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Things in TNA Impact Wrestling look very shaky right now. The last two weeks of television have been drastic improvements and it looks like they are finally getting on the right track, however there are problems. According to PWS on March 14, Bobby Lashley is working under a handshake agreement right now.
According to sources, the reason that TNA Impact Wrestling had not signed him yet was because they wanted to keep his arrival at "TNA Lockdown" a secret. That sounds like a good plan, but it also sounds like an excuse.
A similar excuse came in January when MVP debuted in TNA Impact Wrestling while they were on the U.K. tour. MVP is also working on a handshake agreement and he said that he wanted to make his debut for the company in the U.K., which is why they went ahead and had him show up without a contract.
When the new figurehead for the company is not under an official contract and the new superstar introduced back into the company is also not under a contract, there is a reason to worry.
The WWE is negotiating for a new television contract and if Viacom wins that bidding, they will drop TNA Impact Wrestling. There is also the arrival of Jeff Jarrett's new wrestling promotion and possible defections to his group, plus the money problems that led to the release of a number of wrestlers over the last six months.
Suggested Links
- WWE news: Roman Reigns talks about the original plans for his debut
- TNA news: Christopher Daniels and Kazarian possibly on way out of TNA
- WWE news: Ken Shamrock says CM Punk would have no chance in UFC
- WWE NXT tapes four week's worth of episodes
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During the time of Confucius 5th C. BC, the ancient kings were ever careful about things which affected the human heart. When the heart's chord of sorrow, joy, anger or piety was touched, the corresponding music was produced. In those days it was through the tones of ritual and music that brought people's inner feelings and external conduct into balance to establish an atmosphere of peace in the nation. The Emperor, with the help of his philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, astrologists & high priests, set the foundation tone / pitch upon which the music of the entire empire (China became a republic in 1912.) was based.
This perfect 'Yellow Bell' tone (known as Huang Chung) using celestial principles and cosmic proportions, was called after the colour of sacred wisdom, the Chinese imperial colour. The Chinese did not conceive the universe as being static. The pitch of bells and all musical instruments were modified according to the astrological, seasonal and climatic changes. The emperor could tell the condition of the individual cantons making up his empire, by their pitch and musical representation. The Chinese are credited for the art of bell founding, making massive bells of 50 tons, to small Wind-bells (Feng-ling) that hang from the eaves of houses & pagodas.
Windchimes and bells were used to ward off ill omen. Thousands of years ago chimes and bells were used as warning signals immediately prior to the events of uncontrollable forces. It was believed that God's wrath brought windstorms, snow storms, hurricanes, fires, erupting volcanoes, avalanches, tidal waves and so forth. Thus, it came about that still today, they are known to bestow peace, good fortune and happiness. Even at weddings, church bells are rung before and after the ceremony, forming a protective, sacred space during which time the commitment of the heart between the couple takes place.
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The Symbol of Windchimes lie not only in the intention and in the heart of the giver, but also in the quality and the sound of the chime itself. For over 18 years, Lindibell has given great attention and care to the selection of materials, decorations, finishes, tunings and longevity of the end product. (See letters of appreciation.)
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The ear is connected to nearly all the cranial nerves, which in turn lead to all parts of the body. It is no wonder then, that listening to soothing sounds creates states of balance, release, relief, relaxation and peacefulness.
Pure sound cuts out the left brain function of judgement of liking or disliking a piece of music and whether or not it is skilfully played. Sound alone cannot be hummed or sung from note to note. It is a continuum. The random sound of the notes of windchimes (or bells, singing bowls and gongs) tickles the right brain functioning - the intuitive, creative, the abstract - giving our mind relief and freedom from habitual, logical thinking. It brings us into touch with a quieter space where we can better listen to ourselves - a moment of 'time-out' for honouring ourselves. Silence is akin to stillness. Our spontaneous experience of sound has nothing to do with intellectual, logical, rational or left-brained thinking. Sound amplifies the right-brained environment, where we can let go of the need to control. If we truly listen maybe we can hear the whisper of the wind, or that place of silence and wholeness that is in each of us. We all acknowledge that there is an important difference between hearing and listening, as with seeing and looking. Hearing is a passive experience. Listening is focussed and active.
Windchimes promote relaxation and a willingness to listen. They are mood and atmosphere changers.
They pierce through moods and anxiety. Stimulate creativity and uplifts feelings.
They relieve fatigue and inertia, restoring vitality.
They are soothing and quietening. Express gentleness and joy. They inspire peace and restfulness.
The middle and inner ear of the human foetus attains practically adult size by the 5th month of gestation. It is the first sensory organ to evolve and is like a primitive brain affecting the brain's development. Therefore, appreciation for acoustical nuances is built into the human brain during its embryonic development. Our auditory capacity ranges from approximately 16Hertz to 20,000 Hz (cycles per second) and is ten times larger in range than our visual capacity, which extends from infrared to ultra violet wavelengths. While our audible memory far exceeds our visual memory, there is an enormously greater audible functioning happening in our subconscious than we are aware of.
How conscious are we? Are some of us unconscious nomads neurotically looking for a quick fix to our discord? Do we spread discord and noise, or do we contribute to harmony? Are we are responsible for everything we listen to? Sound can produce beauty and inspiration, or it can be destructive, shattering, violent and painful.
Today we live in a rapid, dynamic, ever-changing and disposable society - and with it comes fear and stress - the disease of the body, emotions and mind. Ideally, we want to recharge our batteries to feel refreshed and whole - healing ourselves and the planet we inhabit.
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The Mysterious Miss M
Diane Gaston
2005 reissue of 2004 release, European Historical Romance (Regency England)
Harl Historicals #777, $5.50, 304 pages, Amazon ASIN 0373293771
There are two reviews of this book
Madeline works as a prostitute called The Mysterious Miss M at Lord Farley's notorious club, and men gamble for the chance to bed her. She hates this life, but learns the hard way that Farley isnt going to let her go - not that she has anywhere to go. She meets her next customer, a soldier, and realizes quickly that hes different from the others. Devlin is kind to her, and his courage in fighting for his country stirs her respect. For the first time ever, Madeline wants to make love to a customer and the passion that they share transcends their roles of prostitute and customer.
Several years later, after Waterloo, Devlin returns to the gambling club and wins a fortune at cards, despite the fact that Farley rigged the game. When Farley, angry over his losses, strikes at Madeline for refusing a customer, Devlin intervenes and winds up accepting her as payment for Farleys debt. Madeline comes with an unusual piece of luggage - her little daughter, Linette.
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But Devlins brother, the marquess, poses a threat to their growing relationship. The custodian of Devlins fortune and estate until he marries, the marquess tires of what he perceives as Devlins aimlessness and out of control gambling and issues an ultimatum: court a suitable woman and offer her marriage, or else receive only half of his quarterly allowance on which to live. Devlin has come to care greatly for Madeline and Linette; though he searches for ways to raise money, no reasonable options turn up, and, in the end, he makes the only decision possible to ensure their security.
