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Apple iProduct. You'll buy it. And you'll like it. And no, I really can't see why folks get so excited over an unusable jelly-slop, DRMed music or ugly white cases. But that's me.
Link does contain profanity, but that's part of its charm.
Apple iProduct. You'll buy it. And you'll like it. And no, I really can't see why folks get so excited over an unusable jelly-slop, DRMed music or ugly white cases. But that's me.
Link does contain profanity, but that's part of its charm.
An interesting interview with the pilot of the Enola Gay. He has no regrets about his mission, naturally.
A Slovak man drank his way to safety. His car was trapped in an avalanche, and as he tried to dig his way out he discovered that the car would fill with snow more quickly than he could dig. But then he realised that he could urinate on the snow to melt it down, and that he had eight gallons of beer in his car (he was going on vacation…). So he dug and drank and melted and dug and drank and melted for four days, finally escaping.
Theologian David B. Hart tackles the problem of natural disasters: how can a good God cause such things? I believe his answer is that He doesn't: creation is in bondage to evil, and the natural order is perverted to foul ends. That's my reading, anyway.
A man injured in the California train wreck scrawled
a message for his family using his own blood, believing that he was
soon to die. He wrote
I ♥ my kids; I ♥ Leslie (his
wife) in blood on a piece of wreckage. Fortunately for him, he
survived. Unfortunately for him, the media desperately wish to get
their claws on him. Leave the poor guy alone—he has better things
to do than humiliate himself publicly in an interview.
In just grilled up a pair of elk of burgers for lunch. Elk has an interesting taste to it: it's at once stronger and lighter than beef, with its own slightly peppery flavour. The one problem is that it is so low in fat: one really should add maybe a teaspoon of suet or lard (poss. a tablespoon?) per pound of ground elk to get a good, juicy burger. But as a meat, it has a lot to say for itself.
I've been told that American elk is the same as European red deer—no idea if that's true, but if it is then it explains why many of the mediæval receipts for venison call for larding.
I have just published Penrod, by Booth Tarkington. From its description:
A wonderful coming-of-age story about a boy eleven going on twelve who gets himself into more trouble than any one lad should. From his improvised circus to the Great Tar Fight, there are plenty of laughs and a few touching moments as well. Few authors have quite so well captured those halcyon days when a boy is just about to start becoming a man. It does contain some possibly offensive archaic language.
This was a favourite of mine when growing up; I hadn't realised that its copyright had expired, but I'm glad to be able to make it available once more.
Michael Rubin has some interesting thoughts on Iraqi sovereignty It seems that we are making some mistakes which should be rectified.
In Typing Alone Mark Oppenheimer argues that a less liberal, more focused eduction with fewer extra-curricular activities and more time to think might be an excellent idea.
Judith Kleinfeld has a great
article on gender differences. One very interesting point is that
the distribution of intellectual abilities is very different
for men and women: women have a very pronounced bell curve with short
tails, most being average and few being exceptional in either direction;
men have a much flatter curve with far longer tails. Thus while average
cognitive ability is typically the same for men and women on most
measures (there are some where there's a difference), there are
more really stupid and more really smart men. These differences show up
even in the womb—far more boys than girls are miscarried due to
defects. But, as she notes,
women are more apt to look upward with
anger than downward with relief.
As an example of the difference at the extremely high end of the spectrum, the proportion of 13 year olds scoring 700+ on the maths portion of the SAT is 13:1. No doubt the extremely low end would be similar.
All this goes to demonstrate that there are fundamental differences between men and women. Which should come as no surprise to anyone.
The San Diego News Notes (a Roman Catholic right-to-life paper) has an interview with a woman working in an abortion clinic. We castigate the Nazis for their slaughter of the Jews, and rightly so, but when will we do something about a practise which has slain tens of millions?
Since I have recently started publishing hitherto out-of-print books, I have also found a use for all those proofreader's marks which they taught in school and which I promptly forgot. Those of you still being educated (yeah, John & Stephen: that's you) might find them useful.
For my own part, I am amazed by how many errors I have found. There's something like one error per page. Interestingly, they cluster: some pages have none and others three or four.
Tonight I made a batch of soap (6 oz. almond oil; 10 oz. olive oil; 2 oz. lye; 6 oz. water, not in that order) and milled an old batch I'd lying about the house. The old batch happened to be the first I ever made, composed of old corn oil from my fryer and lard (cleaned, of course), with some spices added to make it pleasant-smelling. Tonight I ground it all and remolded it, adding some olive oil to 'superfat' it (making it very good for the skin) as well as lemon & clove oils and pearberry scent. The bars look very good—I'm going to enjoy using them.
No, it has nothing to do with sex: the venereal game has to do with naming groups of animals: a romp of otters; a troop of monkeys; a shiver of sharks; a descent of woodpeckers. The US Geological Survey have a listing of venereal names; a googling will find more, of course. The root of the phrase, of course, is venery, which means both hunting and sex—the conflation is for obvious reasons, although the dictionaries claim otherwise.
Paul Graham, brilliant as ever, has written What You'll Wish You'd Known, an undelivered speech for high school students. In it he gives students excellent advice on how to succeed in life—and it's not what one might think.
Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for illegally carrying a gun. So let me get this straight: it's okay for Michael Moore to be protected by a man with a firearm, but not okay for Bob Uhl to be? Gosh, that makes a lot of sense. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, Mr. Moore: if you want the rest of us to be defenceless, lay down your arms first.
ING Direct offer a 2.35% APR on their savings accounts, with no fees and no minimums. And I just converted to USAA to get 1.20%…
An officer in Iraq has written Aiding and Abetting the Enemy, about how the news media deliberately mis-reports the war. Thanks to my brother Tom for the link.
