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AutoMatters: 1980 Volvo Coupé by BERTONE
By Jan R. Wagner
So there I was, preparing my Mustang for an SCCA autocross one fine Sunday morning at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, when it arrived. Looking quite regal with its gold paint and interior, crown emblems and distinctive chopped roof, the 1980 Volvo Coupé by Bertone attracts attention like a magnet. The un-Volvo-like roof is what does it. I hadn't seen one of these cars in many years so, as I usually do when I spot a rare automobile, I went over to check it out. That led to a picture-taking session and a desire to learn more about this car.
I discovered that this particular Volvo Coupé by Bertone is owned by Larry D., a longtime acquaintance of mine and a fellow autocrosser, from La Mesa, California. I asked him if I could take some photos and interview him about his car for AutoMatters. Fortunately for us, he agreed. Here is what Larry told me.
This Volvo Coupé by Bertone was bought from San Diego Volvo. From all indications, it is one of only a very few – at least with this gold color scheme, in San Diego County. This particular example differs from the early Bertone Coupés in that they were silver with a black vinyl top and black interior. It was originally owned by Larry's aunt and has been in his family since it was new.
The Volvo Coupé was built by Bertone in Italy. The majority of its parts were sent to Bertone from Volvo, but Bertone worked its design magic and changed just enough to make the styling of this car stand out from the ever-so-practical Volvos of its day. This car combined the safety and durability that Volvos were known for, with a certain design, flair and high style normally reserved for high-end luxury automobiles. Priced in the high teens, the Volvo Coupé by Bertone was considered to be on a par with the higher-end BMW and Mercedes models of the day.
The soft leather is Italian, with very distinctive, high-styled, raised leather trim unlike any I've ever seen before on automobile upholstery. The luxury in the interior continues with real wood accents, and the large trunk is fully carpeted.
Comfort and convenience features include electric seat warmers, an electric rear window defroster and adjustable intermittent windshield wipers. Remember that this was a car of the early 80s. Most of the features that we take for granted today were not available on cars back then.
It is getting difficult to remember what is was like living with cars that were pre-computer, but this is one of those. According to Larry, it is a bit finicky with today's various blends of pump gasoline. Because of that, adjustments need to be made from time to time. Fortunately Larry has had many years of experience repairing autos in his own shop. He carefully and personally maintains this car, repairing or replacing what as worn. He has not restored it.
The Volvo Coupé by Bertone is powered by the Peugeot-Renault-Volvo V-6. It is a relatively heavy car so, while it is certainly no speed demon, it will maintain the speed limit on the freeways. It rides nicely and is a comfortable, spacious daily driver. It runs on regular gas and gets about 15 MPG.


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( 1833–97), German composer and pianist. He eschewed programme music and opera and concentrated on traditional forms. He composed four symphonies, four concertos, chamber and piano music, choral works including the German Requiem (1857–68), and nearly 200 songs.
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Substitute teacher criticizes low pay in Nashua schools
"When you're making $62 a day you're just a babysitter for the school system, really," said Hennessy, who raised three kids in Nashua schools.
Hennessy was so upset by the pay subs get in Nashua that she decided to make a cause of it. She brought it to the school board at last week's meeting, claiming subs haven't gotten a raise in 35 years.
"I went into the Department Labor and 35 years ago the minimum wage was $2.65," she said. "As a parent and a taxpayer, I remember how you guys said that to get good (teachers) we need to pay them, because they are professionals. I do think that substitute teachers are professionals as well."
Hennessy said the board members should all try subbing for a day to see what it's like.
At the meeting, superintendent Mark Conrad said as the district is looking at future budgets, they are considering raises for substitutes.
"The concerns have already come into play administratively," Conrad said.
He said that could mean increasing the per diem pay a small amount next year "with the idea of getting it up over the next few years."
Hennessy is an accountant by trade, and her main work is as a Spanish interpreter for Social Security recipients - she substitutes because she loves the work, teaching Spanish and other subjects at the city's high schools.
She works Tuesday through Friday as a substitute teacher and sometimes fills in for teachers on a longer-term basis.
Nashua isn't alone in paying bare-bones wages to its subs, but it seems to be at the bottom of the list. Hudson and Manchester subs make $70 a day, compared to $65 in Amherst, which is one of the most affluent districts in the state.
According to the district's human resources director Dana O'Gara, Nashua has around 500 substitute teachers and employs them 12,000 times a year, either for half or full days.
O'Gara estimated that the district spends $750,000 paying subs; a $1 raise would require the school to budget an addition $12,000 annually.
Only certified teachers who substitute are eligible to make anything over $62 a day, and that's because of state law. Certified teachers filling in on a long-term basis for permanent teachers earn the base wage for a teacher in Nashua, $213.50 for bachelor's level and $233.20 for master's.
Though she's not directly involved in the budget discussions, O'Gara said she hopes subs will get a raise in the years to come.
Asked how much subs should earn, Hennessy said wages in Nashua should at least be consistent with neighboring districts.
"Make it competitive," she said. "How can the towns that are around us afford it and we can't? They're towns, we're a city."
Hennessy said most people gripe about wages but no one does anything about it.
"I hear everybody complaining about the pay, and they have nobody who advocates for them because they might not want to lose their job as a substitute," she said. "People get scared thinking, if I go and speak out they might not want me to work there anymore."
She said the low wage puts Nashua schools at a disadvantage, causing the better subs to teach at districts that pay better.
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The relation of architecture to construction is a philosophical one. That is, everyone has a different opinion on the subject. My position is that all architecture is driven by philosophy. Yes, there are reigning philosophies,--Bauhaus architecture, The modernism of Frank Loyd Wright, even the design of the row home or planned community, and so on, but insofar as he or she makes his or her own designs and modifications and is not a mere copyist, every architect is a philosopher. If you accept this position as our starting point, then one should be able to examine the designed and constructed product, and from it infer things about the philosophy behind it.
A case in point frequently seen on Bob Vila's TV shows is the extraordinarly expensive house whose studs are affixed with 4x8 sheets of glued wood chips. We philosophers call these glue houses, since the majority of the 4x8 board, and therefore the greater percentage of the house itself, is made of glue.
The wide-spread acceptance of glued wood chip board through out the construction industry is undoubtedly a function of economy, scale, because of mass production , and financial considerations. As prices have skyrocketed, the standard has fallen from plywood and celotex to glue board, just to keep pace with the economics of construction.
These, of course, are important considerations. But they also reflect a philosophy of building--the cost of mass production set against profit margins.
