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Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Effects of Falling World Oil Prices
Question from my student: Could you write something about oil prices?
Oil prices have plunged over the last couple of months and economists predict that they could even go much lower than this. What are the possible reasons for this? What are the microeconomic and macroeconomic effects, both good and bad? Is there a lesson to be learnt from here?
First, let us look at the most fundamental reasons for dwindling oil prices- market demand and market supply. If the overall demand is greater than the supply, then there will be a shortage which is responsible for driving the price up. By contrast, if the overall supply is greater than demand, then there will be a production glut and prices will be adjusted downward. The latter explains what is actually happening behind the global oil market. Demand side is softening but the world supply remains stubbornly high. There is more than enough for everyone
In better details:
a. Bleak economic outlook in the Europe and China. The euro-zone economies as a whole is not performing. There is no sign that the economic malaise will subdue soon. In fact, the latest statistics by Eurostat are putting more pressures onto policymakers. Germany which is traditionally known as the euro-zone growth driver recorded the biggest ever fall in retail sales of 3.2%, a sign that the worse events are yet to come in 2015. The same can be said about the Chinese economy. Slowdown can be seen in both the manufacturing sector as well as consumption. Faltering growth is the prime reason why demand for oil falls. Fewer people buy car, those who did may opt to travel less, uncertainty means less likely to travel abroad for holidays and most importantly fewer plastic/ rubber goods were made which in fact covers almost everything-your gadget, car tyres, basic furniture, all the toys you see in Toys 'R' Us, consumer goods and others
b. Oversupply. Perhaps, countries like South Sudan, Nigeria, Angola, Libya and Iraq are slow to react to market responses. According to the law of supply, the higher is the price, the greater will be the incentive to produce more output. The same goes here. Earlier on, when prices were at record high level, these countries must have made too much investment thus resulting in oversupply concurrently when the demand is not even there
c. Sanction against Russia. There is also a possibility that the largest oil producer, Saudi Arabia is working closely together with the Washington to put more pressure onto the sanctioned Russia. It is an established fact that Russian economy is highly oil-dependent. About 70% of its revenue is fully derived from oil production. With every $1 fall in world oil price, it loses $2.1 billion and with the current trend, it may lose as much as $30 to $40 billion. If this continues, there is a possibility that its economy will go into recession-unless it has a deep pocket. This justifies why in the recent OPEC oil cartel meeting, Saudi Arabia being the most influential producer refused to cut its supply further to push up prices when it can easily do so in its position
d. Pressuring USA. Once the usage of shale gas is to be more commercialised, the demand for oil from the OPEC will continue to dwindle. Saudi Arabia and other influential members are not going to benefit from this, not into the long term. This is why they brilliantly allow the market supply to remain high so that its price continue to stay low. The intention is to rival the production and sale of shale gas. They are well aware that shale gas is very expensive to extract. By putting pressure on both prices, the margin for shale extractors will remain low and hopefully there won't be much incentive to continue investing
e. Emergence of substitute. In the study of economics, we always say that one of the determinants of PED is time period. In the short run, PED may be inelastic but in the long run, the development of substitutes may cause PED to appear elastic. True enough in this case. Shale gas is a potential substitute. Thanks to innovative drilling, the USA has successfully discover unlocked oil and natural gas trapped in shale rock. Interestingly, for the first time in 30 years, the States has stopped importing oil from Nigeria. If the recent development continues, there is a possibility that the demand for oil from OPEC will also continue to fall
f. Strong dollar. It is also worth noting that oil is traded in dollar around the globe. When the dollar appreciates, it makes oil artificially more expensive to countries outside the US. Basically, this lowers the demand from those nations that are affected. Perhaps, this is also the reason why cheaper oil prices are not reflected at the petrol pump stations in Malaysia (my country). While global prices have dwindled from about $110 to $62 per barrel, our MYR (Malaysian Ringgit) continues to slide further against the greenback. Therefore, we are unable to enjoy the full benefits of falling oil prices
Possible positive economic effects
a. Lower cost-push inflation. Oil is used in almost everything. In fact, it is the 'mother' of all commodities. You can name it- every single thing that you have ever touched is related to oil like tyres, erasers, toys for kids, plastic kettle, car, basic furniture, clothes hanger and many more consumer items. Besides, it also affects the operating costs of airline and shipping firms. Theoretically, when the costs of production fall, prices fall too. This may be passed on in the form of lower price and hence lesser cost-push inflation
b. Possible improvement in the standard of living. Global economic slowdown is far from over. With stagnating wages growth rate, a fall in inflation is something to cheer about as this translates into higher real wages. It may not be very large, but, every dollar saved is a dollar earned. There is lesser opportunity cost for everyone. More money can be allocated elsewhere say, food, healthcare, child's education, holiday, Christmas gifts and others
c. Jobs creation. Falling oil prices may boost the competitiveness of manufacturing industry especially for some uncompetitive euro zone economies as well as the UK. Lower costs should be reflected in the final price of output. An improvement in price competitiveness should be able to increase exports. Factory orders will gradually improve and more jobs should be created over the time. The same can be said domestically. As people are more able to spend, jobs should be created everywhere, from factories to banks
d. Higher potential growth. Theoretically, falling oil prices shall reduce the operational costs of a firm and hence more funds are available for investment. They may consider this as the right time to invest e.g. replacing old machines with newer and better ones, build new factories and others. Investment is one of the components of AD and hence AD may shift rightward. In the long run, it also improves the supply-side of an economy by raising its potential capacity. A boost of (X-M) as mentioned earlier can also contribute to the rightward shift of AD and hence an increase in the real GDP
e. Reducing the current account deficit. Inflation back at home may be lower than elsewhere and after making price comparisons, people decide to shop domestically. This may contribute to lower overall imports. At the same time, price competitiveness may help to boost exports and considering both simultaneously, inflows of money may be greater than outflows. This should be able to reduce the size of current account deficit
Possible negative economic effects
a. Prices are sticky upwards. Most of us don't actually realise one thing. When oil prices increase, the retailers almost instantly increase the prices of all their goods and services. However, the same cannot be said when oil prices fall. In fact, prices remain stubbornly high. Business owners are reluctant to do so on many excuses such as suppliers are not willing to reduce their price, having need to 'wait-and-see' and others. Cost-push inflation may not necessarily eased in this case
