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"He poured gin in her glass instead of the tea he was supposed to," Jesse mumbles against her collarbone, teeth just grazing the fine slope of the bone.
"Is that right?" Beca responds, amused as she let's her boyfriend trail his lips across her skin.
"Didn't even tell Hattie McDaniel that he was going to do it," he presses a kiss to the hollow where her neck meets her sternum, "I think it's safe to say that she was surprised."
"He sounds like a dick."
"Clark Gable?" she can hear outrage in Jesse's voice, and she swats at him when he gives a punishing nip to the space just between her breasts. "How dare you."
She chuckles as he shifts over her, moving himself so that he fits more easily between the cradle of her hips. Jesse lifts his head to meet her eyes, a smirk tugging at the side of that glorious mouth.
"I'm sorry, " she offers, raising her hands up to tangle in the bars of their headboard, "please continue giving me pointless trivia about Gone With the Wind."
Jesse chuckles, his breath hot against her skin, and Beca digs her teeth into her lips to control the goosebumps that break out across her breasts.
"This is all part of your movication Beca," he warns, and she holds back the sigh when his lips finally make their way over the fabric of her bra.
"Is fondling me part of it as well?" she can't help herself, and she jerks when Jesse pinches her in the side. "Hey! Not cool nerd."
"Shh," he admonishes, and he's looking up at her with those big brown eyes, adoration clear in the flecks of gold. It's hard to deny the boy you love anything when he's looking at you like that, especially when he's bracing himself with those strong arms on opposite side of your hipbones, his stomach a comfortable weight against your pelvis.
Beca rolls her eyes because she can.
She didn't ask for the history lesson. She'd done her duty and sat through the full four hours of Gone With the Wind, listening to Jesse lament about the sheer beauty of the score, even putting up with his very obvious boner for Clark Gable, the leading man. She was surprised that he hadn't been drooling over Vivien Leigh, but then again, she'd actually been a bit absorbed in this one, so she hadn't really been paying attention.
Of course she'd made the mistake of asking him about the film's production, an innocent question that she really should have known not to ask, because there was never going to be a short or easy answer when it came to anything cinema related. He'd begun explaining it all to her, his lips pressed against her temple before moving down to the line of her jaw. Soon this movication also became a bit of foreplay.
"The scene where Rhett carries Scarlett upstairs to ravish her," his hands grip her hips more tightly, and it's not her imagination that Jesse has moved himself further down her body, making sure to press himself as tightly to her skin as possible. "They had it done in just a few takes, but Fleming decided that he was going to play a little joke on Gable."
Beca's mouth falls open slightly as Jesse's teeth catch at the fabric of her bra, her nipples tightening at the pressure there. She tightens her grip on the headboard and makes sure to press up and against him in encouragement.
Too much encouragement, because she catches the line of his erection with her pelvis, and Jesse immediately stills.
"Beca," he grunts, pressing his forehead to her chest, and the grip he has on her waist is tight enough to bruise. She hisses when he pins her more heavily to the bed with his hips, stopping all further movement. Not yet, he seems to say with his body. Fuck yes, she wants to say with hers.
He doesn't move to speak again or even to continue his happy little trail down her body, so Beca lets her grip slacken, and her body fall deeper into the mattress. She gives a frustrated sigh.
Jesse flashes a grin up at her annoyed expression. "So he told Gable to do it again," he punctuates the statement with a kiss to her belly. "And again," he drags his lips down over her navel, "and again." Beca grits her teeth when Jesse's tongue presses against the jut of her hipbone.
"It's a million steps and Gable just scooped Vivien up each and every single time. No complaints."
"Well he does have those awesome shoulders," she says, eyes sliding shut as he pays particular attention to the skin where the fabric of her panties end. His hands have moved lower, and those clever fingers are pressing into the inside of her thigh. "Looks like he could cart a girl around for hours."
Jesse snorts and she can picture the funny little furrow he gets when she comments on the musculature of any other guy.
"What, you think that you could do it?" Beca's laugh is musical, "you totally would have dropped her flat on her ass."
Jesse stops. "Aca-scuse me? I could totally caveman any girl up a flight of stairs."
Beca's eyes slide open, moreso in annoyance that he had stopped touching her.
"Maybe with a rope and pulley."
"Hey," Jesse's hands have fallen off of her legs entirely and he's pushed himself up so that he can look at her more sternly. "I am really strong. You are totally dating the Hulk right here."
Beca screws her face up, unimpressed. "I don't do the whole green thing, and I never said that you weren't strong. Calm your tits."
"You said that I'd drop you if I tried to carry you up a flight of stairs."
"I don't think my name was every mentioned," she says loftily. He gives her a look.
"Jesse," she sighs, bringing her hand down so that it tangles in the auburn curls of his stupid head. "I believe that you can caveman any girl up a flight of stairs. But Clark Gable was built like a linebacker babe."
Jesse seems to accept this explanation, though she suspects that he's just taking advantage of the fact that she's essentially massaging his head. Her fingers card through the thick locks, and he heaves a contented sigh.
"Besides, you didn't think I was in this for your wit and charm did you?" she cocks an eyebrow and grins with satisfaction as her hand trails down to curl around the bicep of his right arm.
Now Jesse looks smug.
"I thought it was for my movie star good looks," he quips, satisfied and back to twinkling those big brown eyes.
"This mug?" she moves her other hand around the back of his neck and tugs him back up towards her face. "Don't be stupid," she presses her lips to his, tongue sweep against the plump flesh of his lower lip.
Jesse is kneeling over her now and his one hand wraps around the grip she has on the headboard. Their fingers tangle.
"Now," she sighs into his mouth, eyes stern. "If you don't put your hands back where they were and touch me, I'm going to throw your entire movie collection into a dumpster and burn it to the ground."
"That seems a bit extreme," he says, but his eyes are crinkling at the corners and he's got that brilliant smile on his face as he settles his weight against her again.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn, pops up in her head, and it's so perfectly a Jesse response that she has to swallow it down hard. He would enjoy that too much. No.
"Don't tell me that I have to do everything myself," she breaths against his lips, and smirks when his pupils dilate at the thought of her touching herself. Boys.
"Your independent streak is one your very best qualities," he says quite pompously, and narrowly avoids getting smacked in the head for his efforts. He's laughing now, his lips pressing sloppy kisses to the hollow of her throat as she tries to buck him off of her half-heartedly.
"Your jokes are your very worst," she retorts, but doesn't fight the smile when his lips press against hers and his fingers finally find their way back to the swell of her hips. Distantly, in the back of her mind, the theme from Gone With the Wind swells to a triumphant crescendo.