A few months back my mother was down in sunny Texas and picked up a table which had belonged to my dad's grandfather. It's the sort who leaves & legs fold such that it becomes a kind of credenza against the wall, and came with four chairs. It's funny to think that this table and these chairs now sit in my home, in front of a television which their creator could not conceive, a cordless phone their carpenter could not imagine and a computer their joiner could not have dreamt in the wildest of pizza-induced dreams (indeed, it's quite probable that he went to his grave without ever having eaten a pizza). It may not be the kind of history one gets from growing up down the road from Bosworth Field, but it's the kind of history I can get…
Reviewing my accounts from last year, something occurred to me: I'm not getting a good bargain in regards to the government. With the money that I spend in taxes I could hire 1–2 armed guards to accompany me everywhere or watch my property—were it not, of course, for the minimum wage laws. But in a free country, where I could pay what a man desired to work for, I would be able to very easily afford one, and could manage two, on very good terms, too (room, board and good wages).
One might object that my two-man entourage could never protect me from a horde of rampaging Canadians, Mexicans or Wyomingites. But it wouldn't just be my two and me: it'd mine, and me, and those of my employer and his employer and so on up the chain. And if every middle-class family in Colorado had at least two armsmen, I can pretty much guarantee that Wyoming would never invade. Not if they knew what be good for them, anyway (yes, 'be' is the proper subjunctive form).
This raises the question: what the hell am I paying for? For a long time my thought has been that paying for the police and military are worthwhile—but the numbers don't lie: it's more profitable for me to pay for it myself. I want my money back, and I want my retainers, and I want to make the federal, state and local governments as small as humanly possible.
A curious thing happened this evening. I'd just returned from running some errands and was walking to my condo when I heard a noise. Turning my head I discovered a dog trailing its lead—apparently the creature had pulled itself loose somehow. It seemed very shy and cautious of me, so I went up and poured some chili in a bowl (so far as I know, there's nothing about beef, beans, corn, red pepper flakes & black pepper that might make a dog ill) and returned with it in an attempt to gain its trust. It was a shy little guy: he'd only approach the bowl and eat if I were a few paces away. He seemed to have a tag on his collar; I was hoping that I'd be able to get him to trust me enough to check it, but he never let me approach. Even my traditional technique of letting the beast smell my hand, then scratching behind the ears didn't work. Perhaps my gloves smelled funky.
I didn't wish to let him get away; it's well after dark and the poor thing could get run over quite easily. Eventually his lead trailed next to a fence, and I was able to lash it thereto. I called animal control, but by the time they called back his owner had come looking for him. Poor woman was quite out of her mind worrying.
To tell the truth, I rather wish that she'd not appeared. It was a handsome animal (although I couldn't tell its breed: low to the ground, black with a white neck, and somewhat shaggy; maybe a spaniel of some sort), and I've been wanting to get a dog for awhile now. It looked like the sort which would have loved to go hunting up in the mountains. I'd have been glad to own him.
I've just published The Mystery of Cloomber by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A family moves into the strange house of Cloomber and proceeds to shut themselves up tightly therein. What could be their secret, and what do they fear?
Fed up with worms, viruses, spam and spyware, people are giving up their computers, or at least giving up the Internet. Well, that's what they get using Windows. If you stick a petri dish out in an influenza ward, you're gonna grow junk; if you stick a vat of Lysol out there you won't.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't get worms; I don't get viruses; I don't get infested with spyware. I use Linux, and I'm happy.
You won't see this reported, but the federal deficit is shrinking; Kudlow attributes it to the booming economy.
Smokers, take heart: Forces International is here to represent your interest against the lies of anti-smoking zealots. They also advocate against the food police and the latest silly superstition to hit the stage: being over-sensitive to smell.
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Why quit smoking? The average lifespan would increase by 15–20 months if all forms of cancer, cardiovascular disease and other causes of death (including traffic accidents) (including those completely unrelated to smoking) were completely eliminated from the population. For cancer alone, that figure is 15 days. Well, I for one am willing to trade 15 days for a lifetime of happiness.
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The New Yorker has a great article about how Army officers are using the Internet. The end has the standard media depression over the war, but the meat of the article is really quite good.
Rafael Peralta gave his life heroically in Fallujah and has since been treated scandalously.
Every wonder why it seems that everyone and his brother has allergies, has conditions, has something wrong with him these days? It's the nocebo effect, the opposite of the placebo effect. We believe that something will harm us, and so it does. This goes a long way towards explaining modern hypochondria.
In Personal Chemistry & the Healthy Body, Gerald Weinberg stresses the importance of a healthy lifestyle to professional advancement. The folks who receive preferment are those who have a good appearance, are energetic & composed and project an aura of leadership and charisma. Something to work on!
Well, for the first time since before summer I've brewed a batch of beer. It's been something of a comedy of errors unfortunately: I reversed the hopping schedule (bittering with aroma hops and flavouring with bittering hops) and somehow managed to to plug the cooling sink up right, and so all the nice ice cold water for chilling the wort went right down said sink, leaving me with no way to rapidly cool it. Still, I've had worse brewing nights, and I see no reason to think that my beer won't turn out all right in the end.
I went to Caerthe's Twelfth Night today. I gotta say that when the SCA shines, it really shines: where else could one get crown roast of lamb with barley, savory toasted cheese with mushrooms, pickled Roman cabbages (Brussels sprouts), parsnips & carrots, bread pudding, saumon caudle (salmon soup), chickens in hocchee (chickens stuffed with grabes and garlic), minted peas, sambocade (a sweet cheese tart something like a softer cheesecake) with sour cherry sauce and wardens in syrup (pears in a sweet red wine sauce) for $14? And that was just dinner; lunch involved a stuffed boar's head, brawn with mustard, stewed potatoes, buttered cauliflowers, mushrooms alexandre, a Hanseatic stollen (fruitcake), meringues, candied lemon peels and fruit—and was included in the same price.
Of course, with all this well-done and authentic food one did also have to put up with the sort of folks who have no idea of what real history was like; perhaps inspired by others they will improve in time.
My friend (and kinda godson—I sponsored him for confirmation) Buzz Anderson writes on the topic of data structures as culture, inspired by a friend's interview at Microsoft which featured trees and his own interviewing experience at Apple which heavily features hash tables. What, one might ask, is a tree and why would a programmer care about it—and for that matter, what's a hash table?
