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I've got several drawers and half a closet full of sexy lingerie. They hold more secrets than Victoria could ever keep. They whisper sweet nothing into my ear. But then again, so does my sex life this week.
They don't call it a "dry spell" for nothing.
Back to the lingerie. Pure invention, I tell ya. Lingerie is the equivalent of a candy dish. Nobody wants either, but they are both often bought as gifts by people who have no taste or concept of size. It's something that gets displayed only when the person who purchased it comes over to visit. (I sew nametags into mine so as not to offend the wrong party.) Within minutes of said party's departure, it gets relegated to the laundry room or the dry cleaning pile. The candy dish gets regifted. Buyer's remorse comes (and goes) with a hefty price tag.
During my last long-term relationship, my mother thought I should have a collection of peignoirs and high-heeled slippers with feathers on them to establish that I was the lady of the house. That's so last century. But so was that relationship. When your chilly morning consists of cleaning out a barn and hauling the excrement of two Shetland ponies down a hill to the compost bin, a negligee doesn't beg to be worn.
This is not me (or my pony)
In these circumstances, dangling the carrot does not require protruding nipples. Those horses knew how to bite the hand that fed them and the damn stable boy didn't come until later on in the day. Come to think of it, now that I see that last sentence in writing, it makes me wonder what he was doing in that barn for so long on those winter afternoons. And why I didn't go visit him more often. From what I can remember, he was hung like a horse.
My first experiment and foray into lingerie was in the form of the dreaded "Teddy". Why it was called a Teddy is beyond me. Was there once a longer or larger version that didn't creep up the ass and divide a woman's body into two piles of yeasty dough? Was it all the rage and called a "Theodore"? Theodore and Teddy belong on a Roosevelt, not on my body. There is no presidential pardon for what a Teddy did to the female figure. Crotches with snaps are fine for infant clothing but are not riveting in the bedroom. Thankfully, the Teddy suffered a deservingly quick demise and ended up in landfills along with Members Only jackets.
Where's the rest of it?
Next came slinky slips with straps that required a degree from MIT in order to adjust them properly. They were colorful and feminine looking but often ill fitting and tight in the wrong places. The darts never pointed anywhere near my nipples and at the time, mine were still doing an about face. Frankly, if a man requires darts to direct him to the bull's eye, there's a pretty decent chance that he should be looking for an optometrist and not sex.
Next came the anal floss of all underwear in the form of the thong. The skimpier and prettier it was, the more expensive it was to buy. This disastrous invention also propelled Brazilian waxing into the economic stratosphere. To the uninitiated man, getting a Brazilian wax is similar on the humiliation scale to having the proctologist's hand up your butt for longer than necessary but with the added excitement of potentially suffering third degree burns. We pay for this. Dearly. And trust me guys, when a woman screams while having her pubes ripped out by their roots, she's never faking it.
If you want to hear some real screaming, head over to Mona's parlor this Thursday at 3 when I have my next appointment. It's not like we can get away with a once yearly visit if we plan on wearing that thong as an invitation to the garden of eatin'. I have a standing appointment that I take lying down.
Would you stand for this?
Since women are going for the bald look these days (what's up with that?), that doesn't leave much for men to graze on or to the imagination. Neither does lingerie. I like a man with a good appetite and appreciation for what a woman is supposed to really look like. Naked and well fed.
Which is why I've decided to get off the lingerie and waxing rollercoaster and save myself a small fortune.
I could give dreadlocks an entirely new meaning.
From this point forward, if a man wants to slip into something more comfortable, he should just try me. Without the lingerie.
"Eat Her More Often" by Patricia A. Smith
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
Mount Rushmore or Minnie Mouse? There will be prizes if you guess correctly!
Utilitarian lingerie?...perhaps.
But a moving feast no less.
same with that evil butt floss. never! bikinis or death!
I'm just an old fashioned girlie.
This sounds like you might appreciate a man for
his soul,
So then you gotta apprecitate yrsell soulfully...
once you have done that, your body is infinitely playfully
OPEN, always...
How is it that this is unknown these days,
when dh lawrence said,
"there are many people who are genunely
"many who are genuinely repelled by the simplest
and most natural of sexual feeling..
thwarted, disappointed unfulfilled people...
so many..."
(including our selves of course, first and foremost,
some of the time....
other times a sexy lingerie
is a woman reclaiming her body
and a man is starstruck)\
what starstrikes a woman,
we wonder...
Bellwhether: I think I may have written about that time in my life as cartouche, a million posts ago.
Rita Bourland: A very close friend of mine worked for Lex for a number of years.
Veronica: Freudian slip? Another form of lingerie?
James: I do get this. That. Which is why I prefer to go au natural.
Abrawang: I could give ZZ a run for his money if it weren't for the damn perm!
MTN: Shoots come hither glance your way..... if I recall, this was once a very hot topic of discussion between us.
Love this post.
THAT is hilarious. As was this piece, bloom thing. damn where is my mind!


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Arizona Cardinals quarterback John Skelton is almost recovered from the sprained ankle he suffered in Week 1 and is available to play Sunday against Buffalo, even though he didn't get many reps in practice this week.
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Skelton has missed the last four games but is active against the Bills. Kevin Kolb is starting, and the Cardinals can re-assess their quarterback situation after Sunday's game.
Arizona believes Skelton will be ready to play next Sunday at Minnesota if the Cardinals need him. For now, the Cardinals aren't making any long-term commitments about who will be their quarterback.
Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt has only said he will address the situation when needed. But this will be the first week this regular season that the Cardinals have the choice of sticking with Kolb or going back to Skelton.
Skelton beat out Kolb as Arizona's starter after a tight preseason race but sprained his ankle in the fourth quarter of the opener against the Seahawks.
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Conduit Dumps Google Search for Microsoft's Bing December 01, 2010
by Kara SwisherIn an interesting move in the search space, Conduit–a fast-growing start-up that helps publishers make and distribute apps using Web browser toolbars–has entered a strategic partnership with Microsoft's Bing search service.
In doing so, it is leaving its existing search deal with Google and will instead offer Bing to its network of 260,000 publishers and 200 million users.
It's a solid win for Bing, which has more incentive to draw customers of its search products and services away from Google.