A/N: So yes, I haven't updated these one-shots in well over a month. I am so very sorry for that! It's been a very busy December for me, but I already have 5 more one-shots lined up for this fic so I will devote time to churning them out for you. And yes, that does include a part II of Minor Key (the one where they totally make out after watching the breakfast club). I hope that you enjoyed this small one, and that you're enjoying my AU fic. PLEASE. Please review. I can't thank you all enough for favouriting or following, but I really like to hear from you guys. Even if it's just a kick in the ass to keep things going!
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Beating About the Bush in Math Class is a Dangerous Proposition
This was an essay I was told to write by my English teacher... she supplied the topic. This was the first thing that came out of my mind :)
Mathematics is a subject dealing with numbers. Numbers are such things that many functions can be done to. There are thousands of possible functions that can be done to a number or numbers, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponents, sine, cosine, tangent, etc. Many of these functions are actually combinations of other functions, for example, multiplication is just adding a number to itself over and over again. Also, a result of a function can sometimes be found by doing a different function or set of functions to the same number. However, it has been found that it is the easiest and most accurate to use as few functions as possible while trying to get an answer of a mathematics problem.
For example, say we want to find the area of a right-angled triangle of height 10 centimeters, base 5 centimeters, and one angle of size 63.44 degrees. The simplest formula to find the area is to multiply the height and base, then to divide the answer by 2. If we use this combination of functions, then we find that the area of the triangle in question is 25 square centimeters.
We can also find the area by calculating the height using trigonometry. Say that the 63.44 degree angle is in such a place that it is made by the base and the hypotenuse. Therefore, the tangent of the 63.44 degree angle is height/base. The tangent of a 63.44 degree angle is 2. Therefore, 2=height/5 (5 is the base). Therefore, the height is 10. Then, using the formula, we find that the area of this triangle is 25 centimeters.
We got the same answer for both the methods. However, the first way was much easier. Since there were fewer functions involved, there was less scope of error. In the second method, we beat about the bush, and wasted time. If we made a mistake in the trigonometry, then our height would be wrong also, and thus our final answer would be incorrect. Also, trigonometry requires a calculator, so we couldn't have used the second method if we didn't have a calculator on hand. It also took more time, so if this question came in a test, then we would lose out on time to do the rest of the paper.
When using more functions, in many places, long decimal values can become unmanageable, and so we would have to round off values. When rounding of values, they become more inaccurate, and the final answer becomes very inaccurate. Using fewer functions means not having to round off values in your working very often, so your answer will be more accurate,
Thus, it can be seen that beating about the bush in math class is a dangerous proposition!

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Below is a list of frequently asked questions about the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund Program (CRFP). Click on a question for the answer, or scroll down to view the complete list of questions and answers.
The state of Maryland was one of 46 states, five territories and
the District of Columbia to benefit from the 1999 multi-state lawsuit against
the cigarette manufacturers. Subsequently, the Maryland General Assembly announced a 10-year, $1 billion
comprehensive plan to use tobacco settlement funds to reduce Maryland's mortality
rate from cancer and other tobacco-related diseases.
Maryland's cancer mortality rate has always been very high, and currently is the ninth highest in the nation.
The money is being allocated to address several key areas. One is to reduce the use of tobacco -- to help people stop smoking and to educate children and others to never start. Another key area is funding for cancer research at both the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins. A third key component is funding for early diagnosis and screening across the state for people who haven't had the opportunity to have cancer screening done.
The group is made up of University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, and University of Maryland Medical System. It was established to receive tobacco restitution funds and to partner with the state to create and implement a plan to conquer cancer in Maryland.
We have moved quickly to put the dollars coming in into both clinical and laboratory research. We want to translate or move our research activities from the lab into the clinic. We have also expanded our clinical and patient care activities. We have attracted some of the nation's top scientists and cancer specialists, who are part of our multi-disciplinary teams of doctors. These teams meet with patients and provide a diagnosis and treatment plan so the patient doesn't have to go from one doctor to another. And, we have used these dollars to implement more extensive patient care activities. In addition, we have been involved in screening activities. We've set up some screening activities, particularly in Baltimore City, and with the Statewide Health Network, where we are working to enable greater access to patient care for all Marylanders.
Translational research, which means taking advances from the laboratory and applying them to help cancer patients at the bedside, is very important because our goal is to provide cancer patients with the latest treatment. We are taking advantage of the rapid growth in our knowledge of basic cancer biology and using that understanding in the clinic to improve patient care. There's been a revolution in our understanding of how the cancer cell grows and what the mechanisms are involved. We can now take advantage of that understanding and begin to target specific cancer cells, so that we develop diagnostic tools and therapies that not only help us diagnose but also treat the patient.
Two good examples are our genomics laboratory -- which finds and analyzes specific genes involved in cancer -- and our proteomics laboratory -- which aids in the discovery of the proteins associated with particular forms of cancer. Initiatives like these not only provide more understanding of cancer, but also point the way to new treatments.
They are very important because of the cost for such projects. For example, our genomics lab has $1.5 million worth of working equipment. You would never get that amount from a research grant. So, the Cigarette Restitution Fund allows this facility to be established, and now many different investigators can use that laboratory. And because they have the laboratory, they now can go and apply to the NIH for funding for their individual research projects. It's great leverage -- taking $1 and getting $10 back because of its use.
As soon as possible, since all of our research activities are ultimately directed toward improving patient care. For example, when we identify a unique protein that we think is important in cancer cell growth, we now have a group of individuals who investigate that protein, help determine what the structure might be, and then based on that structure, look at what drugs might interact with that protein. Once we can determine that, we can begin to look at moving that drug into the clinic. The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center (UMGCC) has a large number of clinical trials that are based on our knowledge of the cancer cell and how that's different from the normal cell. Much of our therapy in the future is what we're going to call smart therapy. It's therapy that's directed at the cancer cell and tries to preserve the normal cells. We're doing this with drugs, with other types of biologic molecules, and we also do it with radiation therapy.
It is really important because it lets our investigators and our clinicians know that it will be there each year and we can plan and know that starting something this year, it will be able to continue.
Since the Cigarette Restitution Funds became available, when it comes time to recruit an individual, that individual knows that there's the stability of the funding and frankly, they're looking at the University of Maryland and saying, 'that's the place to be now.'
