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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I think the revelations of Snowden and Manning have answered that one pretty thoroughly.
No one.
Following the torrent of revelations about US and British government surveillance unleashed by whistle-blower Edward Snowden, we now know what many had previously guessed: with a few exceptions*, the spies have the electronic world pretty much wired. Some spied-upon countries – such as Brazil and Germany – have reacted …
I think the revelations of Snowden and Manning have answered that one pretty thoroughly.
No one.
"I think the revelations of Snowden and Manning have answered that one pretty thoroughly. No one."
Yes and no. There are all manner of legal, constitutional, and regulatory checks on the agencies in question. The problem is that those charged with exercising those checks have failed to exercise due care, and what we see is an outcome of "regulatory capture". Those who should be holding the spies to account, and keeping their actions in check have instead rubber stamped anything they were asked to do, failed to be pro-active in investigating what the agencies are doing, and then failed to hold to account said agencies when inappropriate behaviours are apparent.
One thing to bear in mind is that almost anything the NSA can do, it would seem likely the Russians and Chinese can and are doing. Hobbling NSA and GCHQ won't stop that, but would mean that "our side" wouldn't know what "their side" know about us, and "our" secrets would still be exposed to countries that have every interest in exploiting that data. Unless somebody can come up with some real, unhackable security that works (which I'm struggling to see), maybe we do have to accept that there is very little privacy in the digital world?
"One thing to bear in mind is that almost anything the NSA can do, it would seem likely the Russians and Chinese can and are doing."
That is not actually true. A foreign power cannot go to a US company and demand that a backdoor is placed in their software or that their private keys are handed over. The foreign power can also not go to a US court and demand a secret court to agree that they have sweeping powers and that companies must comply and not talk about.
Although other spy agencies are obviously utilising 'hacking' and social engineering to get into computer systems they are also being searched for and malware and systems access being blocked. You would not end up in court for actively trying to block a foreign power from getting access to your system, whereas you might if it is a local agency.
About time that the 'custodes' got out of their little bubbles and start interacting with the real world:
"One implication is that governments should consider moving funds from signals intelligence (sigint) to human intelligence, the real-world spies that infiltrate terrorist groups."
Of course, that would mean (shock, horror) lots less budget and shiny toys for GCHQ / NSA etc to play with. Also, would the general public be happy for that budget to be diverted to MI(x)* / CIA considering that these aren't the most popular agencies either?
Also, how easy is it nowadays for an individual spy to remain anonymous, unphotographed etc in a world full of cameras and were likely as not all their life from age 10-12 onwards is highly documented and public-ish?
*5 or 6?
Although some terrorists do go 'off grid' much of their material is not. It would be stupid to scrap our capabilities. Indeed, if we did there would be a swift rush to use the media that our sigint scrutinises. The same argument applies to nuclear weapons. These things cannot be magicked away.
In fairness, there isn't much point worrying about what the Chinese know about us if a) we use chinese kit for almost all of our network infrastructure and b) China owns more of our currency and major businesses than anyone else. If we got into some kind of fracas with them they would just have to sell all the things they own and western capitalism would be over. They are making a gradual, careful and well planned move to taking over the world and fair play to them, it's probably going to succeed.
The answer is:
Manning and Snowden.
"That is not actually true. A foreign power cannot go to a US company and demand that a backdoor is placed in their software or that their private keys are handed over."
But, unfortunately it seems that a Foreign Power (the US) can go to French, German and UK companies and demand that backdoors are put in place.
Heads need to roll over this affair - British, French and German heads.
The NSA is getting away with this shit beacause the default has been "do what the Americans want".
"It would be stupid to scrap our capabilities"
That would depend on who you are calling "our". Right now I'm not feeling the NSA is part of "us". It feels much more that they are yet another "them".
"they would just have to sell all the things they own"
Who would buy them? With what currency? What would happen is their "ownership" of them would be invalidated and their certificates of ownership worthless. Suddenly all the things they owned in our countries would be owned by us again.
Not to say that this wouldn't have many bad repercussions for international trade.
Yes, when they're defeating fascism, not when they're helping it.
It's called GCHQ.
If you'd read the article (or even a smattering of the relevant history), you'd see why GCHQ is nowhere near the class of Bletchley Park, in almost every definition of the word class.
Do spies like Ginger Cake and Custard? Sorry, I've no idea. It didn't feature much in any Bond film I've seen.
Lacking class doesn't alter the fact that GCHQ is an intelligence agency. Indeed the only significant distinction the article makes between Bletchley Park and GCHQ is that the former was a secret, whereas the latter merely tried and failed to operate in secret. That's a pointless and vacuous analysis in comparison to the much more significant difference that Bletchley Park operated to defeat fascism, not serve it as GCHQ does.
You think the Chinese government can't go to an equipment or software supplier and tell them that they have to insert a Chinese backdoor if they want to sell in the Chinese market? Sure they can, and with the size of the Chinese market that is a proposition that will probably be considered. Sure, doing that can screw things up for sales in the American market--PROVIDED that it is found out. But until the Snowden leaks, how many people could credibly say that the NSA was having backdoors installed in hardware and software for at the very least select IT deployments that were going to customers who were NSA target , or that the NSA was abusing it's dual mandate to promote IT security in order to identify vulnerabilities that it could exploit in service of its primary mandate of gathering SigInt.
You can get backdoors installed, provided you are an important enough customer or you have the political/regulatory authority to inflict disproportionate pain on a vendor that doesn't comply.
No American organisation is part of "us" from a UK or general European viewpoint.
Indeed, it is strongly arguable that the USA have done and continue to do more harm to UK business and the population's rights and safety than almost any other country, from subverting our government policies and security to directly providing money and arms to the IRA, including a barely disguised aim to disrupt and destroy British influence and interests in its former empire, spying on its industry and putting administrative and bureaucratic obstacles in the way of British and other non-USA businesses operating in the USA. Heavens, in WW2, the families of Cheney and other American "leaders" were selling oil and much else to Germany until Rooseveldt made clear which side should be supported. A book about an American ambassador to Germany in the 1930s makes clear how difficult he found it to report Nazi actions, e.g. against even American Jews in Germany, because of the pro-nazi sympathies of his American upper-class staff and the American foreign office.
Joseph Kennedy had to be repatriated because, as ambassador in London, he was spying for the nazis. Do not imagine that these attitudes have really changed.
I do hope that Cameron and friends do not really believe that the NSA (and possibly GCHQ as their willing poodles) were not spying on them just as on Merkel, Hollande and others. Even if, by some miracle, they were not spying on Conservative ministers, we can be sure that the official Opposition and other groups were of interest, quite apart from industrial espionage.
But how many US Companies are actually outsourced laboratories based around the Globe? That means local employment and local "spies" available to plant all sorts or code or devices into these products FOR ALL to see and use.
Who polices the police? Maybe the police police police the police. In that case, who polices the police police? Ultimately you need to have someone at the top you can trust.
The Chinese government did go to various American companies and ask that back doors be placed in their systems. Google said no, and decided to pull out of the country. Yahoo and Microsoft presumably decided they would comply with local laws and continue trading in the country. Chinese companies like Baidu, Renren and Sina Weibo will obviously comply with local laws and provide Chinese authorities with the information they ask for.
Crap. You think the Chinese don't influence foreign companies and the data they collect? Ask Google and Yahoo...
"That is not actually true. A foreign power cannot go to a US company and demand that a backdoor is placed in their software or that their private keys are handed over."
Demand, no. Put an operative inside the company to do the job? Easy.
Keep in mind, the NSA had a mole: Snowden. A Booz Allan Hamilton contractor. Aside from his altruistic motives, what he did could be repeated as we speak by numerous others. Only the beneficiaries of their work would differ. And if their leaks don't reach The Guardian, we may never know of their existence.
The other part of the equation is the wire-tapping and use of international cooperation to get around your own laws. China can tap its own infrastructure, but asking the UK, Australia and USA to filter off traffic for it to analyse probably wouldn't get it very far. China's reach into critical parts of the internet is rather more limited than the West's.
Competition. Have two organisations that each police the other. Institutional loyalty and competitive instincts will drive them to do a good job.
Exactly. Back then we were fighting a specific enemy, we had declared war on them and we were spying on them. Three green lights in a row.
Now we have no specific enemy, just the nebulous term "terrorists", the USA hasn't declared war on any specific country and they are spying on them. Red, red, murky grey!
That is the problem and that is why we are getting more whistleblowers.
Last time I looked, the US Government and the NSA had not declared war on Germany, Brazil, the UK and they are not involved in being hostile against the USA, well, they weren't until Snowden told them they were being spied upon...
Fighting against terrorists is all well and good (although when the US declared war on terrorists, I was expecting them to turn up in Northern Ireland and the Basque region, but I guess they meant "terrorists operating out of areas with oil interests, you can deal with your own poor terrorists"), but the NSA is basically treating the whole world and all its citizens as terrorists until proven irrevocably guilty and eliminated by a drone strike.
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No, no and no ... president Obama is said to have personally known about the wiretapping of Angies phone in 2010, I assume it is the same for all other stuff ... they all damn well knew what they were doing, and they knew it was "legal" ... patriot act etc ...
This is not just some rogue spys that have gone mad, this is institutionalized surveillance, as soon as info of some deal was detected and an American company was about to lose said deal, the information was passed on to the American company ... this has happened several, no, multiple times. Think of aerospace, credit card alternative in Russia ... I am even sure they looked into the MS-Nokia deal and helped MS get in for "cheaper".
Silly thing for Blighty is that the same cannot be said when it was for the benefit of British companies, sometimes even British companies were "betrayed" by their government in favor of US companies ... BAE must be very happy to hear all this, believe me.
