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I was always extremely sensuous, expressed in the love of the feel of satin and silk, as well as the feel of going barefoot, which was nearly impossible in the city, even indoors, not part of the culture. Where I live now it is, and so I go not only barefoot but also nude when at home. I don't know if this is significant or not. However, the first time I noticed anything unusual was...Read On
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NOTE- this story will make more sense if you read part one,it can be accessed through my profile page. The week leading up to today had been one of the longest of my life. I was very excited that today had finally arrived. My boyfriend Steve's parents left early that morning and would not be back for three days. My parents had agreed to let me stay over while they were gone. Steve and I...Read On
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I have been cross-dressing for almost a year now. Ever since I can remember, I have had a fetish for high heels and finally was able to start buying my own secretively once I came to college. I have my own collection and wear feminine clothing mostly in my room, but one evening I was so horny from watching porn and wearing my dress and heels. I went on to an internet site to find someone in...Read On
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Being a sexy ball girl for her boyfriend's baseball team gets Courtney very horny.
When I was twenty years old and going to college, I had a steady boyfriend who treated me just like a girlfriend at all times. He opened car doors for me and he always paid when we went on dates. He was very sweet to me, making me feel feminine like a girl. He also liked having lots of sex with me in public places like the beach and parks and movie theaters, so we had an exciting, fun...Read On
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I work for a small web design company in northern Connecticut. We acquired a rather large account with a lawn care company in Virginia, and my boss asked me to go with him to present the design we had created, since I was the only other male at the company. My boss told me he didn't want any of the women to think he was hitting on them. Never having been asked to go on a business trip for...Read On
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Emmy takes control. Continuing on from the original encounter 'A Surprise Ass-Fucking in Panties'
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A Mistress directs a scene with two sissies
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A Night to remember with Marie
This is a true story that I personally have experienced and wanted to share with like minded people. Thankyou. The evening drew closer after work which had been busy and made me rather stressed. I work as a graphic designer/illustrator in a well known and respected company. I left my studio in London and drove the twenty minute journey that I make, day in day out, to my flat which I...Read On
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My girlfriend sets me up with other men we share.
My girlfriend, Sherry, had nice, big C-cup titties and a face like a young Marilyn Monroe. Needless to say, she got hit on by lots of men wherever she went. She was also a nyphomaniac who liked to be fucked ten times a day, so we had a great sex life. She found out I enjoyed wearing lingerie, so, as part of our sex play, she would dress me up in her panties and bras and stockings and...Read On
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The drive home from the Cities was always long. After work I had stopped at Kim's to change and emerged as Samantha. I drove to the meeting and then went out for a drink (or maybe two) with some of the other 'girls'. By the time I was half way home my eyes just wouldn't stay open any longer. I decided to pull over in a secluded wayside rest area. If I could just catch a little catnap I knew...Read On
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I have wanted to write this story for many years but I hesitated to do so out of my fear of the unknown. Since moving to Florida , I have pretty much been on my own for the first time in a long time. Let's just say that now that I am older, I'm bolder! I no longer care who knows my sexual interests. It's funny, because everyone I currently see understands my desires...Read On
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It's a lonely fall night,I'm walking down a fairly empty street in town. Not the best part of town,but it's my only way to get home. I am in my grey business suit. Grey jacket,grey knee length skirt,black blouse,black pantyhose,black panties and bra,brunette wig and black heels. As I walk, the people that are out,glance my way,checking me out as I go through their neighborhood. Run...Read On
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I meet one of my neighbors and he invites me over for drinks.
Tom was almost seventy. We lived on adjacent streets and his property backed on mine. I had moved in only a couple of weeks earlier. I was renting the place. I was so excited to be on my own at last, especially because I loved to crossdress. My new freedom was exhilarating. One day I'd been in my back yard in the late evening, dressed in a cute white bikini. I was lying face down on a...Read On
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Trevor's idea of a party, with me as entertainment
I got home late. What a night! I had gone to the video booth at the bookstore horny as hell but in my wildest dreams I could not have imagined the outcome. Oh sure, I expected sex. I had yet to leave those dark little booths without a mouthful of cum, an ass full of cum or having my balls sucked dry but tonight … tonight! Not only had my ass been filled in the booth but at Trevor's party...Read On
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Can I Make This Work?
