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ArbCom election result announced
On Thursday 18 December, the six scrutineers[1] certified and announced the results of the two-week community-run election for the Arbitration Committee, the final dispute resolution body of the English Wikipedia. The nine new arbitrators, who will take up their seats on 1 January 2010, are Kirill Lokshin (72.9%), Fritzpoll (71.1%), Coren (70.1%), Mailer diablo (68.4%), Steve Smith (65.6%), SirFozzie (64.9%), Hersfold (64.6%), KnightLago (60.1%), and Shell Kinney (59.9%).[2]
The Signpost congratulates the arbitrators-elect, and offers its thanks to the other 13 candidates for participating in the election. A formal announcement of the appointments by Wikipedia co-founder Jimbo Wales is expected soon. Just as for the previous round of appointments a year ago, a system of tranches will be used to minimise the variation of vacancies from year to year.[3] The candidates with the five strongest votes—Kirill Lokshin, Fritzpoll, Coren, Mailer diablo and Steve Smith—will serve two-year terms expiring 31 December 2011; the remaining four successful candidates—SirFozzie, Hersfold, KnightLago and Shell Kinney—will serve one-year terms expiring 31 December 2010. The new ArbCom arrangement is illustrated in this graph.
Running of the election
The 2009 election was the first to use the SecurePoll system, and overall the election ran smoothly. There were only three minor glitches. First, due to confusion about the use of "00:00 UTC" in the software, the election was programmed to end midnight at the start rather than the end of 14 December. The problem was picked up during the weekend before the end of the election and fixed by MediaWiki developer Roan Kattouw. The second issue was that the scrutineering process took four days, more than the single day the election coordinators had advertised. During this time, the mostly good-humoured frustration of candidates and onlookers was clear on the election talk page. The third glitch was that due to an oversight, three duplicated ballots were not picked up, so 996 ballots were counted from the 993 unique voters. Happy-melon, one of the three election administrators, stated that the minimum number of votes that would be needed to alter the outcome was 13, "so there is no concern that this irregularity could prejudice the outcome of the election. To protect the privacy of the three votes, we have no intention of publishing a revised tally.... Had this irregularity been identified before the publication of the results, it could have been trivially rectified.... we also note the pressure that was placed on the scrutineers by members of the enwiki community to publish the results as rapidly as possible."
Comparisons with the 2008 election
Three significant shifts in voting patterns occurred in 2009. First, the proportion of Neutral/abstain votes was dramatically reduced, from an average of 75.3% in 2008 down to 44.7% in 2009. In Figure 1, each of the 50 points represents one of the candidates (28 in 2008, above the line; and 22 in 2009, below the line). The blue points were successful candidates; the red points unsuccessful. Each point, then, shows two features of the votes for a candidate: (a) the ranking percentage, from left to right, which determined whether they were elected;[2] and (b) the percentage of Neutral votes (equivalent to abstains) from bottom to top for each candidate as a proportion of the total number of voters (996 in 2009; 984 in 2008). Thus, candidates who fell towards the bottom-right received high ranking-percentages with low proportions of Neutral votes / abstains; and candidates towards the top-left gained low ranking percentages and received more Neutral votes / abstains (that is, fewer Supports or Opposes). The mild trend from top-left to bottom-right in 2008 suggests a tendency by voters not to cast a vote for candidates other than those they preferred. No such trend was evident in 2009, suggesting that more voters deliberately opposed or consciously left the radio button on default for the candidates they did not prefer.
It is striking that a line can cleanly divide the candidates of two ArbCom elections in this respect. Several possible reasons for the shift have been put forward. Short Brigade Harvester Boris pointed out that "we know what happened, but we can't say why it happened". Among the possibilities, he said, are that automated secret balloting lets people vote their conscience without fear or favour, that the simple radio-button format makes it easier for people to vote for/against, and that more candidates stood in 2008, so people didn't have time to look into all of them. John Vandenberg has raised the effects of voter fatigue from visiting so many pages, and the inevitable edit conflicts that arise from scroll-and-type voting, as possible reasons for the decrease in neutral/abstain voting. Coren responded that "while why is an interesting question, the effect itself is notable and (IMO) desirable: the number of actual opinions expressed [for or against] has almost doubled."
The second shift occurred in the level of Oppose votes. Figure 2 shows the ranking percentage (again horizontal) against the level of Oppose votes (vertical) for both years, now reversed, with 2009 above 2008. The average percentage of Oppose votes dramatically increased, from an average of 11.8% in 2008 up to 27.4% in 2009. Both elections saw pronounced tendencies to oppose the less popular candidates, a significantly greater trend in 2009. The same reasons as given above, in converse, could be proposed for this trend.
The third shift—a correlate of the other two factors—was towards a lower average ranking-percentage in 2009 (from 51.1% to 44.7%), with a narrowing of the range. This is shown in the horizontal dimension of both figures.
Feedback page
All users are invited to provide feedback on the 2009 election, including discussion of ways to improve the 2010 ArbCom election. The topics thus far include "election personnel", "the SecurePoll system", "improving instructions to voters", "voting rules", "supplementary voting", and "questions to candidates".
- ^ The scrutineers were election officials selected to insure the integrity of the election by verifying the votes and monitoring for potential manipulation. They were Erwin (talk · contribs), Thogo (talk · contribs), Laaknor (talk · contribs), Millosh (talk · contribs), Mardetanha (talk · contribs), and Effeietsanders (talk · contribs), all stewards not primarily active in the English Wikipedia community.
- ^ a b The ranking percentages were calculated as the number of "supports" per candidate divided by the sum of their "supports" and "opposes".
- ^ Without the one-year tranche this time, baseline oscillations would be 5 in 2010, 13 in 2011, 5 in 2012, and 13 in 2013. The one-year seats will balance the early departures since the last election, of Deskana, FT2, Sam Blacketer and John Vandenberg, who were all due to retire at the end of 2010.
- Election report
- News and notes
- In the news
- Discussion report
- Features and admins
- Congratulations everybody! I trust you'll do your best as arbitrators in the coming year. But for now, sit back and celebrate the holidays. ALI nom nom 15:19, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
- Who cares about ArbCom again? Please folks, ground yourself and try to make Wikipedia accessible to the beginner user.--Kozuch (talk) 18:24, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
- I agree. By the time arbitration is reached in dispute resolution, there is no good faith left - everybody is at fault. ArbCom really doesn't matter to editors "in the field," but it's nice to see the democratic process in action. HereToHelp (talk to me) 01:32, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
- "Wikipedia CO-founder Jimbo Wales", please. We can't stop all the attempted rewriting of history, but we can rebuff it in many ways. -- Seth Finkelstein (talk) 23:04, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
- Congratulations to the successful candidates. I'm very pleased to see that not one of the people I opposed got a seat and the majority who did are ones I placed a 'support' vote for. --bodnotbod (talk) 16:13, 18 January 2010 (UTC)


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Thursday, May 04, 2006
Day 77 -- Ardara
I did something like this once before, in King of Prussia, but I couldn't resist this one because of the web site that I got it from. These guys are seriously into trains. You can browse trains by location (there are four pages of photos of trains taken in Ardara), by railroad, by locomotive type, just about anything.