And every little bit helps as Microsoft strives to put even a chink in the overwhelming dominance of the search giant.
In a press release, Conduit said, in part:
"Users of Conduit-powered Community Toolbars will get all the features that are unique to Bing: an excellent browsing experience with the best match and most useful links and information, Instant Answers, Quick Preview of websites, and auto-suggest for search queries. Users will be now able to filter video by duration, aspect ratio, resolution or source, and filter images by size, aspect ratio, color, and style."
More significantly, under the terms of the deal, Web publishers will be able distribute apps directly in the organic search results on Bing.
Conduit President Adam Boyden said the deal, which starts at the beginning of 2011, was struck to offer a better user experience for its customers with search, as well as the "long-term potential for app innovation with Microsoft."
Conduit, which was founded in 2005 and has 190 employees, is profitable, Boyden said, from customers such as Groupon, eBay, Travelocity, and Major League Baseball.
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Anne Hollander, 1930–2014
July 9, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
Anne Hollander, whose acute writing on fashion, costume, and style infused those subjects with a new intellectual energy, died on Sunday at eighty-three. As the Times reports, "She argued that clothing revealed far more than it concealed—about art, about perceptions of the body and ourselves—and her interests spanned centuries and mediums."
Hollander conducted—or co-conducted; she shares the credit with John Marquand—The Paris Review's first Art of Theater interview, with Lillian Hellman, published in 1965. Back then, her contributor's note read modestly, "Anne Hollander designs costumes, paints, and translates occasionally."
A little more than a decade later, in 1978, she published her first book, the brilliant (and brilliantly named) Seeing Through Clothes, a history of clothing and a study of representations of the body in Western art. The book was full of offhand wisdom about what you could call our philosophy of dress: "People seem always actually to know," Hollander wrote, "with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden." The book took a while to find its audience, but, as one critic noted, it "pushes erudition to the point of originality. The thoroughness with which she examines Western art and clothes has precipitated a new subject: how painting, sculpture and photography mediate between bodily ideals and what we wear."
Over the next decades, her reputation grew and she published a succession of well-received books, including Moving Pictures and Sex in Suits; she wrote essays for a number of magazines, including The London Review of Books. Not much of Hollander's writing is available online, but she was, for a time in the late nineties, the fashion columnist for Slate, which has curiously yet to publish a remembrance. Her pieces there have aged well; a column from February 1997—"A Loss for Words: Why there's no good writing in fashion"—is just as true nearly twenty years later:
Fashion journalists and sensational fictioneers like Danielle Steele have co-opted the field, and other writers are scared off. Fashion now seems like a club with a private jargon that leaves no room for the play of sensitive literary exposition. And good critical writing about clothing hardly exists at all. There is no tradition of clothes criticism that includes serious analysis, or even of costume criticism among theater, ballet, and opera critics, who do have an august writerly heritage. This fact may be what makes the fashion journalist hate her job—the painful sense that real work cannot be done in this genre, that it would be better, more honorable, to be writing about something else.
But Hollander didn't write about something else, thankfully. She expanded the rhetoric and insight of criticism about style, engaging where most writers thought there was nothing to engage with.
What We're Loving: Eccentrics, Cult Figures
August 3, 2012 | by The Paris Review
All month I've found myself recommending Perry Anderson's series in the London Review of Books on the birth of modern India. Anderson is hardly a well-kept secret; he is about as renowned as a Marxist historian can be. Still, his in-depth articles—on China, Russia, Italy, et cetera—are like nothing in any other magazine. Imagine the old Encyclopedia Britannica as written by the God of the Old Testament. He lays about him with a mighty hand. —Lorin Stein
I like biographies for beach reading. (And by beach I mean the roof of my building.) Lisa Cohen's All We Know—a joint study of Esther Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta, and Madge Garland, and a vivid portrait of between-the-wars bohemia—is just the thing: substantive, thoughtful, and juicy enough that you'll risk a burn to find out what happens next. —Sadie O. Stein
If you are an eccentric, you will be thrilled to know that there is a club for you. It's called, rather plainly, The Eccentrics Club. It's based in London, was founded in 1781, and still exists. It sounds like a joke, but it isn't—it's patronized by the Duke of Edinburgh, no less. The club's stated mission is to promote, presumably just among eccentrics, "Good Fellowship" and "True Sociality"—"virtues which," according to the club's rules and regulations of 1808, "are now getting rare and eccentric; but which it is the wish and intent of this Society to cherish within their narrow circle to the utmost of their power … in the occasional enjoyment of 'the feast of reason and the flow of soul.'" If you aren't quite sure whether or not you qualify, do not fret, as the Society has a useful page to help you diagnose yourself. If you discover that you are in fact an eccentric, don't get too excited: admission to the club is by interview only. —Arthur Holland Michel
Searching for Sugar Man—the story of Detroit cult singer-songwriter Rodriguez and his unlikely second act—is a solid, pleasurable documentary that I'd recommend to anyone who enjoys crying alone at movies (I do). But even if you don't catch it, check out the sound track: composed entirely of the subject's own music, it makes a strong case for his place in the early-seventies canon. I've had Cold Fact on repeat for the past week. —S.O.S.
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September 7, 2010 | by Elisabeth Sifton
The writer and critic Frank Kermode, who died last month at the age of 91, was, for the many colleagues and readers who loved and admired him in America and England, sui generis. Over more than sixty years, in more than fifty books and hundreds—no, thousands—of vigorous, elegant review articles, not to mention his classes and lectures, we came to know his never-failing equipoise; his stupendous literary, scholastic and philosophical learning; and a precision and lightness of touch that gave even his most difficult work an aura of grace. What was he up to? He was much more than a professor of literature, as his label described him, however high-minded and admirable that profession may be. For one thing, he disregarded the usual boundaries, teaching and writing about literature from the Renaissance to the present day—dramas, novels, histories, letters, scriptures, poetry. He analyzed the way criticism of various genres evolved, how readers and writers treated novelty or adhered to tradition; he instructed us on the many strategies developed for trying to understand what writers of this poem or that narrative meant to say—wie es eigentlich gemeint, to paraphrase the great Ranke. And he gave us unforced judgments on the greatest literary works ancient and modern, whose breathtaking splendors, which he clearly loved, he taught us to comprehend.