These dollars clearly will enable us to more rapidly move our understanding of cancer biology to the clinic, thus improving patient care in the process. This revolution that we've seen in the understanding of cancer now is something we can take advantage of by bringing the new therapies and give patients the greatest hope for successful treatment. Long term, there's no question the morbidity and mortality of cancer will come down. Not overnight, there's no quick fix and it won't be all cancers at once. It will be a little of this and a little of that over time but overall, the morbidity and mortality will come down.


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Physical Activity Levels and Brain Structure in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Physical Activity Levels and Brain Structure in Mild Cognitive Impairment
This observational study will examine the relationship between physical activity levels, brain structure, and memory function in adults with mild cognitive impairment during 18 months. During this time, participants' physical activity levels will be measured regularly and related to both the thickness of the hippocampus (a brain structure important to memory and learning) and to performance on memory tests.
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89 Years
- Diagnostic criteria for MCI: subjective memory complaints, Montreal Cognitive Assessment score of less than 26, and intact instrumental activities of daily living or subjective age-associated memory complaints
- Living with an adult who can ensure correct usage of the physical activity monitors during the study and verify self-reports of activity levels
- Adequate seeing and hearing abilities to allow neuropsychological testing
- Screening laboratory tests and EKG without significant abnormalities that might interfere with the study; principal investigator may request clearance from primary care physician before subject continues in study
- Comorbid conditions impacting mobility
- Current, untreated depression (BDI-II score of greater than 13)
- Diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease or any other dementia; evidence of other neurological or physical illness that can produce cognitive deterioration
- History of head trauma, stroke, transient ischemic attack, carotid bruits, or lacunes on MRI scans
- Contraindication to MRI scanning, including claustrophobia, metal in body, surgery within 60 days, certain medical implants or previous abnormal MRI results
- History of cardiovascular disease; uncontrolled hypertension (systolic blood pressure of more than 170 or diastolic blood pressure of more than 100)
- Current diagnosis of any major psychiatric disorder according to the DSM-IV TR criteria, including current alcoholism or substance addiction
- Current use of marijuana; previous use of marijuana for at least 15 days in a month, initiating use during adolescence and continuing for at least 1 year
Participants' physical activity will be tracked for 2 weeks using accelerometers at the beginning of the study and then every 6 months. Similarly, participants will undergo a structural magnetic resonance imaging brain scan to measure hippocampal thickness, as well as a neuropsychological evaluation to measure memory function. Investigators predict that participants with lower activity levels will have reduced total hippocampal thickness and worse memory performance than those with higher activity levels, after controlling for age, gender, and vascular and genetic risk.
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Joerg Heinicke dijo: > On 19.02.2004 00:32, Antonio Gallardo wrote: > >>>>>I can confirm the error with XSLTC from Xalan 2.5.2, I didn't try it >>>>>with XSTLC from Xalan 2.5.1 yet. But it works with Xalan 2.5.1 itself, >>>>>so I can only recommend you to downgrade to this version. >>>> >>>> >>>>Hmm.... I am using with Xalan 2.5.2 and it works to me. As I posted >>>>before >>>>it is a kind of switching between xalan and xltc. >>> >>>The problem with Xalan 2.5.2 is not the <xsl:param/> or the woody >>>stylesheets in general, but this bug: >>>http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24457. >> >> >> if yes, why it works to me? > > I don't know. Maybe you don't use UTF-8 or such special characters. That > this bug exists is confirmed by many people on users list for example or > the two bugs in bugzilla (24457, and the blocking 24278) related to this. I use UTF-8 too. Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo
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The RBI's decision to tighten monetary policy may not have a negative impact on housing demand, as real-estate developers do not expect any increase in home loan rates
Real-estate developers on Tuesday said that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s decision to tighten monetary policy would not have a negative impact on housing demand, as they do not foresee any increase in home loan rates.
"It's a very balanced and calibrated announcement meant to control inflation. The signals from the public sector units (PSUs) as well as private banks are favourable and they expect no increase in home loan rates. This will be to the ultimate interest of homebuyers," DLF Group executive director Rajeev Talwar told PTI. Mr Talwar said that housing demand would remain firm.
Parsvnath Developers' chairman, Pradeep Jain, said, "I do not foresee interest rates going upwards. Therefore, there is no concern for the real estate sector."
In a move to curb inflation, the apex bank today increased the repo and reverse repo rates by 25 bps each and the CRR also by 25 bps.
Property consultants also feel that the hike in policy rates would not have any significant impact on the housing sector, which has witnessed a revival in demand over the last one year.
"It was on expected lines. This would have a sentimental and emotional setback on residential demand, not on office or retail," Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj country head Anuj Puri said.
However, he cautioned that a continuous increase in the repo rates would curtail the optimistic sentiment in the real-estate sector.
Knight Frank India's national director for residential agency, Anand Narayanan said, "Real estate is having a strong sentiment now. This will not have any significant impact on the buyers."
The fitness chain makes 10% net margin—but the business is too small, suffers from poor cash flows and the stock is priced exorbitantly
The Mumbai-based fitness chain Talwalkars Better Value Fitness Ltd (TBVF), which operates 'Talwalkars' gyms and health clubs, hits the market on 21 April 2010 with its initial public offering (IPO). TBVF operates 58 health clubs in 28 cities having a membership of 55,000. The company owns 44 clubs and six others are operated under a joint venture with Pantaloon and other franchises.
"We will double our headcount by 3,000 employees to manage the 38 new clubs. This will take our employee strength to 6,000," Prashant Talwalkar, CEO, TBVF, told PTI.
The company's operating revenue has grown from Rs10.20 crore in FY06 to Rs59.20 crore in FY09. Correspondingly, it recorded a net profit of Rs5.69 crore, Rs4.52 crore and Rs1.09 crore against a total income of Rs59.42 crore, Rs38.50 crore and Rs22.29 crore in FY09, FY08 and FY07 respectively.
TBVF's cash and cash equivalents have been meagre for fiscal 2009 despite positive cash flows from both operating and financing activities. This was due to significant investments in fixed assets. Its earnings per share (EPS) were Rs3.61, Rs2.88 and Rs0.72 in the financial years 2009, 2008 and 2007 respectively. There is no comparable stock in the market. At a floor price of Rs123, the company's diluted PE is an exorbitant 42.71.
TBVF operates in a highly competitive market and faces stiff competition from other players operating both in the organised and un-organised sectors. Some foreign players have also entered the Indian physical fitness market.
