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Of course not!!!!!!!! The PTB tried desperately to have it destroyed like SOOOOOO many other transcripts that dared to contradict what THEY decided to teach the masses. You are an absolute idiot!! Do some fuckin research on the Crusades, and the Inqusition. Once youve done that, I think you'll humble yourself and shut your fuckin hole!!!!!


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I'm glad you posted about Torreya. It's been a while since I visited and valiantly resisted the temptation to dig around the gun emplacements for artifacts. 8-} This is THE best time of year in the Big Bend, with a bazillion dogwoods blooming, accented by wisteria, azaleas, lingering redbuds, saucer and star magnolias, etc.
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You are absolutely right and it looks like this year is going to be the most spectacular for blooms that we've seen in a long time. The azaleas and dogwoods are just amazing this year. If anyone is looking for a great place to see spring flowers, Torreya is really nice and I also strongly recommend Maclay Gardens State Park in Tallahassee. It may well be the prettiest spot in the South.
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Is this medical malpractice
and if so, does my friend have a case?
A doctor recommends a surgical procedure for his son. The parents, understanding the risks involved, comply with the doctor's recommendation and grant permission for the procedure. It's successful. The test results are sent off to a lab for analysis. The doctor informs the parents that the tissue samples were never sent out to the lab, and that the procedure should be performed again. The parents give consent. The procedure is performed a second time (exact same procedure, bone marrow aspiration, same risks, etc.). After the second procedure was performed, the parents are notified that in fact the tissue from the FIRST procedure was in fact sent out to the lab (although it was thought by the doctor that it hadn't been), thus making the second procedure unnecessary. Fortunately the child wasn't harmed/injured (other than normal surgical recovery) as a result of either procedure.
Should I recommend to my friend to pursue with a malpractice attorney, or just forget about it and let it drop (no real harm, no foul)? Your thoughts?
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It seems all this could be achieved without a lawyer.
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Negligent infliction of emotional distress??
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I'm obviously not a lawyer, but it doesn't sound like there's much of a case. But, the child should receive some sort of "settlement" for enduring the procedure twice. Perhaps a free tonsillectomy? Or maybe a coupon for mom to get a free set of breast implants!
Sorry, that was probably out of line. :-)
From what I've been told, you must prove a few things to have a good malpractice case.
1. Negligence
2. That negligence led to an "event"
3. That "event" led to "damages" (real damages, not stress, etc)
No case here, since you only have step 1 possibly proven. The MD was trying to do the right thing in making sure that the tests were run;
With this current litigatious climate in the health care field, I'm not surprised that we have a real access problem for care in some areas that is only going to get worse
I wish people would stop suing each other outrageous sums of money for honest mistakes. It disgusts me that it is the first thing that people often think of these days. I presume that the people who are mostly likely to sue over the normal misfortunes of life are self righteous spoiled whinny brats who think the world owes them. Get over it, life is a box of chocolates not a bowl of cherries.
The doctor should apologize and really mean it, send flowers/card or do something kind for the kid and the family (give them baseball tickets or something). The doctor should also reimburse all real cost associated with the 2nd procedure to the family. If the family had travel, meal expenses, or time off from work, the doctor should reimburse for all of that.
If the doctor is a responsible enough person to go to these lengths, then surely he will put in place procedures in his practice to prevent this from occurring again.
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[B]and if so, does my friend have a case?
I'm sure there are scores of ambulance chasers who would argue he has a rock solid case....
if there is no harm done then there is no reason to sue, except the lure of easy $. We all pay more for insurance because people consider suing in cases like these. It is a crisis:
Lawsuits Alone Didn't Inflate Malpractice Premiums;
Reserves at St. Paul Distorted Pricing Picture in 1990s
By RACHEL ZIMMERMAN and CHRISTOPHER OSTER
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
As medical-malpractice premiums skyrocket in about a dozen states across the country, obstetricians and doctors in other risky specialties, such as neurosurgery, are moving, quitting or retiring. Insurers and many doctors blame the problem on rising jury awards in liability lawsuits.
"The real sickness is people sue at the drop of a hat, judgments are going up and up and up, and the people getting rich out of this are the plaintiffs' attorneys," says David Golden of the National Association of Independent Insurers, a trade group. The American Medical Association says Florida, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania and eight other states face a "crisis" because "the legal system produces multimillion-dollar jury awards on a regular basis."
But while malpractice litigation has a big effect on premiums, insurers' pricing and accounting practices have played an equally important role. Following a cycle that recurs in many parts of the business, a price war that began in the early 1990s led insurers to sell malpractice coverage to obstetrician-gynecologists at rates that proved inadequate to cover claims.
Price Slashing
Some of these carriers had rushed into malpractice coverage because an accounting practice widely used in the industry made the area seem more profitable in the early 1990s than it really was. A decade of short-sighted price slashing led to industry losses of nearly $3 billion last year.
"I don't like to hear insurance-company executives say it's the tort [injury-law] system -- it's self-inflicted," says Donald J. Zuk, chief executive of Scpie Holdings Inc., a leading malpractice insurer in California.
What's more, the litigation statistics most insurers trumpet are incomplete. The statistics come from Jury Verdict Research, a Horsham, Pa., information service, which reports that since 1994, jury awards for medical-malpractice cases have jumped 175%, to a median of $1 million in 2000. During that seven-year period, the median award for negligence in childbirth was $2,050,000 -- the highest for all types of medical-malpractice cases, Jury Verdict Research says. (In any group of figures, half fall above the median, and half fall below.)
Gaps in Database
But Jury Verdict Research says its 2,951-case malpractice database has large gaps. It collects award information unsystematically, and it can't say how many cases it misses. It says it can't calculate the percentage change in the median for childbirth-negligence cases. More important, the database excludes trial victories by doctors and hospitals -- verdicts that are worth zero dollars. That's a lot to ignore. Doctors and hospitals win about 62% of the time, Jury Verdict Research says. A separate database on settlements is less comprehensive.
A spokesman for Jury Verdict Research, Gary Bagin, confirms these and other holes in its statistics. He says the numbers nevertheless accurately reflect trends. The company, which sells its data to all comers, has reported jury information this way since 1961. "If we changed now, people looking back historically couldn't compare apples to apples," Mr. Bagin says.
Some doctors are beginning to acknowledge that the conventional focus on jury awards deflects attention from the insurance industry's behavior. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for the first time is conceding that carriers' business practices have contributed to the current problem, says Alice Kirkman, a spokeswoman for the professional group. "We are admitting it's a much more complex problem than we have previously talked about," she says.