Where did this amazing person come from? Who was he? In a fine memoir composed in his seventies, Not Entitled, Kermode wrote about his childhood in Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man, where his father was a grocery clerk and his mother a café waitress. It's all there in his early years, of course, or a lot of it—the mother with no parents, no family, no past, but with a rich sense of language, both Manx and English, along with a practiced, lively social style that was deferential to strangers yet easy with them, to whom Frank owed, as he put it, not only his "early training in politeness and motiveless civility" but also the "association of gaiety with terror, giggling with desolation"; the father, well-liked, very hardworking, strong, hot-tempered yet anxious, whose characteristic "patient good humour" was eventually destroyed by "disappointment, hard labour and diabetes." And then there was their oblique, many-layered awareness of England as a foreign governing power, and their attachment to the Anglican Church, which conveniently signaled that the Kermodes were not, in the Manx world, either low-born "dissenters" or, worse, Irish Catholic. These were parents who didn't quite know what to do with their mysteriously gifted though clumsy and short-sighted son, except to complain about him (his father) or push him to try harder (his mother). If nothing else, they taught Frank "what it meant to work, however unseasonably, however against the grain." Read More »


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Vegetarian Red Bean Chili Recipe
- 1 can (16 ounces) red beans, rinsed and drained
- 2 cans (8 ounces each) no-salt-added tomato sauce
- 2 cups water
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 package (12 ounces) frozen vegetarian meat crumbles
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 to 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- Sour cream and shredded cheddar cheese, optional
- In a 4-qt. slow cooker, combine all ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hours or until heated through. Serve with sour cream and cheddar cheese if desired. Yield: 6 servings (2 quarts).
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"To reduce salt, avoid processed foods like the veggie crumbles and canned tomatoes. Rinsing the beans mandatory, better yet, cook your own and freeze until needed. Use fresh tomatoes for the canned, quinoa for the crumbles. I agree too much cumin unless you really like the spice. Use minimum salt at cooking start, adjust about 30 minutes before meal finishes. For more interest, had frozen corn near end as well, heat just until corn is hot."
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This chili has a great flavor after a few minor alterations. The cumin would be overpowering at the stated amount, so I cut it to a rounded tsp and used only one can of tomato sauce with two cans of diced tomatoes. I added some green bell pepper and diced green chilies, with only 1/4 tsp cayenne. Oh, and we used ground beef, as we are not vegetarians. It's just a good, basic chili recipe which is easily altered to suit personal tastes.""1/3 cup is a serving? I have never heard of a chili recipe with such a small serving. It seems like a lot of sodium and carbs for such a small amount."
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Birmingham City host the Reds on Saturday
The tentative optimism generated by Forest's 2-0 win against Coventry on Saturday will be tested to the full at St Andrew's against a side unbeaten in 15 games following their 3-1 victory at Barnsley on Tuesday night.
That fixture at Oakwell was the 44th of the season for Chris Hughton's men but far from flagging they appear to be running into form at just the right time to make a promotion charge.
Blues won the corresponding fixture 3-1 at the City Ground in early October, bringing to an end Steve McClaren's brief reign as Reds boss.
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According to a Forbes Magazine article quoting data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average worker today stays at each job for 4.4 years. The expected tenure of the workforce's youngest employees is about half that.
Information from National Longitudinal Surveys shows on average, younger baby boomers held an average of 11.3 jobs from ages 18 to 46. Men held 11.4 jobs and women held 10.7 jobs.


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Source: Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office
A man is in the hospital after a dog bit him in the crotch earlier today.
Authorities told News 2 the man was riding his bike down a street in Eastover Estates south of Denham Springs around 11:30 a.m. when the a large, black, shaggy dog ran from under a mobile home. The dog charged the man and bit him. The dog's owner, 56-year-old Mary Loveless, said the dog had a problem with bikes.
The victim went into surgery, and the dog has been quarantined by the parish. Loveless received a citation for violation of the parish leash law.


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By Mark Gutglueck
The San Bernardino County Sentinel
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Belated opposition is hurriedly forming to a plan that would pump an average of 50,000 acre-feet of water per year out of the aquifer in San Bernardino County's eastern Mojave Desert and convey it in a pipeline to Riverside, Orange and Los Angeles counties to replenish the water supply there.
The Santa Margarita Water District, which services an area that is more than 200 miles from the Cadiz Valley, is the lead agency for what is called The Cadiz Valley Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project. As the lead agency the SMWD, the second largest water district in Orange County, will oversee the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review process for the project.
Santa Margarita will work with the Cadiz Land Company in the proposed undertaking, which is a modified version of the Cadiz Water Project floated by Cadiz Land and the Metropolitan Water District more than a decade ago. The original project called for the Cadiz Land Company pumping water from the Colorado River during wet years, storing it in an underground aquifer beneath the Cadiz Valley, and selling as much as 60,000 acre-feet of the native groundwater and Colorado River water mix to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) in Los Angeles during dry years.
That proposal was ultimately rejected by the MWD's board of directors after conservationists raised concerns over possible environmental damage. That rejection led to expensive litigation between the Cadiz Land Company and the MWD.
The concept lay dormant for six years. But in 2008 the Cadiz Land Company, also known as Cadiz, Inc., revived the plan in modified form, emphasizing less the drawing of water from the Colorado River and instead proposing to obtain much of the water from sources feeding the area's dry lakes that are subject to evaporation.
The revived project was given a tentative budget of $536.25 million and is to entail the sinking of 34 wells into the desert and construction of a 44-mile pipeline along a railroad right-of-way until it meets up with the aqueduct that carries Colorado River water to the Los Angeles and Orange County metropolitan areas.
Through the arrangement with the Cadiz Land Company, the SMWD will receive the lion's share of the water. In addition, Cadiz, Inc. has entered into agreements with Three Valleys Water District, which provides water to the Pomona Valley, Walnut Valley, and Eastern San Gabriel Valley; the Golden State Water Company, which serves several communities in Southern California, including Claremont; Suburban Water Systems, which serves Covina, West Covina and La Mirada; and the Jurupa Community Services District, which serves Mira Loma in Riverside County.