When dealing with data in a computer, one often needs to search for a particular datum. This could be done by scanning every last bit of memory to find it, but that would be extremely slow. So instead we somehow associate a key with the data, and look for the key instead. But it's still too slow to just search through a list of keys to find the one we're looking for: on average one must examine half the keys to see if they match (what we call O(x), since performance is directly proportional to the number of keys); this can get quite expensive. So we computer scientists build data structures which enable faster searching and use of data.
A tree is arranged like an upside-down tree, with the
root at the top and the leaves at the bottom. The entire thing
is composed of nodes elements which contain a key, a datum
and two child nodes (the leaf nodes have no children). Moreover, there
is a constraint on the nodes: the no node in the left-hand subtree (the
tree which has the left-hand child node as its root) has a key is
greater than the root's key, and every node in the
right-hand subtree has a greater key than the root's. To search
the tree for a number (say, 42), one first visits the root node and
checks its key. If it's 42, then you're done: return the
datum. If its key is greater than 42, then check the left-hand
subtree in the same way; otherwise check the right-hand subtree. Keep
on doing this until you find the key or run out of nodes to examine. A
binary tree provides what we refer to as O(log x) performance: a
substantial improvement over linear searching.
A hash tree is best visualised as a black box (there are a lot of different ways to implement them): you give it a key, and it returns the data in constant time. That is, whether the table contains one key or for one million, the time to retrieve the data is the same. This means that a hash table's performance is O(1)—it's proportional only to 1. This is really cool: it means that we need never care about how large our data set grows, since performance will be as predictable as it ever was.
You might be asking why hash tables aren't the only data structure ever used, then. The answer is that the constant time they take is relatively slow compared to trees for small data sets—and the logarithmic time that trees run in is relatively slow compared to linear search for very small data sets. Thus even in a modern program there are probably a few places that use a simple linear search, and in others places using trees, and in others using hash tables.
The beauty of a hash table, though, is that it is conceptually the cleanest and best of the structures. You know that performance on the developer's workstation with a toy data set will be the exact same as in the field with $100,000,000 worth of financial transactions; you know that you're ready for the future. It's telling that Apple cares about hash tables and Microsoft about trees. Tree are a speed hack when can bite one in production, but are great when developing; hash tables take up a bit more resources, but are much more durable.
Sleepy Owl Press has published two more books by G.K. Chesterton.
Both are $9.99. Now that I've published three Chesterton works, I'm next turning my attention to Doyle—and after that, Kipling! Not so certain which authors will intrigue me enough to add after that, though.
A Swedish woman lost her husband, her two-year-old and her mother in the Asian tsunami just a day after she and her husband had a second wedding. One knows neither the time nor the hour indeed.
Naseer Flayih Hasan has written How the Left Betrayed my Country—Iraq. A biting commentary on the dishonesty, cynicism and ignorance of the Left.
I have just published G.K. Chesterton's Alarms \& Discursions in a new attractively typeset edition. The book is a collection of miscellaneous essays on politics, religion and philosophy first published in 1911. The cover price is $9.99—contact me for bulk orders.
A record of unmitigated failure. Really pretty sad.
The Encyclopædia Mythica is
a massive reference to all sort of mythologies and creatures. Looks
like it only covers
real mythologies (e.g. Greek and Inuit), not
created ones (e.g. Lovecraft & Tolkien), though.
Thinkgeek have a plasma mug: a glass mug which acts as a plasma ball. Extremely cool.
Kendall and Christopher Phelps are both deploying to Iraq in the same unit. Good for them, and good luck to them!
Did you know that the United States had an emperor from 1859 to 1880? What a wonderful true story!
After a four-day weekend, and after two weeks of working half days, I must now work a full eight-hour day. I am not looking forward to it. Grumble…
In this same document, I find an anecdote of General Grant on the subject of duelling:
I do not believe I ever would have the courage to fight a duel. If any man should wrong me to the extent of my being willing to kill him, I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done, and of the time, place and distance separating us, when I executed him. If I should do another such a wrong as to justify him in killing me, I would make any reasonable atonement within my power, if convinced of the wrong done.
The rest of this article has been retracted.
Found a link to a list of eleven ways to be a guy. Sage advice, really.
Apparently the recent mass survival of animals and the mass-death of men in the Asian tsunami has led to a renewed investigation of the supposed sixth sense of the beasts which warned them of the impending calamity. Interestingly, my pastor noted just this morning noted that if one lives one's life in accordance with God's will and is receptive to His word, then one is more likely to be warned of events before they happen (taking the example of St. Joseph, who was warned by an angel to leave Judea, told when he could return and warned to turn away from his path for safety's sake). It seems to me that animals—which have no free will and thus can neither sin nor do good, but merely fulfil their appointed roles—may indeed, since they are less fallen than men (for they never sinned, but were merely twisted thereby), be able to know of impending mass danger.
Or perhaps it's simply that the shore-creatures hear the cries of the sea-creatures caught up in the wave and flee, and the inland-creatures hear the cries of the fleeing shore-creatures, and all head for the hills. But it doesn't seem out of the question to me for the less-fallen to be more in tune with God—which is also to say, more in tune with everything in God's creation (which perhaps explains the many clairvoyant saints as well).
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Daylight Review: A Nyctophobiac's Worst Nightmare
For those who have an overwhelming fear of the dark, I heed you this warning: do not play Daylight. But, if you love survival horror games, then you're screwed, because I wouldn't recommend to miss this one.
Although it may seem ironic, Zombie Studios' latest survival horror title causes players to ache for the light in an asylum encompassed by the dark. Players follow the story of Sarah, a woman who has mysteriously awoken to find herself alone in Mid Island Hospital. Sarah, seemingly alone, begins to hear a man's voice instructing her to find the secrets of the hospital through notes called 'Remnants', which range from personal notes to patient records. With nothing besides her phone containing a map of the hospital, to start, Sarah must progress forward to find answers as to why this hospital seems familiar, and essentially discover a way out. The only tools players will possess are glow sticks, flares, and your cell phone.
