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Today, I met my girlfriend's parents for the first time. In the entrance way I felt a slight tugging on my jeans. Used to my Doberman tugging when he wants to play, I shoved hard with my foot. I successfully punted their Chihuahua off the ground and into the next room where it landed with a thud. FML
by I think its dead / 01/15/2013 at 2:33am / Canada (Manitoba) / Animals
Today, my husband and I found the perfect house, in our price range and everything we wanted in a house. However, the street it's on is called "Arbour Butte Road". My husband refuses to buy it because he doesn't want it to sound like he lives "in a tree's ass." I'm married to an idiot. FML
by it's just a name / 01/10/2013 at 12:53am / Canada (Alberta) / Miscellaneous
Today, my boyfriend yet again decided to act like Edward Cullen from Twilight, and got his friend to act like Jacob. Every time they're around, my boyfriend always looks stoned and constipated, and his friend is shirtless. I feel like I'm in a shitty romance movie. FML
by Bella / 01/15/2013 at 1:57pm / United States (Florida) / Love
Today, my girlfriend returned home from a several week vacation with family. Instead of a happy reunion, I was terribly emasculated, publicly, for bringing flowers that "weren't as pretty as all the other couples' in baggage claim." FML
by badenoughflowers / 01/14/2013 at 10:47am / United States (Texas) / Miscellaneous
Today, my son sprayed Axe body-spray all over the house in the vain hope of covering up the scent of the joints he'd been smoking. FML
by Anonymous / 01/07/2013 at 3:01pm / United States (Connecticut) / Kids
Today, in an elaborate plan to finally meet my cute neighbor, I convinced my friendly mailman to switch up our mail so I'd have an excuse to meet her. After I delivered her mail, I waited for her to mention that she had my mail, but she never did. I even saw her take it out of her mail box. FML
by james88 / 01/07/2013 at 4:39pm / United States (Wisconsin) / Love
Today, I got genuinely annoyed at myself when I realised I probably lack the skills to survive a Zombie apocalypse. FML
by drake86 / 01/09/2013 at 11:42am / United Kingdom (Argyll and Bute) / Miscellaneous
Today, my boyfriend and I were getting intimate. I grabbed his butt to control his thrusts and got a clump of used toilet paper. FML
by Anonymous / 01/18/2013 at 5:50am / United States / Intimacy
Today, I've been struggling with my English paper for the past hour, because I can't concentrate. This is because my mom is in the room next to me, singing to her pet rat about what a cute little boy he is, in between yelling at him to stop "molesting" her. FML
by theycallmekitty / 01/10/2013 at 7:02pm / United States (Georgia) / Animals
Today, my 8-year-old sister matter-of-factly said that she's going to get married before me if I don't stop wearing track pants. FML
by Kendra_Nine / 01/16/2013 at 1:28pm / Canada (Ontario) / Miscellaneous
Today, the drummer of my band briefly mentioned something about not being allowed into the United States, just as he left our last practice before our big tour in America. FML
by musicalrose_21 / 01/20/2013 at 7:27am / United Kingdom (West Sussex) / Work
Today, I went out for dinner with my long-term crush, who turned out to be a huge dog person. He asked me which dog breed I like the most. In an attempt to reply with both Labrador and Doberman, I accidentally said Dumbledore. FML
by Anonymous / 01/10/2013 at 7:20am / Slovakia / Miscellaneous
Today, a girl I've been talking to online for a while asked me if I wanted to meet her in person. Two hours of driving later, I end up at her house. When she opened the door, she screamed and called the cops on me. While detained, she called my phone asking why I never showed up today. FML
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Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, who topped the list of Times 50 Most Desirable Women of 2012, says she is not good at fielding compliments and adds that beauty and physical attributes are "artificial".
"It is a bit embarrassing. I mean, I don't know how to take compliments! I don't know how to react! It must be a good thing only," said the 27-year-old in an interview.
Part of hit films like "Om Shanti Om", "Cocktail", "Love Aaj Kal" and "Housefull", she wants people to appreciate her personality traits and not just her looks.
"I have always said that people should find me desirable for the person I am - whatever little they know me through my interviews and interactions. I hope it doesn't have much to do with beauty and physical attributes because that, for me, is all artificial. They are superficial things," said Deepika how is part of filmdom since 2006.
Her next is Ayan Mukerji's "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani" and Rohit Shetty's "Chennai Express".
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A breakout 2011 season saw Asdrubal Cabrera assert himself as one of the best offensive weapons at shortstop. A disappointing 2012 season saw him fall back among the game's other interchangeable options. So, which Cabrera is the real Cabrera? Well, after spending half of last season batting second for the Indians, Cabrera is slated to bat third. That means we'll definitely see more than the 68 RBI that 2012 brought us, but honestly, that might be the only significant change from last year. Our xBA formula confirms what we've seen these last two years — Cabrera is indeed a .270s hitter — and I was actually happy to see his HR/FB rate fall to just 9.9% after powering his way to 13.3% in 2011. That 2011 rate was more than double his previous career high, so sticking at 9.9% the following year is a pretty nice follow up. At a Glance Strengths: RBI Neutral: R, HR, SB, BA, OBP, SLG, OPS Weaknesses: none Player Comparisons Best-case scenario: Ben Zobrist (TB) Likely scenario: Brandon Phillips (CIN), Torii Hunter (DET), Martin Prado (ARI) Worst-case scenario: Neil Walker (PIT) Asdrubal Cabrera 2013 Fantasy Projection Cabrera's ADP right now 133.3, and we have him projected to finish the year at 98th overall. If you can get Cabrera almost three rounds after where we think he should be ranked, that's a steal. Cabrera's also shown us that he can do much better than our projection, though I still maintain his 25 homers in 2011 were very luck-fueled. I love having Jason Kipnis and his potential .350+ OBP and 30+ steals batting in front of Cabrera. There are going to be a lot of times this year when Cabrera steps into the box only to find Kipnis staring back at him, so as much as I think the homers won't come back, the RBI definitely could. Tweet
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The Carraways is a place mentioned in both Grand Theft Auto IV and its expansion packs The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, and is based on The Hamptons. In GTA IV, Alex Chilton mentions the place in her blog where her ex-boyfriend lives. The place is mentioned in the CNT show I'm Rich in a segment about Cloe Parker. In The Lost and Damned, during the mission "Clean and Serene", Billy chastises Johnny by saying "If you're in The Lost for the good times only, fair weather weekends in the Carraways, then you ain't in The Lost." In The Ballad of Gay Tony, Gay Tony says he has summer parties in the Carraways.
- Originally, the Carraways were going to be included in GTA IV, as was the rest of Liberty State. However, the producers decided to just leave the location at Liberty City to make the game focus more on its gameplay rather than the size of its map. [1]
- It is possible that the name is a reference to Nick Carraway, a principle character and narrator in the novel The Great Gatsby, set on Long Island.


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I've heard a lot about it, and am thinking about going tonight, but I'm honestly a little scared. I've ridden the early bird crits and felt good, but I'm guessing these guys are serious.
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The politics of political convenience, Harry Reid style
Did you know that Harry Reid and Donald Trump agree on the immigration issue? Or they certainly sound like they do. Of course Reid will likely tell you that his position has "evolved" over the years – what is commonly called a "flip flop" in politics. Like Hillary Clinton's present position on gay marriage (and any number of other issues). They're positions of political convenience, not principal.
Of course, today Harry Reid condemns Donald Trump's position on illegal immigration. But not so long ago, Harry was an immigration hawk:
Reid authored the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993 to remove asylum seekers, end birthright citizenship, expand deportations, and exclude legal immigrants from public assistance. The bill also included amendments that closed loopholes dealing with criminal aliens and mandated more cooperation between local and federal law enforcement, the Conservative Review reported on Tuesday.
"Our borders have overflowed with illegal immigrants placing tremendous burdens on our criminal justice system, schools and social programs. The Immigration and Naturalization Service needs the ability to step up enforcement," Reid said in a statement.
"Our federal wallet is stretched to the limit by illegal aliens getting welfare, food stamps, medical care and other benefits often without paying any taxes," Reid continued. "Safeguards like welfare and free medical care are in place to boost Americans in need of short-term assistance. These programs were not meant to entice freeloaders and scam artists from around the world."