The Cadiz Valley is located just south of the Marble Mountains and northeast of the Sheep Hole Mountains near the National Trails Highway. Cadiz is home to a former railroad stop along the Santa Fe line, 17 miles east of Amboy and 70 miles from Needles.
The public hearings related to the Cadiz Valley Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project were held in Yucca Valley, which is 85 miles from Cadiz, and in Rancho Santa Margarita, which is 217 miles from Cadiz. Many people directly impacted by the project were not notified of the hearings. Neither was the Bolo Station Water Company, which serves the Cadiz Valley and the property adjoining that of the Cadiz Land Company.
Among those at the forefront of the movement to oppose the Cadiz Valley Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project is former Needles city councilwoman Ruth Musser-Lopez, who was previously employed as a Bureau of Land Management Archaeologist assigned to the California Desert District and was active in opposing the first Cadiz Water Project.
Musser-Lopez decried the project as one that would confiscate a vital and rare resource from the desert region. She said the Cadiz Land Company and the SMWD had formed an unholy alliance of a rapacious corporation and a quasi-governmental agency that was abusing the approval and environmental certification processes to violate the rights of the region's residents while depriving future generations of desert dwellers access to water.
Both the SMWD and the Cadiz Land Company have represented the project as one that is aimed at "conservation" of water otherwise lost to evaporation. A major selling point is that the project will represent a $138 million boon to the East Mojave's economy that will directly or indirectly create 2,090 jobs for four years, involving $53 million in wages or salaries to workers or proprietorships involved in building the pipeline and other elements of the project. Read the full story


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Anne "Shyannes" England - 05/08/2002
Just completed my clubs top ten and this one came first.....they obviously like it as it do, please take care with the & count at the end if you are considering teaching it.....the dance fits to lots of other tracks but celion dion track coupled with the dance makes it really nice .....
When You Look At Me
Anne "Shyannes" England - 05/08/2002
Well, saw dave dance it.....like it....said i would teach.....well they love it.....i know its advanced but dance is really not that hard, if you are considering teaching its the sequence that you need to remember, once mastered its a joy, fits to perfection and pattern of steps and hand movements "which i dont usually like" reflect the music so well....... This one is worth the effort......a really good piece of choreography. I am finding that masters in line are bringing us some very interesting dances.....cant teach em all but this one is a must.
Stop It!
Geri - 05/08/2002
taught this dance to my intermediate class, really went down well loved it, good choice of music, well done rob,
Colour Blind
re above comment - 04/08/2002
to the above comment,this dance was taught to a country alternative and choreographed to a promo copy of colour blind,so make sure you get your facts right before SLAGGING people off.
Colour Blind
Kiley - 04/08/2002
why the bad comments of geri's dance its obvious that they hav'nt even looked at this dance,and the track has been played for over a month on the airwaves,as for Gord he's her no 1 fan good for him,the script has 2 other tracks that this dance can be done 2,i personally have danced this dance and i think its a good dance to nice tracks, and we can do without the personal attack on choreoghraphers and there partners
Splish Splash
Margaret - 04/08/2002
Brilliant dance not at all difficult to learn and can really swing to the music...a must do
All My Heart
Jane - 04/08/2002
Have been dancing this dance for only a few week, but I love it and the track by Trish Yearwood is one of my favourites. Just dance it!-
Colour Blind
Rachel - 04/08/2002
I think that this dance is a hit and to the person that said "has she got an illegal copy" get a life will you itis been on the radio for ages now and i've seen it being played a million times on MTV and the box!!! Anyway who cares if Gord is a nice husband! Geri,this is a great dance so just ignore those people who need to lighten up!! Rachel xx
Come Dance With Me
Karen Hunn - 04/08/2002
This is a such a beautiful flowing dance, which is loved by my Beginners right through to my Intermediate dancers. This dance proves just how talented Jo Thompson is, to be able to choreograph a beginner dance which can be enjoyed by all levels.
Night Club 2 Lulu
Wesley Cowie - 02/08/2002
Hi, I just thought I'd give a review on this dance, I think it's great and goes very well to the music, well done Masters In Line, keep up the good work.
Stupid Mistake
Wes - 02/08/2002
It's a good dance, trust me, it's the first dance choreographed by Wesley, and it is honestly good!, for any information what so ever on this dance e-mail 'firstname.lastname@example.com'. It's up to you to review it now, so come on!
Never Before
Eve Jones - 02/08/2002
I was taught this dance on Thursday Weave a littl tricky,it was great fun a sure hit
Never Before
Brenda - 02/08/2002
I liked your other dance to "What if, but I think this one is even better the steps fit well to the music and I will be able to adapt the dance for other tunes by a live band congrats. a Hit with all of us.
Resurrection Shuffle
Joe.inline - 02/08/2002
No tags, bridges, restarts or "A"s & "B"s. Easy to teach and very well received by all the class. Lovely teaching track and very satisfying proper track. Why has no one else reviewed this excellent dance?


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (17 votes).
In short: Query the distance and the slatted bridges / cycle gates hard workDate of review: March 20, 2013
In short: Well organizedIn full: Had a few worries about this race beforehand. There was no need. Lots of information e mailed in the weeks before the event and everything went like clockwork on the day, well done everyone and a big thank you to the marshals. One of the better half marathons that I've done.Date of review: March 12, 2013
In short: Thoroughly enjoyable race due to the superb organisation throughout.In full: pencil this one in for next year, providing the numbers are not increased too dramatically this will become a top race.Date of review: March 4, 2013
In short: Well organised. Flat course narrow in placesIn full: A very chilly Newport but excellent organisation. This has the potential to grow which I hope it does.Date of review: March 4, 2013
In short: Very well organised and pb target flatIn full: Will there ever be a better organised inaugural race? Despite concerns over several potential pinch-points they never became an issue. Surprisingly well supported all of the way along the route and tremendous marshalling.Well done St David's :-) Date of review: March 4, 2013
In short: Superbly organised, using Spytty stadium as a start/finish was inspired thinking. For an inagural race this was 1st class. lDate of review: March 4, 2013
In short: Cracking race, great organisation and marshalls!In full: Well done to all involved, this was a fantastically organised race! The race went past my house, so knowing the potential for disaster at the one or two pinch points makes it even more impressive. Support was great and the soup and bacon butty at the end were very welcome additions indeed!Date of review: March 4, 2013
In short: A Welcome Addition to the Half Marathon Calendar In full: For a first time event warm congratulations are due to the organisers and many volunteers for an excellent and outstandingly friendly event. Hopefully it will grow and grow in the years to come, although a wider route will be needed by then,rather than the picturesque out and back. Thank you all. Date of review: March 3, 2013
In short: Great race! Soup at the end was a ice touch. Well organized, everything went smoothly, lots of water and marshals. Date of review: March 3, 2013
In short: Awesome race. Great route and knocked 5 mins off PB!!!Date of review: March 3, 2013


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Is she finally going to be a mom? A new interview with Khloe Kardashian confirms that the 'KUWTK' star WILL be having a baby very soon!
