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Viralheat Social Sentiment measures the "feeling" in social networks
One of the most important aspects of the work of a Community Manager is to know what is the feeling of a community. Of course, when we think of "feeling" we are immediately taken to a subjective area that really can not see how it can fit into a business plan. When you're running a social mind, what we want is to have a positive feeling. But it is hard to track, often requiring manual labor that we consume many hours, and the result is not as satisfying as we can imagine. Therefore, in order to have a clearer sense of a community, we can use some tools that handle make this cumbersome job for us. They are not always spot on, but can give a general idea. On this day we will discuss an extension for Chrome called Social Sentiment Viralheat .
This tool is a derivative-or rather an accessory Viralheat might say, a management platform quite powerful social networking is also free. Although its features are quite interesting, today we will focus on the extension for Chrome, which as we said we can register the feeling of a particular fanpage. One important thing to consider: in the above paragraph we claim that statistics are not always completely accurate, and it is because we have to consider the language barrier. These tools are designed to pages in English, so if you're moderating one in Spanish, may not have the results we were expecting. Therefore, the statistics have to be taken as a guide rather than a specific number.
Using Viralheat is quite simple, all you have to do is install the extension from the Chrome Webstore and moments and have activated for use. Every time we enter into Facebook to check our timeline and see what are the most important comment of the day, the tool will make one pass through all the posts, or at least those who can process-to tell us what percentage of the comments have been positive , neutral or negative. This information is permanently located in a bar that is installed on the top of the screen, with options for further analysis if we get an account Viralheat. The reality is that it is not as necessary as we think, because we really want to do is measure the sentiment.
The fact that the bar is not movable can be somewhat annoying to some, but remember that extensions may be given-ie-toggle directly from the browser settings menu. Thus, we can turn it on when we need it, and off when it becomes uncomfortable. It can be a rapid monitoring tool when we have no time to analyze in detail well what the "mood" of a community. Now if we have a major language barrier, and we can not rely 100 percent on the statistics of this application, why am recommending? First, because despite not having enough support for Spanish, gives accurate results further. Second, because although we are moderating these tools English pages always have a margin of error that we have to consider. And finally, because it is a free tool that comes in handy if you do not have the budget to buy a tool that does the same task.
Using Social Viralheat Sentiment is also fully automated, which means that we will not have to generate reports, we will not have to do extra clicks, simply do not have to do anything to make it work: if we turned around the time, know exactly how the hand is a fanpage just entered, for example, in the morning when the first comments are moderated. Suppose we have a PR crisis of our users do not want to stop talking but we are not aware because we have not yet reviewed the comments. We're about to make a publication that will be the brand as an entity that does not listen to its users and customers and it just gets to talk about something else. So it is important, or at least advisable, the use of tools of this style . Viralheat I think is the best option to be free, as we said.
Of course, the results of this tool can take a customer to be presented as completely accurate. In its everyday use, such as for customer support through social networks , we can tolerate Viralheat error margin because what we are is moderating. Now when we have to present results, this tool can be combined with a more manual. At the end of the day, "we live" daily with this community and we know how he is feeling, how they are behaving our users and what are their main concerns.
Ultimately, Viralheat not be the best tool we have at hand to manage social networks, but we can use it as a "daily help" while monitoring social media comments. Such tools must not be used as a simple meter, but has to be used to maintain a positive trend or reverse a negative. So, if we have a lot of negative comments we have to concentrate our efforts on solving the problem. Although not completely accurate, I recommend you try Viralheat Social Sentiment for the day-to-day administration of social networks.Tags: Community Manager, extensions, Viralheat Social Sentiment


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Liquor.com is the world's leading digital content brand for mixology, spirits and cocktail culture. A job at Liquor.com is fast-paced but fun—probably exactly how you imagine it might be. See below for all currently open positions. For general inquiries, please email email@example.com.
Liquor.com—the world's leading and largest cocktails-and-spirits lifestyle publication—is looking for an Integrated Marketing Manager / Director whose primary role will be to work alongside our Brand Partnerships team to brainstorm, develop and pitch compelling digital, video, mobile and experiential programs that support Liquor.com's advertising and marketing growth.
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Do you visit the same doctor for different types of medical issues? Probably the answer is NO. Same goes with the electricians also. Many people think that they can hire a single electrician for all the services which may save their money but cannot ensure their safety.
There are several types of electricians available in Perth – specialized for different services. Some of them are best suited for household services while others are masters of big machineries. Likewise some are experts in installation of solar power systems and some are specialized in installation of generators and other electrical equipments.
The only common thing in them is – they all are licensed and highly skilled. They assist you with the services and according to your needs and also suggest you different tips to stay safe.
Before getting into their profession completely, electricians undergo different trainings and on-the-job training as well. They are trained to recognize different types of electrical elements, wire colour codes and minor issues which can cause major problems in future.
Based on the training and knowledge, they are categorized as mentioned below
Residential Electricians –
Electricians falling under this category are responsible for the installation, maintenance and up gradation of electrical equipments in homes and apartments. Their work covers everything from the electrical outlets improvements to rewiring of whole house. They also work on contraction jobs to install wiring and installation of electrical outlets in new homes. In Perth, you may also find a special team of electrician or electrical contractors to cover installing home security systems and alarm work.
Commercial Electricians –
These individuals or team of individuals mainly work on construction sites, in commercial buildings or on mechanical electrical systems and other heavy machineries. Most of them provide services like installation of water heaters, commercial security systems and electronic key systems.
Journeymen Electricians –
These electricians work with mechanical connections, performs installations of lighting, power supplies, security systems and communications in both residential and commercial buildings. They acquire their licence after several years of on-the-job training and hence, they are highly qualified and skilful individuals. They are allowed to work on contraction jobs with the help of apprentices and are permitted to work on overhead lines also.
Master Electricians –
They are considered as the highly skilled electricians. They either work as a supervisor or own their contracting business. In many parts of Australia, it takes at least seven years of experience as an electrician or a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering to get certified as a master electrician. In most of the cases, contracting business with several journeyman electricians must have a master electrician to supervise the entire operation.
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You would think after working for 8 years straight, Obama would want to take some time off.In fact, Obama can't seem to keep himself out of the headlines, whether a new investigation into his administration has cropped up or he has tried to interfere with Trump's agenda. Oh yeah, and that he was probably spying on Trump during the election but has covered his tracks.
This latest move, however, takes the cake. It is unprecedented. It may even be crossing the legal line.
From Mad World News:
Barack Obama secretly jetted off to Hawaii after he learned that President Donald Trump was about to bring out his latest version of the travel ban, barring Muslim refugees from entering the United States.
In a shocking turn of events, Obama's link to the Hawaiian judge who just blocked Trump's travel ban will blow your mind, making it clear that the former president is meddling in affairs of the state, bordering on treason.
Local news outlets in Hawaii were left in the dark (…) Obama was in Hawaii to ensure his buddy Judge Derrick Watson would use judicial overreach to block Trump's latest travel ban.