TBVF is marred by conflict of interests. According to the RHP, there are 11 gyms which operate under the trademark name 'Talwalkars' which are owned and operated by TBVF's group companies. Of these, seven gyms are held by three of TBVF's promoter-directors Madhukar Vishnu Talwalkar, Girish Madhukar Talwalkar and Prashant Sudhakar Talwalkar through their proprietary undertakings and partnership firms while the other four gyms are held by Life Fitness India Private Limited, in which Madhukar Vishnu Talwalkar jointly with his wife holds 50% of its outstanding equity share capital. TBVF has entered into trademark license agreements with these 11 gyms.
Talwalkars Fitness Solutions Private Limited (TFSPL), another company controlled by Rahul Talwalkar, Rohit Talwalkar and Amber Talwalkar, operates 13 gyms in Mumbai, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Raigad, Thane and Nasik. There is no separation or non-competing agreement between these two independent companies (The Talwalkars Group and TFSPL). This Group owns and operates gyms under the same name and can claim the history of the brand Talwalkars and can be a potential conflict of interest.
Moreover, TBVF's business is not scalable as it cannot bring in economies of scale by adding more gyms. The company owns 58 health clubs across India and has generated a mere Rs5.69 crore net profit in FY09.
India Infoline Ltd is the lead running manager to the issue. The issue opens on 21 April 2010 and closes on 23 April 2010. The company plans to raise Rs74 crore to Rs77 crore at a price band of Rs123-Rs128 by issuing fresh equity of 60.50 lakh shares of Rs10 each.
Ratings agency CARE has assigned 'IPO Grade 3' to the issue. According to the red herring prospectus, the proceeds (Rs70.81 crore) will be utilised for setting up of additional health clubs and repayment of unsecured loans to the tune of Rs20 crore. It plans to add 27 health clubs by the end of fiscal 2011 with an estimated cost of Rs50.22 crore.
With just a 25 bps increase in policy rates and CRR, the central bank has moved in line with expectations; a gradual withdrawal from the easy monetary stance emerges from the annual policy review
Anchoring inflation expectations without straddling the recovery process seems to be the prime focus of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). In a move that was largely in line with market expectations, the central bank hiked policy rates and cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 25 basis points (bps), while leaving the bank rate unchanged, in its annual policy for FY11.
With this move, short-term lending and borrowing rates (repo and reverse-repo) between RBI and banks stand at 5.25% and 3.75% respectively, while the CRR would be at 6%. The hike in CRR is expected to absorb about Rs12,500 crore of excess liquidity from the system.
Chanda Kochhar, managing director and chief executive officer, ICICI Bank, said, "The 25 bps increases in the repo and reverse repo rates and the CRR are broadly in line with market expectations given the strong economic growth and elevated level of inflation. At the same time, the RBI has also articulated as a priority the availability of credit to meet the growth needs of the Indian economy. Thus, the annual policy statement has balanced the twin objectives of growth and price stability."
"The RBI appears comfortable on sustained growth given the uptrend in exports, broad-based industrial recovery, uptick in services and improved corporate profitability. This, coupled with the increase in flow of funds to the commercial sector, is key to its view that the domestic balance of risks shifts from growth slowdown to inflation," said Rohini Malkani, economist, Citi India.
Echoing the same, Yashika Singh, head for economic analysis, Dun & Bradstreet India, said, "An increase of 25 bps across key policy rates indicates a complete shift in the focus of the monetary policy towards the containment of inflationary expectations. At a time when economic growth is showing signs of consolidation, and demand-side pressures are expected to start building up slowly, this rate hike will put the monetary policy ahead of the curve. Even though we had initially believed that the rate hike might not occur at this juncture, the central bank has accorded a high priority towards rising inflation when it comes to downside risks to growth."
However, with this moderate stance, there is a concern that the RBI may be behind the curve in curbing inflation. The wholesale price index-based inflation is hovering around the 10% mark, while food inflation is again inching upwards, nearing 18%.
Wholesale price-based inflation remained below the psychological two-digit score, inching up marginally to 9.9% in March from 9.89% in the previous month. The hike was because of rising prices of sugar and pulses. There are many who believe that the RBI is going soft on taming inflation.
Aneesh Srivastava, chief investment officer, IDBI Fortis Life Insurance Co Ltd said, "RBI's monetary policy has to be read in conjunction with the 10% inflation (WPI), a 16.5% growth in M3, a 15%-17% growth in IIP, high capacity utilisation, a 7% plus current and 8.5% expected growth in GDP and rising asset prices. Hence, it had become necessary for the RBI to exit from emergency monetary measures adopted to support growth and lean towards controlling inflation and inflationary expectations, thus moving towards a more neutral interest rate environment. This current move is one step closer towards tightening the monetary policy in the months to come." {break}
He added, "Inflation may take longer to start coming down due to poor monetary policy transmission to credit markets. We expect inflationary pressures to subside during the second half of this fiscal year due to policy action and base effect but the future course of inflation would also depend upon (the) quality of (the) monsoon."
Navneet Munot, chief investment officer, SBI Mutual Fund, believes that the rate hike is a kind of middle-path chosen by the RBI. "RBI has done a terrific job in managing the crisis; but managing the recovery in the backdrop of these conflicting objectives could be more challenging. A 25-bps hike in policy rates and CRR is a middle-path chosen by the RBI and we believe another 25-bps hike in policy rates before the July policy is highly likely," Mr Munot added.
Economists too believe that another rate hike is on the cards, as inflationary pressures will need to be eased further.
Indranil Sen Gupta, chief economist-India, Bank of America Merrill Lynch observed, "We expect an additional 100-bps rate and 50-bps CRR hike through FY11 to combat inflation. In our view, recovery is strong enough for the RBI to move against inflation as it expectedly has. The move is also towards normalisation of monetary policy to promote healthy growth."
"With the RBI stating that 'despite the 25 bps hike, our real rates are still negative, and with the recovery now firmly in place, we need to move in a calibrated manner in the direction of normalising our policy instruments', we maintain our view of a minimum additional 75-bps hike in 2010, with a possibility of an inter-policy hike before its 27th July meeting," said Ms Malkani.
Although the central bank has deployed tools for inflation control assuming a normal monsoon, any change in the pattern of rainfall may create further dilemmas for policymakers.
"There will be an upward pressure on interest rates, but it is unlikely to impact credit growth immediately. Going forward, we expect a further increase in CRR during May-June, given that the upward pressures on liquidity are likely to persist on account of expected sustained foreign fund inflows. Moreover, the tools deployed towards inflation control and the maintenance of current growth momentum are underscored by an assumption of a normal monsoon—any deviation in the monsoon is likely to create further dilemma on the policy front," added Ms Singh.