One unintended consequence of this trend, however, has been the increased risk of death in the event the house catches fire. My hypothesis is that a statistical analysis will show that the majority of people killed in new home fires succumb to the smoke, not the fire itself. In other words, they die from the oxidation of the glue in the walls because of the extraordinarily toxic nature of these compounds.
A different attitude, and therefore a different philosophy of building, would be needed to remedy such use industry-wide. This would likely require the development of inexpensive but non-toxic materials. On the other hand, such homes could be marketed as more hazard-safe, and slightly more could be charged for them as far as market forces are concerned.
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STMicroelectronics sees increasing MEMS applications in wearable, IoT markets
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STMicroelectronics has shipped over 8.5 billion MEMS chips and expects applications for MEMS chips in the wearable device, fitness/health monitoring and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors...
Knowles and Infineon are top suppliers of packaged MEMS microphones and bare microphone dies, says IHS
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The global market for MEMS microphone chips is split into dual segments that are dominated by two suppliers: Knowles and Infineon Technologies AG, according to IHS.
STMicroelectronics eyeing IoT market
Jun 10, 15:02
The market for IoT (Internet of Things) devices is expected to stage a major uptick in the next 2-3 years. STMicroelectronics is ready to offer an assortment of key components such...
STMicroelectronics introduces new MCUs into Taiwan
Sep 13, 13:53
STMicroelectronics has introduced a series of new models of its STM32F4 family microcontrollers (MCUs), including STM32F429/439 and STM32F401, into the Taiwan market.
MEMS vendors gear up for growing demand for portable devices
Aug 16, 12:07
STMicroelectronics, Bosch and InvenSense are gearing up to meet the demand from new Windows 8 devices, as well as tablets and smartphones slated for release in the second half of...
Nuvoton to launch industrial use MCUs in 2H13
Jul 23, 15:17
Nuvoton Technology plans to introduce a new series of ARM Cortex M4-based MCUs in the second half of 2013, entering the industrial market segment led by STMicroelectronics and Freescale,...
STMicroelectronics brings Cortex-M0 32-bit MCUs to lower budget projects
Jul 15, 14:48
The latest STM32F030 Value Line microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics aim to bring ARM Cortex-M0 32-bit MCUs to price-conscious projects, according to company marketing manager...
Digitimes Research: Mixed capex plans for major semiconductor firms in 2013
Jun 11, 11:01
Intel, Samsung Electronics, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Texas Instruments (TI), Toshiba, Renesas Electronics, SK Hynix, and STMicroelectronics were among the...
TSMC MEMS foundry biz expanding, says Yole
Apr 26, 10:29
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) MEMS foundry business enjoyed an approximately 80% rise in 2012, achieving around US$42 million in sales. The significant growth...
HTC wins patent lawsuit over Nokia in Germany; production not affected by Netherlands injunction ruling
Apr 25, 21:29
The District Court of Mannheim, Germany, has dismissed a complaint filed by Nokia accusing HTC of infringing patent EP 1581016, covering a communications network terminal for accessing...
Ban on STMicroelectronics microphone shipments unlikely to affect shipments of New HTC One, say IC distributors
Apr 24, 15:49
A court in the Netherlands has judged that STMicroelectronics should discontinue supply of MEMS dual-membrane microphone devices to HTC for use in the New HTC One smartphone because...
New HTC One shipments likely to be affected by microphone supplies, say sources
Apr 23, 14:55
Shipments of HTC's new flagship model, the new HTC One, might be jeopardized again after the District Court of Amsterdam issued recently a preliminary injunction, prohibiting STMicroelectronics...
China makers gain share in MEMS sensor purchasing in 2012, says IHS
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China-based handset and tablet manufacturers in 2012 more than doubled their share of purchases of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) motion sensors, reflecting the rising prominence...
China market: Gyroscope shipments to grow over 30% in 2013, say MEMS makers
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Shipments of gyroscopes in China are expected to expand over 30% in 2013 as more local smartphone vendors are adding the MEMS devices into their mid-range to high-end models amid...
Smartphones and tablets drive continued double-digit growth in MEMS motion sensor market, says IHS
Feb 18, 14:13
Smartphones and tablets continue to the prime movers of technology industries, with the two mobile platforms spurring a double-digit increase in the market for microelectromechanical...
MEMS vendors optimistic about combo sensor market
Jan 29, 12:34
Eyeing booming demand for combo motion sensors used in smartphones and tablets, MEMS vendors including Bosch, InvenSense, Kionix and STMicroelectronics all plan to promote their 6-...
GaN-on-silicon for power conversion, who are the likely winners in the commercialization race, asks Petrov Group
Dec 10, 11:06
The high importance of GaN-on-Si technology for power conversion applications is by now evident, says Boris Petrov, managing director of the Petrov Group. It is driven by cost and...
Samsung, STMicro announce foundry deal
Oct 2, 01:15
Samsung Electronics' foundry business has been selected by STMicroelectronics to provide it with products at the 32/28nm process nodes, according to the Korea-based chipmaker. The...
STMicro gearing up for MEMS microphones
Sep 10, 10:39
With shipments rising gradually for customer products, STMicroelectronics is gearing up to expand its presence in the global MEMS microphone market and is eyeing to become a leading...
UMC, STMicro team up to develop BSI process for image sensors
Sep 7, 15:02
United Microelectronics (UMC) has teamed up with STMicroelectronics to develop 65nm CMOS image sensor technology using backside illumination (BSI).
Chip vendors gearing up for next-generation iPhone
Jun 15, 12:10
Chip vendors including Qualcomm, Broadcom, STMicroelectronics, NXP, Texas Instruments (TI) and OmniVision reportedly have started stocking their solutions used for Apple's next-generation...
DLP technology keeps Texas Instruments at top of MEMS market, says IHS
May 9, 10:07
Texas Instruments (TI) remained the world's No. 1 microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturer in 2011, retaining top honors after fending off runner-up Hewlett Packard (HP)...
STMicro increases leadership in 2011 consumer and mobile MEMS market, says IHS
Apr 6, 12:21
Fueled by booming sales to Apple, STMicroelectronics in 2011 padded its leadership position in the global market for MEMS in consumer and mobile devices, according to IHS iSuppli.
Digital MEMS microphone market expanding, says IHS
Mar 29, 14:01
Driven by their widespread use in top-selling mobile devices like Apple's iPads, market revenues for digital microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphones is set to overtake the...
STMicro challenges TI in 2011 MEMS market, says Yole Developpement
Mar 27, 11:16
The MEMS market reached US$10.2 billion in 2011, up 17%, according to Yole Developpement. STMicroelectronics saw its MEMS sales rise 42% to more than US$900 million on exploding demand...