Waking up to the sound of my alarm blaring, I roll over and slam on it. Of course it doesn't go off, just crashes to the floor. I know I shouldn't have stayed up so late last night playing video games, but what can I say? Too late now, I suppose. I reach down to pick up the clock, seeing the time blinking at me. Getting out of bed, I grab the shower before anyone else can. I know what...Read On
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More than just words as we take another step toward our ultimate fantasy
It had been nearly a week since the scintillating Saturday when my fiancée and I had the most incredible meeting of the minds about our sexual desires. Unfortunately, as the days crept forward from that fateful afternoon, I began to worry that those moments were an aberration rather than a sign of things to come. In the throes of passion, we had done a bit of internet browsing for the...Read On
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The first time I let my boyfriend fuck me bareback
I have written an earlier story about the first time my boyfriend Mike and I fucked. After our first encounter, I couldn't get enough of Mike and his cock. We went from meeting every other week to him spending some weekends at my house with me dressed the entire time. As we got to know each other better, we started to discuss our sexual histories and some of our fantasies. I could tell Mike...Read On
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Catching the garter at my cousin's wedding gets me a honeymoon fuck like the bride.
When I went to my cousin's wedding in Monterey, California stag, at the reception dinner she had me seated next to the only other male stag invitee, the photographer. He was my age and tall and we hit it off, immediately. Ken was a sports car enthusiast and he told me about the thrilling rides he took along the Pacific Coast Highway. He talked about the beautiful views at scenic lookout...Read On
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Missy has her first BDSM experience. Plz rate and comment
Up until now, I have enjoyed my time as Missy. My mom had kept me busy with clients and we pulled in a lot of extra income and I was able to experience a lot of different fantasies, However I had not had the chance to try anything involving BDSM, or not yet at least. One day I came home from mowing the lawn for an elderly woman when I walked in the door to find my mother smiling deviously at...Read On
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|At the request of the provost, a vice provost, or a vice president, this policy has been posted in the interim between scheduled posting dates by University Policy Manuals Group because it has significant and urgent importance for the university community. This policy will be included in the publication process by the next feasible posting for online policies and procedures.
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While Philadelphia people don't really read the New York-centric celebrity blog Gawker very often, occasionally Gawker comes to Philadelphia.
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Professor Steve Steve's cousin, Dr. Steffi Steffi, a lesser giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca minor), was in Peru on December 21, 2005, and she read about the previous day's decision in the Times Digest. Here she looks with pleasure at the announcement by Wesley Elsberry in The Panda's Thumb on December 20 and a longer article by Laurie Goodstein in the Times the following day.
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Mei Xiang, a giant panda at the National Zoo in Washington, and a distant cousin of Prof. Steve Steve, gave birth today, only 3 days after she realized she was pregnant. The identity of the father is unclear, but Prof. Steve Steve asked us not to go into that.
Update, 9 a.m. August 23: Prof. Steve Steve informs us that according to an updated Times article (same URL), Mei Xiang has had twins.
Professor Steve Steve informs us of an article Why are pandas so lazy? in Science Now. Professor Steve Steve takes exception to the claim that he is lazy. Yes, it is true that the giant panda's daily energy expenditure is about 5 MJ: roughly one-third that of a dog and about the same as a three-toed sloth. It is also true that Professor Steve Steve moves slowly and basks a lot in the sun. Why? Because the giant panda is a carnivore that survives on a low-energy plant diet, which his body is ill-equipped to digest. To conserve energy, he maintains a low body temperature, and his organs, including his brain, are small.
Professor Steve Steve demurs. He claims that he is not lazy; he is simply ruminating.
A new PBS series, Earth: A new wild, will highlight China's breeding of giant pandas with the intention of introducing them into the wild. One goal of the series is to demonstrate that humans and nature are interdependent, according to its producer, M. Sanjayan. The 5-part series will begin on February 4. You may see a 1.5-min clip from the show at the link above. You may also see photographs of newborn panda triplets here.
There is no truth to the rumor that our colleague Professor Steve Steve sired any of the baby pandas.
Acknowledgment. Thanks to Debbie Bloom Garelick for the initial link.
The Xinhua news agency reported the other day that a giant panda, Ai Hin, had faked pregnancy, possibly in order to receive better treatment in the form of a private room, air conditioning, and luscious bamboo. This observant and inventive panda is, of course, a distant relative of Professor Steve Steve.