BTW, while at it .... We knew already that the US was wiretapping frenetically across the EU. because of the prism installations in the UK - I do not really understand why this is news. I mean, Snowden only provided proof to the bloody obvious ... based on several documentaries I have seen, it appeared that the installations in the UK were "big enough" to wiretap every single mobile phone conversation in Europe - this was news probably some 5 or 6 years ago, to me at least.
So no, you live on some other planet, have not read the news in the last 15 years, or simply fail to analyze it ... I am sure you fell for "Mandela is a terrorist" back in the 80's and still believe JFK was assassinated by some lone gunner, thought so.
BTW, contrary to popular belief, some Dutch investigators found out some 7 or 8 years ago who killed JFK ... that info might be censured in your country, so I cannot really blame you for not knowing who exactly took which shot ... but still ... as Coldplay sing: Open up your eyes.
"That is not actually true. A foreign power cannot go to a US company and demand that a backdoor is placed in their software or that their private keys are handed over."
It doesn't have to be demanded. The companies your referring to will do it willingly while claiming they didn't know or don't have the kind of control needed to prevent it.
People will buy (and have in their homes) all those things that are made by the other guy. Then complain when a problem is found.
Facebook is a great example of this.
"A foreign power cannot go to a US company and demand that a backdoor is placed in their software or that their private keys are handed over."
But they could, however, go to one of their own companies that just happens to be manufacturing components or devices for a US company and insist on some strategic 'tweaks' to the blueprints...
Basically what has changed is we are not in a life and death fight where tens of thousands of people are dying against one of the most evil regimes in the history of mankind. The current war against terror really does not qualify.
Also anyone surprised by Tempora has a really short memory. It is not that long ago that towers where built to intercept the phone calls between ROI and the UK during the troubles.
In a real war people know who the enemy is and what victory looks like. Bletchley Park staff knew that why secrecy was paramount and looked forward to they day they could all stop doing it.
If any government want to stop whistle-blowers they should convince the people of the expediency of the bad stuff they do. That's not going to be easy because it's all bullshit.
Capenhurst. Thanks for reminding me, I'd forgotten. It's somewhere on the Sub Brit site ( http://www.subbrit.org.uk/ ), which is a treasure trove of cold war nostalgia.
A surprising argument, coming from someone with your handle, 'Sir Magnus'.
Spot on.
As much as politicians like to spout off about War on terror, on drugs, on obesity etc etc etc, they can't keep duping the people. It's just as Orwell anticipated, permanent war is required by politicians to be able to keep the population afraid and to divert resources and money to their pet projects and cronies. And since there isn't any real war against a real enemy, enemies have to be invented
In a real war people know who the enemy is and what victory looks like. Bletchley Park staff knew that why secrecy was paramount and looked forward to they day they could all stop doing it.
Except that the people involved in Bletchley Park kept the secret after the war was finished. When that same technology continued to get used in the Cold War - even though that wasn't a real war either.
And it isn't all bullshit. There is a real problem with international terrorism. It may be used as an excuse by governments and intelligence agencies to hoover up more power and money than they possibly should. But even that's no easy call. They're going to get blamed when there's a terrorist attack, as has happened with every major recent attack, for failing to stop it. And they're going to get blamed when they gather too much data in trying to do so.
There is no perfect solution. But denying there's any problem at all, is just plain silly.
Really? I havent seen much of a terrorist problem lately, atleast no more then it ever has been. You have some peaks and some lows on the scales but in general its all still very meh. Its mostly a figment propagated by those with the biggest interest in perpetual war.
> permanent war is required by politicians
Although it's worth noting that the British armed forces have been on active deployment somewhere on the planet every year since 1948.
As for the original piece:
> The expiry period for such secrets is a bit shorter these days:
There are secrets and there are secrets. I am sure, though based on no evidence, that what gets leaked to the public, or gets its whistle blown,is only the tip of the iceberg compared to all the stuff that does stay behind closed doors.
" I havent seen much of a terrorist problem lately...."
That's like saying we don't need our "beware of the dog" sign anymore because no one has been bitten here recently..
Or to put it another way;
A chap was on holiday at the coast. One morning he's wandering along the edge of a steep cliff.
He happens to get talking to a local and says that he's surprised there isn't a fence there.
"There used to be", said the local. "But no one ever fell off so we got rid of it".
In the book, Pym spied on the US in the interests of the Soviet Union.
A problem with globalisation that governments haven't really spotted is that there is no obvious reason for having any loyalty to the country in which you happen to be born. Many British people owe far more real allegiance to, say, IBM, Nissan or Honda than to the British government.
If Philby (who must be a large part of Le Carre's Pym) decided that the British aristocracy was rotten and its government corrupt, and that Communism offered a better future for humanity once the United States was defeated, he might have been wrong but it is a consistent, coherent proposition that, in his mind, justified spying on the US on behalf of both Britain and the Soviet Union - which is what he always claimed to have done.
I don't remember a huge backlash against the intelligence agencies after previous attacks in the UK.
Huge hatred for the people who did it, but no normal people (obviously the likes of Blair, Straw and Blunkett don't count) were demanding our rights be thrown into the Moulinex on the spurious grounds it would make us safer. If anyone was saying the intelligence services had failed it was the politicians who promptly proceeded to shower them with more money and power.
If terrorism were to disappear, the focus would shift to `domestic extremism'. And a lot of that would probably disappear if the government spent similar amounts on the population's psychiatric health.
The amount of toilet paper used by the government is (or was) an official secret.
The amount of toilet paper used by the government is (or was) an official secret.
Quite bloody right too! If people knew how much toilet paper we were getting through, then the terrorists would be able to measure exactly how scared we are at any particular time...
"permanent war is required by politicians"
It's been going on for thousands of years, it swing between the evil invading empire, or the other religious groups.
I don't see this changing for several thousand years. So long as we are a bigoted, self hating breed, it will happen.
For the sake of argument, does that lack of much terrorist activity indicate that NSA et al. activities are unneeded, or does it follow from their success? It is worth noting also that whether there is "much of a terrorist problem" is location and situation dependent. Perceptions in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan might well differ from those in the US or UK.
That said, the type of data collection being done cannot prevent all terrorist attacks or even the worst. At best it can improve the ability to identify, track, and capture those who have committed terrorist acts or are planning them, but only if carried out a scale like that being reported. And it is most likely to succeed against terrorists who are not very bright, not very careful, or not very skilled at their chosen occupation. We are correct to doubt that marginal gains in the ability to track and catch terrorists (and other criminals) warrants the expense, and the general creepiness, of these programs, as well as their potential for serious misuse. Our elected officials, eyes fixed firmly on the daily news cycle and whose long term concern is the next election, have done a rather poor job representing us.
Until the next batch of bodies is dragged from the underground, or wherever, people will nay say.
"Really? I havent seen much of a terrorist problem lately, atleast no more then it ever has been"
One of the problems with psychiatric patients is that, as soon as their psychotropic medication kicks in, they consider themselves better and not in need of their medication. When they are ill they sing a different tune. Again the other day some people were arrested on grounds of planning/preparing terrorist acts. That you do not see dead bodies means absolutely bugger all, except probably that the intelligence and security system works. When dead bodies are dredged up from the underground it has failed, and people start to squawk. Not unlike psychiatry, and general medicine too, where failure to complete a course of antibiotics merely strengthens the resistance of remaining microbial organisms to the medication.
"Although it's worth noting that the British armed forces have been on active deployment somewhere on the planet every year since 1948."
Just a small niggle; every year but one AIUI. I learned this during my period on duty. It will have preceded the last outbreak of 'the troubles'.
"That's like saying we don't need our "beware of the dog" sign anymore because no one has been bitten here recently.."
Or, as some Romans said "Si vis pacem, para bellum", something which the British forgot in between 1918 and 1939; we paid dearly for that mistake.
"If Philby (who must be a large part of Le Carre's Pym) decided that the British aristocracy was rotten and its government corrupt, and that Communism offered a better future for humanity once the United States was defeated. [...]"
Philby was one of a number of people recruited because of their belief in fairies at the bottom of the garden, and that they knew better than others. Along with the like of Eric Hobsbawm (a lifelong friend of Ralph Miliband [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Miliband ] who felt that the loss of 20 millions would justify a victorious socialism) they sided with the butcher, Stalin and his corrupt 'socialist' aristocracy. That was the point about Le Carre's work; this was a constant struggle during which western democratic countries evolved, while the empire of the USSR became more brutal, more paranoid and engaged in even greater military adventurism. By the time the setting in which Le Carre's book was chronologically apt the aristocracy were in decay and almost completely irrelevant, whilst the repression of the proletariat, by its vanguard, in the USSR was plotted by the likes of Charter 77; the Czechs, the Hungarians, these peoples were mauled by the invading, undemocratic east. After WWII states in eastern Europe were swallowed up by the adventurism of the eastern empire, which greedily sucked in their resources in return for 'protection' and the purging/liquidation of 'enemies of their people' (these people, who had false consciousness, could be 'guilty' merely of 'revisionism', or disagreeing with Leninist-Marxism [...])
All of the apostles, and other Leninist Marxist twits supported a bankrupt system that was brutal, harsh, violent and economically foundering except for those few components which were in private hands, the allotments on which private individuals maintained high productivity, whilst the collective farms had increasingly worse results (as with all other state enterprises). Leninist-Marxists, both in the International and in the heart of the USSR, had necessarily to overlook these failures, partly because at home they would have been purged by Uncle Jo (as we once misguidedly called him), and partly because the pain of cognitive dissonance for those in the west would have been intolerable, given that this was their religion. To say nothing of feeling foolhardy for supporting such egregious bullshit (I am currently bereft of adjectives in this context, having read lotus eating posts in which people complacently suggest terrorism is not a problem because they have not seen any).