Apparently 1993 marks the date when Mr. Reid allegedly held the interests of American citizens to the forefront recognizing the drain unchecked and illegal immigration has on the nation's budget, health and resources.
Now, not so much.
Had a Republican said all of what Mr. Reid said back then, he'd be branded a "racist".
Oh, wait …
As the Obama economy continues to tank and unions become more desperate, socialism seems more attractive
Well, sorta. Union leadership apparently isn't as comfortable with the Sanders brand of socialism as it is with the Clinton brand. Richard Trumpka, President of the AFL-CIO, sent out a memo this week:
His message wasn't anything new for the federation's state leaders: They know that endorsement decisions belong to the national leadership. Still, it was unusual for Trumka to call them out in a memo. "I'm not sure I've ever seen one before like this," said Jeff Johnson, the president of the AFL-CIO's Washington state labor council.
Johnson agreed that it was important for the AFL-CIO to speak with a single voice. But "there's a lot of anxiety out there in the labor movement," he said, "and we're desperately searching for a candidate that actually speaks to working-class values. The Elizabeth Warren/Bernie Sanders camp is very, very attractive to many of our members and to many of us as leaders, because they're talking about the things that need to happen in this country."
Things like making sure unions regain their pre-eminent and privileged spot they used to hold. Oh, and free stuff! And then there's the pension mess … something a Sanders or Warren would likely be willing to help bail out so what's going on in Chicago won't go on later on a larger scale in more unions:
About 1,400 Chicago public school teachers and staff are expected to lose their jobs in order to finance a pension debt of $634 million, the city announced Wednesday.
The layoffs are part of an aggressive $200 million budget cut to help finance the pension payment, which is required of Chicago Public Schools by Illinois law. The rest of the pension payment is coming from heavy borrowing, as the district already has a massive $1.1 billion budget deficit.
Rahm Emanuel is pretty sure this is everyone else's fault for not pitching in more. Most people, other than union members and lefty politicians, know better:
Thousands of retired Illinois teachers receive a six-figure pension, and the typical teacher received more in pension payments than they personally paid in within 20 months of retirement. Most teachers retire at age 59 or younger, and the lifetime pension cost per teacher in the state is estimated to exceed $2 million. Not helping things for the state is an annual 3 percent cost of living adjustment that is fully guaranteed and totally untethered from actual inflation rates.
Or, as usual, an over-promised, underfunded benefit which the union and politicians now want to shift onto everyone else. You see, they promised it, your job is to shut up and pay up. The left only ever has one answer to this – higher taxes, fees, whatever, to fund their promises. The fact that you weren't consulted, nor did they at all care what you might think, when this nonsense was "negotiated" never weighs into the equation.
But they're for the middle class – or so they claim.
It is going to be fun to watch the left this year as they try to reconcile the mess this country is in with what they demand. As usual, the blame game will be in full effect as the left tries to point to everyone else as the fault even as it becomes more and more obvious, even to low information voters, that the blue model of just about everything is a failure.
But … racism! Confederate flag! Christian bakeries!
SCOTUS is a political branch, not a legal one
I pretty much agree with Andrew McCarthy:
Already, an ocean of ink has been spilled analyzing, lauding, and bemoaning the Supreme Court's work this week: a second life line tossed to SCOTUScare in just three years; the location of a heretofore unknown constitutional right to same-sex marriage almost a century-and-a-half after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment; and the refashioning of Congress's Fair Housing Act to embrace legal academe's loopy "disparate impact" theory of inducing discrimination.
Yet, for all the non-stop commentary, one detail goes nearly unmentioned — the omission that best explains this week's Fundamental Transformation trifecta. Did you notice that there was not an iota of speculation about how the four Progressive justices would vote?There was never a shadow of a doubt. In the plethora of opinions generated by these three cases, there is not a single one authored by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, or Sonia Sotomayor. There was no need. They are the Left's voting bloc. There was a better chance that the sun would not rise this morning than that any of them would wander off the reservation.
Indeed, if there is any speculation it centers mostly around Justice Kennedy and now, of all people, Roberts. There's not much of a doubt on any case that comes before the court as to how either the liberal bloc or the conservative bloc will vote. Up for grabs, apparently, are only two votes. And you can expect absolutely tortured verbiage and logic from those two (and others who believe in a "living Constitution") in order to justify their vote.
Elizabeth Price Foley wants to lay it off on liberals:
Leftists believe that "law is politics," so they're not particularly interested in how they get there: What matters, to the political left, is simply getting there. The ends justify the means.
But we all know why Thomas, Scalia, Alito and, oh yeah, Roberts, ended up on the Supreme Court. The conservatives believe "law is politics" just as much as the left – they just haven't been as successful at it recently. There is a reason there are veritable political wars about who gets appointed to the highest bench in the land. This isn't some sort of scoop.
It's a pity though. You expect politics in Congress, which is why it's reputation is so … low. You want a statesman in the presidency. And you expect justice and law from the judiciary.
Instead, we have nothing but politics from all three.
And they wonder why the people's view of government is at a nadir?
We all know what "politics" means … and it has nothing to do with integrity, justice, the law, statesmanship or what is best for the citizenry.
It is what it is and we should have no fear denouncing it
Dr. Ben Carson writes the following about the murderer of the 9 in Charleston:
Not everything is about race in this country. But when it is about race, then it just is. So when a guy who has been depicted wearing a jacket featuring an apartheid-era Rhodesian flag allegedly walks into a historic black church and guns down nine African-American worshipers at a Bible study meeting, common sense leads one to believe his motivations are based in racism. When the sole adult survivor of the ordeal reports that the killer shouted before opening fire, "You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go" — well, that sounds to me a lot like racial hatred.
Let's call this sickness what it is, so we can get on with the healing. If this were a medical disease, and all the doctors recognized the symptoms but refused to make the diagnosis for fear of offending the patient, we could call it madness. But there are people who are claiming that they can lead this country who dare not call this tragedy an act of racism, a hate crime, for fear of offending a particular segment of the electorate.
It is and was an act of racism. Anyone with a tepid IQ should know that and why anyone would deny it is beyond me. Racism is not dead in this country. Plenty of racists still exist. But here's a news flash … they're not just confined to the white race.
That said, Carson is right. Face what it is, call it what it is and then deal with the aftermath. The fact that this yahoo was a racist, however, doesn't allow anyone the broad brush they'd like to have and we've seen waved about in the wake of this tragedy.
Oh, and by the way, the citizens of Charleston, much better than our leadership (political, cultural and opinion leaders included) have shown the world how a town handles such a crime. They know it was an act of racism. They also know that not everyone is racist. And they're uniting not dividing. The families have forgiven the slug who killed their loved ones – something I'd likely have difficulty doing. But when all is said and done, the citizens of Charleston are acting like the adults in this tragedy. Too bad our president hasn't acted that way.
The wages of emotional voting and lack of scrutiny? Obama
National Review has published an article by Victor Davis Hanson with three views of the Obama presidency. One view is that of an Obama partisan and presents his presidency in a positive light. The second is a decidedly non-partisan look that does precisely the opposite. However, there's a third view that I find most appealing and frankly the most honest:
A third view of Obama is neither so rosy as the first nor so melodramatic as the second. Obama may well have been an unapologetic progressive wolf in centrist clothing, but mostly he was a continuation of what he had been in the past: an unimpressive state legislator, a one-term partisan senator without any accomplishments, a lackadaisical executive who in his own words had to worry most about not appearing lazy and distracted. Obama as president simply pushed the right progressive buttons, all the more easily once his own party lost the Congress and he was freed to sign executive orders that enraged his enemies and moved the country leftward. He cares little about the scandals involving the IRS, VA, AP, NSA, GSA, TSA, EPA, Benghazi, and the Secret Service, other than ensuring that they stay far away from his own godhead.
Mostly, President Obama likes the ceremonial perks of his office — the public spotlight to pick sports winners, the regal access to the links in sporty golf attire, the huge plane and entourage, the video clips of his catlike descent down the stairs of Air Force One, and the captive audiences for his often ahistorical and confused ramblings about America's past and present shortcomings. Rarely has a president entered office so inexperienced and unprepared, yet with such great hopes and expectations among the public. That he squandered such good will through petty spite and inexperience should not be surprising, given his meager qualifications and thin résumé. Most of Obama's career in community organizing, academia, and the Illinois legislature was predicated on leveraging his race, name, and unique background with the pretensions of liberal America to land opportunities for which he knew in advance that he would never be held accountable.