Madeline and Devlin are sympathetic and appealing characters. Readers immediately care about Madeline. Despite her earlier rebellion, she believes she deserves her life, because she contributed to the cause of it. Devlin helps her to understand that she cannot blame herself completely. With his reassurance, Madeline starts to believe shes more than a prostitute, and the scenes where she teaches herself new skills are very nice.
Devlins Waterloo experience haunts him terribly, and if he turns to Madeline for sexual comfort at first, he later recognizes the deeper comfort she offers with her love and sympathy. It becomes clear that Madeline and Devlin belong together, that the love they have found heals their wounds and brings them great happiness, and yet it will all end soon by Devlins offer of marriage to another woman. The poignancy of their doomed romance becomes very keen, especially in the moments where Madeline valets Devlin for the parties he attends to find the woman that will take him away from Madeline forever.
Add in a heartless villain who has nefarious plans for Devlin and little Linette, an intriguing subplot about an unhappy marriage between two people who actually long to please each other, and a few neat plot twists, and you have a top notch read in The Mysterious Miss M that scores on all emotional bases. A bumper crop of well-written romances has shown up lately featuring fallen heroines, such as Mary Baloghs reissued The Secret Pearl and Julia Justisss The Courtesan. The Mysterious Miss M joins this worthy pack. Im very glad Diane Gaston was finally able to publish this book and that Harlequin has made it available to U.S. readers.
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Puppy Sling Pouch by Pet Flys
Pet Flys added two new styles to its Puppy Sling Pouches, Native Dalmatian and Griffin's Blue. They are made in the USA with a cotton stretch twill outer shell and a soft anti-pill fleece lining. It has a large front pocket, two side pockets decorated with wooden beads and a safety chain inside. It's 16-inches long, 9-inches tall and 6-inches wide.
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Judy Garcia
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The "Walk On!" program is a great example to follow for implementation at your own facility/with your own clients. Creating competitions with various types of rewards (money, various electronic devices, etc) for everyone to participate in can provide additional motivation for your clients to meet their weight loss goals.
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- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
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- 1 can (21 ounces) raspberry pie filling, divided
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"Halloo!" Perdita Poorwhit crept slowly up the darkened steps to the room at the top of the stairs, intent on at last determining the identity of the mysterious stranger who had stolen her virginity and worse, murdered her father in cold-blood at the very stroke of midnight on her seventeenth birthday. She patted the knife she had sheathed between her pert breasts, feeling the cold steel rub sensuously against her bare flesh. Tonight, revenge would be hers.
Suddenly, the door slammed open, the mighty crash echoing in the tower, SLAMSLAMslamslamslam. . . and he appeared. Like the devil himself he stood before her, his face as tan as roughened cowhide, his teeth flashing white, his shirt and breeches black as an abyss of darkness. His shadow loomed forever downwards, drawing her into hell.
She felt for the security of the knife, but instead, it was the hard, pebble-like betrayal of her nipples that her fingers found. Dear God, had she been raised by her mad aunt in the convent, only to find herself forsaken by her traitorous desire for the one man who had ruined her life?
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He held out his hand, an invitation to ruination, and like a fool, like generations of Poorwhit women before her, she answered his call.
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His long, brown fingers ripped her dress asunder, leaving her bare to his gaze, her knife balanced precariously between her firm, uptilted breasts. "You brought a weapon? My weapon is the only one you'll need."
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Angered because he was correct, that she could not forget the night he brought her to ecstasy seventeen times before they both succumbed to an exhausted slumber, she stamped her foot, her porcelain orbs heaving with indignation. "I'll see you in hell first."
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"Will." He pressed his body against hers, until she felt the hard length of the Eveready flashlight he carried in his pocket.
"Not," she whimpered, her convictions fluttering away like the leaf that floated through the air in the cool autumn breeze, swaying this way and that, skimming along the surface of the stone walls before finally coming to rest on her toe. She stared at the leaf and suddenly everything became clear. She realized how fragile life really was, how short, and how foolish she would be to walk away from love. He was her oak tree, her touchstone, her knight in shining armor ready to slay her dragons as easily as he slew her father.
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When she raised her mouth for his kiss, he could see the answer shining in her eyes.
He had never known such happiness as what she brought him. Never seen such a fine example of innocence and beauty. But her beauty was deeper than her pouty lips or sultry eyes, or the cute way she smiled when she nervous. No, her beauty ran deep below her epidermis, below her dermis, through her follicles, and down to the very heart of her soul.
His jaw dropped as the weight of his need feel upon his shoulders like Atlas. Helplessly he shrugged and dropped to one knee, pressing feverish lips to her hand. "I will always be yours, Perdita. Be mine as well. Let me worship at the temple of your thighs, let me lick you until your cries of desire echo like the wolf that bays at the moon."
His fingers, his sweet, savage fingers crept inside her, causing her to sway and shimmy like a snake to the charmer. Each time she rose higher, and fell further, until finally, overwrought with her passion, she staggered to her knees and they tumbled to the floor, entwined in each other's arms.
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Still, she had to ask. Had to know. "Why did you kill Papa?"
He rested his forehead against her own, his body still shaking as if he had finished first in a 5K run. The truth was so ugly, he had thought to shelter her from it. But it was not to be, and his heart shattered into a million, tiny pieces. In his mind, the sound echoed over and over and over. CRASHCRASHcrashcrashcrash. "Your father tried to sell you to the slave-traders. He was a drunken sot who only wanted money to buy more gin. I tried to talk him out of his plan, but he stood firm. I saw no choice. I would not have him prostitute you, Perdita. You belong to me, no one else."
"Oh, Norman, I had no idea. Forgive me?"
"Consider it forgotten," he answered with wicked purpose. His flesh hardened once more, and he began to move inside her again.
And as the sun rose the next morning, they were still at it, like rabbits who had been deprived of all contact with other rabbits until they were frantic with desire, their little paws clawing at the cage.
Finally, hand in hand, they came down the stairs, his knees wobbling and bruised from beating against the stone floor, and her legs bowed from much use.
Together, their wounds would heal. After all, love could mend hearts, buy forgiveness, treat infections, cure the common cold, and solve the petty squabbling in the Middle East.
And for Norman and Perdita, that would be enough.
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Frankly, she would have requested recall after two month - and therefore failing to ever qualify for deep-space assignments - if it hadn't been for a box of curiosity she had smuggled on board when she first arrived.
The box had belonged to Maya's great-grandmother, who sadly passed away the previous year at the still-prime age of 100. It was found, stashed under Great-grandmother's bed, secured by the most advanced prime number combinatorial lock. What could it have contained? Classified documents? State secrets?
