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October 8 - 9, 2007 - Issue #280
From the Desks of Laurie Likes Books & Anne Marble:
Last month I decided that our "romance family tree", in which we explored the roots of the modern genre romance through a series of columns, needed some expansion as new branches have/are becoming more prominent. There's been an explosion in the world of erotic romance, which I don't believe existed beyond the fringe and certainly wasn't an actual sub-genre as recently as a decade ago. Anne and I have written about our own experiences with erotic romance, which means that this is a lengthy column. As such, it'll be posted in two parts...on two successive days. First up is my segment. Please come back tomorrow for Anne's contribution. We've provided questions for each segment so that there's no need to wait for Anne's piece in order to begin discussion on the ATBF Forum.
--Laurie Likes Books
Part I | Part II
Part I - October 8 (Laurie Likes Books):
When I suggested that Anne and I write about the explosion of erotic romance, my mind overflowed with ideas. After all, for a couple of years, I read a ton of erotic romance, but earlier this year I stopped buying and reading almost any of it. So...did I write about the best of it, or why I stopped reading it? In the end I decided to do both. First up: my favorite erotic romances, which will lead directly into what stopped me almost cold turkey. I've already written about some of my favorites in two year-end ATBF wrap-ups, but there's more to discuss, so hopefully I won't bore those who previously read those columns.
I'm going to start with my absolute favorite short stores in print - from Brava and Secrets anthologies - that pretty well introduced me to erotic romance. I suspected long ago that a little erotic romance goes a long way, and I've found that, for me, that's generally the case. For the most part the Secrets stories are more "descriptive" than the Bravas, which I know many don't even classify as erotic romance, but since their focus is love-making, I do. That said, though, these stories are more than simply sex; I like the characters and their stories, regardless of how far-fetched some may be. The most "romance-y" of the group is Morgan Leigh's Murphy's Law. If you think any erotic romance is too erotic for you, this one would be the one to try. Shannon McKenna's are quite intense, but then, so is the one I've listed by Janelle Denison; until I looked it up in my database, I thought it too was by McKenna.
After experiencing what was considered mainstream erotic romance until a few years ago, I decided to test more hard-core waters and picked up a couple of Ellora's Cave titles at the ubs. Both books were written by Marly Chance; there's actually a third title expected in her Oath trilogy, although by now I've given up expecting to see it. Oath of Seduction and Oath of Challenge explore the romances of two interplanetary (Earth and Shimeria) couples. Both surprised me with credible world-building, characterization, humor, and emotional intensity. Because these romances are set on another world, society's rules are different. And because these romances are also erotic romances set on another world, some of those different societal rules revolve around sex. This is something I was to note over and over as I read more erotic romances featuring non-humans, and I think it's a big part of why paranormals and erotic romance go hand in hand.
Shimerians are born with psychic powers, and there are more male babies born than female babies, so until Shimeria and Earth signed a compact, Shimarian males generally came to Earth and kidnapped the women believed to be their mates. The two human women in Chance's two books signed the registry years ago that would allow their Shimerian mates to "court" them on Shimeria; a decade or so later and that time has come, but with established lives and careers, they women aren't too happy to go through with their oaths.
Because Shimerians have psychic powers, mind-rape is possible, and so, to protect women against such mental violations, mates must be "linked" through a third party - always another male. A one-time linkage is established at the moment of the woman's orgasm (but doesn't require intercourse) as that's when her defenses are down, and thereafter the two males are able to create a mental shield for her. Sex is viewed differently than on Earth, so the two women in these books, in addition to fighting against the over-whelming masculinity presented by their possible mates, must also cope with the idea of bringing another male into a sexual situation.
Until I read these books, I'd never come across any sort of love scene - outside of a crappy Bertrice Small historical - where more than two people were involved at the same time. Yet the whole linkage thing, given that it didn't require intercourse, was not sooo kinky that it went beyond my comfort zone, although it did stretch it a bit. I enjoyed both books so much, and after reading many other erotic romances, determined that they were "mild" enough to use as test books with AAR reviewers who thought they might like to review erotic romances but had previously not read any. My thought process about erotic romance is similar to what I believe about trad Regencies: You either "get them", or you don't, which is why only those reviewers who like to read erotic romance are assigned to review them.
I was a far more innocent reader just after my move from Brava and Secrets anthologies than I am today. By the time 2005 ended, I included a section for the erotic romances I'd most enjoyed in my annual favorite reads column, and did the same the next year. While my absolute favorite overall is vanilla, you could look at my two years of reading erotic romance as a journey along an ever-more-kinky road. So as not to force you to read about those favorites, I'll simply list them here - but I'll also provide links to faux pop-ups for those of you who weren't around then, or weren't interested at that time.
My favorite erotic romances for 2005:
My favorite erotic romances for 2006:
You can see that I'd enjoyed fewer stories in this sub-genre in 2006 than I had in 2005, although, to be fair, I did continue to read books in Lora Leigh's Breed series in 2006, and enjoyed them...just not quite enough for them to have made my list for 2006 (the same goes for 2005, actually). In fact, by the end of 2006 I'd read a series of stories that eventually led me to discover that I needed a big break from reading erotic romance altogether. Why? The more I read, it seemed, the more willing I was to read material that I wouldn't previously have read. Now, in and of itself, that's not a bad thing. After all, when I started to read romance, I was only willing to read historicals. Then I started to add contemporaries into the mix, then series romance, then trad Regencies, and so on and so on.
The difference between those kinds of romance and what is labeled erotic romance has to do with the sexual content of it, but not in terms of what's being done to whom; as always, as long as the adults are consenting, have at it. I realize I'm always the one who asks readers to separate fantasy from reality, but for me, sex is tied up in love. Yes, that's a horribly old-fashioned concept, and probably a strange one considering my overall liberal views on just about everything, but there you have it. So reading certain books and stories and buying into their mixed-up logic as to why sex with three or four people in a bed, or sharing wives with brothers or "pack-mates" was okay and, in an odd way, made sense given the context of the stories, became increasingly uncomfortable for me.
Fairly early on in my kinkathon, I'd read the first in another very popular series by Lora Leigh. The series featured three brothers who were so damaged by their father's sending them off at an impressionable age to be used as sex toys in unimaginably evil ways that in order to mitigate what they were forced to do to each other before, in the present time they needed to share their women. I was pretty close to horrified after finishing that first book, but several cyber friends encouraged me to continue the series. By the time I'd finished with it - and thankfully, in a short story that ends the series, the men are "healed" and no longer need to share - I can't say I actually liked it, but I will admit that in a way I bought into the logic behind their actions.
And I really did enjoy one of the two Rhyannon Byrd titles on my 2005 list about a woman who, at the behest of her boss' best friend, agrees to a threesome so that the boss willl finally "get" that he loves her and cannot live without her. By seeing his friend with the woman he can't bring himself to admit he loves, the logic goes, boss man will finally come to his senses. And, yes, another Lora Leigh short story (which is part of the best of the several EC anthologies I read; five of the six stories in Tales from the Temple I earned B level grades from me) also features a woman and two men, who, after crashing on Venus, experience heightened sexuality and a biological need to mate.
But at least these books featured "love" - and an "HEA". And, yes, I even enjoyed parts of another of Leigh's series - which also featured the sharing of partners within a "love" relationship (and eventually the third party wasn't "needed") - as well as a story by Lacey Alexander that skirted the line, also because at the base of it was a love relationship and an HEA. And given that I'd really enjoyed one of Alexander's short stories, I took another recommendation and tried another of her series. The combination of that series and a single release from the Aphrodisia imprint sent me over the edge.
Until that point, the more erotic romance I read, the more willing I was to venture out into more hard-core material and accept as arousing things that in real life make me squeamish. So by the time I finished those last stories, my fear was this: At one point far less hard-core material was more than I could handle...and then I could. Now this newer set of stories went too far for me to handle, but if I continued to read them, would I eventually find them acceptable as well? And, what then...how far was I willing to go, and how would I feel about myself if I continued?
Yes, these are just stories, and fantasy is not reality. But my internal alarm went off and I realized that for me, I couldn't continue, particularly because of the cross-over effect. I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say that romance readers have happy sex lives...there's nothing like reading a terrific love scene to inspire a woman, after all. If the point of erotic content is to arouse, and that's my dictionary's definition of it, then would reading more and more hard-core content be like over-reliance on a vibrator so that anything not super-kinky would leave me, fictionally and literally, numb?