With the expected pickup in demand from the private sector, the RBI has said that managing government borrowings will be a bigger challenge than last year and would warrant a fine balancing act. While the overall gross borrowing requirement for FY11 is lower than last year, given the absence of Market Stabilisation Scheme (MSS) and Open Market Operations (OMO), the fresh issuance of securities in FY11 is expected to be 36.3% higher than FY10.
"The large government borrowing in H1 FY11 would put pressure on long-term interest rates and may be challenging due to high inflation, strong recovery in growth, lower liquidity and private credit demand," said Alok Sahoo, head of fixed income, Baroda Pioneer AMC.


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Last man on moon proves to be star turn
Move over Ian Woosnam. Step aside Paul Lawrie. American Eugene Cernan stole the limelight during yesterday's meet-the-players press conference with tales of bravery and adventure far more captivating than those conjured up by any of the leading professionals competing at the Omega Hong Kong Open. Cernan isn't a pro golfer but he's definitely out of this world.
Former astronaut Cernan made a grand entrance and almost immediately captivated an audience as he recounted his adventures on Apollo 17.
Cernan was the last man to leave footprints on the moon and the 66-year-old, who was also the first man to circumnavigate the earth twice in space, was a hit with the leading golfers for the 42nd running of the SAR's oldest tournament which starts tomorrow at Fanling.
'You guys are all young pros. Well, at least young to me. But I bet you I could hit the ball further than you guys . . . on the moon,' said Cernan, who is executive consultant to Spacehab Inc and chief executive officer of the Cernan Corporation. 'I remember [former astronaut] Alan Shepherd took his golf clubs and one day decided to hit a few golf balls [on the moon]. You know there's no air on the moon and the gravity is one sixth of that to earth.
'Imagine what you pros could do if you drove the ball out there? The ball would go forever,' he said.
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Lawrie, who finished 26th in the European Order of Merit, said he felt his game was improving after having to cope with a season almost wrecked by neck, ankle and even groin injuries.
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Welshman Ian Woosnam, who won the Hong Kong Open in 1987 and was beaten by one stroke by Sweden's Patrik Sjoland for the title last year, said he hadn't been playing well the past few weeks. 'But hopefully I will get my form back while playing at Fanling. I went close last year and I almost caught Patrik [Sjoland]. I'm hopeful of my chances this year,' said the former Masters champion.
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Auckland, Mar 27 (UNI) Five Kiwi players will skip the early stages of the tour of England to take part in the cash rich IPL after getting their clearance from New Zealand Cricket (NZC).
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I figured that now they had seen me, I may as well continue working out and just blank them entirely. I hopped onto the corner treadmill and set the pace, plugging myself into my ipod to block out the surrounding sounds. Every time I reached for the button to increase the speed I felt eyes prickle into my back and I wondered whether they were Cara's, Sam's or just me being paranoid. I reached my maximum speed of 12 and I was running so fast now and the world seemed to slip in and out of clear focus and I put all the energy I had into keeping running.
I pulled the safety chord after a while and sunk down to the cool floor, taking huge gulps of water and breathing quickly to catch my breath. I stood up unsteadily, taking another sip of water as I did so and headed towards the bikes. A wave of queasiness flooded though me as I pulled myself onto the bike but I powered though it, tiredness was showing weakness and I was not weak.
I took a steadying breath as a pain shot across my chest, taking a sip of water as I kept cycling. I looked up every now and again to see where in the room Cara and Sam were. Sam was sitting on a rowing machine now and Cara wasn't there.
I pondered where she had gone but then remembered that Cara was nothing to do with me any more. She had picked her girlfriend over a girl she had known for all her life.
My earphones were suddenly tugged unceremoniously out of my ears and a hand appeared on my shoulder.
"Stop" Sam's voice said into my ear, "Can't you see the damage you are causing to yourself by pushing yourself to exercise so much?"
"To be honest Sam, its none of your business" I said waspishly grabbing the earphones,
"You're doing yourself damage, and if this is to made Cara feel bad then you are so selfish as a true best friend wouldn't guilt trip their friends."
I turned to look at her, I was scowling now, "I gave up of friendships the moment Cara, Liam and Ali walked out that front door. I can handle life alone" I said getting unsteadily off the bike, not moving my eyes off Sam.
"No-one should have to be alone Anna, why don't you just open up and let people in?" she asked.
"Did Cara send you over here to talk to me?"
"No, Cara has gone to get bottles of water and enquire about the cost of going swimming after the gym, but I know that seeing you like this has unsettled her."
"Look I don't need pity, just leave me to get on with my life," I said walking away from her just as Cara came back into the gym. I got as far as the padded seats in the middle of the gym before feeling funny. The pain in my chest was growing in intensity and my breathing was becoming harder. I tried to shake it off, of course I was out of breath, I had been in the gym for an hour and a half and hadn't eaten.
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|Reviews for Branded
| timisnotmyname chapter 1 . 12/31/2009
| C.A.M.E.O.1 and Only chapter 11 . 12/30/2009
Oh, he's THAT scared of milk? BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! GO WINRY!...I luv psychology!
| Miss Woodford chapter 11 . 12/30/2009
"Pavlonivic". I love it when other FMA fanfiction writers invent place and people and things in the alchemic world; becauswe the manga and anime didn't explore it enough. I'd like to see "Rick Stieves's Amestris".
Winry is pure evil and I think even Envy would run screaming from her while calling for his mamma.
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| Orange Singer chapter 11 . 12/30/2009
| Dumplinglord chapter 10 . 11/5/2009
I've already read it until this chapter, and wowow! Love this story, it makes me laugh hard. Sweet EdWinry! Keep writing!
| Keiyou chapter 10 . 10/11/2009
Holy cow! an update after forever!
Miracles never cease to amaze me, neither did this fic. Even though it's sad, I'm also happy to see the conclusion to such a sweet and extreemly funny Ed/Win fic.