In order to find remnants, players must use their glow sticks to search for luminous markings on different objects—which is an indication that such object will possibly contain remnant or resource. Take caution, though, once all remnants in area have been collected, the threat level increases, and beings lurking the halls will appear more often due to the markings these 'notes' leave on your body. This is where flares come in. These 'beings' will disappear once a flare is lit, and will keep you safe. Once the beings have vanished, put your flare away, because (just like glow sticks) seeing that these resources are scarce, you'll want to be a saver. After all the remnants have been collected, a 'Sigil' will appear (such as a Teddy Bear or Scissors), and you must deliver the sigil to the 'Seal of Shadows', which unlocks a new section of the hospital.
In order for Sarah to have any chance at escaping, she must continue this process several times. Although I just briefed the gameplay aspect of this title, I don't think I can emphasize enough that to call Daylight 'terrifying' is an understatement. The multitude of how immersive this title is, is shown through your screams. Players feel as if they really are Sarah, and as if they are living through this horrendous experience. Sarah seems to be aware of what is going on around her–she's responsive, and players can first-hand experience the dread she's feeling. Cosmetically, Daylight is nothing extraordinary, and the character design is nothing all that impressive, but where it lacks, it makes up for acoustically. Daylight's terror is (for the most part) found in its music and sound effects. The sounds of indistinct whispering, the patter of feet running, the scurrying across dirty floors, and the distant screams are what puts players on edge.
We fear what we cannot see and/or understand. The way developers choose to have music intensify in certain areas, and cease completely in others will cause your heart to race and eyes widen. Obviously the creepy women in dirty night gowns will freak players out a bit too, but it's the suspense that gets our adrenaline to pump. After a while, you begin to notice that a lot of these noises you hear become..recycled and repetitive. Although they still put you on edge, they become half expected in some scenarios. The hospital itself is designed like one giant maze—you will get lost, and that's the point. While players search for resources, remnants, and a way out, they'll find themselves going in circles, but not by any means overwhelmingly.
When you walk into a room and a faucet turns on, or a wheel chair moves, it all plays into the terror the game is eliciting from you. Additionally, this game has new content generated through each play-through. So, every time you restart, the layout will be different, remnants will be in new locations, and these beings won't pop out in the same places—all ensuring the element of surprise is in the opposing hands. This, unfortunately, comes at the expense of longevity in a single playthrough – you could be disappointed to find out that the game can be completed in 1.5/2 hours, and while there are reasons to replay it, it still seems a bit too low considering the price tag.
Overall, I would say that Daylight's shortcomings are overshadowed by the way this game scares the absolute crap out of the player. This game is one of the few that stay true to the genre, while reviving it in the same instance. My advice to prospective players: run.

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Ripped young Aaron shows off his big dick at Active Duty!
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Davec23 August 24, 2011 - 11:18:46 (See all My Comments)
that is a fit fucker, good foreskin but no sweet ginger pubes, his only fault gorgeous stillReply
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Love to fuck that tight smooth boyass and shoot deep inside this hot guy.Reply
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Different looking dude, for sure. I'd give him 5 if he was cut. I know, I know some guys prefer uncut.Reply
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An otherwise great hunk ruined by shaving. Sex is nasty, hairy and mucky, not pre-pubescent cleanliness.Reply
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I wouldn't mind if this beautiful redhead f****d me all the way into next Tuesday. I also want to wash his pits with my tongue.Reply
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jaxon29 September 02, 2009 - 10:17:26 (See all My Comments)
I'm attracted to redheads because of their ginger bushes, but unfortunately many guys are shaving down there. This guy isn't that cute but may be great in the sack with the other guys.Reply
joesman September 02, 2009 - 10:11:45 (See all My Comments)
Hot as the hair on his head. Redheads are the bomb.Reply
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Bi-Guy September 02, 2009 - 02:08:53 (See all My Comments)
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theFallenGod September 02, 2009 - 00:15:21 (See all My Comments)
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Here is my 18 year old nephew Benny who graduated today from Huntingtown High School.
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The alignment you speak of will not happen on December 21, 2012. Except for the Sirius, Alcyone, Sun part. That happens every day.
Do the Earth and Sun align on December 21?
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What will happen is our Earth, Sun, Alcyone, and Sirius and center of the black hole will align on this date.
So the rise of the sixth civilization of humanity happens every day? That's a lot of sixth civilizations.
Yes in Hinduism it does claim that this alignment will cause the rise of the sixth civilization of humanity,
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Session 11: Partnerships: Role of Contractors
Thursday, July 17, 1997
10:45 - 12:00 pm, 1:15 - 2:30 pm
- Michael Carter, Defense Logistics Agency
- Bob Cox, Department of Defense
- Jim Foley, EPA Region 2
- Debra Yap, GSA
The purpose of the session was to explain how contractors can help the federal government implement environmentally preferable purchasing. Government officials who have worked cooperatively with contractors to identify and purchase products which reduce environmental impact described their experiences.
Speaker 1: Michael Carter, Defense Logistics Agency
In his current role as Environmental
Protection Specialist for the Defense Contract Management Command (DCMC),
DLA, DoD, Mr. Carter serves as the focal point and authority for environmental
issues. His duties at the DCMC Headquarters Complex include: external
interface with the Services and (federal, state and local) regulators;
internal interface with DCMC functional specialists; environmental support
program oversight; and support for the Joint Group on Acquisition Pollution
Prevention environmental initiative.
Mr. Carter discussed his work with the Joint Group on Acquisition Pollution Prevention (JG-APP). JG-APP began in September, 1994, when officers from the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Defense Contract Management Command recognized a need to eliminate duplicate efforts to change military specifications so that they incorporate pollution prevention strategies.
