peak propensity to vote, which arrives, according to the official estimates for the 2011 election, at the age of 67. The graph, it turns out, looks like a skewed triangle. Voters in the age cohorts from 20-25 had less than 40 per cent turnout in 2011. There is a slow linear climb from there; turnout passes 50 per cent in the mid-30s, 60 per cent in the mid-40s, 70 per cent on the cusp of age 60. It rises to above 75 per cent at about the traditional retirement age.
But the dropoff in turnout from there is steeper than the rise — and how else could it be, given arthritis and lumbago and the other cruel facts of late life? And by age 67, according to an insurance man's icy "life tables," more than one per cent of the population is dying every year. If you adjust for mortality, and imagine a hypothetical pool of Canadian voters starting out at age 18, the estimated age at which the highest number of the original group will be voting isn't 67; it's more like a flat peak between the ages of 59 and 64. After that, coronaries start taking away more voters than enthusiasm is adding.
April 3, 2015
QotD: The long decline of Rolling Stone
The gap between Americans raised before World War II and after was huge in a way that's difficult to recall for those of us who came of age after the '60s. Greatest Generation parents who might have grown up without on-demand indoor plumbing and survived the Depression and fighting in Europe, the Pacific, North Africa, and Korea came from a different planet than the one on which they raised their kids. To their credit, they bequeathed to the baby boomers a world that was still full of major problems but one that was much richer and full of opportunities. And to their credit, the boomers (of which I'm a very late example, having been born in 1963) readily went about using new opportunities and freedoms (expressive, sexual, educational, economic) to build the world they wanted to live in.
In the late '60s and a good chunk of the '70s, youth-oriented pop music was central to that project. Whatever you might think of the Beatles' music, their very existence — and their constant self-recreations — made everything seem possible. They were far from alone as pop music maguses, too.
Simply by talking with major pop figures, Rolling Stone could be a vital and compelling magazine because it served as something like a boomer conversation pit. Over time, however, music stopped playing the same sort of vital role in generational conversations — don't get me wrong, it's still a part of it all. But as the mainstream in every area of life splintered and recombined into a million different subspecies, no single form of cultural expression matters so much to so many people anymore.
That's a good thing for the culture and the country (and the planet, really), but Rolling Stone has been looking for a replacement core identity for decades now. The magazine that once published New Journalism masterpieces about David Cassidy and stardom, Patty Hearst's rescuers, and "Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse" had trouble figuring out how to deal with a world in which pop and movie stars were less interesting than ever (and more disciplined in terms of talking with the press) and in which men and women of good faith might actually disagree over complicated aesthetic and ideological matters. There has been a lot of good writing and reporting over the years, but there's no question, I think, that the magazine is chasing trends and insights rather than creating them.
In a world in which pop culture — especially youth-oriented pop culture — allows a thousand flowers to bloom in a way that was unimaginable even 40 years ago, Rolling Stone can no longer get by simply by talking with Patti Smith or John Lennon or Bob Dylan for 25,000 words at a time. It might have reinvented itself as a clubhouse where people who love music or movies or whatever could get together to argue over politics, economics, and policy. That could indeed be interesting, especially in a world where large chunks of young Americans are going right, left, and especially libertarian. Just as there is no longer one dominant mode of music, there is no longer one dominant mode of politics.
But the people at the helm of Rolling Stone cannot seemingly even acknowledge that anyone who might disagree with them on, say, the effects of minimum wage laws on the poor, is worth a second thought. All they can do, out of a sense of liberal guilt, is publish radical calls to arm that they must know are ridiculous. Sadly, a magazine that was once required reading for anyone who wanted to know what the younger generation cared about is now a pedantic, insecure, and ultimately ineffective tool of Democratic Party groupthink.
Nick Gillespie, "Rolling Stone's Sad '5 Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For'", Hit and Run, 2014-01-04
March 14, 2015
The parenting style of the Greatest Generation
In the Wall Street Journal, Dave Barry considers the incongruous fact that his parent's generation clearly had more fun than his did:
They didn't go to prenatal classes, so they didn't find out all the things that can go wrong when a person has a baby, so they didn't spend months worrying about those things. They just had their babies, and usually it worked out, the way it has for millions of years. They didn't have car seats, so they didn't worry that the car seat they just paid $249 for might lack some feature that the car seat their friends just paid $312 for does have. They didn't read 37 parenting handbooks written by experts, each listing hundreds, if not thousands, of things they should worry about.
It would never have occurred to members of my parents' generation to try to teach a 2-year-old to read; they figured that was what school was for. And they didn't obsess for years over which school their kids should attend, because pretty much everybody's kids went to the local schools, which pretty much everybody considered to be good enough. They didn't worry that their children would get bored, so they didn't schedule endless after-school activities and drive their kids to the activities and stand around with other parents watching their kids engage in the activities. Instead they sent their kids out to play. They didn't worry about how or where they played as long as they got home for dinner, which was very likely to involve gluten.
I'm not saying my parents' generation didn't give a crap. I'm saying they gave a crap mainly about big things, like providing food and shelter, and avoiding nuclear war. They'd made it through some rough times, and now, heading into middle age, building careers and raising families, they figured they had it pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty good. So at the end of the workweek, they allowed themselves to cut loose — to celebrate their lives, their friendships, their success. They sent the kids off to bed, and they partied. They drank, laughed, danced, sang, maybe stole a piece of an IBM sign. They had fun, grown-up fun, and they didn't feel guilty about it.
Whereas we modern parents, living in the era of Death by Handshake, rarely pause to celebrate the way our parents did because we're too busy parenting. We never stop parenting. We are all over our kids' lives — making sure they get whatever they want, removing obstacles from their path, solving their problems and — above all — worrying about what else will go wrong, so we can fix it for them. We're in permanent trick-or-treat mode, always hovering 8 feet away from our children, always ready to pounce on the apple.
Yes, we've gotten really, really good at parenting. This is fortunate, because for some inexplicable reason a lot of our kids seem to have trouble getting a foothold in adult life, which is why so many of them are still living with us at age 37.
They're lucky they have us around.
H/T to Lenore Skenazy for the link.
March 11, 2015
January 11, 2015
Is more immigration the answer? It depends on how you frame the question
Jay Currie looks at one of the traditional way of looking at the benefits of immigration — as providing society with workers who will "do the jobs Canadians/Americans won't do" and wonders if that's actually true in today's increasingly technological world:
The elite refrain seems to be that if we want to maintain our welfare system, pensions, healthcare and the like we have simply no choice but to import drafts of tax serfs to make up our declining numbers. Is that true?
Here are a few ideas to extend the independence of the Boomers and reduce the need for immigrants at any cost.
- Postpone retirement to 70 or even 75: the boomers parents are extending life expectancy rapidly. 90 is the new 70. Greater activity, a keener sense of healthy life style choices and, as Doug Coupland put it, "Vitamin D and baby aspirin and (mum's) going to live forever." Boomers are nuts to be thinking of retirement at 60 unless they really are too sick to work. So don't. Pushing back the retirement and pension ages saves a lot of pension money and reduces the need to bring in more people.
- Have more children. Not something the boomers can do but our kids can and should. But to do this we need a lot of very family friendly policy. Income splitting is a cute idea but hardly a huge incentive to family formation. Big tax deductions for kids number three, four and five could help a bit. But those are governmental changes.