From InfoWars:
Given that Obama appointed the judge, graduated in the same year as him and visited Honolulu and was within minutes of the judge less than 48 hours before Judge Watson made a major ruling that blocked Trump's travel ban, it doesn't take a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist to insinuate that the two could have met.
Then he had a secret dinner where he very likely sat down with Watson, in which no cameras were allowed. Add to all this the fact that experts like Judge Napolitano have deemed Judge Watson's block on the travel ban to have absolutely no merit.
This truly is unprecedented, watching an outgoing President sabotage a current one. It's even more sinister considering the happy face Obama put on during the transition period.
And with Obama's setup near the White House, every democracy-loving American should be concerned:
The speculation follows reports that Obama has created a nerve center just two miles from the White House which is serving as a war room for his bid to lead an "insurgency" against Trump in a bid to sabotage his presidency.
This is extremely concerning. Hopefully all Obama has done is stall Trump's plans, but for now our borders and immigration standards are porous and leave the United States vulnerable to unvetted refugees.
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Made The Twisted Hands Of HellOct. 29th, 2012 05:20 pm
Title: Made The Twisted Hands Of Hell
Author: qafkinnetic
Rating: PG-13
Pairings/Characters: Gray, John Hart
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers for Exit Wounds, warning for mild torture and injuries.
Summary: When John found Gray, he had no idea how insane he really was. Gray, however, knew just how mad he had become, and why.
Author's Note: Written as a postage stamp extra for hc_bingo using the prompts septicemia/infected wounds, abandonment issues, lost childhood, and hunger/starvation. Note: my headcanon is that Jack's real name is Jaiikve and John Hart's is Chuone. They took on their "English" names when they got to Earth. Obviously, it's canon that John's was sarcasm, making fun of Jack's chosen name.
His neck throbs where they used to feed; the point just in front of the hinge of the left side of his jaw, across his face and neck is burnt by the poison they used to stun their prey and scarred by the toothed sucker jaws. They've been gone for months now, he thinks, but the scar still throbs regularly, at the intervals when they would have descended on him, their mouths opened voraciously, beady eyes glaring, sucker lips twitching and convulsing. He figures maybe he can measure time that way.
Gray has no idea how old he is. He only knows that he sounds more like his father had sounded, that his screams were lower in pitch now than they had been when they first brought him here. He only knows that he has grown taller, that they have had to adjust the height of his chains multiple times, that they have changed the size of the strange uniform he's been given. He has no way to measure time.
He is hungry. He can feel his bones creak against each other. They used to feed him, before the others died and they left. They used to give him food when he did as he was told, when he learned and recited their lessons of hate, their teachings of pain and destruction. Now there is no one left, and his stomach rumbles even at the smell of rotting flesh as the other prisoners around him hang dead in their chains and decay.
They taught him, as they cut him and whipped him and tore him apart, of the fault of the brother that had let go of his hand. They had conjured up with words the memory of the back of Jaiikve's head, never looking at him, never looking back as he ran. He had let go of Gray's hand and not once had he turned back. He'd just kept on running and Gray was taken, left to watch Jaiikve's figure and his own home shrinking as the creatures pulled him back onto their ship.
He had thought Jaiikve would come, that Jaiikve would rescue him someday, that Jaiikve would burst in all heroic—like in the stories he told Gray at night before bed—and kill the creatures, destroy them all and take him home to safety and light. Now he can't believe it anymore. Everyone has gone. Jaiikve will not come.
His neck throbs in time with the slash in his side. The slash has been there for a long time, never closing, never healing. Sometimes it yanks at him, sending sharp pains through his entire body, making him twitch and moan and have milky visions of his home and of the mother he once knew, the brother that had smiled at him and twirled him around instead of leaving him to die. Sometimes he can feel something thick and warm that isn't blood sliding down his side from the hole. Sometimes he sweats and thrashes with the need for water, and the next moment he shivers and shakes, freezing and scared. He can do nothing about the rent in his side but live through the cycles of infection.
He had wished for death so often. He begged the creatures to kill him, begged the stars to let him go, pleaded to the gods of his home to take him away. But the prisoners around him weakened and died and shrivelled up and he hung on, always living, always crying out for death. He's never known why he doesn't just stop. Something inside him is holding on. He wonders if some part of him is waiting for his brother.
Sometimes Gray falls into a wavering half-sleep, and dreams of a world where he grew up like the other kids in his home, where Jaiikve held on, curling around him in the protective roots of a tree, shielding him from the fear. He imagines Jaiikve's grin when they realized they're safe again. Imagines a world where their parents hugged them tight and smiled at them, where they raised them with kisses and treats. Sometimes he imagines Jaiikve playing catch with him on the beach, teaching him how to wrestle and how to fish. He is always wrenched from these dreams by pain from his side or his belly. He always wishes he'd been able to grow up like a real person. He wishes he wasn't a piece of meat, a sack of bones and hatred, all because his brother didn't hold onto his hand.
A light glows just outside of Gray's peripheral vision. He flinches away from it, wondering if it's them again. Instead, human-sounding footsteps—how does he remember what human footsteps sound like?—come toward him.
"Well, I thought it would be more populated here. This used to be a wonderful city for smuggling and villainy. Must've gotten the time period wrong." A man in a red coat steps into Gray's field of vision, and he blinks and strains to see him.
"Ah—" Gray tries to say something, but his voice only comes out as a croak. Even so, the man looks up from his wrist.
"Oh…" For a moment the man looks dumbstruck and horrified, staring around at the desiccated and festering bodies all around with wide eyes. Then he slides a cool expression on his face. "Who are you?"
Gray licks his lips and tries to remember Galactic Standard. "My name is Gray. You are the great rescuer. You've come to save me."
The man looks even more surprised, terrified even. Gray thinks he sees a flash of recognition in his eyes, then it's once again smoothed over. "Yeah, let's get you out of there."
He fiddles with the strap on his wrist, and suddenly Gray's shackles drop him. The man catches him and stands him up, helping him steady his weak and atrophied legs.
"I—You—Thank you." Gray stutters helplessly, still rusty in his disused Galactic Standard.
"My name's Chuone. Let's get you out of here, somewhere clean. Ish."
Chuone's arms wrap around him and he flinches, but the man is fiddling with the strap on his wrist—Gray recognizes a Vortex Manipulator from the wrists of Time Agents from his home—and then a sudden yanking and whirling throws Gray off kilter. He lands hard, dizzy and nauseous, Chuone holding him up. They're standing in a corridor. Gray can see a dingy-looking pub just down the hall. His stomach churns, reminding him of their trip.
"Don't be sick on the floor yet, mate. Come on, let's sit you down."