The collectivisation process, in which the kulaks were variously dispossessed, slaughtered, persecuted, locked away and tortured [...] was a part of the utter ruination of the then USSR, in which after the revolution monks and nuns were gaoled, whilst murderers, rapists and thieves were released because the dictates of PC socialism held that society was responsible for their crimes (and let's face it they made excellent NKVD, KGB and other bullies), something from which those who believed in fairies at the bottom of the Marxist garden averted their eyes, especially when the commanding idiot of these 'useful idiots' ignored British warnings - and germane to the current debate, these were supplied only because we had broken German code - of a forthcoming invasion of the USSR by Stalin's pal in Berlin.
Before this occurred, because Stalin professed the belief that they belonged to the former 'ruling classes' the officer classes were 'purged', and the army had become a headless, pointless socialist wreck (this is something recently proposed by some idiot in the British Fabian society, because it is 'classist'). After the invasion Stalin was forced to concede that his folly had resulted in the deaths of many thousands of Soviet soldiers, reinstated the rank structure of the Red Army and looked to Marshal Zhukov to pull his arse out of the fire.
Meanwhile, in spite of the stupidity and waste, both of resources and human lives, people continued (and still do) to believe in the Leninist-Marxist fairy at the bottom of the garden. There was no comparison. These people were bunglers and murderers, they meant us no good, and the basis of any resemblance of an alliance with us was that we would distract the weight of German forces from them, hence them pressing us to open another front, even though we were at first too weak, having been defeated by a superior, better equipped German military that had evolved modern tactics to match.
...but of course the point about the apostles was that they believed they knew better, they believed in the vacuous concept of 'false consciousness', something which notables such as la Harman in the last Labour government believed, and felt that lying and overriding the electorate was their given right, though not given them by the electorate; rather it came from the circularity of believing in Marxist fairies at the bottom of the garden.
The moral of the story; all revolutions, all attempts to impose an ideology, by means devious or blatant, are not only condemned to failure, but they also result in the loss of life on a massive scale, from the French revolution onward. These ideas are always imposed on people by others who feel that they know better, false consciousness or otherwise. Until 1997 the concept of gradualism, slow, careful reform, characterised this countries' diplomatic evolution. I don't need to remind you of what happened, except to observe that when people who profess to be socialists try to play population genetics the results are invariably ugly, and how Stalin led a life of luxury even when in his underground bunker (look at englishrussia.com for an interesting peek) as the contemporary case of Tony Blair exemplifies, and the leaders of most British trades unions, who live very well thank you brothers. Flats in the Barbican for retired union leaders? Sumptuous pensions for retired union leaders? Animal farm indeed.
What we protect, by means of intelligence that enables us to be prepared, is valuable. When we fail to scrutinise behaviour in advance of acts we see tall buildings felled, assassinations, people blown up under ground and the toppling of elected governments. That is the point of cold war novels; we protected ourselves, and we wrote about our struggles, even the minutiae of fictional personalities.
Thank you for reminding me of the book. I have them all, and when I'm home next I'll have to look and see if mice have eaten them. Having lived through those interesting days in an interesting job I feel lucky. I was involved, and am concerned to see people sleeping again or using the argumentum ad hominem to support inactivity as happened some 80 years or so ago.
"There is a real problem with international terrorism."
The question is why.
There's always been a few nutters with a grudge against society and there probably always will be but they're not the main threat. Most terrorism of recent times comes from people who either perceive they've been hurt or who have actually been hurt by policies of the countries of whom they are threatening.
Since the Reagan Thatcher years and the downfall of communism the West has indulged itself in an orgy of internationalism, rampant capitalism, free trade, international treaties, multinational companies, etc. There's exploitation of third-world resources, exploitation of pharmaceutical patents, imperial imposition of intellectual property 'rights', exploitation of third-world labour (Pakistani building collapse etc.), cultural imperialism and so on and so on—much of which has disadvantaged those who've little power to fight against it.
Even in instances where the West's wrongdoings are just perceptions, they're strong and firmly held. And why not? The recent behaviour of the West's bankers—those one would expect to be the most trustworthy—were found to be morally corrupt—is just another of many signals the West is sending as to its disingenuousness.
Until the West straightens out its questionable ethics and genuinely tries to make the world a fairer and more equitable place, there'll always be those who'll take extreme and terrible measures to 'right' things.
To date, terrorism hasn't made the West blunt its behaviour, thus perhaps the current 'threat' is the price it's prepared to pay for its continued indulgence.


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Flying Through Chemo
Saturday, March 09, 2013
I haven't posted anything since August of last year. Back then, I felt like my world was falling apart, but now, I have found renewed strength and a more joyous heart. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2012. Since that time, I've had a mastectomy. Both the procedure and my recovery went very well. I later had to have more lymph nodes removed. That was a little harder to recover from, but wasn't too bad, in the grand scheme of things. 5 of the nodes were positive for cancer cells, so my oncologist recommended chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
I had read many stories of people who had terrible chemo experiences, even spoke personally to some who'd been through it, and it made it a very daunting task to undertake. I was surprised, however, of how much I looked forward to my first treatment. I guess I felt that I was diving into the fight with both fists up. I was pleasantly surprised at how well I tolerated the treatments. My first chemo regimen was 4 cycles spaced 3 weeks apart. I had no nausea or vomiting, and what symptoms I had were mild. Next, I started a different chemo drug which consists of 12 weekly treatments. I just had my 4th treatment today. I am still tolerating treatments well, with only mild complaints and no nausea or vomiting. My appetite is good, perhaps a little too good. I've gained a little weight- maybe about 7 pounds. The steroids that are given with the infusions may increase my appetite.
I do struggle with a little fatigue, but I was tired before this journey started, so it's not a dramatic difference. My main complaint lately is dry mouth brought on by the chemo. It wasn't as bad the last time. I really feel like I am flying through all of this. My spirits are high most of the time. I'm in the middle of my total treatment regimen. My PET and CAT scans I had a few months ago showed good news of no active areas (no apparent cancer cells), so I am encouraged by that. I am heartened by all the people who keep me in their thoughts and prayers.
Though my weight loss efforts have stalled while I've been undergoing treatment, I am reevaluating my diet to make some healthier changes. For the last several months diet has fallen by the wayside as I've learned to deal with this whole situation. I've been immersed, you might say, in the whole process of chemotherapy treatments, doctor visits, dealing with symptoms of treatments that, while mild, still need dealing with, trying to catch up on my household chores which always seem just a little bit beyond me, taking care of my kids and husband, etc. We also lost my mother-in-law last November, and that has left a hole not easily filled. How I wish I could call her up. She was a 10 year breast cancer survivor who succumbed to complications of diabetes. As she was bedfast in the hospital while I was in another hospital about to have my mastectomy, her greatest wish was to be there with ME. That's just how she was. We all miss her terribly.
I hope that I can be a breast cancer survivor, also. I want to be a THRIVER! That, to me, includes getting my weight under control. It can make a difference in my life in so many ways. I want my best years to still be ahead of me!!
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AGAWRITER, I have 2 more Taxol treatments to go. I just started having neuropathy issues a week and a half ago. My oncologist graded it about a 1 on a scale of 1-4. It's not constant and it's mostly prickly feelings.
I'll be starting radiation in a couple of months, probably. Hopefully, it will go well, though I'm not looking forward to it.
Hope you are doing well!
I'm so glad spring is here!!
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I am just about your age, and was diagnosed with breast cancer, stage 3a in July, had a mastectomy, and then did 11 sessions of Taxol, and 4 if FAC. I am just about to start radiation, in fact, I need to leave in a little while to make my first appointment. I did find the chemo easier than I had thought-- I had nueropathy issues with the Taxol, but almost nothing with FAC after the first 3 days. Good luck with the rest of your treatments.
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NANCYPAT1, thank you for your comment. I'm so glad your mother had such a good outcome and had so many more years to enjoy her life. I would like to do as your friend has done, so I am really striving to make some changes.
I read the "thriver" term somewhere else, so I can't take credit for it, but it is a wonderful image
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I really appreciate it!
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|There is coverage in the papers today (Daily Telegraph, Independent and Guardian) of the trial of three Muslims from Birmingham charged with terrorist offences. The men are alleged to have plotted 'the British version of 9/11'.
From the Independent:
"The ringleaders of a home-grown terror cell were secretly recorded plotting a coordinated suicide attack by eight militants carrying rucksacks stuffed with explosives in what was designed to be the British version of the 9/11 attacks, a court heard today.
"The Birmingham-based plotters discussed plans to blow themselves up or set off bombs in crowded areas to cause mass deaths and "carnage in the name of Allah" that would outstrip the death toll in the attacks on the London transport network in 2005, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
"Police bugging devices caught one of the men suggesting that the 7/7 strikes seven years ago, which killed 52 people, had "gone a bit wrong" because the suicide attackers had forgotten to put nails in the bombs to cause maximum damage, said Brian Altman QC, for the prosecution.
""The intention was plainly to kill and injure people while achieving their own martyrdom if at all possible," said Mr Altman on the opening day of the trial at Woolwich Crown Court, southeast London.
"Two of the men, Irfan Naseer, 31, a pharmacy graduate, and Irfan Khalid, 27, twice travelled to terrorist training camps in Pakistan and sought to instruct a third man, Ashik Ali, 27, when they returned about making bombs in his Birmingham flat, the court heard.
"The three, among 11 men and a woman rounded up by police officers from September last year, were said to be central figures in the plot and were responsible for recruiting others, planning the attack and raising money.
"The three defendants, who deny terrorist offences, were said to be inspired by Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born extremist, who was killed in a drone attack along with other militants in the Yemen 12 days after the first of the arrests in Birmingham.