I ran 5.4 miles this morning. Now if you'll excuse me, I'd better get off the track.
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i dont have any experience with developmental things later on, as our LO just got home. But, i just wanted to tell you i am thinking of you and your LO and wishing you both the best!
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you should look into your state's early intervention (EI) program. based on your specific concerns, they will send evaluators to your house to meet with you and your LO and see if she qualified for services. if she does, they set up a plan and different therapists (physical, speech, occupational, etc.) come to your house (or to daycare, depending) to work with your LO on a regular basis. you pay based on your income, so if you don't make a lot, the services are often free or very cheap. even if, for some reason, you DON'T qualify, the evaluators (in my experience) are GREAT with answering questions about typical baby development and how to help your LO in different ways. we are receiving services for feeding and physical therapy and they have been really terrific -- DD is completely caught up in those areas now! EI is a great resource and can also connect you with other parents who have similar issues. good luck!
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My daughter's adjusted age was not much younger than your daughter's when we started physical therapy for low tone and head position issues. It was a godsend! Just an hour every other week but they taught me different ways of interacting with her and by the time she was 7 1/2 months adjusted, she was 100% caught up and crawling and has been on target physically ever since. Definitely check out EI for your little one.
Lisa, blessed single mama through embryo donation at 25w6d on 7/16/09 to:
Sarah, 1 lb 13 oz. 122 days in NICU
Jonathan, 1 lb 14 oz. 118 days in NICU
my daughter is 8 months adjusted and she has been in physical therapy for about 5 months. She cant sit up yet, crawl etc. We dont know if it is due to her brain bleed until she is mobile. So far things that come naturally to babies we have had to teach her. I highly reccommend getting in touch with a physical therapist. Early intervention is a great thing and that way you can get your LO to their highest potential.
I conpletely agree with getting early intervention involved. Our twins were born @ 30wks and are going to be 10months on the 31st. Both boys are delayed but Landon is very behind. Leiland is trying to sit & crawl & holding his head up & all the things he should be starting but as for Landon, he is just now starting to hold his head steady and this after 2months of EI coming out. In the 2 months they have been coming out twice a month it has made a TREMENDOUS difference in the few things that he can do.
Landon had a bunch of O2 issues in the 1st few months of life so there is concern regarding cerebral palsy so at this point, therapy is all we can do and hope for the best no matter what. The Drs have all told us not to get too concerned until the delays are there past 2yrs old and then we can go from there. As a mom, it doesnt go away but at least we ae trying all we can to help
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My son didn't sit up on his own until after his 1st birthday or crawl until he was 16 months (13 months adjusted). I would absolutely talk to your ped about any services you might qualify for.
ODS born 8/8/09 at 29 weeks. NICU stay of 81 days.
YDS born 1/22/12 at 41 and 1 weeks!
I would definitely have your lo assessed by EI and go see your ped. Are you followed by a neurologist? I would also go see your neuro and share your concerns. My daughter is 9 months actual, 7 1/2 adjusted and she doen's roll over, but she sits up if propped. Does your daughter have good head control when you hold her. Our therapists always said that babies work from head to toe.
My daughter does not have a shunt so I can't imagine what you have been through. Lanie has cysts in her brain due to a virus contracted while she was in the NICU. All I can say is that EI has been a miracle. She has delays, but she is making progress because of the help she is getting. I cannot say enough how helpful OT and PT have been. I don't think she would be doing the things she is doing now without the help of therapy.
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Berm notice: Oil Spill Commission staff finds Jindal's sand piles were "Underwhelmingly Effective, Overwhelmingly Expensive"
Back in June, I warned that Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) was demagoguing a sand barrier 'solution' that probably won't help, will take many months, use up valuable resources, vanish in the first storm "" and many scientists think will make things worse. As one Coastal geologist explained: "I have yet to speak to a scientist who thinks the project will be effective."
By July, surprise, surprise, Jindal's "barrier islands" were washing away [see photo above]. Now the staff of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling offers its least surprising finding in a white paper, "The Story of the Louisiana Berms Project":
The Commission staff can comfortably conclude that the decision to green-light the underwhelmingly effective, overwhelmingly expensive Louisiana berms project was flawed
The next sentence is "But whether it was flawed at the time, or only flawed in retrospect, with the benefit of hindsight, is not a question this paper seeks to answer." That may be fine for a non-partisan commission, but I had scientists emailing me in June what a bad idea this is. And when I asked people to e-mail me if they thought it was a good idea, there were no replies.
Dr. Robert Young, "a professor of coastal geology and director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University," wrote two pieces in June "" a NYT op-ed, "A Sand Trap in the Gulf" and a longer piece for Yale e360, "Under Pressure to Block Oil, A Rush To Dubious Projects" (reposted on CP), asserting:
The state of Louisiana has a wealth of fine coastal scientists who have been working on the coastal restoration of the Louisiana delta region for decades. Yet those who I have spoken with have indicated that they have not been consulted on the project. I have yet to speak to a scientist who thinks the project will be effective.
In the end, we have a project that is incredibly expensive. There has been little scientific review. It is questionable if the proposed berm will prevent oil from entering the wetlands it is designed to protect. The structure will be very short-lived. And there are many potential negative impacts of this structure on the coastal environment that have not been evaluated. Coastal dredging and filling can cause significant damage to marine organisms and local ecosystems as massive amounts of sand are dug up in one location and then deposited on the sea floor in another spot. In addition, building a 45-mile sand berm could alter tidal currents and lead to the erosion of natural barrier islands that protect the Louisiana coast from hurricanes.
The Spill Commission staff report does make very clear that it was intense political pressure by Gov. Bobby Jindal that forced everyone else to go along, however reluctantly. In theory you can try to fault the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Incident Command, led by Commander Admiral Thad Allen.
But in reality, the fault is entirely Jindal's. The Governor of the state that was most affected by this worst oil spill in US history made clear he was committed to demagoguing this counterproductive strategy, and that if it was not put into place, he would spend the rest of his life shouting to anybody in the media that failure to adopt his solution was the reason why Louisiana coasts were harmed.
The report is worth reading by anybody who thinks the oil spill somehow turn Bobby Jindal into Rudy Giuliani.