Chuone leads him to a bench in the bar. Gray sits down heavily, and gulps greedily at the water that's brought over when Chuone gestures. He gestures again, and a few minutes later, plates of food are set in front of them. Gray can't care less what the meal consists of. It's food, and his belly reminds him sharply that it hasn't been cared for in months. He wolfs down the food so fast that Chuone has to take it away from him so he won't burst his stomach. He slows his eating down and Chuone releases the plate. When he finishes, he sits back with a sigh of contentment, a new sensation, and puts his head down.
"I rented a room for us, Gray. So you can sleep properly and all that. But lets get you out of that ratty old uniform. I—"
"No! No it's got to stay. I want it on. I want it. It stays."
"Okay, okay." Chuone holds his hands up. "It was only a suggestion. Why don't we go up to our room and you can wash."
Gray washes, peering curiously at the blackish water as it swirls down the drain. When he comes out, he's clean, but he puts the dirty old uniform back on. He sits down on the bed and finds the softness strange and disconcerting.
"Gray?" Chuone asks hesitantly. Gray looks at him. "Can you tell me a little bit about what happened to you? You don't have to if you don't want to."
"They took me." Gray's voice is toneless. He's replayed these memories in his mind for so long that they hold nothing for him now. "They raided my planet, my home. We were children. My brother let go of my hand. He was supposed to hold my hand. He let go and they took me. They tortured me. They hurt me. They—They."
"It's okay, Gray. It's all right." Chuone's voice is soft, an attempt at comfort. Then he sits up. "Listen, I know your brother. I can find him for you and maybe we can get you home."
"Your brother. His name is Jaiikve, right?" Gray nods silently. "After you disappeared and his father was killed, he left his home and joined the Time Agency in order to try to find you. He thought he could use the skills the Time Agency taught to look for you and save you. Instead he got wrapped up in everything to Time Agency corrupts the agents to be. We were partners. We split up for a while and I was paired with another agent. They took two years of Jack's memories and he went rogue. Disappeared. I haven't seen him since, but I've been looking for him, and there have been rumours."
"Planet Earth, in the Sol system. Don't know what time period, though." Gray is silent, thinking. He considers Chuone for a moment, then turns away. Chuone sighs and nods. "Look. We should get some rest, especially if you want to find Jaiikve."
Chuone lies down in his own bed and is asleep a few moments later. Gray lies awake. Jaiikve is alive. Jaiikve, the brother who abandoned him, who left him on his own, whose carelessness brought him pain and suffering and loneliness and everything except death. Yes, he wanted to find Jaiikve. For a reunion. He begins to consider his lessons at the hands of the creatures: the technology, the knowledge, the hate.
Gray is waiting when Chuone awakes, one of the man's weapons in hand and a grin on his face.
"You will go to the market. I know there is a black market here. You will get me these things," Gray handed the groggy man a list. "You will bring them back here and I will build with them. If you can find information on Jaiikve, bring that back too."
"Or?" Chuone challenges.
"Or you die. Now or later. Whichever."
Chuone huffs and gets to his feet, but he goes to the market as he's told. When he comes back, Gray has already written out all the schematics from memory. The equipment goes onto the desk and the floor around it, and Gray gets to work. Jaiikve talks as Gray builds.
"According to various species of time travellers, Jaiikve is living in 21st century Earth. In a place called Cardiff. He's running an organisation called Torchwood. Which apparently protects the planet from alien threats, since they haven't had first contact yet."
He finishes the bombs quite quickly. They're easy and small, simple and detectable. Good decoys, good red herrings. Good for the job. He seizes Chuone's arm as the man passes by to go to the kitchen area.
"What in Goddess' name are you—" But Gray has flipped open the Vortex Manipulator and his fingers are flying over the tiny keys. Chuone chocks and cries out as the manipulator tightens.
"It records everything you do or say. You can't take it off, or you will die."
"What the hell?"
Gray looks at him. He is very serious now. This is important. "You will go to Earth in the 21st century. You will find Jaiikve. You will report back to me on his condition, on everything about him."
"Aye aye, Captain." Chuone rolls his eyes.
"You will do it. Or you will die."
"These are fake bombs." Gray hands them off. "They will create a distraction. It is your choice how you use them. Do whatever you can. Kill him if you must, but if you do not have to, don't. I would like that pleasure myself."
"That's it?"
"Your Manipulator will monitor everything you do and say. You will not mention me to him. Go to the market now if you need any other equipment."
Chuone shakes his head and rummages in his satchel. "No, I've got it."
"Go, then."
Gray waits for two days in the hotel room, writing out schematics. His brother is alive, the brother who left him and never took the time to search for him. Jaiikve is in some strange century, and Gray will go there and do what must be done.
He only halfway monitors Chuone. The man follows directions. His parting words, however.
"Why did you say that?" Gray blurts out when Chuone appears. "Why did you tell him you found me?"
"You said you wanted to cause him pain?"
Gray eyes him suspiciously. "Yes?"
"Trust me, that will. He's been looking for you for years. I remember how frantic he was back in the Time Agency. That will hurt him good. Oh, by the way, he can't die."
Gray frowns. "What do you mean?"
"Weren't you listening when it happened?" Chuone rolls his eyes. "I mean he can't die, ever. I pushed him off a building and he came right back to life. He can't die."
Gray nods thoughtfully, and adds that information to his plan. "Tell me about his team."
Gray listens closely as Chuone reviews everything he learned about Jaiikve's—Jack's—team. He writes bits of information down, scribbling ideas and contingency plans down in the margins.
"You will get me a Vortex Manipulator." Gray announces suddenly. "From the market it. I can fix it if it's broken. You will also find me any documents about this Torchwood."
Chuone does so, reluctantly. Gray can't stop grinning as he reads the files, nor as he repairs the inner workings of the wrist strap.
"It's all right now," he croons softly to the technology in front of him. "It's okay. I'll get him back for all that he's done and then he'll feel the pain of his actions. I will make him suffer the way he made me suffer. And then it will be all right. His life will be as ruined as mine. We will be equals. And he will never be forgiven. And all will be well."
The hate in his heart is strangely comforting. There's no fear left now that he's gone from that place, those chains. There is no hope now that he knows where Jaiikve resides. Now that he knows the extent of his abandonment. Jaiikve has given up on him, has pushed him aside in favour of this team. There is nothing else. Now there is only anger, betrayal, hatred. Jaiikve must suffer to pay for what happened to Gray. Jack is the one to blame. And when his life is ruined, everything will be okay.


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Michigan announces John Beilein's contract has been extended through the 2020-21 season.— Brendan F. Quinn (@BFQuinn) November 4, 2015
UMHoops Open Practice Video
Spike and Caris channel Harrelson and Snipes for Halloween
This was RT'd on Ace's twitter but I didn't see an MGoPost about this so thought I'd share. A classic example of the sly, self-deprecating humor that makes Spike the most eligible bachelor on campus and another example of the likeable bunch of guys we are priveleged to watch represent U-M
MBB AP Preseason Ranking: #25
Six Big Ten teams in the first basketball AP Top 25 Poll of the season...