"However their plans for a terrorist spectacular were hampered by a string of setbacks. They included the loss of some £9,000 by their chief fundraiser because of "unwise and incompetent" trading on the foreign currency exchanges.
"The court heard that the money amounted to the majority of the sums they raised illegally on the streets of Birmingham in the name of the charity Muslim Aid. They planned to use some of the money to set up a dawah, an Islamic teaching centre in Birmingham, which Mr Khalid described as a "beautiful cover" to recruit men for jihad.
"Other setbacks included the swift return of four men sent to Pakistan for terror training after one of the men "messed up" and called his family from Pakistan and they organised their return.
"The court heard that the three defendants were placed under long-term surveillance before the two Irfans returned from their second long trip to Pakistan.
"Bugging devices were put inside the house used as a bomb-making factory at White Street, in Birmingham, and two cars owned by Naseer and the fundraiser Rahin Ahmed, who has already pleaded guilty to terrorist offences, the court heard."
The trial continues at Woolwich Crown Court.
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I have a generic question about whether it might sometimes make sense to fix specific regression coefficients to predetermined values. And if this makes sense in particular cases, how do you best go about it?
In my case, I have about 1,600 observations but I am interested chiefly in a variable for which about 600 observations are missing. If I run a normal regression (OLS,GLS,CLM) all the variables that have missing values are dropped, and I am wondering whether it is possible to "save" all the observations to determine the coefficients for the variables for which I have full information, and then run a separate regression to determine the coefficients of the variables with all the missing values.
In simple formulas it looks about like this:
Step 1
For variables
x1,x2,x3,x4 I have 1,600 observations
glm.core <- glm(y ~ x1 + x2 + x3 + x4) # determine the coefficients in the regression
beta <- glm.core$coef
Step 2
For variables
z1 and
z2 I only have a 1,000 observations
glm.main <- glm(y ~ beta[1]*x1 + beta[2]*x2 + beta[3]*x3 + beta[4]*x4 + z1 + z2)
So I want to predetermine the betas for which I have full information and then fix their values in the main regression. (Maybe this is a completely pointless idea and if so please tell me)
I know something like that can be achieved with
offset BUT this does not work for factor variables and
x2 and
x3 are factors (
x2 has values 'university', 'firm', 'government', and
x3 has values 'known' , 'unknown', 'not relevant').
Is an alternative to solving this problem to reduce the response variable
ywith the fitted values of the
glm.coremodel and run the regression like that?
If this is a sensible option
- What happens to the errors?
- How to calculate degrees of freedom?
- Would this work as well with ordered logit (CLM) models where the fitted values are percentages?
Are there better ways of dealing with this problem?
PS: I am using R software, forgot to mention this initially...


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NORTH SMITHFIELD- The May 5th meeting of the North Smithfield Town Council will be dedicated to two major agenda items that are of interest to town residents
NORTH SMITHFIELD- Fundraising for Slatersville: America's First Mill Village,
NORTH SMITHFIELD- The North Smithfield Athletic Association (NSAA) will once again sponsor the Northmen 5K race
NORTH SMITHFIELD- The Planning Board will meet this Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Kendall Dean Auditorium, 83 Greene Street.
This meeting is of interest to residents who live in the Sayles Hill Road area, because it will address the proposed expansion of Anchor Subaru. Anyone interested is encouraged to attend to learn of the plans. For more information, please call Bobbi at 767-2200 ext. 302
NORTH SMITHFIELD- The following activities are being planned for the next two weeks during the National Grid Interstate Reliability Project:
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ST LOUIS (LALATE) – A 6.0 Solomon Islands earthquake today has struck moments ago. The Solomon Islands earthquake today April 4, 2014 began in the evening hours. Damage assessment is pending.
Officials tell news that a 6.0 magnitude Solomon Islands earthquake today started just after 10:40 pm local time. The quake was deep, and on land. Reps tell news that the quake started forty miles below ground level. As a result it could be felt across sections of the island.
USGS indicates to news that the Solomon Islands earthquake was seventeen miles west of Kirakira. It was one hundred thirty-nine miles east of Honiara. It started roughly five hundred miles south of Papua New Guinea and six hundred miles north of Vanuatu.
The same region has been struck by several even stronger quakes in the last year. In February 2013, a 7.1 magnitude quake hit the region. The quake began fourteen miles south of Lata in the Solomon Islands. The quake was roughly three hundred miles northwest of Luganville, Vanuatu. The quake was also roughly five hundred mile east of Honiara, Solomon Islands and northwest of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.
USGS tells news that "Since 1900 there have been 15 M7.5+ earthquakes recorded near New Zealand. Nine of these, and the four largest, occurred along or near the Macquarie Ridge, including the 1989 M8.2 event on the ridge itself, and the 2004 M8.1 event 200 km to the west of the plate boundary, reflecting intraplate deformation."


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Before you go badmouthing your partner to your friends for neither having bought you the fanciest flowers, nor having taken you to the most exclusive restaurant, take a moment to consider the following Valentine's others experienced:
Jennifer Love Hewitt was spotted alone at Taco Bell, leaving with a bag full of "I love you just the way you are," with a side order of "Valentine's, schmalentines," all topped off with some "your-bowels-will-exact-vengeance-later" salsa. See? Even an American sweetheart—albeit, a slightly irrelevant one—can have a crumby holiday, devoid of roses and Eskimo kisses.
Britney Spears's boyfriend, Jason Trawick, really rolled out the red carpet for his gal on St. Valentine's Day! Who wouldn't be swept off their feet by a romantic breakfast?? Never mind that it wasn't in bed (although they both play the part with their bed-head), or that he didn't cook it himself. It's the thought that counts, and Trawick knew he'd struck gold when he said to the McDonald's drive-thru attendant, "Go ahead and make hers a McCafe sugar-free vanilla cappuccino, we're already celebrating." Yeah, he knows that jewelry is a gift you get from people who can't think of anything better and adulterers. Smart.
So if celebrities with huge bank accounts flub up Valentine's Day don't feel badly that yours was less than perfect. If you got a carnation and a meal from a restaurant that doesn't have a drive-thru lane, then consider yourself a winner.
Still not convinced? Can't relate to Hollywood glam? Here's a short list of what other people around Austin were looking for on Valentine's, and sought to find that special someone via a post on craigslist:
1. There's still time to salvage Valentine's Day. – 46
Secretly yearning for the "boyfriend experience" on what has turned into a cold Valentine's Day? It's not too late and can still be done in a very casual manner with no expectations, BUT with possibilities! Low key, laid back, 46 year old nonchalant charmer, willing to make your desire come true. Polite and chivalrous, always respectful of your boundaries...email me NOW!
P.S. The Olympics are somewhat entertaining, but would much rather spend the evening alongside a woman with a "Gold Medal" worthy personality.
2. Re: Crazy girls need love, too. – 28
Valentine's Day is a day where I always remember all the crazy straight girls I fell in love with and dated. Always the wrong decision but always a great idea. I'd gladly take the crazy over the normal.
Maria Maria's has the best duck tacos.
3. Better fishing through poetry. – 37
My name is Chris
my penis is small
Back in the '80's
I liked Kids in the Hall
I've got a cool dog
his penis is smaller
He was fixed when I got him;
no longer a baller.
My name's still the same and I lied --
it's average
All I want is a girl
who'll make me a sandwich
It's Saturday night --
Valentine's eve
Too bad your last date
wiped his mouth with his sleeve
I'm flip-flopping again
'bout that stuff I told you
Though not that it matters
like Texas, it's huge
Just a quick side note;
know my perception --
Back in 2000
Gore won the election
You clicked, you've read
now you're left with two questions:
Just how big IS his unit?
(And how lame is this poem)
For you hopeless romantics, these posts can still be found on craigslist, keyword valentine. Who knows? Maybe this year's Valentine's Day story isn't over for you yet.


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languorous murmurs. . .
Nectared opulent press
quakes reactions.
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2:28 pm, September 23, 2015
Copyright © Olive Eloisa Guillermo | Year Posted 2015
Leaves have fallen around us throughout these many years
Mist has clouded our eyes with vapors of vast confusion...
No one told us then, how storms might come, how skies would gather tears
Or how the sun would often hide, and seem to disappear
Perhaps those years, might have done such harm, to have shattered our illusions
Instead, we lean into each other's arms, and will stay until conclusion...
For Alfred's Contest: ABC of Love
Copyright © Carrie Richards | Year Posted 2013
. Wish
I'd like to come to you
But, our streets are red
And I do not have
But my white dress
Copyright © Faleeha Hassan | Year Posted 2012
By Dane Smith-Johnsen
Love approaches and does not scare.
Love bears and does not let go.
Love cares and does not shrink.
Love declares and does not shun.
Love establishes and does not tear down.
Love forgives and does not remind.
Love gives and does not expect.
Love has and does not gloat.
Love hears and does not tell.
Love hopes and does not give up.
Love instills and does not corrupt.
Love joins and does not run over.
Love keeps and does not stray.
Love lives and does not stress.
Love manages and does not control.
Love persuades but does not discourage.
Love proclaims and does not hide.
Love questions and does not badger.
Love rejoices and does not displease.
Love sees and does not condemn.
Love talks and does not defame.
Love understands and does not misconstrue.
Love values and does not insult.
Love wants and does not ignore.
Love XOXOXOX and does not reject.
Love yearns, and does not insist.
Love zaps, and does not destroy.