Scrambling for Doctors
The upshot is beyond dispute: Pregnant women across the country are scrambling for medical attention. Kimberly Maugaotega of Las Vegas is 13 weeks pregnant and hasn't seen an obstetrician. When she learned she was expecting, the 33-year-old mother of two called the doctor who delivered her second child but was told he wasn't taking any new pregnant patients. Dr. Shelby Wilbourn plans to leave Nevada because of soaring medical-malpractice insurance rates there. Ms. Maugaotega says she called 28 obstetricians but couldn't find one who would take her.
Frustrated, she called the office of Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn. A staff member gave her yet another name. She made an appointment to see that doctor today but says she is skeptical about the quality of care she will receive.
In the Las Vegas area, doctors say some 90 obstetricians have stopped accepting new patients since St. Paul Cos., formerly the country's leading provider of malpractice coverage, quit the business in December. St. Paul had insured more than half of Nevada's 240 obstetricians. Carriers still offering coverage in the state have raised rates by 100% to 400%, physicians say.
Dr. Wilbourn says his annual malpractice premium was due to jump to $108,000 next month, from $33,000. The 41-year-old solo practitioner says the increase would come straight out of his take-home pay of between $150,000 and $200,000 a year. In response, he is moving to Maine this summer.
Dr. Wilbourn mourns having "to pick up and leave the patients I cared for and the practice I built up over 12 years." But in Maine, he has found a $200,000-a-year position with an insurance premium of only $9,800 for the first year, although the rate rises significantly after that. Premiums in Maine are relatively low because a dominant doctor-owned insurance cooperative there hasn't pushed to maximize rates, the heavily rural population isn't notably litigious and its court system employs an expert panel to screen out some suits, says Insurance Commissioner Alessandro Iuppa.
Until the 1970s, few doctors faced big-dollar suits. Malpractice coverage was a small specialty. As courts expanded liability rules, malpractice suits became more common. Dozens of doctor-owned insurance cooperatives, or "bedpan mutuals," formed in response. Most stuck to their home states.
St. Paul, a mid-sized national carrier named for its base in Minnesota, saw an opportunity. An insurer of Main Street businesses, St. Paul became the leader in the malpractice field. By 1985, it had a 20% share of the national market. Overall, the company had revenue of $8.9 billion last year, with about 10% of its premium dollars coming from malpractice coverage.
The frequency and size of doctors' malpractice claims rose steadily in the early 1980s, industry officials say. St. Paul and its competitors raised rates sharply during the 1980s.
Expecting malpractice awards to continue rising rapidly, St. Paul increased its reserves. But the company miscalculated, says Kevin Rehnberg, a senior vice president. Claim frequency and size leveled off in the late 1980s, as more than 30 states enacted curbs on malpractice awards, Mr. Rehnberg says. The combination of this so-called tort reform and the industry's rate increases turned malpractice insurance into a very lucrative specialty.
A standard industry accounting device used by St. Paul and, on a smaller scale, by its rivals, made the field look even more attractive. Realizing that it had set aside too much money for malpractice claims, St. Paul "released" $1.1 billion in reserves between 1992 and 1997. The money flowed through its income statement and boosted its bottom line.
St. Paul stated clearly in its annual reports that excess reserves had enlarged its net income. But that part of the message didn't get through to some insurers -- especially bedpan mutuals -- dazzled by St. Paul's bottom line, according to industry officials.
In the 1990s, some bedpan mutuals began competing for business beyond their original territories. New Jersey's Medical Inter-Insurance Exchange, California's Southern California Physicians Insurance Exchange (now known as Scpie Holdings), and Pennsylvania Hospital Insurance Co., or Phico, fanned out across the country. Some publicly traded insurers also jumped into the business.
With St. Paul seeming to offer a model for big, quick profits, "no one wanted to sit still in their own backyard," says Scpie's Mr. Zuk. "The boards of directors said, 'We've got to grow.' " Scpie expanded into Connecticut, Florida and Texas, among other states, starting in 1997.
As they entered new areas, smaller carriers often tried to attract customers by undercutting St. Paul. The price slashing became contagious, and premiums fell in many states. The mutuals "went in and aggravated the situation by saying, 'Look at all the money St. Paul is making,' " says Tom Gose, President of MAG Mutual Insurance Co., which operates mainly in Georgia. "They came in late to the dance and undercut everyone."
The newer competitors soon discovered, however, that "the so-called profitability of the '90s was the result of those years in the mid-80s when the actuaries were predicting the terrible trends," says Donald J. ***er, president of Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Co., a bedpan mutual started in 1975 in New York. Except for two mergers in the past two years, his company mostly has held to its original single-state focus.
The competition intensified, even though some insurers "knew rates were inadequate from 1995 to 2000" to cover malpractice claims, says Bob Sanders, an actuary with Milliman USA, a Seattle consultancy serving insurance companies.
Alleged Fraud
In at least one case, aggressive pricing allegedly crossed the line into fraud. Pennsylvania regulators last year filed a civil suit in state court in Harrisburg against certain executives and board members of Phico. The state alleges the defendants misled the company's board on the adequacy of Phico's premium rates and funds set aside to pay claims. On the way to becoming the nation's seventh-largest malpractice insurer, the company had suffered mounting losses on policies for medical offices and nursing homes as far away as Miami.
Pennsylvania regulators took over Phico last August. The company filed for bankruptcy-court protection from its creditors in December. A trial date hasn't been set for the state fraud suit. Phico executives and directors have denied wrongdoing.
In the late 1990s, the size of payouts for malpractice awards increased, carriers say. By 2000, many companies were losing money on malpractice coverage. Industrywide, carriers paid out $1.36 in claims and expenses for every premium dollar they collected, says Mr. Golden, the trade-group official.
The losses were exacerbated by carriers' declining investment returns. Some insurers had come to expect that big gains in the 1990s from their bond and stock portfolios would continue, industry officials say. When the bull market stalled in 2000, investment gains that had patched over inadequate premium rates disappeared.
Some bedpan mutuals went home. Scpie stopped writing coverage in any state other than California. "We lost money, and we retreated," says the company's Mr. Zuk.
New Jersey's Medical Inter-Insurance Exchange, now known as MIIX, had expanded into 24 states by the time it had a loss of $164 million in the fourth quarter of 2001. The company says it is now refusing to renew policies for 7,000 physicians outside of New Jersey. It plans to reformulate as a new company operating only in that state.
St. Paul's malpractice business sank into the red. Last December, newly hired Chief Executive Jay Fishman, a former Citigroup Inc. executive, announced the company would drop the coverage line. St. Paul reported a $980 million loss on the business for 2001.
As carriers retrench, competition has slumped and prices in some states have shot up. Lauren Kline, 6½ months pregnant, changed obstetricians when her long-time Philadelphia doctor moved out of state because of rate increases. Now, her new doctor, Robert Friedman, may have to give up delivering babies at his suburban Philadelphia practice. His insurance expires at the end of the month, and he says he is having difficulty finding a carrier that will sell him a policy at any price.