The stories that triggered my alarm, as previously mentioned, were a series by Lacey Alexander and an Aphrodisia release by Kate Douglas, whose earlier short story, Barbarian, I thoroughly enjoyed. My problem with this last grouping by Alexander went beyond the usual "men are always hard, the women always wet, and they can f_ck forever" complaint that can be made about erotic romance in general. " No, it was that, unlike the other stories I'd read, these were only about the sex; love was not a part of these books, which were being sold as erotic romance. As for the Aphrodisia novel, I wish I'd known then what I know now: that the imprint is not really erotic romance; it's erotica. Because while there was "love" involved for the four shapeshifters (two men and two women), and two main "couples", there was not eventual monogamy for any of them. Instead, the foursome sometimes went at it as a full contingent, and at other times, as three, or as two (and not just in the traditional coupling) - and that was really more than I could tolerate.
So I made a fairly conscious effort to stop buying and reading erotic romance, and didn't read any for more than six months. I did recently, though, pick up Jaci Burton's Wild, Wicked, & Wanton, which features three short erotic romances, two of which have storylines practically de rigeur in the sub-genre these days: the threesome with two men and a woman ending with true romance for one of the men and the woman; and the independent woman who secretly wants to be dominated, but has always shied away from the one man who will give her what she wants without destroying her independence. The third story featured voyeurism, and of the three, I actually found that one most troubling. I really liked Wicked (I must be a closet submissive because I gravitate toward stories like this), and thought Wild - the threesome story - was better than average. Wanton, not so much.
Burton's book was published by Penguin's Heat imprint, and though as little as five years ago I doubt a mainstream publisher would have considered a threesome to be part of romance, things have changed. Obviously, so have I, but I now know definitively where my internal line in the sand is drawn. It's moved in the past few years from the last time I wrote about this topic, when I concluded that, for me, if there were more than two in a bed, regardless of the HEA and how much I might like the story, I didn't consider it erotic romance. My new line in the sand comes here (and given that I'm not going to read stories that go beyond that, I don't look for it to change again): No more than two in a bed after a commitment of love, and if there's no love involved, I won't be.
What about you?
Questions To Consider for Part I:
Part II - October 9 (Anne Marble):
Years ago, an independent bookstore chain in the Baltimore area started shelving the Black Lace novels (which were then labeled as "Erotic fiction written by women for women") at the end of the romance section. I was so annoyed. Didn't they know those were erotica and not romance? Didn't they know they are not the same thing? Now, it seems maybe they were ahead of their time. But this was before Brava, and before the popularity of Ellora's Cave, let alone Aphrodisia, Heat, Red, Spice, and other erotic romance lines. Who'da thunk we would one day see Brava as one of the "tamer" lines of erotic romance? And I still find it hard to believe that one of the biggest controversies years ago was a Blaze where the hero and heroine had phone sex!
It's hard to remember there was a time even before Brava when Blaze was the only regular source of very sexy romance, other than the then-annual Secrets anthologies and the occasional Thea Devine or Bertrice Small. Oh, and the "spanking stories" advertised in the back of Romantic Times magazine. Believe me, I had tried Thea Devine. I never got far. Since then, I've heard about the scene where the hero marks the woman with his semen. I'm glad I never made it that far. She just wasn't that erotic to me. I did read and enjoy one Bertrice Small, Enchantress Mine, but I couldn't get into the Skye O'Malley books, with their mighty lances. (Nor did I enjoy her erotic novellas for Brava years later.) On the other hand, many of the Black Lace novels weren't much of a replacement - they so often seemed to involve subplots about sophisticated older couples who sexually dominated women. Also, most of them were contemporaries with only a smattering of historicals and other sub-genres. I remember being thrilled when I found a Black Lace novel that was like an erotic fantasy novel, complete with muscular warrior. I never made it to the muscular warrior part because of the scene where the heroine got pleasure by impaling herself on a stone - part of an ancient sculpture, I think. Whatever you say about Thea Devine, at least her heroines get to have sex with men, not stone. Still, for years, it seemed as if the only romance author who could combine erotic steam and romance was Robin Schone, and her style is not for all tastes.
Erotica and romance truly married when e-books came along. My first visit to Ellora's Cave was so long ago that my e-mail was answered by the founder - and winner in AAR's PPP Contest for 2000, Tina Engler. (I didn't even realize she was also Jaid Black.) My first Ellora's Cave book was A Slave's Price by Shelby Morgen, but for some reason, I didn't read it right away. So the first erotic romance e-book I remember reading was actually an anthology called Bodice Rippers. It promised stories that brought back the "old style" romance. It delivered, if old style romance means tying up the heroine and leaving her alone with a candlestick in a very personal area. Despite some parts that made me wince, the book was hot. At the same time, I kept hoping for books that could deliver erotic romance without making the poor heroines go through such pain.
Over time, the Ellora's Cave site grew, and I found myself returning. When I first visited, there were a few titles, and many of them belonged to series. Now, they had so much more, and so many categories - bondage and capture, menage or more, etc. Even better, in most cases, menage meant "two men and one woman." Well it was about time! My first menage book was Lora Leigh's Menage a Magick...very early Lora Leigh as I bought an earlier printing of the book rather than the Ellora's Cave version. I liked the idea of male wizards who were "forced" to marry the heroine so that the magick in their world wouldn't come to an end. But did the wizards have to be twins? Eww. To my surprise, however, I found that easier to deal with than the writing style and the annoying heroine who hated and feared the Wizard Twins. OK, it might be the natural reaction for a woman to hate being forced into a threesome, but did she have to be so whiny about it? This is very early Lora Leigh, and it doesn't live up to her better known books, such as the Breed series Laurie mentioned earlier. When I read Wolfe's Hope, I didn't even connect Lora Leigh as the author of the earlier book. All I cared about was that I had found a book that combined an explosive perceived betrayal plot with erotic romance. The extremely alpha Wolfe was someone I should have hated when he tied Hope to that bed for revenge, but Lora Leigh managed to make him sympathetic. That's what the best erotic romances do - use the erotic content to add to a great story. It's a delicate balance that not everyone can accomplish. As Lynne Connolly says, "The best erotic romance explores character and relationship as much as it includes hot sexual action. And it's not called 'erotic' for no reason, the scenes do have to give the reader a tingle. I find them empowering."
Another writer who managed that delicate balance is Shiloh Walker, in the first Hunter book, The Hunters: Declan and Tory. This is one of those erotic romances so cool that you would read it even if it didn't have hot sex. The heroine, Tory, is no wilting lily - she even demands that Declan have sex with her in his partial wolf form.
Besides those books, I bought everything from a book about a cop hero who
lived as a transvestite during an assignment to books about futuristic
princesses and faeries. Through Fictionwise and reader recommendations, I
found other publishers as well. I was like a kid in a candy shop, buying so
many different flavors that I ended up with too many books and didn't end
up reading everything I bought. But that was OK because now I will always
have a stock of erotic romance in case I run out. I bought everything from
fantasy novels by Cheyenne McCray and Jaci Burton to Jaid Black
What else did I like? On the humorous side, I liked Sahara Kelly's
Beating Level Nine, an adorable story that managed to combine vampires and
addictive on-line computer games. Surely if vampires existed in the
present, they would get hooked on computer games just like the rest of us.
I also adored Sahara Kelly's Persephone's Wings, about a heroine who
ends up living among the faeries, in part because they need her
organizational skills. I had just read A Midsummer Night's Dream and
loved reading Kelly's entirely different take on Oberon and Titania, not to
mention Puck.