Copyright © Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen | Year Posted 2009
...and bow Cupid directs
ensuring fate guaranting hope
Idyllic joint knocking late
my nocturnal oddity
Persistence quick revives
skeptic thoughts, unable vestiges
within xeric yearlong zone
Copyright © Ruben O. | Year Posted 2009
Antwan you are the love of my life
You came into my life six years ago
I love you more now then I ever did
Each day that comes I fall in love with you all over again
You are the men of my dreams
You are the father of my son
Antwan you are the man that I am going to get married to
You make me feel so free and sexy
When you are near me I feel like I can be anything I wanna be
Antwan you are my best friend
when I am down you are all ways there for me when I need you
We had our ups and down but we are still together
The love I have for you is forever
I hope you feel the some way but I know you do
Let me love you the way you need to be loved
Antwan I need you and I want you
I want to lay next to every night and wake up next to you in the morning
Being with you is wonderful and amazing
When I am Kissing you it feels so right
When you hold me I feel so safe in your arms
You make me happy
Antwan you are like 1,000,000 scoops of vanilla ice cream I have to have more
God had sent you to me for a reason and the reason is that I was look for
someone like you.
God told me that your the one for me and that I need you to keep you in my life
I love you so much
Antwan Thank you for loving me the way you do.
Vanessa Brown-Woodberry
For The Man I Love Antwan Woodberry
Copyright © Vanessa Brown | Year Posted 2006
There is a place you can go that is full of only love and Warmth .
you will be surrounded by a light that shines from the Heavens ,
Sprinkles of Silver and Gold.
This place is filled with brilliant colors of Purple , vibrant Gold, all colors.
not one Color is less significant then another ,
for every color is equal here .
This place is surrounded by the beauty of different Flowers.
All flowers have significance here . No one Flower is better then another .
All Flowers are equal here .
It is important you know , you can cry here , and should cry as often as needed .
For the tears will cleanse your Soul and give the Flowers water to grow.
No one Tear is insignificant here , every tear has value and not one is better then another .
money holds no value , Where you live , what you own, has no significance here .
You will be surrounded by a beautiful light that shines from the Heavens .
A shining warm light will encircle you and allow nothing to hurt you .
Hate will be shed at the door like an old jacket of no use.
There is a place of beauty and Worth.
This place will not be found on Earth .
It is a place where no one person is better then another .
Copyright © Shanity Rain | Year Posted 2013
A is for Amazing we all wish to be
B is for Blessings that help us to see
C is for Caring which humbles our world
D is for Dancing where joy is unfurled
E is for Empathy that makes a great friend
F is for Friendships we hope never end
G is for Goodness that makes our light shine
H is for Hope in a world so sublime
I is for Incredible, which stands out in a crowd
J is for Joy that smiles so loud
K is for Kisses that make our hearts sing
L is for Love that trumps everything
M is for Memories that highlight our life
N is for "Never" that causes us strife
O is for Open that closes out hate
P is for Persistence in following fate
Q is for Questioning, cause wisdom it brings
R is for Ressurection and the Hope that it springs
S is for Sensational which all love should be
T is for Thankfulness for what God gave to me
U is for Unconditional love that is treasured
V is for Volumes that cannot be measured
W is for Wondrous, Joy to extremes
X is for Xanadu that resides in our dreams
Y is for Yearning as it helps us find bliss
Z is for Zealous Love, that made me write this
So if all these words were bound up in one
Ahhh! There's a life that's second to none!
Copyright © Bernard Colasurdo | Year Posted 2013
~My Trip With Love~
A arrival from Montreal to San Francisco seeing my son and his children.
B beautiful red roses on my approach expressing their love towards me.
C for caring to have an eye contact honoring my motherly devotion & fidelity.
D for dreams come true when i sleep at night in my own studio.
E for enjoy having our breakfast first day while exchanging our life time stories.
F for faithfulness towards one another was so important since his childhood.
G good friends who invites me to their homes to meet their families.
H for happiness when I run to the restaurant help greett his customers at work.
I interfering with my sons life is a long forgotten issue, a perpetual respect .
J for jokes we exchange together through evenings laughing endlessly.
K kissing me good night when the night is over for me to retire.
L for love that I get from both of them when I cook an oriental dish.
M morning ride on a tour with family & soft music while driving.
N for never do I complain about any subject when shared together.
O older, but I don't let them feel my arthritis pains when I am visiting.
P for pictures are taken as souvenirs from this fabulous journey once a year
Q quite evenings when I leave my son and wife to have an intimate night.
R for roll up my sleeves to clean their home to amaze them out of love.
S surprise when home from work to a house clean & table set for dinner.
T transport for me is the subway my independence not to bother him.
U unique love between a son and mother, he is my rock. Best friends.
V variable outings touring the city while discussing his children's future.
W wanting those happy days to last forever. But will return next year.
X xylophone for enjoying the music of our last dinner together.
Y yearning from my depth to have wanted my stay to last longer.
Z zone when we said farewell at the end of the visitors area. Tears of joy.
Visiting my sons once a year is my dream come true forever. The love for my children has always been, "The Endless Love Of A Child".
Therese Bacha
. 28/5/2013
An ABC poem :For Alfred Vassello
Copyright © Therese Bacha | Year Posted 2013
Love raided the heart
And occupied my mind
There was no chance
But to surrender
For, the love army surrounded the gates
Hopes failed
Wishes shattered
Army encountered
Ceasefire was restored
I began to forget the hard days
The army again planned an offence
Where I had no chance of defence
From then on:
I am in a state of alert
Where I cannot avert
The sweet pain of love
Copyright © Ahmed Waheed Sarmed | Year Posted 2007
The breeze at dawn,
Whispering secrets to birds, chirping melodious lullabies,
Waking up to the touch of the first gleam of morning rays
Softly teasing my eyes..
Just the glance of a reflection
Of a living god
Walking along the corridor…
Making my heart racing..
The most amazing soul ever..
Wolverine ears..ebony eyes..emerald green shirt..
With the stethoscope around the collar..
Why do I feel like I have known you eternally
Those eyes full of kindness..
That beautiful smile,
Always illuminating a gloomy day..
those lips murmering words of humanity..
making my thoughts cherished,
After the darkness of a very long night
Missing you with bits and pieces of my heart
A new sun has rised,with a ray of new hope for the life..
Just like the Night dew clings to soil
Making the plants glisten..
brightening my days,left, thinking of you..
You are the aroma of me being alive..
When my life was lamenting
For some more hard breathes
You were the one who made me encouraged,
To love the life,,
Because not everyone under the sun gets a second chance to live..
Walking towards me..
Uttering the most soothing words ever..
Making my heart beats faster and faster..
Looking into my pale brown eyes..
Im almost melting..
Praise the lord for not letting me stand by my own..
If not,I Would have melted on my knees..
Believe me,
Im under your charms..
Knowing that I don't have enough breathes to love you..
Your warmth,now in my blood,
Just like
The 'Chemo' scorched veins, showing
That im still breathing,without a life..
Hoping, that Time would reveal, what lies ahead..
Even though,it is the bitter truth..
looking for a time machine,
capable of pausing the minutes.,
brickwall myself from the last breathe
Crying in my shadows..
Forever is not a very long time for me..
Crying each day knowing that the days are getting shorter..
Doctor,I swear
When its time for me to leave..
Ill still believe..that,
This is an eternal one sided love which shall not die…
Till the sun grows cold..
Till the moon gets warm..
And the stars grow old…
Copyright © yashodara embogama | Year Posted 2014
Throughout the winter it's like I'm gone
Watching you from far beyond
Seeing you through the trees
Something sounds like honey bees
Watching you from far beyond
Wishing that I was not gone
Lovely roses round your head
Trees that shine green and red
Winters gone and I am back
I feel like such an insomniac
Here I am you are asleep
That's when I hear a beep
1 day 2 days 3 days by
It really makes me wanna cry
Summers gone and winters back
It's back to were it started at.
Copyright © Kaley Carroll | Year Posted 2011
Bravery is the father of fears
Dreams are distant cousins of nightmares
Hope is the sister of prayers
Every night shame lays down and gets screwed by despair
Pollution abuses Mrs. atmosphere
It's a battle between personality and reality
But obviously nobody cares
Maybe it's because big tough is the uncle of little scared
Planning is deeply in love with prepared
Procrastination is the biggest enemy of determination
Ignorance is jealous of realization
Sometimes strength can get sneak attacked by temptation
Silence can never defeat a great proclamation
When the brain disagrees with the heart
The body dies of complications
Love your self...
Copyright © Andre Sanders | Year Posted 2012
Kids Love For Animals ( Poem )
Children's favorite shows are of animals
I have hours in a playlist that are laughable
Like a camera pecking rooster and fun monkeys
To a mom and a baby miniature donkeys
Videos of wild turkeys and charming geese
Ducks in water and chicks learning to speak
Dazzling ostrich and many free birds
Some you would not want to move towards
A large unique animal is the alligator
The total opposite of the caterpillar
Camels and alpacas are tall and exquisite
But they spit at you when you try to visit
There are also hornpout and catfish videos
and a painted box turtle that is really slow
Beautiful miniature horses and elegant ponies
Border collies herding sheep to earn their trophies
Little kids pig scramble is stunning to see
and a little fawn as precious as can be
Cow's hair that needs braiding is fascinating
With the most assortment you've ever seen
Come to my view with me youtube channel
If the kids are being hard to handle
Just start it up and walk away
To get your housework done for the day
By : Doris Anne Beaulieu
At : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWSq_PMWxD9q2V0UVqzX50Y6Y2pDaKISv
Copyright © Doris Beaulieu | Year Posted 2014
Laying here ...
On the grass
Its such a peaceful night
Layin here ...
As I slowly inhale, exhale
Among the diamonds in the sky
I soon begin to visualize
Your perfect face,
your perfect smile
My mind quickly begins to rewind
To the days when you and I
were more than once upon a time.
I have but one regret in life
I let insecurities dictate how I walked the line
Hand in hand with ignorance and pride
So many feelings I held inside
The love of my life, I self denied
If only I had told u a long time ago
Your name is written on my heart,
Your silhouette imprinted within my soul
Maybe u would have never closed your door
on me ....