#3: Maryland
#13: Staee
#15: Indiana
#17: Wisconsin
#23: Purdue
#25: Michigan
I guess this sorta confirms our belief that the Big Ten is a huge toss-up after Maryland. Should be interesting to see the season unfold, but I'm psyched for this to kick off. Go Blue!
REMINDER: MBB Open Practice Tonight
Tonight from 6-7.
Hopefully someone can get some video...
Also, first exhibition game is this Friday.
Isn't November great?
MBB: Schedule Wallpaper/Uniform Change?
Nice wallpaper and possibly no more tire tracks?
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After three seasons' of experience as the mastermind behind Girls, Lena Dunham has more than proven her mettle as a talented auteur — and she put her directorial skills to work in helping the music video for her boyfriend Jack Antonoff's new band Bleachers' debut single "I Wanna Get Better." Soundtracking the song's jaggedly anthemic pop-rock are Parks and Recreation comedienne Retta, some abortion dogs and Antonoff as a therapist.
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Can all this be explained by the appearance of a single narcissistic sociopath?
I am glad you asked because I think it CAN be blamed on a single narcissistic sociopath. MY MOTHER! Here are the stories tossed around while we were young. She liked to put chewing gum in the whiskers of cats. She accused her cousin of raping her and that part of the family all picked up and moved to California and was never heard from again. According to my mother some kid from down the road tried to push her out of the hayloft and have her plunge to her death. He should have been given a bronze star. But I have found over the years that her accusations about others were the product of that Gordian knot of a brain she possessed and is usually what she tried to do to someone else. There are many stories besides those but I digress.
Orchestrated a murder....... BADLY!
Badger my father to suicide.
Ruin every marriage she got close enough to tell lies to the principles and/or fuck their husbands.
Is that enough ruination for you?
Her and my ex wife were slot machines that never paid off.
Maybe in the age of internet fortunes and gangsta rap honor doesn't mean anything. For me putting a price tag on an object is a starting point. Goodwill and family honor are not free.
I can go on but you get my drift. And if you are that interested you can mail me your questions with a one hundred dollar bill and a SASE, but only if you have swallowed poison and you need a good gag and retch to purge the contents of your stomach.
If people want to include me in their list of labelors and haters of the personality disordered, try walking a mile in my shoes.
If you brag about being crazy that just makes you fucked up. That doesn't make you my hero. For that honor to be bestowed on you, you will have to build a time machine and take some effective contraceptive devices back to my grandmother before she shit out my mother.


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That bug that I had previously shown you, where the video being downloaded on MiiVi is classified as "Recently Downloaded," though it hasn't fully downloaded came back (see miivi.bug-preview1.jpg attached). The second attachment (miivi.bug-preview2.jpg) disappeared from my queue completely and then I had to re-search for that title to re-add it to my queue -- I wasn't sure what to take a screen cap of, so I just capped the media page for that one.
My log is attached (mvs-miivi-18june2007.log), in case that helps. The account all of these events happened to is "miivi."
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2 Minutes with Chef Matt Scard-Jones from the Coach House Chester.
Hi Matt, thanks for offering to do the demos at Stonyhurst College, We are looking forward to having you at the event with us. Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
'I've always loved to cook and started at the tender age of 6 by helping my parents with the Sunday roast! At 8 I was trusted to make the dish alone and a few years later I enrolled to study my Level 3 NVQ Catering at Yale college.'
So where have you worked in the past and what are you up to at the moment?
'Throughout my career, I've worked in a range of establishments from the college coffee shop, to British Gastro Pubs and Rosette restaurants such as Bryn Tyrch and Newbridge on Usk. Each role has brought me closer to my current position as Head Chef at The Coach House Inn in Chester and my career highlight of being named as The Best Pub in Chester in 2016.'
Tell us about your influences?
'My cooking style is influenced largely by chef Tom Kerridge and I'd say the best part of my job is working with local produce to create British dishes with an Italian and American twist.'
Sounds great Matt. We can't wait to see your demos.
See Matt's Pub – The Coach House here
Full lineup for Stonyhurst Food Festival is below:
Stonyhurst College
FRIDAY 21st APRIL
12: Rayeesa Asghar Sandys – Rayseeas Indian Kitchen
1: Anthony Shirley – Seafood Pub Co
3: Hanna Sillitoe – Radiant
SATURDAY 22nd APRIL
11: Matt Scard-Jones – Coach House
12: Hanna Sillitoe – Radiant
1: Patrick Beaume – Cartford Arms
2: Matt Scard-Jones – Coach House
3: Kris Spence – Aspinall Arms
SUNDAY 23rd APRIL
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|Fantasy Library
...there was a library
|Basic Info
|Notable NPCS
|Connecting Areas
Library ➜, Innocent Library, Butterfly Forest ➜, Cloud Floor ➜, Constellation World ➜, Character Plains ➜
The Fantasy Library (夢書庫, Yume Shoko, Dream Library) was an area accessible from a book in the Library, but as of ver.0.105f, all connections to this world have been removed, making it and the neighboring world Innocent Library inaccessible.
The Fantasy Library is a large area filled with bookshelves that hold various texts, similar to the Library itself. 2 nine-tailed foxes dressed in white wander around this area, which make a the sound of a bell ringing when interacted with. They cannot be killed, and will de-equip Urotsuki's chainsaw effect if she tries to attack them.
This area is somewhat divided into 2 sections, with the bookshelves in the upper-right part of the area neatly arranged into rows, and the shelves in the left side of the area being placed more sporadically. The shelves throughout the area hold over 40 books to read, almost all of which have atleast a second book that can be read while using a specific effect.
To the left of the entrance, the first bookshelf out of line will take you to the Red Cliff.
Directly across from the Red Cliff shelf on the far left side of the area is a bookshelf covered in blood, which at first appears to be empty. But if you equip the chainsaw effect, a red book will appear for you to read. (which is important for accessing Chaos World)
There is another bloody shelf just above the chainsaw shelf that will teleport you to the Character Plains if you read the book that appears while using the Grave effect, and the book in the bookshelf directly below the chainsaw shelf will teleport you to the Innocent Library if you read it while using the Grave effect.
Further down the left side of the area is a beige couch where Urotsuki can sit down.
The bookshelf immediately northeast of the couch will take you to the lake in the Butterfly Forest if you interact with it while using the Bug or Lantern effects, the latter of which will ensure fireflies appear over the lake, and interacting with the 2nd bookshelf directly above the couch while using the Fairy effect will take you to the Cloud Floor.
Lastly, a brightly colored butterfly can be found flying around near the bottom of the area below the couch, which will teleport you to the Butterfly Forest.
Red CliffEdit
After reading the hazy red book, Urotsuki will be teleported to a small area set on a cliff, with a heavy red sky, and a copy of herself looking out over the edge of the cliff. Interacting with her clone will automatically make Urotsuki push herself off the edge of the cliff, with a short falling sound and large "thud" shortly afterwards.