A darker read was Angela Knight's futuristic Mercenaries, where the
heroine faces a daunting choice - stay on her home planet and get
auctioned off to the high bidder or agree to be a mercenary star captain's
sex slave in order to prove she really wants to leave the planet. Of
course, she agrees, even when his first officer joins them in bed. Yes,
this is another alpha hero who learns that this lovely women he has just
found is "a natural submissive." This story had me torn between enjoyment
and being squicked out. On the one hand, the hero is more compassionate
than any man she has ever met on that planet. On the other hand, they do
some rather uncomfortable things. I also don't buy the "natural submissive"
thing. Still, for all that he put that heroine through, he was careful and
considerate of her, which is far more than can be said for print romance
"heroes" such as Rosemary Rogers' Steve Morgan. In print romances, bondage and domination
were usually reserved for skanky villain sex scenes. Writers such as Angela
Knight showed us that heroes and heroines could participate willingly in
these scenarios. More rarely, the women get to be the dominant ones. I
bought Sascha Illyvich's Mistress Kitty and Trent because it was the
only dominant female book I could find at the time, but I just wasn't that
into it, probably because the book was a collection of stories about the
dominatrix life style, rather than a novel. It was still better than the
femdom novels I had found in print, where dominatrix is another word for
"evil bitch." At least Mistress Kitty and Trent had an HEA. <g>
I'm not the only one who wishes dominant females weren't so rare in erotic
romance. Kay wishes there were more stories about dominant females. She's
found that in romance, especially erotic romance, there are a lot of
stories about strong businesswomen who want "the big, strong man to be the
Dom in their sex life." She wants to see more stories where the woman gets
to be the Dom in all areas of her life. Janet finds that she has to read
other genres to find take-charge heroines. She says, "It's a shame that a
genre written by women for women have such lacking female characters." Even
in male/male romances, Janet noticed that authors tend to make one of the
males into "the girl." In order words, "He's delicate and needs a daddy to
take care of him." On the other hand, Lydia Joyce doesn't enjoy dominant
women because she needs to read about "male characters with backbone, who
can stand up to very strong women." Also, while Kassiana likes male
dominance and m/m romance, and wishes m/m would become a larger part of
romance, she finds female dominant a turn off.
At first, male/male romances were as rare as femdom. Then publishers
listened to readers. It seemed some women like male/male/female
stories because of the male/male content. Would women enjoy erotic romances
that left out the "f" in the m/m/f? Sure enough, they did. It should come
as no surprise as female fan fiction fans were reading (and writing) gay
erotica for decades. Publishers didn't always realize this. Early on, EC's
guidelines said that they didn't take gay romances because their books were
geared toward women's sexual fantasies. What? I guess at the
time they didn't realize how many women like those stories. Maybe the mainstream popularity of Suzanne Brockmann's Jules is a sign that many romance readers
are more willing to accept gay characters, even if not everyone wants to
read about graphic male/male sex. For example, Terri loves the Jules thread
in Brockmann's Troubleshooter books, even if she doesn't want her m/m
stories to get too graphic.
Before EC got into the m/m business, I bought several gay romance titles
from a then new press, Torquere Press, when I learned they specialized in
GBLT (gay, bisexual, lesbian,transgender) romance. Eventually I discovered some of the erotic romance
publishers, including Changeling Press, Liquid Silver, and Loose-Id,
pouncing on them when I learned that they had whole sections devoted to
male/male romance. Even better, many of the titles stressed the romance
rather than erotic, and stressed "just sex" rather than "Oh please tie me
up, Jake" sex. One of my first was Willa Okati's vampire romance, A
Willful Taste. You thought your paranormal creatures were tortured
enough? Imagine them gay! Because e-book publishers can sell to a niche
audience, they can publish everything from gay werewolf stories to true
BDSM lifestyle stories.
But it wasn't just e-books all the way for me. I bought more than my share
of erotica romance in print - I just didn't feel like experimenting as
much because of the higher prices. When the Black Lace books first came
out, they were mass market books priced at $5.95, so I could experiment
more. I didn't do much experimentation with Brave's trade paperbacks and
have yet to take the plunge on Harlequin's Spice line, despite the great
reviews some of the titles have received. This year, however, I began to buy more print erotic romance. I even bought my first Joey Hill
book, the trade paperback The Vampire Queen's Servant. The cover
shows a man wearing handcuffs? How could I resist? And I have my eye on
Emma Holly's Fairyville because it has both the fey
and m/m scenes.
It should be interesting to find out what the publishers have in store for
Questions To Consider for Part II:
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Boloks! What quality or World class player is in Mancs team? We actualluy have better than them if you dare to check. Whats lacking is BELIEF! We can beat anyone in the league, that has already been shown an proven. We beat the two Manchester teams, we beat Chelsea away, and we drew 1 all in both matches against the cry baby Wenger! So what are you talking about? If LFc had managed to win the obvious matches against the weaker sides our position would have been diff today!
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Liverpool only have one world class player
I think this current Liverpool side is actually one of the worst in a while. We actually only have only one world class player left at the club in Reina. And the likelihood is he will soon depart. Gerrard has fallen off and will have to discover a new way of playing to remain relevant. Based on that we actually should be easy pickings for Manchester City and Arsenal. The fact that we aren't is a testament to King Kenny but also largely to the fighting spirit our players have shown in big games.
Arsenal have declined but our decline has been more severe relatively.
In terms of mindset I think we are right to be a defensive team against big teams, both home and away. There is NO WAY, I repeat, NO WAY we are should dominate a game against Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City or Tottenham. They have superior players across the board, benches included. We should defend for our lives and hope for some luck in front of goal. That is the reality of our predicament. The fact that we dominated Man U and Man C is an outlier. It's nearly impossible to sustain that level of performance. You cannot expect the squad to play at 90%+ efficiency on a regular basis. Teams that win games consistently do so because they are better than the majority of teams even when they play at 65%.
I am one of the most optimistic Liverpool Fans in the world. So for me to say this is not easy. But this is my optimistic view of our current state. The gulf in quality is not insurmountable but we need a near miracle to do it in one season. Realistically we are on a 3 season rebuild at the very least. Cups are our only real hope of success.
What makes this task so difficult is that we are aiming for a constantly shifting target. Teams around us change. Our team changes.
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Shut the fuk up u big horrible manc!!! Reina! Gerrard! Suarez! And soon to be carroll. Never mind the up and coming talent such as; kelly, spearing, flano, robinson, we have had a difficult season, give the lads a chance. This is the second article i have read of yours which is total shite. U need to get a grip of ya self and fuk off like i told u before. Twat
Shut the fuk up! This is the second article your all wrong about. Shut up slaggin lfc off u big horrible manc and fuck off!!
You're right, I think the table is a pretty fair reflection of our quality. For once Lawro has a point …"they will need the addition of probably half a dozen players this summer."
Thats utterly despicable, i didnt even finish the article to have this judgement of you. This team is not a team of stars i may agree, but its a team of stars-in-the-making. Say whatever you want, but I have lots of confidence in kenny, and the young lads. Even lucas is giving man of the match performance. So please shut up and start enjoying the show
U are full of shit.if king kenny was the one that started the league,we wont be less than 4th in the table.so fuck off
Sir Alex Ferguson, is it you?? Are you trying to destabilise liverpool for next season with your nonsense comments?? Have you pooed in your pants watching liverpool playing and dreaming to manage them?? LOL..
With friends like you who needs enemies, what a negative self-serving piece of tripe that article was. I put it you that Skrtel, Merelies and Suarez are capable of playing in any league in the world. What's your definition of so called world class.
You say we shouldn't dominate against certain teams, I say we expect to dominate because we are Liverpool, when you work out what that means then you might begin to understand this club.
With friends like you who needs enemies, what a negative self-serving piece of tripe that article was. I put it to you that Skrtel, Meireles and Suarez are capable of playing in any league in the world. What's your definition of so called world class.
You say we shouldn't dominate against certain teams, I say we expect to dominate because we are Liverpool, when you work out what that means then you might begin to understand this club.
I wasted my time in coming here and reading this thing. I would never ever come back here… By the way who is posting these things anyways.
Fuck off u call urself a liverpool fan.Lfc is d best fuck ol the rest!!!!!!
What a load of shite. Have you been away on MArs for last few months? Looks at the recent results.
The team under KK now has belief and are playing their hearts out, which they never did for that dumpling manager Hodgson.
We have a very poor season, but wait and see towards the end of this season we will be getting another big result against Tottenham and push for 5th.
Next year with some money spent, and with the youth coming through, LFC will be completely different animal.
The others you say, who have so called world star will be running scared against us.