Last year, Dr. Friedman says he paid $50,000 for coverage. If he gets a policy for next year, it will cost $90,000, he predicts, based on his broker's estimate. "I can't pass a single bit of that off to my patients," because managed-care companies don't allow it, he says.
Dr. Friedman says he is considering dropping the obstetrics part of his practice. Generally, delivering babies is seen as posing greater risks than most gynecological treatment. As a result, insurers offer less-expensive policies to doctors who don't do deliveries.
Mr. Golden of the insurers' association argues that whatever role industry practices may play, the current turmoil stems from lawsuits. The association says that from 1995 through 2000, total industry payouts to cover losses and legal expenses jumped 52%, to $6.9 billion. "That says there are more really huge verdicts," Mr. Golden says. Even in the majority of cases in which doctors and hospitals win -- the zero-dollar verdicts -- there are still legal expenses that insurers have to pick up, he adds.
Industry critics point to different sets of statistics. Bob Hunter, director for insurance at Consumer Federation of America, an advocacy group in Washington, prefers numbers generated by A.M. Best Co. The insurance-rating agency estimates that once all malpractice claims from 1991 through 2000 are resolved -- which will take until about 2010 -- the average payout per claim will have risen 47%, to $42,473. That projection includes legal expenses and suits in which doctors or hospitals prevail.
While the statistical debate rages, pregnant women adjust to new limits and inconveniences. Kelly Biesecker, 35, spent many extra hours on the highway this spring, driving from her home in Villanova, Pa., to Delran, N.J., so she could continue to use her obstetrician. Dr. Richard Krauss says he moved the obstetrics part of his practice from Philadelphia because malpractice rates had skyrocketed in Pennsylvania. Ms. Biesecker, who gave birth to a healthy boy on June 5, says Dr. Krauss was the doctor she trusted to guard her health and the health of her baby: "You stick with that guy no matter what the distance."
Dr. Krauss, 53, left Philadelphia last year only after his malpractice premium rose to $54,000, from $38,000, and then was canceled by a carrier getting out of the business, he says. After getting quotes of about $80,000 on a new policy, he moved. New Jersey hasn't been a panacea, however. His policy there expires July 1, and the carrier refuses to renew it. The doctor says he hopes to go to work for a hospital that will pay for his coverage.
Thanks guys, those were pretty much my thoughts as well--no real damages (thank goodness everything was ok as a result of the 2nd procedure as well), but I just wondered what the rest of you thought. I suspect they'll prolly still consult with an attorney, but I also think they're just wasting their time.
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The RosettaNet consortium needs to attract smaller companies to its XML-based business-to-business trading network to reach its eventual goal of reducing inventory, transaction costs and time to market.
That's why RosettaNet CEO Jennifer Hamilton was pleased to see Microsoft Corp. last week unveil a RosettaNet add-on to its core BizTalk Server 2000 product, which helps companies translate or map data from one format to another and deliver messages securely and reliably.
A major impediment to luring smaller partners to one of the first vertical industry efforts has been the lack of low-cost, easy-to-implement turnkey software to help drive "the next tier of the supply chain" in the technology, electronics component and semiconductor industries, Hamilton said last week, speaking at the RosettaNet Partner Conference in Anaheim, Calif.
Business-to-business integration packages have typically cost $100,000 to $500,000, she said. "There was a recognition that we were probably going to have to get turnkey solutions in the $20,000 to $50,000 range to get medium-size companies," she explained.
The BizTalk Server Accelerator for RosettaNet, due this summer, will sell in the range of $12,000 to $18,000 per CPU, a Microsoft spokesman said. BizTalk Server costs $4,999 per CPU for the standard version and $24,999 per CPU for the enterprise edition.
"We've really been sending the message to the [vendor] community that we have to get solutions in that price point," Hamilton said, noting that she has been made aware of other vendors that will announce such cost-effective options within the next two months.
The trend bodes well for companies in other vertical industries. Microsoft, for instance, has already announced BizTalk Server Accelerator for the health care industry and plans to "continue to march through vertical industries" with other accelerators, including one for the emerging ebXML standard, as the need arises, according to product manager Dave Wascha.
"If a CIO walks through the door and says, 'I want you to implement the [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] or RosettaNet, there are enormous learning curves. There are phone-book-size documents on how to implement these things," Wascha said, noting the complexity of the RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes.
Wascha estimated that BizTalk Server can get a company 60% of the way to its goal of building, deploying and managing B2B transactions and processes, and the accelerator can push it to 80%. He said companies must either hand-code or outsource the rest.
Analysts noted that Microsoft's accelerators will bring it in line with other vendors, such as webMethods Inc. and Extricity Inc., that already have modules or adapters catering to specific vertical industry efforts like RosettaNet.
WebMethods' and Extricity's "overall packages are more costly, but they're also more flexible to support alternative standards," said Kim Knickle, an analyst at AMR Research Inc. in Boston.
"From a customer perspective, I tthink there's going to be a huge shift. Customers are going to start paying attention more to the application frameworks and vertical standards than they do to the core products over time," said Peter O'Kelly, an analyst at Boston-based Patricia Seybold Group Inc. He said that core products such as BizTalk Server will be viewed as commodities and that the accelerators or adapters will differentiate vendors.
"To some extent, it requires a company like Microsoft to come along and do the pervasive model, which encourages people to come and try this out," Knickle said. "Then, as they get more comfortable with it and see how successful this kind of product can be in the bigger scheme of e-business, they start depending on it more, and Microsoft adds more functionality."
One of the earliest business-to-business commerce initiatives, RosettaNet is still in "early production" mode, Hamilton acknowledged, noting that companies have found the work difficult. So far, most members are engaging in transactions with only a limited number of partners, but Hamilton expects numbers to grow.
"We had a board meeting in February, and there was fairly unanimous agreement that automating a supply chain, using standards, is a long-term investment with a huge payoff," Hamilton said. "But it doesn't happen overnight."
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In the Geekwire story, Monroy-Hernández explains a bit about how he came up with the tweet map, which is based on volume of tweets.
"Since it's volume driven, the neighborhoods with low activity are over-represented by tweets from the police department. So it was partly provocative, to say: 'hey, not everyone is tweeting at the same rate.' We extracted all the tweets of people whose profile says they live in Seattle in a period of two months. We got a list of each neighborhood in Seattle, then we identified tweets by neighborhood using specific keywords — for example "cap hill," "capitol hill," even misspellings like "capital hill." Then once we had a data set for each neighborhood, we then combined neighborhoods that were very close to each other, such as Montlake and Capitol Hill, so that the visuals were easier to read."