Khloe Kardashian, 30, has finally opened up about having children. During an exciting event for military moms in New York City on July 7, the fashion designer discussed in detail her thoughts on having children, as well as her plans for getting pregnant. How exciting!
Khloe Kardashian Will Be Pregnant With First Baby
So, does Khloe still dream of being a mommy one day? The answer is: YES! Of course she does!
On July 7, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star confirmed that she is planning on getting pregnant.
"I mean, one day the [pregnant] rumor will be true, I hope, but who knows? Until then, it is what it is," Khloe told People in an interview.
Of course, her response came while addressing the fact that rumors are constantly swirling that she is pregnant and/or trying for a baby at all times. Thankfully, it seems like Khloe has a good sense of humor about the situation.
"I feel like I've been pregnant for six years!" she joked. "Before I was like, 'Do I have a baby bump? Is my belly sticking out?' But no."
Well, we are thrilled to hear that Khloe has not given up hope of having a baby! Obviously, her nieces and nephews could always use an extra playmate — especially Kourtney Kardashian's new baby, who will officially be the youngest of the gang once it's born.
We can't help but wonder if Khloe will end up having a baby with her boyfriend, French Montana. Hmm!
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Posted at 9:26 PM on August 6, 2014
At the end of the day lamar cheated on khloe with numberous of women and was on drugs, by what I saw on the episodes she tried her best to keep the marriage in her position I would fall for divorce aswel she did not deserve any of that out of all of them she the best as a person. And lamar has no right to ever be betrayed by khloe having a baby with french montana she deserves to be happy and with a good man he lost his chance he shouldn't of done what he did end of. Hope klhoe finds the one for her she fully deserves it. :)
Posted at 11:49 PM on July 9, 2014
As Khloe is so much in love with French, she sould
know him better, and wait for her divorce from La-
mar to have a baby (better if she got married!). I am
from the old school and it will be wisely to avoid negative coments from Lamar when she should be
in happier times on this joyous occasion.
Amazon khloe, will be going through a adoption service to adopt a child from another country. Stay tune, it is to bring more rotation fabricated storylines to the show. Remember right now the show is Declining on Ratings so big time, and Pimp mama kris jenner. is busy trying to get those ratings up at any cost. Now if amazon khloe, decides to have Montee seed, that is her own personal busy even while she is still hanging onto to divorce papers of her divorce from Lamar Odom. The other thing I can say is it might be a possibility that Lamar Odom's sperm might have been saved just so that at a later time when amazon khloe, was ready she would after all have Lamar Odom's child. No one knows the what goes on behind closed doors so at this moment anything is possible with amazon khloe, and her wicked,evil,and very Kursed family. I do wish all well, think out of the box. Prayers.
Posted at 3:19 PM on July 9, 2014
who ever just wrote that comment has to be about the sickest person I've ever heard or seen right in my life that is so not nice and some women struggle with baby problems but who is it for us from the outside looking in to say anything and I bet if you look at the skeletons in your closet you got quite a few step in there to and furthermore if she did adopt the baby is hers is called adaptation regardless to how she gets a baby as long as the baby is taken care of well you come from evil and then you put something for God in the back of your your statements they all seem like good people are they making money yes are you jealous yes get a life
I believe that,Khole will end up back with her husband. Because he has problems doesn't mean that she want give him one more time all he need's is a little help and he can do anything. Praying that khole & husband do get back together & work things out. Because they look really good together:) :)


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Remember the study that found George Bush has personally killed one trillion innocent civilians in Iraq? (Okay, it was only 600,000, but don't think they wouldn't have said one trillion if they thought they could get away with it.)
Turns out, again, it was probably a fraud.
Iraq Body Count says there is "considerable cause for scepticism" and has complained that its figures had been misleadingly cited in the The Lancet as supporting evidence.
File that one under "O" for obvious. It's not good when an anti-war group like IBC debunks your anti-war study.
One critic is Professor Michael Spagat, a statistician from Royal Holloway College, University of London. He and colleagues at Oxford University point to the possibility of "main street bias" – that people living near major thoroughfares are more at risk from car bombs and other urban menaces. Thus, the figures arrived at were likely to exceed the true number. […] Professor Spagat says the Lancet paper contains misrepresentations of mortality figures suggested by other organisations, an inaccurate graph, the use of the word "casualties" to mean deaths rather than deaths plus injuries, and the perplexing finding that child deaths have fallen. Using the "three-to-one rule" – the idea that for every death, there are three injuries – there should be close to two million Iraqis seeking hospital treatment, which does not tally with hospital reports.
"They published a sampling methodology that can overestimate deaths by a wide margin but respond to criticism by claiming that they did not actually follow the procedures that they stated." The paper had "no scientific standing".
And that's just the methodology argument. Add to it the bias factor…
One of The Lancet authors, Dr Les Roberts, campaigned for a Democrat seat in the US House of Representatives and has spoken out against the war. Dr Richard Horton, editor of the The Lancet is also antiwar.
Not that they'd have an agenda or anything.
Professor Burnham says the doctors worked in pairs and that interviews "took about 20 minutes". The journal Nature, however, alleged last week that one of the Iraqi interviewers contradicts this. Dr Hicks says: : "I have started to suspect that they [the American researchers] don't actually know what the interviewing team did. The fact that they can't rattle off basic information suggests they either don't know or they don't care."