A significant portion of that effort relies on contractors proposing environmentally preferable alternatives to existing procedures or products. Although DOD has always encouraged contractors to suggest such changes, their efforts were often hampered because the changes would have to be introduced, documented, and considered on a case-by-case, contract-by-contract, and service-by-service (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, etc.) basis. One of the big problems was that there was very little coordination within organizations and even less between organizations. JG-APP was designed to ease the burden by examining and implementing changes across all contracts and across all organizations simultaneously.
The JG-APP charter was signed on September 14, 1994 and identified four primary objectives:
1) Reduce or eliminate hazardous materials
2) Foster joint service cooperation
3) Provide a single interface to weapon system program managers
4) Provide a bridge to the sustainment community (the people who maintain the equipment)
Mr. Carter explained the six phases in a typical JG-APP project, emphasizing that contractors participate and influence each phase:
1) Identifying the participants and hazardous materials or processes to be examined. These can be suggested by a contractor.
2) Identifying the critical performance requirements for each system. These are used for comparing the environmentally preferable alternatives. If the new product or method meets or exceeds the critical performance requirements and provides and environmental or cost benefit, it can be considered further.
3) Examining the costs. This step begins by determining who will test the new procedures, who will pay for the tests, and which contract vehicle will be used. It might be any of numerous projects by any of the branches of the military.
4) Demonstration/Validation. This phase includes a complete performance and cost assessment of the alternative(s).
5) Single Process Initiative (SPI). This phase is actually comprised of several stages to document the success of the changes and share changes across all contracts and all branches of the military. Any resulting cost savings are shared between the government and the contractor who proposed the change.
SPI Process
Concept paper - contractor (proposal of hypothesis that's been tested)
Evaluates concept paper (management council)
Block changes made (management council must approve)
Equitable adjustments made to contracts
6) Implementation: Once everyone has had the opportunity to review the proposed changes, they are approved as a block change across all contracts and all branches of the military.
One example of a successful JG-APP project saved $6.25 million after subtracting the costs incurred to test and document the alternative procedures.
Mr. Carter also explained that one of the biggest components of the JG-APP program is disseminating the information throughout the Defense Department. They are making good use of the Internet to do so. He encouraged everyone to visit two web sites for additional information. The first is the JG-APP general information web site [http://www.jgpp.com/] .
Speaker 2: Bob Cox, Department of Defense
Mr. Cox is the Repair and Improvements Program Manager for the Pentagon
at the Department of Defense. One of his projects is overseeing the repair
and maintenance of the Pentagon's parking lot.
In September, 1995, DOD recognized a need to establish a contract to cover the repair and maintenance of the Pentagon parking lot and several other DOD facilities in the Washington, D.C. area. Around that same time there was a Federal Register notice requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products. He called EPA looking for guidance and was told that there wasn't any guidance but that EPA would help him on the project and document his efforts as an EPP case study.
The project had two primary objectives: 1) Fixing the parking lot, and 2) Using a "consumer approach" to incorporate environmentally preferable products. The "consumer approach" meant that DOD, acting in its role as a consumer, would compare existing parking lot renovation products and processes and select those that met performance specifications and included the largest number of environmentally preferable attributes. Furthermore, DOD would rely on the contractor to help identify those attributes. As a result, what was environmentally preferable was determined in a cooperative relationship between industry and an environmentally informed federal consumer (DOD).
Because DOD wanted to encourage the contractor to adopt environmentally preferable purchasing habits, the DOD/EPA workgroup determined that they needed to specify these requirements in the contract.
They followed a six-step process:
- Identify all of the products that are used in the project
- Identify environmental attributes for each of the products
- Conduct a market survey to identify the attributes that are available
- Evaluate the products
- Incorporate the best attributes into the product specifications contained in the contrac
- Provide incentives for the contractor to continue looking for products after contract award
Mr. Cox explained that the best
way to usually compare the environmental attributes of competing products
would be to conduct a complete life cycle analysis (LCA). Unfortunately,
this is too time consuming and expensive. Until LCA becomes feasible,
the team has relied on those environmentally preferable attributes that
are easily identifiable. In order to get the repair work started in a
timely manner, it was impossible to cover them all, so the contract provides
the contractor with incentives to continue identifying environmental attributes.
The contract includes a price differential that allows the contractor to earn additional money if they identify, and DOD approves, the use of a product that contains additional environmentally preferable attributes. The contractor is encouraged with what amounts to a bonus to identify and integrate new environmentally preferable products.
According to Mr. Cox, there are several advantages to this approach:
- The contractor works with DOD and industry to help define environmentally preferable purchasing.
- The development and use of environmentally preferable products is consumer driven, not regulatory.
- This approach should increase the availability of environmentally preferable products.
Mr. Cox believes that EPP has a
very bright future. Environmentally preferable products are currently
required by the FAR and Executive Order 12873. Future contracts will incorporate
EPP language and contractors who adopt EPP methodologies will begin applying
them in non-governmental work.
DOD's innovative approach affects contractors in several ways: It improves their environmentally preferable purchasing practices It encourages them to use environmentally preferable products It encourages industry to develop additional or improved environmentally preferable products
The role of manufacturers is also affected:
- It encourages them to inform consumers about the environmental aspects of using their products
- It encourages industry to develop methods for evaluating a product's environmental performance
Speaker 3: Jim Foley, EPA Region 2
Since 1983, Mr. Foley has served
as the Chief of the FAMB in the New York Regional Office. In this position,
he has been involved in several pilot projects to introduce environmentally
preferable products. His efforts to address indoor air quality issues
was reported on last fall at a conference sponsored by the President's
Council on Sustainable Development. Jim is the recipient of the EPA Distinguished
Service Award and the Lee M. Thomas Excellence in Management Award.
Currently, Mr. Foley oversees EPA's new regional office. The Region worked with GSA to acquire space in a 34 story building in lower New York. The Region was very aware of the need to implement Executive Order 12856, which outlines federal agency responsibilities to minimize their environmental impacts, including those pertaining to energy and water conservation and other "green building" issues. As a result, EPA's environmental response team conducted various tests to minimize the environmental impact of the new office space. They were particularly concerned with indoor-air quality (IAQ) issues. In fact, they took samples of many of the materials used in the building (carpeting, furniture, wall coverings, etc.) and placed them in a chamber to measure any substances that might pose a risk to the IAQ.