- Where possible transfer wealth early. There are a lot of older boomers whose parents have died and left good big whacks of dough. And those same boomers are coming to the end of their mortgages. Here is a hint: offer your kids some money. And not, ideally, as a loan. An outright gift is more useful. Don't tie it to real estate either. There is going to be a massive correction in Canadian real estate but even if there wasn't tying a gift to what is usually a debt and endless expense is a poor idea.
- Build houses and condos which can adapt to the changing needs and means of families. Everything from in-law suites to legally easy house splitting needs to be done to drive down the price of housing in Canada. Yes there is a correction coming but that does not change the fact there are many cities where housing is unaffordable. Build rental housing for families. Build up market rental housing. Encourage density. Make it possible to rent with a 1/5 of your average income rather than 1/2.
- Use technology in place of people. A lot of the jobs "Canadians just will not do" should not be done at all by anyone. From self cleaning toilets – already done in Japan – to robotic floor cleaners and fast food "servers" there are lots of jobs which can and will be done by robots. Pushing that sort of technology will reduce the need for more immigrants.
If you actually look at those numbers seriously and, instead of 10% use 5%, you'll see that 900,000 low skill jobs are going to get eaten by robots and IT over the next decade. 90,000 a year. Now, look at the naturalized Canadian number for 2014 again 260,000. If half our new citizens are entering the labour force that is 130,000 new workers per year in an economy which will be shedding 90,000 jobs per year. Does that make any sense at all?
September 30, 2014
QotD: The Millennial Generation or "Generation Wuss"?
I have been living with someone from the Millennial generation for the last four years (he's now 27) and sometimes I'm charmed and sometimes I'm exasperated by how him and his friends — as well as the Millennials I've met and interacted with both in person and in social media — deal with the world, and I've tweeted about my amusement and frustration under the banner "Generation Wuss" for a few years now. My huge generalities touch on their over-sensitivity, their insistence that they are right despite the overwhelming proof that suggests they are not, their lack of placing things within context, the overreacting, the passive-aggressive positivity, and, of course, all of this exacerbated by the meds they've been fed since childhood by over-protective "helicopter" parents mapping their every move. These are late-end Baby Boomers and Generation X parents who were now rebelling against their own rebelliousness because of the love they felt that they never got from their selfish narcissistic Boomer parents and who end up smothering their kids, inducing a kind of inadequate preparation in how to deal with the hardships of life and the real way the world works: people won't like you, that person may not love you back, kids are really cruel, work sucks, it's hard to be good at something, life is made up of failure and disappointment, you're not talented, people suffer, people grow old, people die. And Generation Wuss responds by collapsing into sentimentality and creating victim narratives rather than acknowledging the realities of the world and grappling with them and processing them and then moving on, better prepared to navigate an often hostile or indifferent world that doesn't care if you exist.
Brett Easton Ellis, "Generation Wuss", Vanity Fair, 2014-09-26.
September 22, 2014
QotD: Dumbing down the universities
Years ago, when I was at university, I asked one of the older professors of history what he thought about the changes in the student body over his career. This gentleman, a word entirely applicable to him, said that when he started teaching in the early 1960s he would flunk between a quarter and a third of his first year classes. Faster forward to the early 2000s and he rarely flunked a student. I jokingly asked him if that was because young people are smarter now than they were forty years earlier. He found my little joke rather too funny.
He confided in me that in the late 1960s the president of the university did the rounds. He explained that he was receiving pressure from the provincial government. Too many students were going off to university and then failing to graduate. The logical inference would have been that the high schools had either failed to prepare these students, or that the students were not academically capable or inclined. Political logic, however, is not like ordinary logic. It works by different rules. A government minister couldn't admit that many public high schools just weren't good enough, or that little Johnny was a bit daft. That would have contravened the egalitarian ethos of the age. So if the high schools couldn't be fixed, they'd fix the universities instead.
Now by fix they didn't mean improve. Nope. They meant dumb down. Now this was at one of the most prestigious universities in the land. You can well imagine that dumbing down at such a place was bad enough, dumbing down at less academically selective schools would be the equivalent of destroying virtually all academic rigour. This dumbing down also had the added advantage of filling in all those empty spaces left when the Baby Boomers graduated.
Richard Anderson, "The Shadow of Truth", The Gods of the Copybook Headings, 2014-03-28
August 27, 2014
Reason.tv – P.J. O'Rourke on Millennials and Baby Boomers
Published on 26 Aug 2014
"Just this whole process of going through the baby boom's history, I began to realize what a nicer society — kinder, more decent society — that we live in today than the society when I was a kid," says P.J. O'Rourke, best-selling author of Holidays in Hell, Parliament of Whores, and many other titles.
O'Rourke sat down with Reason's Nick Gillespie at Freedom Fest 2014 in Las Vegas to discuss his new book, The Baby Boom: How it Got That Way and It Wasn't My Fault and I'll Never Do it Again. As the father of three kids born between 1997 and 2004, he also lays down some thoughts about millennials, noting that they live in a much nicer, more tolerant world than the one in which he grew up. "I don't think my 10-year old boy has ever been in a fist fight," says O'Rourke, who was born in 1947. "I mean there might be a little scuffling but I don't think he's has ever had that kind of violent confrontation that was simply part of the package when I was a kid."
He also feels that the internet "fragments information" in a way that destroys the sweep of history, at least at first. "You end up with mosaic information," he says. "Now, I think over time the kids put these mosaics together but I don't think the internet itself lends itself to the sweep of history."
The interview also includes a tour of O'Rourke's long and varied career in journalism, from his humble beginnings writing for an underground alt-weekly to his time as editor of National Lampoon and his incredible work as a foreign correspondent for Rolling Stone to his current position as columnist at the Daily Beast.
A prominent libertarian, O'Rourke also discusses the difficulties in selling a political philosophy devoted to taking power away from politicians.
"If libertarianism were easy to explain and if it weren't so easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism — people walking around with 'Legalize Heroin!' buttons and so on — I think it would've been done already," says O'Rourke. "But the problem is, of course, is that libertarianism isn't political. It's anti-political, really. It wants to take things out of the political arena."
August 12, 2014
The very different American and British baby booms
In sp!ked, Jennie Bristow reviews P.J. O'Rourke's latest book, The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn't My Fault) (And I'll Never Do It Again).
For the British 'Baby Boom' was very different to its American sibling, in both respects of the word. Demographically, Britain – like many other Western countries immediately after the Second World War – experienced a spike in the birthrate, but this dropped back quickly until the mid-1950s, when there was a less dramatic, but more sustained, bulge over the next 10 years.
Size isn't everything, however, and the other aspect of the Baby Boom label is the period of prosperity and growth that followed the war in the US. O'Rourke's introduction to the UK edition of The Baby Boom points out another fact that tends to be ignored in the slating of the British Baby Boomers – that 'postwar experience in America was very different from postwar experience in a place where war, in fact, occurred. That is, we had the "post-" and you had the war.'
Throughout the book, O'Rourke's fond accounts of growing up during the Fifties, which are generally amusing and often stylistically annoying, hammer home the space, freedom, affluence and indulgence enjoyed by the American Baby Boomers as children. In Britain, accounts of the so-called 'Golden Age' of the Fifties tend to extend to children playing by the river and neighbours leaving their front doors unlocked, glossing over the more drab reality that kids did not have anything to play with inside, and that most homes were not worth burgling.
Given the divergence in experience between the British and American Baby Boomers, one might wonder how the American debate, about the problems of the Boomers' size, wealth and health (which, many grumble, means they will live 'too long', robbing younger generations of their fair share of pensions and healthcare resources), became plonked on to Little Britain with scant regard for the differences.