Everyone held his/her breath when the lock was finally decoded and the lid lifted to reveal - what?! Old paperback tomes from Gran-gran's youth back in the '70s and '80s of the previous century. And not even anything that could be properly labeled reading material. They were romances, good grief, well-preserved romances, with cover pictures of massive, menacing men whose bulging muscles were supposed to imply similar endowment below waist and melting, draping, sleepy-eyed females with spilling silicon breasts and pouty collagen lips.
Oh, the laughing, wheezing, chortling and snickering that followed. Father nearly collapsed with mirth. No wonder poor old Gran-gran had to go to such length to keep the content under lock. Egad, could you imagine the field day the comedians would have had if it had been exposed during her eighteen laudable years in the senate and two superb terms in the White House that the first ever female majority leader and Commander-in-Chief had been a devotee of such pulp fiction!
There was a brief ensuing debate over whether the books should be turned over to Gran-gran's presidential library. Mother put her foot down and said she wouldn't allow Gran-gran's ridiculous little secret to ruin her own chances at senatorial re-election. And that was that. The books were to be demolished and the knowledge was to go no further than the present company.
But something happened to Maya when she first laid eyes on the sinuously intertwined figures of warriors and maidens, sheiks and desert roses, pirates and their swooning preys. A little thump of the heart she experienced, perhaps a little brightening of awareness. The blatantly lascivious eyes of the oversexed and underdressed men seemed to be looking at her directly, challenging her, inviting her. Come and read for yourself what we are about to perpetrate in these pages, they communicated, we really are every bit as sinewy, powerful, and overwhelming as our portraits suggest.
In the end, without really knowing why, Maya volunteered for the demolishing chore. And then, instead of dutifully disposing of the torrid books, she took the box back to the Academy and slapped a label of "Training Run Logs" on the outside so her roommates would not bother to open them.
There had been no spare hours for any extracurricular reading for the remainder of the semester. But boy oh boy, was there plenty of time to kill aboard the very staid Steadfast with nothing much to do and no holovision signals from Earth strong enough to gel into images and sounds.
So she had cracked the box open a few centimeters, and giggling to herself as she did so, grabbed the first book that floated out in the zero-g environment. A harem story. With on the cover a dark sleek pasha and a slave girl garbed only in an implausibly long tumble of platinum blond hair.
Maya had taken a few courses in middle-eastern history and had even visited a preserved harem on a tour to Istanbul. What a wretched place it was. Completely sealed from the outside world, with nothing to do all day for the women who once lived there but bath, gossip, eat sweets, and grow obese while waiting for the whim of the master. A certain sultan even had his entire harem drowned so he could start anew.
But the hero of this particular Arabian tale was - gasp - three quarters European! How that came about Maya could not fathom. But it scarcely mattered as the story already had her in its thrall. A nearly white pasha, and a completely white slave, he horny as a tomcat, needing the service of two women every night and conversant in every conceivable and inconceivable vice, she innocent as a new-born lamb, with no idea at all that what she had between her legs was good for anything except certain unmentionable functions in the lavatory.
How could the girl possibly survive, let alone prosper? Yet prosper she did. For once his ramming rod breached the flimsy defense of her virginity - huh? oh, oh, meaning once they had screwed for the first time - she instantly changed from a dowdy to a foxy. Maya marveled at the heroine's metamorphosis. She herself had been laid a reasonable number of times, but she was nowhere near as bold now as that little ex-virgin who until the previous scene had been totally ignorant of her own internally plumbing.
And the language, good God. Why was it never simply and straightforwardly "his hard penis entered her wet vagina" but always "his throbbingly turgid masculine sword slid into her lushly flooded feminine sheath" or "his engorged, swollen shaft of desire cleaved into her wantonly inundated love canal?"
Maya had to scratch her head at first in an effort to decipher this complex code that seemed part and parcel of the books, but soon she became fluent in their secret terminology. It was a language for only the sisterhood of the initiated. And two months into her lone sojourn far from civilization, she had become more than an initiate. She was, to put it bluntly, hooked. Ah, the rippling muscles, the heaving breasts, the hot cylinders of male arousal, the dewy petals of female flowers. She could not get enough of the fervid embraces, the roaring spats, the shrill "sszzzz" of silks, and satins, and linens torn asunder by large arrogant hands and the "tump tump" of buttons splattered everywhere in the wake of every mass destruction of historical undergarments.
Sadly, the supply of romances was limited. After five months in space, even with most careful rationing, Maya was down to one last unread volume, one that proclaimed itself on the front cover, the back cover, and the spine to be sizzling, dazzling, nuclear meltdown hot, one that warned its readers to have a glass of ice water and a fire extinguisher standing by in case the book should suddenly combust spontaneously and consume both itself and the engrossed reader in leaping tongues of flames.
She strapped herself in the commander's seat in the hull - she was commander, pilot, liaison, maintenance, in short, the entire crew - so that she would not float away and bump her head during this final thrilling adventure. Then with the book wide open, its anatomically improbable couple on the cover visible for hundreds of kilometers to anyone who had a toy telescope - but there's no one within millions of kilometers and the next supply ship was not due to arrive for a month - Maya began her reading.
A stubborn race, these earthlings. The entire planet had been Dusted some one hundred earth years ago, after the race had shown itself capable of space flights and therefore, ready for Contact. Alas, the chemical Agent of Change proved insufficient, as subsequent endo-atmospheric checks sadly confirmed.
The earthlings squabbled over their sightings of the surveillance flights. One unfortunate crash in particular sent them into a frenzy of debate. The sensible ones pointed to the incidents as irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial life forms. The skeptical ones asked why then, those highly intelligent otherworldly beings had not bothered to Contact them?
Why? He mumbled to himself as he adhered his non-physical form to outside of the transparent hull. Idiots. How can we Contact you before you have Changed your speech patterns? The Universal Translator would be ineffectual unless the users are all fluent in the Official Speech Pattern of the Alliance. What would we have to say to you after we have shown you our right triangle and demonstrated our understanding of a2+b2=C2?
So now things had to be done in the old-fashioned way - transmitting the Change physically, one by one if necessary. But to do that, he needed first to locate some receptive Candidates. It would have been a daunting task. The only subset of earthlings who had been at all affected by the Agent of Change Dusted yesteryear, it seemed, was a segment of the female population who wrote and/or read certain books of love stories. The most exceptional of these writers exhibited a style of writing surprisingly similar to the venerated Official Speech Pattern.
Unhappily, those writers were roundly ridiculed for being ahead of their time, their devoted readers were shamed into never daring to display their books in public, and their lyrical, intricate, hyperbolic usage of language had to bear that dreaded, humiliating label: Purple Prose. How ironic, when that was precisely how the Official Speech Pattern was affectionately referred to within the Alliance, given that purple was the Alliance's signature color.
He had steeled himself for a grueling search. Purple Prose on earth died out about fifty years ago, the prophetic books probably all met their ignominious end being recycled to make toilet paper. Devotees would be few and difficult to locate.