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Tanushree Podder writes about things that make her curious and throw up a challenge
Harem. The word evokes pictures of beautiful, silk clad women with long dark hair and troubled eyes idling their day away, waiting for the summons of their lord and master. Writer Tanushree Podder became fascinated by the dynamics of this female-dominated universe while researching for her first historical novel, Nurjahan's Daughter, "I was compiling notes about the Mughal harem and was mystified by the life of the inmates, their dreams, joys and sorrows, I decided that the protagonist of the next book would be a woman who escapes the harem and lives to tell the tale. The exhaustive research I had done for the first book helped me flesh out the details," she says over email, talking about her second book Escape From Harem-the story of Zeenat, a young girl brought to assuage Emperor Jehangir's frustration over his rejection by Meherunnisa.
Both the books recreate the splendour and romance of the Mughal dynasty. Talking about her fascination for the Mughals, "We had a three-year tenure at Agra and while going around the Fort, Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri and other Mughal structures, I developed an interest in the Mughals. I did some research into their lifestyle and culture and decided to write a book with Jahangir's period as a background."
Surprisingly, Tanushree has not formal trainings in History. "I am a science graduate with a management degree. Although I didn't study history as a subject, I developed a keen interest in the subject later in my life."
However, she admits that she loves travelling and attributes that to her burgeoning interest in history.
"I am sure I have some gypsy genes in me. My father had a transferable job so I travelled all through my childhood and loved living in the different cities and states of India. Having married an Army officer, it was natural that I travelled to the most distant parts of the country. We have been posted to places, which are not easily found on the maps of the country. Honestly, even my parents had not heard of places like Hathigor and Tangla till I travelled to them," she says, adding, "Maybe it has something to do with the amount of travelling I have done. Each time I visited a palace or a fort I would find myself trying to visualise the life within the four walls of the structures. The curiosity kindled an interest in history." It doesn't just stop with history, Tanushree has written close to 20 books covering a variety of subjects. "I write about subjects that make me curious and throw up a challenge or one that makes me feel strongly about something."
A self-confessed bibliomaniac, Tanushree says that she loves reading the work of authors like PG Wodehouse, Ayn Rand, Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni among others. "Atlas Shrugged is an all-time favourite followed by Gone with the Wind and Dr. Zhivago," she says, adding that she is especially fascinated by the character of Scarlett O'Hara.
Though she loves historical fiction, Tanushree says "it takes more out of you than contemporary fiction. Books with historical background take much longer to write since one can't afford to go wrong with the dates or sequences. Every aspect has to be carefully researched. "I haunted the libraries of the places I lived in while doing my research."
On future plans she says, "There are two things I love best in life – travelling and writing - and I hope to continue with the two passions till I can don my boots and key in words on my computer."


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Keep summer from being a bummer by inviting Dora, Wally, the Bubble Guppies and the PAW Patrol to play with your little one!
Watch Puppy Preschool all week on NICK!
Cozy-up with your kids and search for the hidden items in these snowy scenes!
No more mug mix-ups! Keep track of hot chocolates with these printable charms!
Need an indoor activity? Keep kids entertained with sticker play fun!
Kids can hit the slopes with Dora & Diego in this 5-page printable coloring pack
Print this page for your little ice skater!
These best friends are also great skating partners!
Dora and friends are lined up to skate. Can you spot which one is wearing something different?
Kids count from 1 to 20 to find out what Dora needs for her big competition!
Kids help Dora & Boots skate through this maze to make it to Snowflake Lake
There are so many ways to play on a cold and snowy day!
Ring in the new year with Dora!
Create snow showers indoors with this a-DORA-ble mobile!
Your kids can become snow royalty, just like Dora & Boots!
Bring together your favorite Snowy Forest friends!
Let Mami help you get ready for cold and flu season with this handy checklist.
Three Kings Day is coming. Let's start the celebration!
These two snowy scenes have six small differences. Help kids spot them all.
Learn the lyrics to your favorite Snow Princess songs.
Cross icy oceans and snow covered hills to save the Snow Princess with Dora!
Get ready for kindergarten together!
Dress up your Nick Jr. fan's wrist with these bright bracelets!
Deck the walls with a special banner just for Dad!
Make Dora a part of your sporty snapshot!
Print and get ready to color and sing along to the Golden Explorers' team song!
Your pint-sized soccer player can be a part of Dora's team!
Print to score big points with your preschooler during playtime!
Print our "soccer family" sticker or customize one of your very own!
Say Feliz Cumplea�os with this aDORAble birthday banner!
Have a blow out fiesta with these party favors!
It's easy to adorn your cups with Dora!
With this final section, the puzzle poster is complete!
Find the final piece of Wally's summer surprise puzzle poster here!
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The final section is here! Put the entire PAW Patrol Summer Surprise Puzzle Poster together!
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It's a puzzle! It's a poster! It's a coloring page! Collect all four parts to complete this PAW-some summer poster!
Print, color and play with this second piece of the puzzle poster!
Dress up your Nick Jr. fan's wrist with these bright bracelets!
Wallykazam, wallykazummer, your child can color these words of summer!
Boots is waiting for Dora at the beach! Follow Map's directions to get her there
Peter is lost at the beach! Help him hop his way through the sand and get back to his friends Benjamin and Lily for some fun in the sun
What time is it? Time to celebrate summer!
You can count on the Umiz to deliver a mighty big "I miss you" message
Kids can have a ball at the beach with the guppy gang!
Gups up! Print and send a summertime greeting to guppy friends
See what's making waves at the beach with Milli!
Make a splash with your little guppy with this diy tee!
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Make a splash with your little guppy with this diy tee!
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Send a greeting to friends who are further than a hop away!
Decorate notebooks, crayon boxes, and more with these new summertime stickers
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Print all 11 pages for umirrific coloring fun!
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Lots of musicians tweet--but all that Twitters is not gold.
That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week--then update your TweetDeck! (Obligatory Self-Promotion: ...while you're at it, be sure to follow @SPINmagazine!)