After pushing herself off the cliff, Urotsuki will refuse to leave the area expect by walking over the edge of the cliff herself, and while falling a dark silhouette of the nine-tailed fox from the library can be seen below the cliff. After the fall, she will wake up on the floor in the Red Lily Lake, with the area tinted red.
Alternatively, if you turn invisible using the Invisible effect Urotsuki's doppelganger will disappear, and if she takes its place on the edge of the cliff and then walks off, she will fall down into a large pool of water where the Twin Mountains can be seen in the background.
The pool of water leads off to the right to a 4-way crossroads where Urotsuki will refuse to go any direction but downwards, which will take you to a room in Constellation World with a group of stars arranged to make a constellation of a large "2" that can be seen with the glasses effect. Interacting with the brightest star in the constellation will teleport you out to the main part of Constellation World.
If, however, you ignore Urotsuki's declining to go upwards at the crossroads and repeatedly attempt to go that way, doing so will randomly cause the screen to fade to black, before the sounds of a large truck crashing and possibly slamming into someone are heard, preceding the sound of an ambulance. This event will cause Urotsuki to wake up at her balcony.
- This area previously appeared in version 0.101 in a more structured state and featured an event involving the possibly questionable chainsaw massacre of dolls, but the event has since been removed and the area remodeled.
- The robo-rabbit that appears in the Butterfly Forest originally appeared in this area, but has been replaced with the nine-tailed fox npc in more recent versions of the game.


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It has now been one year since I closed my Bonanza booth and opened my shop on Etsy. I made that change because my Bonanza booth was no longer getting views. I tended to have one to three pages viewed per day on Bonanza during my final months there. The site had died. Even when I placed links to my booth here, I would get very little response. There was no point to continuing there, since something was wrong. I speculated about the possible reasons in this post.
Online selling goes in an endless circle as sites try new policies and then eventually change them back to what they were years before. I quit using eBay in early 2009 because eBay's policies were hurting my sales. I had great success on Bonanza (originally Bonanzle) in 2009 through 2011really smashing success. My best month ever on Bonanza was November 2011, detailed here. In 2012, my Bonanza sales began to decline. I reported a slow month in November 2012, and that was the final month that I reported my Bonanza sales in this blog. In late 2012, Bonanza pulled out of Google's product search, and soon after, Bonanza placed Amazon affiliate links through its own search results on the Bonanza site. It's no surprise that sales declined sharply.
In this post, I listed all of my Bonanza fees by month to show the sales decline that occurred on Bonanza during the final years my booth was open.
In 2013, I began selling on eBay again, since eBay had backed out of many of the negative changes that made me leave in 2009. Just two months ago, I wrote about my growing concerns with some of eBay's latest changes, where they seem to be going back in the wrong direction. The endless circle continues.
With that background, the purpose of this post is to detail what success I have had on Etsy in the last year. Etsy helpfully makes it easy for sellers to know how many of their items have sold in the previous year. eBay hides that information, so I had to go through my feedback left for others and actually count items sold in the last year. I then had to count the recent items for which I have not left feedback. I am probably off by a few, since I likely miscounted, but the eBay total should be close enough for this discussion.
I have sold 603 items on eBay and 225 items on Etsy in the last year. The number of items I had listed on the two sites is also important. I don't have the exact data, but I can make an educated guess. I have always had significantly more items listed on eBay. For most of the year, I had between 250 and 325 items listed on eBay at any given time which averages to roughly 288 items. On Etsy, my total number of items listed was between 90 and 140, which averages to 115 items. Neither average is the actual average since I do not have the complete data, but both numbers are good enough to give me an idea of my Etsy success rate as compared to eBay.
My Etsy sales of 225 items is 37.3% of my eBay sales of 603 items. My average number of Etsy listings of 115 items is 39.9% of my average number of eBay listings of 288 items. Since the percents are close, I can conclude that I am doing about as well on Etsy as I am on eBay with respect to the number of items up for sale. I am quite pleased.
I have been very careful about which books I list on Etsy, since I must pay $0.20 to list each item. I have found that Nancy Drew, the Dana Girls, and the Three Investigators books do the best on Etsy. I have had poor success with the Hardy Boys and with most other series.
In fact, my care with listing quality items on Etsy is the reason why my Etsy sales are about as good as my eBay sales. While I have sold more items on eBay and have listed more items on eBay, the average quality per item has been lower.
As long as I list the books that are the most likely to sell on Etsy, I have pretty steady sales.


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Goddess Boot Camp (Oh. My. Gods. #2)
by Tera Lynn Childs
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Seventeen-year-old Phoebe has recently learned that she's a descendant of Nike (the goddess, not the shoe). Now, in order to learn to control her newfound - and very strong - powers, she's being forced to attend Goddess Boot Camp. The only problem is, none of the other campers is over the age of ten! It's not going to be easy to survive camp, train for the Pythian Games, and keep her romance with Griffin going strong, but goddess help her, Phoebe is determined to make it work!
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Chatham Historic Dockyard
On Sunday, The Boy, The APs and I went to Chatham Historic Dockyard. It's an interesting mixed use site with a working boatyard, rope works, offices and part of the University of Kent as well as the museum.
I was rather taken with the figurehead on HMS Gannet…(esp. the feet)
…and its copper bottom.
The Boy was very excited by the sub HMS Ocelot. When my Dad took a school party here in the late '60s, when it was still a working dockyard, he saw a similar sub being built.
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Editors' Note: Yesterday we ran a cover story about Mitch Davis's new movie he shot in Israel. If you didn't read it, you can click here. Today we continue our questions to Mitch about his passion to use the media to help get Mitt Romney into the White House in 2008. Come on, could a Mormon really become the President of the United States?
MERIDIAN: We left off yesterday with you introducing your next project, a documentary called Could a Mormon be President, and a political organization called www.RunMittRun.org. What's this all about?
MITCH: In one sense it's about what I said earlier: Putting a human face on Mormonism and stepping out of the backyard, onto the world stage. But I think that's just a byproduct of something much larger, which is electing the next leader of the free world as we approach one of the most perilous times in our planet's history.
MERIDIAN: How could electing Mitt help put a human face on Mormonism?
MITCH: How could it not? It's one of the most visible jobs in the world! Having a Mormon in that office would be like having the Olympics in Salt Lake City every day for four years in a row – eight years if he runs for reelection!
MERIDIAN: Couldn't that be a negative thing for the Church? All that publicity?
MITCH: It is hard for me to imagine anything about a Mitt Romney presidency that could be negative for the Church. I cannot think of a more capable, flawless representative of our faith than Mitt Romney and his beautiful family. Have you seen pictures of those people? Have you seen the words pundits use to describe Mitt? He is "Matinee Mitt," "The Holy Cow Candidate," "The Mighty Mitt Romney."
A Mitt Romney presidency would take our Church places it might not otherwise ever go in terms of world perception. And it will be another hundred years before we get a chance like this to put someone like Mitt in the White House.