b. Jobs cut. While jobs are created somewhere, the oil and gas industry is most likely to shed workers. Oil producing and oil dependent nations are the worst affected. A plunge in oil prices makes investment relatively uninteresting and there is no point to keep so many workers as before. Someone just have to leave their job. Unemployment in the economy will probably increase
c. Economic crisis. Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria and Russia will be in huge economic mess in near future if oil price is not restored to at least $100 per barrel. As mentioned earlier, bulk of the state revenue comes from oil extraction and with a continuous free fall, budget/ fiscal deficit will worsen and this may lead to more problems e.g. rising unemployment from the public sector, negative multiplier effect and hence an economic recession, more expensive to borrow/ issue bonds and others
d. Deflationary threat. Countries in the euro zone are already struggling with falling AD and most of them are experiencing price disinflation- a case where prices are increasing but at a much slower rate. If this is not curb, then it may turn into a full blown deflation, which is the worse evil between the two. As people expect prices to fall, they will cut spending/ consumption into the economy with the hope that they can purchase it at a lower price in the future. However, if everyone thinks a like, then AD will fall further (Consumption is one of the components of AD) thus triggering another round of price deflation. Again, consumption will fall and the vicious cycle repeats itself. It is the least that ECB would expect because there is already not much room to cut interest rate to boost spending and investment
e. More emissions. When oil prices are really cheap, people tend to care less about travelling and conserving. In fact, driving will increase, people will buy large gas-guzzler vehicles, incentives to use or conduct research on renewable energy will slow down and many more
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Friday, December 5, 2014
List of Definitions for Chapter 6 (CIE-A2): Macroeconomic Problems
1. Actual growth: An increase in the real GDP/ When points inside the PPC move towards its boundary
2. Birth rate: The average number of live births per thousand people in a country over a given time period, usually a year
3. Business/ trade cycle: Fluctuations in the national output of a country which involves a succession of stages or phases like boom, recession, slump and recovery
4. Death rate: The average number of deaths per thousand people in a country over a given time period, usually a year
5. Demand deficiency/ cyclical unemployment: Joblessness which is due to the fall in aggregate demand (AD)
6. Disguised unemployment: Joblessness that are not captured by the official statistic due to reasons like the stigma of claiming benefits and strict inclusion which resulted in many unemployed people being deliberately excluded
7. Economic development: A broader perspective that goes beyond an increase in the national output/ income to include factors that can affect the quality of life
8. Frictional/ search unemployment: Joblessness that will always exist in an economy because some people may take a longer time to move from one job to another
9. Full employment: The level of employment as a result of everyone who is willing and able to work having a job, with the exception of those who are frictionally unemployed
10. Migration: The movement of people from one area to another, either within or between countries
11. Natural rate of unemployment: The rate of unemployment that will exist even when the labour market is in the state of equilibrium/ even when the economy is running at full capacity
12. Optimum population: The number of people in a country that will produce the highest per capita economic return given that the existing resources are fully and efficiently utilised
13. Potential growth: An increase in the potential GDP/ When PPC shifts outward
14. Real wage/ classical unemployment: Joblessness that occurs because the real wage is above the equilibrium level
15. Regional unemployment: Joblessness that disproportionately concentrates in one particular region
16. Structural unemployment: Joblessness which is due to a change in the structure of an economy, say from manufacturing to service sector
17. Sustainability: It is when resources are being exploited in the most optimal way, benefiting not just the present generation but also the future generations
18. Technological unemployment: Joblessness which is resulted from an improvement in the level of technology such as manual workers being replaced by machines
19. Voluntary unemployment: Joblessness that exists because some people have chosen not to work because they do not feel that wages at the existing equilibrium are high enough to justify them working
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Is Allocative Efficiency and Social Efficiency the Same?
Allocative efficiency
It is when scarce resources are being combined in such a way to produce the highest number of output using the least cost method and these products are actually what the consumers desire the most as reflected by the value they place on it. Therefore, this relationship can also be written as P = MC or MB = MC or AR = MC (P = AR = MB)
Social efficiency
The condition for social efficiency is stricter and harder to be achieved. It is when scarce resources are combined in such a way to produce the maximum number of output using the cheapest possible method of production and these goods are what people value the most, taking into account both negative and positive externalities. The condition for social efficiency is when MSB = MSC
Relating all together
As can be seen, allocative efficiency may or may not be the same as social efficiency, depending on the case studies that we use. In practice, as observed, they are unlikely to be the same. In fact it is quite impossible for the relationship between the two to be identical
To simplify our analysis, consider merit goods like alcohol and cigarettes. A firm is said to be productively efficient if these cigarettes are produced using the most cost efficient method. In other words, the company itself is operating where MC = AC
The same firm can also become allocatively efficient if the cigarettes that they manufacture are actually what the smokers desire the most as reflected by the price that they are willing and able to pay. Therefore the condition of P = MC is met
However, cigarettes are demerit goods and smoking is always associated with negative externalities. In a pure market economy, firms will only take into account their own PB and PC during the production process. Therefore, cigarettes are manufactured up to the point where MPB = MPC. The same can be said with consumers. As they smoke, they only consider their own MPB and MPC and so will smoke up to the point where MPB = MPC. However, from the society's point of view, smoking is harmful and its production or consumption should be reduced up to the point where MSB = MSC. The overproduction and overconsumption of cigarettes have resulted in the case of market failure
In conclusion, even if a firm is both productively and allocatively efficient, it is not necessarily socially efficient. Yes, they produce goods and services that consumers value the most and therefore in theory, allocation of resources should be efficient. However, the firm does not meet the last condition. Not everyone concurs that cigarettes are 'beneficial' and in most cases, societies (majority of the population which is non-smoker) often object their existence. Therefore, allocatively efficient and socially efficient are not the same
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The long-awaited 2012 Ford Focus Electric is currently available for pre-order, but the lucky folks at Google already have their hands on one! The first production unit was presented to the company just before Christmas (talk about a nice gift), and Googlers have already taken their hot new ride for a spin. The super fast-charging all-electric vehicle will soon be available soon to the rest of us in limited numbers.