Make sure you read the other two views, but unlike some who are sure Obama is following some sort of plan to hurt America, I don't find this man able to purposely do much of anything.
One of the warnings many of us threw out there early on is he'd never "run anything or done anything". Think about it – his sole accomplishment before essentially running unopposed for and Illinois Senate seat, had been to write an autobiography. About what? Well, himself, of course. He was all about self-promotion. He is a first class narcissist as we've all discovered. He loved the campaign but not the work. He no sooner became an IL state senator, a poor one at best, than he began running for the US Senate. In the case of both senate seats he came with an extraordinarily thin resume. But, he was the right color with the right party at a time of two wars and an unpopular US president, and it just opened up for him. Once ensconced in the US Senate he almost immediately began running for President on an even thinner resume (heck, with the US Senate run, he could at least claim "experience" at a state level).
I find Hanson's point about Obama liking the "ceremonial perks" of office over the work to be dead on. You've seen others remark about our "semi-retired" president. His lack of leadership qualities is staggering. And yet, there he is, in the Oval Office.
His domestic and foreign agendas have been a mish-mash of college dorm discussions and naive beliefs proffered by others equally as clueless (such as his former Secretary of State) combined to do enough harm that we'll need years to overcome them. His inability to work within the system, mostly because he doesn't seem to know or understand how, has left him frustrated. His manner of dealing with his frustration is spiteful childishness and unilateral action which, frankly, he doesn't care whether its legal or not.
What concerns me more than the fact that he's so incompetent and as Hanson says "inexperienced and unprepared" is that a significant portion of the population was gulled into voting for him the first time and then, apparently uncritically, re-elected the man for 4 more awful years.
We've certainly paid the price for that bit of emotional voting and lack of scrutiny.
But let's also not forget who aided and abetted this travesty and the lack of scrutiny.
All you have to know to understand what institution that was is to know that Marco Rubio and his wife have had 17 tickets in 20 years and own a "luxury speed boat" while Hillary Clinton's past is essentially ignored.
And, as you might have surmised, that institution is again cranking up its machine to give us another incompetent who has more baggage and corruption surrounding her than one can shake a stick at.
Forewarned is forearmed, not that it is likely to change much.
Slouching our way to oppression
Again we are inundated with the usual and unusual via the internet. Let's take a look at a few.
It's called "projection" Mr. Carter:
In a new interview, former Democrat President Jimmy Carter slammed America as a "racist" nation that refuses to let "old wounds" heal.
Carter spoke to the liberal AARP retirement group in an interview that was released late this week. At one point, Carter said that dreams of a color-blind society are still unrealized in the U.S.
"The recent publicity about mistreatment of black people in the judicial and police realm has been a reminder that the dreams of the civil rights movement have not been realized," Carter said.
Carter continued insisting that "Americans still have racist tendencies or feelings of superiority to people of color."
Unless he's speaking for himself, he damn sure isn't speaking for me. I'm not sure where he gets off with trying to tag all Americans with "racist tendencies" or "feelings of superiority to people of color". And one must remember the party he's affiliated with and it's history in the region of the country from which he hails
Would someone inform this idiot that her 15 minutes of fame are over?
Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia graduate famous across the country as "Mattress Girl" after she hauled a mattress around campus for a year to protest the school's handling of her alleged rape, has apparently released a sex tape recreating her alleged rape.
Like the Rolling Stone "rape" story out of UVa, she is a fraud. Now Sulkowicz inflicts this nasty little piece of work on the internet? Shuffle off to … wherever, lady. You've overstayed your welcome and our tolerance.
Lord they must think we're dumb ("Wizard's first rule). NOAA has suddenly discovered "adjustments" in temperature data that conveniently wipes out the 15 year hiatus on warming:
To increase the rate in warming, NOAA scientists put more weight on certain ocean buoy arrays, adjusted ship-based temperature readings upward, and slightly raised land-based temperatures as well. Scientists said adjusted ship-based temperature data "had the largest impact on trends for the 2000-2014 time period, accounting for 0.030°C of the 0.064°C trend difference." They added that the "buoy offset correction contributed 0.014°C… to the difference, and the additional weight given to the buoys because of their greater accuracy contributed 0.012°C."
This, my friends, is not science. This is adjusting the data to get the result one wants. And we all know what that is.
The federal government is notifying up to 4 million current and former employees that their personal financial data may have been breached by a hack attack from China, the Obama administration said Thursday.
Credit card data, banking records, and other forms of financial information could have been stolen in the attack, affecting people across the spectrum of the federal government, officials said.
Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because it is an ongoing investigation, said hackers working with China are the main suspects.
Hey, I know, let's trust them with our medical records, shall we?
New testimony reveals that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) used "hundreds of attorneys" to hide critical information from Congress's investigation of the IRS targeting of conservatives.
According to new congressional bombshell testimony today, the IRS set up a previously unknown "special project team" comprised of "hundreds of attorneys," including the IRS Chief Counsel (one of only two politically appointed positions at the IRS).
The "special project" this team was given? Concealing information from Congress.
The IRS's director of privacy, governmental liaison, and disclosure division, Mary Howard, testified that soon after the IRS targeting scandal was revealed, the IRS "amassed hundreds of attorneys to go through the documents [requested by Congress] and redact them."
Our government is becoming more and more of a criminal conspiracy daily.
Why are so many poor people obese? Well, as the SJWs would like you to believe its because of "food deserts". That is they don't have access to nutritious food, but are stuck with fast food, etc. A new study says "not so fast":
The paper — "What Drives Nutritional Disparities? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum," by economists Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky and Molly Schnell — found that "systematic socioeconomic disparities in household purchases persist after controlling for access."
Translation: Even when healthful food choices are available, low-income consumers don't always take them.
As a result, the authors suggest, local policies intended to punish fast-food purveyors, liquor stores, quickie markets and other sellers of high-calorie, low-nutrition food might not be the best way to go.
One thing that can make a difference is education. Low-income households with higher education levels, the authors say, "purchase more healthful foods." Those with low income and low education "respond very little" to having healthful foods available.
Of course this won't deter SJWs from trying to limit choice even more, will it. After all, they always know best how you should live your lives.
Finally a little piece on "Progressives: The target is never what it seems" which hits on some points we've talked about here many times.
I have written (here and here) how progressives are masters are distorting words and redefining them so that they no longer are even close to their original meanings. "Liberal" and "gay," of course, are probably the most such distorted words. Words are the ammunition of discussion and debate, and if one side is allowed to select the ammunition, well, the ensuing discussions and debates are to be expectedly one-sided.
When you're allowed to redefine words within the narrative, you own the narrative. And when you own the narrative and you're a progressive, you end up driving the cultural bus off a cliff.
Global cooling? But the "science" is settled!
Not according to a new British study:
A new study out of the United Kingdom predicts the Earth is about to go through a major climatic shift that could mean decades of cooler temperatures and fewer hurricanes hitting the United States.
Scientists at the University of Southampton predict that a cooling of the Atlantic Ocean could cool global temperatures a half a degree Celsius and may offer a "brief respite from the persistent rise of global temperatures," according to their study.
This cooling phase in the Atlantic will influence "temperature, rainfall, drought and even the frequency of hurricanes in many regions of the world," says Dr. Gerard McCarthy. The study's authors based their results on ocean sensor arrays and 100 years of sea-level data.
Got to love the attempt of these people to try to conform their findings to the current "conventional wisdom" of the alarmist crowd, i.e. we're heating up – despite the fact there has been no increase in global temperatures for 15 plus years. They claim this will give us a "brief respite" from something that hasn't been happening.
"Sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic vary between warm and cold over time-scales of many decades," said McCarthy, the study's lead author. "This decadal variability, called the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO), is a notable feature of the Atlantic Ocean and the climate of the regions it influences."
"The observations of [AMO] from [sensor arrays], over the past ten years, show that it is declining," Dr. David Smeed, a co-author, said in a statement. "As a result, we expect the AMO is moving to a negative phase, which will result in cooler surface waters. This is consistent with observations of temperature in the North Atlantic."