The answer lies partly in what the US Boomers did share with their counterparts in the UK, and in parts of Europe, too. This was the experience of growing up in the tumultuous Sixties, when youth appeared to be in the vanguard of a cultural revolution that swept aside established norms and values, rejecting the authority of tradition and, above all, of adults.
Swiftly demolishing another great myth about the Sixties, O'Rourke points out that, in reality, 'the Baby Boom was the tailgate party, not the team on the field': 'There was a lot of "talkin' 'bout my generation" (Pete Townshend, born 1945), but it wasn't my generation that was causing "What's Going On" (Marvin Gaye, born 1939) during the "Youthquake" (a coinage from Punch, edited by people born when mastodons roamed the earth).'
February 3, 2014
January 7, 2014
"Boomer Classic" and "Boomer Reboot"
Chronologically speaking, I'm a late Baby Boomer, but I've never felt I was a Boomer culturally. In the New York Times, Richard Pérez-Peña helps to explain why this is:
This year the youngest of the baby boomers — the youngest, mind you — turn 50. I hit that milestone a few months back. But we aren't what people usually have in mind when they talk about boomers. They mean the early boomers, the postwar cohort, most of them now in their 60s — not us later boomers, labeled "Generation Jones" by the writer Jonathan Pontell.
The boom generation really has two distinct halves, which in my mind I call Boomer Classic and Boomer Reboot. (Take this quiz to see where you stand.) The differences between them have to do, not surprisingly, with sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll — and economics and war. For a wide-ranging set of attitudes and cultural references, it matters whether you were a child in the 1940s and '50s, or in the 1960s and '70s. And it probably matters even more whether you reached adulthood before or after the early '70s, a time of head-spinning changes with long-term consequences for families, careers and even survival.
Late boomers like me had none of that — no war, no draft, no defining political cause, and most of our fathers were too young for World War II. I remember, as a teenager, seeing old footage of the riots outside the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, and thinking, "People my age don't feel that strongly about anything."
People raised in the immediate postwar years had more faith in their government, and an idealistic view of America that curdled in the '60s and '70s. My childhood memories of the evening news, on the other hand, include the war, protests, Watergate and the dour faces of Johnson and Nixon, not the grins of Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy.
In this way, I think we late boomers have more in common with the jaded Generation X that followed: we had less idealism to spoil. No, I don't remember where I was when Kennedy was killed and innocence died (I was an infant), but I sure remember where I was when Nixon resigned and cynicism reigned. Older boomers may have wanted to change the world; most of my peers just wanted to change the channel.
H/T to Kathy Shaidle for the link.
January 5, 2014
In the dictionary, the word "narcissism" is defined as "baby boomer default mental state"
Okay, it isn't really (but if you think it is, you've probably fallen for the "gullible isn't in the dictionary" prank as well). In the Wall Street Journal, Terry Teachout discovers that every defining event of the Baby Boom era always comes back to being about the Baby Boomers themselves:
Most "Monty Python" fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age. Witness their tiresomely obsessive fascination with the popular television series of their youth. Likewise their undimmed passion for the rock music of the 1960s and '70s, which they still love so much that they'll buy expensive tickets to see wrinkled old codgers play it onstage.
As always with the boomers, this nostalgia contains more than a touch of narcissism. The same narcissism was on display in many of the countless gushy boomer-penned reminiscences occasioned by the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. An indisputably major historical event, to be sure, but there was also something decidedly creepy about the self-centered tone of those suddenly-my-world-changed pieces, which was deftly skewered by this Onion headline: "Area Man Can Remember Exactly Where He Was, What He Was Doing When He Assassinated John F. Kennedy." Like everything else in the boomers' world, Kennedy's death turned out in the end to have been all about them.
Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age. My impression is that they'd much rather watch sitcoms than read novels, go to the opera or listen to jazz. In large part they're a cohort of Peter Pans, determined not to grow up any more than they can help. Indeed, not a few of them seem to take a perverse kind of pride in their adolescent enthusiasms. I read the other day that a "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" lunch box from 1973 now sells for $1,200 — and that the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History owns one. I'm not quite sure which of those facts makes me sadder.
If I live long enough, I'll enjoy finding out how the millennials remember the world of their youth a quarter-century from now. Since they're having a much harder time earning a living than did their baby-boom parents, I wouldn't be at all surprised if their attitude ends up being much more like that of the wised-up kids of the Great Depression, especially as regards cultural matters. While I don't know whether they'll go in for late Beethoven by the time they reach their 50s, somehow I doubt that watching an ancient episode of "30 Rock" will cause them to recall with fondness the good old bad old days when they were living in crummy studio apartments — or their parents' basements.
January 1, 2014
Newest apologist for the Baby Boomers – P.J. O'Rourke
Kathy Shaidle posted a Twitter update that should cause a few shudders:
PJ ORourke goes from writing for National Lampoon to pro-boomer dreck for AARP mag. Sigh. http://t.co/fJpAxAX5ox #DieFaster
— Kathy Shaidle (@kshaidle) January 1, 2014
The article at the AARP website is clearly written to buff up the self-esteem of Baby Boomers everywhere:
We're the largest, richest, best-educated generation of Americans, the favored children of a strong, confident and prosperous country. Or, as other generations call us, spoiled brats. Born between 1946 and 1964, the 76 million boomers reaped all the benefits of the postwar period's extraordinary economic growth.
We were dizzy with our aspirations. We'd be rock stars. We'd be spiritual avatars. We'd be social activists. We'd be billionaires. No, better yet, we'd be all those things at the same time. (Steve Jobs came close.)
Every time opportunity knocked, we let it in, even when it should have been locked out for decency's sake. And behold the boomers' remarkable experiments with prosperity — the dot-com bubble, the housing bubble, the enormous financial bubble that's still got the nation trying to get fiduciary gum out of its hair.
And now the boomers run the world. The youngest members of the generation that decided to be young forever are turning 50. That's the age of maximum privilege and power. We're giving everybody orders. The oldest boomers are enrolled in Medicare, collecting Social Security and receiving tax-free Roth IRA disbursements. Plus, American life expectancy has increased by almost 12 years since the baby boom was born, so it doesn't just seem like we'll never go away. From President Obama, Rand Paul and Jeff Bezos at one end of our age cohort to Hillary Clinton, Rush Limbaugh and Cher at the other, we cannot be escaped or avoided (or shushed).
But running the world means taking responsibility for it. The boomers have been good at taking things: Mom's car without permission, drugs, umbrage at the establishment, draft deferments, advantage of the sexual revolution, and credit for the civil rights and women's liberation movements that rightly belongs to prior generations. The one thing that can be left in plain sight without us putting our sticky mitts on it is responsibility. Ask our therapists. Or the parents we haven't visited at the extended-care facility.
November 19, 2013
Making Granny pay … full fare
In Maclean's, a look at the feel-good but economically silly reasons for senior discounts:
The seniors discount has long been justified as a way to recognize the constraints faced by pensioners stuck on fixed incomes, and as a modest token of appreciation for a lifetime spent paying taxes and contributing to society. And for those truly in need, who would quibble? But with half a million Baby Boomers — a group not known for frugality or lack of financial resources — turning 65 every year for the next few decades, the seniors discount is in for much greater scrutiny.