Eco-loving Google is already enjoying the gas-free Focus Electric's superior mileage, which achieves an equivalent to 100 miles per gallon (a first for a five passenger EV). The sedan can reach a top speed of 84 mph, which is suitable for the family it will cleanly cart around. But the Focus Electric's most stand out feature is its incredibly fast charging time. The 23 kwh high-voltage lithium-ion battery charges on its 240-volt outlet in just over 3 hours. The impressive charge time is almost half of the Nissan Leaf's! With the new 2012 Focus Electric, the Google team (and later consumers) will not even have to take a trip to the gas station once.
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High Yielding Beefsteaks
During today's rainstorm, I took a break from weeding and browsed through Carolyn's book. In her book Carolyn labeled about a dozen beefsteaks as having a high yield. These tomatoes are listed below and I'd like your opinions if you have grown them. While I know that yield and taste will vary from garden to garden, I would still like to hear whether you liked the tomatoes listed below and how they fared in your garden. While I am certain there are numerous other beefsteaks that may be considered as having a high yield, right now I am only interested in the ones listed below. My first interest is the yield, and the second is the taste. So if you have grown these tomatoes, I would love and welcome your feedback.
Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red
Chris Ukrainian
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Dr. Lyle
Germaid Red
German Head
Omar's Lebanese
Sandul Moldovan
Thank you.
Donnamarie, you can add Red Penna, Chapman, Aker's West Virginia, Kukla's Portuguese Beefsteak and many more to that high yield list as grown by me where I live and I think many others would agree based on feedback.
Carolyn, whose primary interest is taste , not yield, but who understands that some others put yield first
Thanks, Carolyn, I was hoping you would add more to the list. I, too, grow mainly for taste. However, this list is not for me. I grow for others as well, and they do not have the patience for a plant like Sudduth or some other low yielding, great tasting variety. Of what you mentioned in the book and above, which one tastes the best? Again, I know that taste is subjective and I know some tomatoes are tangy and some are sweet, and I know soil conditions and weather affect the taste. But in general?
How did I miss Aker's? I went thru your book page by page (it is now, after all of these years, just about falling apart). Oh, well, it must be my age.
JMO on the production on the ones on your list that I have grown.
Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red - good
Crnkovic Yugoslavian - fair
Cuostralee - good
Omar's Lebanese - very good
Soldacki - fair
Zogola - good
Chapman - excellent
Aker's West Virginia - excellent
Taste - Aker's, Chapman, Omar's all very good. Nothing special in the rest IMO. Not that they are NOT good, they are, just nothing special.
It does seem Crnkovic Yugoslavian is just a fair yielding plant for all members of our gardening club- me as well.
But in contrast to Dave in AR, my zone 5b as grown in the past is: Cuostralee excellent yields, and Akers's WV is just fair, or below avg actually.
WOW! This Forum continues to impress me. I've been growing tomatoes for fifty years and have no familiarity with any on Donna's list beyond what I have read here in the last week. Quite a world out there beyond the local nursery.
Are these seeds available? Sources please?
There are many many many websites out there that sell good tomato seeds or lots of heirloom tomato seeds.
First, if you are looking for heirlooms, stay away from most seed companies that also put out large catalogs with lots and lots of other Vegetables and gardening things. Those companies (Burpee is just one example) have excellent products, but don't specialize in heirloom tomatoes, so their selection of heirlooms is often not the best and is generally very limited.
I personally like TomatoGrowers.com out of Tampa, Florida. Really broad selection, great availability for seeds. I have also been to Tatiana's website, where they have excellent information, and I have probably ordered seeds from many dozens of heirloom tomato seed suppliers, over the years.
Look for websites that advertise heirloom tomato seeds, and try to figure out how many types they have, and the range of varieties they carry. Most companies that specialize in Heirloom tomato seeds might also sell peppers, melons or a few other heirloom vegetables, but their emphasis should be mostly on tomatoes. Compare sites. Almost any place that really takes the time and effort to specialize in heirloom tomatoes, and that has a good variety, can be trusted, in my experience.
Lastly, many many many readers of this board will do seed exchanges with you, for the price of a few envelopes and postage stamps. I buy little coin envelopes for my seed exchanges. Some people use small plastic envelopes or paper tubes or even make their own. Most people will include at least 10 seeds in their exchange. I generally put about as much as you get from a commercial source (I expect this is 25 to 50 seeds) since, once you start harvesting your own seeds, consistently, you will always always have more seeds than you could ever possibly use. But, talk with whoever you exchange with, and see how many seeds they want.
If you want to exchange seeds, you can harvest some from your own tomatoes and offer them. Some people might be interested even if what you have is the F2 (second generation) seed from commercial hybrids. DO tell people exactly what type of seeds you have, and whether they are F2, F3, etc. Or you can buy some commercial seeds, for popular varieties, like Sungold, and offer them. Or you can just ask people if anyone will send you seed for free. As I said, most people who save seeds have far more than they will every use. The protocol in such cases is generally to send them a self addressed stamped envelope, so they can send you seeds without incurring extra expense on their end.
I personally don't often exchange seeds any more, since I don't usually need any. I have a ton of backlog with hundreds and hundreds of varieties, not counting the seemingly endless number of tomato strains and varieties that I am trying to breed myself. But, after taking a few years off from the boards, I might be ready to start sending out seeds from some of those tomatoes that I have been breeding, and some of the new strains I am trying to develop. I guess we'll see how they produce, and look, and taste this year.
Storing seeds so they maintain their vitality is often a question. They do lose the ability to germinate, over time. They should be in a cool dry place, preferably in a sealed, waterproof plastic bag. I just store mine at room temperature, in my air conditioned house, and I live in a very dry climate. My seeds seem to maintain full potency for at least 12 to 15 years or so. Other people store theirs in a drawer in their refrigerator.
Just noting that TGS is in Fort Myers, Fl, not Tampa, for whatever that's worth.LOL
I used to d a Wrong vareties thread here at GW for several years and what was found is that some seed companies are much better than others, and those ratings still hold today, that is for purity of seed.