But as luck would have it. He found one without even looking. There she was, on the other side of the glass wall, her face nearly buried in the pages, completely absorbed. He knew the content of the book by its cover. Why was it that the closer the writing in a book came to the Official Speech Pattern, the more lurid the picture on the cover must be? He could only imagine the earthlings' reaction if they were to read an official Alliance communiqué now. Well, what could one say about those literarily still primitive people. . . .
He banished that depressing thought and focused on the bright hope in front of him. Yes, she was ready. And he was ready to Change her. Forever.
Very carefully, he permeated through the titanium-reinforced glass, until he was inside the vessel, and took on physical form. He willed her, with his considerable power, to look up at him, and not be frightened or shocked, but merely a little dazed.
Maya looked up.
And this giant with his granite-hard muscled physique had a chiseled face to match. He had deep-set icy blue eyes, a conqueror of a nose, and sensual, yet slightly cruel lips. Maya stared at him for one more minute. Then she looked down at her book and flipped it so she could see the cover.
She looked up again. "Rorik? Rorik the Viking who has slain hundreds and raped thousands?" She whispered.
"Fear not, fair maiden." The giant answered, his voice deep, gravelly, and smooth all at once. Amazing. "I have no intention of raping you. I only wish to share the pleasure so unique to the joining of a man and a woman."
"And you talk just like him too." Maya marveled aloud.
"As soon you shall too, my little one. Soon you shall too, when I have demonstrated to you all that is possible between a virile man and a willing woman." He advanced a step, his eyes smoldering.
"Thank you for...uh...the offer." Maya stammered a little. His presence was so...so...unbelievably unsettling. He made her feel small - of course - and soft and feminine. "Though I don't believe you can demonstrate to me anything I don't already know. You see, I worked as a sex-ed instructor for three summers and I have done a good bit of everything too." His lips sneered in disdain. "Sex? Sex is for those of no refinement. We will possess each other. Have you done a good bit of that too?"
She had to shake her head in honesty. Possess each other? He did speak just like Rorik.
He was now just in front of her. "Disrobe for me, my vixenish wench. Astound me with the spectacle of your mammary convexity, and arouse me with the voluptuous concavity of your womanhood."
Maya almost scratched her head, puzzling over his words. They were even more arcane than the language in the romances. If she had not been reading Gran-gran's books, she wouldn't have a clue as to what he was talking about. "Oh, you mean you want to see my T&A?"
Again he frowned in distaste and mumbled something about the atrocious human tendency to shorten everything. Not bothering to give an affirmation, he simply passed his enormous hands nimbly over the force field snaps on her space cadet uniform. Maya had a momentary regret that in this advanced day and age, there were no more primitive textiles for impatient males to rend. Her uniform fell apart without a sound, and she stood as naked as the day she was born in front of a complete stranger who had leapt off a cover of romance book.
As she watched, mesmerized by something beyond her control, he passed his callused fingers over her skin, over her chest, and slinked beneath one breast to test its weight. "Such rondure, such sphericality." He murmured.
Such geometrical terms. She supposed he approved.
Breathlessly, she waited, biting her lip, as his hand slid lower, lower, past her belly, to linger between her legs.
"The vale of pleasure, the dell of delight, nature's most wondrous hollow, galaxy's greatest grotto." He pronounced.
She should laugh, really. She should fall to the floor, convulse and howl. All that elaborate metaphor for a simple vagina, for a few inches of narrow space from labia to uterus? But for some reason she did not feel the desire to laugh. His eyes held her, they compelled her, they etched those seemingly ridiculous words on her brain, until she accepted them without question.
"Let me see the instrument of your spermary delivery." She heard herself say.
He smiled for the first time. "Not bad, Candidate."
Then he showed her what he had in his trousers. By all the kilometers from Pluto to Earth, it matched his size inch for inch and pound for pound.
She gasped. She nearly fainted. "All that potent Herculean brawny length for my dainty, minuscule recess?"
Her reaction, or perhaps her words, pleased him. He grew even more.
He unstrapped her from the commander's seat, and they floated, literally. "I will assault you with my lips." He promised velvetily. "I will consume you marble smooth skin, I will worship your twin mounds that are as high and proud as Mt. Olympus, I will sample your coral-pink aureoles as if they dispensed ambrosia and nectar, I will circumnavigate your portals to heaven and enter your paradise."
She couldn't get enough of his eloquent verbosity and his passionate euphemisms. "Oh, do possess me, my demigod, drown me in the flood of your fervent words."
They clawed at each other - not as easy a task as might be supposed, since without the force of gravity, they were in constant danger of spinning apart. Until finally, he had her against the glass wall, and by some secret mechanism she was never to learn, anchored himself to the wall, and sank the solid pillar of his raging lust deep into the deluged softness of her silken dale. "Occupy me!" She cried. "Intrude, invade, trespass, overrun me! Pummel me with your thick staff, shred my soul to pieces with your lovemaking!"
"I will do precisely that." He seemed to have no problem talking. "I will flood you with my essence and you will be Changed forever!"
One last audacious upward plunge, and Maya went over the edge.
She passed out.
He knew his luck wouldn't always hold thus. Nothing but hard work awaited him ahead. But his gratification was immense. He had Changed someone personally just now. That was a task he hadn't performed in years. Now he knew he still had what it took.
Furthermore, the former Candidate, presently a new Agent of Change, would be effective as soon as she set out to work. Earthlings who spends more than one cumulative hour in conversation with her would have their speech pattern modified for a year. If they made love to anyone, the recipient of their amorous affection would undergo a similar alteration. If she made love to anyone from now on, that person would be Changed forever, just like she was.
Every one of his energy nodules quivered in satisfaction of a job well-done. He looked ahead and allowed himself to fantasize about a whole new planet of people speaking, writing, and communicating in the exquisitely longwinded fashion of the Official Speech Pattern.
She saw the book she had been reading. Those romance novels. Was that what they did to an addict? Something triggered in the bank of her mind, she tried to latch onto that fleeting bit of memory but it evaded her and disappeared. Oh, well, nothing bad happened to her. In fact, she was feeling better than ever.
She felt ready to Change the world.


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Wynton Marsalis: The Majesty of the Blues (The Puheeman Strut)
The Majesty of the Blues (The Puheeman Strut)
Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)
The Majesty of the Blues (Columbia 45091)
Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Marcus Roberts (piano), Reginald Veal (bass), Wes Anderson (alto sax), Herlin Riley (drums),
Todd Williams (tenor sax).
Composed by Wynton Marsalis.
Recorded: New York, October 27-28, 1988
Rating: 97/100 (learn more)
This performance marks a major turning point in the career of Wynton Marsalis. Before this recording, Marsalis was a futurist, working on elaborate polyrhythmics, playing fast and hard, and moving in a post-Miles direction. Then—seemingly overnight—he becomes the grand traditionalist, and shows off a killin' pre-bop sound, built on down-and-dirty textures reminiscent of Bubber Miley and King Oliver.