There was a time when the seniors discount made a lot more sense. In the mid-1970s, nearly 30 per cent of all seniors were considered poor, as defined by Statistics Canada's low-income cut-off. But today, this has fallen to a mere 5.2 per cent. The impact of this turnaround is hard to overstate. Seniors once faced the highest rates of poverty in Canada; now they enjoy the lowest level of any age group: The poverty rate among seniors is almost half that of working-age Canadians.
Thanks to a solid system of government support programs, the very poorest seniors receive more income in retirement than they did when they were of working age. The near-elimination of seniors' poverty is widely considered to be Canada's greatest social policy triumph of the past half-century.
This tremendous improvement in seniors' financial security has dramatically changed the distribution of income across age categories, as well. In 1976, median income for senior households was 41 per cent of the national average. Today, it's 67 per cent. Over the same period, median income for families where the oldest member is aged 25-34 has fallen in both absolute and relative terms.
Then there's the vast wealth generated for the Boomer generation by the housing and stock markets (only some of which was lost during the great recession). The stock of wealth in housing, pensions and financial assets held by the average senior family is nearly double that of working-age households. Accounting for the financial benefits of home ownership and rising house values, Statistics Canada calculates the true net annual income of retired households rises to 87 per cent of a working-age household's income. In other words, non-working seniors are making almost as much as folks in their prime earning years, but without all the expenses and stressors that go with a job, children at home, or middle age. Not only that, the current crop of seniors enjoys historically high rates of pension coverage. The much-publicized erosion of private-sector pensions will hit younger generations who are currently far from retirement.


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Posted on December 19, 2013
So many classic and elevated recipes, yummy
Posted on December 19, 2013
Now, you may have seen Vegan Chocolate, hmm… just about everywhere in the last couple of months! Chocolate Queen Fran Costigan and amazing photographer Kate Lewis have created this magical bundle of incredible chocolate recipes; all of which are vegan. If you don't like chocolate, I suggest you click away, like pronto. 'Cause it is about to get rich, sweet and cocoa-y up in here.
I was lucky enough to have assisted on the set of Fran's cookbook trailer, so I got a taste of what was to come before the book was out. I helped make the Sachertorte about three times and never got sick of having a slice after we were done with each one. Seriously, that thing was insane, and I had nearly memorized the recipe by the time it was over because it is very easy to make.
After I got my copy of what I would like to call "the Vegan Chocolate Bible", I flipped through the pages carefully, deciding on what I wanted to make and what would be fun for the holidays. When I saw the recipe for Chocolate Vodka, I knew that I would FOR SURE make it. Hopefully my pseudo-mother-in-law and my own mother aren't reading this, because they are each getting a bottle as part of their Christmas gifts.
Next, I found the recipe for Graham Crackers and saw just how easy they were to make. Bingo! That was my second recipe and honestly, it was really hard to save them up for a couple of days so that I could coat them with the Chocolate Olive Oil Glaze. You want to talk about easy? How about two ingredients (with an optional third) to make an awesome chocolate glaze that you can dip anything in? Yes, freakin' please.
I feel as though I may dunk my way into insanity, trying to find awesome things to coat in chocolate and serve to people. At least I'm a giver, right? 😉 Speaking of giving, 'tis the season and I'm hosting a giveaway for one copy of Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy-Free Desserts! Oh, you lucky readers, you.
Happy Holidays, and good luck! <3
Disclaimer: This book was sent to me for reviewing, I was not compensated for this post. All opinions are honest and my own. There are affiliate links in this post, buying through these helps me to keep this blog going! Thank you, for everything. 🙂
So many classic and elevated recipes, yummy
I would give it to my grandmother, my favorite baker
If I couldn't keep this book, I would give it to my sister in law who is a self-proclaimed chocoholic, and it would show her how good being vegan can be!
I would give it to my mom who's convinced desserts can't be vegan.
My uterus is requesting a copy as well. Can she enter separately from me?
Congratulations to Anna the winner!
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Painting of a Necromancer and her buddies. Been awhile since I've spent 10+hrs on a painting, but this one was a lot of fun, especially the undead dudes.
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This is great! I needed art for a necromancer character image for a D&D game! It is really difficult to find female character images that are not "bra and panties" style.
Thank yo so much, and keep up the good work!
Thank yo so much, and keep up the good work!
Your work reminds me a lot of Todd Lockwood, he's a fantasy artist... this is awesome!!
This is incredible. Wow.
Awesome! Undead its my favotite race!
realy good jab
woman-necromant nice)))
Coolest take on a Necromancer I've ever seen! I love the mood in this, and the lighting.
Overall awesome.
Overall awesome.
Beautiful work!
Awesome!!! I freakin' love Necromancer chicks. Really Bad-ass.
Necromancers are awesome, and this painting if phenomanal!
beautifully !!!!!!
Love it!
I love your style - dark and gothic but without the 'zomg bewbs and skulz' over-the-top-ness. Seems 'realistic' so to speak!
I love your style - dark and gothic but without the 'zomg bewbs and skulz' over-the-top-ness. Seems 'realistic' so to speak!
Great work! I hope you don't mind if I use this as my roleplaying PG portrait
i cant get enough of this!Beautiful
OMG Its perfect!
Incredibly good.
Beautiful, I really love this!
just 10 hrs? damn.. very nice
Art like this makes me realize why my art never gets any comments!!
Hauntingly good
Epic Win.
Love the combination of colour, shading/lightning
Love the combination of colour, shading/lightning
Wow love it, makes me feel as if I'm there
StandAlone-Complex this is great work. I have produced a product that I need a Female Grave Digger that I would like to have on my packaging. Would you be interested in a project like this.
Wow stunning work loving the zombies.
Love it,your really awesome!
Wao nice, i like so much this picture.
This is awesome
This Is fecking AWESOME!!! Love it!!!
awesome work
So awesum!
Bloody amazing!!!
I love it!
Necromancers are awesome
Necromancers are awesome
Great work
Awesome and magnificent
This is a warlock! xD
Looks awesome i love it .
Just fantastic!!!!
You never cease to amaze.


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Higher bone mineral density in Caucasian, hirsute patients of reproductive age. Positive correlation of testosterone levels with bone mineral density in hirsutism
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Objective The mechanisms leading to higher bone mineral density (BMD) in hirsute patients than in healthy controls have seldom been examined. We compared the metabolic, hormonal and bone metabolic parameters in hirsute patients and female controls and correlated BMD and bone metabolic parameters with testosterone, oestradiol and metabolic parameters.
Patients Fifty-one Caucasian, reproductive-aged, hirsute patients referred to the outpatient clinic of an academic tertiary-care medical centre and 63 healthy, female Caucasian controls matched for season, weight and age.
Measurements BMD (hip, neck, lumbar and total BMD), bone metabolic parameters (osteocalcin, alkaline phosphatase, PTH, ionized calcium, phosphate and 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD)) and endocrine profiles (androgen status, oestradiol and insulin) were evaluated during follicular phase. Oestradiol measurement was repeated during cycle days 8–12.
Results Lumbar and neck BMD levels were significantly higher in hirsute patients than in controls: (mean ± SD): lumbar BMD 1·10 ± 0·12 vs. 1·06 ± 0·10 g/cm2 and neck BMD 0·91 ± 0·11 vs. 0·87 ± 0·12 g/cm2, P < 0·05. Fasting insulin and free testosterone levels were significantly higher in hirsute patients than in controls. Free testosterone correlated positively with neck and hip BMD levels in hirsute patients. During multiple regression analysis, testosterone, oestradiol and waist/hip ratio (WHR) were found to have positive effects on BMD levels independent of body mass index (BMI). 25OHD levels were significantly lower in hirsute patients [42 (13–131)] than in controls [72 (27–196)] nmol/l (geometric mean ± 2SD), P < 0·001].