Despite these efforts, after building occupancy, many employees began complaining about the quality of the air. They reported a variety of symptoms that generally disappeared when they left the building. EPA officials at first dismissed the problems because of the extensive IAQ testing that had been done prior to move-in, but when the symptoms persisted, EPA began investigating the cleaning products that were being used. EPA contacted GSA, who managed the cleaning contract, and asked to investigate the problem. GSA's cleaning contractor contacted several cleaning product manufacturers and selected one product from Rochster Midland that they felt might eliminate the IAQ concerns. They obtained permission from GSA and EPA to pilot test the new product on three floors of the building. Immediately after beginning use of the new product, the symptoms subsided on those floors on which it was being used. EPA and GSA quickly asked the contractor to use the product on all of the floors.
According to Mr. Foley, this demonstrates that contractors can be relied upon to help the government select environmentally preferable products. In this case, it was the contractor who did all of the investigative work and they did it voluntarily because they didn't want to jeopardize their government contract. Mr. Foley suggested that government employees should establish environmental performance standards because contractors will respond and provide environmentally superior products.
Mr. Foley was recognized for this innovative EPP project with a Closing the Circle award.
Questions & Answers:
Q: There seems to be a lot of information available on
environmentally preferable products,but where can we get that information?
Is anyone compiling it in a central spot?
A: (Cox) EPA's EPP program is beginning to compile a lot of it and they are creating case studies to document successes and share information. The construction industry has several resources available. NIST and the Forest Service both have publicly available databases. I'm sure that there are others for other product categories.
Q: How do we get put on the government's list of environmentally preferable products?
A: (Cox) There isn't a list. The government won't say who's better because the definition changes depending on the need.
Q: Mr. Cox, how do I obtain copies of your test results?
A: (Cox) Well, there aren't really any test results, but the EPP program is documenting DOD's efforts in a case study. I'm not sure when it will be ready, but it will be available from EPA.
Q: Why can't we get test results from the EPA/GSA cleaning product study in New York?
A: (Foley) It wasn't a scientific study. It was simply initiated by the cleaning contractor to address the IAQ concerns expressed by the tenant. In this case the tenant was the EPA. Before EPA could release results of that sort, there would have to be a formal study that included more than just a subset of the market.
Q: Eric Friedman, Commonwealth of Massachusetts - How did you verify that the product from Rochester Midland was, indeed, environmentally preferable, and how did you promote competition among different contractors?
A: (Eric Friedman) Contractor selected product. More difficult in government contracts because can't identify brands. Government must promote competition. GSA made assumption based on information provided by product/contractor that had some environmentally preferable supporting data. GSA did not conduct comprehensive market research.
Q: Stephen Ashkin, Rochester Midland - Is there a way to avoid suppliers providing contractor support to help market their product and having government go out with RFP for lowest cost anyway after they've benefited from the contractor support? This causes suppliers to be reluctant to provide government any support with respect to the process.
A: (Stephen Ashkin) No. There is no way to avoid this.
A: (Comment from Eric Friedman) The way we avoid that in Massachusetts is to select contractor on best value for the best cost vs. just best cost. Best value involves other criteria besides price, e.g. training.
Q: Is there anyway to circumvent the challenges that vendors face in introducing new products to the government? (i.e., must find three competitive bids. If no other vendor supplies your product, cannot offer it to the government, because won't write specs unless at least two other competitors).
A: (Comment from Bob Cox, DOD) Tried to conduct a market survey themselves and found it to be too time and resource intensive. They found that they did not have the expertise to do it efficiently or effectively. They then decided to have a contractor do it.


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Who the fallen Prescott Arizona firefighters were
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- July 03, 2013
NINETEEN firefighters from Prescott, Arizona died on Sunday in a wildfire - the deadliest single day for US firefighters since September 11. Here are the stories of those who died.
Prescott High School physical education teacher and coach Lou Beneitone taught many of the Hotshots, and remembered Andrew Ashcraft, 29, as a fitness-oriented student.
"He had some athletic ability in him and he was a go-getter, too. You could pretty much see, from young freshman all the way, he was going to be physically active."
Mr Beneitone said athletic prowess was a must for the Hotshots. "That's what it takes. You gotta be very physically fit, and you gotta like it, gotta like the hard work."
Ashcraft, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was honoured to be a member of the Hotshot crew, and "he just had a really sweet spirit about him," Elise Smith, a Prescott resident, told The Deseret News of Salt Lake City.
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Bintai gweilo of Yuen Long Posted at 3:44 AM July 03, 2013
I worked air support for the Logan Hotshots in 2009 , I remember them as dedicated , determined, polite respectful humble and extremely professional ..it was an honour for me....thoughts are with you guys...
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Joanne Posted at 4:04 AM July 03, 2013
Sad, very sad. My heartfelt wishes go out to the families they've left behind.
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Brian of Brisbane Posted at 7:02 AM July 03, 2013
Such a great shame. My thoughts are also with the sole survivor, can't be easy to lose your whole team and be the one that lived because you got lucky. Not your fault mate.
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we need more like them, who give their time and lives to help their neighbours. So sad for their families. RIP
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A real bite: Everyone abuzz about mosquitoes in Southwest Florida
NAPLES - They're back, and they're out for blood.
Mosquitoes swarmed Southwest Florida in recent days, and officials with Collier and Lee counties' mosquito control districts said there's no way to tell whether residents will catch a break from bug bites any time soon.
Black salt marsh mosquitoes came out in full force over the weekend primarily because of activity along the coast.
"We had a large outbreak in the middle of May, and this one didn't start until the middle of June," said Shelly Redovan, deputy director of Lee County Mosquito Control District. "It coincides with high tides, full moons and the winds."