Mark my words
Listen LFC fans this person is an imposter, and a fool set to upset LFC fans, we need not entertain this rubbish because obviously this person does'nt know the wealth of history Liverpool has. ….Why is LFC till this day the most decorated English team, and with the lack of silver ware over last 4 to 5 years still attract some of the worlds top players……is this Torres….?….lmao
hey u motherfucker u have no idea wat u r talking about the only mistake lfc made this season was to appoint roy as manager and from there our decline started bcoz he is a middle class manager who likes him team to sit in bottom half had kd been manager from start today we have been in top 3 easily we r jst 7pnts behind mancity and lfc had 25pnts from 20games and then we had 25 from 13games so understand that if u count that we would have been sitting behind asswhole united and anyways all has been changed and next season lfc will be in top 4 if not challenging for title and with 3years we will win the title u ass whole
Ignor this pleb, it is surely Jaimie Kanwar (Liverpool Kop infamy) in a different guise. Surely we cannot be unfortunate enough to have two knobheads "supporting" us. If it is not then it is a Manc or Chav Wum. Won't be coming on here again, I suggest everyone else does the same. Sad prick this fella what ever his motives.
ha the team that won the champions league was worse than this on paper!
i agree with you its bollocks taht
You failed to mention the players that are regular starters for their respective national sides… surely this would justify their world class status and they are: Johnson, Agger, Skrtel, Gerrard, Meireles, Lucas, Kuyt, Suarez, Carroll (yes he is now). 5 new players in the window i.e. Defour, Hulk, Cissoko, Turan, Gervinho and we will have the most talented young squad in the EPL with the most well respected and talented in so many ways manager. The End.
First of let me explain the source of my frustration. The performances we have pulled off with King Kenny and this current squad are great. What frustrates is the thought that if King Kenny had been in charge with the team we had 3 seasons ago we'd be defending champions now.
I stick by my statement about world class. Reina, Kuyt and Suarez are the only players we had at the world cup who could get into one of the top sides at the competition.
The biggest source of encouragement is that for the first time in about a decade we have a bunch of players coming through from the academy.
What has happened since the new owners came in is massive. Under Roy we were well on our way to being a bottom-half-of-the-table team. But with new owners, two great new strikers and King Kenny we are moving forwards.
This is really positive but doesn't change the fact that we are not a dominant team in the Prem. But the form since January shows what can happen when you combine good leadership on and off the field and big investment in quality players. If we get another dose in the summer we will be on the rise. Lets just hope the teams around us don't make bigger steps forward than we do.
MoKo – Liverpool fan for life, no matter what.
p.s. I'm definetely not SAF in disguise. If I was I'd have been sabotaging the Scum so Liverpool could win it all.
You're letting your frustration get the best of you and losing faith in your squad, the sign of a fair weather fan. I will not curse at you or anything like the others but I need to see your definition of "world class." ANY TEAM in the PL would love to have Reina, Gerrard, or Suarez, so that's 3 WORLD CLASS in my opinion. And theres not a single team that couldn't find games for Carroll, Meireles, Carragher, Agger, Skrtel or Johnson. There is no doubt we need investment. We are about to experience a real coming together of youth and experience and you have lost your faith. It's a shame you call yourself a fan and then temper your expectations. This is LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB. We are one of the biggest in the world and you'll soon see. YNWA.
I'm not surprised at some of the extreme reactions here. Some people just don't like the truth. And no, I'm not a Manc. I've been a Liverpool fan since my first ever match in 1964. I wouldn't agree that we only have one World class player. Reina is. I think Stevie G still is. No, I don't agree with 'Sense' above that Skrtl is World Class. Nor Johnson, Agger, Kuyt or Meireles or Lucas. the fact that they start for their national sides means nothing. For crying out loud, Robbie Savage used to start for his national side. Was he World Class?
I agree that the rebuilding is going to be 3 years. Anybody who is thinking Premiership next season is on Fantasy Island. It will take time to build up a squad with the depth to challenge
Just because you've been watching the reds for a long time doesn't mean that you are an intelligent person, who's view is reasonable or typical of Liverpool supporters.
You may be, but equally, you may just be another ignorant and disgruntled fan, who will take any opportunity to be critical.
Bit of extreme reactions here. I don't agree with the entry. I think Suarez and arguably Kuyt are what I would consider world class. Gerrard is debatable as of now, but I'd tend to agree he's past his world class days now.
I think this article is spot on, more or less. The only thing I would argue is that some people wouldn't even class Reina as world class. I personally think Reina one of the best keepers in the EPL if not the best but it depends on what your standards are in calling a player world class. My standards are the world viewing you as one of the best in the world and you having the trophies to back that up! Reina is a World Cup winner but never really played a major part in it and to my knowledge he is only really nationally recognized as the best goal keeper. I think anyone who does think we will win the EPL next season needs to have a word in the mirror! We are on the right track but we need players and cover in a lot of positions and even if we did bring the perfect people in it would still need time to gel. Our fans used to be some of the most knowledgeable in the world but now they cant tell the difference between the best team in the world (Barcelona) who have had core players playing together for over 7 years and LFC who have changed the squad, mager and tactics multiple times over the period of 5 years!
You are a fuckin manc bellend, just like taggert you are still obsessed with Liverpool, crawl back under your stone you fuckin tool and take your opinions with you, this will be the last year you cunts will be top dog and I say that loosely because the quality in the prem is fuckin awfull at the moment wich benefits you cunts as everything has since the Prem started and you landed financially on your feet, soon to end.
Funny article. I suppose it depends on what you call world class. Myself I would consider nearly all players in the top 20 national teams plus a fair few stars whose national teams are not quite up to that standard. By that benchmark we have quite a few players at that level. We really need to remember we are talking LFC who play in the premiership – arguably the highest standard league in the world. I know it is purely a matter of opinion so you are entitled to yours. Our main weakness for several years has been money, but any team that can run from 19th to 6th in the prem over a few months must have several world class players by my book
Good point Bryan I could easily agree with that comment maybe I have set my standards a little high but the top 20 are Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, Argentina, England, Uruguay, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Norway, Greece, Japan, Chile, Ghana, Serbia, Slovenia, Russia, France and Australia in that order and I would not class a heel of a lot of players in some of these squads as world class or all of LFC's players would in deed be world class!
Who cares about world class players??? Man City will keep buying everyone with that label who accepts a big check for a career and they still won't have a team good enough to win the big competitions. I'd rather have a team and bench full of good players that complement one another, than having a team of Galacticos! That's the Liverpool spirit, and it has always been like that. And if we get a good winger and a good left-back, and some more options throughout the squad this summer, we'll have a decent shot at the title. Can't see why not, when you look at the Manure and Arse teams fighting for the it. Are they better than:
Hell, no! Let's try and be positive
Don't be a dingbat, we don't need a team full if stars, we need a star team that's built in team spirit, the biggest change Kenny has made is that he stopped the team being based on torres and Steve Gerrard and made it all about lfc, that is what needed to change no more being afraid to drop star players, torres going means lfc now have the very best chance if pushing for the title, si thanks torres, dare to dream
how the hell can you not include suarez as world class? Gerrard may be out of form, but form is temporary,and class (WORLD CLASS in gerrards case) is PERMANENT. Carroll is a rising star, so is spearing and flanagan! If Kenny had been our manager since day 1 we would be above 4th. To add to that, FSG will give Kenny sufficient funds to buy young, skillful and talented players, proven stars like ashley young, or rising stars like hazard. Gone are the days of overpaying for old mediocre players, this club has a really bright future.
Jaimie, you're getting from bad to worse with your fukup journalistic ideas. Just shut the fuk up and go talk about other teams if you don't know what you're talking about. We do have world class in Gerrard, Carroll, Suarez, lucas, Kuyt, Carrgher. All have participated in World tournaments.And also pls note also that we are in the process of rebuilding a great team and that we have a some very skillful youngsters being groomed – some maybe potential future world class players.
Man Who are you! if u are manc fuck off.
Example: how many so called world class players are there in borrusia dortmund and they are 7 points ahead in bundesliga and making far more better squads chasing their tails.
its just not about quality. for a team of any sport you need all kinds of players like class, hard workers, under dogs and also some under achievers and a mix of youth and experience.
Clear example take man city bolatelli is voted the best u-19 player and would u dare to have him any where near our squad. so what makes a world class player is just not quality or technique but also determination, work ethic, team spirit etc.
I agree that we do need some world class players or young ones who are goin to be. But u are wrong when u say we have got only one. we still have glen johnson, meirless, suarez,carra, gerrard. Pls dont compare them to our previous players. every player has his own style of play and how affective they are. EG: torres who is once the lord jupiter and now little pussy.
