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i'm pretty sure that sums up how i feel about the emmys.
all of my american shows were either not nominated or lost.
and all of my british shows - that were nominated - lost.
so... yeah.
even the fashion was really quite unimpressive this year.
and jimmy kimmel was an okay host. i would have much rather seen fallon host though.
but, below the cuts i've nominated some of my favorite fashions for the night.
so... yeah. i'm still upset that chris mckenna lost the only shot "community" had at an emmy this year.
well, onto fashion, then! ;)
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- Current Mood: blah
( #DanHarmonisageniusCollapse )
... i just.
i mean.
what even is this? it's amazing. and inspiring and motivational.
- Current Location:United States, Florida, Orlando
( cut for work-related shenanigans that i'm sure most of you are tired of hearing aboutCollapse )
otherwise, everyone is getting ready to move!
i went to a going away soiree for my good friend sarah last friday.
it was great to hang out with her and some friends i don't get a chance to see.
but it's sad because she's moving to north carolina so i won't see her.
my friend amy left for grad school at the beginning of the summer (she's in VA).
and karlee leaves september 10th for london for a whole year.
i'm going to REALLY be bummed when she leaves.
(i'm also selfishly glad that my other best friend decided to take a year off before going to medical school, or else i'd feel REALLY lonely.)
so weekends have been full of parties and get-togethers, which is nice. :)
this weekend is a birthday celebration for my friend leah.
and next weekend is an open "reception" for a friend who got married a few months ago.
at least there are things to look forward to, right? ;)
and. well. that's about it in my world.
how about yours?
- Current Mood: cold
- Current Mood: cold
SO very bad.
but nothing much of consequence has happened lately.
so perhaps that's why i've been slow to update anything.
OH. i will say though, in case you wanted to see photos from my trip abroad and don't follow me on twitter, i posted a blog entry detailing our adventures and some photos from italy & london. you can click here to read all about it! :)
otherwise, i've been working and working. and working.
one of our three interns left last week and the other leaves the end of this week.
of course, the male intern - the ONE i'd love to leave - is here until the end of august.
joy of joys.
i sent my resume in to an advertising company in ft. lauderdale just for kicks.
as it turns out, they called me and left a message, asking if i'd call them back.
(which i did, to no avail -- i still haven't heard from them.)
and as much as i'd love to get out of here... i don't know. ft. lauderdale is 3-4 hours away from here.
*sigh* why can't i just find something close to me that i WANT to do?
in other random news, the girls from work and i had a harry potter scene-it night last friday!
it was a blaaaaaast to hang out with them and play. and drink hogwarts house color martinis (a virgin ravenclaw for me!)
one of the sweetest things though is that i went over and kate knows i don't drink.
and so when she said: "we're making house martinis!" before i even said anything, she said: "and i got gingerale for you."
which, let me just say, was SUPER nice of her. i've been to places where friends of mine drink and i've been left out of participating in things because of it, but it was so nice of her to include me and to buy me something without me even asking her to. :)
aaaaaand then kate creamed us all in the game, lol.
seriously, she was about twenty spaces ahead of us the whole time.
but it was fun and that's all that mattered.
we've decided that we need to have a british movie night soon so we can watch jane eyre and pride and prejudice and drink tea and have little sandwiches and cookies... because we are all adults. clearly. ;)
THIRTY FIVE HOURS until kimmierocks and office_bluth get to meet each other AND go see joel do his stand-up show in new york city. AND thirty five-ish more hours until they hopefully catch up with him after the show and give him a present from a bunch of us. :D
(i'm not jealous or anything. not at all.)
but i do suppose i should do some actual work today...
so, let's go do that. weeeee!
- Current Location:United States, Florida, Orlando
- Current Mood:awake
i'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
well, technically i was back on friday.
and after a nice, relaxing weekend (and falling asleep at 8PM on friday night with my laptop still on my lap), i finally have shaken off the remnants of jetlag that i had. :)
the trip was amazing and fantastic and you can read (and see) all about it on the blog post that i made last night.
otherwise, yesterday was pretty decent at work, for a monday. most of the time was spent handing out presents, talking about my trip, and doing non-stressful busywork. today is more back into the swing of things except... well, i now have the reigns once again as the intern wrangler.
(i told heather that i need my own theme music.)
literally, i have done nothing today apart from helping the interns with their assignments.
i'm printing, reviewing, looking at PDFs, editing... and applied for another job.
this one is actually in ft. lauderdale, which i'm kind of bummed about because i'd ideally want to stay in orlando.
still, it's a social media position which is great!
otherwise, really, i'm just back into the groove of things.
and by groove, i mean job-that-isn't-ending-any-time-soon-of-m
i also think i have a dentist appointment tomorrow.
but i went to ITALY. and LONDON. and both were amaaaaaazing.
and, to just top it all off, apparently joel was in rome on vacation the same time that i was.
so i tweeted about how i hadn't run into him yet.