'What's going on?' as Marvin Gaye might ask. This stylistic shift seemed like a step backward at the time. But was it really? To move from playing discrete notes to undulating sound textures was, circa 1988, a pretty radical step for the most prominent young musician in jazz. Marsalis's solo, unlike anything he had recorded previously (although a harbinger of much to come) is artfully constructed, and took him outside the invariable comparisons with Miles and Brownie, Dizzy and Freddie, and the like. In short, Wynton had changed the rules on us without any warning.
To some degree, a traditionalist bent had already entered the jazz world before this recording, but The Majesty of the Blues took it to a new level. Yet for all that, there is a wicked, modernist undercurrent here. The stately 6/4 meter is played with a panoramic, open pulse, and sounds very up to date. Marcus Roberts is decidedly not trying to channel Earl Hines, and Veal and Riley are collaborating on their own happenin' groove. This is a coronation march for a nightlife diva, a mixture of the majesty (announced in the title) with something grittier and darker, but all steeped in the New Orleans tradition. The chord progression is a blues, but the stretched-out bar lengths give it an unconventional twist. The horn writing is sparse, but with a growling Ellingtonian quality that is quite effective.
All in all, this track represented a stunning turn of events for the artist who had just turned 27 the week before the session. To some degree, the jazz world is still dealing with the aftermath.
Reviewer: Ted Gioia
Tags: 1980s jazz · trumpet
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Former BBC chief accused of 'racial discrimination'
He has strongly denied the claims
He has strongly denied the claims
The intelligence agency reportedly inserted radio-transmitters into computers via spies and unwitting users to crack disconnected devices
Well-wishers queued outside to pay their respects at the temple where the 17-year-old was laid to rest
Liz Cheney, the daughter of the former Vice-President Dick Cheney, is abandoning her attempt to win a seat in the Senate, according to reports.
Downing St make official complaint after financial journalist on PM's delegation banned from only official public event
Writer was a canny businessman who managed to turn himself into a brand, spawning successful film and video game franchises
A partial shutdown of the US government has begun after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a budget last night, with the Republican-led House of Representatives adamant they would only agree to a deal if it included a delay to the start of Obamacare, the President's package of health reforms.
Right, so, it might not be exactly YOUR FAULT, but it's not entirely not your fault either. The IPCC climate change report, released today in Stockholm, has upped the certainty that man is the dominant cause of climate change to 95 per cent. Pretty certain, overall. And unless you happen to be an ape blessed with extraordinary powers of literacy, the fact that you're understanding this sentence implicates you in the whole heating mess. So here are ten Dos and Don'ts you can follow to cook the planet an infinitesimally smaller amount...
Banned websites including the New York Times will only be available in specially designated economic zone
Current BBC chairman and former Director-General will provide theatre in front of Public Accounts Committee
As David Cameron's sister-in-law, and former correspondence secretary, Alice Sheffield knows how hectic his schedule can be. So it's considerate of her to be getting married in a window when the Camerons can make it – Saturday 7 September – after recess but just before conference. Sam Cam's 32-year-old half-sister was last in the news five years ago, when the PM was found to be employing her three days a week. Now she is to marry her French estate agent fiancé, Etienne Cadestin, at the Sheffields' family home in North Yorkshire. The gardens of Sutton Park, normally open to the public, will be shut that weekend. Sir Reginald Sheffield, Sam Cam's dad, bought it in 1963, after downsizing from nearby Normanby Hall. My man in the potting shed says the place is a flurry of activity. "They're currently building a pergola to prettify the loo block," he whispers. "Though the kitchen garden is still a little on the wild side."
Lean in. Something to say?
Its domestic political coverage and foreign affairs expertise are still excellent
The novel Stoner sank with barely a trace when it came out in 1965, says Arifa Akbar, but now it's enjoying a resurgence
Efforts by the US Attorney General, Eric Holder, to smooth American media feathers ruffled by recent revelations of aggressive snooping by the government on reporters hit a snag, as major news organisations turned down an invitation to meet with him.
Administration's efforts to trace leaks called 'heavy-handed' after private emails seized
There was sky blue everywhere at the official launch of the club in east Harlem


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Pivoting FOTO lamp
October 22nd, 2014 | by Laura
Materials: FOTO pendant lamp Here are the sequence of steps I took: 1. Decided that I'm going to turn this
October 22nd, 2014 | by Laura
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October 15th, 2014 | by Tanhu
Materials: Socker and Ensidig There are tons of table lamps to choose from, but if you make it yourself, it's
October 13th, 2014 | by madworm
Materials: SAMTID My 2nd attempt at building a reasonable mood-light using the IKEA Samtid lamp as the base. The previous
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Materials: BLANDA MATT serving bowl Most ceiling light canopies are made out of plastic and really look boring, so walking around
September 22nd, 2014 | by Sebastian
Materials: BEHANDLA woodoil white, DIODER RGB LED, MALM glass plate white LED wall lamps are quite expensive so I looked
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sketches Tali (40) by spaceMAXmarineWatch
©2012-2016 spaceMAXmarine
Tali ME(1,2,3)
I love her character progression.
Love her progression
Shepard= Making all the ladies swoon!
Metro 2033
I have a 'Bastard'
I have a 'Bastard'
My favorite has to be.....I give up I love them all!
Always figured she would quote Evil Dead by saying, "THIS is my BOOM STICK!"
lol the evolution of Tali, from innocent little girl, to love-sick teen, to kick ass woman any guy SHOULD give his left nut to be with!
and then there are the pics where Shepard is in a relationship with Tali
Me tali 1 was my favorite :V
ME3 Tali is my favorite Tali.
haha yep that seams about right... awesome job ^^


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There are many talented writers, but consistently funny ones are few and far between. Gil Gevins is one of that rare breed: a good writer who is also flat-out hilarious.
"Humor is something I could never live without," Gevins has said. "And what I like to laugh at the most, is myself."
Gevins grew up just outside New York City. In high school, Andy Kaufman, the late comedian, was his best friend.
"I was kind of a strange kid," Gil says, "but strange-wise, Andy was in a league by himself. Our classmates tended to shun Andy. But I loved the guy because he always had me in stitches. We remained close friends until he died."
Gevins has been entertaining readers in Puerto Vallarta for almost thirty years, with his zany tales of life in Mexico. And his stories are not merely amusing; they are laugh-out-loud, choking-on-your-toast funny!
"When I first came to live in Mexico," Gil explains, "everything seemed comical and surreal. Finding material for my stories was easy—all I had to do was walk out the front door. Today, it's much more difficult. I've lived in Mexico so long now that everything feels normal. Even I feel normal, which is kind of scary."
Gil has published over two hundred stories and four books since his arrival in Vallarta. His first book, a collection of stories, entitled, Puerto Vallarta on 49 Brain Cells A Day, has become a cult-classic, a must read for first-time visitors to Mexico. His latest book, Slime and Punishment, is a novel of middle-aged lust gone horribly wrong. It has been greeted with great enthusiasm, and, naturally, cascades of laughter.