Here are some of the Report's conclusions:
A. The Louisiana berms were not a success.
With the benefit of hindsight, the evidence available to the Commission staff suggests the Louisiana berms were not an effective spill response measure. In his book Leadership and Crisis, Governor Jindal claims that berms "proved to be one of the most effective protection measures . . . . Indeed, time and time again, [berms] stopped the oil that got past the skimmers and boom." Similarly, appearing recently on Meet the Press, Governor Jindal argued "[t]he sand berms were a great success." We disagree. From a long-term coastal restoration perspective, the berms may indeed be a "significant step forward," as Governor Jindal has claimed, but they were not successful for oil spill response.
The Louisiana berms project does not survive a rigorous cost-benefit analysis, even without taking yet unquantified environmental impacts into account. The value of the berms as an oil spill response measure depends on how much oil they trapped. Estimates vary, and no precise figures are available, but no estimates of how much oil the berms captured are much greater than 1,000 total barrels. In comparison, according to peer-reviewed government estimates released in November, burning, skimming, and chemical dispersion addressed a total of between 890,000 and 1.85 million barrels spilled from the Macondo well.
To be sure, had the berms been constructed sooner and more extensively, had weather and other factors pushed more oil toward the Louisiana coast, had other response measures been less effective, and had the spill lasted longer, perhaps the berms would have trapped more oil. But not much more than 1,000 barrels, in the context of a spill in which nearly five million barrels of oil were released, and approximately four million barrels entered the ocean, is a miniscule amount by any measure.
On the cost side of the equation, according to the state, as of November 1, five months after the Corps and National Incident Command approved the project, "10 miles of sand berm have been built and two more berms segments … are scheduled to be completed within the next two weeks" at a cost of about $220 million.317 To put this dollar figure in perspective, according to BP's estimates, it has paid approximately $581 million to the federal government, $65 million to Florida, $62 million to Alabama, $77 million to Mississippi, and $293 million (including the cost of the berms) to Louisiana for "response and removal." BP's expenditure on berms is about three times greater than its expenditures for all other response and removal activities in Louisiana. The $220 million BP has spent on the berms to date, along with the additional $140 million BP has committed to the project, represents about one-third of the total amount BP has paid to the federal government and the states for oil response and removal in the Gulf of Mexico….
From the perspective of the Commission staff, however, $220 million for a spill response measure that trapped not much more than 1,000 barrels of oil is not a compelling cost-benefit tradeoff.
Ouch. That would be $220,000 a barrel. You could have bought Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen's 416-foot yacht "the Octopus" [picture below] which has a helipad and a crew that includes "several former Navy Seals" and sent it out to skim for a lot more oil at that price. But I digress.
The Report found:
B. Berms like the Louisiana project are not a viable oil spill response measure.
More generally, evidence available to the Commission staff reveals two main concerns that counsel against employing offshore barrier berms as a spill response measure in the future.
First and foremost, the length of time and cost to build only a fraction of the proposed project shows that, even with advance planning and preparation, and rapid review of proposed actions, it is unlikely that offshore barrier berms could ever be constructed to any effective scale during an emergency. In late May, a few weeks after CPRA filed its initial permit application with the Corps, Governor Jindal complained that "[w]e could have built 10 miles of sand [berms] already if [the feds] would have approved our permit when we originally requested it." But by November 1, five months after the Corps and National Incident Command had approved the project, only ten miles of berms had been constructed. While there were unforeseen delays, even the rosiest construction time frame estimates plainly stated that five of the six berm reaches would not be completed until November 1 and the sixth reach would not be completed until the end of November, months after a relief well would have stopped the flow of oil.323 Indeed, by the time the well was capped, less than six percent of the berms project had been completed. If the pace of construction for the Louisiana berms is even within the general range of what can be expected for similar projects in the future, offshore barrier berms cannot be constructed quickly enough to protect coastlines from oil spills.
To the extent that construction of offshore barrier berms continues after a spill ends, to guard against residual oil intrusion or lingering subsurface plumes, the design of such berms as "sacrificial" poses similar concerns. To ensure that the berms do not degrade for however long the threat of oil remains latent (to the extent that can even be determined), the berms would have to be: (1) designed to be permanent, which would slow down construction and thus reduce effectiveness during the emergency active spill phase; (2) constantly maintained in a sacrificial state for as long as the residual oil threat persists; or (3) built initially as sacrificial structures and later converted to permanent structures. Under any of these scenarios, there are serious questions about whether offshore barrier berms could ever be constructed in time to be effective, especially since, as EPA argued, partial construction during the emergency period could result in oil washing onto the bayside shore of the berms and barrier islands, making matters worse from an environmental perspective.
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A perfect example of a scientifically illiterate politician pushing a "common sense" solution.
Below is link to a recent editorial in the New Orleans Times Picayune about the "relationship" between Louisiana politicians and Big Oil.
Sad, but very true.
Notwithstanding the inability to produce and install berms with effective speed (Points B and C), is it possible that a reason these berms weren't effective was because the direness of the anticipated coastal effects were simply way overblown and not realized (Point A)?
It is exactly these kinds of panic actions which might be characteristic once humans start fighting climate change. Just with this situation you have to deal with it in a preemptive kind of way, to bad that nobody listen to the warnings to reduce our carbon foot prints in time.
The report: "But whether it was flawed at the time, or only flawed in retrospect, with the benefit of hindsight, is not a question this paper seeks to answer."
Ha. It's not like they don't know the answer, they just didn't address it.
But all of this was a sweet deal for certain contractors who are major conributors of Jindal's.
It seems that when you scratch a Republican the layer of pork is never far below the surface. "Efficient government," my hind end.
What a surprise. A nonsensical and political solution did not work. What might be next?
As with Mr Bloom, I also suspect that there is a strong relationship between the boondoggle contractors and Jindal's campaign contributors.
Yes, Steve Bloom and Dano, people who can follow this money will probably find close connections between Jindal and those contractors hired to build the berm.
Money followers, your attention is requested in this matter. Was this another of the infamous 'no bid' contracts that Louisiana is known for?
Now that his stupid project has fallen flat, maybe Jindal can sell it as "Keynesian" project: 'dig a hole and fill it back in' as a palliative for unemployment. Of course, Keynes himself never thought that dig-a-hole-and-fill-it-back-in projects were a wise way for the public sector to stimulate the economy in a recession, but hey, conservatives lie about that too.
I flew over the Chandeleur barrier islands off the Louisiana coast on Wednesday with AP reporters and a representative of the Gulf Restoration Network. Quite a bit of beach has been restored, and the northern end of the chain has been lengthened to some of its former extent.