This week's winners:
- Bruno Mars@BrunoMars
Who: Bruno Mars (@BrunoMars)
Why You Should Follow: This L.A.-based singer-songwriter and producer--best known for singing on tracks like B.o.B's "Nothin' on You" and co-writing hits like Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You"--recently released his debut album, Doo-Wops and Hooligans, and kicked off his first headlining tour in San Francisco. Needless to say, he's riding high on his success--his Twitter page is full of exclamations like "Wakin up in NYC!! Life is Good!!" and "Guess who kicks off their First Show of the doo-wops & hooligans tour tonight in San Francisco? I DO!!!" He also makes sure to give back to his fans by hosting Q&A sessions where he fields questions on Twitter (in case you missed the last one, he'd love to record a song with Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz and if he could describe himself in one word, it would be "jam"). Look out for lots of behind-the-scenes videos and opportunities to make your mark on music history ("I Just got a new Gretsch Guitar!! You know i gotta give it a name.What should call it? I want to name after one of yall! the lines are open!")--and go ahead and tweet at him, he just might tweet back!
Best Tweet of the Week: "If i wasn't doing music i would definitely grow a Mullet, move to florida and start exterminating!!"
- Bruno Mars@BrunoMars
- The Raveonettes @theraveonettes
Who: The Raveonettes (@theraveonettes)
Why You Should Follow: While they mostly tweet news about tours and albums ("update on b sides collection. we're still working on it! dealing with rights/license etc. boring stuff. still aiming for 2010 release"), this Danish noise-pop duo also knows how to take a good Twitpic. Currently opening for the Flaming Lips on their Asian tour, Sune and Sharin have been posting photos of balloon- and confetti-filled shows in Hong Kong, sightseeing excursions to Tiananmen Square, and "Welcome to Shanghai" sake. In the past, they've tweeted pictures of soundchecks, rehearsal sessions, "faithful friends", and boozy nights in. Oh, yeah, and plenty of shots of the pair looking too hip for words.
Best Tweet of the Week: This snapshot of the very clever sign for one of their venues in China, the Mao Livehouse. Also, this tweet: "so much to do, see, play, so little time. see you out there."
- The Raveonettes @theraveonettes
- Sean Ono Lennon @seanonolennon
Who: Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon)
Why You Should Follow: Famous, talented parents aside, this Beatles heir has made a name for himself all on his own. After a couple of solo albums, film scores, and performances with his mother's Plastic Ono Band, he's settled down with girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl to form a folk-pop duo called The GOASTT. They released their first album, Acoustic Sessions, in October, and have been touring Europe and Asia and playing random shows in New York City and Los Angeles ever since. Sean documents it all on Twitter, posting lots of Twitpics from the road (like this shot of UFOs he saw in Tokyo, which he captioned "curiouser and curiouser...") and tweeting in between shows and when he doesn't feel like packing. He tweets back and forth with fans, too, but watch what you say to him--he's been in an ongoing battle with one Twitterer who holds a grudge against his mom, and he isn't afraid to let loose on the guy ("you're 15, you live with your mom, you're a virgin, an IQ of 91, and twitter gives you balls. Brave man").
Best Tweet of the Week: This photo. "Good thing about jetlag; vertical sunrise at 530am," he wrote.
- Sean Ono Lennon @seanonolennon


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Staybridge Suites London - Vauxhall
A warm and friendly welcome awaits you at Staybridge Suites London – Vauxhall hotel, located in a quiet, leafy side street just off Albert Embankment and only minutes away from Vauxhall tube, bus and rail links. From the moment you step into our bright and contemporary lobby you will feel completely at home. This is a hotel where you come to live, rather than stay – so settle in and unwind by the fireplace in our lounge. Head up to your striking modern yet cozy studio or one-bedroom suite where you will find all the comforts of home with all the mod-cons including wireless internet throughout.
Staybridge Suites London – Vauxhall hotel is superbly located, offering stunning views of the London Eye and Westminster as well as being just a short from London's eclectic Southbank – the culture heart of the city and home to London's most iconic attractions, theaters, arts and design-led venues. The area is buzzing with things to see and do all year round; free events, music, film, exhibitions, dance, theatre, debates, festivals and all sorts of fun – the ideal neighborhood to stay in when in London.
Our complimentary make yourself at home breakfast is served in our Hub Kitchen daily and in the evening our guests can network or mingle over complimentary drinks and snacks at our Managers Social, held every Tuesday and Thursday. After a long day, you can energize in the Fitness Centre or meet in the Den meeting room.
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- On-site Guest Self-Laundry Facilities
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One of the best hotel experiences ever!
24 February 2015
Excellent in so many ways! Can't think of one negative thing...
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23 February 2015
Great new hotel to the IHG group, convienient location to transport links.
Seriously good hotel - You need to stay here!
22 February 2015
I have stayed in many hotels in London over the years but this is definitely the nicest, most comfortable. Friendly and helpful staff, very clean and lots of amenities in the room! Breakfast was truly excellent! And the hotel dog - Waggers - was lovely :-) ! Pity I was only able to stay for one night.
Great job Staybridge! Next time I need to stay in this part of London, it will be here!
Great Stay
20 February 2015
No problems everything above expectations, Staff was Great, Food Outstanding, And hotel makes you feel at home


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If The Gates is any gauge, then Behar and Marquardt, ages 49 and 51, could have a long wait. But they believe now is the time for the place the world knows as "Miami" to invent a unifying symbol with a "regional presence." And the perfect symbol, they maintain, is not the Freedom Tower, the Art Deco District, or Opium Garden nightclub, but an eight-point star. Why? Because it denotes the cardinal star used on maps, which contains the eight main compass points (north, northeast, east, southeast, etc.). In typical fashion, Behar and Marquardt have a couple of ways of perceiving a star. Just as an "M" is also an upside-down "W," a star not only points outward but also marks the place "where the North and the South actually meet, as part of the invention of Miami as that place where North and South actually meet," Behar asserts. "It's kind of offering a center for a city without one, in a way.
"We want the star to have a kind of double life, in the sense that from the water it's going to be a park," he continues. "And from the air it's going to be a kind of watermark, or monument, if you wish, that stands for the future." That is, the Miami area's fate as a city of 21st-century immigrants, where the vast majority of residents are, in the long view, new arrivals.