Researchers argue that a negative AMO will bring "drier summers in Britain and Ireland, accelerated sea-level rise along the northeast coast of the United States, and drought in the developing countries of the Sahel region," according to the study's press release. Interestingly enough, the study also predicts fewer hurricanes hitting the U.S.– a result of a cooler Atlantic.
Oh, you mean natural forces at work? Well maybe the environment isn't as sensitive to a trace "greenhouse" gas as some would like us to believe.
And this:
For years, scientists have been debating why satellite temperature data shows there have been about 18 years with no warming trend. Surface temperature data shows a similar pause in warming for the last 10 to 15 years.
So far, the dominant explanation seems to be that oceans have absorbed a lot of the heat that would have otherwise gone into the atmosphere. And most scientists argue the world will continue warming because of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
But it's not, is it? Maybe, as we've been saying for years, it's that big, hot yellow thing that hangs in the sky everyday and alarmists continue to ignore as a major factor in climate change:
Some scientists, however, have been arguing the world is indeed headed for a cooling phase based on solar cycles. Scientists from Germany to India have argued that weakening solar activity could bring about another "Little Ice Age."
"The stagnation of temperature since 1998 was caused by decreasing solar activity since 1998," wrote Jürgen Lange Heine, a physicist with the German-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE).
"From 1900 to 1998, solar radiation increased by 1.3 W / m², but since 1998 it has diminished, and could reach values similar to those of the early 20th century. A drop in global temperature over the next few years is predicted," Heine wrote.
Imagine that.
Someone, anyone, give Bernie Sanders an economics book
I've been reading about Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders announcing for the presidency. In reality all he's likely to do is make Hillary seem "moderate" in comparison.
I guess what I don't understand is why someone like Sanders is even taken seriously. Read Ed Driscoll at Washington Monthly's "Political Animal":
And despite Clinton's great strength, [Sanders is] also perhaps the most credible seriously lefty candidate in living memory. He's no Dennis Kucinich, doomed to become a figure of fun.
Really? When have any "lefty candidates" of his pedigree been "credible"? Socialism? It's now credible? Where?
Venezuela's bolivar is collapsing. And as night follows day, Venezuela's annual implied inflation rate is soaring. Last week, the annual inflation rate broke through the 500% level. It now stands at 510%.
That's just the latest example. And that's just the tip of the iceberg there. The Bolivar is now more valuable as toilet paper (something that is impossible to get in the Socialist paradise of Venezuela) than money.
And now this "credible" socialist wants to take us down the very same path:
In his campaign "launch" yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders presented one of the most succinct, easy-to-summarize policy agendas we've seen from a presidential candidate in a long time. More progressive taxes. Breaking up the big banks. A constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. A carbon tax. A single-payer health care system. Expanding Social Security. Universal pre-k. Free college tuition. A trillion-dollar infrastructure program. A $15 an hour minimum wage. And a reversal of international economic policies that promote/allow job exports.
"Free" health care, "free" tuition, "free" pre-k, $15 minimum wage, more taxes to include a carbon tax, anti-capitalist laws to cripple the producers and spending of a trillion dollars on "infrastructure" (didn't we just do that a few years ago?). This is "credible?" He is "credible?" In what universe?
Would someone please, please send Sen. Sanders a freaking book on economics?
Oh, and Ed Driscoll too.
What difference does it make!?
It's a really good question, given we were apparently purposely lied too by the President and Secretary of State as to the "why" of Benghazi:
New documents obtained by Judicial Watch and made public Monday show that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials under President Obama were given intelligence within hours of the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack describing how it had been planned at least 10 days in advance "to kill as many Americans as possible."
A heavily redacted copy of a Sept. 12, 2012, Defense Intelligence Agency memo to Clinton, then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the White House National Security Council and the Joint Chiefs of Staff said "the attack was planned 10 or more days prior on approximately 01 September 2012. The intention was to attack the consulate and to kill as many Americans as possible to seek revenge for U.S. killing of Aboyahiye ((ALALIBY)) in Pakistan and in memorial of the 11 September 2001 atacks on the World Trade Center buildings."
The attack "was planned and executed by the Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman (BCOAR). BCOAR is also responsible for past attacks on the Red Cross in Benghazi and the attack on the British Ambassador, they have approximately 120 members." Rahman is serving a life sentence in a federal prison for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center which killed six people in New York.
The memo was labeled: "Information Report, Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence."
"Not finally evaluated" but certainly much more plausible than some video made by some clown in CA. And per the memo, both Obama and Clinton knew this within hours of the attack.
So, what difference does it make? Well, quite a bit to anyone with an sense of morality about them. It points to blatant dishonesty to hide their incompetence. But to partisan hacks and the left, it probably doesn't mean much that they stood by the coffins of the 4 slain in Benghazi and spun a web of lies.
Has that sunk in yet? Your former Secretary of State told you a bald-faced lie and now would like to be your President.
Tell me how she'll be truthful about everything from now on, won't you?
Oh, wait … emails …
Politicizing the Amtrak incident
One of the favorite ploys of Democrats is to claim the GOP has a tendency to "politicize" tragedies.
Well, there's politicizing a problem and then there pretending there is a problem in order to politicize it. This recent Amtrak tragedy is the latter.
What do I mean? Well, they hadn't even cleared the bodies from the wreckage before former Governor Ed Rendell was on "Morning Joe" talking about how it was due to a lack of infrastructure spending.
Meanwhile, the NTSB is putting out stuff like this:
Oh … 100 mph in a 50 mph curve? That's an obvious problem with "infrastructure spending", isn't it?
But that didn't stop the Democrats talking point from continuing to roll, did it? Nope, the good old reliable media pitches in as well. Phillip Bump in the Washington Post:
As The Post's Colby Itkowitz noted, Congress has delayed passing legislation to fund Amtrak since 2013. The last time it did so, in 2008, the vote passed only after a rail disaster. Which, of course, happened again Tuesday night.
The constant struggle of Amtrak to get funding derives largely from the fact that not very many Americans use the rail system. Ridership is heavily centered in the Northeast, in the corridor between Boston and Washington where Tuesday's accident occurred. But more than that, ridership is unevenly distributed politically. Data from the National Association of Railroad Passengers shows the number of passengers that get on or off the train in any given congressional district, and reveals an obvious reason why Republicans might not be too concerned about funding the system.
Amtrak has never had a profitable year since its inception. In fact it is a totally subsidized rail system that would fail if not subsidized. And as Bump mentions, it is "heavily centered" in a northeastern corridor. So essentially, given the fact that the "elites" want Americans in mass transit and this fits the description, plus it is very handy for said elites to use if they so choose, they're fine with a wealth transfer from the rest of the country to support their desires.
Powerline picks up on the media bias as well:
There is a certain irony in these three stories perching one above the other on Politico's main page: House panel votes to cut Amtrak budget hours after deadly crash; Analysis: GOP cuts to transportation, housing draw fire; and Derailed Amtrak was likely traveling at twice recommended speed.
Politico is a mouthpiece for the Washington establishment, where all spending is good spending. But the anti-Republican theme was picked up by many other news outlets, like Reuters: "Amtrak crash throws spotlight on funding disputes; Republicans back cuts." And the New York Daily News: "Deadly malfeasance: Amtrak passengers paid with their lives for Washington's neglect of transportation."
But funding is not the problem. Amtrak has gotten over 30 billion dollars in subsidies since its founding in 1970. 30 billion. For a small railroad. The WaPo's Bump also claimed that "Republicans" hadn't funded Amtrak since 2013.
In fact, they gave Amtrak nearly $1.4 billion less than five months ago.
One of those anti-narrative facts that keep ruining their righteous rant.
Oh, and as for "infrastructure spending?" You remember the stimulus don't you? Wasn't that for "infrastructure?" And who was in charge of doling out the loot then?
Yeah, certainly not Republicans.
Meanwhile, the union associated with Amtrak decides it too needs to score political points on the back of the 7 dead and many injured:
The Teamsters-affiliated Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Lodge 3014(BMWE) published a blog post on Tuesday attributing the deadly crash to new safety standards proposed by management of the government-partnered railroad.
"The new 'One Amtrak Way', along with the new inexperienced Amtrak senior management (after the old experienced senior managers were fired) has lead to this massive derailment," the union said.