Gil continues to reside in Vallarta, along with his vivacious wife, Lucy, the owner of the acclaimed folk-art shop, Lucy's Cucu Cabaña.


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Hey there everyone.
A couple of my friends have started to play BFG at my FLGS and I'd love to get into it. Now, I'm a 40K player and I love my my Tau (yes yes hate all you like. I like them, its my army, and that's what matters.)
The major problem is I have 0 experience playing Tau.
So- would you all please help me come up with an Army List (or Fleet List?) for this game? I'd like to hear why certain ships are taken and why. I've tried to find something like "An idiot's guide to BFG: Tau" but I've had no luck finding it.
Thanks in Advance
- Hammerman


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Study finds it harmful to be closeted at work
The Diversity Council of Australia (DCA) is concerned over continuing discrimination in many workplaces, after a recent major US study found almost half of LGBT respondents interviewed reported being closeted at work, with resulting substantial negative consequences.
It comes as the latest statistics from the Fair Work Ombudsman show there has been a 46 per cent increase in the number of complaints received by the body in the last financial year.
The study conducted by the Center for Work-Life Policy which featured in the Harvard Business Review in July of this year, found that for almost 3,000 LGBT employees interviewed, 48 per cent reported not being open about their sexual orientation at work, making them 70 per cent likely to leave their current company within the next three years.
The researchers found that closeted workers suffer anxiety about how colleagues and managers might judge them and expend enormous effort concealing their orientation, which leaves them less energy for actual work.
DCA CEO, Nareen Young, fears LGBT employees in Australia may be likely to suffer from similar experiences and has encouraged employers do more to help workers feel more comfortable to be themselves.
"DCA's Working for the Future research found 16 per cent of gay men and lesbians said they had been discriminated against at work on the basis of their sexual orientation.
"This is a high figure compared to the percentage of respondents overall who felt they had been discriminated against in the past year [a total of 10 per cent]," Young said.
"No-one should have to hide who they really are at work for fear of being judged, harassed or excluded. In this day and age, there's no excuse for homophobic behaviour."
Meanwhile, the Fair Work Ombudsman has assessed 1171 complaints relating to workplace discrimination in the past financial year, up from 801 complaints in 2009-10.
According to the released figures, eight per cent of total complaints related to alleged discrimination on the basis of sex, while only two per cent related to discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
The most common complaint was alleged discrimination on the grounds of physical or mental disability, totalling 20 per cent of all recorded complaints, while complaints over age, and carer and family responsibilities ranked second and third.
- TOPICS: Center for Work-Life Policy, Culture, Discrimination, Diversity Council of Australia, Employment, Harvard Business Review, Nareen Young, Research, Study, Workplace
- CATEGORIES: National, ACT, News + Politics, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


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I'm running IIS7 - and for some reason the HTTP headers indicate a cached page has been served (e.g. Firefox's Firebug shows 304 Not Modified) yet the same page in fiddler for an IE8 request it says:
GET http://mywebsite.com/templates/cw/css/k2.css
200 OK (text/css)
I've looked in my Applicationhost.config and I see:
Not to mention, firefox shows that the pages are cached. Does anyone have any ideas on this? My site is really slow on IE - hoping that getting caching turned on will help.


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Can we really start to hope again that world leaders might really act on climate change?
We have wondered from time to time just how negative we can be on the subject of climate change , and as we watched article after article on the dangers we seriously wondered at times if there was any point.
For me, the low point came during the US election when for some mysterious reason climate change did not get a look in except for inane comments by Mitt Romney.
Fortunately some things kept us buoyed up.The stuff that some many people are doing in their own communities,the finance deals that were funding community solar, the innovation and the action from so many people everywhere from Siberia to New Jersey to Scotland, the leadership that cities have shown in the face of such lack of action by countries, the renewables action in Germany, the refusal of nuclear in Germany and Italy , and the last 5 Year Plan that China released on environmental mitigation .
Then ongoing economic recession, banks doing unspeakable things ,and austerity packages in Greece that are so unbelievably harsh they are actually just stupid created economic damage so great that it seemed to eclipse what we were doing to ourselves and every other species on the planet.
It seemed that as a species we were only able to focus on things that we could see and understand .
The fact that the carbon emissions were largely invisible and that the issue of climate change felt too big and incomprehensible and unable to be dealt with at an individual level seemed to mean that many of us felt like it was more important to focus on the stuff in the intray or getting dinner on. Climate change was, it seemed someone else's problem. Surely they would deal with it !
But, just as we had been warned( over and over again ) we started to see the impact of extreme weather events happening more frequently and at more extreme temperatures .
So in 2012 the weather became the news in so many places in the world. In 2012 in the US so many temperature and drought records were set it became repetitive .
And still climate change was kept out of the frame in the Presidential debate.
And then Sandy hit the financial hub of the US. And it just about pipped the election.
But finally within the last week we have had President Obama say climate change has to be addressed, Vice President Joe Biden has said he wants to deal with climate change this term, and John Kerry, also very well informed on climate change, is going to be Secretary of State.
Now the President of the World Bank group-hardly radicals – has said climate change has to be top of the agenda.
Is the weather , which is making climate change so visible so quickly having some real impact?
Australia has been on fire for much of the month and Russia , and Europe and the US have been in the grip of temperatures so low that they make the usual life functions impossible .Cars can't go. Aeroplanes can't fly. Even the water in fire hoses freezes. Life as we know it is changing rapidly.
And now that the weather is the news, do we think that perhaps its now so visible that inaction is simply not an option?
Dare we believe that 2013 is a year for action?


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Feb. 3, 2014
Shymansky News Conference Photo Gallery | Shymansky News Conference
Shymansky News Conference Transcript
By DARREN MILLER
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Bond Shymansky has returned to his hometown of Iowa City, but he doesn't plan to spend much time unpacking.
"Tomorrow night," said Shymansky, the University of Iowa's head volleyball coach, when asked when he would hit the recruiting trail. "My phone has been blowing up in a great way and I'm on it."
Shymansky was introduced Monday as the ninth head coach in UI history. He takes over a program that last completed a winning season in 2000 (15-13 overall, 11-9 Big Ten Conference); the Hawkeyes are coming off an 11-win season, 2-18 in the league.
"The trappings are here in terms of the facility, but you see it in all the facilities for (UI) athletics," Shymansky said at a news conference in Carver-Hawkeye Arena's Feller Club Room. "I kept walking around here when I was on my interview, and every time we turned a corner I wanted to be able to say, `Oh wait, this is the problem, this is maybe why it's not succeeding.'
"But I would turn each corner and go, `Oh wow.' I shouldn't be dazzled by that stuff, but I was dazzled."