MERIDIAN: Why do you say that?
MITCH: It's a wide open field. Cheney isn't running. The Republicans have no clear leader. And the Democrats' clear leader is unelectable if she has a legitimate opponent.
MERIDIAN: So you really think Mitt can get elected?
MITCH: Absolutely Mitt can get elected! It all boils down to peoples' perceptions of Mormonism. Most of the pundits agree that if Mitt can overcome the negative perception of Mormonism in the United States, he has a good shot at getting elected. And I think Mitt has proven he doesn't even need a good shot. I think if we can get Mitt a fair shot, he will be our next president.
MERIDIAN: You say "we." What can "we" do to get Mitt a fair shot?
MITCH: We can staff and fund his campaign organization when and if he declares his candidacy, and we can staff and fund a substantial independent organization that will buttress his campaign's effort. It all boils down to human resources and financial resources.
On the day Mitt declares his candidacy, if he can announce a huge financial war chest, a vast network of foot soldiers, and a well-funded independent expenditure organization designed to support him, he will overnight go from dark horse to white knight. The RNC will fall all over itself finding a way to minimize "the religion thing," and many of Mitt's would-be competitors will simply run away. That will be a great day for America, because I don't see the Republican or Democratic party mustering any candidates whose leadership qualities come anywhere close to Mitt's leadership qualities. These are serious times. We need a serious leader, regardless of what brand of religion he happens to espouse.
MERIDIAN: So www.RunMittRun.org is not actually a part of Mitt Romney's campaign?
MITCH: Mitt Romney has not yet declared his candidacy for 2008, so he has no actual campaign. He has set up a PAC called "The Commonwealth PAC" to pave the way for his potential run. We are what is called a "draft" organization, meaning that we are raising awareness of Mitt in an effort to persuade him to run for office. We are seeking to raise tens of millions of dollars to draft Mitt. In the event he declares, we will continue to support his run all the way to the White House.
MERIDIAN: Is Mitt aware of your efforts? Is he supportive?
MITCH: There have been enough articles written about our effort that I am confident Mitt is aware of us. Because we are an independent organization, however, neither he nor his campaign can contact us directly to express their approval or disapproval, nor to coordinate our efforts in any way.
The only thing I can say is that it is hard to imagine that Mitt or his advisors would feel badly about someone stepping forward to say he is going to raise tens of millions of dollars to support his candidacy.
MERIDIAN: Do you have any experience in politics?
MITCH: I have a lot of experience in media and fundraising, and I have hired some very savvy strategists and pollsters to guide my efforts. My role will be to spearhead fund-raising and to oversee the development of our media campaigns.
MERIDIAN: Tell us about the media campaign.
MITCH: Right now the single largest impediment to Mitt's election seems to be a widespread, negative impression of Mormonism. 35% of those polled nationwide by The Los Angeles Times said they could not vote for a Mormon for president. We conducted our own poll in South Carolina and got a 33% negative response to that same question.
We then asked South Carolinians why they felt so negatively about Mormonism. We didn't have to go very far: 44% of them believe Mormons still practice polygamy, 50% believe we worship Joseph Smith, 27% think we don't believe in the Bible, and 25% believe we are not Christian – with another 50% undecided on the topic.
On their face, those are very disappointing numbers. But I think they are actually good news for Mitt. They tell us that the basis of anti-Mormonism is ignorance rather than simple bigotry, and we can address ignorance.
MERIDIAN: How?
MITCH: We are going to produce a series of television ads that show who Mormons really are and why nobody should be afraid to elect one as President of the United States. Depending on funding, we will run billboards and newspaper ads as well. We just have to get rid of this widespread ignorance that breeds widespread fear.
MERIDIAN: Is it really possible for a grassroots organization to have that much impact on a national election?
MITCH: Absolutely! We modeled our organization after two groups: The highly conservative, "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" and the ultra-liberal, "MoveOn.org." Both have been extremely effective in having major impact on major elections the last few years.
For example, the Swift Boat group ran ads that are widely credited with derailing John Kerry's run for president in 2004 and handing the election to George Bush. Their efforts were controversial, but Bush could wash his hands of any controversy because the Swift Boat guys were acting independent of his campaign.
So, yes, independent organizations like ours can be extremely effective in major campaigns. I think we have a major role to play. It is just a matter of how clever our ads are and how much money we have to spend running them.
MERIDIAN: And how are you doing?
MITCH: We have only been around for three weeks. Over 800 articles have been written about us, including two features in The Boston Globe and one in The Washington Times (and if you decide, why we'll even be a cover on Meridian Magazine!). Donations are starting to come in by mail and over the internet. I think we're off to a good start.
MERIDIAN: Why are you so passionate about this?
MITCH: Senator Smoot faced this same issue eighty years ago. Senator Hatch faced it four years ago. I don't want to be sitting around having this same conversation a hundred years from now.
We have before us the best opportunity we could possibly imagine to address this issue once and for all. We just have to lock arms with Mitt and his family and make a small portion of the sacrifice they are signing up to make.
MERIDIAN: Specifically, what can people do?
MITCH: Until and unless Mitt formally declares his candidacy, no one can do much other than plan to make campaign donations at the proper time. I hope everyone will do that. In the meantime, they can get involved in our draft organization by logging on to www.RunMittRun.org and emailing our site to hundreds of their non-LDS friends and colleagues. We need to start a nationwide groundswell of support for Mitt Romney now.
MERIDIAN: And you need donations?
MITCH: Yes. We are gearing up to produce our first television commercials, but it doesn't matter how cool those commercials are if we don't have the money to buy air time. Every dollars helps. Every million dollars helps even more.
MERIDIAN: Can you give us a sneak preview of what the commercials will contain?
MITCH: Let's just say there are a lot of successful Mormons out there whose religion has not stopped them from stepping onto the world stage and performing at the highest level; athletes, musicians, business leaders.
Could you imagine anyone saying with a straight face: "A Mormon could never be a quarterback" or "A Mormon could never run a hotel chain" or "A Mormon could never be Senate Minority Leader."
MERIDIAN: Wait a minute! You're going to use Harry Reid (a Democrat) to campaign for Mitt Romney (a Republican)?!
MITCH: We're going to use every arrow we have in our quiver, and we have quite a few.
MERIDIAN: Any landmines you need to avoid?
MITCH: Our biggest concern will be finding a way to address the issue of anti-Mormonism without fanning those same flames. The last thing any Evangelical Christians want is to feel that by voting for Mitt Romney, they are voting for or promoting Mormonism.
MERIDIAN: Aren't they?
MITCH: No. They are voting for the best candidate to run for the office of president in a long, long time, and he just happens to be a Mormon. They are voting against ignorance and bigotry. They are voting for Article Six of the Constitution that prohibits a religious test "to any office or public trust under the United States." They are voting for a man who is clean and smart and sober and chaste. They are voting for someone whose values mirror their own, never mind doctrinal quibbles.