Reuters reported that the train was not equipped with the latest U.S. safety controls that are supposed to prevent high-speed derailments.
The Pennsylvania-based BMWE failed to mention the actions of the operator on its website, instead focusing on the union dispute with management. The crash, the post said, came as "senior management has declared war on safety with it's [sic] unions." Union membership unanimously approved a resolution in April giving union leadership permission to call a strike. Lodge 3014 had about 240 members in 2014, according to its most recent federal labor filings.
"The unions [sic] struggle to maintain safe working conditions is hampered by Amtrak senior management's lust for complete control and railroad inexperience," the blog post said.
Why does Amtrak continue to be such a fiscal wreck? The usual reasons:
In its current form, Amtrak is less a for-profit passenger rail corporation and more a union jobs program (its ridiculous labor contracts are a major reason why the company is perpetually swimming in red ink).
Despite all the disingenuous chatter about a lack of infrastructure funding for Amtrak, the company's salary costs absolutely dwarf its infrastructure depreciation expenses. In 2013, for example, Amtrak spent $2.1 billion on salaries, while it recorded $687 million in annual depreciation costs. Amtrak's pension losses alone in 2013 totaled $425 million.
The numbers are pretty easy to compute. Nothing is going to change here. Amtrak will continue to be a money pit that benefits only a relative few in the country.
However, again, funding and spending wasn't the reason this train crashed and killed, is it? At least no according to witnesses and a preliminary finding by the NTSB.
But since the politicizing has begun by the left, why not jump in. Powerline asks the pertinent questions:
The real question is, why is the federal government in the railroad business at all? Far more people are killed in automobile accidents than train crashes, but no one says the problem is that the federal government doesn't pay enough money to car companies. If Amtrak can't operate safely–reasonably safely, since nothing is absolutely safe–based on the revenue it gets from customers, it should go out of business, like any other company.
Here is another question: why should businessmen, journalists, lobbyists and politicians who commute between Washington and points north have their travel costs subsidized by taxpayers? Train travel costs what it costs. Those who ride the trains should pay those costs, just like those who fly in airplanes. It is absurd that the richest and most powerful companies in the United States have their employees' travel costs subsidized by you and me. This is cronyism at its worst. Amtrak should be a wholly private enterprise. Having ridden that Northeastern line that goes to Washington a number of times, I think it has great advantages over air travel and could easily charge enough money to be profitable in competent hands.
Look folks, the federal government has proven its incompetence for decades when it comes to running or managing anything in a efficient and cost-effective way. Why? Because there are no penalties for it not doing so. It just takes more of your money to cover its incompetence or goes into debt in your name.
These questions deserve answers. The incompetence involved, the fiscal waste, is simply staggering. And 7 people paid with their lives because of it.
Will we get any answer to those questions? Oh, no. The elites are fine with you subsidizing their travel expenses. And since, it seems, most of our "leadership" comes out of that area anymore, you're not going to see that change anytime soon.
Divestment of Amtrak is the answer, but then, passengers would have to pay real costs wouldn't they? And the leaching elites, who will condemn you in a NY minuted for not paying your "fair share" aren't about to see this bit of subsidized cronyism pass by the way side are they?
I mean how would Joe Biden get home?


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Shepherd Michael Krumme and his Australian Working Kelpie 'Letnetti Max' herd a flock of sheep as part of North Rhine-Westphalia sheep days at the Haus Duesse Agriculture Centre in Bad Sassendorf, Germany, on Aug 21, 2014. In total, 200 breeders from North Rhine-Westphalia are expected to take part in the event. – EPA
Cohesiveness is key – dog does a side-to-side, then forward manoeuvre to keep its flock in check.
There's the riddle of the Bermuda Triangle. The unresolved identity of Jack the Ripper. The enigma of how the universe developed beyond a quark-gluon soup following the Big Bang. And then there's the Sheepdog Mystery.
A puzzle that has niggled mathematical minds for years, the mystery is this: How does a single dog get so many selfish sheep to move so efficiently in the same direction? The answer, revealed recently in a journal published by Britain's prestigious Royal Society, is that sheepdogs cleverly follow a simple rulebook.
Researchers fitted highly accurate GPS tracking devices into backpacks that were then placed on a trained Australian Kelpie sheepdog and on a flock of 46 female merino sheep in a five-hectare field. They then used the GPS data to build a computer model of what prompted the dog to move, and how it responded.
Sheep cohesiveness is the big clue. The dog's first rule is to bind the sheep together by weaving around side-to-side at their backs, and once this has been achieved, it drives the group forward.
"It basically sees white, fluffy things in front of it," says Andrew King of Swansea University in Wales. "If the dog sees gaps between the sheep, or the gaps are getting bigger, the dog needs to bring them together."
Daniel Stroembom of Uppsala University in Sweden explains: "At every step in the model, the dog decides if the herd is cohesive enough or not. If not cohesive, it will make it cohesive, but if it's already cohesive, the dog will push the herd towards the target."
Single sheep dogs can successfully herd flocks of 80 or more sheep in their everyday work and in competitive herding trials. But the model suggests that, in theory, a dog could herd more than 100 by following the two simple rules.
In contrast, other attempts at resolving the sheepdog mystery are more pessimistic. They say that 50 sheep would be the limit – beyond this, another dog (or a human) would be needed to close up the gaps.
The study, published in the Journal Of The Royal Society Interface, comes with an intimidatingly geeky headline: "Solving The Shepherding Problem: Heuristics For Herding Autonomous, Interacting Agents." But the work goes beyond scientific curiosity, say the authors.
"There are numerous applications for this knowledge, such as crowd control, cleaning up the environment, herding of livestock, keeping animals away from sensitive areas and collective or guiding groups of exploring robots," says King. – AFP
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It is just not the problem with Internet Explorer but also with Opera, Safari and Firefox. Same result on all browsers. I am not sure but to me it appears like the problem is with both the Active-X and the stand-alone version of the Flash plug-in.
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You wake up still on the table, only your body isn't strapped down. Blood stained bandages have replaced your shirt, and band-aids litter your legs where Alice had stuck you with the pins. You notice it's brighter and realize the mystery girl must have turned the other lights on. Suddenly you notice the presence behind you and slowly sit up, turning your head. The girl sits in a chair, fast asleep. You look at her curiously. She looks about 15, she's wearing black boots, black jeans and a black jacket that hangs off her shoulders. She has a lime green tank top on, and a lime green choker. She stirs slightly and lifts her head groggily. Noticing you awake and smiles sleepily. "Morning, (your name). Sleep well?" You nod, and watch her as she stands and walks over. Upon her movement you notice her long, sharp nails, her elongated canines and the slits that replaced her pupils. The weirdest part about her was the large fluffy ears and tail that protruded from her head and back side.
"Who are you?" You ask quietly.
"My name is Cat, Cat Breank, but you can call me Kitten. I'm a Neko, by the way, if your wondering about the tail and ears." She giggled, then helped you stand. "Let me check your bandages then we can get going." She said softly, while unwrapping the bloodied cloth. She pulled the last bit off and cleaned the cuts in your sides, then rewrapped your torso with new bandages. She handed you a black tank top. "here, wear this over the bandages. Hurry though, we need to get back to Slendy's before Randy and his gang.
You felt the fear hit you like a brick, you flung the shirt on and whimpered in pain as your side stretched.
"Woah there, don't go to fast, we have time." She helped you pull the shirt the rest of the way on and helped you walk out the door and up a flight of stairs.
"Where are we?" You ask.
"Zalgo's castle. Were in the basement, the main door is two flights up."
You groan and she laughs faintly. "Ya, so how'd you get into this mess? Jeff only knew that you were missing, he didn't know where you went though, so i had to track you." She smiles, showing her long canines.
You explain to the Neko about your visit to the grave and what happened from there to last night when she busted through the door. She listened quietly and gave you all her attention, though you noticed her eyes darken each time you said Liu's name. "What happened to Liu after he left the castle?" You asked.
"He.. didn't get very far. Randy caught him and..." She shivered and you nodded. "I found him before he disappeared and he tld me what was going on. I sent my familiar, Rouge, out to slow down Randy and the gang, but she can only hold them for so long."
"Familiar?" You look at her confused.