Sensor fusion powers next-generation smartphones and tablets, says IHS
Sep 28, 10:18
Motion sensing capabilities in products like the iPhone and iPad now are set to move to the next level with the advent of sensor "fusion," a more sophisticated approach...
Yole lists top-30 MEMS companies in 2010: Big-4 capture one third of total market
Apr 13, 16:06
The worldwide MEMS industry enjoyed a growth of 25% in 2010, according to a recent Yole Developpement report. Major players Texas Instruments (TI), Hewlett-Packard (HP), Robert Bosch...
STMicro and TriQuint capitalize on iPhone and iPad MEMS design wins in 2010, says iSuppli
Feb 8, 12:26
Capitalizing on their design wins in Apple's iPhone 4 and iPad, semiconductor suppliers STMicroelectronics and TriQuint in 2010 achieved industry-leading growth in the global market...
Outsourcing of IC backend services growing
Dec 30, 12:38
IDMs including Microchip Technology, NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments (TI) have all increased outsourcing for their backend production since the fourth...
Sales of car MEMS sensors hit record high in 2010, says iSuppli
Dec 28, 15:08
Driven by the rapid recovery in automotive production and inventory rebuilding among sensor component suppliers, iSuppli believes the market for automotive MEMS sensors will expand...
Auto MEMS sensor market to reach record high in 2010, says iSuppli
Nov 24, 15:53
Driven by the rapid recovery in automotive production and inventory rebuilding among sensor component suppliers, the market for automotive microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensors...
Demand for MEMS parts to grow substantially in 2010, says STMicroelectronics executive
Sep 10, 13:52
Buoyed by demand from the smartphone and gaming console segments, global shipments of MEMS devices, especially gyroscopes, will grow substantially in 2010, according to Benedetto...
Power management ICs in portable devices represent nearly 40% of total analog IC revenues, says Petrov Group
Aug 10, 15:20
The annual unit growth rate for portable devices is estimated at more than 12%, from about two billion in 2008 to over 3.4 billion devices in 2013. These devices have an increasing...
IC distributor Yosun upbeat about 3Q10
Jun 22, 14:42
Yosun Industrial, which distributes semiconductors and other electronic components for brands such as Samsung, expects revenues for the third quarter of 2010 to grow 10-15% sequentially,...
New iPhone to trigger explosive growth in mobile gyroscope market, says iSuppli
Jun 10, 13:31
Monday's introduction of the iPhone 4 is set to trigger explosive growth in the market for gyroscopes used in mobile phones, as a flood of competitors vie to emulate the feature,...
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We will join together as a Parish Family for a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner on Sunday November 23. Just like last year, there will be two seatings: 4:30 and 6:30. Dinner will feature turkey and all the usual trimmings. This year we will also have a Silent Auction during dinner. Tickets: $12 per Adult; $5 per Child; $30 per family. Call the Church at 984-8401 to reserve your seating.
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St. Barnabas will join with other local churches for the 2nd Annual Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service, organized by the Montgomery Ministrial Association. The event of sacred readings, reflections, and song takes place at Montgomery Presbyterian Church. A community combined choir will join in song, in addition to other performances by musicians from the participating churches. All are welcome to attend. Please contact Montgomery Presbyterian Church at 891-8670 for more information.
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Sunday December 7
The Annual St. Nicholas Pageant will be held after communion at the 10:00 service. This musical rendition of the story of St. Nicholas is performed by the Church School. Bring your children and enjoy this fun St. Barnabas tradition!
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Sunday December 7 at 2:00
The public is invited to a concert featuring the 70-member Sycamore Community Band and the 45-member New Horizons Band of Cincinnati at St. Barnabas. Each band will play several numbers, ranging from rousing marches to swing arrangements and showstoppers from Broadway musicals like "Aladdin." Then they will combine to play "White Christmas," "Sleigh Ride" and "Christmas Festival." The concert will also recognize the significance of the Pearl Harbor bombing date with selected patriotic music.


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Frontrunning: April 9Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/09/2014 06:33 -0500
- Apple
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- Bank of America
- Bank of America
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- Bob Diamond
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- Carlyle
- China
- Clifford Chance
- Cohen
- Comcast
- Credit Suisse
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- Ford
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- Medicare
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- Ukraine
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- Top Medicare Doctor Paid $21 Million in 2012, Data Shows (BBG)
- Separatists build barricades in east Ukraine, Kiev warns of force (Reuters)
- Greece launches sale of five-year bond (FT)
- High-Frequency Trader Malyshev Mulls Accepting Outside Investors (BBG)
- U.S. defense chief gets earful as China visit exposes tensions (Reuters)
- GM Workers Who Built Defective Cars Fret About Recall (BBG)
- Kerry, Congress Agree: Superpower Status Not What It Was (BBG)
- Crimeans Homeless in Ukraine Seek Solace in Kiev Asylums (BBG)
- JPMorgan's Dimon says U.S. banks healthy, Europe lagging (Reuters)
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David Stockman's "Born Again Jobs Scam": The Ugly Truth Behind "Jobs Friday"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/08/2014 19:06 -0500
The mainstream recovery narrative has an astounding "recency bias". According to all the CNBC talking heads, the 192,000 NFP jobs gain reported on Friday constituted another "strong" report card. Well, let's see. Approximately 75 months ago (December 2007) at the cyclical peak before the so-called Great Recession, the BLS reported 138.4 million NFP jobs. When the hosanna chorus broke into song last Friday, the reported figure was 137.9 million NFP jobs. By the lights of old-fashioned subtraction, therefore, we are still 500k jobs short—notwithstanding $3.5 trillion of money printing in the interim. The truth is, all the ballyhooed "new jobs" celebrated on bubblevision month-after-month have actually been "born again" jobs. That is, jobs which were created during the Fed's 2002-2007 bubble inflation; lost in the aftermath of the September 2008 meltdown; and then "recovered" during the renewed bubble inflation now underway.