Conclusion Hirsute patients demonstrated significantly higher bone mineral density levels than controls, which could be explained by hyperinsulinaemia and higher testosterone levels in hirsute patients compared with controls. The pathogenesis for significantly lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in hirsute patients compared with controls needs to be evaluated in future studies.


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CROYDE SUNSET VIEW Bungalow
- 2 bedrooms
- 4 sleeps
- 7 nights min stay
Bungalow / 2 bedrooms / 1 bathroom / sleeps 4
Key Info
- Beach / lakeside relaxation
- Nearest beach 0.4 km
- Great for children of all ages
- Car not necessary
- No pets allowed
- Private garden
- Great for children of all ages
- No pets allowed
Description from owner
This delightful cosy bungalow is tucked away along the beach path that leads directly from the village of Croyde to the golden sandy beach. So step out of your holiday home and onto the beach in just a few minutes. Croyde is a small village with a lively atmosphere, a perfect holiday destination with great pubs, restaurants, surf shops, grocery store and a Post Office.
SUNSET VIEW is in an enviable location in Croyde, with views from the garden across the dunes to the sea and Baggy Point. CROYDE SUNSET VIEW has 2 bedrooms, sleeping 4 people, and a pretty suntrap garden with a BBQ - a lovely holiday home for small families or groups of friends.
Step into the open plan kitchen and living area, with a large comfy sofa and two armchairs. A log effect fire is great for cooler evenings. Unwind and turn on the TV intergrated DVD player with Freeview, and a large selection of DVDs to choose from, or play your favourite tunes on
This delightful cosy bungalow is tucked away along the beach path that leads directly from the village of Croyde to the golden sandy beach. So step out of your holiday home and onto the beach in just a few minutes. Croyde is a small village with a lively atmosphere, a perfect holiday destination with great pubs, restaurants, surf shops, grocery store and a Post Office.
SUNSET VIEW is in an enviable location in Croyde, with views from the garden across the dunes to the sea and Baggy Point. CROYDE SUNSET VIEW has 2 bedrooms, sleeping 4 people, and a pretty suntrap garden with a BBQ - a lovely holiday home for small families or groups of friends.
Step into the open plan kitchen and living area, with a large comfy sofa and two armchairs. A log effect fire is great for cooler evenings. Unwind and turn on the TV intergrated DVD player with Freeview, and a large selection of DVDs to choose from, or play your favourite tunes on the CD player/radio. A useful dining area seats 4 people, a great place to plan your day over a sunny breakfast.
This well equipped compact kitchen has all you'll need for your self catering holiday. Appliances include an electric oven, with grill and hob, microwave, toaster, kettle, fridge/freezer and a handy washing machine. Tea towels are thoughtfully provided.
Bedroom 1 contains a double bed, bedside cabinets, reading lamps, built-in wardrobe, dressing table and a mirror. Wake up in the morning to sea views across the dunes.
Bedroom 2 is a twin bedroom with bedside cabinets, reading lamps, built in wardrobe, dressing table and mirror. Patio doors open onto the suntrap patio outside, with views across to the dunes and sea, west facing for that beautiful sunset.
The family bathroom contains a bath with shower overhead, WC, hand basin and heated towel rail.
Outside you'll find a pretty garden with colourful planting and a patio area. A table, chairs and BBQ are provided for evening meals outdoors, or simply watching the sunset after a day at the beach. The garden shed is available to visitors, with body boards and windbreaks for you to use on the beach.
High Chair Usage: GBP 0.00 per booking
Travel Cot Usage: GBP 0.00 per booking
Location - Croyde; Pets - No; 2 Bedrooms; Sleeps 4; Post Code EX33 1PS; Ideal for families, children, friends and couples; Changeover Day - Saturday during peak weeks (otherwise flexible); WiFi NOT available; Parking 2 cars; Freeview; TV Integrated DVD/CD player; Radio/iPod; Large DVD selection; Garden; BBQ; sea views; Inclusive linen; Oven; Grill; Hob; Microwave; Fridge/freezer; Washing machine; Heating included
All bookings are subject to the Terms and Conditions on Choice Cottages website.
Arrival time: 4pm with Departure time by 10am
Add to basket items may be available and booking fees apply - see Choice Cottages website for price details.
It is important to note that, although nightly rates are reflected by the advertising portal, these are not applicable. Short breaks, when available, will be offered at a minimum price of 65% of the weekly rate (conditions apply).
Secure, online bookings can be made via the Choice Cottages website
Location description from owner
The England region
North Devon is one of the most beautiful areas of the British Isles. It boasts miles of unspoilt and award winning beaches. The coastline is one of the most popular surfing venues in the country, with Croyde being the most popular.The beaches at Croyde and Woolacombe regularly win awards for cleanliness and safety and are manned by lifeguards throughout the summer months.Most of the region appears to be untouched by time as sleepy, windy lanes reveal thatched roofed cottages and historic buildings and villages such as Lynton in the north of the region and Clovelly in the south. The village of Croyde has many examples of cobb walled, thatched cottages.
WALK TO – Croyde is a magical place nestling around a stream running down to the sea. This award-winning sandy beach is fine and flat, ideal for children and good for surfing. Rock pools are in abundance and dunes a haven for young and intrepid explorers. Local fun parks for the children such as Cascades Pool Park are a great way to spend the day. Croyde Bay is renowned as a premier surfing beach destination in England for short and long boards. For the more adventurous, kite surfing, volley ball, kayaking and horse riding is on your doorstep. Within walking distance of Croyde beach enjoy its ice cream shop, gourmet restaurants, superb village pubs, surf shops, and art gallery. This classic 'chocolate-box' village is steeped in old-world charm and echoes the feeling of life in Britain in times gone by. Coastal and Countryside walks include the majestic Croyde cliff path to Baggy Point, (and for those energetic), to Woolacombe and beyond.CYCLE TO - A day at historic Braunton Burrows is great. Cyclists can enjoy the 30-mile Tarka Trail tracking the scenic coastline of North Devon.DRIVE TO – explore the beautiful Exmoor National Park. Combe Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur Park, The Milky Way and The Big Sheep all within a short driving distance. Cultural days can be passed at Arlington Court, historic Clovelly Village, Watermouth Castle, Lynton, Lynmouth, Victorian-styled Ilfracombe with its quaint fishing harbour and many more. Saunton Golf Course is a mere 3 miles down the road with its 2 famous links courses. Finally, picturesque walks through beautiful forested areas and running rivers such as at Watersmeet will complete your wonderful stay in this beautiful part of England.
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Bed & bathroom
- 1 Double Bed, 2 Single Beds
- 1 Family bathroom
- Private garden
- Sea view
- Cooker
- Fridge
- Freezer
- Microwave
- Toaster
- Kettle
- Washing machine
- Iron
- DVD player
- CD player
- Linen provided
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- Parking
- Not suitable for wheelchair users
- Check in time:16:00, Check out time:10:00
- If you have any questions about check-in or check-out times, please contact the owner/manager.
- Payment
- To be covered by Payment Protection this rental needs to be paid for online through Holiday Lettings using your credit/debit card or PayPal. Never pay for your holiday rental by wire transfer (such as Western Union or Moneygram) as this type of payment is untraceable.