Or was it Win/Ed? XD
Hope to see more from you soon!
| ArAshiMitArAshi chapter 10 . 9/28/2009
Haha. This is so funny. I had a good time reading this story. Ed's a genius and when he finally got it...OMG!
| C.A.M.E.O.1 and Only chapter 10 . 9/23/2009
0.o...GRANNY PINAKO! U'VE GOT A LOT OF GREAT-GRANKIDS ON THIER WAY!..AL, UR GONNA B AN UNCLE SOONER THAN U MAY HAVE WANTED...Geebus Ed, Winry, SERIOUSLY! They can GET IT ON!
| Miss Woodford chapter 10 . 9/23/2009
While this didn't have the same hilarity level of "Branded" or "Kiss and Tell", it was strangely - satisfying - in a way both Ed and Winry would agree with. Now it's finished, I hope some artistic type on DA will make a doujinshi out of the whole glorious mess.
| Anne Packrat chapter 10 . 9/23/2009
Ack, finally finished! Good boy Ed for figuring it out! My only criticism is I don't think this is a hard R, everything is only generally described not explicitly so.
| Orange Singer chapter 10 . 9/22/2009
*Cheers for Edward* ONE HELL OF A COMEBACK, ED! Nice ending! Man, you made all females who read this jealous of Winry! Excellent story! I LOVED the geek thing. I was howling with laughter in my head at that.
| BlackButterfly1224 chapter 9 . 6/17/2009
I'm torn between "aww" and "hot!" xDD very interesting, very funny, and actually less ooc than it could have been...please, please update! I can see from the last chapter that it was back from 2007... I even reviewed, and I SERIOUSLY rarely review, so pu-leaase update)
Go team Team Eddie, woo! ))
| Orange Singer chapter 9 . 6/7/2009
| pixietwisk chapter 2 . 9/8/2008
I wasn't going to review a second chapter, but I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. "I'm never alone!" Fabulous voice. Love this.


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He had taken to spending much of his day in a daze recently, thinking about everything and nothing at all at the same time. He became quite proficient in being dazed all the time, learning to navigate crowded hallways and sidewalks with ease while not even paying them any attention, and teaching himself to listen to just enough of conversations that he could still at least appear to care about what was being said, when in reality, he didn't.
Not caring was a common theme with him at the time, actually. He wouldn't have said he was depressed, just detached. Nothing felt like it mattered to him, but it it didn't merit thoughts of ending it all. In fact, he had been doing pretty well otherwise; getting good grades in college, running a steady part-time job, and even managing to keep in touch with old friends, if to a far less real degree than in the past.
But something was different today, drifting through the halls of his school to his first class of the day. The date held some importance, some significance that he could no longer remember, and could only pin to the girl that used to mean so much to him. Perhaps an anniversary of some sort?
But it didn't matter why, it only mattered that today, he was even more distracted than usual.
The late warning bell rang, and he automatically quickened his pace, not even noticing it happen. He never did. Walks across town passed in the blink of an eye, the trips completely occupied with chasing stray thoughts around his head. It was like trying to catch the detritus that swims around the surface of your eye; the harder you try, the harder it gets to reach your goal.
Unfortunately, he wasn't the only one hurrying, and though he surely held the title of most distracted, he was not the only one living in their head at the time. Add a corner in the hall to this equation, and the result is a classic scene of two people in a hurry running straight into each other, books flying everywhere as a result.
Surprisingly, or maybe not, this didn't even faze him. He simply got up, not bothering to brush himself off, and began collecting his things, still on auto-pilot.
"You know, generally this would be the part where you rush to help me pick up my books, apologizing profusely, share an awkward sort of smile with me, and go on your way. Your way is a little less familiar."
It took him a few moments to notice that he was being spoken to. He had managed to completely ignore the part of the equation that had knocked him on his arse in the first place, and had continued gathering books a little longer before finally turning his attention to the source of the voice.
The source was a she. A she of the sort that, were she a character in a movie, she would be considered to be not the most attractive girl, but she would be the one that the main character realizes he actually loves at the finish, cue happy ending. She was the perfect image of a 'rebel', without going overboard; a few piercings, a couple tattoos that you could see and a couple more you couldn't, and a dress code that was so hard to peg, it would make an Enigma Machine jealous.
He shot her a quizzical look, having not heard a word of what she said.
"Never mind," she said, having not understood a thing about him. She bent to pick up her books on her own, coming to the conclusion that whatever was wrong with the guy wasn't getting better any time soon.
But he was interrupted now, and not going back into that comfortable daze just yet. Noticing his books mostly in his hands already, and hers mostly on the floor, he leapt into action, scooping up her books and the rest of his right quickly, and even forcing a bit of a sheepish smile onto his face as he handed the papers and texts back over to her.
"My knight in shining armour," she sarcastically commented as she accepted her books. "Thanks though," she added sincerely, if a little confusedly.
In reality, the roles were more or less reversed; she had roughly pulled him from his dream world and given him a taste of real life again, if only a small one, and now he was looking at her instead of through her, interacting with her, and truly listening to what she said.
He nodded in acknowledgement of her thanks, but said nothing.
She noticed.
"Oh, I know you," she said, sounding as though it was stupid of her to have not realized this already. "You're that kid from my next class. Always sits in the back, never talks, staring off into nothingness 24/7? Rowan, right?"
It wasn't Rowan, but he didn't bother correcting her. He couldn't even remember the last time he had spoken aloud when he had to, let alone doing so freely. Let alone to a stranger. Let alone to a girl.
She took his silence for acquiescence. "I'm Harmony," she said, looking as though she would have shook his hand, had she not been holding all her books. Instead, she moved her hands and books toward him, presenting a fist for him to knock.
He obliged, after only a small moment of confusion. And with that contact, he was solidly grounded on earth again.
"Walk with me to class?" she asked. It sounded like a question, and she meant it as a question, but somehow he felt compelled to do it whether he wanted to or not. "My locker is just over there, and we're going to be late anyway."
In his newly aware state, he remembered with no small amount of confusion that there weren't any lockers at their school, but he simply nodded and followed along behind her as she began to walk back the way he had come from. And before long, they came to...
"The custodial closet," she explained, gesturing toward it. She pulled a key from a pocket (she had lots of pockets) and unlocked the door, throwing her books in and grabbing some other ones. She spoke as she worked. "There is no way in hell I'd carry this all around with me all day, and this closet is nestled right in the middle of my route every day, so I borrow it."
Her tone and the mischievous smile on her face hinted this 'borrowing' was only very distantly related to actual borrowing.
"We're going to be late. Let's get goin', Rowan."
"Eowyn," he corrected, in a voice too quiet for her to pick up.
As they walked down the halls beside each other, he looked over at her with a cautious smile, and his mind finally found a subject it could settle on.


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It was Saturday, under the sign of Libra. The US president was John F. Kennedy (Democratic).