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Yen Carry Tumbles, Dragging Equity Futures Lower As Asian Stimulus Hopes FadeSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 04/08/2014 06:13 -0500
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- Bond
- Budget Deficit
- China
- Congressional Budget Office
- Copper
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- David Bianco
- default
- Deutsche Bank
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- Equity Markets
- Germany
- Gilts
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- Japan
- Jim Reid
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- Monetary Policy
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- Nikkei
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It took Virtu's idiot algos some time to process that the lack of BOJ stimulus is not bullish for more BOJ stimulus - something that has been priced in since October and which sent the USDJPY up from 97.000 to 105.000 in a few months, but it finally sank in when BOJ head Kuroda explicitly stated overnight that there is "no need to add stimulus now." That, and the disappointing news from China that the middle kingdom too has no plans for a major stimulus, as we reported last night, were the final straws that forced the USDJPY to lose the tractor-beamed 103.000 "fundamental level", tripping the countless sell stops just below it, and slid 50 pips lower as of this moment to overnight lows at the 102.500 level, in turn dragging US but mostly European equity futures with it, and the Dax was last seen tripping stops below 9400.
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Payrolls Preview: If Lavorgna Is Right, Citi Fears Asset Markets Will React BadlySubmitted by Tyler Durden on 04/03/2014 19:58 -0500
Goldman Sachs forecasts a 200k increase in non-farm payrolls for March - in line with consensus - and believe last month's 175k print supports the ongoing positive trend (in light of the weather effect). Key employment indicators looked mixed-to-better in March, and despite the continued cold temperatures, less extreme weather conditions overall should give an additional boost to job gains this month. Citi suggests the weather could have knocked 172k off payrolls overall from Dec to Jan and are more hopeful, expecting a 240k print. Their biggest fear, a greater than 275k print (which is the high bar that Joe Lavorgna has set) could see asset markets reacting badly (on the basis of quicker Fed tightening).
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Guest Post: The Obamacare Ship Of FoolsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2014 16:17 -0500
It was so fitting that Obama sauntered into the Rose Garden on April Fools day to proclaim the wonderful success of Obamacare. We are the fools for allowing this fool and his fellow fools in Congress to further bankrupt our country with this disastrous government run clusterf*ck. Their is so much propaganda, spin, disinformation and outright lies circulating in the captured mainstream media that the dumbed down, distracted, disinterested American populace believe the sound bites from Obama and the talking heads on MSNBC and the rest of the Obama loving media. You may have noticed the non-stop 30 second ads trying to convince iGadget addicted morons to sign up for Obamacare over the last three months, building to a crescendo in the last few weeks. Let's assess the tremendous success the Savior was blustering about yesterday. He sold the plan to the American public back in 2009 with a number of promises.
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Frontrunning: April 2Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2014 06:44 -0500
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- Ford
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- France's New Finance Minister Faces Fiscal Challenge (WSJ)
- The magic is gone: Draghi's Attempt to Talk Down Euro Lost on Traders (BBG)
- Another John Kerry smashing success: U.S. Gambit on Mideast Peace Talks Falters (WSJ)
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Meanwhile At The Obamacare Website...Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/31/2014 12:40 -0500
Despite months to plan and an early morning failure today already, the Obamacare wesbite Healthcare.gov is down once again...
Of course the frequency of visitors is having some effect and the adminstration has once again extended the deadline for enrolment as long as participants are in line today. Perhaps, Obama should ask the HFTs how they cope with the volume?
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A List Of 97 Taxes Americans Pay Every YearSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2014 21:05 -0500
If you are like most Americans, paying taxes is one of your pet peeves. The deadline to file your federal taxes is coming up, and this year Americans will spend more than 7 billion hours preparing their taxes. When the federal income tax was originally introduced a little more than 100 years ago, most Americans were taxed at a rate of only 1 percent. But once they get their feet in the door, the social planners always want more. Since that time, tax rates have gone much higher and the tax code has exploded in size. Why do we have to have the most convoluted tax system in the history of the planet?
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The US Is Now Spending 26% Of Available Tax Revenue To Pay InterestSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2014 18:05 -0500
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that an unsustainable debt burden soundly tolls the death knell of a nation's economy, and its government. Unfortunately, it can sometimes take a rocket scientist to figure out what the real numbers are; governments have a vested interest in not being transparent about their debts and interest payments. Obligations are obligations, no matter who they're owed to. Taking this into account, total US interest payments in Fiscal Year 2013 were a whopping $415 billion... This means they actually spent approximately 26% of their available tax revenue just to pay interest last year.. much higher than the 1868 Ottoman Empire at the end of its reign...
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Fourth Turning: The People Vs. Big BrotherSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/14/2014 19:00 -0500
- Afghanistan
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- China
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- European Union
- Federal Reserve
- fixed
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- Great Depression
- Greece
- Hyperinflation
- Iraq
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- Italy
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- Meet The Press
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- Natural Gas
- Obamacare
- Portugal
- Quantitative Easing
- Recession
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- Saudi Arabia
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- Turkey
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"The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words, a total war. Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind's willingness to use it."
The core elements of this Fourth Turning continue to propel this Crisis: debt, civic decay, global disorder. Central bankers, politicians, and government bureaucrats have been able to fashion the illusion of recovery and return to normalcy, but their "solutions" are nothing more than smoke and mirrors exacerbating the next bloodier violent stage of this Fourth Turning. The emergencies will become increasingly dire, triggering unforeseen reactions and unintended consequences. The civic fabric of our society will be torn asunder.
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How The Fed Has Failed America, Part 2Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/12/2014 10:14 -0500
The truth is the Fed incentivizes and rewards the most parasitic, least productive sector of the economy and forcibly transfers the interest that was once earned by the productive middle class to the parasites. Though the multitudes of apologists, lackeys, toadies, minions and factotums of the Fed will frantically deny it, the inescapable truth is that the nation and the bottom 99.5% would be instantly and forever better off were the Fed closed down and its assets liquidated. The only way to eliminate the financial parasites is to stop subsidizing their skimming and scamming, and the only way to stop subsidizing the financial parasites is to shut down the Fed.
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Frontrunning: March 11Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/11/2014 06:40 -0500
- Apple
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- Bank of America
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- Bitcoin
- Bond
- Carl Icahn
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- Keefe
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- NYSE Euronext
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- Real estate
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- Malaysia Says Stolen Passport User Had No Links to Terror Groups (BBG)
- Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast (Reuters)
- Freescale loss in Malaysia tragedy leads to travel policy questions (Reuters)
- Top German body calls for QE blitz to avert deflation trap in Europe (Telegraph)
- Firms Suffer 23% Drop in Asia Fees Amid Search for Cash (BBG)
- Putin Dismisses U.S. Proposal on Ukraine (WSJ)
- Lenovo says China strike an IBM matter, but it won't cut wages (Reuters)
- Congress to Investigate GM Recall (WSJ)
- New hedge funds face life or death battle for funding (FT)
- Muni Bond Costs Hit Investors in Wallet (WSJ)
- BOJ keeps stimulus in place, cuts view on exports in warning sign (Reuters)
- ECB Homes In on Risky Assets as Inspectors Fan Out Across Europe (BBG)
- Snowden: "The Constitution was violated" (Reuters)
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President Obama Explains The Minimum Wage - Live FeedSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/05/2014 14:24 -0500
With even Warren Buffett saying it's a bad idea, we can't wait to hear how President Obama will explain how his move to raise the minimum wage will create jobs and save the middle class....