Professor Steve Steve reports that his distant relative Mei Xiang gave birth to a cub at the National Zoo yesterday. NPR reports that the zoo did not know that the panda was pregnant until recently, when, according to Professor Steve Steve, she told her keepers that she "might be just a little bit pregnant." Reuters reports that scientists will shortly perform a paternity test. You may see a webcam shot of the giant panda here.
Today, Evolution 2010 concluded with a star-studded banquet, and I managed to catch a picture with Dr. Jerry Coyne at the end of the dinner.
Y'all may remember the last world-famous person I hung out with. I'm currently hobnobbing it with many famous people at the Evolution meeting in Portland. Today I got to meet in person a regular contributor to our site:
Sweet, huh!
If you are at the conference and want your picture with me, just track down Reed Cartwright. He's giving a talk Monday morning.
You humans have finally finished sequencing my genome—okay, not exactly mine but a cousin's. Some of you might be thinking about using this to clone me. But I own the copyright to myself so you can't do anything!
I'm busy clubbin' with some seal friends of mine right now and haven't had the time my species needs to digest such monumental work. I recommend Matthew Cobb's take on the giant panda genome.
Prof. Steve Steve had an exciting weekend; you'll never guess whom he had dinner with.
Prof. Steve Steve and Mr. Mystery
The marketing people at Quark Expeditions have a contest going to send a blogger on one of their Antarctic expeditions next year. They will send a blogger along simply based on votes, a straight-up popularity contest. This seems like an opportunity that I shouldn't miss. I'm eager to compare my sartorial style with the resident penguin colonies down there, and I'm sure that dodging crabeater or Weddell seals should simply add a certain zest to the adventure for someone of my diminutive stature.
Unfortunately, there is some speciesism involved, and I'll have to make do with using my designated Sherpa for the trip, Wesley Elsberry, as my proxy in the voting process. We're still discussing which one of us gets smuggled along in the luggage. I've told him that that is what duffel bags are for. Wesley makes for a pretty good Sherpa, what with his interdisciplinary background in marine biology and computer science. He's also handy with a camera and acoustics gear, and does some wicked blogging himself. Of course, it's not a patch on my own set of qualifications, including the B. Amboo Chair in Creatoinformatics at the University of Ediacara, a J.D.-M.D.-quintuple Ph.D., and being a seven-time Nobel nominee. As the Izaak Walton of information theory and the Ulysses S. Grant of drinking contests, I can recognize talent for myself and exploit it. Sorry, the new word is collaboration, isn't it? We did well working together at the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, and I'm looking forward to some more, er, collaboration in the cold.
So, Freeze Me, Please! Voting runs through September 30th, so please pass this on. Here's an 88x31 pixel badge you can use by copying the code below:

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the 9th North American Paleontological Convention in Cincinnati. 'Twas a grand old time, mingling with a lot of seriously excellent scientists.
Besides the excellent science, a highlight was the panel I sat on. This session was held over lunch on Thursday, and the subject was "Countering Creationism". I was joined by Panda's Thumb contributors Richard Hoppe, Jason Rosenhouse, and Art Hunt.
The 1000th Steve of Project Steve, also known as the kilosteve, is going to be announced at the Annual Meeting of the AAAS this weekend. See the NCSE press release: Who will be Steve #1000?
(PS: What's the Discovery Institute non-Steve-required-and-often-otherwise-dubious list at? 700? Meh. The creation scientists had a better list in the 1980s.)
After Prof Steve Steve encouraged fellow Steve's to sign the NCSE petition, the Steve Steve counter did not only pass 900 but ended up at 930!.
Evolution is a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences, and the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry. Although there are legitimate debates about the patterns and processes of evolution, there is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence. It is scientifically inappropriate and pedagogically irresponsible for creationist pseudoscience, including but not limited to "intelligent design," to be introduced into the science curricula of our nation's public schools.
To see if you qualify, just answer the following simple questions:
- Are you named Steve, Stephen, Steven, Esteban, Etienne, or Stephanie?
- Do you have a Ph.D. in biology, geology, paleontology, or a related scientific field?
- Do you want the kind of success in life you always thought was reserved for the "other Steves"?
If you answered yes to all three of these questions, then you have what it takes to become an NCSE Steve!