MERIDIAN: Why are Evangelical Christians so key to this election?
MITCH: Because they wield tremendous influence in the Republican Party, and throughout the South.
MERIDIAN: Any bright signs?
MITCH: Jerry Falwell just stated that he wouldn't have a problem voting for Mitt Romney, and Christian Broadcast News did a positive piece on him three or four weeks ago. You can find links to all of this stuff on our site.
MERIDIAN: www.RunMittRun.org?
MITCH: Don't leave home without it.
2006 Meridian Magazine. All Rights Reserved.


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Title: The Problem With Rent is You Have to Pay it.
Pairing: Jim/Bones
gadget who requested a fic that used Whore-five.
Word Count: 1,500'ish?
Rating PG or PG13? Swearing?
Warnings: Talk of prostitution
Pairing: Jim/Bones
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Def: Whore-Five: A hi-five between whores, takes place a lot in the Jim and Bones chats... Big thanks tonoo for the beta and helping me figure out how the fuck to work Whore-five into a fic. <3
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Sleepwalking through my waking life, wake-walking through my dreams.
This journal is friends only, as it is embarrassingly personal. I am talking about sex and death and love and God, and that kind of thing tends to get round to my mum. Comment to be added (though I may not if I don't already know you).


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Plunge frenzy a lesson for Club
The atmosphere prior to the final race at Sha Tin last Saturday was as good a pointer as any yet to the area in which Hong Kong racing is failing to meet its market.
One sometimes gets the impression, unexpressed but hanging in the air around some officials at Sports Road, that the gambling part of racing is the unwanted child of an otherwise dashing sport.
Now that's a fine attitude for the anti-gambling lobby, since they draw their purpose in life from interfering with the enjoyments of others, but hardly an ideal stance for the Jockey Club itself.
There is no criticism here of a drive for better quality - in fact, any jockey club which does not have a path to stronger competition amongst its targets is remiss in its duties - but since only a handful of people can actually race horses and we revel in the feats of a proud few, the accessible part of the game to most continues to be gambling and that was what generated the electricity at Sha Tin before Win For All scooped the last race.
With every fresh feed of money into the pools, down came the odds for Win For All, the very horse which was delaying the start and making his backers sweat on the final odds as well as his mood and with it the final result. And every time Win For All turned away from the gates, for every point the odds dropped, the observant folk in the public sections roared with an understanding of the scene playing out before them.
Jockey Brett Prebble starred as Cool Hand Luke and rode with a clinical perfection on Win For All and the big bet was landed. Of course, unlike a plunge in some jurisdictions, everybody finished with the same odds, but the excitement of a big play that comes off is promotion itself in racing. The big plunge in Hong Kong is not what it was in the peak days of the mid-1990s, but they still occur and sometimes with the right result. On a par with the quality rush of a Sunline-Fairy King Prawn toe-to-toe, it is one of the great thrills in racing.
Some professionals are saying the Triple Trio has regained some popularity this season from the decision to split the consolation dividend into three. It seems to have been a successful marketing move to appeal to the punting public, and a rare one at that.
We have seen the admirable rise in the quality of Hong Kong's better horses to a very good standard, though possibly at the expense of some betting turnover. The churn of new stock through the system to sift out the good ones undoubtedly leaves many bettors feeling like they don't know the horses as well as in past seasons, when horses hung around longer and the soundest raced until compulsory retirement at 10.
We have seen the arrival of the super Diamond Vision screen, the introduction of Stride (though its occasional, cameo appearances must be regarded as well-intended rather than successful) and this weekend the world's best and biggest parade ring - as one trainer quipped, along with the Great Wall it is the only man-made structure you can see from the moon. Each is an attempt - at great expense - to win customers with better service, comfort and gimmickry.
The HKJC can hardly promote large, accurate betting plunges but it should not frown when they happen, either. In terms of promotion, money can't buy the $140-to-$48 plunge that comes off.
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- Title: The Man In The High Castle
- Published: 1962
The Man In The High Castle is an alternative history novel, presenting a future where Japan and Nazi Germany won World War II, and now rule over the USA. This book stood out to me for two reasons: I love reading Dystopias and I am also interested in the Amazon Prime series (I'm a stickler for reading the book before adaptations).
I'll admit, it was harder than I expected to follow the plot because the book regularly switched between various characters, to allow exploration of Dystopian America through different sets of eyes. However, I just wasn't able to engage with some of these characters – like Tagomi, Childan and Baynes.
The plotlines I enjoyed the most were the stories of Frank and Juliana, an estrange married couple, who have different lives and face different struggles. This reminded me very much of Winston Smith and his estranged wife Katharine in Orwell's masterful Dystopia, 1984.
I also noticed other similarities to 1984, such as a subversive writer (Hawthorne Abendsen / Emmanuel Goldstein) who pens a book that challenges the totalitarian state and seeks to reveal the truth (The Grasshopper Lies Heavy / The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism).
Dystopian fiction such as The Man In The High Castle seems all the more important, given the current political climate in America. It demonstrates how extreme certain individual's views on race can become, and the dangers of redefining what "truths" and "facts" are – I'm sure plenty of people have already drawn parallels between Nazi Germany and Trump's America.
What I found most enjoyable about The Man In The High Castle is its blend of fact and fiction – sometimes it is so seamless, I'm incredibly thankful that I studied Hitler and the Third Reich for my History A Level to be able to pick apart what is genuine historical evidence, and what is a distorted version of events. This is exacerbated when some of the characters begin to see through the façade of totalitarian America. The glass shatters, the curtain is pulled back, and they see the "facts" for what they are: lies.
The ending of the book is very open-ended, and I'm left with lots of questions. Normally, I prefer neat endings, because most open-endings I read are more like weak cliff-hangers. However, I don't dislike the ending to The Man In The High Castle – it's given me lots to think about – I want to go away and read more about the book, its plot, its world and its themes.
I found 1984 entertaining, The Man In The High Castle fascinating, and you should read both.
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Skip to comments.US attorney: No charges in FBI shooting of suspect
Posted on 05/07/2014 9:23:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
FBI agents acted reasonably when they shot and killed a man in the Idaho wilderness who was suspected of kidnapping a teen girl and killing her mother and brother in California, federal and state prosecutors said Wednesday.
The two FBI agents who shot James DiMaggio acted reasonably and should not face charges, U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson and Valley County Prosecutor Jay Kiiha said in a joint announcement.
DiMaggio, 40, was killed Aug. 10, a week after authorities said he abducted 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and killed her relatives in Boulevard, California.
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There are still so many unanswered questions about this case...
On the up side, DiMaggio didn't have to lay around a prison cell for 20 years hoping that the prison guys don't "botch" his euthanasia end of life event.
People aren't considering the possibility that he was an arrowhead collector —this guy really might have needed killing.
What if he was also selling unpasteurized milk..?