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Reviving The 'Real World' Scenario That's Disappeared From Government ReportsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 02/23/2014 14:59 -0500
"For 50 years or so the federal government has deliberately and to an increasing extent misstated probable future budget deficits. Democrats and Republicans are guilty. The White House is guilty. And so is Congress. Private firms that deliberately misrepresent their financial statements in this fashion would be guilty of a crime… The magnitude of the misrepresentation is breathtaking."
- Former St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole.
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Bank Of America Asks "Do Obamacare Costs Exceed The Benefits?"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/14/2014 19:44 -0500
Few laws cause as much high blood pressure as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Supporters of the law consider it the signature legislation of the Obama administration. Yet, in 2011 the House of Representatives passed the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law," one of more than 40 attempts to scuttle the legislation. Public opinion polls are ambiguous: most Americans are against the law as a whole and yet most support many of its provisions. BofAML tries to slice through the partisan debate and show what serious research says about how the ACA will impact the labor market.
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13w, 11hIn Hell, There Are No Desks39 comments · 473 views
I'm typing this from my lap, on a new keyboard I am unused to. Had to get a new one, we couldn't connect my old keyboard - they don't make those ancient connectors anymore, and the cable needed is still in a box. Everything I own is in a box, and will be for the next three to four months at least.
Hah! How the mighty have fallen, eh? Once I lived in a palatial home, now I have no room of my own. My world, for now, is the far corner of what - in a normal person's house - would likely be the 'living room'. The house is filled with hundreds of boxes, and no way to unpack them. Why? It's a little bit Sokoban, and a little bit 'guess what's in the box' and a little bit 'we are so fucked'.
Intel got caught with their fingers in the European cookie jar, as you may recall, and they had to pay billions in fines. Worse, they got very complacent and ignored the rise of mobile computing entirely, so the pacific rim ate their lunch with cheap, easily modified, dedicated chips for consumer goods. Desperate to look good to stockholders, they did the usual American Capitalist Trick: fire most of the workers who actually do the work in a way that denies them any benefits or severance of any kind. Suddenly, without employees, they look great on paper!
The way they did this is to announce that if one wanted to work for Intel any longer, one must move to the region around Portland, Oregon. Naturally, this meant that more that 75% of their employees in the divisions targeted would be screwed, and 'choose' to leave their jobs of their 'own volition', thus making their quitting their 'free choice' and thus ineligible for any benefits of any kind - the slackers! The losers! Stupid peasants with homes and communities and family obligations and relatives and lack of resources to move at the drop of a hat!
It was evil, but damn clever. Force people to have to quit because moving is not possible for most people. Brilliant. Dirty as hell, of course, but cunning.
That still left tens of thousands of people flooding into a fairly small region, Hillsboro. It was sheer luck we found an overpriced house at all - there is a huge bubble going on as folks gouge the hell out of the influx of Intel folks. House-flip-a-go-go! Gold rush!
Bottom line? It is impossible to get a contractor to fix a house or turn a garage into a room. And that is a problem, you see, since the entire plan was to convert the garage into my room. For me to live in. That isn't happening. It's so massive an issue, that the guy that set up our internet? He is part of a small army of folks brought in from Colorado just to hook up internet here in Hillsboro. They're letting him go back to Colorado for a week to see his family, then it's another month of hooking up folks like us... the Intel Invasion. They don't have enough native cable guys here to do the job. Consider that.
My family is hoping that maybe by October or November, it might be rainy and miserable enough that the contractors here might be unable to work outside - or unwilling to work outside - and it might be possible to get some to do interior work at last, and thus finally build me a room to live in. It's a hope, anyway.
Until then, I am the empress of cardboard boxes that I can't get into... because there is no place to unpack them. I have six pieces of clothing, my shoes, my computer and monitor, my 360 and PS4, a chair, my toothbrush and the medicines I have to take, one garbage can, and my purse with my ipad in it. This is my world. This is my life. I am slowly going through some of the mis-labled boxes, checking them, resealing them, and writing their contents down (the packing crew did a random job, just insane) to find, well, things. More clothes to wear. Even one game for my PS4 to play. But, it's rough going - the house is chock-a-block with boxes. We were entirely depending on having my room done, so that my stuff could get unpacked, so there would be room to unpack other things. That isn't happening. We also expected that the boxes would be correctly labeled too. Nope.
If I had thought, even for a moment, that everything would be lies and bullshit, and that it would all turn out to be a clusterfuck... I would have done some things differently.
So, here is my big lesson to you, in case you have to move:
Expect that nobody is telling the truth about anything, that everything will be fucked no matter what, and that nothing and no man can be trusted. Prepare accordingly: take enough stuff you need to live normally in the car with you, and don't let said stuff get packed up on the moving truck. Even if you have to make six or ten five hour trips back and forth to do it, do it. Keep what you need close to you. Because it will all go horribly wrong. When it does, you will have all of your necessities with you in your fortress of cardboard boxes, and you will be alright until things eventually become rational again.
I didn't do the above, so now, for the next many months, I must peer at a monitor stacked on six shelf boards balanced on two incomplete drawer shells and type from my lap.
Because, in hell, there are no desks.
Anyway, we are in a new house, there is a lot wrong with it, but it will get fixed in time, and maybe in enough months, I will have a room again. And a surface to type on. (In the mean time, I am experimenting with using boards across my chair arms, tilted boards balanced on the edge of my monitor base, and pillows with boards on them as ways to get that 'desk feeling' back. Something will work, eventually. Surely.)
When I get used to my new keyboard (this one is USB! Huzzah! I am finally in the new decade!) I will continue with my writing.
So, for the too-long, didn't read crowd: I am down and (relatively) safe, the move is sort of over, and I am the empress of cardboard boxes, all hail me in my palace of cardboard!
Lastly, thank you to everyone who has been so supportive and kind to me during this fairly awful situation. You are wonderful, and I am grateful for you.
All hail Cardboardia!
May your boxes never crush
A land not unlike Minecraft
Someday the toilets will flush
All hail the Empress
ensconced in cardboard wall
one day the mythical contractors
will build her unicorn stall
All hail Cardboardia!
who knows what's tucked inside?