Man just get ur facts right
Considering I was a Liverpool fan from before they won their last league title until this day i don't think my faith in the club is shakeable.
We are only just emerging from one of the worst periods in the history of the club. We've really taken a battering. It's unbelieveable that we were in a relegation spot a third into the season. But as unbelieveable as it may be it is a fact. We have to be honest about our team. This is as much as Lawro and a whole bunch of Liverpool Legends were saying about this team earlier this season.
Coming from that base it's a tough ask for us to win the league next season. But early signs of forward progress are there for everyone to see. Now we all wait to see if there is the commitment from the owners to keep pushing for more improvement. We could really use a period of stability and investment. If the new owners can hang on for 5 years to draw a profit we may be able to build LFC up to where we belong.
As for this ddebate on what a world class player is, I guess there is not absolute truth here. In my opinion you'd have to be in the top 10 players in your position to be a World Class Player. This is obviously way stricter than most judging from the comments.
But Abhi says you don't need a team of world class stars to be successful. Just look at Shalke. But we compete against teams at the top of the Prem who have world class players.
If you have a team of high quality Prem players with experience you can win the league. It's about the total quality of your squad at the end of the day. Chelsea brought on Torres to replace Drog on the weekend. We brought on Jonjo to replace Carroll. Our alternative was Ngog. That's a massive difference. Not impossible to overrcome but masssive nonetheless.
i am a blackburn fan and the one thing i cant beleive is its taken this long for lfc to bring dalglish back,the man is a genius,his tactical awareness and man management skills are second to none,his abillity to make average players into good players and good players into great players is amazing,so whether u think u have world class players or not kk will build a team of winners,as for your future i can only see good things,the rest of the footballing world better watch out,because the sleeping giant is waking up……p.s i would love any of your players at ewood
Your English grammar is dreadful!
Who says you need world class players to compete for trophies. Stoke, Birmingham, Tottenham, Schalke. You need players who play from the heart and truely love the team they're playing for, not these highly paid badge kissers who will leave a club as soon as the next big pay day comes along. Your comments are ridiculous.
Pathetic! You wasted minutes of your life writing this article that you can never get back! I wasted valuable minutes of mine reading it which I can never get back! I feel i have to tell you that you are making a fool of yourself to justify those minutes I just wasted.
Please stop having thoughts make up your football knowledge and try and understand what you watch more before having opinions. The Liverpool sides of the 70's and 80's didn't have world class players you fool – just very very good ones who all knew how to combine together as an 11 to make THE world class TEAM!
Sammy Lee? David Fairclough? Phil Neal? Tommy Smith? John Wark? Alan Kennedy? Mark Lawrenson? Any others you care to think of world class? Of course not! Hardly anyone really is and it doesn't matter you bozo! It's team ethics and a high consistent ability level that good teams need week in week out! UURRGGHHH!!!!
You'll be telling me Cantona was World Class next and of course he wasn't – he just did well domestically and convinced idiot Manc fans he was better than he was – he might be cool – but he wasn't world class – Hardly anyone really is remember!
Even Pepe Reina isn't or Stevie G – but they are very very good and the best about at the moment!
Messi maybe at the moment! Maybe!
Stupid article!!
With the rebuilding process in swing and all fans and players looking towards a bright future is there any need for rubbish like this?
Reina is the best keeper in the epl, saurez, carroll are quickly adapting and world class already, gerrard plagued with injuries this season but still world class, lucas best def. mid of the year with highest tackle completion record.
Amazing youth shining through, mierelez and skrtle world class and improving daily.
Dont give up the day job my friend.
Mate – your article is b*llocks. You know f*ck all about LFC and you are also a knob.
Mate I think you're being a bit harsh with the f* bombs but otherwise totally agree with you – but include Mereiles he's definitely world class midfielder! If Agger can stay fit he'll be our new Jan Molby one of the best around and also Dirk Kuyt is proven at the highest level.
I agree with everyone on here in that the future for Liverpool is definitely bright. We are on the road to regaining what has been lost. I'm just highlighting what it is we have lost. We have a long way to go yet but we will get there.
In response to Dick:
As for Liverpool teams of the 70s and 80s not having any world class players. That is just inaccurate.
Kenny Dalglish (1977 – 1990)- considered one of the greatest players EVER in the game.
John Barnes (1987 – 1997)- one of the best wingers in the history of the game.
Greame Souness (1978 – 1984)- feared not just for being hard but for being a supreme passer.
Kevin Keegan (1971 – 1977)- absolute magicial. Went on to win European player of the year two years in a row. Only surpassed by Dalglish.
Alan Hansen (1977 – 1991)- protypical ball playing defender. Modern players only wish they had his technique.
Ian Rush (1980-87 & 1988-96)- scoring legend respected throughout Europe. European golden Boot Winner 1984.
Ray Clemence (1967 – 1981)- goalkeeping genius, full stop!
As has been said the whole team doesn't have to be world class is the supporting cast to the above are all good-to-great players. We've had plenty.
But in the current age of football having one or two world class players still puts you behind your competition. They are buying anything that moves.
I'd be happy for one additional dominant world class midfielder and so top quality supporting players.
agree with all what a fuc…g article it is. if liverpool don't have enough world class players then how in hell can they defeat the likes of the top four and next season all these assh..s will have their answers
two things that i think need to be addressed in the summer are creativity and pace and if you look at the targets we are being linked with then the signs are good.
since the turn of the year and the return of king kenny, we now have skill,pace and ariel prowess up front,but more importantly 2 players who want to be at the club and work extrememley hard and are totally commited.
many a time in our recent past it seememd like the managers only way to get something out of certain players would be to ridicule them or embarass them, ie johnson and " well he is englands right back " comments or " i didnt sign cole " and many many more that dont just include roy hodgson s period..
with kenny the underlying message is the most important thing is the club and the most important players are the ones who are fit and he has not belittled anyone, even the players not in the team,ngog,cole,jovanovich,poulson have the utmost respect for him and yes part of this is because who he is but also surely about the way he conducts himself and represents liverpool football club.
i dont see how you can be so negative about the team, when you think at home we are very strong and to find 5 defeats in the league at home you would have to go way back, we also have owners and a system in place which is about buying good young players and bringing talent through the ranks.
only the team down the east lancs road have picked up more league points since january and if you think in most of that time there has been no gerrard and no torres that has to be a massive improvement on previous seasons.
so my message to you is lets wait and see what signings are made in the summer and in the mean time get 100% behind the team, because all the teams above us are not happy with there team and are going to have to kick out good players to improve, we dont we just need to add a few more !!!!


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While Monsanto and other Big Ag and Big Pharma giants have been telling us GMO food is safe, quoting countless industry-backed studies on the efficacy of their food production via biotech science model, the lies they have been telling us are reaching epic proportions. In the meantime, they continue to accuse anti-GM activists of doing the same.
Take for example, the allegations of Piero Morandini of the University of Milan, who, way back in 2005, found that GM maize contained 100 times less fumonisin per kilogram than in conventional crops, supposedly far less than its makers were telling government agencies. In his findings, GM maize contained less of this fungal toxin notorious for causing Spina Bifida. These field trials would have been a favorable review of GM crops. Were they suppressed?
Fumonisins (FB) are mycotxoins which already infect corn and other grains in the world, but which are used by biotech companies to try to make crops impervious to pests. The food and agricultural industries already lose millions due to mycotoxins annually, but they have now been bred into our food supply with Bt crops – and Round Up Ready Chemicals.
"Because FB may have acute and chronic effects, we hypothesize that even in the absence of debilitating acutely toxic amounts of FB in the swine diet, sustained exposure to small concentrations may negatively affect herd health and production efficiency." (JournalofAnimalScience.org)
The institute which was supposed to conduct unbiased studies on the GM maize crop was none other than the government-funded National Institute for Research on Food, a part of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization. This same organization is responsible for an anti-GMO report published at EarthOpenSource.org that very clearly explains numerous problems with GM food.
One author of the report, Dr. John Fagan is a former genetic engineer who returned more than half a million in grant money to the National Institute for Health in 1994 due to concerns about the safety and ethics of GM technology. He stated:
"Crop genetic engineering as practiced today is a crude, imprecise, and outmoded technology. It can create unexpected toxins or allergens in foods and affect their nutritional value. Recent advances point to better ways of using our knowledge of genomics to improve food crops, that do not involve GM."