(and yes, i was being sarcastic. i know rome is a huge city, and i'd never run into ANYONE there, let alone him.)
still, he became my favorite person once more when i woke up to a DM that said this:
once again, joel wins everything.
sorry guys. ;)
- Current Location:United States, Florida, Orlando
- Current Mood:busy
i hope to return tanner, with lots of pictures, and about 10 pounds of gelato.
pray for a safe and good vacation. :)
- Current Mood: chipper
- Current Mood: amused
meanwhile, i leave actual work in about six hours.
so yay yay yay for that!
i'm also alternating between being excited and super nervous.
1) i hate flying because of my ears. so i'm praying those will be okay for the flight.
2) i'm freaking out because i feel like i'm forgetting to pack things. but i don't think i am. but i FEEL like i am, if that makes sense, lol. i triple-checked my packing list and everything. (and then forgot socks this morning for the plane ride, so there's that...)
i actually can't believe i'm going! eeeeeeeeeeeeep!
(can you tell i'll be utterly useless at work today in terms of productivity?)
- Current Location:United States, Florida, Orlando
- Current Mood: nervous
- Current Location:United States, Florida, Orlando


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Sunflower Oil Vinaigrette
Add fresh herbs or chopped red onion to spice up this basic recipe
Add fresh herbs or chopped red onion to spice up this basic recipe
This grain-free dish is a favorite in the Willy Street Co-op's Delis. If you prepare it with gluten-free Dijon mustard, the final dish will be gluten-free.
Here's a delicious way to serve rhubarb if you're not interested in pie. Served warm, it's incredible served with crème fraîche, whipped cream, or ice cream.
During asparagus's short season, serving it raw is a great way to enjoy it. Shaving the spears into thin ribbons and briefly marinating them in a quick vinaigrette turns the asparagus soft and almost creamy.
This quick skillet isn't just for breakfast - it's an easy dish to prepare any time. Savory mushrooms, bacon, and eggs pair wonderfully with fresh green arugula.
For a satisfying meal, serve these baked, whole onions with a big salad and some bread, or alongside a grilled steak.
Served with steamed white rice, this is a restaurant-quality meal that's surprisingly straightforward to prepare.
This is an easy tea cake to whip up, and turns out fragrant with citrus and sticky with marmalade.
This is a gorgeous, Thai-inspired pasta dish, rich and creamy with coconut milk, ginger, and garlic, and tinted deep green from spinach and mint.
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This might turn into your new favorite dinner: really easy to put together, but full of flavor and healthy to boot.
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Good springtime asparagus doesn't need a lot of preparation to become a stellar part of a meal.
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For a vegetarian take on this easy and delicious recipe, use pan-fried cubed tofu instead of the shrimp, and omit the fish sauce.
Fluffy and hearty, this salad is chock-full of fresh and flavorful ingredients. Substituting brown rice for the red rice would work fine, too.
Sautéeing beet greens in olive oil turns them meltingly tender, making them a delicious topping for crostini.
Toasting the hazelnuts instead of leaving them raw results in maximum hazelnut flavor, so don't leave this step out! This nut milk is mildly sweet, but you could add a teaspoon or more of your sweetener of choice, if it's not quite sweet enough for you.
Double the sugar and chocolate in this easy granola for a super decadent version.
Deliciously flavored with grapefruit, this cake is light and springy. Nice for a sweet breakfast, or of course, for dessert.
Grapefruit, brown sugar, and spices coat pork tenderloin and turn into a caramelized, flavorful crust.
This easy dip is excellent with chicken wings!
This striking, dark pink pasta dish looks as good as it tastes. A simple green salad is all you need to make this the star of a special meal.
These rosy-hued muffins flecked with dark poppy seeds are great in the morning on your way out the door. Dairy- and gluten-free, they'll be a hit with everyone in the house.
Serve with some good bread for a wholesome, warming dinner.
Slow-cooked fennel gives this dish a nice soft creaminess, a perfect counterpoint to the Italian sausage. This is excellent served over polenta or pasta.
Using ciabatta bread for pizza crust makes getting dinner on the table fast and easy. This pizza is topped with a tasty and classic Italian combination of sweet cherry tomatoes, fennel, briney black olives and savory parmesan.
This quick, one-pan meal will surely become a favorite.