Intel and life and human greed
will ever take us for a ride!
When you gaze upon a cardboard box, remember: the empress gazes back at you. (No, she doesn't. She's too busy feeling sorry for herself. The stroppy bint.)
- Petal Chatoyance
15w, 5dThis week and the next is moving.30 comments · 439 views
And I am in hell.
Please, Celestia, CelestA.I. - I want to emigrate to Equestria.
17w, 4dIt looks like we have a house.28 comments · 311 views
A little update on my life, it looks like we have a house to move to.
Over the past... however long... we have been negotiating for a home in the Portland area. Hillsborough. We are just about to sign - this weekend, actually - and then we will own a home about six minuted from the Intel campus.
It will need a little work - in order to provide me with a roughly equivalent 'Uniplex' room - the common place where my family gets together to watch or play, and the place I do everything in - the garage will be turned into a finished room with a proper floor and insulation and nice walls and skylights and suchlike. A replacement Japanese soaking tub will take a little longer, but it is in the plans.
The house we are getting has some upsides and some downsides. It has enough rooms for a polyamoric family of four, which is good - one thing we have learned about being in a group marriage is that having enough private space is really a vital thing. People need some alone time. So a house for us has to have places where family members can just isolate if they need to. Say to work on something without interruption, or even just to chill out.
The house is quirky, which is good. It appears to have been several houses, in a way. A house that was built on, then built onto again. The stairs are crazy in it, short stairs mostly, but strange in placement because of the haphazard way the place sort of grew over time. It has a moderate yard in the back, decent for gardening in, and a very nice front yard with a mature cherry tree. Mmm. Cherries.
On the negative side, it is not very isolated - it is in the middle of Spielbergian Suburbia. It is next to the distant outer yard of a gradeschool, hopefully that will not be too awful. We are not 'kids' people, and we don't like noise and screaming and people breeding all over the place. Also, there is an airport nearby, somewhere. We have no way to know if we are on a flightpath that will be hell to suffer under. I guess... we'll find out.
I tried packing some of my little, fragile things, and I broke down in tears. It was also hard on my stamina. Ever since my heart attack about a decade ago, my stamina has not been great. I'm going to need help packing, a lot of it, and I'm not sure how that is going to work out yet.
But... the plan is that in three weeks or so, I will be living in a new house. When the shit hits the fan, it happens fast.
That is the update, for those that care.
I will keep working on my novel with dedication, but because of circumstances, I cannot promise, nor hope to always manage a chapter a day. I am sorry. I hate this unfortunate fact. I was really hoping to perform like I used to. But... life. The real world always gets in the way of ponies, and that is why real life is always inferior!
Oh, how I wish that the Bureau Mythos, my own Pony Singularity, or the Optimalverse was real.
But then, I doubt I am alone in that.
- Petal Chatoyance, July 25th, 2014
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19w, 2dAdrift Off Fiddler's Green: a new story is coming!34 comments · 738 views
We have a lead on a house. If things work out, then we may own a new place to live by the end of the month.
This has cheered me enough that one day, I woke up, and... I wasn't completely sad. I had some energy. I had just a little joy in me. The bright day wasn't shining with despair anymore. I almost felt happy.
And what powers my ability to write is feeling joy. Even just a little.
And that translates to:
Adrift Off
Fiddler's Green
A C o n v e r s i o n B u r e a u S t o r y
By Chatoyance
It's coming. The first chapter is even now going through approval. It's a sort-of follow up to HUMAN In Equestria, and sort of it's own novel. It stars, with permission, a reporter character courtesy of Midnight Shadow. Why? Because while it is trivial to just invent a character, using his newfoal 'Frontpage' from 'Midnight's Tail' makes me feel, just a little bit, like the old days, when I was part of a community of writers all sharing the same mythos in joy and friendship. That sort of feeling is precious.
A note on HUMAN In Equestria. For months and months, it has sat there, unfinished, a blot on my perfect record of always finishing every story. So, I set out to finish it. That was my initial goal. But... stories have lives of their own. Stories are living things, and what happened was that in doing more chapters of HUMAN, I realized an astonishing thing.
I had already finished the book perfectly ( just as some readers did, in fact, point out at the time ) and I had failed to notice it. Or believe it. I think I didn't want that particular ride to end, really. But... it is complete. The 'new chapters' proved that to me. The book had a perfect, happy ending, plus an epilogue that tied everything up. It was complete, I was just unwilling to admit it. Silly, stubborn me!
So, now I had two chapters and no book to put them in.
That is remedied as of now... or rather, when the new novel is greenlighted and online. Soon, I expect.
Please look for it. I would love to tell you a story, if I may.
A story of the deepest secrets of Equestria... like what it actually is, what the princesses (and Discord) truly are, and... the little issue of what happens in my Equestria after ponies... and other creatures... die.
Because an event, with a little Snow Bunny, from HUMAN In Equestria, needs to be followed up.
Because stories, have a life, of their own.
I guess... I'm back!
- Petal Chatoyance
July 12, 2014
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Alpha-Twilight in Beta-Ponyville? Looks interesting...
Also, I apologize for faving before reading but truth be told, I've yet to see you write a story I didn't want to follow. To make up for it, I only gave a thumbs-up after reading this. You, and this story, deserve both.
(for those who don't get what I'm talking about, read Chatoyance's guide to the ponyverses)
Well. This is definately going somewhere. I really like this.
Featured bar here we go!
I this so much. The trouble with kids' shows is that main characters can't be consistently polysyllabic, even when it fits their characterization perfectly.
In before it gets featured.
Now this definitely looks interesting, can't wait to see more!
Now this sounds really interesting. I definitely love the way Twilight is characterized in this, and Pinkie and Dash were also done very well; I love how Twilight made some minute distinction in just how much she was annoyed by the two of them. I'll keep an eye on this one.
Edit after reading more chapters: Nope, this is becoming way too preachy and negative for my tastes. Even the excellent characterization can't save it. It's basically just a massive treatise about how much you hate Season 2 presented as a story. At times you have valid points, but just as often you seem to complain about something being different in Season 2, even if it's not necessarily worse, while being strangely forgiving of Season 1 episodes in which similar things happen.
Experimental parameters set for maximal whimsy! That line made my day.
The premise is sound an I'm curious as to how Twilight will react given her measured and reasoned thought processes so far.
Great story. I mean, if the rest if the story is like the first chapter, one of the best stories I've read. I applaud you!
Also, in before featured.
Now the real question is how she's going to react to beta-Twilight
Hmm, this looks very interesting.