The National Center for Science Education is looking for a few good Steves to join them in standing up to the culture warriors that threaten the very foundations of science and science education. They need just a handful of new Steves to sign up, and then they can make "900" t-shirts.—At last count they had 895.—I only have three names, so I'm putting a call out to all my Steves, Stephens, Stephanies, et al., who've earned doctoral degrees, to join us in denouncing the campaign to box science into the '30s—the 1530s.
Creationists love to name drop. They compile lists of random people that hate evolution like they do—"my pa waz no munkie"—and then present those lists as expert testimony against the modern world. In response, NCSE developed Project Steve, a list of academics, scholars, and scientists that support evolution and oppose the anti-evolution movement.
There is just one catch: the signers have to be named after me.
I know, I know. Some of you are asking, "who isn't named after the illustrious Prof. Steve Steve?" And I'll tell you what, too many people are not named after me. However, that top 1% that are named after me are the smartest people in the world, Stephen Baldwin excluded. We Steves are so smart that even the US Congress has started focusing on our opinions on important issues like global warming and polar bear biology.
So what can we Steves do for the other 99%?
We can use our vast intellects and experience to agree with the following statement:
Evolution is a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences, and the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry. Although there are legitimate debates about the patterns and processes of evolution, there is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence. It is scientifically inappropriate and pedagogically irresponsible for creationist pseudoscience, including but not limited to "intelligent design," to be introduced into the science curricula of our nation's public schools.
Come on, all the other Steves are signing it, why don't you?
Steve Steve is having the time of his life at the Nature Network conference. Right now, he's slumped over on the podium, recovering from yesterday's festivities. A picture is found below.
The question for you is this: Who is Steve Steve explaining evolution to?
On Feb 12, I had the opportunity to drop in on some friends in Lexington, Kentucky to help celebrate Darwin Day there. The occasion was the Darwin Day presentation by Dan Phelps (pictured here) entitled "The Anti-Museum: An Overview and Review of the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum", and the following panel discussion. The presentation was a summation of Dan's review of the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. This review has been published by NCSE, and may be read at the NCSE web site.
Today is Darwin Day. Get out and learn some biology!
If you have links to Darwin Day events or posts, send them in. There is also a Darwin Day carnival being run by ScientificBlogging.com.


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I Can statements are all the rage in our public schools. Students are to say I can and then positively reaffirm something they feel capable of doing.
Im offering suggestions for We can statements. If your school district obeys the law, tells the truth, spends money wisely, and properly educates children, then you probably dont need these. Sadly, most citizens dont have a school district like that, and this article is directed to them.
Parents have been trained for decades to trust in Americas K-12 government schools. This trust now serves the districts but not the students within them. Most districts arent being held accountable for violations of the law failures to properly educate children improper spending of tax dollars or long-term refusals to tell citizens the truth.
Many districts seem increasingly dictatorial, deceitful, expensive and intrusive. We trust them with our children, and in return, they lie to us, miseducate our children and blame us for their failures. When we question them, some even attack us, using government/media/corporate allies to help pile on. They retain power in the way schoolyard bullies do, by ensuring that parents remain cowed, isolated and uninformed. Its ironic. In reality, parents have all of the power.
Most parents dont know that. Schools have purposefully fostered a sense of helplessness in parents (and in students and teachers), training us to believe that we must do as were told. Schools couldn't eliminate parents altogether, but they could create parents who agree to eliminate themselves.
Schools thus trained successive generations to work in a group, defer to the group, think as a group, achieve consensus with the group, be assessed with the group, and defend group decisions. Punishments and rewards have been used to mold thinking and behavior and to direct energies. Parents are encouraged to be involved in the schools, as long as our involvement brings in money, furthers the agenda and doesnt question the authority. Obeying = Rewards. Dissenting = Punishments.
Nowadays, when schools praise critical thinking, they usually mean non-critical thinking or groupthink. When they talk about community input, they tend to receive it via the Delphi Technique, a way of manipulating groups to agree on predetermined conclusions. When they ask for parent help, they mean any help that doesnt question the authority, not even to help a child.
Meanwhile, parents have long been shut out of the education of our own children. Books are eliminated, homework isnt sent home, traditional methods are derided as old school, and our wishes are undermined or ignored. Parent preferences are openly criticized and dismissed, and in conferences, were told: Dont teach that at home. Dont help. Youll just confuse your child. Schools now use technology to hide the curriculum on tablets and laptops and in private email accounts for children.