Small family owned places may produce their own seed, or buy whole sale off the shelf, or subcontract out and some do a combo of those things.
The wrong varieties threads also indicated that the most wrong varieties came from traded seed and that's so today as well. I NEVER trade seeds for two reasons.
First, bc/ of the high rate of wrong seeds.
Second, b'c I think everyone shuld be supporting the smaller family run sites where tomatoes and a bit more are the specialty. They help to preserv varieties and in these economic times they need the monetary suppor tof others.
The only time I exchange seeds is if someone sends me an heirloom variety , or close to it, that has not been distributed, and then I offer several varieties as thanks. And there afre several who post here who know all about that.
Finally, there is No commercial CO that has not sent out wrong seeds, whether OP or Hybrid seeds. The reasons are many
Just a few thoughts for now.
KBX, for me, has identical tasting fruit. Production may be slightly lower than KB, but they both are far more productive than anything else, in my garden.
I've heard that KB gets "crud" when started indoors under growlights. I don't use growlights, so I wouldn't know. Those that get crud with KB, say that KBX doesn't get crud.
KBX is also less prone to sunscald.
Bigpinks - I tried Mortgage Lifter (maybe not Estlers) last year for the first time and all of the plants were awful. In general, I give a certain variety several tries before I give up. This year I am not growing them as I am still upset about last year - too fresh in my mind. But I will definately try them again, as I hear a lot of good reviews about them. I get upset when I can't grow a certain tomato. It's a "thing" with me. I just can't understand why I can grow tomato A, B, and C, and while A and B are fabulous, C will never be a good plant. Its a thread I started on another forum and need not be discussed again here. It's just so annoying to me. But ML was one of them last year and Mule Team was another. I wanted so much to like them. Thanks for the input.
Carolyn, what is the name of the tomato pictured opposite the green page in the very front of your book? It is fuzzy (the tomato, not the pic). I note that you talk about angora foliage in the book, but I don't see the name of that one pictured. It must be there, but I am missing it and I'm getting cranky. (too hot, too humid = too cranky).


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Cooper and the Astros look to win their third straight game against the Brewers when the teams play the middle game of their series on Tuesday night.
Houston rallied for a 9-7 win on Monday, giving the Astros a 4-3 record since Cooper took over as interim manager last week after Phil Garner was fired.
Houston (62-76) now has won its last two games against Milwaukee (69-68), which trails the first-place Chicago Cubs by 1 1/2 games in the NL Central. The Brewers haven't been to the playoffs since 1982, when they played in the AL and Cooper helped them get within a win of beating St. Louis in the World Series.
After spending his first six seasons with Boston, Cooper played for the Brewers from 1977-87, was a bench coach for them in 2002 and manger of their Triple-A affiliate from 2003-04. Five of Milwaukee's final 25 regular-season games are against Houston.
"They're all good kids and good individuals," Cooper said of the Brewers. "I'm proud of them, to see them doing what they're doing. But we're going to try to beat the pants off them."
Milwaukee, which had an 8 1/2-game lead after beating Kansas City on June 22, had its three-game winning streak snapped Monday. The Brewers gave up a three-run lead in the eighth inning, giving them a major league-worst 15 losses in games they have led by at least three runs.
"We can't (give) any more games away, not in September," Milwaukee catcher Johnny Estrada said.
The Brewers have scored 26 runs in their last three games, but may be without left fielder Geoff Jenkins on Tuesday. Jenkins, who has 19 home runs and 56 RBIs, left the game after bruising his left foot in the fourth inning on Monday. X-rays were negative and Jenkins is day-to-day.
Milwaukee's rotation also has been hurting, with Claudio Vargas and Manny Parra each being placed on the disabled list in the past seven days. With his options limited, Brewers manager Ned Yost will give Carlos Villanueva (6-3, 4.68 ERA) his second start of the season.
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"Had to quit when I got to the rape"
I loved the Thomas Covenant and the Mirror series. This one was written from the first person perspective. I really dislike that type of writing, but it was Donaldson and decided to stick to it, hoping that I would come to like it. Two and a half hours into the story and the main character starts talking about how he raped the woman he took captive. Raped and brutalized her to the point where (paraphrasing) "it took three days before she could start learning how to help him" - I had to quit at that point. I'm going to request my credit back because I simply will not support anyone who thinks that rape is an appropriate part of any non-fiction story. Donaldson did it in the first book of the Covenant series and I found it difficult then. To think that he does it in an even more brutal way and then portrays the woman as 'helping' later puts a spin on rape that is irresponsible at best and criminal at worst.
"So worth it!"
Even though you've heard much of this story already, it is imperative that you listen to zoe's tale. Her perspective is fantastic and the narration is great. She's funny, smart, still a teenager and the way her feelings and fears are presented (both in story and in narration) are fantastic.
It made me laugh and cry - her stories of childhood and losing her birth parents and her falling in love with a boy her age and her courage and her struggles...just get this and listen to it - it's a very satisfying listen. One you will probably want to hear again and again.
"I don't like short stories on audible"
It's me, I know. I just don't like listening to short stories or anthologies. I was disappointed that this book is a series of short stories within the same universe as "the old man's war". In fact, if you look at the list of books under the series "the human division" you will find each of the sections within this book.
If you like that kind of thing - go for it. I don't. I wish it had been made clear when I bought the book.
"Funny and interesting."
Because I think all novels should say this up front, I will tell you that there are graphic sex scenes in this novel. I don't think they are necessary and find myself rolling my eyes and fast forwarding through them.
I do think that the writing is quick witted and sharp! The narrator's delivery only helps deliver the punch lines. All of Molly Harper's work has that dry, quick, intelligent and often self-deprecating kind of humor that makes you laugh out loud even when you are trying to be quiet...like when grocery shopping and listening at the same time :-) I get the weirdest looks - and then people smile when they see the headphones almost as if they have done it too. But I digress.
Get the book - it's a light fun read. Not an epic tale to keep me up at night and alternately laughing and crying, but quite respectable.
It's a 3.5 without the unnecessary sex scenes - sorry - I just don't need those images in my head when I'm trying to select a pork loin. The story really doesn't need them either.