- Smoking
- No smoking at this property
- Cancellation policy
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About the owner
Choice Cottages (Property Manager Choice Cottages)
- Response rate:
- 85%
- Calendar updated:
- 23 Jul 2016
- Years listed:
- 10
- Based in:
- United Kingdom
Languages spoken: English
This Bungalow has 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and sleeps 4. It's been listed on Holiday Lettings since 18 May 2009. Located in Braunton, the average weekly rate varies from £518 to £937.
The Owner has a response rate of 85% and the property's calendar was last updated on 23 Jul 2016.
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Simple Definition of rainwater
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CHEBOYGAN — It was another good season for the Cheboygan girls' soccer team on the field.
The team won its second consecutive Northern Michigan Soccer League championship, finishing undefeated in the conference, while also capturing a second straight district championship.
While the Chiefs were certainly special on the field all season, they were even better in the classroom.
The Chiefs, composed of 20 girls on this year's team, were recently named to the Michigan High School Soccer Coaches Association Academic All-State team.
Cheboygan compiled team grade point average of 3.53 to finish on the Academic All-State team for the fifth season in a row.
"It just shows not just how truly great the athletes we have are, but they're also very hard workers in the classroom," said Cheboygan soccer coach Mark Stormzand. "We've always wanted to put grades first before everything else, and these girls did a really excellent job this year. A 3.53 team GPA is pretty phenomenal."
Members of this year's Cheboygan varsity soccer team included Mackenzy Morrow, Kaylyn Brown, Sierra Kolatski, Allie Santer, Kaitlin Dobrowolski, Sam Buhr, Emily McNeil, Delaney Gravlin, Mandy Paull, Kelsa Dykehouse, McKenzie Carroll, Abby Ackerman, Megan Deeter, Claire Woiderski, Mariah Rozek, Megan Murphy, Erica Reimann, Abby Lopiccolo, Brittany Kiper, Jessica smith and Julia Sturvist.
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DoubleTree by Hilton Los Angeles Westside
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Historical Traveler Reviews DoubleTree by Hilton Los Angeles Westside Culver City
Nice hotel...forget about the executive level.
Nice enough hotel. I upgraded to the executive level for $20. The only difference with the executive level seems to be the pillow top mattress...big deal...not worth the $20 up charge. They actually removed the charge when I complained about the lack of amenities...I appreciate that. There is no club lounge to use. Overall, this is a nice hotel.
Very impressed!
We stayed at the executive level, floor 11 and it was fabulous! We were so impressed with the room at such a great rate. The beds were feather top, sheets soft, very clean room. It was also a big room. The hotel has a resteraunt that is good for lunch and breakfast. We were alltogether impressed. Very close to Santa Monica, they provide shuttle service to major tourist spots and to and from airport. Stay here while visting the LA area.
Wonderful Westside Experience
My wife and I stayed at the Radisson Hotel from August 3-10, 2004 and we hardily recommend it as a place to stay. It is conveniently located near the airport and shuttles leave for LAX on a regular basis. The staff was very courteous and attentive to our requests.
We marveled at how close area attractions were to the hotel -- whether travelling the infamous California freeways / interstates or taking well marked "back streets". Our room was large, airy and clean. Would have preferred a few more station choices on the television. The complimentary newspapers in the AM and mints on the turned-down bed in the PM were nice touches.
We did not eat at the hotel restaurants but found good, reasonable and plentiful portions served at area eateries. A particular favorite -- Dinah's -- across the street from the hotel is worth a visit. It took us minutes to reach nearby Manhattan Beach, Marina del Rey, Venice and Santa Monica taking local roads.
This is a busy facility. There were a number of family reunions going on and airline personnel seemed to be checking in everytime we passed through the lobby -- and the staff always was always willing to help us.
Pretty disappointing
I read the existing reviews on this site but decided to stay here anyway, it wasn't the best decision. I made our reservations using the AAA discount rate for three nights. When we arrived at the hotel to check-in I felt like the unwanted relatives who are given the sofa bed in the living room with the hope that they won't stay very long. We were there at 1:30pm and were told that there were no rooms meeting our criteria (king bed, non-smoking) available just yet. No problem, we left to take care of business and returned at 6:00. At this time we were told the hotel was almost full so they would give us what was left, a room on the 11th floor, at the end of the hall, over looking the freeway. Lots of noise from the traffic. We immediately called to ask for a different room. We could have a room on the 10th floor in the exact same location. Does that make sense? The other option was a room on the 1st floor, two double beds, one room in from the freeway on the office park side. The noise level was supposed to be better which it really wasn't but we didn't want to keep wandering the halls so we took it. First night, noisy but not horrible. Second night, the toilet backed-up (not our fault) and we were woken up by construction on the office building starting at 6:30am. Once again we called to ask for something else and were given a room on the 5th floor, king bed, pool side. Too bad we didn't have that room from the start, I would be writing a much more positive review.
Give it a miss
This hotel is OK for one night and its only a 10 minute drive to the airport, however the room smelt stale when we arrived so because the windows don't open (it's right next to a very busy road) they had to send one of the cleaning staff up to spray the room. Also we found the double beds to be barely large enough. All in all I wouldn't recommend it.
Reservation Chaos!
The hotel is decent, nothing too fancy, just average. The problems we had were that our reservation was in their computers but they didnt have a room for us. They simply gave it to someone else so they put us at the Furama Hotel for the night, this place was NASTY to say the least. Although we didn't have to pay for that night, I would have rather paid the night than to have gone through shuttle bus after shuttle bus. When we finally got to Radisson the following morning, they still didnt have a room for us so we were forced to kill a few hours until 2pm until they finally had a room available. This place is decent like I said before, but I would suggest finding somewhere else who are a little more organized.
Just average
We stayed here two nights on our honeymoon. The customer service was terrible. We booked online, a king bed non smoking. we got a double bed that reeked of smoke. We were forced to upgrade for $20 to another room. Don't believe it when you book online and say that the guarantee a king bed. You may get two doubles. Other than that, the hotel is just average .
Nice hotel
I stayed here in September and very much enjoyed my stay at this hotel.
Rooms were big, clean and got a great price. Nice swimmingpool with courtyard and jacuzzi. Airport shuttle was wonderful to have. Great staff and front desk was very helpful with rental car help and giving directions to different restaurants and locations. I would stay here again in a heartbeat!
Els Williams
Wonderful service at Radisson Los Angeles Westside
I stayed at the Radisson LA Westside from Aug. 25-28th. The shuttle service to the hotel was excellent. The room I had was not only sparklingly clean, but extremely comfortable as well. (I did not take the Executive Upgrade, either.) The staff could not have been nicer.
They had great suggestions for all of my questions. They also really went out of their way for me on my last day. Since I had a late flight out of LAX, I asked if I could check out late, as I wanted to take advantage of their complimentary shuttle service to Venice Beach. Not only did they allow that; but when there was a mix up picking me back up from the beach, they gladly paid my cab fare back to the hotel.
There food was very good and they make a mean Martini! I will definitely stay there again and recommend it highly~Tracy H.