This fresh and vibrant salad hits the spot on dreary winter and fall days.
This simple vinaigrette is delicious as is, but makes a great base if you'd like to add herbs or garlic.
These tacos are so easy to make, they're sure to become a weeknight staple. The chimichurri adds a bright, tangy, and garlicky flavor that complements the black beans and kale nicely.
This is just the kind of soup to make at the beginning of the week for lunches. It's hearty enough to keep for several days, and is so delicious you won't tire of it.
Stuffed with a bunch of lacinato kale, these potatoes are tasty and seem indulgent, but have enough green to be wholesome. Serves 3 as a hearty main, or 6 as a side.
This recipe uses heat and sugar to quickly pickle thinly sliced Meyer lemon. The sweet, sour, and lightly bitter pickled lemon adds tons of flavor to this fast chicken dinner.
Raw and vegan, this eggnog is so different from what you've had before! It's full of warm spices as well as protein, fiber, and healthy fats. Cheers!
These not-too-sweet, shortbread-style cookies are a great basic cookie to have in your back pocket. Barley or oat flour instead of the rye flour could be interesting here, or if you want something more neutral, regular all-purpose would work too!
This sweet potato side dish would be perfect on the Thanksgiving table - you can easily double or triple the recipe for a large group.
This gratin, with a crispy crust and a soft, creamy filling, is surprisingly easy to make.
Gluten-free and vegan, this pasta dish is creamy comfort food that everyone can enjoy. Toss in more cooked vegetables before serving if you'd like – steamed kale or roasted broccoli would be delicious.
This dressing is rich with herbs and loads of vegetables, and bakes up with a perfectly crispy crust.
After a long day, this is a good, easy dinner to throw together that's fast but still tastes incredible.
Leftover pork from this easy dinner is fantastic in a sandwich the next day.
Scented with leek and garlic and enriched with cream and Gruyère, this gratin is baked in a low oven, which leaves a crispy crust and buttery potatoes. A mandoline will make quick work of the potatoes!
A compote made from Satsuma madarins and both pomegranate juice and seeds makes this rich and creamy panna cotta extra-special.
This palate-cleansing salad balances out rich winter meals. The recipe calls for the vegetables to be thinly sliced, and a mandoline would come in handy here.
This healthy meal can be on the table in 30 minutes, perfect for a weeknight dinner, or feeding impromptu guests.
The addition of coconut milk and vanilla makes this sweet potato dish really special.
Crunchy and vibrant, this salad is flavorful and refreshing.
Refreshing, light, and festive, this granita is the perfect way to finish a heavy meal.
Sure to please vegetarians and omnivores alike, these hearty burgers are easy to make and are so satisfying, with sharp cheese and just a touch of heat. If you've cooked the wild rice ahead of time, this recipe comes together very quickly.

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Hey folks.
So someone tossed up a beautiful piece of piercing performance on twitter today, and it reminded me of the thrill of threading sharp objects through other people's bodies. The kind of rush you get – or at least that I get – from doing that is a bit of a trip. I need to be careful about shaking hands. It makes my stomach lurch the way too much rich food, too fast, will make my stomach lurch (advice I need to take: Remember to pace yourself as a top – get your breath back under you before you drive that next spike in…). But the payoff, when your Person goes Under, when her breath deepens and her body turns liquid-boneless in your arms… Guh.
I want it.
I want more.
To that end, I'm just going to drop these three little videos (neither by me in any way, shape, or form) here for future reference. None of them are how-to videos, I don't think. But they're worth a look, none the less.
Ms Syren.
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Hey folks.
So this week's Kink of the Week topic is Blood Play.
Woohoo! 😀 😀 😀
Seriously, I saw this topic, and what popped into my head was "YAY! Jade and I actually have a kink in common!"
Not so much, apparently. But hey. Onwards!
So blood play – and knife play, and biting, and vampirism (which is a whole other topic, though I will definitely be touching on it here, possibly a lot) and scarification, and all the other stuff that goes along with blood-letting and why you might want to do it – is kind of my bag. My jam. My rich, oozing, red, red, jam.
I've been interested in vampires since I was about seven years old, so that's bound up with it somewhere. I've read those pulpy anthologies of lesbian vampire erotica (Blood Sisters and that sort of thing) and… the formula there is so far from what vampirism means to me. It's not a Power Exchange thing in the D/s sense of the word, for a start – although I won't argue that my Domme wakes up sniffing the air when there's blood to play with and in – it's a Power Exchange in the sense of an energetic feedback loop where we are feeding into each other (like being in a really good dance club where the music is fantastic and everyone's moving) and on each other. It's so far from "Oh my god, she bit my clit" (although I think I've probably done that, or something like that, at least once) that the trope is straight-up laughable. Drinking from another can be worship and gratitude, and it's always about trust, about welcoming. "I will make you my own[1]", take you in, devour you, make you part of my body. We are both letting someone get under our skin, in different ways.