Restoration was not the original intent, of course. The original intent was ostensibly to block the oil, but actually to make Jindal look good and perhaps line a few pockets in the time-honored Louisiana tradition. The work has morphed into a restoration project to disguise what an expensive waste it is.
It will be great if the restoration lasts: the Chandeleurs are a natural treasure. But why would it? The underlying causes of their decline haven't changed. Due to human interference with the Mississippi and subsidence from oil and gas extraction, they are doomed, anyway. Another few inches of sea level rise, another big storm and they will be gone.
BB (#3), "overblown"?? That implies a poor assessment of the risk at the time. That isn't what happened.
There were millions of barrels of oil in the water and nobody could predict the weather and wind patterns in the coming weeks. Louisiana got very lucky the oil didn't get literally overblown by onshore winds or a hurricane. The threat was real, and will be next time.
I think the question is whether barrier islands are the best way to spend money if your goal is to get oil out of the water. The answer seems to be "no" regardless of how the weather played out.
Perhaps they are the best way to direct oil-recovery money if you have goals beyond recovering the most oil.
If you're implying that satisfaction with an appropriate self-assessment of risk at the time provides absolution from the final result, then you create a situation where anything can acceptably happen after the initial risk assessment, and any prediction becomes unfalsifiable.
You're setting up a scenario there that says that 'nobody could predict' x,y,z and _____ 'got very lucky' so that any future dire predicion doesn't require any sort of validation metric.
How can that square? If a forecaster labels a snowstorm as the equivalent of the 'Worst disaster of our time', and it doesn't happen, no one out there is going to be saying, "Ah, but he did have a good handle on the risk potential at that time". They're going to say he was wrong, and that the event was overblown.
I agree with you though in that the berms are not the best way to spend money for that specific goal. And I agree that there isn't time to mobilize this effort in the future even if it were a good idea.
As the report stated, if there was an actual direness to the event (like the hurricane scenario, or other mitigation methods overwhelmed), the berms would have provided additional benefit). Based on the direness of the risk assessment, an 'any means necessary' approach that 'spares no expense' would have included such a crazy ploy as a last-ditch thing. But, if there was a more accurate assessment, and less direness, then it might have been avoided entirely in the first place.
As it is, we're still left with the 'greatest natural disaster of our time' with no one willing to admit they over-reached. Any qualifiers later to such statements that make them still seem accurate will imply that future extreme predictions are also subject to the same sorts of caveats that dilute their actionable meaning. As you know, every time the boy cried 'wolf', there really could have been a wolf.
#4 – Exactly. What insane geoengineering scheme will be endorsed by Fox News when climate change cannot be ignored anymore?
Obviously it was contra reality and expert opinion. But when has this stopped republican politicians. He did it to play the savior against what the evil government scientists wanted done. When has truth ever had an impact on the public perception?


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InformationWeek SMB: Beyond the taskbar, what are the other things that an IT manager should be thinking about in terms of user support?
Miller: Another thing that takes some getting used to is that Windows 7 uses virtual libraries - virtual folders that they call libraries. What that means is that when you open up the documents folder, you're not really seeing the documents folder. You're seeing all the documents stored in various locations on an end users hard drive or for that matter across the network. That allows you to build libraries around certain types of documents, around projects, clients, teams, or whatever. For the end user it makes a whole lot of sense; they don't know whether this is stored in this folder or that folder, this shared drive or that one, they just have a my documents folder with everything they need. It makes it easier for end users to store and find documents, but there's a little bit of a learning curve to get over the old way of thinking in terms of where things are stored.
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Miller: One feature that is probably not gonna be of interest at all to the IT community is the HomeGroup feature. It's provides a simpler way of networking together computers; it really simplifies the interface and the operation for end users. For organizations without any IT support that could be appealing, but the problem is that you can only use HomeGroup on Windows 7 computers. So if you've got a mixed network - and most businesses do - you can't use it. That's probably my biggest disappointment with it Windows 7. I really like this HomeGroup feature and I can't use them on my computers because not every machine I have runs Windows 7.
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Blessingsby Anna Quindlen
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This powerful new novel by the bestselling author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life begins when a teenage couple drives up, late at night, headlights out, to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia Blessing. They leave a box and drive away, and in this instant, the world of Blessings is changed forever. Richly written, deeply moving, beautifully crafted, Blessings tells the story of Skip Cuddy, caretaker of the estate, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him. The secrets of the past, how they affect the decisions and lives of people in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community—these are at the center of this wonderful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the writer about whom The Washington Post Book World said, "Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family."
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Editorial Reviews
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—The Miami Herald
"A well-told story of love and redemption."
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"[A] richly imagined novel of the transforming power of love."
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Readers...will be rewarded by a story they cannot put down."
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- 9780345468697
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- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 03/30/2004
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- Reprint
- Pages:
- 304
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- 4.15(w) x 6.88(h) x 0.79(d)
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In the early hours of June 24 a car pulled into a long macadam drive on Rolling Hills Road in the town of Mount Mason. The driver cut the engine, so that as the car rolled down the drive and into the oval turnaround between the back of the big white clapboard house and the garage, it made only a soft swishing sound, like the whisper of summer rain those first few moments after the dirty gray storm clouds open.
There were deer in the fields that surrounded the house, cropping the rye grass with their spotted fawns at their flanks. But the fields stretched so far from the drive on either side, and the deer kept so close to the tree line, that the does did not even raise their divot heads from the ground as the car slid past, although one or two stopped chewing, and the smallest of the babies edged toward their mothers, stepping delicately sideways, en pointe on their small hooves.
"I don't feel that good," said the young woman in the passenger seat, her hair veiling her face.
The moonlight slipping at an oblique angle through the windows and the windshield of the car picked out what there was of her to be seen: a suggestion of the whites of her eyes between the curtains of her hair, the beads of sweat on her arched upper lip, the silver chain around her neck, the chipped maroon polish on her nails—a jigsaw puzzle of a girl, half the pieces not visible. She was turned away from the driver, turned toward the door as though she were a prisoner in the car and, at any moment, might pull the door handle and tumble out. The fingers of one hand played with her full bottom lip as she stared at the black shadows of the trees on the rough silver of thelawns, silhouettes cut from construction paper. At the edge of the drive, halfway down it, was a small sign, black on white. blessings, it said.
Blessings was one of those few places that visitors always found, on their return, even more pleasing than the pleasant memories they had of it. The house sat, big and white, low and sprawling, in a valley of overgrown fields, its terrace gardens spilling white hydrangeas, blue bee balm, and bushy patches of catnip and lavender onto a flagstone patio that ran its length. The land surrounding it was flat and rich for a long ways, to the end of the drive, and then the stony mountains rose around as though to protect it, a great God-sized berm spiky with pine trees.