The problem is that government agencies like the FDA and EPA have been ignoring epidemiological studies suggesting a link between herbicide use and birth defects and cancer for more than a decade. Even the American Medical Association has called for more strenuous testing of GM crops. FDA officials will not even comment if they 'support mandatory testing,' and Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications has said "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food." Is there a reason these two – a private corporation and a public government organization are dancing around the GMO topic? Might it be that our government agencies have been bought outright by Biotech companies like Monsanto? The two congressmen receiving the most donations from Monsanto during the last election were Larry Combest (Chairman of the House Agricultural Committee) and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Even the editors of the respected magazine Scientific American have taken a stance against GMO-labeling – shocking considering they have published articles like "Return of the Natives: How Wild Bees Will Save Our Agricultural System." Maybe the editors haven't read the multiple studies linking GMO pesticides to bee deaths and colony collapse disorder, like this one from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). In this government study they admitted to testing 35 different pesticides in pollen: ranging from oxadiazines, neonicotinoids, carbamates, cyclodienes, formamidines, organophosphates, and pyrethroids. These have all been tied to colony collapse disorder.
In a recent article the author of this article wrote for another sight, quoting the 800 world scientists who were against GMO, multiple industry shills commented that 'the authors of this study are not even real scientists.' So what gives? Who are we to believe when the studies which are conducted are funded with Ag industry money and regulated by the Monsanto monopoly. If any 'real' science is to be done, it needs to be truly transparent, including the money trail behind it. Until government agencies require true testing on GM crops it will be difficult to tell which studies are altered and which are representing truth. I have a hunch that non-GMO-funded science is already pointing out some glaring problems with GMO food crops.


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there are three police stations and a satellite station within 30km radius or this station. Stop snorting the eggnog.
30km sh*t they're very far 30km is not pap ne vleis.
The construction of a police station in President Jacob Zuma's hometown of Nkandla was part of a "long process" and not linked to the upgrades to Zuma's home, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday.
"This construction marks the culmination of a long process that was initiated in 1995," Colonel Jay Naicker said in a statement.
"The Inkosi... requested the SAPS [SA Police Service] to build a police station in the Ubumbano area as a result of ongoing faction fighting and crime in the area."
He said the SAPS felt it necessary to "put matter into proper perspective" after the Sunday Times printed a front-page report on the station.
The newspaper reported that the "state-of-the-art" station was being built "on the doorstep of Zuma's rural homestead".
It had "established" that Zuma was updated by consultants commissioned to conduct an environmental management assessment for the station.
Nkandla has recently been in public eye, after it emerged that the president's private residence in the town was undergoing a reported R200 million upgrade.
Naicker said: " We would like to expressly intimate that there was nothing untoward in this regard as we welcome this community-police partnership demonstrated in this project.
"Rural development remains a very crucial aspect of service delivery in
the SAPS."
there are three police stations and a satellite station within 30km radius or this station. Stop snorting the eggnog.
30km sh*t they're very far 30km is not pap ne vleis.
Nkandla again in the news, dont we have other placesd in the country needing priority projects instead of focusing at KZN? Smell of a fish here, funding of projects enterly shifted from ohter areas to the City of Nkandla....
Those inkosi are out of their mind and they are c.razy and c.onfused they should have argued ,That one of the c.ompound from Zooma be their o.wn police station this village of nkadla a.ccumulated so much from our tax .NOW they want another piece of our tax? f.uk them JUJU was r.ight about nkadla ppl
They say they are going to build a ' state of the art' police station. Not a school, not a clinic. Surely every police officer in South Africa is applying for a tranfer to Inkandla police station as we speak. The best police station in South Africa with zuma pictures hanging on all four walls.
Jeeer! thy just play around with our money like a six year old spoilt kid in a supermarket.
There is a new magistrate court being built in diepsloot, why is that not on the news??Fok everyday nwe nywe nywe zuma this zuma that.
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I don't have a problem with a police station. It will serve the community.
I think i'll move to Nkandla soon...big things are about to happen there.i bet soon there will be Summit Club
Now why would the 2011 census use 2001 figures?
I still maintain that i am not going to vote for the ANC if the Spear is going to rule this country with STD 2 We are the only coyntry in the planet to have the President with Std 2 qualification we are just a shame to the international community
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Some years back I had some one rebuild my 4 speed trans. All new Andrews gear set.
Then one Sunday, at about 70 mph,the gears started swapping places in the box.
Well I took off the lid, shook out the parts and set them back to Andrews.
The good folks there said yup, they are broke and sent me some new parts.
I had an old UL 3 speed with reverse,so I gutted it.
Put all my 4 speed stuff in, and away I went.
Rode this old tranny for years, but it started to crack.
Found myself a new case. Pulled every thing out of the 3/R box, set it all aside, sold the old stuff.
Started to put the new tranny together, and there it was.
No holes drilled for the counter shaft end cap.
Here is my question:
Do I need to put the whole trans. together to line up the counter shaft to mark the holes ?
Or do I even have to put the trans together to drill and tap for this cap ?
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High School: Fort Vancouver
College: USC (school history)
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Pokemon players all over the world have converged over the past few days to play Pokemon Red on the Twitch channel Twitch Plays Pokemon.
The idea is that anybody can input their own button choice, and the player character will react to that decision. Unfortunately there is severe lag, which means it isn't an immediate reaction.
The creator of the channel is referring to this as a social experiment, wondering if a team of people can work together to beat the game. The more people that hop aboard however, the more challenging it gets.
As of now the stream has nearly 8 million views and almost 65,000 people viewing at any given time. After over five days of playing, the group currently has four badges and appears trapped in the Team Rocket hideout in Celadon City.
Some highlights of the stream have included the accidental release of Charmeleon due to struggles with the PC. On the other hand the team has managed the impressive feat of getting through Rock Tunnel, which is pitch black.
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If I had to guess I would say it will at least take a month for the game to get beaten. More than likely people will eventually get bored and leave, which would make it much easier to finish the game.


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Set during the aftermath of the American Civil War, Confederado do Norte tells the story of Mary Catherine MacDonald Dias Oliveira Atwell, a child torn from her war devastated home in Georgia and thrust into the primitive Brazilian interior where the young woman she becomes must learn to recreate herself in order to survive.
October, 1866.
Mary Catherine is devastated when her family emigrates from Georgia to Brazil because her father and maternal uncle refuse to accept the terms of Reconstruction following the Confederacy's defeat. Shortly after arrival in their new country, she is orphaned, leaving her in Uncle Nathan's care. He hates Mary Catherine, blaming her for his sister's death. She despises him because she believes Nathan murdered her father. When Mary Catherine discovers Nathan's plan to be rid of her as well, she flees into the mountain wilderness filled with jaguars and equally dangerous men. Finding refuge among kind peasants, she grows into a beauty, ultimately marrying the scion of a wealthy Portuguese family. Happiness and security seem assured until civil unrest brings armed marauders who have an inexplicable connection to Mary Catherine. Recreating herself has protected Mary Catherine in the past, but this new crisis will demand all of the courage, intelligence, and creativity she possesses simply to survive.
From the Author!
"I have been in love with the past for as long as I can remember. Anything with a history, whether shabby or majestic, recent or ancient, instantly draws me in. I suppose it comes from being part of a large extended family that spanned several generations. Long summer afternoons on my grandmother's porch or winter evenings gathered around her fireplace were filled with stories both entertaining and poignant. Of course being set in the South, those stories were also peopled by some very interesting characters, some of whom have found their way into my work.
As for my venture in writing, it has allowed me to reinvent myself. We humans are truly multifaceted creatures, but unfortunately we tend to sort and categorize each other into neat, easily understood packages that rarely reveal the whole person. Perhaps you, too, want to step out of the box in which you find yourself. I encourage you to look at the possibilities and imagine. Be filled with childlike wonder in your mental wanderings. Envision what might be, not simply what is. Let us never forget, all good fiction begins when someone says to her or himself, "Let's pretend."
I reside in the Houston area with one sweet husband and one German Shorthaired Pointer who is quite certain she's a little girl.
Favorite quote regarding my professional passion: "History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up." Voltaire
Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel from Soul Mate Publishing
Confederado do Norte from Soul Mate Publishing
Twitter: @LindaPennell
Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel


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Our prayers go out the students, parents, employees, and community of Franklin Regional High School. God's heart is broken for these precious children as well, and He is pleading with America to be invited back into our schools and our government so He can show Himself strong as our Protector.