"The premise sounded so interesting..."
This is definitely a young adult book - I'm not sure I'd even call it young adult - it's actually geared toward early tweens. The description sounded intriguing and if it had been handled better, it could have been a great mystery. Things were weird from the beginning, though. A slower discovery of the peculiarities of the town and less scooby doo style monsters would have made for a much better book. Look, I like YA scifi/fantasy novels, but this was just to juvenile for my taste. Far more juvenile than the description suggests, so beware.
I was hoping to get more information on who is behind the anniversary day bombings - no such luck. I'm not even really sure what the point of this book was, other than to make money.
The book follows the stories of a few different people who were affected in some way by the bombings. We see a woman break up with a boyfriend and possibly find someone new. We see people trying to find loved ones who can only do so via DNA gathered from very small samples (since many were vaporized when the bombs went off). We follow a man who wants to find the person ultimately responsible but apparently gives up after very little investigation.
The stories aren't compelling nor did I find the people interesting. It's all just reliving misery in the lives of the people we follow.
Sorry folks, I like KKR but if you don't get this book, you won't be missing anything crucial to the ongoing mystery. I was truly disappointed that a) I wasted a credit and b) I wasted my time. I've been disappointed with several things she's written lately but only now have I seen that lackluster writing in the retrieval artist "world". I'm not sure if I'll get the next one due out in March or not.
"Reads like a teenager wrote it..."
I had to look the author up to make sure he wasn't a teenager. I'm willing to suspend disbelief to a degree but this is really awful. A kid in high school can defeat anyone in hand to hand combat because he is psychic. He manages to defend himself against 5 killers without breaking a sweat while avoiding all video cameras.
The society is weird - a child of a broken home is not allowed to marry or have children. Some one is promoted 5 levels and transferred to a new group after 10 minutes in the presence of that new group's commander. Earth is a "bunch of peacemakers" and yet they have thousands of weaponized ships including battleships, cruisers and dreadnoughts.
Protagonist is a fugitive but suddenly is embraced into a special group and is immediately declared the leader of this group. This group has the ability to command all earth's space ships.
It reads like a teenager wrote it with all the "cool" stuff he could cram into it.
The narrator...well, the vocal enhancements (reverb, distortion, etc.) are just annoying and feel like laziness.
Save your credit...skip this one.
I'm a big fan of Brandon Sanderson. He's a great writer and his world building is paced well and sufficiently complete. By that I mean he tells you details about the world just as you need to know it. He leaves things to be discovered as you progress through the book and/or series.
I do have one complaint and I'm surprised his editor didn't make at least an attempt at correcting this. There are points in this book where all you hear is "blah blah SPARKS! blah blah SPARKS!" etc. I'm not exaggerating and it got really annoying at times. Fortunately the rest of the book is excellent, so I can get past it.
This book (and series) is suitable for teens through adults. There is violence, of course, but also some great thoughts/lessons on stereotyping a group of people. The romance is sweet and innocent. The language is only as strong as "SPARKS!"
Get the book. Find a few hours to listen straight through. Enjoy yourself!
"Not at all like the first book!!"
The first book was great. There was an interesting detective-like story with clues along the way. There was one sex-scene and the rest was story.
This book - not so much. It is a series of the author's imaginings of what Hell would be like. You go from one tortured description of torture to another. Dollar loses limbs, is subjected to horrific sights, sounds, tastes and experiences. There's no feeling of progression. It's just boring after a while. These scenes were littered with flashbacks to Dollar's sexual encounter with Cas. Now, however, it's really more about the sex. The entire book is torture and sex and sex as torture, in explicit detail.
I know the author can do better, the first book proves it. This book, however is a huge waste of money and time. Relying on sex scenes to propel the story is just cheap and beneath the author's skill and my respect.
Skip this one - you won't miss out on anything.
I love scifi and fantasy. I've been reading the genre for over 35 years now. While this book is well written and fairly narrated, it was just depressing. I listened to the entire book and there isn't a single scene that is amusing or light. There are three main characters. One is learning at a monastery where extreme deprivation and even torture are used as teaching methods. An example is being buried standing up so that only your head is exposed and being left there for several days. Another character is learning to be a warrior but is being singled out for ridicule and deliberate belittling by the instructors, is trying to avoid being assassinated while he and his friends are being beaten up by the bullies. The third character is undermined in her political tasks by treachery and dismissal as a woman trying to do a man's job. Even though the three survive to the next novel there is no real feeling of celebration or joy...just constant setbacks and an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness. Don't worry, I've not given away any spoilers - what I've written is what you find in just about every fantasy novel but in the good ones, you are given something to be happy about and hope that the protagonists will do more than just survive, that they will win in the end. That hope is not presented in this book.
Simon Vance as always does a good job of narration.
"Horrid - seriously needs an editor"
Cyborg Dragon Space Ship...that alone should tell you something. This is just a bad book. It is poorly written and poorly narrated. The dialogue is stilted and truly odd. One minute we're listening to characters speaking normally and then it changes drastically. It's as if the author pulled out his thesaurus and went wild. The result is the following sentence: "[,,,] exposing her magnanimous ivory breasts." (see time stamp 4:22:31) I was so startled by this particular sentence I had to go back and see if I had heard it correctly and then I bookmarked it so I could let others hear it.
I really tried to listen to the flat narration and the confusing and poorly written story. I really did try but after 4.5 hours, I had to stop. I just couldn't take it anymore. Save your credits. I hope someone gives the author a dictionary to go with his thesaurus so he can see the entirety of a word's definition before he uses it.
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ClimateGate: CRU Agrees To Publish All The Data. That They Haven't Thrown Away
Yesterday, the "scientists" involved in ClimateGate made an important announcement
Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data – dubbed Climategate – have agreed to publish their figures in full.
In a statement welcomed by climate change sceptics, the university said it would make all the data accessible as soon as possible, once its Climatic Research Unit (CRU) had negotiated its release from a range of non-publication agreements.
Today, "um, well, ya see, our Bad!"