The house had a squat and stolid quality, as though it had lain down to rest in the valley and grown middle-aged. Ill-advised additions had been made, according to the fashion of the times: a den paneled in rustic pine, a long screened porch, some dormers scattered above the horizontal roof line like eyes peering down the drive. The weeping willows at one end of the pond dipped low, but the cedars at the other were too tall and rangy for grace, and there had been sporadic talk of cutting them down almost from the day they were planted. The gardens were of the most conventional sort, hollyhocks in the back, day lilies in the center, alyssum along the borders. Wild rhododendrons grew in the shade wherever a stream sprang from the ground to spill down the hillside and into the big pond, a lake almost, that lay along one side of the house. None of it amounted to much on its own.
But taken altogether it was something almost perfect, the sort of place that, from the road, which was how these two had first seen it, promised plenty without pretense, ease without arrogance. From the road Blessings looked like a place where people would sit on the terrace at dusk, sip a drink and exult in the night breeze over the mountain, pull a light cardigan around their shoulders, and go to bed content. At one time or another, in fact all of these things had been true, but not for some time.
In the fashion of the young, the two in the car, peering down the drive some months before, had convinced themselves that appearance was reality. For the girl, it was the awnings that had finally convinced her, faded green and gold stripes over each window, like proud flags of this little nation-state, where it had been arranged that the sun would never fade the upholstery. That, and a small boat to one side of the pond, in which it was not only possible but indubitable that children could sit safely, row handily, put out a fishing line. In the light from a thumbnail moon the boat, upended on the grass, shone as though a smaller moon had dropped down to earth. The girl saw the sign by the side of the drive in the car's headlights as a benediction, not as a sign of ownership, the proud name of an old family at the end of its bloodline.
The pond made the car's driver nervous. It was shiny bright as a mirror, every star, every constellation, even the path of planes, reflecting back within its dark water and seemingly magnified by the pitch black of the night and the stillness of its surface. Frogs called from its banks, and as the car rolled silently into the circular driveway turnaround a fish jumped and left circles on the surface of the water. At the same moment the car tripped the automatic light at the corner of the house's long porch, and it lit up the drive and the water and the bats that flew crazy eights in search of mosquitoes. The light caught the car itself squarely, so that the two people in the front seat, a boy and girl, each poised between the raw uncertain beauty of adolescence and the duller settled contours of adulthood, were illuminated momentarily as though by the flash from a camera. Their light hair shone, enough alike that at first glance they could have passed for siblings.
"Oh, shit," said the driver, stepping down hard on the brake, so that the car bucked.
"Don't do that," cried the girl. Her hand touched a cardboard box on the backseat, then her own forehead, then dropped to her lap. "I'd kill for a cigarette," she murmured.
"Right," whispered the boy harshly. "So you could have an asthma attack right here and wake everybody up."
"That's not why I'm not smoking," the girl muttered.
"Let's just get this over with," he said.
The car glided to the corner of the big garage, with its five bays. There was a narrow door on one side of the oblong building, and three flagstone steps leading to it. The boy had oiled the doors of the car that morning, with a foresight and industry and stealth the girl had not expected of him. They had both surprised each other and themselves in the last two days, he with his hardness and his determination, she with her weakness and her grief. Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over.
As he slid out and opened the back door there was almost no sound, only the sort of clicks and snaps that could have been a moth hitting a screen or a raccoon stepping on a stick in the woods that stretched behind the garage and into the black of the mountains and the night. The girl was huddled against the door on her side now, all folded in upon herself like an old woman, or like a child who'd fallen asleep on a long journey; she heard the sounds of him as though they were musical notes, each distinct and clear, and her shoulders moved slightly beneath her shirt, and her hands were jammed between her knees. She felt as though they were somehow alone in the world, almost as though the house and its surroundings were a kind of island, floating in a deep sea of ordinary life through which the two of them would have to swim back to shore by driving back up the drive.
She thought this feeling was because of the boy, and the box, and the night, and the ache in her slack belly and her bruised groin, and the pain in her chest that might have been the beginning of an asthma attack. But she was only the latest in a long line of people who had felt that Blessings was somehow a place apart. In the moonlight the high points of it, the faint luster of the slate roof of the house, the shed on the knoll where the gardener had always kept his tools, the small white boathouse at one end of the pond: all of them were set in high sepia relief like the photograph hung carelessly now on the short wall of the library, the one of Edwin Blessing, who bought the place when it was just another old farm and lavished money on it in the years when he had money to spend. The people from Mount Mason who worked there, washing up at the parties in the old days, fixing frozen pipes for the old lady in the years after the parties ended: they all said it was like going somewhere out of this world, the quiet, the clean smells, the rooms and rooms full of polished furniture and toile draperies, which they only glimpsed through half-open doorways. Above all the pond, the gardens, the land. The real world tried to intrude from time to time upon Blessings, but usually the real world failed.
Even Lydia Blessing, the last of the Blessings, had once said as a girl that when she left the city and went out to the house for the holidays she felt as though she were in the kind of snow globe that all the girls in her class at the Bertram School were given one Christmas, the Christmas before the crash, when she had just turned seven. She felt that God was holding her in his hand, looking through the orb of glass at the blue spruce by the barn, the path around the pond, the pillars on the front porch, the swampy bog in the far field where the turtles lay their eggs and the cat- tails rose. It was hard to believe that God could concern himself with anyone in the city, with all of them hidden in the hives of their apartment buildings and narrow limestone houses. But at the country place she stood on the great lawn between the house and the road and raised her face up to the lambent blue and felt certain that the air was transparent down to the patch of ground on which she stood, and that she was watched, and watched closely and well.
"I don't know where you come up with these things," her mother had said, working on a large piece of floral gros point in the failing light of the living room fire. But her father had smoothed his hair and said, "I get your point, Lyds, my love." That had been the year when he was drawing up plans for the apple orchard, when he could be heard at every dinner party at their house in the city referring to "our old farm," his light high drawl rising up the circular stairwell like pipe smoke.
"Why do you think Papa is so nice and Mama is so mean?" she had asked her brother, Sunny, once, when they were in the boat in the center of the pond, where you could say secrets and no one would hear.
"That is a question for the ages," Sunny had said. Confucius, they called him at school when they studied the religions of antiquity with the chaplain in the third form.