In seven seasons as head coach at Georgia Tech, Shymansky compiled a record of 172-64 with three trips to the NCAA Tournament. From 2009-13, he led Marquette to a record of 118-45 and three trips to the NCAA Tournament.
"Timing is everything," Shymansky said. "There was a point where (UI director of athletics) Gary (Barta) and I talked a little bit the last go-around, and it just didn't seem like the right timing. I still had some things to grow and learn and do as a coach. Now I feel I'm ready for that."
"It's not a warning, it's a promise. We're going to show them the best that Iowa volleyball can be and we're going to ask them to buy into that vision. The right kid with the right guts that has that right chip on their shoulder, they'll come be a part of it, and they'll start doing it now."
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"I have all the bases covered here locally, and I love them all," he said.
He also understands the talent level of volleyball in the state of Iowa and intends to lure the top student-athletes to become Hawkeyes. Five players on the UI roster are native Iowans: juniors Kari Mueller and Katie Kelley, sophomore Alli O'Deen and freshmen Alyssa Klostermann and Lauren Brobst.
"The volleyball talent in our state is awesome, it always has been," Shymansky said. "This is still the Hawkeye state, and we're going to beat every bush and turn over every stone. We're going to find the talent that's here.
"It's not a warning, it's a promise. We're going to show them the best that Iowa volleyball can be and we're going to ask them to buy into that vision. The right kid with the right guts that has that right chip on their shoulder, they'll come be a part of it, and they'll start doing it now."
Middle blocker Alessandra Dietz is one of 14 Hawkeye returnees. Last season she had 220 kills and team-highs in blocks (112) and service aces (26).
"We're excited; people in the volleyball world that I know keep saying, `Wow, you are so lucky, you have a great opportunity,'" Dietz said. "All I keep hearing is it is going to be a really bright future for Iowa volleyball."
Shymansky has met several of the current Hawkeyes and he senses excitement and energy.
"I asked them very specifically, `What's your identity? What are we building off?" Shymansky said. "They said work ethic. That's the supreme foundation. I have to work really hard to help this be successful, so do they, so does the administration. Everybody is going to work really hard, so that's a great place to start."
The Big Ten is the strongest volleyball conference in the nation, as evidenced by the 2013 NCAA bracket. Eight league schools participated in the postseason with Penn State topping Wisconsin in the championship.
Shymansky said playing in the Big Ten is a positive, along with the facilities and people at the UI.
"It's just going to take some tweaking, take some motivating, maybe some technical changing or system changing," he said. "I believe what I like to do as a coach will help us win."
Shymansky and his wife, Iowa City native Catherine (Cruikshank) Shymansky, have a daughter, Corrina and two sons, Nicholas and Bond, Jr.


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EAST LANSING, Mich. — There really wasn't much separating the Michigan State Spartans and Northern Michigan Wildcats on the ice tonight.
Sure, one team may have outshot the other, and one team may have won more face-offs. In fact, one team actually 'won' the game in a shootout,, but this game was as close as they come, all through the night.
Northern Michigan broke the 1-1 tie with 8:14 left in the game when junior wing Ray Kaunisto scored unassisted on a breakaway from mid-ice, beating Spartans' senior goaltender Jeff Lerg with a nice crossover move.
Michigan State fought back to tie the score with 4:53 left when sophomore wing Andrew Rowe put in a rebound that came out directly in front of the net, beating Wildcats' junior goaltender Brian Stewart to tie.
It wasn't until the new CCHA shootout rolled around, after five minutes of scoreless overtime, of course, that this one was decided. Lerg stopped sophomore center Mark Olver on the third penalty shot to give Michigan State the win in its CCHA opener at home, with a 2-1 edge in the shootout.
Seniors Kurt Kivisto and Matt Schepke scored for the Spartans in the shootout, while sophomore Gregor Hanson netted the Wildcats' only shootout goal.
The CCHA shootout is new this year, and the MSU victory will only count in the league standings. Nationally, the game is considered a tie, so both teams left the ice with 2-2-1 records on the season, although Michigan State gets that extra point in the CCHA standings.
"I really, really went after them this week as far as being competitive and learning lessons and practicing hard," said Michigan State Coach Rick Comley. "I thought we were a better team tonight than last weekend."
Although both teams had excellent scoring chances in the final minute of play, overtime played like a lock-down situation, with both teams trying not to give up a goal more than they tried to score one. Since each team would receive a point if the five-minute overtime expired, it was pride and the bonus point on the line in the shootout.
Kivisto scored first to give Michigan State the early shootout lead, and when Lerg stopped NMU senior Nick Sirota's shot, the home crowd exploded. However, after MSU freshman Tim Buttery failed to get a shot off on his shootout attempt, Hanson tied the shootout at 1-1 with a quick wrister that beat Lerg easily.
Schepke scored on the Spartans' third shootout attempt to set up Lerg's game-winning save on Olver.
"When you have Jeff, obviously, you like your chances in a shootout situation with him in goal," Comley said. "Obviously, a real good win for us, also. Maybe tonight even more than normal times, (the shootout) is an even better situation for us."
Beyond the shootout, the game was a true scrum, with both teams matching up well against each other despite differences in size, depth and experience.
"It's a 2-2 tie, and they got a point because they can do breakaways better than us," Northern Michigan Coach Walt Kyle said. "That's what it is. We knew we had to play it close to the vest and try to keep it tight and hopefully get some breaks."
This was the first time the two teams had met since the Wildcats knocked the Spartans out of the CCHA playoffs last season on Michigan State's home ice. The game didn't disappoint the 4,884 fans in attendance tonight.
The first period was hard fought and pretty even until Northern Michigan scored with 8:09 left. After controlling the puck down in the Michigan State zone, junior center Matt Butcher took a centering pass from Kaunisto. Butcher's shot hit the post and got past Lerg.
The edge didn't last long, however, as Michigan State came right back 25 seconds later with their own score. Rowe took a rebound on the short left circle and nailed it past Stewart for his first goal of the night.
"They didn't panic, which was good," said Comley. "Our young guys got ice time tonight and fought very hard. We generated some pretty good chances. I thought it was a pretty good effort, and we needed that badly. I'm just trying to get them to battle and learn and grow and put the puck on the net."
The two teams fought evenly again in the second period, as NMU built up an edge in face-offs (21-15), but they couldn't convert that advantage into shots, as MSU led in that category (20-13). Through 40 minutes and a few fisticuffs, the CCHA rivals were still evenly matched.
Stewart finished the game with 35 saves, while Lerg tallied 24 stops in the win.
"Both goalies were good," Kyle said. "The shots aren't it; it's quality shots. I thought it was good goaltending."
The two teams play again on Saturday night at Munn Arena.
"I think tomorrow will be really tough," Comley said. "We'll have them (Northern Michigan) jacked and ready to go to try to get one down here."
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3) Evaluate efficacy of collected VOCs in EAG bioassays on NOW;
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Bob Filner's Week of Lily Pond Lies
In just one week, mayoral candidate Bob Filner reeled off so many outright lies and misstatements he is in jeopardy of giving our doddering Vice President Joe Biden some serious gaffe-envy.