So, what is Ballard like? Well, there seems to be a lot of vague, so-so words, like "car," "day," "back," "old" and "bus." Snore.
And then for some reason there's "Wallingford." (!?!?!?)
But a few might be explained (and might have been created by our Twitter handle). "Power" and "outage" could refer to either the recent power outage in Green Lake or the massive one in December that was the result of a seagull kamikaze-ing into the powerlines on NW Market St. "Boys" and "basketball" probably refers to the Ballard High School's boys basketball team. And "study" and transit" most likely refers to the Ballard-Downtown transit study which is now underway, and which just had a big event thrown by Seattle Transit Blog at Hale's Ales Brewery last week.
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How to test, clean, & redesign the original BMW dipstick guide tube (CCV vent clogs!)
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the air you blew into the vent hose went into the intake manifold.
Oh. <
sheepish look of embarrassment
I was following someone's advice ... and they didn't mention the engine running. Silly me. I didn't realize.
There must be three conditions:
- No vacuum (engine off) ==> Spring pushes diaphragm, upper port open --> blowing goes into intake manifold
- High vacuum (engine idling) ==> Vacuum pulls diaphragm, upper port closed --> blowing goes into oil sump
- Low vacuum (acceleration) ==> Spring pushes diaphragm, upper port open --> blowing goes into intake manifold
I wonder if we can use this test as a diagnostic for identifying a torn diaphragm in situ?
Anyway, to find out if I can 'hear' the bubbling of air into oil over the engine noise, I'll try anew (this time with the engine running and a hose to keep my face & hair away from the whirling fan); but it's going to be hard to hear the bubbling with the engine running ... so this suggested test may be moot (unless it's useful to test for a torn diaphragm).
What do you think would happen if the diaphragm were torn?
Originally Posted by
remove the CCV drain tube ... and blow through that hose.
Wow! I didn't think of that - but -
that's the BEST suggestion so far
) so far for testing for a clogged dipstick guide tube!
I think EVERYONE with an original CCV (even those in warm weather climes) should run that simple test!
To help them, we should identify the ID of the jumper hose that they'll need to slip onto the lower elbow of the steel dipstick guide tube. (I can measure my old hose and report back.)
EDIT: Measuring with my caliper (yes, I know, overkill), I get 0.430 inches ID, which is about 11 mm or 7/16 inch inside diameter of the original rubber lower CCV vent hose drain opening where it connects to the steel dipstick guide tube offshoot finger.
Given that,
I would like to ask the NEXT person
who wants to test this to connect a few feet of 1/2 inch ID stock rubber hose to the drain vent on the dipstick guide tube and to blow to see if that indicates a clogged drain vent tube BEFORE removing the tube from the vehicle, like I did.
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Extraction - LaborFest Art show
July 1 through July 12
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LaborFest participates in the 100th year commemoration of the Ludlow mining strike in Colorado, better known as the Ludlow Massacre. This strike in the Southern Colorado coal fields lasted from September 1913 to April 1914 and represents one of the bloodiest strikes in U.S. history. To help commemorate this important moment in labor history, LaborFest and ILW U Local 34 host an exhibition of art works on the broader theme of Extraction. Man's relentless extraction of the earth's resources for the purpose of creating fuel, without environmental stewardship, is a strong focus in this show. Likewise, the human body viewed as the site for extraction, whether in terms of energy, strength, endurance, or will, receives similar focus. Works countering the destructive mandate of the extractive processes transforming the world with visions of a just relationship between human consumption and human and earth integrity are also present.
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"Black Ice"
Sorrow flows from the first sunrise
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before
At core death awaits
- laughing while she begs for clemency!
In her eyes, fault is found in every sunset
- after coming down from cloud nine.
Impossible to move --- her body stiffen
That very moment, A precious Waltz - Expired!
Coldplay and winter mist set in
Ruins of love clinch an endless echo
- taunting the very merry memory.
The auditory sensation of broken trust
- stride across the way.
Icing every thought in a sullen, cold rink.
She fell - She crumbled
- In a world where hope once existed
Today, she will sway alone without a lullaby
In a room with no warmth
One time a sweet symphony, now a sour moon
At last, a different tune begins to fiddle
As she grooms the icicles in her room.
On every mid-moon, she stares and stares
towards the old shriveled lipstick on his pillow
Unseen coldness, unsatisfied, incomplete tears
She can feel the complete braille of hate
--- cascade around the emptiness
Throughout her poise frostbite travels in
Midnight Summer dreams are near an end
Autumn bones covered by winter sleet
A deadly force condemns all because of one
Lost years crumbled like an avalanche
Way deep down inside.......
She paints the rain like no other heartache
Leaving winter residue behind every step
"Black Ice" sits close to the cold canvas on her pale
If you seek closely, she is there
Immobilized in a waltz, in a waltz, in a waltz
Never to linger or trust
The "HE" that spoke of love, then melted away
Copyright © Poet Destroyer A | Year Posted 2016
"I dream of Candy!"
Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares
A living diabetic's nightmare. -- My heart
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star Crunch
Sweet sugar cookies and peanut butter bars
Taunting whoopers,
Dancing dum dum's,
The sweetest silhouette show - in my room
Dreamy, Creamy Cupcakes in the afternoon
Cinnamon Cheerios cascade on my spoon
Sweeter than my sweet tooth
Now and later - a forever honeymoon
Jigglin' my jelly belly boo berry Butterfinger delight
I'm in love, licking the icy ICEE all night long
Extra freshness, once I crop a top off of a mountain dew pop
My eyes sparkle like diamond dazzle razzles in the sky
i LIVE to fabricate my very own sugar extract R.E.M. Sleep
Savoring the sound of saliva trapped in my mouth
THIS night - ovulated buds - wait to feast!
Enjoying a delicious dulce music sleepy symphony
Braggin' and embracin' a pinata pillow escapade
Enchanted by a cotton candy crave - calling my name
Lalaloopsy licorice and lemonade tea
The best-wet dream I've ever seen
Marshmallows of solitude dulcify every fresh fantasy
Enticing in a bright slushy skittles daydream freeze
One fat sunny bowl of cereals and cane
Crackerjack spell --- chocolate chip swirls,
Caramel lumps constipate the brain
Sizing - peanuts and in a popcorn party payday
Wrigley's wild winter Spearmint Breath parade
Give me, give me, some Gummy bear Dessert
---------"Another Fruit Ninja hair DAY!"