The only way Lydia Blessing could remember the child she had once been was to look at photo albums, and even then she seemed strange to herself, incredible that the seeds of her old age had been germinating within that pink inflated flesh. When she used the mirror every day to fix her silver hair in one of the three pinned-up styles she used, when she rubbed cold cream briskly on the fine skin that had been shirred around the eyes and lips for decades, she was occasionally incredulous, not about the fact that she had gotten old, but about the notion that she had ever been young. There was no longer any thought of snow globes, or the hand of God. The gros point had been made into a pillow; it sat on the chair in the back guest bedroom, the one she had used for house parties only if the house was very full. Every time she saw it, which was very seldom now, she remembered that her mother had complained about the price of having it made up. Those were the sorts of things she remembered nowadays.
And Sunny. She remembered Sunny always, as though he would come walking up the rise from the barn, his cornsilk-colored straw hat in his hand. Sometimes she dreamed about him on nights like this, and he was always young and happy.
A fresh breeze blew across the mountains and dipped down into the valley, and the willows on the banks of the pond, where the muskrats made tunnels between the fingers of the roots. The boy took the cardboard box from the backseat and carried it to the flagstone steps that led upstairs to the second floor of the garage. He stumbled and almost fell as another trout leaped from the black water and fell back with the sound of a slap. He caught himself, and never looked at what he was carrying, even when he put it down and stepped back to turn away. "Drink Coke," it said on the box in red letters.
"Not the garage," the girl hissed frantically, leaning across the seat and almost out the car door as he opened it. "You're supposed to leave it at the house. The house! Not the garage!"
"Somebody'll find it," the boy mumbled, his resolve gone now.
"You can't leave it at the garage," she said, her voice trembling, but he had already started to turn the car slowly.
Meet the Author
Anna Quindlen is the author of three previous novels (Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue), and four nonfiction books (A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, How Reading Changed My Life). She has also written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay, Happily Ever After). Her New York Times column "Public & Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her column now appears every other week in Newsweek.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- New York, New York
- Date of Birth:
- July 8, 1952
- Place of Birth:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Education:
- B.A., Barnard College, 1974
- Website:
- http://annaquindlen.net/
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This book will be one that you will reach for even after it's over. The story is beautiful and the characters are flawed in an endearing way. I read this in snatches (small children at home) but it was wonderful and SO easy to "get back into.":-) At one point it made me cry and my 4 year old couldn't understand how a book can make you cry - keep the tissues handy. It is a story you will be glad you read! The book makes you feel like you are there - beautifully written and incredible descriptions of a home past it's prime.:-) Enjoy and pass it on - well worth the read!
This is another great piece of writing from Anna Quindlen who is dependable whether in columns or novels. Her characters are real, her descriptions of love are honest and the story unfolds with secrets wrapped within secrets. There is emotional truth on every page and an ending that speaks to enduring love and decency.
Blessings tells the story of Lydia Blessings, an old woman who lives by herself in a large house with her namesake. She has a new gardener/handyman named Skip who lives in an apartment above the garage, and a cantankerous maid named Nadine. One night Skip finds a newborn baby in a box lying on his doorstep. At first he tries to hide her from everyone, but eventually everyone at Blessings knows about the baby. Soon they all begin to see their own lives transformed by the influence of this tiny, innocent creature. Lydia especially finds her own heart softening, reliving past memories of her own childhood, as well as her daughter's childhood. The main message I found running through the book is no one is an island. We all must have interaction with other human beings in order to survive. Indeed, if we truly want to thrive, the only way to do this is to cultivate meaningful relationships with others. Faith, the baby left on Skip's doorstep, is the physical embodiment of this message. She literally won't survive unless Skip takes care of her. Lydia is the emotional embodiment of the message. She seems to be a recluse, hiding in her house, hardly daring to even go outside. And yet, she will peek through her windows with binoculars to watch what goes on outside. She needs social interaction, but denies herself of it. But as the story progresses, Lydia opens herself up bit by bit to her friends and family, and finds healing for her own heart.
This book is very good. The story skips from Lydia's past to her present alot. But the storyline of Skip and Faith is wonderful. I wish the ending would have been different but oh well.... Wonderful story!!!!
I bought the book on a whim, and I was greatly disappointed. I finished it, but it was tough. The idea is riveting, but the author fails to deliver the twists with a dramatic flare. Therefore, the portions where readers should be shocked, fall with an anticlimatic bang. Another problem was the description in the book. She described the scenes to the point of obsurdity. At times I found myself reading on and on about chairs.
I have started this book FOUR times, and cannot get into it! Quindlen needs a good editor, who will separate the wheat from the chaff...break up some of the rambling sentences, for starters. One sentence was 50 words long, another was 83! An 83 word SENTENCE! That's ludicrous! Yes, I found the book so boring that I resorted to counting words in sentences! I don't know HOW this book ever made the NY Times Best Seller list!
After a slow start, I was very impressed by this book. From the reviews and description on the book jacket, I was afraid that this would be Anne Tyler Lite. While I like her writing very much, this book was much deeper than what I have read by Tyler, if not as intimately written as Tyler's books. Like Richard Russo's Empire Falls (one of my all-time favorites) the book deals with a wealthy matriarch living in a large estate. But unlike that book, which held the old lady up as an enigma, Blessings gets into her mind by having her help her groundskeeper raise an infant left on his garage/apartment doorstep (the baby was obviously left there to be taken care of the rich owner of the estate). The most interesting parts of the book are the flashbacks into her own life that explain what forced her out of Manhattan debutante life and into lifelong exile at her family's country estate. At time the book reminded me of Ian McEwan's Atonement, but never actually reaches the heights of that book.
My first contact with a Quindlen manuscript. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. There were some spots that dragged (Lydia's past). Lydia, Skip, Jennifer, Nadine - all strong character developments. Reminded me of 'The Lovely Bones'. Same lyrical style as Belva Plain. A predictable story line but revelations on family, love, loss, and redemption make it a worthwhile read. Readable on a rainy day with a good cup of coffee.
I have enjoyed Anna Quindlen's books in the past. 'Black and Blue' was a great book that kept you reading on. 'One True Thing' was a story I could relate to personal experience and was touching. But I did not feel the same about 'Blessings.' I thought this book sort of dragged along and was sort of dry. I was definitely expecting a little more excitement in the story.
It was difficult to believe that a young man wanted to raise a baby that he found on the steps to his apartment. The story seemed far-fetched and I had a hard time finishing the book.
Love Anna Q., so sad this was not near what her past novels have been. Hate to say it, but it was boring. Not worth the $ spent. Truly hope this was an aberration b/c I am hooked on the author's talent.
I loved this book. It was a intricate tale told with Anna Quindlen's wonderful way with words. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in a richly woven story of the human heart with all it's ups and downs. The setting came to life in it's beauty and was the perfect backdrop for the novel's past and present characters, as they wove their way through their lives meeting and changing as they aged. Sandine
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Paladins are in the hunt for title again
Published: Friday, August 1, 2003 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, August 1, 2003 at 12:00 a.m.