"A familiar is a demon that normally takes form as an animal and helps give witches power, though i'm no witch Rouge can help me control my powers." You nod thoughtfully and walk on, following Kitten closely.
"Were almost there, and Rouge hasn't returned. I wonder how she's keeping them back.." The girl wonder aloud, her pace growing faster. "Come on (your name)." You trot after her and walk under a tree. You can see the mansion now, and smile, though it quickly fades when you see Randy fall into the clearing, a doberman leaps out after him, sinking her teeth in the boys arm.
"Get off me you little shit!" Randy screeches, and Kitten gives a low whistle. The dog jumps off and looks around, seeing Kitten she barks and races over, leaving Randy, Kieth and Troy.
"Well well, looks like the cat dragged in (your name). You following crazy felines now?" Randy chuckled and Kitten whispered to her dog, who raced off towards the house.
"Come on (your name)." Kitten speaks louder so you can hear. "Lets go." She walks towards the house and you follow.
"Not so fast, Kitten, we have buisiness to attend to with Jeffy."
"To bad, Rouge's already at the house, and if you forgot i taught Jeff how to speak telepathically with Rouge and Smile." She smirks, showing her teeth. "So why don't you run home to Zalgo?"
"Because we came here to kill this little fuck, so if we can't have him we'll take you and (your name)."
"(Your name)! Run, quick!" She pushed you and you bolted for the house, glancing back you saw the girl draw her sword and lunge at the nearest boy. You ran for the house and slammed into the door, throwing it opened.
"(your name)?" The Rake sits beside the couch, looking up at you questioningly as you enter.
"Where's Jeff? And Rouge?" You ask frantically.
"Rouge went upstairs, thats were Jeff is, why?"
"Zalgo sent Randy, Kieth and Troy after Jeff. Kitten's out there fighting them all by herself!"
The Rake's eyes widened. "SHe still tries to take on more than one person at a time? That girl's never gonna learn!" He jumps up and runs out the door, you watch him scurry towards the fight, then hear a thump behind you and turn.
I sat up in my room, quietly thinking to myself. (Your name) ran away because i tried to kill her... What kind of boyfriend am i? The worst kind probably.
Suddenly i heard scratching at the door and stood up, thinking it was Smile i walked over and opened the door, only to have Rouge squeeze through the gap and pant up at me.
"Jeff, We found (Your name). She was at Zalgo's castle. She's here but so is Randy Kieth and Troy, they were sent to kill you by Zalgo."
"Really?" i asked out loud, and she nodded. I bolted out of my room and down the hall, the doberman at my heels. I leaped down the stairs, landing with a thud, and smiled seeing (Your name at the doorway. She was watching The Rake scramble out of the house."
"(your name...)" i muttered as i walked up to her.
You shivered as he slid the back of his hand across your cheek. "I'm so sorry, i'm so-so-so sorry, i didn't try to hurt you i don't know what happened but i'll never let it happen again, i swear. I'm sorry, Just please i'm so sor-"
"Jeff!" You yelp and kiss him to shut him up. "You talk to much!" You mumble as you both pull away. "So now how are you gonna deal with those boys?" You ask curiously.
"The same way i did last time. One-by-one." He smirked and walked out, you followed him closely. "Games almost over it the last out."
It would be longer, but its 3:20 here and i'm so tired that i'm falling asleep while typing at my laptop...
SO the mystery girl is Kitten. My OC
Have fun.
Jeff (c) Creepypasta
You (c) Jeff
Kitten(c) Me
SO the mystery girl is Kitten. My OC
Have fun.
Jeff (c) Creepypasta
You (c) Jeff
Kitten(c) Me
Ahh~ thats the way! Kisses always silence a Jeffy!
I have 2 oc's but I'll just tell you about one, he's a male and his name is shadow walker (named that way because he teleports through shadow) he has a thick black fog around him during battle and when he's irritated or just plane old pissed off and he can control, attack, and defend with the fog he where's a suit and a fedora he has pitch black skin his eye's are black and red and slitted with and he has razor sharp teeth he's nice and funny with his friends and terrifying and ruthless to his enemy's and he's nearly killed both slendy and zalgo at the same time (and if your wondering why he almost killed slendy its because slendy lost it) so basically what ever you do DO NOT piss him off
can you tell me about theother pwease *puppy eye look*
OK, the others name is Cpt. Zack Sparrow, he's king of the vampires and the elemental of Fire, he has 2,000,516 people in his entire family and its made entirely of vampires, werewolves, demons, witches, and mermaids he has black diamond armor, diamond hard skin and diamond bones (and no, he does not shatter on impact with something) he has an m134 hand held mini gun with infinite amount of ammo, he also has an 8ft by 12in blade, and a flintlock pistol that also has infinite ammo, he also has crimson red, slitted eyes and long crimson hair and razor sharp pointed teeth, he can crush Jupiter with his pinkie, he's faster than sonic, he can fly, his claws can rip through anything, he's captain of the Flying Dutchman, the ship that ferries the souls of the dead to the next world, he sails from dimension to dimension and helps people out, and has the same personality of shadow walker, he also has at least 7-10 ships in his flee, his only weaknesses are the demon sword, the sword of Triton, the Krackens blade, and the reapers scythe
Jeff the Killer to the rescue(?)!!!~
kitten the killer: ???? wait wait wait!? another kitten a 4TH KITTEN!!!!
me and w.k: ._.
me and w.k: ._.
Wait what about Liu!?!?
He died (again)
well shit
That's so weird!! My OC who is pretty much me, her name is Kitty. On Wattpad I am writing a Jeff The Killer x OC where Kitty's a creepypasta neko........O_o
Kitten! I knew it ^3^
Holly shit I new it was a damn neko!!!! didn't know her name though dose that still count?
Damn well i was close.............OK I WAS NOWHERE NEAR THE CUTE LITTLE KITTY OUO
We're both called cat
Ande cute! ;^;
Nooooooo D: I'f you drown me i can't write more ;_;
my OC is a werewolf! (sorry if i'm intruding)
So is mine. Except she can be in human form with ears and a tail, although she is not a neko. Maybe soon I could sketch of her human-ish form. Hmmmm......
the same goes for mine. ive drawn Calla before but i never got to posting her before sadly
Yeah, these things take a while. I would know (I'm literally working over 10 things right now.)
wow thats a lot i have to get a bunch of chapters posted for my Black Butler story. i only have up to chapter 4 posted but i have 16 chapters in total, plus the second book. crap i just realized how behind i am...
It's okay. Some of the things I'm working on are my stories, and then the rest are things that my watchers are looking forward to! It's going to take a while. Wow, I'm just now realizing what I've gotten myself into...
No its fine!
Me to! But i can only have my OC be a Neko wahhhhhhhhhh
first comment!


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"Dorothy Mantooth is a saint!" Wes Mantooth (Vince Vaughn) declared in "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," protecting the honor of his mother from the vicious barbs of Champ Kind (David Koechner). But it seems Champ and Dorothy did go out for a seafood dinner after all, and it did not end well.
Funny Or Die has the exclusive footage of "The People's Court" case that followed, with Judge Wapner forced to decide between Dorothy's request for $5000 in emotional damage, or Champ's countersuit for $100 for the meal. As far as "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" promos go, this is...odd...but also sort of makes sense too. Watch below.


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|Property type
|Minimum Stay
|7 nights
Villa Miami is a architectural gem, protected under Portuguese Heritage. Villa Miami is considered one of the best examples of forward thinking modern design emerging 30 years ago in Portugal.
For the past decade Villa Miami has been not available to the rental market. New life has been breathed into Villa Miami and a complete renovation project was under taken over winter 2013/14 so now you have a historical landmark villa with all the modern convenience of the 21st century.
Be the first to holiday in our wonderful family villa. Villa Miami is a large welcoming family villa all on one level, so nice and easy for large families with children and the older members of the family who may not like to deal with too many steps.
Enjoy lazing on a sunlounger by the private sunny swimming pool . Villa Miami surrounded by mature gardens, the villa has extensive paved terraces all across ground level over the landscaped garden and grassy areas off the bedrooms. There is a terrace with outdoor BBQ and dining table perfect for alfresco evenings. Note there are some steps down to the pool area.