Watermelon Taffy stuck on the top of my gums
Swallowing the whiteness in a whistle pop bar
Glaze of glory erupts deep down my throat 24/7
Bubblicious, mint twist, Sunkist the best Twizzler breakfast
Yummy in my twinkie tummy, drooling over frosted flakes
One more strawberry smoothie 44 oz cup
Counting each and every Pez popping'' up
Goodnight light,
It's time to get lost under the midnight moon pie sky
SELF- Huggin'' and snugglin'' to a new sugar rush high
Copyright © Poet Destroyer A | Year Posted 2015
"What happens in the forest stays in the forest"
The trees are trimmed,
The leaves on the ground
Proposing passion, sweet mist
Naked with nothing to bare or wear
Nature's breath lightens the atmosphere
She breathes in, he breathes out
The auditory sensation of rain
- drums down and deepens
The course is near its end,
Deep in this forest night
A Gentleman among the trees,
Hibernating new seeds
"On the other side of the forest"
He guides a path, with ebony eyes
A convincing vent, I accept
The fear is broken, I sleep in glee
The whispers disappear
Drying in peace by the secret bayou
Broad leaves lay under raw landscape
Lulled by the chills he quills
A quarter past midnight
Mr Romantic
- prepares the new sheets of Winter.
Copyright © SKAT A | Year Posted 2015
Wintry white wisps wondrously whirl
Soft sparkling snowflakes silently swirl
Coolly carpeting countrysides carefully
Dazzling diamonds dancing delightfully
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~The Narwhal Beckons Before Dawn~
If I could sing a song,
It wouldn't be just any song.
I would sing a song about a fish
A fish who is not a fish, but a whale
Not just any whale, A Narwhal
This night I'll sing a short song of a whale
Dancing under the moonlight dusk
Swimming with ivory tusk, underwater musk
Rising to the morning glory in the sky
Communicating with the waves
Squealing around,
Trilling and clicking supersonic sounds
If I could tell you a tale
It wouldn't be just any tale
I would tell you a tale of a fish
A fish who is not a fish, but a whale
Not just any whale, A Narwhal
Grayish brown,
White freckled belly crown
Elusive and mysterious
Without the Arctic water, I'll get delirious
A rare whale, with a tooth for a hoot
Enjoying shrimp, squid, and fish food
Taking care of the young,
I swim in pods all day long
I' stay away from what consumes my cod
Polar bears, orca whales and native spear
My greatest fear and nightmares.
If I could share some words
It wouldn't be just any words.
I would share some words about a fish
A fish who is not a fish, but a whale
Not just any whale, A Narwhal
Deep, down the ocean odyssey
My beliefs and skin peel easily
With a tear, I drown
When called "The Underwater Unicorn"
My words are naught more than a sad song I sing
A tale of a whale not just any whale, A Narwhal
The next time you go out to sea
Looking for blubber and ivory
Please don't look at me!
For I am just a Narwhal
And, I belong to the sea
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Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along the line of a sweet tooth temptation
Cherry tastes, between the slit of tender toast
Fine jumble jam slams down the tongueless throat
Dance like a diamond on The tight South Pacific Rim
I'll feed you with a slithering seductive sound
My hair soaking, -wet and wild, tonight I trim
A dulcet apple acrostic bottom, to squeeze the greed
Feathers, on top, poetic diction describing to please
At times, I'm in deep dire need of something sweet, and sour
Endless epic words, and ode to the naked poetic world
We The Women and Men of poetry,
Reveals far more than any nudity found in a bar
It does not matter how you do it or who you are.
I'm an entertainer, of Poetry,
The good, the bad, the freaking awesome
Don't worry, I keep my clothe On :)
Symbol of the spiritual Sexy SKAT Slang
--Provocative-- A slippery succulent, scrumptious kiss
Counterparts working the tension, another arrant appetite
I am the Illuminati illusion, laminating luscious illustrated letters
Indulging in the, satire of one stilt spoken sunset
Like a child's spiking temperature, I often throw tantrums,
Teasing attentions, by incorporating a pole, paper and pen,
If someone is uncomfortable with facing the fact,
When I reveal everything, without removing my high heels
Then you must not be worldly or women and man enough
I love to spoil and slur my scenery, using my best assets
My strength and power parallel, any unique universe
That's how confident the audience makes me feel
We The Women and Men of poetry,
Reveals far more than any nudity found in a bar
It does not matter how you do it or who you are.
I'm an entertainer, of Poetry,
The good, the bad, fantastic and fabulous
Don't worry, I keep my clothe On :)
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Copyright © Poet Destroyer A | Year Posted 2014
"How to tame the madness"
As I sit here, with intense dirty desire,
Tonight I think of you (the moon and stars)
To you, I send a redolent saimiri kiss
Read and breathe between fine lewd lines
Perfumed by the colors of the Enticing Equinox
Sensually, I create sweet serendipity
Inviting playful lips
Erotic wind and wild wanderlust
Streams like a river through time
I propose a good potion of wet lube
Take me to the furtive imagination of your soul
Embrace the tan and texture tonight
Touch the summer ripples riding high
Promiscuous and delicate, I advocate lust
A quilt meant for deep and trenchant love
I shut my eyes to feel an Orphic flora floor
Stimulating a hot, sultry siren kettle
On this night the tingle of passion penetrates
A hypnotic talisman that lets me, please
Inviting ----------- You
-rearranging the stars-
How could we agree to separation?
If you were destined to be my soulmate,
Why would we allow the stars to change our fate?
They've written in a fresh verse
Sewing in a new song, soon to be sung
The Stars are not to blame
The fault lies deep within our hearts
Like earthquakes wondering through the years
separating silicone valley of tears.
Sweeping sweet dreams far away
What has become of my day?
Today the sun sets holding on to old hope
Tears fall down a sudden slope
Now my dreams are drowning down another road
Tonight I sit under the aspen cold
Alone, no longer in search of gold
Naming nights you whispered words of love to my soul
Your love no longer speaks
Without warning, the Midas touch slowly fades
In my chest - I find fault
The sound of heartache echoes every day
Rejuvenating every crack from display
In plain sight, I search for thee
The sun -The moon -The madness -The Salton Sea
My heart no longer speaks
Everything I dream of sinks like the night
Stuck in quicksand -- the aftermath
Healing scars the aftershock left behind
Finding ways to fill the gloom
Alas bridal curtains sit silently in my room
Setting boundaries between Earth's poetic plates
Like an earthquake passing through my heart
You left like the moon, moving mountains apart
IS THERE SOMETHING YOU forgot TO TELL Me, dear
Suddenly, San Andreas Fault looks tragic from here
Until then I will hold my breath
In hopes, our Plates will meet again
By: PD
Odyssey of the open ocean
Eclipsing the performance of Heaven's delight
A beautiful name whispered along the night
Calypso enhanced with enchanted lullabies
Sweet silver streams, dreamy epic diamond dreams
Serendipity falls in like mist, under the majestic marble moonlight
Calypso, you belong to--
--Sunsets of the secret sea.