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Furman may not win the Southern Conference championship again this year. That would be a disappointment to second-year coach Bobby Lamb, but no matter what he hopes the Paladins don't lose it like they -- or some would say he -- did last year.
Leading Appalachian State 15-14 with 7.4 seconds left last Oct. 12, Lamb decided to go for 2. What he got instead was maybe the most amazing play in the history of the league when ASU's Josh Jeffries intercepted a Billy Napier pass and pitched it to Derrick Black, who finished off a 96-yard return that gave the Mountaineers an improbable 16-15 victory.
The highlights were shown nationwide as Lamb faced a firestorm of criticism, and the loss got even harder to take when the dust settled on the league race and it became apparent that that one play had cost the Paladins their 12th championship. But what it didn't cost the former record-setting Furman quarterback, who has been at the school in some capacity since 1982, was the confidence of his players.
That's a big reason the Paladins are picked again to challenge Georgia Southern for SoCon supremacy.
"We had the thing up at Appalachian, but our kids bounced back marvelously against The Citadel," Lamb said Tuesday at the SoCon football rouser, where media members picked the Paladins to finish second in the league in 2003. "We had a chance to win the Southern Conference championship. ... Looking back at the season, we felt like we were one of the top four teams in the country. That's what I'm trying to instill in our players -- that our program is one of the top 10 programs in the country."
Senior defensive end Brandon Poole said none of the Paladins lost faith in Lamb because of a call that backfired.
"Nothing changed at all. The day we got back, we carried on the same way as usual. We talked about what we did bad and what we did good," the 6-0, 260-pounder said. "Stuff happens. It wasn't anybody's fault in particular."
Furman did bounce back nicely, winning two straight before getting hammered 42-21 at home by Georgia Southern in a game in which the Paladins trailed 35-0 at one point. But again they rallied, taking a crucial contest at Wofford the next week before knocking off Chattanooga in the regular-season finale to earn their fourth consecutive trip to the I-AA playoffs and fifth in seven years.
Lamb proved that he could keep the Furman machine going after the departure of Bobby Johnson to Vanderbilt. Now the challenge is to, well, keep the Furman machine going. And despite the loss of Napier, who set a league record by completing 68.5 percent of his passes and a school record with 2,502 passing yards as a senior, it looks like the Paladins -- with only five seniors -- are poised to keep humming provided they can retool an attack that ranked second to Georgia Southern in 2002 in total offense (413.8 yards per game) and scoring offense (30.4 points).
Napier's graduation is the biggest blow, but the departure of three other first-team all-league offensive performers -- wideout Bear Rinehart and offensive linemen Steven Cain and Trevor Kruger -- will also hurt.
Bo Moore, a 6-1, 184-pound junior, will step in for Napier, and he brings with him much more speed, meaning it's likely Furman will go back to the option attack it relied on in years past.
"(Moore) gives your offense a chance to be more versatile than it looks," Lamb said. "It's his turn. ... The way we've done it at Furman, we like for a guy to come in and sit for two years and then be a two-year starter. That's a perfect scenario."
Moore's transition to starter could be more difficult because of the loss of Cain and Kruger, but junior center Craig Morgan (6-0, 282) and junior left tackle Blain Bainbridge (6-6, 285) both return as starters, and both are preseason second-team all-league picks. And when Moore does go to the air, he has perhaps the most athletic group of receivers at his disposal Furman has ever seen.
Issac West, a 6-1, 186-pound junior wideout, is one of the best athletes to ever wear Paladin purple, and the talent level doesn't drop off much on the other wide with Brian Bratton (5-10, 178), who replaces Rinehart as a full-time starter. West ran a team-best 4.39 40 in spring practice, a step ahead of Bratton and Vanderbilt transfer Grant Brigham, a 6-0, 175-pound sophomore who will also see time.
At tight end, 6-3, 244-pound junior Will Sudderth, a first-team all-league performer last fall, is also back.
In the backfield, Hindley Brigham returns with his team-high 762 yards rushing and five scores, while fullback Al Means, a 6-0, 220-pound junior, is back after missing much of last season with a broken ankle. A pair of area products are expected to see time as backups, with junior Brandon Berry, a former East Henderson High standout, emerging as a talented fullback after spending two years at wideout and sophomore Brandon Mays, a T.C. Roberson product, looking poised to rebound from three major surgeries on his intestines in the offseason to get back in the tailback mix.
Until the offense gels, the defense should pick up the slack and be improved over 2002 with seven returning starters, including three experienced linebackers. Cedric Ritter, a 6-2, 230-pounder with a team-best 39-inch vertical leap, led the Paladins in tackles with 111 last year at weak side, with middle linebacker Mike Killian, a 6-1, 234-pound junior in his third season as a starter, right behind with 101 stops last fall.
Senior Keito Whetstone (6-0, 230) rounds out the corps.
Furman's biggest question mark is on the line. The Paladins managed a league-worst nine sacks in 12 games last season and will have to replace two starters.
The secondary, on the other hand, led the SoCon with 17 interceptions, six coming from Cam Newton, a 6-2, 195-pound junior who returns at free safety. The Paladins are also set at kicker in senior Danny Marshall, a three-year starter who connected on a league-best 12-of-15 field goals last year and has hit 35-of-44 in his career.
Furman opens its season on Aug. 30 with a home game against first-year SoCon member Elon before traveling to traditional rival Clemson on Sept. 6 for what is expected to be a $225-250,000 payday.
"The Elon game is very scary for the fact that since I've been here, we've never opened up with a conference game. ... The Clemson game obviously is a big game for our players and our fans because of the proximity, because (they're) Division I-A, but I can tell you right now that all our Southern Conference games are way more important than Clemson," Lamb said. "They don't want to hear that, but that's the way it is."
Furman will also host Richmond, Gardner-Webb, Appalachian, East Tennessee State and Wofford at Paladin Stadium, with a key trip to Georgia Southern slated for Nov. 8.
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Test promo video for my NEVERENDS Project, with 50 Ways' (the red-guy) theme song:
An illustration from one of my "punk" characters. Background was made following one of Brian Haberlin's tutorials.
i'm basically starting out, and have a few questions and things i would like to learn. Some are obvious, so i can just google for tutorials. Others, i don't know what are called or how to...
I made a 7-page sequential, but i really rushed page 2 (there was a convention couple weeks ago, so... i rushed it to release a freebie fanzine with it), so i'm not posting them all. Still...
Emulating the acetate, cel animation look (cel animation looks SO much better than digital animation... the ironic part? I colored this on Photoshop!).
A comparison between the inks before and after Illustrator's Vector Trace.