There are 4 bedrooms in the main villa - double and twins with ensuite bathrooms. All rooms are fully reverse cycled air-conditioned. All bedrooms are tastefully decorated with modern furnishings. The 5th bedroom is located off the courtyard of the morning room.
In the rear wing of Villa Miami are three spacious bedrooms with direct access to the grassy lawns. In the other end of the villa are two further bedrooms. The 4th bedroom is off the morning room off the kitchen and has its own ensuite bathroom. The 5th bedroom is located off the morning room near the kitchen it is accessed by a internal courtyard of the villa. The 5th bedroom also has another entrance and is independent access from the main entrance of the villa. So very handy of you want to bring the au pair or if you have teenagers that want to come back in the wee hours and not disturb anyone! The 5th Bedroom has its own ensuite showeroom.
Enjoy relaxing in the evening in the formal living room - or set up the games table and the pool table and enjoy challenging the family to some games in the parlour! There is a formal dining room to enjoy large family get together and a small breakfast morning room off the kitchen that you can sip a quiet coffee in the morning. Or why not take your coffee into the little open air courtyard that is located here too.
All bedrooms have ensuite bathrooms all simple clean and white. All bedrooms have been decorated in a relaxed casual style in modern muted tones. Villa Miami enjoys a calm ambience but just a very short stroll from the excitment of the Vale do Lobo Praca.
Outside: The villa is very conveniently located mid of the fairway of the 18th of the Vale do Lobo Royal Golf Course. So nice and easy to just walk along the 18th to the Clubhouse and commence your game.
In the Praca there are numerous restaurants and bars – open all day and late into the evening. There is free live entertainment from May to September. Monty's Bar and Restaurant is open all year round with evening entertainment. Enjoy watching the sunset over the beach & ocean from Breeze bar or Sandbanks both serving cocktails and international cuisine. There is also Free WIFI available in the praca.
The walk to the beach and praca from Villa Miami takes about 2 minutes walking along the calcada'd footpaths through the resort. It is an easy stroll, suitable for all ages and buggys. It is only a 10 minute walk from the villa to the medical centre and mini market on the main entrance roundabout or 5 minute walk to a cash machine, post office, newsagent, bank, hair dresser, spa, cafes etc. in Parque do Golfe.
It is just a 10 minute walk to the newly opened Paixa restaurant / wine bar on the Jardins Do Golfe development. Open from lunch through late evening, Paixa has a tapas menu, al a carte menu and serves delicious cocktails. It boasts a fabulous selection of wine displayed in a glass wine cellar. In winter there is an open log fire which makes this a wonderful restaurant to relax and enjoy our lovely mild winters here.
If tennis is your game, you will be impressed with the facilities of the 'Tennis In Portugal' tennis centre in Quadradinhas, Jardins Do Golfe, just a short walk from the villa. There are 3 new synthetic all weather tennis courts and a practice court in Jardins do Golfe. Tennis instructors Mark & Maria are available on-site all year round. There is also a onsite snack bar. Guests of SandyBlue have preferential prices for tennis lessons and court hire.
If you want to plan a different and fun day for you and your family/friends, we can help you to choose from lots of activities. We have tickets for Aquashow Park & Zoomarine and many other tours and excursions through out the Algarve.
Vale do Lobo is located on the beach area known as 'Praia Vale do Lobo', considered to be one of the finest beaches in the Algarve. From Vale do Lobo you can walk in a westerly direction to both 'Praia do Ancao' and 'Praia do Garrao' through the Parque Natural da Ria Formosa which is a heritage protected area of lagoons and wet areas that support the local wildlife population. If you walk towards the east you pass 'Praia do Trafal' and 'Praia do Almargem', following onto 'Praia Forte Nouvo' and then onto the Quarteria stretch of beaches.
Notes about the Architect: Villa Miami was designed by Vítor Manuel Figueiredo ( Figueira da Foz , 1929 - Lisbon , 2004 ), was an Portuguese architect and winner of the Prix secil of 1998.
He graduated in architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Porto in 1960 . Know to have endless energy, starred in a series of odd projects in Portuguese architecture, always recognizable and always different, based on a profound ethical, social and cultural approach. Vitor for many years held open discussion and dialogue in the industry, forming and informing successive generations of architects. He taught at the University of Coimbra and the Autonomous University of Lisbon.
Villa Miami has been built and owned by the same family for over 30 years. A beautiful family villa all recently refurbished to a wonderfully high standard to welcome the next generations of Vale Do Lobo guests.
SandyBlue purchased this villa in 1970
Villa Miamu was designed by the famous Portuguese Architect Vítor Manuel Figueiredo. He won an prestigious award for his forward thinking and radical design.
Villa Miami is without doubt one of the most unique and iconic villas in Vale do Lobo. The villas history stretching back as far as the resort itself.
Vale do Lobo is a very popular holiday destination for families and couples alike and definitely great fun for celebrity spotting. The famous like to be seen there - you never know who you will be dining beside each night enjoying the free live nightly entertainment in the Praca, Vale do Lobo.
The area between Quinta do Lago, Almancil and Vale do Lobo is referred to as the 'Golden Triangle'.
In Vale do Lobo and Quinta Do Lago there are numerous facilities - restaurants, cafes, bars, nightclub, spa, pools, gymnasiums, golf, mini golf, tennis, newsagent, shops, bank, car rental, wine shop, cash machines, numerous water sports, hairdresser and beauty salons. Everything is available so you never have to leave the resort!
See all our villas in Vale do Lobo and apartments in Vale do Lobo.
Things to do in Vale do Lobo:
Vale do Lobo has a range of excellent cafés and restaurants offering a selection of international gastronomy. Vale do Lobo Resort hosts regular live music and dance shows at the resort's main square to classical concerts and art exhibitions at the resort's auditorium - there is something to suit everyone. See all activities in Vale do Lobo.
Vale do Lobo Resort has excellent sports facilities including: two 18 hole championship golf courses, the largest tennis academy in Portugal with 14 courts, public swimming pools and 2 well equipped gymnasiums with sauna and physiotherapy services. Golf and tennis teaching programmes are offered at all levels for adults and children. See all sports activities in Vale do Lobo.
Why do we recommend a holiday in Vale do Lobo? Because its perfect if you are looking for an activity filled holiday (Golf, Tennis, Shopping, Kids Entertainment, Spa, Fitness & more!). However it's also perfect if you want a 'I-won't-leave-the-Beach holiday' (Algarve has the best beaches in Portugal).
And if you are like Joe, our resident Runner – you will love Running in Vale do Lobo. Fancy taking it a bit more easy? Check out our guide to walking and cycling routes in the area.
Don't forget SandyBlue guests can avail special discounts for a number of activities and restaurants in the Vale do Lobo area. Just get in touch and we will tell you all about it!
Celebrity spotting in Vale do Lobo:
The rich and famous have been flocking to Vale do Lobo for over 40 years.
The resort is very popular with the tennis circuit set... John McEnroe and Pat Cash are regulars. Golfers (professionals and us mere mortals), the England football team and English Premiership Clubs are regularly seen training here.
England's No.1 skier Chemmy Alcott, England national cricket team captain 'Freddie' Flintoff, jazz legend George Benson and Manchester United footballer Christian Ronaldo have all been spotted in Vale do Lobo in recent months. Keep a look out for the football boys Teddy Sherringham and Alan Shearer - they are a bit of a double act. Peter Jones from Dragon's Den owns a house in Vale Do Lobo.
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|Minimum Price
|Additional Nights
|Weekend Night
|Event Price
May 21st to June 10th
21 May 2016 - 10 Jun 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
June 11th to June 24th
11 Jun 2016 - 24 Jun 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
June 25th to July 15th
25 Jun 2016 - 15 Jul 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
July 16th to September 2nd
16 Jul 2016 - 2 Sep 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
September 3rd - September 16th
3 Sep 2016 - 16 Sep 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
September 17 to September 30
17 Sep 2016 - 30 Sep 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
October 1st to October 28th
1 Oct 2016 - 28 Oct 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
October 29th to December 30th
29 Oct 2016 - 30 Dec 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
|No additional mandatory fees
|Refundable Damage Deposit
|Tax Rate
The villa is prepared for your arrival and included is maid service x 5 days a week for maximum 2 hour duration. All your linen and bath towels and beach towels (equal to the number of guests) are included.