Mysterious-- many precious places to go,
Calypso --free flowing, floating legend!
Ride the beastliness breeze above the sea
Whisper, Calypso come for me!
Beautiful Comforting, Calypso Carry me!
Reflections easily deliquesce into thin air
Sedating the open waters -Voyage- view
Visionary Vessel above liquid level,
as divine in spirits she sails.
CA-LYP-SOO-- Nymph Nature Name
Aquatic belief-----------------------
CALYPSO, the journey of all journey's
For all eternity----------------------
Copyright © Poet Destroyer A | Year Posted 2013
~Do Not Trust a Word, He Says~
He speaks of sunken treasures the way no other man
The map of his essence is drawn in the stars
His smile of gold ride out the waves
The moon is pulled by the prestige of his masculine art
With great pleasure, your heart now sits in a glass case
His love lavishes making every moment memorable
This gentleman cultivates you from every direction
Your blood rises to his flirtatious ego
His eyes, manipulate you, invade every dream,
Endless lust, pulled by the enigma of dragon dust wind
Falling flowers of forgetfulness, when lost in his touch
He endures, he breathes in ways you can't resist
Uttered words easily wrap around your heart
In a game of trust, his lips persuade another kiss
Like a syndrome, you babble and drool ---- stepping all over yourself
You are naught more than a fool in love,
Trusting and believing every golden word spoken from his lip
( A Poet Destroyer Collection)
Do Not Trust a Word, she says
She speaks of sunken treasures the way no one else does
The map to her heart is drawn by the sun
Her smile of gold ride out the waves
The moon attracted by the prestige of her glowing art
With great pleasure, your heart now sits in a glass case
Her love lavishes making every moment memorable.
This lovely lady cultivates you in every way
Your blood rises to her flirtatious demand,
Her eyes, hypnotize, invade every dream,
Endless lust, pulled by the enigma of dragon dust wind
Falling flowers of forgetfulness, when lost to her spell
She lives, she breathes your ribs in
Words were spoken, now wrapped around your heart
In a game of trust, her kiss hushes your lips
Like a syndrome, you babble and drool ----stepping all over yourself
You are nothing more than a fool in love,
Trusting and turning every word she says into gold
( A Poet Destroyer Collection)
The Malkavian..Part 1
His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented
His family, drained and defeated, finally retreated
Leaving him believing that he was beyond redeeming
The doctors sent in talked of hope and healing
The drugs administered only made him more demented
Cementing the feeling, that his life is just an echo
Of the endless, timeless, all consuming screaming
His best friend is a dis-proportioned bird appropriately named Buddy
Who's monotonous motion in drinking is somewhat soothing to his being
Though not potent enough to stop the persistent pounding of the screaming
Often he stared into the emptiness of nothingness contemplating the beauty of its
Only to find his mind is drowning in a confounding conundrum he can't quite define
It's hard to be philosophical when your mental testicles haven't dropped to the appropriate
So sometimes he whispers tongue twisters until his brain blisters
Madmen mask madness in mindless task of mass mayhem
It was easy for him to pretend to be prim and proper
Just a mask to don in order to dupe his doctor
Circumventing the system that couldn't't save him
He was as he always had been and would be
In constant pain and agony with no desire for sympathy
Just in need of some freedom from his prisons and medications
Meditations and mantras had given him a sentiment of a design
On how to inhibit the screaming and maybe even end it
Four years preparing and plotting the perfect moment of promise
A fire formed from a single flame fueled by an accelerant
Raced through the halls up the walls and killed all the residents
Eighty-eight inmates and staff burned alive in what seemed like and instant
Such little time to search through the bodies looking for a single person
He found her on the fourth floor clinging to the bathroom faucet
He lost his virginity to the burnt corpse of nurse Denise
And to his amazed mind he was astonished to find the screaming was silenced
Copyright © Nate D. | Year Posted 2010
"When returning love, becomes to Late"
From her eyes
His name the name
She mumbles silently
3 rivers, 3 years, 2 many tears
She loves him endlessly
Sending her soul
A free feeling,
Finally, he fell
Engaging, equal to the spell
Morning, mountains and more
Move across a new age moon
His heart happily
Traveling towards hers
Dashing dandy, onto her dinner plate
Too long she waited,
She's not hungry, her heart self healed
3 rivers 3 years 2 late
Her tears faded his rusty name
Copyright © SKAT A | Year Posted 2014
"Once upon a midnight Poe"
Underneath the midnight mask, I remove the makeup at last,
The moon is anvil to my mood, mooring along the vacant vast
I lay the Gin and Tonic by the bedside asking for more,
I hear a noise, a lost voice, the echoes of no rejoice,
I couldn't brush the light coming from the cracks under the door
I gave it some thought,
My eyes twinkle, towards the tinsel tiles on the floor
Seemingly the light seemed to be deeming distance of resistance
Curiosity came in crawling and caressing
To sense and taste of sinful skin
Everything then grew thinner than thin
On the spur of the moment, I hear a whisper, my love is near
"Darkness there, and nothing more."
A nerve impulse hits the wall if nothing nary, nevertheless
I sadistically, stagger a sullen movement, even so
In this moment, Edgar Whispered, "nothing more."
Many nights, I dram of demonic demons, demanding answers for
A sad --sadder voice, sits and whines, with the wind
"Merely this and nothing more!"
A notary, nauseate moment, sea sick, shipwreck sensation
Secular suicide spreading like gossip, sailing through my veins
Evilly and twisted, "This it is and nothing more" - that remains
Tweaking and repeating, the speeding of needing
My drugs of pain and passion, to end the delusion
Of the self-inflicted - bruising from the voices of my choices
I hear the whisper, a selfish whisper, asking for Lenore
How many nights, he comes into my room, dress like A Raven
Painted and tainted like the midnight dreary
Reciting the excitement like The Bells, of Annabel, in a rush
Never, never, nameless here forevermore, in my dreams
Under my evil doing skin, like the sum of sin is how it seems
On the nights, my soul mate does not appear,
The anchor drowns and torments me with tears
I travel up in fear, of the fear, when my ghost is not near
Rattling and trembling, by the bedside,
On the grim side of the mental moon, when in gloom
I scrape up my room, screaming to the bleeding,
From my heart, who needs a killing,
From a feeding and the feeling of letting Poe, go!
By: PD
Inspired by The Raven
(The Merry Adventures of Robin Good)
Sherwood's Forest legendary, leading man
up, down, tricking eggs between branches
slender, slander, his voice is growing thinner
twisting, turning heads 50 shades of green
Master of disguise reaching for the top archers spot,
A bard, with uncanny precision, ROBIN nonstop
Splitting his opponent LIKE A BOSS!