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1962
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This was a five day, four night backpacking trip with four other friends...three of which had never been backpacking before. But I knew that they would be capable because they are all in good physical shape from biking, running, and other activities. But this was different from other stuff they had done. We covered over forty five miles of terrain, carrying packs that weighed somewhere between 42-52 lbs. There was also more than 9000 ft of elevation gain and lost. If you want to see the complete route we took and all of the stats, here is a link:
I have hiked the Buffalo River area several times the past couple of years, but every time I go back I am amazed at how beautiful it is. It always seems a little different each time I go, even when I go to some of the same places I have been before. This past weekend was nice because of several different reasons...
Here are some pictures from a hike into the Irish Wilderness July 3 and July 4 of 2015. We had planned on staying out two nights, but in the end, decided to make it back to the trial head Saturday afternoon. All in all it was over 20 miles.
We started our hike a little after 1pm Friday and finished around 4pm Saturday, and never saw another person on the trail. That is a shame because with a little effort, this could be a very good hike. That being said. Any hike is a good hike when you are with friends. It was a good time with friends. I would probably give this hike a six. It was a pretty strenuous hike (which I like), but it was not a very well defined trail in some places. During the entire 20 miles or so we hiked, there were only three camp sites that we saw, and they were all relatively close to each other. We lost the trail two or three times and without my GaiaGPS app there is no telling how long it would have taken us to get back on track.
The Memphis Backpacking Meetup Group went to Winding Stairs last month, and I went with them for my first trip to the Ouachita Mountains. But they only did about 2.5 miles of the ERL (Eagle Rock Loop). Me and one other guy (Michael) hiked another four miles or so of it, but I really wanted to go back and do the entire 27 mile loop because I heard it was very scenic, and also pretty tough.
It is May 2nd, and the weather has finally turned warm. The rain has slacked off just a little from the April Showers, and that means that it is getting close to junior tennis tournament season. Although junior tennis goes on all through the year, late spring and summer are when the truly big tournaments come around, like the Arkansas Junior Qualifying, and the Southern Closed Championships. Locally, we have the Rice Bowl Championships in May, and the Firecracker Jr Championships in June, both of which are held at the Jonesboro Country Club.
My Family
One of the things I regret is that I do not have a lot of pictures from earlier in my life. Pictures of my family and friends, people I went to junior high and high school with. People I worked with and dated, and played tennis with. Of course, I was not raised in an era where everyone carried a phone in their pockets 24/7 that could take pictures. I have a few, but by and large, most of the pictures I ever had are gone, and I never really had that many to begin with.
So, I joined a backpacking group out of Memphis a few months ago that I happened to find online. I found out really quickly when I got into hiking and backpacking that there are not too many people who want to do the kind of stuff that I want to do, and actually have the time and money to do them. Especially in a relatively small town like Jonesboro. So naturally I went online to do some searching for like minded people and found this group.
They had a couple of hikes scheduled for this spring, with the first one being a hike to the Ouachita Mountains in Southwestern Arkansas, to a trail called Winding Stairs. This trail is part of a bigger trail called the Eagle Rock Loop, which is 26.8 miles long. I checked my calendar to see if I could squeeze in this hike and decided I could. I wanted to see what kind of hikers came out of Memphis, Tennessee. It's always nice to compare notes with other people I haven't hiked with and see how they do things. I wanted to see if I could learn anything.
P (AKA Camel) and I had originally planned this hiked for the weekend of February 27-March 1, but snow and sleet had forced us into postponing. Not that snow or sleet was something we minded hiking and camping in, but it would have been very difficult to actually drive to the Buffalo to start the hike in that kind of weather. So we moved it to this weekend, which was good for me because it was the last weekend of spring break for my juniors. All week had been slow, and I was ready to get out of town.
We had come to the Buffalo River twice in 2014. Once in May and the other time in October. Both times were fantastic. They were both different hikes because of the time of year, but they were each fantastic in their own way.
Healthy Choices
It is Sunday, January 4th, 2015 and I just got home from the gym. I had been out of town on a hiking trip for the past 10 days and I desperately needed a workout. By the looks of things at the gym, everybody else was thinking the same thing. There were more people riding bikes and running on treadmills and pumping iron than I had seen in a long time. What was the deal? Oh, right. It is a new year.
Big Fish, Little Fish
It's the age old question: Would you rather be a big fish in a little pond, or a little fish in a big pond? As with many things, this question is very relative in many different areas of life. From school, to business, to where we choose to live, and yes, to sports also, including tennis. To ask the question in a more tennis related way: Is it better to play with the big dogs and gain valuable insights and experience from them while getting beaten down on the court, or is it better to play against less competitive players and hone your mental toughness and confidence?
In my professional life, I am a tennis director at a country club in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In my personal life, I am an avid outdoors person who loves to bike, hike, and climb to as many places as I can, and I try to live as healthily as possible. I also am a dedicated animal lover and planet enthusiast.
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This summer felt like the longest one I've ever experienced. Back when I was still in college I was taking classes during breaks to get ahead and I was too busy to ever enjoy a vacation. When I began working, summer seemed non-existent with no real time to escape from the office life either.
This year, I had the chance to travel and experienced a lot of great moments in just a few months and it finally felt like I was able to have my first real summer break. For the first time ever, I'm feeling that summer time sadness that everyone talks about but I never understood, until now.
I had to scroll through my photo collection on my phone to try to remember everything I did over the summer because it all flew by so quickly that it was all just a blur.
In just a few months, I've learned and grown so much. I learned how to enjoy time to myself, how to cherish time with loved ones, how to forgive quickly and to slow down in other aspects of my life. I learned to let go of fear and unhealthy attachments, and I've grown bigger than my fears.
So although I'm sad that summer is over, I'm excited for a new start. It feels like a new year has began for me (anyone else feel that way in the Fall?) and I'm looking forward to what it has in store for me. There are so many great things ahead: my birthday next month is one, the wedding of one of my best friends is another, hopefully a little more traveling and of course all of the awesome holidays to end the year.
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I feel well equipped with a new perspective on life, a little more wise, more brave than I was just a few months ago and ready to take on last three months of this year.
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The perfect sand castle starts with a good circle.
John Gowdy, who started building sand castles with his own kids about 25 years ago, has all the credentials (and then some) to show you how to build a perfectly good one with your kids. He even teaches sand-castle building professionally, and his system is so easy, he calls it the "No-Hassle Sand Castle."
To start, he grabs his trusty garden shovel and, with the point of the blade, traces a quick, light circle, maybe 3 feet in diameter, into the hard sand he's picked as today's construction site.