Changeover days are flexible but during the summer months it is more likely to be on a Saturday. It is necessary to vacate the villa by 10am on the last day. Access to the villa is after 4pm
For rentals securing deposit must be paid on time of booking this is 25% of the total booking cost. All deposits are non refundable.
All rentals - the balance is to be paid 8 weeks before arrival. A security deposit of £1000 is payable before arrival. The security deposit will be refunded in full within 14 days after departure if the property has been left in an appropriate condition.
Learn more about this vacation rental at the manager's website:


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Originally posted on NorthWest Sports Beat | Last updated 3/2/13
Brenden Dillon – NHL Name: Brenden Dillon Position: Defenseman Team: Dallas Stars Number: 4 Height: 6'3″ Weight: 228lbs Shoots: Left Birthplace: New Westminster, BC Acquired: Free Agent Entry Level Contract March 1, 2011 He may have taken the long road to get there, but for Brenden Dillon, the road to Big D has started to pay off as a key member of the future for the Dallas Stars blue line. Before lacing up his NHL skates, Dillon's journey started in the Pacific Junior Hockey League as a member of the Hope Icebreakers (now Mission City Outlaws), where his 31 points in 45 games was enough to impress the coaching staff of the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League. Brenden Dillon took a long path to the NHL, and he's taking advantage of it (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward) However it wasn't Dillon's first impression that left a mark as the then fifteen year old was overlooked in the WHL's bantam draft. Two years, seven inches and a couple of sandbags heavier, he signed on to join the Thunderbirds defense. After four years in the Emerald City, three of which finished with modest defenseman-like stats of 11, 10 and 14 points, his final season finished with a bang, tallying 59 points (8 goals, 51 assists) in 72 games. With the big leagues in his sights, Dillon would find himself on the short end of the stick, as once again his name was absent from the draft board, this time it would be the 30 teams from the National Hockey League that left him hanging. While his NHL dreams would have to wait, Dillon's 2010-11 season with the Thunderbirds did not go completely unnoticed as the Dallas Stars AHL affiliate the Texas Stars offered an entry level contract and the opportunity to dress for the final sixteen games of that same season, which included a six game playoff run. Returning to the Stars the next season for 76 games, Dillon showed he was indeed ready and capable of playing in the big league as his 29 points earned him a one game visit to Big D in the final game of the season to tempt his taste buds and play with his emotions just a little more. After six years of work in the WHL and AHL, the 2012-13 season finally brought the now 6'3″, 230lb Surrey native to his ultimate destination. On January 19, 2013, Dillon finally found his name stitched on the back of the Dallas Stars jersey and a full time spot on the active team roster. While he did not find his name on any scoring sheets for his first seven games, Dillon had finally reached his destination and was receiving a decent share of minutes, averaging 17 mins a game. February 1 was Dillon's official coming out party as he recorded a "Gordie Howe hat trick" in the Stars 4-3 shoot out victory over the Phoenix Coyotes. Currently sitting third among the Stars defenders with 6 points (3 goals, 3 assists) in 20 games and a +- of 5, Dillon has proved that while the wait was lengthy and the road may have had more bumps and turns than hoped for, it has well been worth the wait.
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As I search for my next bike, and vacillate between a Surley LHT or CrossCheck (or similar) or a nice mid-level (maybe carbon) road bike, I am also thinking about pedals and shoes.
I rode my Roubaix with a pair of pretty good Sidi MTB shoes (they no longer seem to make this specific model, but they are the kind with three velcro straps on top - I thought they were called Dominators but current Dominators have a buckle on top - mine were more like the Diablo without being high tops) on Shimano M520 clipless pedals. Although the shoes are a few years old, they remain in excellent condition. I no longer have the pedals but do have the cleats in the shoes.
The only complaint I had that might be shoe-related was that I got occasional hot spots. I don't know if that's pedal or shoe related (or both) or a fit issue, but I do remember having that problem.
My plan is to continue using these shoes and get another pair of M520s regardless of what bike I choose. This would keep expenses down. I no longer own the pedals.
That said, are there significant advantages to switching out to road bike shoes? And if I did that, what would you recommend? And what pedals? I really enjoyed the M520s, and they were my first clipless pedal.
I'll probably ride about 50-75 miles a week, in about four rides. I enjoyed the MTB shoes because I could walk in them easily.
What say you?


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Friday, July 17, 2009
Verve Project Parade - Divine Details
Here's a look at the card I'm sharing today. Head over to the Verve Stamps blog to read a bit about my "divine details" and for all the details on how you can win some Verve stamps by playing along and/or leaving comments on the projects along the way.
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!
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This is beautiful Amy! I love that border design...is that a punch? The stitching on the circle is so cool too! Fab card-as usual!ReplyDelete
All I can say is WOW! I can't believe all of the tiny details you put into one card- just awesome! Thanks for the look into your creative process on the Verve blog too!ReplyDelete
Beautiful card as always. I love all the details you incorporate into your cards. They are fabulous.ReplyDelete
Divine dah-ling, simply divine! (said with your bottom teeth only)ReplyDelete
Amazing once more Amy! Simply a delight to visit and take inspiration from. you are uba talented!ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend!
Viv xxx
JEEPERS girl, this is AMAZING!! Beautiful colors, details, papers, and whooooa what craftsmanship!! Love it!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous!! You always have the coolest little details on your cards - I could look at them for the longest time!! Can't wait to read what you wrote about this...ReplyDelete
This is so beautiful! I always enjoy your work.ReplyDelete
Fabulous layout, Amy! I love how you offset the die cut and the colors are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
ooooh this is gorgeous!!!! loving the colors and the layout and the ribbon and button and THAT STAMP! one of my favs :DReplyDelete
Amy, WOW what a totally BEAUTIFUL card! have a great weekend, jannyReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful Amy!! I LOVE the papers, your layout and awesome details make this card just perfect!ReplyDelete
Amy, you make the most beautiful cards! I come here when I need inspiration!ReplyDelete
WOW! GORGEOUS!ReplyDelete
Totally GORGEOUS!!ReplyDelete
Just gorgeous Amy!!! You are the queen of fabulous details!ReplyDelete
WOW!! What a fantastic card.. love the combo of colors and the wonderful details!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2009 at 12:41 AM
I look at your website every day. hoping you have a new card to share. I just love looking at your work. FranReplyDelete
You never fail to delight my soul with your creations!!! Jaw-dropping-beautiful, every one!ReplyDelete
Amazing card - Amy!!! Your colors and details are fabulous!!! Have a great weekend!!! Hugs ~S~ReplyDelete
Oh my! This is just STUNNING! Your work is just amazing and never ceases to inspire!ReplyDelete
This is just beautiful and so inspiring. Love the colors, layout, and all the details. Thanks for the inspiration.ReplyDelete
Beautiful card, and so neat to read your thought process and how your creations come together!ReplyDelete
Loved the little stitching on the circle, love your little details!
Hi AmyReplyDelete
Your card is just gorgeous, as all of your designs always are. I have never commented before, but wanted you to know that I have been a big fan of your blog for a long time, you really inpsire me and I love all the layers and extras that you put into all of your cards. This particular card has inspired my own creation and I just love the way it turned out. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful creativity.
This is gorgeous Amy, I love the colours you've used.ReplyDelete
Holy jeepers, this is fantastic! The papers you chose are stupendous, so is the sewing, just WOWYYYYYYYYY!!!ReplyDelete
Amy, this card is just absolutely breathtaking! I loved reading about your process, you always have such eloquent posts. And that bit of string down the side is just pure genius. You're truly a master of divine details.ReplyDelete
Stunning Amy!!ReplyDelete


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Pensioner arrested after 'brandishing sword at police'
A pensioner has been arrested after allegedly brandishing a sword at police when they entered his home in south-east London.
Bystanders step in to detain suspect after man is stabbed in the head
Brave bystanders stepped in to detain a suspect after a man was stabbed in the head outside a McDonald's on a busy high street today.
Rapist jailed for 15 years after attacking woman at knifepoint
Pictured: Lorry wedged underneath railway bridge at Shortlands station
Father, 24, killed in motorcycle crash described as 'the best dad'
Baby 'being concealed by family to stop him being taken into care'
Man, 24, killed after motorcycle hits tree in Bromley