I cant get in.....
He changed the lock
And now she holds the key.
And here I am
Laying here ...
Wondering if she sees
You as I do now.
Copyright © Beverly Vera | Year Posted 2014
Again, alone awake accidental?
barely by blunt brain burdens
curtains... cut crooked carefully
draped dangerously during dusk,
every emotion enhanced euphoric
from finger, face & freckle....
gingerly grasping gestures growing gracefully.
hesitant hands hold his heart's hastily.
I imagine important
jitters, jetting, jumping,
knocking knees knowing....
luscious , lustful lips longing…
makes more magic memories...
nighttime necessity never neglects...
open obsessions of our objectives
prevail... pleasure, pure puzzle piece poison.
Quiet questions quench quarries...
random, rare, rational realities,
suggestions so stimulating senses savoring sex,
smooth skin...
timeless tales, the tactic touch.
Ultimately unclothed unknown & unavoidable
valuable venom varies vindictively.
We wait within wind whirls, wondering
xenophile in xanadu xeroxing
your youthful years yearning
zestful, zany & zone free
Copyright © KRYSTA RYAN | Year Posted 2015
she makes my heart quiver
she understands me more
at the mention of her name my body did shiver
but my feelings is developing into a deep sore
she wants me not,i'm not her type
she's far richer and cute
i use facebook,she uses skype
at the sight of her,i become mute
i told her how i felt
she laughed and discarded it as a joke
i hope that she would soon melt
even if i'm rich or broke
this piece i write from my heart
with the hope and humility of a dove
and i pray we would come together never to depart
and put an end to this one sided love
Copyright © David Teminijesu | Year Posted 2014
Besides love men need fishing,
And for both, most are wishing,
Catching trophies chosen best,
To be envied by the rest.
Fishing is a game of sport
Loved by all, both tall and short.
We must fool the fish's eye,
If we plan to stir and fry,
Some use boats while others wade,
As they fish the sun or shade.
Ice-cold drinks help pass the day,
While life's troubles fade away.
Most men feel they've everything,
With their rod, hook, cork and string.
Be it river, pond or lake,
We all pray our line won't break.
By Tom Zart
Copyright © Tom Zart | Year Posted 2007
Today's children,
honor your parents
to enjoy the world's joy.
Love your parents,
as you love your selves,
our parents are our life,
the source of every thing.
Copyright © Sekitto kisakye | Year Posted 2007
She walked through the woods
remembering his face
ashen and grey against the pillow.
He had been taken by
the sweeping sickness
that had engulfed her land
taken so swiftly
that she had not
had time to reach him.
The pain of her loss
had been unbearable
and she had roamed the house
striking out
in rage and grief
at anyone who came close.
The madness had left her eventually,
left her alone
bereft of her love.
That was many years ago now,
but still his face haunted her,
his eyes accusing
filled with
the horror of her absence
the terror
that he must face alone
the time of his death.
It never left her, this guilt she carried.
Many had consoled her, told her that she
was not blame,that it was not her fault.
She knew better,she remembered telling him one dreadful
storm filled night, that she would always be there.
She shook her head free of the memories,
she was old now and it was so long ago,
she would be welcomed when she left this earth.
Absolved of this guilt that had consumed her life.
She saw the tree as she entered the clearing.
His treee, his favorite place.
Whenever he was troubled or scared
she would find him there,curled up beneath the boughs.
It was his haven, his place of safe keeping.
Glancing around she felt again,as she always did
his presence near to her, tantalisingly close.
She walked to the tree and sat down,
resting her back against the trunk,
letting the sunlight warm her face.
Slowly as she sat there, eyes closed and silent.
He came to her as if in a dream,
or perhaps she was dreaming, she did not know
or care,she only knew he was before her,
that her love was with her once more .
Tears streamed from her eyes and her throat burned
as he touched her face,stroked her hair.
A smile touching his lips as he gazed into her eyes.
Slowly he knelt before her and lay back,
resting his head on her lap.
Happiness swept through her like fire,
he was forgiving her, letting her know
that it was not her fault that he had died alone.
Her hand traced the features she loved more than life
and her lips met his in an endless kiss.
The night was dark when the villagers found her.
She was sitting in a clearing, lying next to a tree.
The moonlight illuminated her in its silvery rays
and in its bathing light they saw what they had
not seen in decades. She was smiling, in death
she was smiling.
Athena Beauchamp
12 , December 1999
Copyright 2013 ACB
Copyright © Athena Beauchamp | Year Posted 2013
Love hurts and people change. Things go wrong and things get strange. But life goes on and you only life it once. Be strong cause things will get better over the months. I thought I was heartbroken, I thought you were my world. You fooled me though, made me think I was your only girl. But all along, you didnt care. Im not sure, your were even completely there. But now I've moved on, when I thought it was impossible. I had to be the bigger person in this breakup, I was responsible. I let it get to me, but I didnt let it ruin me completely. I didnt do anything about the hurt you caused me, I acted so sweetly. I let you walk all over me, I tried to ignore how you disrespected me. But when I ended things, the pain was easier to see.
Copyright © Kierstein McFarland | Year Posted 2013
Deeply motivated
Highly concentrated
Emotionally elated
By your love...
Im complicated
Extremly frustrated
Sometimes un-cooperative
By your love...
Passionetly persuaded
Often intimidated
Internally fixated
By your love...
Verbally Stimulated
Visually captivated
Unconditionally infatuated
By your love...
Would be...
Completly aggravated
Visibly violated
Undeniably devistated
Without your love!!!:(
Copyright © cherie thomas | Year Posted 2013
King of sex,
the third gender
or hermaphrodite,
half male, half female,
existing on margin,
beheads the creator
to propitiate the deity of destruction,
starts a genocide
to create a new model,
new world, sexless, moonless
How could you remain normal
when you were being robbed of every myth,
every truth?
And you were walking under the guilty sky
unmindful of the pouncing, long legged tarentulas
to bite off your elements?
All of your tongue?
And the heat will give up the slaughtered spring
dried up in eternal shade?
Within the memory will lie the pain
of million years?
Copyright © Satish Verma | Year Posted 2008
Each night when I go to bed
I think of all the words I've said
And ponder on the things I've done
How your love I had once won
Many tears I've made you shed
Too many sleepless nights in your bed
When all along I owned the key
To keep your love for only me
Now its me that sheds the tears
My life now full of empty fears
You say uncertainty prevailing
Caught up in all my mistakes and failings
My love for you has never faded
Lack of commitment, your feelings jaded
Baby steps, I moved too slow
I did that because I love you so
I wanted for us the best of life,
Messy details, cleaned before you became my wife
Now lost you are, trying to find you way
My mind consumed, what to do, what to say
Now is the time to use our voice
Together or separated, its your choice
I am beside you, can you see
You are the only one for me
The love we shared, captured all my desires
Burned hotter than the devils fires
So my Angel we both must try
To grow our love, not let it die.
Copyright © Richard H | Year Posted 2011
I love because I can.
In a society that embraces
those who have, not those to
I am still able to share this
I walk down poverty lane happy
with a rich heart.
My calloused hands are all I
need to create my world.
My happiness.
Copyright © Nichole Schindewolf | Year Posted 2012
Why did she have to go away
Why did she leave all of us
I wish she was here so we can stop crying
She was the best grandma that anyone can have
when my cousins and I was young when she would bake a cake she would
always let us lick the spoon
She was so funny even when she wasent trying to be funny
Now she is looking down on all that know her and love her
When she first held her great grandson my son the look in her eyes she felt joy
and happyness and that he is still in her heart even though she is in a better
I miss her so much I still feel the pain in my heart but it will get better
I am glad she has no more pain..
She will live on in our hearts and we will never forget her
Her life did not end it is just beginning.
For MY Grandma Dorthy Purcell RIP AND I LOVE YOU
Who is this man who has come into my life
Where did he come from?
Why is he here?
Looking into his gentle face I see a light a love and grace
His hands touch me and reach into my soul
His voice is reassuring, yet still I do not know.
Who is this man who has come into my life
Where did he come from?
Why is he here?
Candle lit rooms, soft music, sweet words, touching from the heart,
Feeling things I have never felt before,
Frighten when he walks out the door.
Who is this man who has come into my life?
Where did he come from?
Why is he here?
Passion, touching speaking words of love, kissing and moving closer.
Making love sounds that can not be spoken, yet for a moment, yet forever.
A joining, caressing, feeling whole again.
Who is this man who has come into my life?
Where did he come from?
Why is he here?
Only time will reveal the purpose and the plans of this union with this
man for good or for bad I do not know, but for this time I will stop
to enjoy him.
Copyright © diana jackson | Year Posted 2006
can i say something about love
my human rights to say about love
searched out dictionaries for definition of love
but didn't find any particular definition of love
as i go,go further at internet for love
this time finds,finds complexity of love
friends,don't find general rule for love
law can be obeyed,how can be love
general rule should be obeyd for love
please replacesthe word law with love
as i find in different cultures to love
find kindness,scarifice,and generosity to love
amiee style of love different in love
get any reward in love,not fair for love
Copyright © aamir iqbal | Year Posted 2012
All the days, I've not so patiently waited, waited for the one, the yang to my yin.
Brevity precluded me enumerating all the subtle joys of you, yet, your eyes,
Charismatic orbs of jovial laughter, crinkled from sunny days, and blue as sky.
Dangerous man you are, yet, the gentleness you show to me knows no bounds
and, I would wait another eternity, if only you could guarantee to end life with me.