God bless our children. Lord, please give us back You. In Jesus Name we pray.
Psalm 91
"He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, 'He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.'
Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler
And from the perilous pestilence.
He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.
A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.
Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
'Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.'"
If you have never received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, I encourage you to do it today, right now, by saying this prayer out loud: "Jesus, forgive me for my sins. I am sorry. I truly desire to be saved and reconciled back to God, my Father, through You. I receive Your sinless Blood as payment in full for my sins—past, present, and future. I now call You my Lord and Savior, and invite You to live within my heart, and to permanently live within me. I make You Lord over me and over my life from this moment on. Amen." Congratulations! You are now a child of God, made whole and made new, by the Blood of Jesus Christ!
God tells us that we are blessed to be a blessing (Genesis 12:2). Be a blessing to someone by sending them this word of encouragement. If God did not already put someone in your spirit and on your heart that needs to read this uplifting message from above, simply ask your Heavenly Father who to bless on today. Forward this message right now by email, facebook, or twitter.
Jesus is coming soon!
May God Bless you and keep you always.
With warmest regards,
And, in service of The Most High King,
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Awarded Grant to Prevent Violence and Violence-Related Injury
FOA Number: CE07-010: Research for Preventing Violence and Violence-Related Injury
Project Period: 09/01/2007 - 08/31/2010
Application/Grant Number: CE001210
Principal Investigator: Michael Miner
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Importance: A major obstacle to developing prevention programs for child sexual abuse is lack of information about its causes and correlates, especially in young offenders. We propose to continue our development of models for understanding sexual abuse perpetration by determining whether factors that distinguish sexual abuse perpetration from delinquent behavior are unique risk factors or causes and correlates of internalizing disorders in youth. Objectives: Aim 1: Determine the generalizability and applicability of a model of child sexual abuse perpetration based in attachment theory. Aim 2: Determine whether hostile masculinity, masculine adequacy, and an impersonal attitude toward sexuality are specific risk factors for sexual aggression. Aim 3: Expand our understanding of how attachment style confers risk for sexual abuse or sexual assault perpetration by including developmental and parental relationship data from primary caregivers. Seven specific hypotheses will be tested. Our central hypothesis is that child sexual abuse perpetration has both unique and shared risk factors with adolescent internalizing disorders and that the causes and correlates of sexual assault differ from those for child sexual abuse perpetration. Participants: We will recruit from probation and treatment programs to enroll male adolescents (n=400), 13-18 years old, who have either sexual abused a child, sexually assaulted a peer or adult, perpetrated a non-contact sex offense (e.g., exposing, voyeurism), or are being seen by a professional for a mental health or substance use disorder. Primary caregivers (n=200) of the adolescents will be recruited from community based sites. Design: This study uses a multi-method, cross-sectional design. Data will be collected from the four groups of adolescents and their primary caregivers by use of chart reviews, interviews, computer-administered self-report protocol, and blind ratings of the History of Attachments Interview. Setting: This project is a continuation of a successful collaboration between researchers at the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Sexuality, treatment providers, juvenile justice agencies, and residential placement agencies.
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- Page last updated: March 25, 2010
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I have created my custom view and I want to apply pinch zoom for my custom view. How to do that?
This article on the Android Developers Blog covers this topic very well (scroll down to the section on GestureDetectors):
If you just want to implement pinch-to-zoom, there's only a few lines of code you'll need:
The rest of the article deals with handling other gestures but rather than using their implementation, you can use GestureDetector just like ScaleGestureDetector is used in the code above.
Put your view inside
Custom view available here https://github.com/Polidea/android-zoom-view it's easy, free and so much fun!


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I'm of two clashing minds when it comes to deploying the Eagles' defense against Matt Cassel and the Vikings this Sunday.
The matchup is potentially a juicy one, as Cassel — despite his occasional outbursts of reasonably good play — has been a turnover machine for most of the past three seasons, and the Vikings will be without Adrian Peterson and possibly Toby Gerhart, who continues to struggle with a pesky hamstring injury.
And anecdotal look at Philly's Week 15 matchup says the Eagles much-improved pass rush will be ready and willing to tee off on Cassel and his occasionally leaky offensive line.
Philly's defense, which hasn't scored fewer than seven fantasy points since Week 6 — an incredible streak — has been stout against the run (sixth best in the league, according to Pro Football Focus) so Minnesota will certainly be a one-dimensional offense. This is all well and good.
The other way of looking at Philly's Week 15 matchup is as simple as asking Vegas oddsmakers what they think of the Vikings' chances. Vegas, as you'll see below, has this game pegged as one of the week's highest scoring affairs, with the Eagles as a 4.5-point favorite. Vegas says Minnesota will score 23.3 points, and that, dear streamer, makes me nervous as hell.
The hope, I think, is that the Eagles can counter the Vikings' scoring with a bunch of sacks and perhaps a pick or two. Philadelphia's defense won't post a big fantasy line this week by shutting down the Minnesota offense; it simply won't happen. Prepare yourself for scoring, and (maybe) lots of it.
|Falcons vs. Washington
|Eagles at Vikings
|Packers at Cowboys
|Ravens at Lions
|Rams vs. Saints
|Dolphins vs. Patriots
|Texans at Colts
|Bills at Jaguars
|Cardinals at Titans
|49ers at Buccaneers
|Giants vs. Seahawks
|Jets at Panthers
|Raiders vs. Chiefs
|Bengals at Steelers
* * There's a temptation to roll with the Falcons defense against a Washington team that has simply given up on life in recent weeks. I have the Falcons as a top-15 unit, but this over-under makes me more than wary of rolling with Atlanta. Washington, however, is allowing 12.6 fantasy points to defenses when adjusted for strength of schedule. Only the Jets are worse.
* * The Bengals and Steelers both make for decent, if unexciting, options in what Vegas projects as the lowest scoring affair of Week 15. I don't think there's a ton of upside for either defensive unit. Only three offenses allow fewer schedule-adjusted fantasy points to defenses than the Steelers.
* * The Jacksonville defense has been a top-nine unit over the past month, averaging 8.1 fantasy points over that span. It's a tough case to make in large part because the Jaguars are clearly prone to game flow disaster with Chad Henne at the helm. Jaguars' coaches have found ways to mitigate Henne's impact on the game — a boon for a defense that has been put in horrendous positions thanks to their offense's dysfunction. Buffalo has reportedly pared down the offensive playbook for E.J. Manuel after the rookie appeared overwhelmed last week in Tampa. I'm not sure if this is a good thing for the Jags' defense, but this much is clear: the Bills' offense will be simplified, and Jacksonville head coach Gus Bradley is a damn good defensive mind.
I enjoy your podcasts, articles, book/short stories, etc. so I don't want to come off sounding really critical. I know we all are looking for numbers to help us make our projections better. If these over/unders are making you more accurate then stick with them. The question that always comes to my mind is: When you write "Vegas says" do you mean the betting public or the sportsbooks? I'm thinking you are referring to the sportsbooks and I don't really think of them as telling us anything other than at what point gamblers disagree. For example if the over/under of Philly/Minn is 51, they are telling us that they think roughly 50% of bettors will think there will be less than 51 points scored and the other half think more will be scored. I just looked up the current stats and saw that currently 61% are betting the under (when typically bettors are drawn to Overs) and only 25% are takings the Vikings to stay within 4 points. Does this mean I should think philly's defense will be better because of the actions of these extra 11% of bettors? Do we watch for line movements or just go with the original line and consider it close enough, since it was the oddsmakers initial guess of public perception?


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Artichoke Shrimp Bake RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1 pound cooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1 can (14 ounces) water-packed artichoke hearts, rinsed, drained and quartered
- 2/3 cup frozen pearl onions, thawed
- 2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1 small sweet red pepper, chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of shrimp soup, undiluted
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup sherry or chicken broth
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1/8 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/2 cup soft bread crumbs
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- Hot cooked rice, optional
- Preheat oven to 375°. Place shrimp, artichokes and onions in a greased 11x7-in. baking dish; set aside.
- In a large skillet, saute mushrooms and red pepper in butter until tender. Stir in soup, sour cream, sherry, Worcestershire sauce, lemon peel and white pepper; heat through. Pour over shrimp mixture.