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
They are saying they dumped the raw data, after it had been adjusted, massaged, given a nice vacation in the Sahara Desert, during a move to a new building to save room. The originals, kept on paper and magnetic tape (it was the 80's, after all), were deemed unimportant. Considering the real importance of the data, and the money these folks have been granted over the years, it might have been worth the investment to rent a self storage space, or build a shed, or something.
Considering the importance of the data in showing that their theories about Man induced warming, this could be one way of "hiding the decline." Just wait till the government hearings start, and they have to explain why they dumped the data, and are raked over the coals.
Riehl World View: The very foundation of science is that it be reproducible. These unprofessional hacks have made re-production of their work to validate their conclusions impossible.
TigerHawk: So, basically we are being asked to restructure the entire economy of the planet on the say-so of a few "scientists" whose work cannot be verified or even reconstructed. Is there any intellectually honest person who thinks that is a good idea?
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Josephine's was absolutely beautiful. They even went so far as to leave me a bag of treats on my bed. You could not believe how spacious it was. My room was huge, and I had a living room attached to my room that was huge as well. I enjoyed looking through the telescope at the bay and ocean view. Very unique, very beautiful place to stay. Unfortunately, I had to leave for a family emergency in the middle of the night and missed breakfast, however I would definitely return. Absolutely gorgeous home!!
I liked the staff and the convenient location to places on the south shore of Boston
The carpet needed to be shampooed
Room, though "nonsmoking" reeked of smoke. All decor, carpet dingy
Enjoyed gas fireplace in the room, fridge and microwave, and excellent location.
Hotel room looks tired.
Location and friendly staff. It was clean and comfortable. The gym has all the basics, the pool and Jacuzzi were clean and never crowded. The have an area to sit and relax. This area has comfortable seating and a tv. It was close to the main town, there is a large mall with restaurants. Short drive to the Blue Hills and only 25 minutes from Boston. I had a very relaxing experience and look forwarded to returning.
Pillows were too soft.
The beds
free hot breakfast; free shuttle to airport and south station; waterfront view; nice bar and meal
hard to find entrance to the hotel
Walking distance from the T train, very nice staff. Great breakfast included with the stay. Clean, good restaurant / bar on site and the hotle it's one of the stops where the Beantown Trolley picks you up for a tour of Boston. I also like the river walk trail where I ran. It was clean, safe and comfortable.
It's a little hard to get to it off the highway, especially at night if you're not familiar with the area.
Hotel staff was extremely rude. Charged my credit card additional money with out notifying me first or asking and seems to think that is completely acceptable to do as a business. Urine on and around toilet from previous guests. Raw sewage smell all through second floor. Old food crumbs and pieces next to and under bed
Location, facilities and breakfast all good
Carpet in room had food on it, needed to be vacuumed. Beds were hard.
The price was low
There were some weir people as guests or hanging around the hotel lobby that made us feel unsecure
Cleanliness, there was hairs (pubic) from past guests on the bath floor the day I checked in and after the room was cleaned the next day.
Rooms were dirty, bedding was very old looking and looked like it was never washed! It is more of a truck stop. I will not be staying in this motel ever again! Staff is cold and have no customer service skills
Excellent location. Nicely appointed. Good value
Extremely clean rooms and facility. Completely as described. Complimentary breakfast is far and away better than any other hotel I've ever been at - better breakfasts exist, but not for free...... Service excellent as well. We've stayed here once before and it's hard to imagine staying somewhere else when coming to the Boston area, unless pragmatically I had to stay in Boston proper.
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Special needs biggest growth area
School divisions left to pick up the cost
A significant change in special-needs students caught the province by surprise this year -- and left school divisions to pick up the tab.
Spending on special-needs education continues to be the biggest growth area in public education, well above four per cent in 2012-13, yet provincial grants to school divisions for supporting special-needs students have dropped.
They didn't drop as a percentage increase -- they dropped in actual dollars. The province is providing $157.5 million for special-needs programming this school year, but that's $1.4 million less than last year, despite continuing significant growth in demand.
"The spending shows a slight decrease -- that was a bit surprising," said deputy education minister Gerald Farthing.
Farthing said while there are far more children being diagnosed as special needs, fewer of them are Level 2, the designation for students who work with a paraprofessional for part of the school day, or share an educational assistant or teacher's aide with other students for the entire day.
Level 3 students have a full-time aide, while Level 1 students have programming and resources, but no aide.
"The trend with special education is for those costs to go up more than other costs," Farthing said. "There is more incidence of autism, more incidence of emotional problems.
"We found there are fewer Level 2 kids; that's good news. Maybe things are plateauing a bit," said the deputy minister.
"There are more Level 1 kids -- that's not such good news. It means more kids need help intermittently."
Elsewhere in the $2-billion-plus provincial school budget, lower raises for teachers "obviously would have an impact," said Farthing.
"The minister did say to school divisions, 'Keep your expenditures down as much as possible.' The numbers you see reflect a collective way to improve education in a prudent way," he said.
Manitoba Teachers' Society president Paul Olson said trustees need to ensure kids get the education they need, while paying for it is secondary.
"Their first imperative is to make sure they're meeting the educational obligations. Make sure you do that first, then figure out how to finance it," Olson said.
"The expenditure changes are not huge. It's reflective of every year getting more expensive to operate our schools," said Carolyn Duhamel, executive director of the Manitoba School Boards Association.
Slowing down the rate of increase is both teachers' raises being less, and, she said, "There's no doubt the divisions are counting their pennies.
"The reality is, our student population is becoming more and more diverse. That is a struggle for school boards. They're doing what they can, they'd like to do more -- there are limits to resources."
Compared to the deep cuts in public education elsewhere in Canada, Duhamel said, "We're fairly comfortable with what we've got here in Manitoba."
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It's a new year again, and you know what that means; time to make a few resolutions. But this year, try something different and make a list with your partner. Figure out what you both need to do as a couple to strengthen your relationship. Then, write down your suggestions for each other, and for yourself. Perhaps the most important resolution should be to spend quality time together and not just on holidays.
It's hard to find time when you're busy with work, but with a little creativity you'd be surprised at how easy it can be. For instance, instead of sitting in front of the computer alone or running errands by yourself, invite your other half to work on projects or tasks with you. This is a great way to motivate each other while giving you something productive to do together.