Copyright © Debbie Guzzi | Year Posted 2012
When The Lord called to His angels
there was thunder from the throne
He said there is a child of mine down there
who's been too long alone
So He called one precious angel
out from all the rest
He said I'm sending you my child
for you're my very best
Now there are no words to say how much
to Him this child was worth
for The Lord to send an angel here
to walk upon this earth
And then when they were married
there was thunder from the throne
He said you see my child now
no longer is alone
Do harken to my story
for we all know that it's true
that God does answer prayer you see
there is nothing He can't do
Now I know this precious angel
who lives a mortal's life
for I was that lonely child of His
and that angel is my wife
Diesel Dan
Copyright © Dan Blake | Year Posted 2006


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Israel Tour
A Night in the Desert
Posted on 23/05/2013 - 4:43am
Imagine a silence so great that it fills your ears. Is that even possible?
In the desert.
At night.
It is.
As part of the GOD TV 2013 Israel Tour you will sleep beneath an infinite night sky in the Judean Desert. Camping near Masada – the desert fortress overlooking the Dead Sea – the popular Kfar Hanokdim will be your home away from home, with a delightful twist. This thoroughly safe tented area promises an authentic Bedouin experience: from décor to dining.
There's an old Bedouin saying that maintains: "The heart sees before the eyes and the eyes eat before the mouth". And Kfar Hanokdim's fully equipped goats' hair tents with vibrant bedding, spiced teas and elaborate meals are testament to this truth.
The buzz of the evening will culminate in "A Cry in the Wilderness Prayer Event" with well-known leaders Faytene Grasseschi, Patricia King and Matt Sorger. This will be a powerful time of atmosphere shifting; praying for Israel and the nations as we prepare the way of our coming Messiah. Imagine the weight of the moment as the desert vastness is filled with hundreds of voices – all crying out to the God of Israel from the heart of the Judean Desert.
Much later, as the voices quieten and the night settles, you will be privy to a shimmering sky, quite like anything you may have seen before.
As sunrise warms the next morning, savour some traditional breakfast fare laid out in front of you… before we move on towards Jerusalem.
To join the GOD TV 2013 Israel Tour, book your place today at www.god.tv/israel2013.
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It's tequila week this week. If you are looking for something delicious and different to make with tequila, get out to the farmer's market, or your own back yard, and pick up a bunch of mint--it's fresh, local and organic. Then head to your favorite spot for relaxing, on the deck, by the pool, or just on the couch and mix up a batch of tequila mojitos.
Here's my favorite recipe:
2 oz reposado tequila
1 tsp sugar
6 mint leaves
1 key lime split in half or 1/4 of a regular lime
seltzer or club soda
Place mint leaves, sugar and lime in a glass and muddle to release the juice from the lime and the extract from the mint. Add tequila and stir. Add ice and top with soda. Kick back, relax and enjoy.
For a yummy variation, add a splash of pomegranite juice or pink grapefruit juice.


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TC TO JOSEPH NEUBERG ; 24 February 1859; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18590224-TC-JN-01; CL 35: 42-43
[24? February 1859]
Dear Neuberg,—Here is yr good Abstract of Kaiser Karl's Death1 sent back for bestimmung [definition] in one small point whh unluckily has become critical to me. In the Patch stuck to bottom of p. 3 you will find what the infinitely small point is: pray look, and make it indubitable for me.
Another little Patch (abt Truchsess [commandant] and fire in Spandau)2 will be useful, if you will put the date beyond question.— Needn't copy anything; Larkin will do it so far as needful. I have Mill's Liberty3 ready for you; whh is a strange proof of what a Thinking Englishman amounts to at present!— [paper cut away]
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J. S. Mill's epitaph to Harriet Mill on the Mill tomb, Avignon
Courtesy of Sheila McIntosh
[Thi]s is the Larkin specimen of paper from [Parkins] & Gotto. It does very well; and I will [orde]r a ream ohne weiteres [without more ado].


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USA County Highpoints > U.S. State Highpoints > Mount Sunflower > Climber's Log
Mount Sunflower Climber's Log
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|3 AM Arrival
Date Climbed: May 21, 2016
|I was planning to do this right around sunrise before thunderstorms were predicted to hit later in the day. Unfortunately it began to rain lightly at 1 AM and not wanting to take any chances with the road getting muddy, I immediately set out to get to the highpoint. Made it to the monument a 3 AM, with it windy, foggy, dark, and rainy. After 5 minutes, I moved on out.
|Posted May 22, 2016 10:35 pm
|Super foggy
Date Climbed: Apr 13, 2016
|Super freaking foggy and cloudy. Drizzly and cold. Only one there with no view (no surprise). Hiked across the ranch to tag the State Line HP. Actually needed GPS in order to not get lost.
|Posted Apr 14, 2016 8:21 pm
|Sunflowers Everywhere
Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2015
|The flash of rain which came a couple hours south of Mt. Sunflower did not make it to the dirt roads, thank goodness. We passed many fields of sunflowers coming and going from Mt. Sunflower, which was quite fitting.
The owners added a Free Public Library under a covered area next to the highpoint. Cool idea!
Registration box is full of hats, t-shirts, and other gifts. We added a Threadgill's shirt for Austin, Texas. Fun stop.
|Posted Sep 8, 2015 11:48 pm
|High Point #23
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2015
|Visited this great HP with Kate on the way to Steve's wedding in Colorado later this same day. We loved the tiny library at the summit!
|Posted Aug 5, 2015 4:15 pm
|Great sunset!
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2013
|On the way back from doing Devil's Tower a 2nd time.
|Posted Jul 13, 2015 10:43 am
|Almost didn't make it ...
Date Climbed: May 22, 2015
|Seriously ... Part of a three state Memorial Day vacation "dash." Came in from the north (Kanorado) and even with a Jeep just about went into the ditch twice due to the "gumbo" on the roads. The area had received almost 3" of rain the 2 days before and made the N-S travel close to impossible on the dirt roads. Spent $15 hosing the mud off the car in the next town. Crazy but true! Kudos to the guy on his bike that had ridden from Flagstaff, AZ.
|Posted May 30, 2015 10:20 am
|State HP #4
Date Climbed: Mar 23, 2015
|Drive up in a rental Hyundai on the way out to visit friends in Kentucky
|Posted May 10, 2015 11:29 pm
|Summit all to our selves!
Date Climbed: Apr 18, 2015
|The air was thin but we were tough.
|Posted Apr 20, 2015 6:03 pm
|Rough Hike
Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2014
|One of the tougher summits in Kansas. Thankful that I made it up
|Posted Feb 8, 2015 7:44 pm
|Snowy Day at Mt Sunflower
Date Climbed: Jan 31, 2015
|The roads were good down the dirt road to Mt. Sunflower, but it was cold and windy. Despite this being a relatively flat summit, the vast expanse of the surrounding plains is pretty amazing for someone from the East like me. I would recommend if you're going through Kansas to make the stop.
|Posted Feb 3, 2015 9:33 am
|Climbing Jack
|2nd State Highpoint
Date Climbed: Jan 2, 2015
|Clear day and a deserted high point.
|Posted Jan 19, 2015 8:16 pm
|Had to do it!
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2014
|Interesting "High Point"! Glad I went
|Posted Jan 5, 2015 2:53 am
Date Climbed: Dec 16, 2014
|Arrived 1.5 hrs after sunset. Strong wind made for a chilly "climb". Google's gps was right on, took some nice pics in the dark but didn't linger due to the biting cold. Lots of UFOs in the sky
|Posted Dec 17, 2014 12:11 am
|Road Trip!
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2014
|Nice day drive out from Golden CO. I blew it and used my truck's GPS system for directions rather than the Summitpost beta. A little more scenic than I planned! Barbed wire fence gates and cows!
|Posted Dec 3, 2014 2:36 pm
|Hp 15
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2013
|If I recall this one was in the middle of nowhere but the spot was marked with a cool metal sunflower.
|Posted Oct 7, 2014 7:39 pm
|Bark Eater
|Nice spot!
Date Climbed: Sep 8, 2014
|Delightful, peaceful place with amazing cloud formations. 90 degrees and a bit buggy with flies during our visit. The covered picnic table made a nice lunch spot. #39 for me, #26 for Lillian, #10 for John, #9 for Barb. Fun road trip!
|Posted Sep 16, 2014 11:56 am
Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2014
|Drove right up to the summit. Very peaceful area.
|Posted Aug 20, 2014 11:03 pm
|Paul McClellan
Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2014
|Interesting and surprisingly scenic drive on farming roads. Raced a "severe thunderstorm" back to Goodland on the way out.
|Posted Jul 14, 2014 1:49 pm
|Beautiful Sunshiny Day
Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2014
|Gorgeous summer day. Not a cloud in the sky. Although no sunflowers were blooming this early, we happened to picked a weekend where all the cacti in the area (including the summit area) had huge yellow flowers. Also, surprisingly pretty views of the prairie-lands from the summit.
State HP #7
|Posted Jun 15, 2014 1:36 am
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2013
|Got stopped by a state trooper on the way in and won a pricey ticket for speeding, but made it to the high point without much confusion. Stalked some cows on the prairie.
|Posted Jan 13, 2014 11:37 pm


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In a must-read book, The Age of the Crowd, the author, Serge Moscovici, writes on Freud and crowd psychology.
Present-day Freudians simply seek to strengthen the certainties of readers who are already converted. Their linguistic brilliance, their intellectual artificiality and the outlandish situations they choose to study are all intended to flatter the sensibilities of the true believers. Psychoanalytical works written exclusively for psychoanalysts and those philosophers who, so to speak, read over their shoulders are overloaded with conniving winks, esoteric formulas and gnostic shibboleths. We too shall have to return to basic things and the painful task of analysis couched in universally accessible language. The simplicity of concepts must be maintained, and things that are normally veiled in artistic obscurity must be expressed plainly, for the crowd psychology of both Freud and his precursors is still unknown to us. We are suspicious and consequently ignorant of it, and the only way we can move towards an understanding is by means of the elementary and the familiar.