- In a small bowl, combine bread crumbs, cheese, parsley and butter; sprinkle over top.
- Bake, uncovered, 20-25 minutes or until bubbly and topping is golden brown. Serve with rice if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
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Reviews for Artichoke Shrimp Bake
"If I could've found all of the correct ingredients at the store, it would've been better."
"Good flavor. I used low-fat sour cream and panko crumbs instead of soft bread crumbs. Loved the crunch. I used the Cream of Shrimp soup - might cut that to half a can next time."
"I made this for overnight guests on Black Friday for lunch. Turned out excellent, although I did add minced garlic. Burgers76, no one should be "ashamed" about anything. Modify the [expletive] recipe if you don't like it but quit the Food Police mentality."
"This was good, but not as much flavor as I was expecting. Seemed like it was missing something...if I made it again, I would saute some garlic with the mushroom and red pepper."
"Fabulous! And to burger:Many of us are great cooks and know how to alter a recipe to lower sodium if we want to. Lowering your sodium intake would be your job not the job of this site.Thanks Taste of Home for all the wonderful recipes."


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I was recently going through some images from this summer on one of my hard drives, and I came across these two frames that made me smile. I thought they might be helpful in explaining how to "manipulate light" (or manipulate your camera's settings, really) to get two different moods from the same setting, same light, same subjects, etc. (I do this all the time at sessions with clients.) And the only thing my sweet subject had to do was turn around to face me; I didn't move an inch!
Look #1 is dark and shadowy (my favorite).
Lila was just ahead of me on our way out the door, and I asked her to stop and wait for Mama. She obeyed, and just peeked out the doorway. Of course, I swooned at the backlight wrapping around her little body. I grabbed my camera, metered quickly for the light spilling on the edge of her skin closest to the light, and pressed the shutter.
Nikon D700, 50mm 1.4 at ISO 100, f/2.5 and 1/200.
When I processed the photo, I was careful to leave some detail in the shadows, especially on her back and legs, rather than to completely silhouette her with some crazy levels and curves. I wanted that detail I captured to remain in the image, and loved the way the highlights on her skin were still preserved as well. I also love the texture in the wood floor and in her straw hat, so I was careful about my mid-tones here too.
Look #2 is light and bright.
I knew I needed a bit more light to hit my sensor to achieve a different look, so I quickly metered for her back (which was still toward me) and adjusted my camera's settings. I opened up the aperture a bit more and slowed the shutter speed down as well. This allowed more light to enter my camera for a longer period of time, therefore yielding a brighter, more light-filled exposure.
Then I simply called her name. She turned and looked back at me… I swooned at her sweet face this time… and then I pressed the shutter again.
Nikon D700, 50mm 1.4 at ISO 100, f/1.8 and 1/100.
I processed the image quickly in ACR, and chose color this time. The floor behind her is a smidge bright here on the web, although it's perfectly exposed in Photoshop. (Don't you just love when that happens?!) I love the airiness to this photo, and I think it just screams summer. Best of all, it's a very different feel than that of the first image I created. (Both images were created in RAW and shot in Manual Mode.)
These photographs were taken a mere 7 seconds apart. Sometimes that's all it takes to assess the light, shoot a frame or two, decide to change the mood up, and readjust your settings. In addition to understanding how light can be used differently in the same setting, I can't stress enough how important it is to memorize your specific camera's buttons, dials and settings so that you can adjust them very quickly. When you're just learning to use your camera (and especially when you're earning your living with it), I feel that it's so important to shoot in manual mode. This is a must if you want to make your camera create what your mind already sees, because oftentimes you'll need to "fool" your camera's meter to get your desired results. You can't always rely on the piece of equipment in your hand to know what your vision is, and carry it out for you. When it comes right down to it, YOU are the artist and YOU are in control. You'll need to understand how aperture, ISO and shutter speed work together to create the exposure that you have in mind.
If you're an avid reader like I am, and want to understand how aperture, ISO and shutter speed rely on each other, then definitely check out Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson. All that technical jargon finally made sense, years ago, when I read this book (with camera in hand, of course).
I hope this helps someone. And please, let me know if you'd like to see any specific photography tutorials from me. I'll do my best to accommodate your requests!
Co-editor, Stacey Woods is an on-location, natural light lifestyle photographer for the Tampa Bay, FL area. Her favorite subjects are expecting mamas, the tiniest of babies, and children of all ages, and she prefers to photograph them in black and white, almost exclusively. Her online photo journal can be found at Stacey Woods Photography. Stacey's own husband and children (a 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter) are her greatest source of inspiration… and laughter!


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Friends and Blogsphere
By MortazaviBlog on Dec 21, 2005
Last week, I finally had the good fortunte of meeting Robin Wilton, a colleague at Sun and one of the bloggers on blogs.sun.com who was visiting the Bay Area on a business trip. We have known each other through the reading of our blogs, a few exchanges of e-mail and some common areas of technical interest. Meeting in person, we had a chance to exchange some other ideas about our work and personal lives and find greater common ground. So, if we view blogs as correspondence, and they can be correspondence, I would say this is a classic case of correspondence leading to friendship. Always, having something already in common (like our work for Sun) can help establish a ground and context against the background of which, we can build greater common ground for friendship.
This is a season of traditional holidays, and holidays are a great time to think and remember friends and family (and after all, gifts are nothing but a way of remembering), and I thought it only wise to remember Robin's visit from the U.K. and the extra effort he made to meet me while he was here on his business schedule. Let's hope I have the good fortune of reciprocating this act of friendship next time I'm on business in Europe!


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Remington TStudio Pearl Ceramic AC Hair Dryer
Remington TStudio Pearl Ceramic AC Hair Dryer has a salon quality AC motor with 40% faster airflow for smooth, salon results.
Featuring an ionic generator and ceramic formula with real pearl, this pearl ceramic dryer gives you smooth, frizz-free salon quality styles. Includes both a concentrator and diffuser attachment.
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- Pearl ceramic grill for smooth, frizz-free styles
- Salon quality AC motor performance with 3x longer motor life
- Powerful air flow is up to 40% faster
- Engineered to produce a hushed tone so quieter than average dryer
- 1875 watts maximum allowable power
- Narrow airflow concentrator attachment for precision styling
- Airflow diffuser attachment maintains curls and texture
- Internal electronic ion generator continuously emits millions of ions for maximum therapeutic benefit
- Removable air intake filter for easy cleaning
- Soft touch finish for comfort
- Variable head and speed controls - 3 heat and 3 speed settings suitable for any hair type or styling need
- Cool shot button to set style in place
- Lightweight and ergonomically designed for comfortable handling from all angles around the head
- Limited 4-year warranty
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Awesome Dryer With Wonderful Results!I just purchased the Remington Pearl dryer to pair with my Remington Shine flat iron. I couldn't be happier! I have "just-below-the-shoulder" length hair which is fairly thick, wavy, and frizzy if I don't dry it right away. I can now dry my hair in about 10 instead of 25 minutes. The ergonomic handle is comfortable to hold. My hair now dries smoother and shinier, without any burning. Thank you Remington for allowing me to keep my hair healthy and stylish! I love your products and highly recommend them.Sep 22, 2012Judith Ann / Pasadena, CAHAIR TYPEDark Brown / Dry Hair / Curly Hair / Thick or Coarse Hair
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Averell Edward Daniell
Position: T
Height: 6-3 Weight: 215 lbs.
Born: November 6, 1914 in Pittsburgh, PA
Died: January 28, 1999 in Pittsburgh, PA
High School: Mount Lebanon
College: Pittsburgh (school history) (Daniell college stats)
Drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 2nd round (19th overall) of the 1937 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (15060th overall since 1950)
Relatives: Brother of Jim Daniell
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A Dragons Tail
Master Len pushes his slave Nicole beyond her limits. Nicole struggles to try understand her feelings after her whipping with the dragons tail. She admits to feeling angry upon receiving the sharp, stinging red marks from the dragons tail that she loves. She asks for the whipping to stop and Master Len keeps on going. Share in their deep level of power exchange as Master Len enjoys whipping his experienced slave. Their frank discussion represents the honest, sincere thoughts and lessons of an intelligent, and beautiful slave girl and her expert Master.
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Performers: Nicole Master Len


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Simple Question, what are the sizes/types of the bearings of a Legend Mk2?
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