This operant conditioning skillfully done, Ill give them that has produced a population that generally feels helpless. Worse, it accepts feeling helpless. This population doesnt need to be shut down it shuts down itself. Oh, no, I couldnt. It will be OK. They must have a good reason. They must know what theyre doing. Such apathy suits authoritarian, intrusive governments. Its easier to implement an agenda with weak and politically aligned sheep than with individualistic and critical thinkers. Most of us do find now that its easier, safer and infinitely more profitable to be sheep.
And yet, dissent is critical to helping our children, to serving our honor, and to maintaining a free country. Were helpless only in our mind. The government cannot make our child take a test. It cannot force us into its failed bureaucratic, narcissistic, adult-centered system. Not unless we allow it.
We can say no to this government. We can refuse to allow it to eliminate our ideas and preferences, or to miseducate, misuse and misguide our children.
Few leaders are likely to help us. Most now are part of the government network. Think of the vast array of government and elected officials, their associations and throngs of legal teams now partnering with influential people and non-accountable, non-transparent corporations, organizations and foundations to implement policies that suit them. Instead of partnering with parents for a better education system, they partner with each other to implement policy, gather data on us and our children, sell their products and services, and implement a political and social agenda. Its a symbiotic relationship for them, but its largely parasitic toward us and our children.
They help each other. They sit on boards, hand out grants and contracts, campaign, advertise, lobby, buy and sell. They socialize together, travel together, praise each other, help friends and family members gain preferred positions, and allow each other to get away with things.
These partnerships might be fascist in nature (the government controlling the corporations), or corporatist (the corporations controlling public policy), but in any case, theyre neither democratic nor representative of a Republic. America is being fundamentally transformed to a totalitarian state in which government and corporate cartels work together to do what neither is allowed to do by itself. It pays well now to be a government or corporate crony it does not pay, and in some cases, it has become dangerous, to dissent from this government/corporate network.
The Network wont spend our tax dollars wisely, wont return control of our childrens education to us, and wont stop its intrusive data collecting. It has no incentive to tell the truth or obey the law. Many media outlets which are supposed to have our back appear to be part of the Network.
Suddenly we find that although our schools lack solid academic programs there are laptops, iPads and SMART Boards in front of every childs face. There are new curricula every few years, new calculators even in kindergarten, and cool electronic toys that dont foster real learning. De facto national standards and tests are being pushed on all of us from cradle through career. When we ask who is doing that pushing, the feds point to the states and to non-accountable associations the states point to districts the districts point to legislators the legislators claim ignorance.
Suddenly, some of us find that there are handguns in the hands of school employees. There are cameras and video recorders on the wall to track visitors, and new machines to scan our drivers license, track our children, scan their irises, record their fingerprints, or track their biometric information.
Look around you the K-12 education system in America has become freaking scary.
Citizens MUST be the dissenters. Our childrens future this countrys future is on the line.
Clearly, the American government no longer knows how to educate a child. Thats been proved in 10,000 ways. It has ceased to hold itself accountable, and it now works collaboratively to skirt laws and protect itself. This isnt a left/right issue. This simply is in or out of the government/corporate Network. If youre in, youre taken care of. If youre out, well, good luck with that.
But we arent stuck in this machine. Were helpless only when we agree to it. My first We can statement is this: We can say no to the K-12 government education system. Here are some more:
Opt out of programs: We can opt out of failed academic programs, and out of excessively mature sex education classes and materials. We can find solid math and English curricula online, buy them, and start teaching them to our children.
Leave the system: When a school mistreats, abuses, blames, mocks, neglects or refuses to educate our children, we can walk out of that school and never look back.
Opt out of testing: We can opt out of state and federal testing that sucks up class time tells us nothing of value collects intrusive and flawed data on us is manipulated to show success where none exists and forces our children to either take math tests online or be labeled as special education.
Say no to technology: We can say no to excessive and intrusive technology and data collection.
Question the money: We can question the barrels of state and federal money allotted for special education programs that never seem to go to special education students. We can vote no to the next levy and bond for school districts that misspend taxpayer money use taxpayer money against taxpayers and lie to us about budgets, expenditures and outcomes.