Aiming arrows, where broken women sit
Creating fantasies, for his band of hypocrites
A serenade, of jealousy and mayhem
A poetic outlaw, generously taking what others earn
Wearing black tights, the hottest profile, sipping wine
A lust beyond Dorthy's Rainbow, a venomous poem
Somewhere, covered in leprechaun's gold
His chest is cold
- Yet warm from all the hands caressing this bard,
He is the best, gravity has no weight on his pen,
A soundless soldier having his way with his sword,
Executing those who challenge him,
Breathing life into many empty accounts
Giving voices and self-encouragement
With no time to drop down this bard from cloud nine
A dissipation of air fresheners and hello's
Painting pain just to pretend it hurts the person
A fragile voice whispering in the shadows
Slithering Secrets;
From this hooded bard who carries no face,
A mask of lies, taking what belongs to others.
Robin of honor, graveled by his peasants
MISUNDERSTOOD in every fashion, yet he preys
Pipping dreams away, down an infested rat's path
Shoving Little Johns hopes down the list
Robin is no common criminal, just a bard
Wearing a dark cloak, when in disguise
taking from the greedy --- giving to the needy
Thank you for enjoying my story
Robin Good and his network of Merry Men
~Woody Wood From the Hood~
Deep, inside yourself, you walk a sour way of life,
Carving my name, on every tree with a hunting knife
You log in, then log out
A Birdman So Fickle, he Stinks of doubt!
Blind today, bald tomorrow,
Big Bird, will be your only friend
I can't seem to forget the day, you shed your final skin
Revealing a darker snake, than the one in my garden
Leaving the word betrayal, up to the imagination
Trust not the fool, who thinks his halo is heaven sent
Using a fake ballpoint pen dietary supplement
Thinning out his wings, and losing the symbolic meaning
Aging in a way, that spreads crows feet from top to bottom
Sapsucker revolving yellow as if it was always autumn
Pecking Hard Wood, MR Pecker of all woodpeckers
Forgetting who's the real Home-wrecker
Your dragging pants are no bother, Mr Woodpecker!
I've gotten used to the tree talking and your creative vision
Let's just say, "Gangster to Gangster, I gave you a mission."
Keep rapping and tapping the same old street sign,
Woodstock, on demand, crap out the peanut punch
Whatever suits you for breakfast and lunch
Don't forget dinner's also about me
Go ahead!
Peck away with deception, reveal your sullen evil feathers
A disease urine Birdman, doing it snoopy style
A flightless, lightless liar, nothing about him's worthwhile
Keep manipulating the weak, whatever turns you on
I'm not ready to shoot you down with my shotgun
The Butterfly Flutters By
On a steamy, sun-drenched, summer Sunday,
Tree leaves delightfully dancing to the tune of
A warm, welcoming, wandering breeze blowing,
Metamorphosis now complete, no memory of being yesterday's creeping caterpillar,
The butterfly flutters by.
Blatantly, brazenly, boastfully,
Showing off beautiful, brilliant, blue-black and brown wings,
Gracefully gliding through a breathtaking, glorious garden,
The butterfly shyly pitches from blushing, boldly-colored, buds to fragrant flowers,
Cunningly outmaneuvering a competing, hovering hummingbird.
Slyly snatching a satisfying taste of tantalizing, syrupy, sweet nectar
From attention-craving, Golden Flame Honeysuckle vines,
The butterfly flutters by
Cheerfully and completely satiated -
Perhaps, already dreaming about tomorrow's anticipated sugary feast!
Entered in the contest "The Butterfly Flutters By"
Copyright © Pandita Sanchez | Year Posted 2014
-Eden's Ending Eulogy-
Proceed here today, Eden's Ending Eulogy
Gentle gracious her garden, the guidance
I can't recall what was with the warm, sincere smile, and sunrise
Lost at ease and clarity.......I Sleep!
Forever In Peace, this dark, damp den, coffin will do
at last, a parting powerful, reunion and resting resort
Wakened, the winged and winsome wind
wandered westerly while whistling witchery.
It waltzed whimsically within woodlands -
whooshing, then whipping willows.
Worn, it waned. . . whispering wistfully.
For the Wind Poetry Contest of Skat
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2014
"12 Days of Christmas Craves"
On the twelfth day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
12 twinkling tiaras
Eleven emerald elephants
Ten Tiffany trinkets
Nine naughty negligees
Eight echoing elves
Seven sequined stars
Six sexy singers
Five fake fingernails s s s
Four furry foxes
Three tingling tamborines
Two turtledoves
And peach tree in pail via e-mails s s s.
*For P.D.'S 12 Days of Christmas.
*Written by: Linda-Marie "Sweetheart".
Copyright © Linda-Marie SweetHeart | Year Posted 2012
wind wanders
through a meadow white
with wild flowers. Wending
its way through woods, it whistles
warmly while waltzing with willows.
Waning, it meets wisteria, where
now a mere wisp, it whispers wistfully.
An etheree with alliteration written March 21, 2016
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2016
Lounging licking leaping
Prancing pouncing peeking
Corners closets crouching
Tail twirling twitching
Sniffing sensing sneezing
Hissing huffing hunting
Pretty purring preening
Curiosity kitty killing
Nine long lives living
Copyright © Rick Zablocki | Year Posted 2013
A slippery sloppery slipping snail
Slithered slimed and slid on the floor
Feeling hurried harried hungry and helpless
As starlings screeched spiraled and saw
That slippery sloppery slipping snail
Who slithered slimed and slid on the floor
A fluttering of feathers fell frighteningly fast
Meant that slippery sloppery slipping snail
Who slithered slimed and slid was no more.
Copyright © David Williams | Year Posted 2014
Twisting and turning on tides of laughter,
we rise and roll with wild abandon.
Through sparkling sheens of summer rain,
those gentle gems of glistening, gleaming drops,
we fly freely upon this flamingo feathered carpet.
Happily we ride along the heights of heaven,
Gazing deep into galaxies that glow far beyond.
Saturn's seductive rings slowly pull us forward,
When suddenly we drop, diving low, dipping back into
the darling glow of our moon.
Then sweeping past the stars, smiling with delight,
we sail off in the distance, shouting our goodnight.
Now all the sights that we've seen shall swim within our dreams.
Come take my hand as I take yours and we'll fly off toward tomorrow.
Tanya Harrington © 07-30-2012
Inviting ~ Poet~Destroyer, Let's ride!