Of course, the real reason there's a sudden hill (that's not big enough to be called a mountain, really) in Ponyville is because it was plot-convenient to the silly children's show.
But still, this might be a fun exercise in parallel universes and multiple copies of our favorite ponies. Consider my curiosity aroused.
So.....what happens when Alpha-Twilight gets rescued by Beta-Rainbow Dash?
So I guess we ignore the fact that in s1e2, an episode directly overseen by Lauren Faust, their first instinct was to attack the manticore?
If you ask me, this is taking it a bit too far. I dont think I will be reading this.
This is good.
But as I'm sure Picollo from TFS would say in response to how descpritive this fic is "NERD!"
My Head A Splode from the sheer ingenuity and awesomeness in this story.
Definite UPVOTE.
What? Manticore? Throwing Faust at me randomly? What the hell?
Are you even responding to this story, specifically? This story is called 'Around The Bend' and it exists to examine and solve the problems of a lack of continuity. It involves a street and walking. There are NO Manticores. There are NO battles. There IS an impossible mountain. I don't even have a clue what you are going on about.
From my perspective, you just said "Machine Blueberry isn't Gooball Squart, therefore I am not reading this story!" My response is WTF?
Less drinking, more thinking. Stat.
She probably drew it herself.
Also, awesome story!
I drew this version of the map, but it is heavily based on the extensive work done by Aurebesh, who analyzed season one images and discovered that the town could be rationally mapped. That is true continuity in action. Here is his utterly impressive effort:
I took his work, expanded it myself, and then finished the result in the style of The Prisoner. I completed many things, such as the railroad, which he had not placed, and so forth. I am, however, indebted to his tremendous effort. Kudos should go to him.
I love this. I suppose random terrain and stuff showing up in Ponyville is a plot hole. It's brilliant!
Are you going to be addressing the dam?
Waaaaaait a second...
(72 kgrum - 20 kgrum) / 72 kgrum * 100 = 72.2% repeating less frustrating, not 20%
...Sorry. With Twilight offering the narrative perspective, I came out of this feeling awfully pedantic. In any case, I'm not sure whether I'm looking forward to more or if I should cite the MST3K Mantra. I'll settle for the former, though Twilight may not be the only one who should really just relax. Well, after she's left the Betaverse. She's got full license to panic while dimensionally displaced.
parallel universes. neat. i love to wrap my mind around those. but just to get it straight, the other city is also a version, albeit different, of ponyville?
Oh boy, industrial blight and wacky impossibly steep roads. You have my interest and your humor seems to work well here.
All I have to say is that this is a perfectly logical story to produce after your Ponyverses blog. Yes, perfectly logical.
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>>577908 ... I don't even know why i'm surprised any more... Bronies sure are thorough
Like trekkies, there are many in this fandom that, in their hearts, truly wish for Equestria to be real. We would not have such a glut of stories about bronies dying and getting Equestrian afterlives, or falling through wormholes and ending up in Equestria, or, for that matter, Conversion Bureau stories were that not so.
Like every fandom of a fantasy where the readers or viewers secretly hope that their fantasy could be real somewhere, the fans try to MAKE it real by detailing every aspect, and checking the whole for consistency. Life is self-consistent, unlike dreams, so if the fantasy can be shown to be self-consistent, then the dreamers can enjoy the notion that, somewhere, somehow, their magic world really, truly exists. Equestria is heaven, it is religion.
Just like L. Frank Baum's 'Oz', I might mention. Baum had many readers convinced that 'Oz' was a real place. The readers, young and old, wanted so desperately to believe that they tried mightily to identify the exact location of Oz from every little scrap of information they could glean. They put Trekkies to shame. Eventually, Baum had to claim Oz had moved out into the ocean and become surrounded by an invisibility shield that was utterly impenetrable to all humans. Further stories were claimed to come not as letters from Dorothy and her friends, but as radio signals, the only thing that could penetrate the Great Barrier Of Oz.
Sound familiar? Great Barrier Of Oz... the Great Barrier of Equestria from the Conversion Bureau stories, far out at sea?
In it's time, 'Oz' was the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic of its day. Adults loved the stories more than the intended audience, and became obsessed with every nuance. They wanted, desperately, to believe that Oz was real, that there was a wonderful, peaceful fairyland ruled by a benevolent magical fairy so very, very much. This fandom is the sole reason Oz is even relevant at all today. Fandom is powerful, y'all.
The same can be said of several other works, but I site 'Oz' because of... many similarities... to Equestria. I am keenly aware of this connection with every story I write, and with every massive work I see other bronies do. We are treading in deep, respectable footprints, everypony.
Remember - the 'Oz' books were not considered classics in their day at all. They were considered to be crap for children, and it was embarrassing for adults to love and adore them. But they did anyway. Just like today, with MLP:FIM.
And that is why I am so adamant about the writers of MLP:FIM not screwing the pooch and destroying continuity.
Because continuity is the magic that makes fantasy worlds become eternal. And classics.
And it is what can make a brony analyze an entire season of images to construct an accurate map of Ponyville.
Or a silly woman in Olympia write over a half a million words on Fimfiction.
Hoo boy. This is definitely something new
This would probably get featured on EQD.
Well, Season 2 was more...mature- than Season1. I wonder how S3 will be then. I'm excited.
Anyways, this was actually the first time I actually thought about the crane. Great job! I await next chapter.
what in Equestria? How'd they all become...evil? is that the right word?
No, the right word is 'Season Two'. That's all I'm doing here. Rewatch 'The Mysterious Mare Do Well' and 'Putting Your Hoof Down', as examples. I've used actual text from the scripts. That is the point of this story. I am having Season One Twilight meet Season Two Equestria and its denizens. But, I intend more than simply to point out that the writing has started to fail the show.
I have an answer, a no-prize, a convenient explanation - a way to cope coming. I have, I hope, a decent way to reconcile the paradise of Season One that captured our hearts with the increasingly meanspirited, cynical, and inconsistent bent of Season Two and likely, Season Three.
I am trying to save the sinking ship of writing on the series with a (hopefully) clever explanation. Let's sit back and see if I can do it, or if I just end up looking like a twit. Or a twat. I think I'd rather be a twat than a twit - twits are just stupid, but everypony loves a good... um... nevermind. Too much shipping stories, obviously.
"No, I am your brother"
"no..that's not true. That's impossible!"
I predict bladecasting, war with a new villain, and of course MOAR GUN!
Seattle is a city built in a hilly farmland area, like Ponyville. It totally has a death road with a cliff at the bottom. Two winters ago several buses went careening down it.