Mixed Feelings
We visited the Radisson Westside at the beginning of August. I was travelling with my two daughters and staying 2 nights before my husband arrived which meant that I didn't have a car, so the facilities as advertised were very important ie restaurants, bar, etc. We booked a deal they were advertising called Lets Go which gave you a full breakfast included for everyone, a room upgrade if available and a travel pack full of goodies. I booked over the web in plenty of time - months ahead actually, and called two weeks before travelling just to check everything was ok. It was.Firstly, the good things: the shuttle service was great and picked us up in no time. Our room was great - we did get an upgrade to an executive floor room. It was spacious, clean and the beds were comfortable. The bad now. When I checked in, I was handed a letter - which was not further explained or commented on - to say that the restaurants were closed for refurbishment and that a cold continental breakfast would be served free of charge in the reception area. We had arrived late and I was tired, so I didn't follow this up till the next morning and was dismayed to find that not only was the restaurant closed but also the bar area and the room service was limited to cold food also. When I complained and asked why we hadn't been notified in advance of this "construction work", it eventually emerged that in fact the kitchens had been closed by the Health Inspectors. This was terribly inconvenient to say the least and all I can say is thank god for delivery pizza companies because they kept us going. Even getting a drink was difficult because they set up a bar in a foyer off the ballroom but when you got there you found that they only took cash and there were no charging facilities. It was a shambles.So, basically we were paying top dollar to stay in a hotel with the same sort of facilities as a Motel 6 or an Econolodge ie coffee in the lounge with a muffin! I had a struggle over the room rate at the end but we settled for $80 per night. There was no goody pack on offer.Would I stay there again? Probably not.
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... a photo with them and then demand money for their picture being taken. We had a great day there exploring the thrift stores and street and then battled the crazy bus back to our hostel and we eventually got safely to the airport free from fights, scams and bullets. LA really turned out to be an experience. Inglewood may not be on our list for Top Places To Return To, but we did get to steal a cookie from the sour puss and we've got some great new lingo to use back home. ...


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Released: Aug 01st, 1995
Running Time: 120
Company: New Sensations
Cast: Don Fernando, Misty Rain, RayVeness, Kytana, Jen Teal (I), Tania Tasara, Red Boan, Kelly Trump, Tony Montana, Paisley Park, Michael J. Cox
Critical Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Pro-Am
The crown jewel of this tape is southern belle Rayveness. A 22-year-old brunette sporting humongo, natural breasts with silver-dollar nipples, she has nasty verbal talents, a down-home personality, and loves to take it up the ass. What more can you ask for? Here's hoping we see a lot more of this southern fried chick.
Then there's German import Kelly Trump, a tanned blonde with a sumptuous, natural body who actually – in her own worlds – prefers anal to regular sex. (Book me a one-way ticket to the Fatherland!) When asked to describe her wildest sexual experience, Trump at first defers with the coy, "I'm just a little girl from Germany." With more prodding, however, she admits to letting two guys double-schtup her asshole. Little girl, indeed!
Hey, don't forget Jen Teal and Misty Rain's drenching, double-dildo debauch. Some of the interviews drag, but that's what fast forward is for, right? With Jen Teal's shaved, 18-year-old pussy bared on the boxcover, this tape should fly off the shelves.


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How can i prevent WPPA ressources (js and css) to be loaded in most of the pages / posts of the site but only on the ones which are using the functionnality ?
How can i prevent WPPA ressources (js and css) to be loaded in most of the pages / posts of the site but only on the ones which are using the functionnality ?
My opinion about this is as follows:
The css and js files are in total approx 60 kb, and that is less than an average photo on a typical site running wppa+.
If 60 kb is a problem for you, you should have no fullsize photos on your site anyway.
The chance is big that you have a wppa+ widget active.
The files are cached in the browser so the load is only once until a delete temp internet files happens.
The issue is not the css and js files size but the time to build the page (more than 500+ additional get object requests) then download it / interpret it by the client browser.
This is a concern for pages and posts without gallery; to have a time penalty (on both server and client side) on more than 3.000 pages for only two of them with gallery.
How can i prevent WPPA ressources (js and css)
This was your question though?
more than 500+ additional get object requests
please supply more info / evidence of this
My question was badly exposed (i'm not fluent in english, sorry). My concern is to have this pluging using no ressource on any page or post without gallery.
As i'm using APC object caching, i have a way to dump number of cache access during page construction in the page's footer :
global $wp_object_cache;
foreach ( $wp_object_cache->stats as $stat => $n ) {
echo "$stat: $n ";
On my web site, with your pluging running i got these :
Cache get: 4737 delete: 1 add: 1
and around 670 ms to build the page
With your plugin deactivated i got these :
Cache get: 3962 delete: 0 add: 0
and around 600 ms to build the page
=> 775 more get object with your plugin running and 10% more time. NB: I have a total of 45 plugins, only this one is consuming so many get (16% of all the gets)
wppa+ is a large / extensive / heavy plugin with a myriad of possibilities. If 70 ms is a problem and you use only a few images try an other.
thanks for your help.
i've followed your recommendation with success.
I have digged into this and i can promise you a substantial performance improvement during initialisation in version 4.9.0
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A 3-D carbon nanotube mesh enables rat spinal tissue sections to reconnect in culture.
Flashy Deep Sea Fish
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Fish with complex light-emitting photophore patterns may be primed to split into new species.
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Fish with complex light-emitting photophore patterns may be primed to split into new species.
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First Ancient North American genome; cannabinoids connect hunger with olfaction and eating; biotechs explore crowdfunding; confronting creationism
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DNA sequencing study reveals a new river dolphin species in South America.
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Mistimed sleep disrupts human transcriptome; canine tumor genome; de novo Drosophila genes; UVA light lowers blood pressure; aquatic microfauna fight frog-killing fungus
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A virus that causes blight in plants may contribute the catastrophic decline of honeybee colonies.
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Mature trees soak up more CO2 than younger ones, a study shows, overturning a bit of botanical dogma.
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Researchers are now spotting fewer cases of imposex—in which female sea snails develop male sexual organs—as a result of a chemical ban instituted in 2008.
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As populations of top predators decline in ecosystems the world over, researchers chart the widespread effects.
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Examination of bones found in a Chinese village suggests that domesticated felines lived side-by-side with humans 5,300 years ago.
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A Relatively Low Latitude Upper Trough With Embedded Stronger
Centers Of Vorticity Indicated In Water Vapor Imagery And Model Data
West Of Srn Ca/Baja Will Eject Newd And Inland Across The Lower Co River Valley On Saturday.
To The North Of The Srn Stream Trough...Strong Height Falls Will Spread Over The Pacific Northwest Associated With A Progressive Positive Tilt Upper Trough Moving East From The Pacific.
While A Broad Upper Ridge Will Dominate The Central U.S...A Compact But Potent Short Wave Trough Crossing New England Will Ensure That Cold Air Remains Entrenched Over The Northeast.
Southwest To Upper Rio Grande Valley...
Anomalously High Pw Was Already In Place Across Parts Of The
Southwest And May Contribute To Slightly Greater Chances For
Scattered Tstms During The Day And Evening From Sern Az To Nm On Saturday.
Models Depict A De-Amplifying Short Wave Trough Accelerating From Nrn Mexico/Lower Co River Valley To Srn High Plains During The Period. Enhanced Deep-Layer Ascent And Weak Destabilization Associated With This Impulse...In Concert With Sufficient Moisture Across The Region...Should Promote Convection Capable Of Sporadic Lightning Strikes.
Low Level Lift/Warm Advection Will Increase Coincident With
Strengthening Plains Low Level Jet Into Early Sunday Morning From
West Tx To Scntrl Plains.
Given Forecast Weakening Of The Mid/Upper Impulse And Very Limited Instability...The Chances For Tstms In This Regime...At Least Through 12z Sunday...Appear Too Low For An Otlk Area.


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Emphysema (cont.)