The island was about 300 feet in diameter and circular when construction crews working for urban developer Carl Fisher created it out of dredged material in 1920 for the purpose of honoring Flagler. It was deeded to the City of Miami Beach in 1939. Over the decades, erosion and perennial neglect almost doomed the 96-foot obelisk and the four 25-foot-tall tiara-clad human figures (two male and two female) at its base personifying Education, Industry, Prosperity, and the Pioneer. Disintegration of the island's shore would have caused the monument to tumble into the bay, had the city not managed to perform an "emergency stabilization" in recent years. As a result, the land mass is now almost a half-acre larger than it originally was, and its shape has become "amoebic," says William Cary, Miami Beach manager of design and preservation.
Several months ago, the city installed two binocular viewers on a public walkway at the western edge of South Beach, allowing the public to gaze more closely at Monument Island, currently designated as a recreational park. It is very scruffy these days, covered with an extensive cluster of palms and other trees as well as grassy plants known as sea oats, and is usually dappled with beer cans and assorted litter. The Flagler memorial is also ragged. "There's a tremendous amount of graffiti on it, and there's been a lot of damage," Cary reports. "The lighting systems have been totally destroyed on a couple of occasions because it's almost impossible to maintain security. People leave a lot of garbage and debris out there."
If Behar and Marquardt had their way, people looking through the binoculars would spy a lovely earth-tone wall along the angular perimeter of the eight-pointed island. Someone with a good imagination might even see it as the shell of a small and ancient fort, they think. Or at least compare it to the coral-colored wall along South Bayshore Drive between the sidewalk and the woods on the western perimeter of the Vizcaya estate. Tall palms would be evenly spaced along a seawall walkway. The island's interior would be creatively landscaped, with palms and other native trees and plants, and furnished with larger-than-life sofas, say four feet tall and twenty feet long.
"A primeval Miami landscape," Behar says. "It's better if [the monument] stays and you discover it as you would a ruin within the jungle. It's going to be much more exciting, as a story that you discover about the city. We would like to have another small monument that appears in this jungle, to [pioneer] Julia Tuttle. So that Julia and Henry can be part of the foundation and can share the glory of the founding of the city."
The sofas are both practical and symbolic. Something to sit on, and also symbols of "home." "We are always trying to communicate this idea of bridging the community and home, home and community," says Marquardt. "That this is our place." In her active imagination, Biscayne Bay is Miami's central square. "We see the bay as a big piazza," she adds.
And this is where the couple's vision of The Star of Miami project becomes very pointed. "It's also a way of saying, 'Hey, we all deserve a portion of the waterfront. The waterfront is also ours,'" says Behar.
"Because the bayfront is all private," Marquardt adds. "You don't have parks or anything. At least in this area."
"So it's a way of critiquing, if you wish, the privatization of the waterfront," Behar continues. "The problem is not what's being done -- the problem is what's not being done. One needs to focus on what is being done. True. But what we would like to focus on is what is missing. And what is missing is that all of us who are participating in that boom in one way or another perhaps need to realize that unless we participate in the construction of the public space, all of our endeavors are not to have the kind of meaning that they ought to. Unless we're able to express that ambition of the city in the form of a public, meaningful event."


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Since today is the day Twitter croaked for a couple of hours, step 0 is to make sure Twitter is working?
What I did was to post on FriendFeed which posts to Twitter so the posts will be up when Twitter's back or use Hoot Suite to schedule tweets later.
Chris Brogan tells how to do it for FREE – without Spam and without using a Third Party firm.
I won't steal his Thunder or list his points. They're worth your time reading.
I've found Twitter to be great for building a network… not for selling. And the network I've built is for my non-profit activities and interests outside making money.
One thing I hate is being spammed by people involved in some game that has you add people to their family or whatever. I don't have time for games, sorry.
If you're on to Twitter for a fast buck, I'd say forget it.
You may be able to get readers, visitors, traffic, etc. to a page where you can sell something. If you're recommending music or a book at Amazon.com you may be able to get some low revenue affiliate sales that way. But big dollar sales? I don't think they'll come fast on Twitter.
If you've found a way to make that work, let me know!


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This one might have been a bit easier in a few months when the area is a bit drier or frozen. Found the less wet route quite easily, but it was still pretty soggy. Enjoyed the container and the adventure to get to GZ. Kicked up a deer that didn't seem to mind the sogginess too much. TFTC
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Radio-Frequency Hexamethyldisiloxane Plasma Deposition: A Comparison of Plasma- and Deposit-Chemistry
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This study reports on the effect of input power to hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) plasmas. The power dependence of the plasma-phase species and of the surface chemistry (of the deposits) has been investigated. Neutral and positive molecular species were detected within the plasma using mass spectrometry (MS). Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) was used to probe the molecular structure of the deposits. The elemental composition of the surface was determined by XPS and the deposition rate was monitored using a vibrating quartz crystal microbalance. Neutral and cationic molecules of mass greater than HMDSO were detected in the plasma. Their formation through ion-molecule reactions is proposed. Changes in the relative concentration of plasma-phase species follow those seen in molecular species detected at the deposit surface. Thus, we believe that the molecular structure of the deposits can be related to the species present in the plasma. While traditionally the dominant mechanism in deposit formation is assumed to be free radical combinations, we propose other possibilities involving cations with the aim of putting forward a new perspective on plasma polymerization mechanisms and thereby stimulating discussion.
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- Title
- Radio-Frequency Hexamethyldisiloxane Plasma Deposition: A Comparison of Plasma- and Deposit-Chemistry
- Journal
Plasmas and Polymers
Volume 2, Issue 4 , pp 277-300
- Cover Date
- 1997-12-01
- Print ISSN
- 1084-0184
- Online ISSN
- 1572-8978
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Plasma deposition
- mass spectrometry
- surface chemical analysis
- gas phase oligomerization
- Authors
- M. R. Alexander (1)
- F. R. Jones (1)
- R. D. Short (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Engineering Materials, Laboratory for Surface and Interface Analysis, University of Sheffield, Sir Robert Hadfield Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 4DU, United Kingdom


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