Don't forget to include communication on your list of resolutions. For any relationship to be successful and healthy, you must listen to one other. Express your needs to your partner during this time and let them know what you want, whether it's more honesty or more compliments, now is the time to ask them.
If you run out of unique ideas for your list, you can always fall back on the tried and true, which includes eating healthy, exercising and getting rid of bad habits, such as smoking. Or, in today's dating world, putting down the phone and texting less while you're together may be the ultimate bad habit resolution.
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Habitat continues progress in Northwest HuntsvillePublished 1:55pm Thursday, May 30, 2013
By Aldo Amato
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HUNTSVILLE — The sounds of drills and saws filled Banks Street on May 30.
Volunteers from Habitat for Humanity of North Alabama worked on several houses as part of their ongoing project in the northwest part of Huntsville.
"We bought these vacant lots about four years ago," Volunteer Bill Giardini said. "They have progressed a lot and this is part of what Habitat does each year. We usually aim to build six houses."
At the moment, only one property is ready to be moved into. But even one home means the universe for those struggling to afford a roof over their head Giardini said.
"I'd say the favorite part is seeing families move into their new home," he said.
The organization held a dinner at the Von Braun Center earlier this month to help fund a similar project. Habitat purchased around 11 acres of land in Northeast Huntsville in 2009 and is looking to develop around 33 homes. Greg Shultz with Habitat said they need around $3 million to accomplish that feat.
The property on Banks Street purchased by Habitat runs from about halfway down the street southbound to the corner where most of the houses are being built.
With the help of several volunteers and a successful community, Giardini said he expects the houses to be complete in just over a year.
For more information on Habitat for Humanity of North Alabama, call 256-533-2282.


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The band is getting ready to travel to the West coast of North America for performances in April 2015. The following dates have been booked - get your tickets NOW!
4/17 - Fortune Sound Club - Vancouver, BC - SOLD OUT
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Another video has been released from the new album. Directed by Joe Sams and the Uncle Dad Productions team, the video is now on our very own YouTube channel along with videos for "Pretty Music for Pretty People" and "The Sun Turns Our Patio Into a Lifeless Hell".
If we figure out how to go the speed of light we could eventually each get our own planet. If there really are billions of planets out there then everyone should be fine. Of course a lot of the planets wouldn't have atmosphere appropriate for humans, but I hear they're making much progress in portablizing oxygen tanks. So, I suppose the rich get the oxygen planets and 99% of us get the bad air ones. I still think it is worth it. I think I would love having my own planet. All new natural resources like say, the jellyrock. It's jelly when you are forming it into a shape, but it hardens to an incredibly solid rock that can provide housing and such. And you can eat it in jelly form, too. But you should hope it is digested by the time it is supposed to harden. My planet would be called St. Evens, because my last name is Stevens and it just sounds boring to have a planet called Stevens. I would work and play music and go and do things on Earth, but every Summer I would travel to St. Evens and bask in the warm jellybaths of Cape Aldehyde. I would like a light tint on my helmet, because I should be near a star, wherever I am, and sometimes need some shade. Maybe planets are closer to each other in other galaxies. Neighbors. And hey, if they have oxygen you could always just sneak over there at night and run a line back to your place. Interplanetary outlaws. My wife & kids can have their own planets too, because let's face it, we all need SPACE sometimes.
Joe Jack recently participated in a live screening event in Philadelphia for for the "The 78 Project" movie. He performed the song "Railroad Bill" for a live recording using a Presto 78 recording machine.
October 7, 2014 marked the official release of the new Dead Milkmen album "Pretty Music For Pretty People". Reception from the public and press has been great! You can order the album online from our own website shop or from other outlets such as Amazon, or iTunes. Only 1000 of the SPECIAL vinyl version were pressed so if you see one for sale - BUY IT! They are almost sold out.
I am often awakened in the middle of the night. Sometimes it's by a member of the Law Enforcement community, but mostly it's just because a decade's worth of touring has left me with a very unusual sleep pattern. The point is, I usually wake up around 3:30 AM (the hour in which, when I was on tour, I would often be jolted from slumber by a devoted fan's angry husband), work on some music or maybe a writing assignment and then go back to sleep for an hour or two before it's time to get up for my day job. Occasionally, I don't feel like being creative, so I watch TV. And that is what this series of essays is all about.
About a week ago, I woke up in the middle of the night and tuned into The History Channel in the hope that I might catch Henry Rollins new show. I don't actually watch Henry's show; I just like to lay there with the sound off, silently mouthing the words "I can't believe I used to pay to see this dude." Anyhooooo, I didn't see Henry, but what I did see was some guy, in a makeshift wood-panel office, calmly explaining to some other guys that the Templar Knights had buried the Treasure of King Solomon on the island they happened to renting. Mr. Implausible knew this because he'd superimposed the "Tree of Life" from the Kabbalah onto one of Shakespeare's sonnets. Or, to put it another way...
Now, if Henry Rollins and I were to show up at your house and inform you that Carrot Top had left one of the last surviving copies of the Magna Carta in your basement, you'd probably have a good laugh and then slam the door in our faces. So I was expecting everyone in the room to burst out laughing and then stomp Mr. Implausible like a tub of Calabrian grapes. So I was more than a little shocked when the other dudes in the room stroked their beards thoughtfully and said "Hmmm. This seems plausible. Quite plausible indeed."
What the shit is going on here?
Welcome the "The Curse of Oak Island"; from the network that gave us Ancient Aliens (did you know that Martians built Mt. Rushmore? Then why aren't there Martian faces on it? Maybe there are. Think about it.) and America Unearthed (AKA "History for people who masturbate to the Book of Mormon"). And if you're thinking "I bet the only 'curse' involved is the cursing done by anyone who was duped into watching this show", well, you're way ahead of the curve. But first, a little background.