He could even have been a plumber or rodeo clown.
iirc, this was a good shoot
There were questions whether the girl was a willing accomplice but the a$$h*** did murder 2 people and no family pets were injured.All good.
If this girl was somehow complicit with that crazy middle aged 'family friend', the truth will come out. The same pridefulness that drove her to manipulate the adults around her, will compel her to brag about what she got away with. She may already have told a psychiatrist, who may have decided to keep her secret, feeling no good would come of it. Besides, the murderer has already been slain. What indeed, was her Mom thinking to allow this ninth grader to go on frequent 'camping trips' alone with this man. Maybe at one time it was a menage a trois. She will come forward with it herself, when funds get so low, that she'll have a book ghost written for her for the money, and for another round of being in high demand for on air interviews.
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Skip to comments.Senate meets for 9 seconds to block Bush appointment
Posted on 12/26/2007 8:11:08 PM PST by TRY ONE
Dec. 26, 2007, 4:25PM Senate meets for 9 seconds to block Bush appointment
By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press
TOOLS Email Get section feed Print Subscribe NOW Comments (40) Recommend WASHINGTON The House was quiet as a mouse the day after Christmas. But across the Capitol, the Senate was operating in an unusually efficient manner in its ongoing power struggle with President Bush.
A nine-second session gaveled in and out by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., prevented Bush from appointing as an assistant attorney general a nominee roundly rejected by majority Democrats. Without the pro forma session, the Senate would be technically adjourned, allowing the president to install officials without Senate confirmation.
The business of blocking Bush's recess appointments was serious. It represents an institutional standoff between Congress and the president that could repeat itself during Congress' vacations for the remainder of Bush's presidency.
In such situations, pro forma sessions also could give Bush some political cover on popular legislation he doesn't want to sign. When Congress is holding pro forma sessions and is not formally adjourned, a bill sent to a president automatically becomes law 10 days after he receives it excluding Sundays unless he vetoes it.
That could be the fate of two bills Congress passed last week. One growing out of the Virginia Tech massacre makes it harder for people with mental illness records to buy guns. The other makes it easier for journalists and others to obtain government documents through the Freedom of Information Act. The FOIA bill, for example, would become law on New Year's Eve if not vetoed before then, according to Senate Judiciary Committee officials.
In practice, today's pro forma process was almost comical.
"Good morning!" Webb, sporting a respectful tie and jacket, called to the floor staff assembled just for the occasion in an otherwise sleepy and chilly Capitol. One clerk congratulated Webb on being 30 seconds early, thrice the amount of time it would take to complete the Senate's work for the day.
Climbing to the president's chair, Webb took the gavel and banged it.
"The Senate will come to order," he intoned, reading from a two-line script to a floor empty of other senators but witnessed from the gallery by one reporter and about a half dozen staffers. "Under the previous order, the Senate stands in recess until Friday, December 28th, 2007 at 10 a.m."
His work done, Webb left. The floor staff reported to those in the gallery overhead that the session had lasted nine seconds.
"I didn't appoint myself ambassador to a tropical nation," Webb, a former Navy secretary, novelist and TV documentary maker, quipped afterward.
Before Congress left last week, Democrats scheduled 11 pro forma sessions to fill the void until the Senate returns to regular session on Jan. 22. The purpose was to stop Bush from using the constitutional power presidents hold under the Constitution to bypass Senate confirmation and unilaterally install his nominees in office when Congress is adjourned.
Democrats wanted to block one such recess appointment in particular: Steven Bradbury, acting chief of the Justice Department's Office of Legislative Counsel. Bush nominated Bradbury for the job and asked the Senate to remove the "acting" in his title.
Democrats would have none of it, complaining Bradbury had signed two secret memos in 2005 saying it was OK for the CIA to use harsh interrogation techniques some call it torture on terrorism detainees.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Bush refused to rule out appointing Bradbury to the job if the Senate formally adjourned. So, Reid decided to keep the Senate in session with pro forma meetings every two or three days.
This Senate has a bunch of Firsts:
1) They filibuster judicial appointments 2) They prevent recess appointments
How's that approval rating holding up?
Nothing they do can surprise me anymore.
Someone on the GOP side needs to get smart enough to block Webb's car.
I for one approve. The less time these rascals are in session the less damage they cause, generally speaking.
It's a shame we're not paying them on a piecework basis, however. They'd all starve.
Does anyone realize how stupid this is and looks? Webb is an idiot...in 2008 the donkeys are screwed [and they did it to themselves].
What these RATS just don't get it that payback could easily happen. They cannot control the Senate forever. What we have to concentrate on is making sure we get a Republican President elected next term as well at getting the Senate back.
they managed to actually DO something.....we'll add this to the short list of accomplishments....
I want to see that video of "We killed the Patriot Act" over and over next year in all GOP political ads.......
I'm sure they'll offer Virginia about $1 billion in pork for Webb to 'oversleep'.
Well, I suppose it's an improvement over his thoughts of banging prepubescent children. Oh, it's just a novel?
If it was us, we'd be applauding our smarts ...
3. they investigate the entire Bush Administration and hold hearings that go nowhere.
They're being out-mamuverued constantly by the GOP, lol.
A session of one...
So what is the appropriate answer to that game?
Our side would have to bother to show up...
Looks like Webb has finally found a purpose for being in the Senate.
Other than being able to lose track of his pistol with impunity.
can the Repubs get 4 to be there for the next session
have them call the role etc... ?
Aeen't there even *5* GOP Senators who aren' pieces of chickenshit, to all show up tommorrow, to force a quorum call, and force the Dem to adjourn Congress when a quorum cannot be formed?
The Repub Senators are every bit as much a bunch of cowardly chickenshits as the sniveling whiner Dims and Gimmies.
Isn't there anything the republicans can do? Like showing up and forcing a vote of some kind? Maybe motion to adjourn?
The Presidency is what he has always had his eye on since he decided to run for a senate seat.
All 49 Repubs would have to show up to the Senate just as Webb was hammering the gavel, but before he finished his 9 second speech.
As they walked in, VP Cheney would have to take the gavel from Webb to act as President of the Senate (his official title whenever he is in the Senate Chambers).
49 Repubs plus Webb is 50 Senators, the Constitutional requirement for a quorom.
With VP Cheney holding the gavel, the GOP Senate (it would be a GOP senate at that point) could pass whatever bill they desired, approve whatever judge (include a SCOTUS justice) they desired, etc.
So that's why Webb is trying to keep his Senate session brief (9 seconds!). This little trick of the Dems to keep the Senate in "session" while the rest are off on holiday vacations could backfire on them if the GOP unified and played sneaky hardball.
However, the last senator elected to the WH was Kennedy and he didn't really win, his daddy bought it for him. These donkeys that think their way to the WH is through their senate need to look closer at history. Webb is obviously kissing his bosses A, and you can bet Virginians wish they'd have never elected that bassturd. He's such a whiny baby...him and his face lift.
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