But he didn't just choose this spot at random, which brings up an important correction: The perfect sand castle actually starts with a good tide table.
Gowdy, a retired Atlantic City firefighter and professional sand sculptor who has traveled literally around the world to compete or build commissioned works, says the best time to build your sand castle is when the tide is going out, and the best place to do it is just below the high-tide line.
First, that gives you access to tons of wet sand, which is what you need to build your perfect sand castle. And second, if you try building a sand castle with the tide on its way in, you're setting yourself (and the kids) up for a visit from a force of nature Gowdy knows much too well:
"The great eraser," he says ominously, meaning the ocean's nasty habit of destroying all sand castles - among other manmade structures - that get in its way.
And if you can't find a tide table - even though they're printed every day on page A-2 of this very newspaper -ask a lifeguard, because "they live here," says Gowdy, who spent seven years on the Atlantic City Beach Patrol himself, and knows that a good lifeguard always knows what the tide is doing.
OK, so now you have your circle in the sand, in just the right spot. Gowdy takes the shovel and, working from the outside, digs all the sand out right around the circle, and piles up what he digs out on the inside. All that wet sand is what you'll turn into the castle - "The bigger the pile, the bigger the castle," he says.
Plus, by digging out just outside of the circle, you're building your moat - a key defensive structure in all your finer castles, sand or otherwise.
The expert digs deepest of all at the point on the circle that's closest to the ocean, not stopping until he hits the groundwater a few feet down. That's because of another one of his rules for the perfect sand castle:
"You can't use too much water," Gowdy says - several times over, in maybe 90 minutes of building two complete castles. "The water will go right through the sand. ... If you do use too much water, just give it a few minutes and (the water) will pull right out. "
He says the sand everywhere is different - it might even be different on the Ventnor beach he chose for this project and a beach just a few blocks down. But he has a simple test for knowing when you have the perfect-textured sand for your castle:
If you can make a ball out of the sand and it stays together when you toss it back and forth from hand to hand, 6 or 8 inches high, you can make a fine castle out of it.
With his dug-out sand piled up in his circle, Gowdy then steps on top and uses his feet to firm up his foundation a bit. He prefers to get an assistant he calls a "sand dancer" to do this job - kids ages 6 to 8 or so are usually perfect - and the idea is to just compress the sand a bit to strengthen it.
Now that he knows he has good sand - what he likes to call "Mudddd" as he works with it - Gowdy goes back to making circles. He turns his muddd into pancakes, maybe 4 or 5 inches across and half an inch high, and quickly stacks them into a tower a foot of so high.
If they do pile right up easily in this "muddd-stacking" process, you're doing it right. And they shouldn't take too much help, he adds.
"A lot of kids want to pack it down when you're doing this. If you do, it'll just fall down," Gowdy warns.
With one tower built painlessly, he moves on to the next one a few inches away, repeating the process.
And once you have two towers, under all internationally recognized laws of sand-castle building, you have to make an arch between them. Gowdy has a simple trick for this job too.
If he has a trustworthy young assistant, he gets him or her to hold a hand - perfectly steady, of course - in the gap between the tops of the towers. If not, he puts one of his own hands there, and either way, he starts piling more muddd up onto that human-hand base. When the muddd has enough structure to survive on its own, Gowdy very gingerly pulls the hand away and leaves just the sand behind in a graceful, and strong, arch.
He builds a roof on each tower by stacking a few more circular pancakes on top of the towers, getting smaller and smaller as he gets toward the top. He lightly shapes that into an "upside-down ice-cream cone" with the popsicle stick again.
Then, when he's finished with his first sand castle, Gowdy unceremoniously knocks it down and shows how to build a second, even easier one, using a few simple items he brought with him to the beach.
One is a bottomless, five-gallon paint bucket - this pro cut the bottom out himself - for making a big, solid circle as his base. Then he pulls out two lengths of PVC pipe, one 6 inches across and the other 4 inches. The plastic pipes are maybe a foot long each, and Gowdy takes the wider one, puts it on his firm base, piles wet sand in, tests it by twisting the pipe slightly and, when it's ready to stand on its own, gently pulls the pipe away.
"It's called the magic shake ... or magic wiggle," Gowdy says. "Then you slide it up and down" a bit to firm up the towers.
Then he repeats that pipe-filling and removing step with the smaller pipe on of the base tower - the pipes just take away the need for hand-stacking the mud.
"You can make as many towers as you want using this," the expert says, "or using the mud-stacking."
The possibilities are endless - and so are the hours you can keep the kids occupied at the beach with these few simple tools and techniques.
And if disaster strikes and your castle collapses, here's one final bit of professional wisdom:
"Don't get all bent out of shape," Gowdy says. "There's plenty of sand and water on the beach."
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Tools of the trade
Gowdy starts his project by tracing a light circle with the blade of a garden shovel, then digging around the outside of the circle and piling the dug-up sand inside the circle.
"The bigger the pile," he says, "the bigger the castle."
A popsicle stick makes a fine tool for decorating sand castles, including digging out windows and tracing on bricks or stones. Gowdy also uses plastic butter knives and sea shells as tools - if you forgot a shovel, a big clamshell makes a nice digging tool..
Gowdy takes a selection of buckets with him when he's building - including a 5-gallon one he cut the bottom out of. He fills that with wet sand to form an easy base for a castle, then lifts the bucket off when the sand is solid. He also uses a small, basic garden shovel to dig up all the wet sand he needs for his construction projects.
On top of his bucket base, Gowdy makes a simple tower by filling lengths of plastic pipe with more wet sand. He uses sections 4 inches and 6 inches in diameter, each one about a foot long.
To build a simple arch or bridge connecting two towers, Gowdy puts his left hand between the towers, holds it steady, then piles wet sand on. When the structure is firm, he gently pulls the hand away gently and leaves a firm arch/bridge standing.


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Re: Co-op Gold Star
xXGoldenArthurXx wrote:
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Thank you
I hope ND sees this and tell is their opinion on this.
Shut up.
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You know what I just realized?
JD never added his idea to this thread
What do you suggest JD?
Hmmm, most of my ideas have already been suggested. However, the "beat all Arena maps on Crushing" should grant a 20%-30% discount on all Co-Op items. (Well, that's what I hoped for. )
Gold star? Hmmm, you'd need to have all Co-Op Adventure maps beaten (2 or 3 players) without losing a single life in all 5 levels. Monastery would prove difficult.
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Most of the users in this thread aren't even here.
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Well this thread has been utterly derailed. Does anyone one here still play crushing co-op?
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