Oak Island is a small speck of land located off of Canada's east coast. If there was actually anything of value there, America would've snatched it up years ago, because...well... USA! USA! So why does anyone think that there might be anything of value there? It seems that during the 19th century a couple of teenage boys rowed out to the island to look at wood cuttings of naked women or something. Anyhooo, while they were doing whatever they were doing, they found a depression in the dirt and began digging because that's the sort of stupid crap teenagers did before Rock 'n' Roll and heavy petting was invented. They dug for a while and found some logs. Then they dug for a little while and found some more logs. And because this was obviously exciting by 19th century standards, the boys kept at it.
Gentle reader, did I ever tell you how a sinkhole works? It's really rather simple: a depression in the ground develops; the trees surrounding the depression fall in to the depression; the depression fills up with dirt; years later, the ground starts to sink again; the trees surrounding the depression fall in to the depression; the depression fills up with dirt... Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
So, what you have is basically a sinkhole (know known as "The Money Pit", a term which really tells the whole story in three words) that, over the years, people have come to believe is the hiding place for everything from pirate treasure ("Well I think it's 'booty'!") to the above mentioned Templar hoard. As with Bigfoot, Noah's Ark, and Paul McCartney's dignity, years of searching have turned up nothing. Although it would be the bee's knees if the folks on Oak Island found Bigfoot while searching for the Lost Treasure of the Templars.
All of this would be hilarious if it were not for the fact that people have DIED while looking for the Treasure of Oak Island. OK, I guess that doesn't really mitigate the humor factor too much, as these people would've died anyway: probably crushed to death by a falling Henry Rollins or killed in a Bigfoot attack. No, what really kills The Funny about Oak Island is that people have wasted their entire lives fruitlessly digging about in the damp Canadian wilderness. Shit Luther, I only dedicated 20 minutes of my life to the mystery of Oak Island, and I feel cheated.
Fun fact: FDR once spent an entire summer on Oak Island searching for the missing treasure. Which is really only a fun fact if you pause to consider that he was young, wealthy and chose to spend three months in the middle of nowhere, scratching about in the dirt, devoid of the company of women.
Walking around outside today in the frigid post-snowstorm air of Philly reminded me of touring in the early days of the Dead Milkmen. It always seemed that if it was December, we'd be in North Dakota or Wyoming, in a van that had no heat wishing we would have triple layered our socks. If it was January, we'd be fighting our way through a blizzard in Minnesota. Whenever we'd ask our beloved manager, a wise man who is responsible for perhaps 98 percent of our swift rise to stardom, why we would tour in the super-chilled north in the winter, risking our lives on ice-covered Interstates, he would explain his brilliant theory that up-and-coming bands, as we were back then, were better off touring the north in the winter because most of the competition was touring the south at that time. There would be fewer entertainment choices in Billings, Montana, a week before Christmas than in Miami Beach. And so we'd have potentially bigger crowds wherever we'd go because other bands weren't willing to shovel some snow.
Well, after about three years of touring the north exclusively in the winter and the south only during heatwaves, our manager's plan paid off and we got our first hit video on MTV. As a result, that channel decided it would be best to stop showing music videos altogether, but we started to play sold-out shows and were eventually able to tour the north in the summer, and the south in the winter, as do most normal bands who have "made it". We were also able to afford to repair the heater in our van.
But when it came to breaking our act in new territories, Europe for example, our manager went back to his tried-and-true method. Our first trip to Germany was in January of 1991. It snowed every single day we were there. The temperature did not once rise above freezing, which is pretty much equal to ZERO degrees the way they measure it, so you could say it was below zero during our entire trip. I could not wait to leave Germany. Unfortunately, it got worse before it got better. We were routed to Denmark and then Norway in February. The snow had stopped but it did not melt. In Oslo it was a couple feet high.
I have to admit that the fjord-and-hill nestled city of Oslo, Norway on a sunny snow-covered winter day is a beautiful sight, even if it is best enjoyed from indoors. Having a few hours to kill before our show I decided to take a walk by myself while the sun was still out. When we started our tour I had shoulder-length hair. I was too cheap back then to go to barber shops. I had a friend who cut my hair for me in her house every so often. But upon approaching a hair salon on my walk I decided on a whim to get a trim. It looked like there were no customers, so I walked in. The stylist greeted me in Norwegian and I suddenly remembered that I don't speak the language. (So many young people in Norway speak English, and speak it well, it is easy to forget that they have their own language.) It transpired that she did not speak much English but she did know that I needed, and probably wanted, a haircut, and I felt by stepping inside the shop I made an unspoken bargain to use the service and could not turn back. I certainly did not want to deprive the woman of income. Before I knew it she had me in her chair. With no words exchanged she gave me a boyish looking young man's haircut. It was very short and not at all what I had envisioned, but at least it would be good for a laugh when the others saw me as we gathered for sound check later.
The biggest shock for me, though, was walking out of the shop and into the sun-setting afternoon. My ears! My neck! With my long hair gone I thought I'd die of frostbite of the skull. I also suffered ridicule, as I'd predicted, as the hair style made me look too young to be served. We decided later to break up the band during our show, in honor of the fact that Camper Van Beethoven had recently broken up in Oslo, or so were told, but we got back together for our encore and merely confused the audience who no doubt had no idea what we were doing or why. We never got any hit music videos on Norwegian television, and we were never asked back. So maybe there are some holes in our manager's theory after all. But the lesson I learned was: if you're going to Oslo in the winter, pack a hat. And if you're planning to get your hair cut, learn the language.
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Bigger than a Bread Box
By Laurel Snyder
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A magical breadbox that delivers whatever you wish for—as long as it fits inside? It's too good to be true! Twelve-year-old Rebecca is struggling with her parents' separation, as well as a sudden move to her gran's house in another state. For a while, the magic bread box, discovered in the attic, makes life away from home a little easier. Then suddenly it starts to make things much, much more difficult, and Rebecca is forced to decide not just where, but who she really wants to be. Laurel Snyder's most thought-provoking book yet.
LAUREL SNYDER is the author of many books for kids, including Penny Dreadful, Any Which Wall, and Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains. A native of Baltimore, she now resides happily in Atlanta with her husband, Chris; their two small sons; and a cat and dog who get along admirably because they are exactly the same size. Laurel has recently begun a collection of vintage bread boxes.


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Come to me now, yes come from the deep, and provide me fish stories to tattle
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