It started at last week's debate at the Institute of the Americas. Filner ignorantly called out Councilmember DeMaio for not having a diverse staff. Of course, out of a staff of seven, two are Hispanic and two are Asian-American. One of these individuals is his Chief of Staff. As someone who has been perpetually running for office since 1979, Filner knows the importance of the Chief of Staff position. As his zany buddy Joe Biden would say, it is a "big effing deal."
For those of you who are not race-obsessed race-baiters like Filner, you might be interested in the other three staff members as well. One was born and raised in Italy, another served in the Navy. The third one is all-around good guy who rides a motorcycle. Enough with humanizing DeMaio's staffers, back to Filner's follies…
Then there was the crackpot criminal claim. Quick rehash: Filner accused DeMaio's partner of "criminal actions" for helping organize the infamous water gun fight that destroyed Balboa Park's lily pond. Of course, that's an outright lie. He organized no such thing. The event was listed on a website he owns, as it was on several others, including the San Diego Reader. An event listing does not even reach the orbit of event organization. The U-T editorial page applied an appropriate ridicule of Filner's "argument." By Filner's baffling logic, newspapers in the Aurora, Colo., area that carried the listings for the opening night of "The Dark Knight Rises" are responsible for the horrible carnage last month at a movie theater there.
Actually, my favorite part of the whole hub-bub was former Professor Filner's barely literate press release. It included two misspellings and clunky prepositional phrases that made it nearly incomprehensible. I got the gist of it though: deMaio (sic) partner. Water fight. Criminal action. Lily Pond. Bad.
The best Filner falsehood of the week: Claiming four times, during Tuesday's debate, that DeMaio was served a subpoena to appear at the Comprehensive Pension Reform initiative court hearing. Voice of San Diego's Fact Check determined Filner's statement is false: There's no element of truth to the claim that DeMaio was subpoenaed, and Filner repeatedly used the inaccurate information to make an argument against his opponent. The claim is easily verifiable, too. We simply emailed the City Attorney's Office to ask for a list of those subpoenaed. Filner's campaign could have done the same, checked the court record or spoke with the city's white-collar union, which filed the lawsuit. I have heard the expression "doubling down" on a lie, but quadrupling down is truly remarkable.
As if it had not already been a rough seven days for Filner, yesterday a group of 18 San Diego business leaders endorsed DeMaio. Most of these leaders had backed a different candidate during the primary, but are now supporting DeMaio. Nationally, Democrats openly fantasize about dumping Biden, Filner's soulmate of blunder, from the Presidential ticket. It will not be long before local Democrats wistfully muse–in tones reserved for bad break-ups–about what could have been. If only their the mythical, thus unbeatable, local labor mayoral candidate hadn't gotten away… whoever that may be. Sigh.
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Darn it Ryan, I just made one of these arguments on the other Filner story posted – and I gave an example too – RIGHT ON MR. PURDY!!! Wish I would have read this first so I didn't have to comment.
Great post, as always.
"Filner…managing to simultaneously come off
as clueless and classless in his bizarre, vicious response…"
Great line from the UT.
By Monday, please stop encouraging Lillygate stories. Enough.
Lessons Learned on civic passion regarding Balboa Park. Let us move on to actual civic issues dealing with land use instead.
Doug Manchester has stated his plan for San Diego includes the Taxpayers selling off both Qualcomm Stadium and the Sports Arena to pay the public's fair share cost for a new stand-alone NFL Stadium. Manchester's NFL Stadium would be located on the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal (TAMT), in a state-recognized Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zone. The Working Waterfront will be turned into Manchester's dream for San Diego. Manchester's plan for our Navy West Coast Headquarters on the Waterfront at the Navy Broadway Complex (NBC) has yet to confirm or deny active faulting under the location of high rise structures. All government agencies have failed to regulate normal public safety laws, and obliterated the Standard-of-Care on Seismic Safety Issues. Privatize Profits and Socialize Losses.
Back in 2006, Congressman Bob Filner backed our efforts and requested that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirm or deny our claims of corruptions and Honest Services Fraud for profit and greed. At the expense of our America's Military force, and ultimately San Diego Taxpayers.
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The head of the Taxpayer's Association supports DeMaio? Well, that is a stunning development worthy of a press release!
With his so phoney/so ridiculous remarks Filner paints himself as a Bidenesque character. His remarks are just one of those gifts that keep on giving.
True meaning of Filner/Sheperd mouths in action:
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I apologize if this question sounds weird, but I have come across this function (which I am trying to replicate using C# code), which has left me a bit confused.
The way I am understanding, is that this function states that the total amount of elements in set Sj will be divided by the sum of the two vectors (since pc and coh(s) return vectors, each having 2 points). From what I managed to find, the || denote the absolute value of the addition (I could be wrong though). The function will then return the maximum value for that calculation.
What is confusing me is the fact that I am dividing an integer by the sum of two vectors and to my (limited) knowledge, that cannot be done.
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The length or magnitude or norm of the vector a is denoted by ||a|| or, less commonly, |a|, which is not to be confused with the absolute value (a scalar "norm").
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I just found this pretty cheap on ebay with case and ordered for £82 with case and shipping. I have the adapter. I intend to use it with nex6 (16 Mpix) in Africa (300 mm equiv.). There are quite much air turbulence (heat), so 300 mm should be a good compromise. I cannot google any articles about this lens and Nex. That is why I ask: have you tried it ?
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For Cardona, it was his second goal of the exhibition season as the Seahawks closed out the two-game preseason slate with a 1-0-1 mark.
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R. Kelly's son Jay Kelly is speaking out and admitting something that has shocked the world. On Wednesday, Insquistr shared the news about this big announcement. He went to Instagram to share the news that he is transgender and now he is speaking out about it. Jay even went to his Ask.fm page and was willing to answer questions about it.
Jay was born Jaya, but never felt like that name or sex fit him. He has now changed his name to Jay and is speaking out about it to the world. He was only about 6 or 7 years old when he realized that he was a transgender. This is the first time that he has spoken out about it though.
This has everyone wondering what R. Kelly thinks about all of this and what he has to say. So far the famous singer has kept quiet and is not speaking out. Jay wasn't afraid to tell the world that he doesn't have a good relationship with his dad. His parents are divorced and Jay makes it sound like things are not good with dad at all. He made it very clear that his mom doesn't mind at all.
Mirror shared a little bit more about the relationship between Jay and his dad. He said that dad has not reached out to him at all. This has to make fans wonder if he went to social media and made this such a big deal today to get his dad to react. It would be the perfect way to get the attention that he wants from his famous father.
Jay shared that his mom is very proud of him and said that she would love him no matter what if he was gay, transgender and his sister is the exact same way about it. They are both fine with the way Jay Kelly is living his life now as Jay instead of Jaya.