P.S: It's a dude.
More doodles. Huge chiins!!!!
The shades of green are maybe too subdued, so the skin pops out. His abs and hips being the part wth the best skin rendering (IMO), i guess it ends up being the focus of the piece (i wanted the lips...
My second colored piece, ever (first one is here).
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Just a quick doodle from the main character of my series, NEVERENDS.
Very light inking, which is not how i usually do things. Still, theres something i like in this one. It seems very organic,...
Yeah, i see what you mean. Thanks.
A quick doodle i did so i could compare the regular, quick inked linework to the ink done with the Pen Tool (the hair is all Pen).
I have this weird thing where i just start doodling with the...
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A notice announcing the work party said it was part of an ongoing effort to open up the views and restore this quite unique property to its former grandeur.
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Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Specialty
With two discs containing over four hours of ass-pounding, cum-slurping fun, this tour de force delivers the goods and then some. Performer/director Erik Everhard and his cameraman Jimmy Scaffnetti guide the proceedings with a likable, humorous tone, and the cast is stellar.
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We love getting so much action in one handy release, but the setups are overlong . Ten minutes of exposition in the first scene alone is too much for those who want to get right to the fucking. It's a minor quibble though. Once the juices flow, it's a cream pie orgy that's good to the last drop.
Pre-nom: Best Specialty Release – Other Genre.
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CHAPEL HILL _ North Carolina coach Butch Davis says the Tar Heels will open the competition for starting quarterback this week.
The No. 25 Tar Heels have played with one-time third-stringer Cameron Sexton most of the way since starter T.J. Yates went down with a broken ankle in September. But Davis said Monday the Tar Heels will let Yates and Sexton go through practice this week before deciding who will start Saturday against North Carolina State.
Sexton led the Tar Heels to a comeback win at Miami and had won four of six starts, but the Tar Heels struggled to sustain scoring drives in a weekend loss at Maryland. Before that game, the Tar Heels controlled their own destiny in the race to win the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal Division.
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Album is formulaic indeed, but it's decent enough.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffA very good return to form for R.E.M, currently my album of the year
Album Rating: 3.5While "Monster" is far from being one of their best albums, I've always liked Monster, the more rocking R.E.M. songs.
Not knowing they had a new CD coming out, I was confused to hear some of these new songs, I asked a friend, hey aren't these songs of REM, can't remember that song was on monster.
Anyway the new album is better than Monster :-)
Good review and what not, but this album bores me pretty much, and the lyrics are so cheesy and kind of bad. But it's the best R.E.M. in a while, so I am happy.
Good review, only after reading I would expect you'd give it a lower rating, let's say a 3.
this album loses alot of appeal (and impact) with time.
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Album Rating: 4.5nah album still rules
Album Rating: 4.5best track = sing for the submarine
Album Rating: 4.0I think my favourite was either Living Well or the title track.
Album Rating: 4.5gotta love that bass on submarine
haven't heard this. Is this worth listening to?
Album Rating: 4.5yes indeed, it is far better than what r.e.m put out earlier in the century, good catchy tunes
Cool I love Automatic for the People, and not really a fan of Out of Time or Monster. This seems like its better so I'll be checking it out.
Album Rating: 3.0Nothing groundbreaking but it's certainly an enjoyable listen despite it's short run-time.
Michaels raspy vocals can be really annoying though. "Living well is the best revenge" being the main offender.
Album Rating: 3.5Great album, has some pretty solid tracks.
Album Rating: 3.5Just listened to Accelerate 4 or 5 times in a row, and it's excellent. Definitely was a great return to form by R.E.M., after a bit of an identity crisis during the 2000's. Living Well Is The Best Revenge may be my favorite R.E.M. song they've done since Automatic For The People.
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Ubuntu 13.10 has been running fine since I installed it on my external harddrive a few weeks ago. However, yesterday while Ubuntu was running, I accidentally knocked the external harddrive off the table and a cable (power plugged into usb socket) detached. Portions of the screen went grey and the system froze. I had to turn the laptop off by holding down the power button.
I plugged the cable back in and started up the laptop. However, instead of the usual option to boot Ubuntu, I got the gnu grub2 boot prompt. I have actually had this happen a couple of times before, but after plugging everything back in, Ubuntu would boot normally. This time, though, no such luck.
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There were several brief touchdowns south and southwest of Eads. There were no reports of any damage.
With the stronger storms, there were also reports of strong, gusty winds. Straight-line winds over 70mph were reported out over the Eastern Plains. Winds toppled over power poles about five miles northeast of Wiley.
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In a 12-hour operation, the Barra lifeboat crew managed to free the yacht from the reef and tow it to Lochboisedale in South Uist.
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Sherlock Holmes, Live.........Sherlock Holmes must surely rate as the greatest detective in fictional history. Granada Television must be credited for bringing Sherlock Holmes out of the story books into the our living rooms. This television series is now available in the dvd format for millions of fans of Sherlock Holmes worldwide. The entire credit for bringing Sherlock Holmes to life must undoubtedly go to the late Jeremy Brett, who portrayed the character of Holmes to absolute perfection. Not only did his physical characteristics match the description of Sherlock Holmes by the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to the T, … (Expand)
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Sherlock Holmes Complete CollectionGentlemen,do not waste your time and effort in buying this Boxed Set, as the DVD's are all defective. Every DVD in this set freezes up after about 30 minutes of playing. I have this set bought from Flipkart itself. Flipkart, as is their usual great customer care and response, will replace your Boxed Set, if you complain to them, but in the end it will cost you in time and money, as the whole lot seem's to have a inherent flaw, so there is no point in getting a replacement also.
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New Hack language adds static typing and other conveniences.
Facebook has released an open source version of Hack, a programming language for the HHVM run-time platform. HHVM is a virtual machine for PHP created by Facebook. According to Facebook's Julien Verlaguet, Hack developed as a way for Facebook to address the problem of delivering accurate code in a timely manner at the vast scale of a company like Facebook. "Could early error detection co-exist with rapid iteration, all the while preserving our investment in PHP? Could improved code analysis and introspection help make developers more productive with tools like auto-complete?"
Verlaguet's blog post goes on to explain that "Hack has deep roots in PHP …. In fact, most PHP files are already valid Hack files." The main innovation added with Hack is static typing. Hack's type system adds features such as generics, nullable types, type aliasing, and contraints on type parameters. Hack also adds Collections (a type-safe alternative to PHP arrays), lambda expressions, and run-time enforcement of return types and parameter types.
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SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
CoreOS Announces Distributed Storage System
The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
Google Beats Oracle in the Android Lawsuit
Juries decides Google's use of Java APIs Was Fair Use