That said, the lampshading of the death road does keep cracking me up. Especially 'death road'. I giggle every time I say it.
Hmm... is the mysterious explanation Discord-related?
This... might be genius. Turning a gripe into a masterpiece, an objection into, if you may pardon the vernacular, a great big heart-felt fuck you that successfully uses that objection in an engaging, in-character metafictional romp of spectacular proportions.
Then again, haven't read it all yet. So here I am, preparing to set sail for Maximum Whimsy.
this was kinda depressing... but i don't understand, if it is season 2, why is granny smith behaving like that? i haven't seen that before.
I wanted to use a character other than simply the ones shown in the actual episode I was referencing. Why? I'm already using words from the actual original script, there is a point where reference becomes merely retelling. I wanted to avoid that. So I did a little mixing. Since the characters in that episode were... completely out of character - so to speak- it is beyond reasonable to expect that the author of that episode, Merriwether Williams, would have taken the same liberties with any given character. Continuity didn't matter to her, clearly, and the characters were just pawns in her script. I felt free to pick any pony at all.
I settled on Granny Smith because I felt that it was the most emotional choice I could make. In trying to show the shock of the discrepancy between the two Equestrias, picking emotional choices is an excellent tool. Think of my choosing Granny Smith as a kind of emotional italicizing so that the discordant experience Twilight is having would be especially felt by the reader. If that scene disturbed or unsettled you, then I succeeded. If you felt nothing at all, I failed.
>>580677 it was horrible... not the scene but the feeling. you did very good. and I understand what you mean... you have managed to make your point, at least for me.
Yep. Merriwether Williams indeed
I'm speculating that Pinkie Pie will be the same one -- in fact, perhaps there is ONLY one Pinkie Pie -- and she'll be, like, "Yup! I come here all the time! You mean you didn't know this place was over here? It's a great shortcut!"
Edit: Or perhaps the Twilight-Pinkie power-swap fic I'm reading is putting out too much influence. But whatever! :D
I will be honest: I thought this was just going to be a somewhat angsty, preachy story about how S2 messed with continuity so often - a topic that I acknowledge as having some grounds, but minimal merit or relevance.
It still kinda is, but it's damn entertaining to read, so I no longer give even one flying fornication.
Only thing that bopped me on the nose was the name "Carrottop". Usual practice is to stick a space in there, giving "Carrot Top". Other than that, I'm curious as to where you're taking this.
Interesting read, good sir or madam.
What this guy said. I still think there are better explanations and ways to route around differences in MWW (And apparently the wedding, although I've forgotten why) episodes than yours, but this is still kind of fun.
You know I don't think that the writing of Season 2 was bad, yes there were some things that seemed unnatural but no one ever said Ponyvillie was a perfect place.
... I'll behave now.


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The hotel is wonderful, but it is the young men who operate Riad Nezha that make it truly outstanding. I had emailed Mohammed a few times with questions before we left. His communications were excellent and very professional. Once we arrived, we met Mohammed, along with a second Mohammed and Said. All three of these guys truly take care of you, and it comes from the heart. The hotel is beautiful, on the newer side, well designed and very clean. Our bathroom was large and spotless. Shower was terrific, water was hot with really good pressure. There is a great view of Erg Chebbi from the terrace (and our room). It is a casual atmosphere, with the guys always there to make sure you have what you need. They treated us as if we were special guests in their homes. One example…my husband and I are both vegetarian. We had already been in Morocco for over a week when we had arrived at Riad Nezha. We had eaten vegetable tagine for most lunches and dinners, for lack of options at most restaurants. The vegetable tagine at Nezha was excellent, but the second night we ordered soup for dinner, and joked that we needed a break from tagine. Mohammed (the second) went out of his way, without our asking, to talk with the kitchen and then locate us and suggest a berber omelet that the chef would cook especially for us. It was a simple gesture, but one that I will never forget because of the thoughtful kindness behind it. And the omelet was delicious!!!
My partner and I were very comfortable at the Riad Nezha. Brahim and his co-workers were informative and helpful with our needs. Mohammed took Charlie and myself into the desert with a 4x4. It was so amazing to be out there, we enjoyed all of our little stops and the stories Mohammed told us. The camel trek excursion was even more amazing, I highly recommend it. One appreciates the remoteness of the Sahara once you are out there. The sky became a blanket of stars, it was magical. The breakfast that awaited us on the roof terrace hit the spot. Thank you for the lovely tea Saiid!!! I highly recommend staying here, the staff cares for you like family.
The staff at Riad Nezha is really friendly, attentive and helpful. Brahim (the owner) has really created a fantastic oasis on the edge of the Sahara. The facilities are modern, really clean, and very comfortable. They served a really delicious breakfast on the rooftop terrace over looking the desert. I definitely recommend having them cook dinner for you- it was very good (delicious soup, tagine & kefta meatballs) and the dining experience was very relaxing (they have a very comforable dining room) Overall a great experience at Riad Nezha!
Everything was great. No complaints.
The hotel is amazing. The building looks like a fortress in the middle of the desert. The guys there are very nice people, and helped us a lot. Food was really good, the view to the dunes was beautiful, and the stars in the terrace at night a separately show. This hotel was one of my best experiences so far. They organized our camel trip to the desert. Everything went fine and, in the end, we took another shower, had a good bye breakfast and just left good friends behind. Thank You, to all the staff at Riad Nezha for a wonderful stay.
Nothing at all.
I liked everything about Riad Nezha. This is a very comfortable place to stay. They have an excellent staff that is very helpful, friendly, and multilingual. They can organize a trip into the desert with a camel and guide. The guides are very good. They also serve a fantastic breakfast, and you can have a nice dinner at the hotel restaurant for an extra fee that is really worth it. Overall Riad Nezha is an excellent value for the money. I am very happy that I stayed here. Thank You, to all the staff at Riad Nezha for a wonderful stay.
There wasn't anything I didn't like.
Clean, friendly, comfortable, hospitable, quiet, relaxing.
The Riad is outstanding. It is stylish and luxurious and located at the foot of an oasis on the edge of the Sahara. Our room was spacious and beautifully furnished with traditional high quality artefacts and contained all mod cons. The Riad organised wonderful overnight camel trip into the Sahara was a highlight of our trip. The Riad's pool was so clean and refreshing in the hot weather. The multilingual staff were attentive and helpful and I highly recommend the half board food option that catered well for vegetarians. I wish we could have stayed longer and will use the Riad Nezha as a base for future excursions into the Sahara
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