Inform others: We can inform other parents, run for the school board, or help other citizens run. We can recall corrupt or obstructive board directors and push to replace superintendents and administrators.
Reject Common Core: We can push our legislatures to reject the de facto nationalization and radicalization of the American public school system, epitomized by the questionable, authoritarian and unproved Common Core initiatives.
Reject pretend \"choice\": We can refuse to support charter schools that clearly are under the thumb of local school districts.
We can say no. We can make a good system happen. We can help our children, fix the problems, rebuild an accountable government and put responsible individuals in power. We can homeschool, find private schools, hire tutors, or ask family members or friends to teach our children what the schools will not. We can step away from the entire madness of public education. Believe me, folks, its a mess. Its much worse in 2014 than it was in 2007, even as our avenues of dissent have narrowed dramatically.
The government/corporate Network depends on us thinking were helpless, that we cant say no, that we dont know any better, that they mean well, that they really do care about our children, and that they will eventually do whats right.
Dont believe it. We are not helpless, we can say no, and we do know better. The Network doesnt mean well, it doesnt care about our children more than it cares about itself, and if the Network was ever going to use its considerable power to do whats right for our children, it would have done it by now.


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The Michelin X-Ice Xi3 is the highest rated winter tire in one comparative review, running just ahead of the Blizzak WS80, which is also recommended. However, Canada's Automotive Protection Association (APA) put the WS80 in its highest Top Rated category and now places the X-Ice Xi3 one step below in its Very Good category. The Blizzak also takes first place in a four-tire test at TireRack.com, finishing narrowly ahead of the X-Ice Xi3. "All four tires delivered very good snow traction with a small overall advantage for the Bridgestone Blizzak WS80, especially noticeable when asking the tire to brake and turn at the same time," the site's editors.
The WS80 holds some small advantages on dry and wet roads as well. The Blizzak finished first in dry and wet panic stop tests, and in cornering on dry roads, but the X-Ice Xi3 was close behind, and the Xi3 performed slightly better in test of cornering on wet roads.
Both the Bridgestone and the Michelin tires are well behaved on the road, but with characteristics that could lead some drivers to prefer one or the other. One key difference is road noise. TireRack.com says that all the tires tested produced more road noise than a "typical all-season tire," but that the Michelin was the best in that regard, though only a touch quieter than the WS80. However, another comparative test puts things in starker terms, rating the road noise of the X-Ice Xi3 excellent but that of the Blizzak WS80 as only fair. In terms of the overall ride over dry roads, like one might frequently encounter at the start of the winter driving season, TireTrack.com gives the WS80 a small edge in ride comfort. However, testers also say that "Under the light handling workload of our Road Ride, the Michelin X-Ice Xi3 continued its leading position for the category, feeling well connected to the road." Followed by, you guessed it, the Bridgestone Blizzak WS80.
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Investing in Transition
Money isn't a neutral thing. The decisions we make with our investment choices can either prop up and reinforce an economic model rooted in a past of cheap energy oil prices and climate irresponsibility, or they can help to bring forth a new, revitalised and more appropriate way of doing things.
Making the kind of transition that this book has argued for in the time that we have remaining will be an enormous, as well as a historic, venture. As we saw, successful localisation will require meaningful investment to make it happen.
The Transition movement needs, as it continues to scale up, to think seriously about models that will enable, with confidence, the levels of finance that active Transition will require to come forward. Many models for enabling this already exist, and new ones are emerging.
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Making the kind of transition that this book has argued for in the time that we have remaining will be an enormous, as well as a historic, venture. As we saw, successful localisation will require meaningful investment to make it happen. We have already looked at a range of ways of 'plugging the leaks' of our local economy (see Tools for Transition No.19), but this final ingredient explores how investment on that scale might happen, and looks at a range of possible mechanisms for enabling Transition to scale up sufficiently.
OVESCO raises a quarter mil for community solar via people-power finance. If we replicate many times, we can begin to dream. Jeremy Leggett on Twitter, 1 May 2011
For those of us fortunate enough to have investments, we do have some degree of control over choosing to invest in supporting local enterprises that actually work to strengthen the resilience of our local communities by providing renewable energy, food, transport, building materials and other essential goods and services for which there will always be a demand. Many of these opportunities may already exist.