To start with, we must accept a basic fact: Freud shared with Le Bon and Tarde the conviction that everything depends on and is explained by psychic factors. To speak plainly, only one science, psychology, reaches the heart of reality. When reflecting on the great social problems, on world religions, on social movements, he was thinking of the various categories of crowds. We might ask what part sociology played in all that. For Freud, sociology was simply a form of applied psychology:
For sociology too, dealing as it does with the behaviour of people in society, cannot be anything but applied psychology. Strictly speaking, there are only two sciences: psychology, pure and applied, and the natural sciences. (Freud: XXII, 79)
This much is clear. Psychology is not a discipline sharing the cake of truth with the other branches of knowledge and trying to grab the lion's share. It embraces the whole of human reality, including history and culture, and no part of that reality is alien to it. This means that, contrary to what is commonly thought, Freud's various studies are not contributions to this or that branch of knowledge. Totem and Taboo is not a contribution to anthropology, The Future of an Illusion is not a contribution to the study of religions, Moses and Monotheism is not a contribution to history, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego is not a contribution to sociology and so on. He certainly studied the evidence amassed by these disciplines and discussed current interpretations of it, but only with the aim of relating it to psychology and in particular to crowd psychology, of which each of these disciplines was a facet. One American writer on Freud concludes that with Nietzsche, Freud declared that the master science of the future was not history but psychology, and that history would become mass psychology. With regard to the neurotic phenomena of religion:
The only really satisfactory analogy, Freud thought, was to be found in psychopathology, the genesis of human neurosis; that is to say, in a discipline belonging to individual psychology, whereas religious phenomena must of course be regarded as a part of mass psychology. (Rieff, 1979: 210)
All the works I have just mentioned belong to that kind of psychology for historical and, primarily, logical reasons. They are mysterious and superb creations which narrate the birth of a work, the story of a novel of the mind which has several different beginnings and which, like Finnegans Wake, never reaches the conclusion which it can of course never have. Nevertheless, as if we were listening to some final symphony or watching the last burst of an elaborate display of fireworks, we can see in it all the major themes of crowd psychology - the fusion of individuals into the mass, the power of leaders, the origin of beliefs and religion and their preservation in the unconscious of the tribe, the enigma of the submission of men and the art of ruling them. For us, and by that I mean all those who are interested in that kind of psychology, they are worth a complete treatise. That is the perspective we must see and understand them in, even if they are twilight works.


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Cheney's running game stifled in second straight league loss
October 17, 2013 | Vol. 117 -- No. 26
For the Cheney football team, last Friday's game at East Valley is one worthy of having amnesia over.
The Knights used touchdown passes from quarterback Connor Ramm to wide receivers J.T. Phelan and Gage Burland and a stifling defense that shutdown the Blackhawks running game to post a 22-0 halftime lead en route to a 30-0 win in Great Northern League play. Ramm also hit Phelan on a TD pass in the fourth quarter for the final points.
"It was one of those nights where things just went wrong," Blackhawks head coach Jason Williams said. "We were in the right places, at the right times...
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The EROS ALLiance
During Ally Week, members of campus signed cards to show their support for the LGBTQ community.
The EROS ALLiance promotes the growth of a strong LGBTQA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Ally) community among students and school affiliates of all sexual orientations and lifestyles. The organization seeks to break down the silence surrounding issues of sexuality and gender through the open exchange of ideas in a comfortable, informal, and non-threatening environment. They host various social and educational events each semester to promote acceptance, awareness, and understanding of the many ways people think, feel, and love.
President: Amanda Anastasia '13
Faculty Advisor: Jason Rubin


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TAB: Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott "Separated"
"Pregnant Tori's Divorce Blowup!" blares a headline from Star, which claims Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott's marriage is "on the brink."
A so-called "insider" for the tab says the couple, who are expecting their fourth child, "have already separated three times."
Yes, the mag's alleged source says Spelling and McDermott split on three different occasions, "right after she gave birth each time."
According to this purported insider, "The pregnancy is what has been keeping them together. We're afraid that after this [birth], the marriage may be over for good."
Star claims the pair's "explosive fights and constant tension" have ripped them apart time after time, and that things are worst when Spelling is pregnant.
Another source reveals, "During her pregnancies, Tori is very demanding, and it's really difficult for Dean. He's nervous he is going to set her off, so he feels he's always walking on eggshells."
The pal says McDermott "moved into Tori's old apartment at the Wilshire in Westwood for almost two months" after Liam arrived in 2007, and also "relocated to a hotel after the birth of daughter Stella in June 2008."
We have have one tiny question.
If things are so awful between Spelling and McDermott, then why do they keep making babies together?
In any case, a rep for Spelling tells Gossip Cop it's "not true" that the couple has previously separated and that they're having marriage problems.
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State of the position
The New Orleans Saints' receiving corps is a good mix of veteran experience and young potential.
In Marques Colston and Lance Moore, the Saints have two sure-handed, proven veterans who have the complete confidence of quarterback Drew Brees.
Although Colston has never been voted to the Pro Bowl, he has been one of the NFL's most productive receivers during the past seven seasons, catching 532 passes for 7,394 yards and 58 touchdowns.
Meanwhile, Moore is coming off the best season of his eight-year career, catching 65 passes for career-high 1,041 yards and six touchdowns.
But after those two there are some question marks.
Speedy receiver Joe Morgan and youngsters Nick Toon, who spent his rookie season last year on injured reserve with a foot injury, and Kenny Stills, a fifth-round pick in April's draft, are expected to battle for the No. 3 receiver position.
Unofficial depth chart
Player Ht. Wt. Age Exp. College
12 Marques Colston 6-4 225 30 8 Hofstra
16 Lance Moore 5-9 190 29 8 Toledo
13 Joseph Morgan 6-1 184 25 3 Walsh
88 Nick Toon 6-4 218 24 1 Wisconsin
15 Courtney Roby 6-0 189 30 8 Indiana
14 Andy Tanner 6-0 183 25 1 Midwestern St.
84 Kenny Stills 6-0 190 21 R Oklahoma
18 Saalim Hakim 5-11 188 23 1 Tarleton St.
87 Preston Parker 6-0 200 26 3 North Alabama
11 Jarred Fayson 60 213 25 1 Illinois
17 Chris Givens 6-2 203 24 1 Miami (Ohio)
86 Brent Leonard 6-2 186 23 R Louisiana-Monroe
Although the Saints didn't re-sign long-time, deep-threat receiver Devery Henderson this offseason, they appear to be in good hands with Colston, Moore, Morgan, Toon, Roby and Stills.
With roster spots guaranteed Colston and Moore, the competition should be fierce and fun for the final three or four receiver spots.
If Morgan or Toon can step and become a capable No, 3 receiver, the Saints will again have a better-than-solid receiving corps.
Morgan is coming off a season in which showed flashes of his big-play skills, catching 10 passes for 379 yards and three touchdowns. Seven of his 10 receptions went for 30 or more yards.
Meanwhile, Toon doesn't have the speed of Morgan but his size and pass-catching ability gives the Saints another sure-handed physical receiver.
Roby is often overlooked in the receiver battle, but his play on special teams is a major plus. Stills has good speed and will need to distinguish himself in training camp. Tanner is one of the most consistent receivers on the team and shouldn't be counted out.
Hakim is easily one of the fastest players on the team and will have to continue to make plays on offense and special teams if he hopes to make the final roster.


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Parasound Halo P3 Pre Amplifier in minty condition.
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I had it for a while. Ridicoulous value. Amazing Sound Quality and features from a mid priced sleeper.
Impossible to be disapointed.
Good luck with the sale
parasound are stunning , I had the c2 and I still use there amps good luck with the sale
Does this have home cinema bypass?
This is a very very capable pre amplifier!! I had it on loan and displayed, and used, it at Scalford. These pres are not seen very often, but unlike the "bay" you can rest assured this one is in exemplary condition.
An absolute BARGAIN at the price
I am just a soul boy at heart.
Lazy Sunday Bump................
This pre-amp came from Audio Salon in Glasgow and sounds excellent. I only sold it because I wanted to buy a Sugden A21a integrated and hook that up to a A21p otherwise it would still be in my rack.
Buy from Ian with absolute confidence
Is this still available?
Yes. Post to UK ONLY.
Sorry - bizarely enough I found another in the few hrs before you responded and bought it.
Have a free bump on me
Still available and a price reduction. £300 +£15 UK Delivery.
Last edited by seasidersrock; 30-06-2012 at 05:22 AM.
Sunday Bump.
Ive had this on loan from Ian for a couple of weeks. It is a really nice amp, but I need to upgrade my CD before I worry about a pre otherwise I'd be having it.


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Hands On Labs Available
By user9157252 on Oct 06, 2010
If you attended JavaOne in the past few years, there's a chance that you got to attend one of the Sun SPOTs Team's Hands On Labs. If you did, this may be less interesting to you.
If you didn't, then read on!
I've just finished posting the entire contents of 2 Hands On Labs, this year's "Web of Things" HOL from this year, and the "Developing Distributed Wireless Applications" from 2008. Sorry that last one took so long.
Head on over to www.sunspotworld.com and work your way through the slides and examples! YOu can do them on-line, from the website, or download the Zip File of the entire lab contents (you may want to do that anyway, as the source code for the labs and the solutions are included in there).
Note that while the Distributed Wireless Applications Lab can be run entirely in the Emulator included with the Sun SPOT SDK, the Web Of Things Lab actually requires a physical Sun SPOT kit. Which we're still sold out of. Real Soon Now. Really.