Add a drought — which leaves more dry land for mosquitoes to lay eggs — into that equation, and Redovan said you've created an environment perfect for a mosquito outbreak.
"It's extremely challenging in Lee County, right now," she said.
It's challenging everywhere, said Frank Van Essen, executive director of the Collier County Mosquito Control District. Collier County, he said, is experiencing high numbers of mosquitoes from Barefoot Beach to the north and Marco Island to the south.
Salt marsh mosquitoes don't just stick around the coast, though. Van Essen said the mosquitoes have been found in the southern part of Golden Gate Estates.
"They can fly quite a good distance," he said. "The black salt marsh mosquito … is very aggressive. It will kind of chase you."
Chasing leads to biting, and Deb Milsap, a spokeswoman for Collier County's health department, said there are steps residents can take to ensure they aren't eaten alive by the pesky bugs.
Milsap said people should avoid going out at dawn and dusk, when mosquitoes are at their worst; drain things, like buckets or flower pots, that can hold standing water; wear long sleeves, pants and shoes and socks when out during the buggiest times; and use a insect repellent that contains Deet.
"That's still the best active ingredient for them and it lasts the longest," Van Essen said.
Milsap said Deet has been deemed safe as long as it is used the way it is recommended.
Sally Stein, director of public programs at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, said the nature preserve hasn't experienced an influx in mosquitoes.
"We haven't had a huge problem with mosquitoes yet," Stein said. "It isn't bad until we get a lot of rain. After the rains the mosquitoes start breeding."
Kirby Wilson, a spokesman for Collier-Seminole State Park, said the mosquitoes at the park are very active.
"We are very used to mosquito antics this time of year and are prepared to deal with it," Wilson said in an email. "They are more plentiful this year it seems, but we still manage."
Wilson said visitors are informed the mosquitoes could impact their visit, and are told to take precautions before heading out on the trails or the river. Wilson said park employees try to explain "mosquitoes are part of the Everglades ecosystem."
The salt marsh mosquitoes are the first wave of mosquitoes Southwest Floridians are expected to experience this summer. Van Essen said once the summer rains start, the fresh water mosquito season will officially begin.
There are 43 different varieties of fresh water mosquitoes in Collier County. Van Essen said the control district is only concerned about the three or four varieties that carry disease.
Fresh water mosquitoes are known to carry West Nile virus and Dengue fever.
Last year, Collier County had two reported cases of West Nile in humans, and one person died after contracting the disease.
Stein said once the fresh water mosquitoes come out, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary employees and volunteers warn visitors that the bugs could be biting.
Mosquito control district officials said they're taking whatever measures necessary to alleviate the pain. Planes were out in Collier County earlier this week spraying the coast and some of inland Collier County, while Lee County Mosquito Control District employees took to the air and the streets to spray.
That isn't stopping people from calling though. Van Essen said he received about 250 calls Monday from residents complaining about the mosquitoes. The number was closer to 365 in Lee County late Monday afternoon.
"It makes it hard for people to be patient when there are mosquitoes buzzing around," Redovan said. "Some people are understanding, others are hard to communicate with because (they're frustrated). Mosquitoes are good about pulling out strong emotions."
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Any1 want to duo or 3v3 ranked? Need to get my hands on gold somewhere.. Solo queue hates me!
MiguelKaleidoscope Dream
I wouldn't have minded the changes, as long as it was only one or two of them. But nerfing her entire kit when she isn't blatantly overpowered in the first place is just dumb~
40% increase in damage with Charm/DFG isn't even close to what she used to have. Considering her Foxfires lost so much damage, and her R basically tickles people now, she only has Orb of Deception to burst with. And the true damage isn't amped, so it's only half of Orb of Deception...
If they make Ahri like Olaf, I'm going to be very, very angry. I was mad about the Sona nerfs... I don't want to see Ahri become useless cos of stupid devs.
What I find most odd is that they'd nerf ahri but not kassadin. If either of them is a soloq menace it's kassadin
So...I just started playing this, after messing around a bit I enjoy Udyr and Varus to the point of acquiring both (probably bad choices for the future or so...)
Varus gameplay is right down my alley, so is Udyr in a different way though.
I'm doing better with Varus since I'd like to jungle with Udyr and I don't have the runes to make that effective atm.
It's the second match I go in the 17/4/12 range and we still lose, weird matches with half the teams leaving (not kidding) and well, we losing because for some reason they manage to push our lanes to the base even though we win the starting skirmishes crushingly (which means we should had won...) but for some reason I'm too new too understand, I guess, everything goes bananas...
Any ideas, tips or just plain advices?
kassidin and fizz are totally counterable maybe ton down the scaling ones they get really feed but i dont think they need much change


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Work with our knowledgeable wedding coordinator to plan the perfect wedding. By using the lodge and the resort's surrounding environment as a natural backdrop, you will have the most remarkable photographs with little effort on your part. For those couples seeking an outdoor wedding location, we offer over 1000 acres of scenic ridges, bluffs and valleys, making your options limited only by your imagination. Another option would be an indoor ceremony in one of our rustically decorated lodges.
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The resort's romantic setting is the perfect destination for your romantic honeymoon. Enjoy all the romantic activities the lodge has to offer. After a fun day together, relax in one of our luxury suites. These rooms were designed with the honeymoon couple in mind. These suites have king-size, triple-sheeted canopy beds, private Jacuzzi, fireplace, day bed, comfy chairs, walkout porch, and each suite is decorated according to its own theme. The ultra comfy beds have become an attraction themselves!
Outside on the deck you can relax with your new love and take in all the natural beauty that surrounds the lodge. Enjoy your favorite beverage as you sit in one of our comfortable Adirondack chairs. Be sure to check out our Honeymoon Packages and our Honeymoon Page.
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Let the magic of your Heartland Lodge wedding begin months in advance! Your bridal shower will be a perfect introduction to the amenities and hospitality your attendants and guests will experience at our lodge on your special day.