It is early days, but there are many enticing opportunities that feel worth exploring, and could ultimately offer more security that the global financial markets, as well as furthering the aims of Transition.
Local Enterprise investment opportunities:
- Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs): many people now have pension schemes which allow them to choose where it is invested. You can also transfer traditional pensions funds into a SIPP, which then allows more flexible investment, including into local companies, land, etc. (the rules of SIPPs set out the things that can, and can't, be invested in). Transition offers the exciting possibility that such investment could be done collectively, i.e. a number of people might invest their SIPP funds in a large piece of local land, which is then used to set up a Community Supported Agriculture scheme, or in a community renewable energy project.
- Local community-owned energy companies: For example, TRESOC in Totnes, OVESCO in Lewes, Bath Community Energy and others. These offer the opportunity for investments the results of which are highly visible in, and beneficial to, the community. One model for this would be to raise £100,000 (e.g. find 100 people willing to loan £1,000) then use this to raise more equity (e.g. from a bank) and then buy and install a wind turbine. The profits can be used to pay a reasonable return or interest rate to each investor, while also generating significant funding for local Transition projects.
- Community shares and bonds: Have your Transition initiative issue community bonds, which raise funds for investing in local enterprises for a defined return, or participation bonds, which also give you some equity in the enterprise. Some examples of this have already been seen in Tools for Transition No.20, in so far as they are used to underpin new businesses, but they can also be used for larger projects. The Development Trust Association has a long experience of supporting and informing community bonds or share launches and has some excellent tools available to support you with this (see also Resources, below).
- A 'Transition Social Investors Fund': This, currently under consideration, would be a very exciting approach. At the moment most large philanthropic funders have a substantial endowment invested somewhere and then distribute as grants the interest that is generated. However, what might it look like if a significant part of their endowment were invested in local Transition infrastructure, still generating a good return, but enabling Transition at the local level? It could also invest in a range of Transition social enterprises that have to meet social and environmental criteria to be eligible, as well as a viable business case of course. This is a model that Transition Network is currently actively exploring.
- Urban/rural Transition twinnings: It might also be worth exploring the 'twinning' of two (or more) Transition initiatives. For example, it might be that a rural Transition community has a great renewable energy asset, for example a powerful local river, or a very windy site, but can't, on its own, raise the revenue to exploit it. At the same time there may well be an urban Transition initiative (or several) who don't have such an opportunity but who would like to invest in community renewables and in supporting Transition. Bringing the two together could be hugely mutually beneficial. This is already being modelled in the River Cottage / British Gas 'Energyshare' initiative,[i] which enables the attraction of investment from a broader 'community' of people interested in investing in community renewables. The same model could also be applied to food, development and construction, or a range of other Transition projects.
- Transition revolving loan funds: Here's an evolving idea. Perhaps large investors and businesses out there who want to invest in a way that yields a good social return on their investment (i.e. they can see tangible social benefits arising from those investments) might invest in a 'Transition revolving loan fund'. This would be part of a larger process (such as REconomy) of nurturing new Transition social enterprises and bringing them forward to a point of being investment-ready. The revolving loan fund would lend at below-commercial rates and would create a link between investment and the enabling of a new, resilience-focused economy.
While ultimately it may be the case that 'social returns' of such models may be lower than can be obtained in the markets, through traditional investments (although this is not necessarily so), this book is based on the premise that the current global economic system cannot continue, and that when it ends, so will much of the financial system that many of us rely on to keep our savings safe and growing, especially our pensions.
** IMPORTANT! You should take expert advice before making any financial investment. The above is not a recommendation to invest in Transition, just some ideas to mull over.**
with input from Fiona Ward and Peter Lipman
Hill, C, with assistance from Lynch, M. & Curtis, J. (2007) Community Share and Bond Issues: The sharpest tool in the box. A good overview guide, from the Development Trusts Association: can be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/3bhke9w.
Co-operatives UK's document Investing in Community Shares offers a detailed guide for the potential investor, and can be found at http://tinyurl.com/44bc83w.
A longer list of other useful resources on community shares is at http://www.communityshares.org.uk/resources.
[i] http://www.energyshare.com/
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I know lots of you out there do not like cars (I love them) for years I have been waiting for electric cars to be come available,now the movement has started- have a look at "better place electric cars" on u tube could make it practical for more motorist to use them!