Emphysema Prevention
The prevention of emphysema is closely linked to the prevention of smoking. The primary risk factor for this disease that you can control is the smoking of cigarettes. Those who are daily smokers put themselves and their health at increasing risk with every pack of cigarettes and with every year they continue to smoke. For individuals that have emphysema caused by other causes such as air pollution, avoiding the pollution is the best first step toward prevention.
Flare-ups of emphysema can be reduced or prevented by taking medications as prescribed and seeking medical care for any signs or symptoms of respiratory infection or shortness of breath. Also, if you have emphysema, you should keep current on vaccines that can prevent respiratory infection. It is important to obtain the pneumococcal vaccine every 5 years and the influenza virus vaccine every year, before flu season.
Emphysema Prognosis
Emphysema is a chronic lower respiratory disease, the third leading cause of death in the United States. It is a chronic, progressive disease that affects the quality of life at least as much as the length of life.
Similar to many chronic diseases, the prognosis is affected by too many variables to be discussed here. There is no cure, but there are effective methods of treatment, which can slow the progression of the disease and allow for a normal life.
In short, the diagnosis of emphysema is not a death sentence. Rather, it is a medical condition that should prompt you to take an active role in the management of your disease. Quitting smoking is the best first step. Regular visits to your doctor and taking medications as prescribed are also very important. However, the prognosis decreases if the individual decides to continue to smoke.
Medically reviewed by James E Gerace, MD; American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialty in Pulmonary Disease
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VIDEO: Highlights from games played Nov. 16
Rockets a mess after latest loss | Shumpert could return by mid-December | Durant says hamstring feeling 'way better'
No. 1: Rockets a mess after latest loss — After reaching the Western Conference finals a season ago, the Houston Rockets entered 2015-16 with hopes of a Finals run. Eleven games into the season, they sit at 4-7 after last night's home loss to the Boston Celtics and are searching for any kind of answers. Our Fran Blinebury was on the scene in Houston last night and has more on the state of the Rockets:
The Rockets are a team that won 56 games last season without ever losing more than two in a row. Now they've already had a three-game losing streak, followed by the current four-game skid and, even worse, they're making a habit of getting blown out, perhaps giving up. The second half at Miami, the first half at home against Dallas, surrendering a 32-13 third quarter to the Celtics.
"I wouldn't say full effort all the time, no," said coach Kevin McHale. "We're hanging our heads. Things aren't going our way and we hang our head. We haven't put together really good basketball all year long."
Can anybody remember the last time a team that had advanced as far as the conference finals less than six months earlier, fell this far this fast without suffering a major injury to a key player?
Have Josh Smith, Pablo Prigioni and Kostas Papanikolaou ever been missed so much by anyone outside their own families? Should the acclimation to new point guard Ty Lawson be quite so difficult?
The Rockets are not just 4-7 on the season, but 2-5 at home in the Toyota Center, where boos are becoming a regular part of the fan experience. Of those seven losses, five of them have come by margins of 20, 20, 20, 18 and 16.
In case anyone's wondering, the winless Sixers come to town on Nov. 27.
"There's negativity all around," said Dwight Howard. "Out there, in here. We have to stay away from it. We have to be positive. That's my job."
It should be the job of Howard and James Harden as co-leaders, yet neither is truly comfortable in the role of fully shouldering the responsibility. Harden is nonpareil in his brilliance at the offensive end, but has fallen back into many of his old defensive shortcomings. Howard plays confidently and aggressively at defense and rebounding, but at no point in his career has he ever been a tall flagpole to rally around.
The criticism and the fingers have already pointed at Kevin McHale for his inability to pull the Rockets out of the ditch, though he's changed lineups, tried different tactics, done virtually everything but consult a Ouija board. A year ago McHale guided a team that played without Howard for 41 games to the Southwest Division title and the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference, then pushed them all the way into June.
Has this team suddenly tuned him out and, if so, why? McHale, who is in the first season of a new three-year contract, is the winningest coach by percentage in franchise history. In his four years in Houston, he's established a reputation as a players' coach, one that cajoles, relates, inspires and does not grab at the spotlight to bask. If he is being rolled under the bus by anyone inside the locker room, it would only be to cover up their own deficiencies.
The Rockets have fallen into the habit of letting one or two bad possessions snowball until it starts an avalanche. The Celtics fed off the on-court sniping and squabbling that resulted in a 34-point turnaround from the middle of the second quarter to the end of the third.
"I think every game that we've lost it's been something like that where they go on these crazy runs," Harden said. "It's kind of hard to get out of them. I don't know what the case is … but you have to fight through it. It's pretty bad, but the good thing about it is it's still early in the season."
As for Lawson, Calvin Watkins of ESPN.com reports Lawson may soon be out of a starting job …
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Magic The Gathering: FNM
Are you looking for a way to play while meeting new friends and winning cool foil prize cards? Then Friday Night Magic is exactly what you're looking for! Try it out at HobbyTown and discover why Friday night is the best night of the week!
At present we have Booster Drafts the first 3 Fridays of the month and the last Friday is Modern Constructed Format.
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You don't need to bring anything with you to play. Basic lands are provided. Sleeves are recommended, but not required.
Registration starts at 6:45 PM and the event starts at 7PM. The entry fee is $15. Two prize packs will be added to the prize pool for each participant.
The tournament structure will be swiss with the number of rounds determined by the number of players participating. Matches will be best of three.
The August 2013 FNM promo card is a foil version of Rakdos Cackler. Four promo cards will be awarded; two to the top two finishers and one each to two random other players. So, even if you don't do as well as you'd like, you still have a chance to get a promo card.
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The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model
Version of Record online: 23 NOV 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07085.x
© 2011 The Authors
Volume 35, Issue 8, pages 716–725, August 2012
Additional Information
How to Cite
Pollock, L. J., Morris, W. K. and Vesk, P. A. (2012), The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model. Ecography, 35: 716–725. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07085.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 2 JUL 2012
- Version of Record online: 23 NOV 2011
- Paper manuscript accepted 12 August 2011
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Quantifying how functional traits relate to environmental gradients provides insight into mechanisms governing species distributions. Here, we bring together the fields of species distribution modelling and functional trait ecology with hierarchical modelling by explicitly incorporating traits into a multi-species distribution model. We combined traits from the leaf-height-seed strategy scheme (specific leaf area (SLA), plant height and seed mass) with a distribution model for 20 eucalypt taxa in Victoria, Australia.
The key insight of this approach is how traits modulate species responses to environmental gradients. The strongest link was between SLA and percent rock cover (species with low SLA had positive responses to rockiness, whereas high SLA species responded negatively to rockiness). We found evidence for complex yet potentially important interactions. For instance, the probability of species occurrence increased with rainfall and solar radiation on average yet the response varied depending on species height and SLA. Tall species were predicted to increase with rainfall and solar radiation across the range of SLA values (tall species with low SLA were especially sensitive to rainfall). Short species responded positively to rainfall and solar radiation only if they had low SLA.
This framework readily accounts for interactions between combinations of traits and environmental variables unlike multi-step approaches. Further application of this concept will contribute to a generalized mechanistic understanding of how traits influence species distributions along environmental gradients, with implications for understanding the response of species to global change.


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electrical devices for use in hazardous area and manufactured within European Community must be "Ex" marked as well as provided with a Notified Body certificate.
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"No worries no matter what. Worries are just a drag force like friction. You worry, you embed a resistance inside you. I thought you worried because you wanted to step ahead but you can't. No worries."
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