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The night before - finishing the last minute details, practicing your walk down the aisle, and preparing for that wonderful tomorrow. Celebrate the fulfillment of your plans with an extra-special Rehearsal Dinner without having to set foot outside the magical place where your new life will begin.
No need to take your celebration elsewhere; we offer a 1500 sq. ft. reception hall that can easily be transformed into an indoor/outdoor event that provides your guests the option to enjoy the festivities outside as well! This unique venue will be one that your guests will enjoy and always remember! A tent can be easily added so your guests can enjoy the outdoors under the cover of a tent. The sky is your limit on how creative you can become in decorating for your reception.
You have the option to buy-out one or all three lodges and one cabin. You can book the resort for your EXCLUSIVE use, which means only you and your guests will have the entire place to yourselves. It's unlike being in a large hotel where they have other events, guests, and meetings going on all around you while your special day is being celebrated. Since our wedding bookings are almost always an overnight event, you and your guests don't have to worry about driving home after a long day of celebrating.
Our Original Lodge includes 11 regular bedrooms, family room with queen bed and a set of bunk beds, and a honeymoon suite for the couple; all rooms include a private bath. The Original Lodge also features a spectacular Great Room and Recreation Room that includes a pool table, big screen TV with ample seating, library, and numerous other games. There is also a large deck and covered patio. The Prairie Ridge Lodge features our unique 1500 sq. ft. indoor/outdoor reception hall, 7 luxury suites and grand dining hall. Both lodges sit on 1200 acres of beautiful rolling hills and trails. We offer many recreational activities such as ATV's, horseback riding, mountain biking or sporting clays to entertain your wedding party and guests.
Less than a mile from the main resort is our newest lodge, called Sunset Valley. This lodge is located on its very own 52 acres and is a perfect location for weddings. This lodge has 7 suites and bedrooms, spacious great and recreational rooms, and large outdoor deck with a built-in gazebo (perfect for weddings). Located next to this lodge is our large 60' x 120' Morton building, ideal for wedding receptions.
Five miles from the main resort is our newest cabin, called Heavenly View. This cabin is located on its very own 50 acres and is a beutiful setting for small weddings. The cabin has 4 suites and bedrooms, large living room, recreational room, library, a very nice country kitchen and is surrounded on three sides by a spacious deck.
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Our on-site wedding coordinator will be happy to assist you with the planning and execution of your wedding as well as furnish you with a complete list of recommended wedding services.
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This wedding package is for couples only and includes a 2-night stay in our luxurious honeymoon suite, complete with a triple-sheeted canopy bed, a private jacuzzi and your own walkout porch. Brunch and dinner are also included with your stay. A romantic horse ride (details below) can also be scheduled. This package includes your choice of a wedding location anywhere on our lodge property.
Romantic Horse Ride for Two
This is a 2-hour ride that must be reserved in advance. You and that special someone head out on a picturesque ride through some of our most breathtaking scenery. You will then break out into a quaint meadow with a surprise waiting just for you. A linen covered tablecloth with flowers and a honeymoon basket of fruit, sandwiches and sparkling grape juice with keepsake wine glasses.
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This wedding reception package is for up to 20 guests. Our Prairie Ridge Lodge is reserved exclusively for your wedding party and guests. Brunch is included for all guests staying in the reserved lodge. Receptions are held in our indoor/outdoor reception hall. This reception package includes a complete catered meal for 20 guests*.
Private Fantasy Package
This wedding package is for up to 40-50 guests. The Original and Prairie Ridge lodges are reserved exclusively for your guests and wedding party. This package includes a complete catered meal* and unrestricted access to our reception hall. Brunch will also be served for all guests.
Larger Wedding Packages
For larger weddings, please contact us to set up your dream wedding.
Deposit & Cancellation Policy
Heartland Lodge requires a 50% deposit at the time of booking with the remaining balance due 60 days before event. If cancelled 60 days before wedding is scheduled, you will be refunded your deposit less a 20% processing fee; there are NO REFUNDS if cancelled within 60 days.
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you will need a strong mind to play alone.
dont attempt this at home
so go out every hour and exercise your real body. and think positive things,
picture a location in your mind,create a strong character, and explore the pictured location , face your fears,
rember it is all an illusion and you are stronger than your character.
figure out your characters goals /and explain why it is this way
laugh at the evil thoughts you may experience when exploring alone.
when ever your mentaly ready,
state the game world conditions / roll for important scenes as you travel
state character actions, introduce npcs that propell the plot in a positive direction
and have fun.
to quickly make a campain choice
flip a coin if heads the answer is yes
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Asking for More Vacation Time
Want to negotiate with your boss for more vacation time? Here are tips on how to do exactly that. Won't guarantee that they give you two whole months, but it's worth a try!
Timing is everything. Don't just rush into yout boss' office to ask for an extention. Takes some planning but it'll be worth it. Usually, the best time is after a solid performance review. You can also give it a shot at the end of a profitable fiscal year, or a successful presentation. Just gauge your boss' mood. If it's good, it's good.
Don't just ask for anything for no reason. We're not saying that you make excuses, but have a very good reason for extending your vacation time. The best way to do it is by being honest. If you feel that you need that extra week because you deserve it after being the top employee for the past two years, then state it.
Negotiate. You can provide a list of things you can do or give up in order to get the extra time off. You can hand in a deliverable (or two) earlier than the deadline, etc. Or working for an hour of overtime over a month or two. Whatever it is, make sure that it is something you can and you will actually do.
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Has Your Opinion Of Summer Weather Changed?
To put it lightly, it's been a brutal summer, with almost constant heat and humidity. But, if I'm being honest, I'll still take it over winter.
After weeks of sweltering temperatures and thick humidity, it's been tough to do much outside (aside from go to the beach). Most of us have taken shelter in the air conditioning rather than catching rays on our patios.
But, even on the worst days of summer, I still think of the worst days of winter – when you just can't put on enough layers to get comfortable, it takes forever to warm up, and snow can cripple our lives for days at a time.
Honestly, I'll take 90 and humid over 20 and snowy any day.
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