For Skat's Magic Carpet Ride Contest
Copyright © Tanya Harrington | Year Posted 2012
shake salt slow so she see's slick snow
Copyright © Harley Green | Year Posted 2011


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As part of its National Development Plan for Telecommunications (PDNT), the Costa Rican government has unveiled its new National Broadband Strategy. The plans main aim is to improve the nations economy by rolling out broadband to more remote areas of the country and fostering innovation in information technologies. Plans also included raising awareness of the social and economic importance of internet expansion. The first step, to be completed by November this year, is to identify the areas of the country in greatest need of development before work can begin on improving the networking infrastructure.
According to TeleGeographys GlobalComms Database, Costa Rica had 332,000 broadband subscribers at the end of March 2011, representing a household penetration of 24.8%, slightly lower than neighbouring Panamas 30.1%, but far ahead of Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, with 4.9%, 3.0% and 7.7% respectively.
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The Women of Troy beat crosstown rival UCLA tonight 1-0 on a lone goal by freshman Autumn Altamirano underneath the Coliseum lights. In addition, the Trojans broke the NCAA attendance record for a women's soccer game with 8,527 fans in attendance. For more on the exciting victory here are Coach K and Autumn in their own words....
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Vornado to Acquire Retail at 666 Fifth Avenue for $707M
VORNADO REALTY TRUST (NYSE: VNO) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a retail condominium located at 666 Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street for approximately $707 million, expanding its best-in-class 2.2 million square foot portfolio of Manhattan street retail. The asset has 126 feet of frontage on Fifth Avenue and contains 114,000 square feet, 39,000 square feet in fee and 75,000 square feet by long-term lease from the 666 Fifth Avenue office condominium, 49.5% owned by Vornado. This retail space is leased to Uniqlo, Hollister and Swatch.
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Natural Flea Treatment and Remedies for Fleas on Dogs
If you have a dog, then you probably know how much of a nuisance fleas can be. Fleas get on dogs, then they get in your house and then on you. Even worse, some dogs are hypersensitive to the flea's saliva and will itch all over from the bite of even a single flea! Often flea preventive medication will help control the fleas, but what if you want to go the natural route? Here are four simple steps to help you with natural flea treatment.
Brew 'Em Away
A daily dose of brewer's yeast mixed in your food is another natural way to repel fleas. You can also try rubbing some freshly squeezed orange or lemon onto your cat's fur, with no harm to your pet if it is licked off, and fresh smelling fur to boot.
Bathe Your Dog
We know, we know. This can be a nightmare in and of itself. But did you know a quick bath will cause most, if not all, the fleas to fall off into the water and drown. Using a gentle shampoo, or a little bit of dish liquid with a citrus base (fleas are repelled by lemon and orange), along with thorough and regular brushing with a flea comb, will also help with controlling fleas.
Mow and Prune the Yard
An easy way to reduce flea populations in your yard is to keep the grass, trees and shrubs trimmed and orderly. Sweep under decks and clean the debris and leaves that may be litter the ground. And don't forget to remove or secure any garbage bins that attract rodents or small animals. They may be carrying fleas.
Keep Your Home Clean
Vacuuming and disinfecting the floors around the house and in your cat's living area is an excellent way of keeping the flea population under control. Besides, no one wants an uninvited guest – especially if that guest does nothing more than suck on your blood!
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Billy Graham led a national evangelical ministry through the era of the Religious Right without ever becoming a part of it. Like his contemporary Chuck Colson, Graham's ministry was never primarily political, focusing instead on spiritual and cultural teaching and boots-on-the-ground service to those in need. Of course, the strength of Graham's conviction coupled with [Read More…]
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Afghanistan to restore bombed-out 'safe haven' palace
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KABUL (Reuters) - With collapsed roofs and bullet-strewn crumbling walls, the derelict Darul Aman palace has become a symbol of failed attempts to bring peace to war-torn Afghanistan.
Decades of fighting have eroded the grandeur of the European-style palace, built by King Amanullah Khan atop a small hill on the outskirts of Kabul in the early 1920s following full Afghan independence from Britain in 1919.
Darul Aman, which means "safe haven" in Arabic, was burned several times, including during the 1979 Soviet occupation, before being wrecked by fighting. It was abandoned during the civil war in the 1990s.
While most of Kabul has been repaired since the city was ravaged by wars and Taliban occupation, the palace remains in ruins. A haunting memorial to the country's bloody past.
Until recently, tourists could make friends with the guards who patrol the site and sneak in to take photographs of the bombed-out building but that privilege has since been taken away.
What was once a home to royalty is now daubed with graffiti and home to stray dogs, snakes and scorpions.
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Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"I don't think that they'll come close to us to be honest."
- Steve Smith before the Ashes
Hurry the **** up NZ, I want to change my captain from a NZ player to SL player in Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket before I go out.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Match now being shown on FSN, haha.
Jesus brings life eternal
How bad is McCullum's form at the moment? we have plenty of batting talent, but most of them are out of form.
Lol. Am afraid we may have peaked too early.
Someone's gotta make a "failpic" out of that Mccullum shot.
Exit pursuing a beerOriginally Posted by Jimmy Neesham
Good finish McCullum.
Now to trade you out for Sanga (if SL bat)
Guptil is our Minnow killer.
1) Ross is Boss.
2) See point 1.
Leading the charge against nuances being used in posts.
Overrated XI M Bracewell, Burns, Rahane, Don Voges, Bairstow, Alecz Day, Donovan Grobelaar, Luke Ronchi, Faulkner, Dan Christian, Permaul
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Modeling the effects of proton irradiation [on] CIGS solar cells
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Modeling the effects of proton irradiation [on] CIGS solar cells
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Chen, Jingkuang
University of New Mexico. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
LC Subject(s)
Solar cells--Effect of radiation on
Degree Level
The space environment is very harsh on photovoltaic devices. Solar protons (hydrogen ions) cause large numbers of vacancies, which act as recombination centers at deep levels and can create compensating defects that reduce the acceptor concentration at shallow levels in semiconductors. This in turn, can reduce the output power generated by photovoltaic devices. Damage can also occur from atomic oxygen, plasma discharges and electron irradiation. Solar arrays have to be manufactured to produce more power than necessary so that the solar array will still produce the needed amount of power after degradation occurring from charged particle irradiation. A major challenge is to be able to model these devices so that the effects of charged particle irradiation can be taken into account in calculations for the End of Life (EOL) open-circuit voltage, short-circuit-current, fillfactor,and efficiency. Models presently being used do not provide distinct values without more calculations. Also, models presently being used tend to have proton irradiation incident normal to the surface, which does not reflect actual conditions, and require a significant amount of input data. In an effort to correct these problems, a new model was created that finds the remaining factor of the normalized basic cell parameters for CuInGaSe2 (CIGS) solar cells. This model uses significantly fewer inputs than other computer models, provides a more realistic model with respect to entry angles of incident protons, and provides actual and normalized values without extra calculations.
December 2007