That's what biting is – a kiss that goes deeper than skin.
I remember, when I was about 20, thinking "Blood sharing is more intimate than sex, because you need a lot more trust to do it, you can't put a condom over a vein".
In retrospect, this was, perhaps, a little simplistic. But my feelings about the intimacy of blood-sharing haven't actually changed. I mean, yes, you have to do your homework, be aware of how to avoid getting sick – gloves, drop-sheets, STI tests – and usually, when I'm doing blood play (the exception being my wife, because: fluid bonding) I don't actually get to drink anything, much as I might want to follow those enticing crimson rivers with my tongue. Rather, I tend to opt for the much safer second choice, which is running my hands through my Person's blood and feeding it to her, dripping from my fingertips.
I'll be in my bunk.
Anyway. So that's part of it. A big part of it.
But some of it is just straight-up predatory Monster Food.
The hiss and the tremble and way the blood beads bright on broken skin, there's no red like it, no smell. My voice teacher used to tell me to imagine smelling something wonderful, in order to get me to breathe properly, and what I imagined was the mingling of blood and sex. Not that I ever told her this, because that's got to be a little disconcerting coming from a 16-year-old, particularly one who doesn't yet know she's kinky. But that's what I was imagining and, yes, since I hadn't even kisses another person at that point, the smell I was thinking of was specifically menstrual blood. When that stuff's fresh, it's the best smell on earth. (Three minutes after the fact, though, it's really, really not. Pro-Tip for those who want to save their own. Although once it's completely dried out, it smells like honey. For real. Such sweetness under hte iron).
Moving along. Some of it – touching back to that energetic feedback loop – exists at the Sex Magic end of S/M. I love to carve words into my Person using a scalpel or an 18-gage needle (if you want more tearing and, thense, more pain), to carve them in mirror-script so that they can be read specifically in the mirror. It's magic like that pen in Harry Potter – write it until it sinks in:
You Are Loved
You Are Mine
My Horse, My Servant[2]
It's all intimacy, when you get right down to it. Yes, beauty. Yes, emphatically, lust. Yes, Woo, on a number of levels. But it's the sharing, the deep and gracious vulnerability that is offered, entrusted, accepted. That's why it matters to me.
So those are my FEELINGS on blood play.
Ms Syren.
[1] That line is from a poem called Leatherwood Honey by Amal El Mohtar – from her book The Honey Month, which you should all buy. Go on, I'll wait. 🙂
[2] P.S.: It's our 5-year service-versary today. 😀
Okay. So still playing catch-up, but maybe, possibly, getting close to being on schedule. Right!
Honestly… Meh.
I'm a stingy gal more than a thuddy one, so you'd think that I'd be all about paddles. But I'm not. Maybe it's because I'm used to paddles that are just shapes cut out of wood (like, say, a spaghetti measurer that packs a hell of a punch and leaves awesome marks, but also has a pretty useless handle when it comes to actually getting a grip on things), but I find them hard to weild and a bit ungainly. Not like a flogger (where splatter radius is kind of an issue on a number of levels), but ungainly in their own, annoying way.
Besides that, I'm typically a hands-on type so using a paddle, for the most part, is just like… "Why wouldn't I just spank someone with my hands, which feels so much more intimate, and also gives me a lot more control over how I choose to hit someone? If my hands get tired, I'll just switch to this awesome crop! That'll be great!"
I'm not really a paddles kind of girl.
None the less: Onwards!
I have used paddles before. And I wouldn't say I'm adverse to using, say, a heavy wooden spoon, or maybe a ruler, on someone since it would give a fairly satisfying thwack when it landed. But, by and large, I'm not fond of them. The skinnier and whippier the toy, the better, for me. 😉
As far as using paddles for punishment (instead of fun/pleasure) goes… Eugh. I generally try and stay away from corporeal punishment in general, just because I don't want to there to be any confusion (my own, or my Person's) about what's going on when I start pulling things out of the toy bag. I don't want to start building associations between "being angry/disapointed about something" and "acting violently towards my Person", even within a kink context.
Which has nothing to do with paddles, and everything to do with wanting to be a Good Sadist and a decent human being, but there you go.
As far as having tried them goes… The one time the idea that you could get pleasure from pain actually made sense to me, on a visceral level, it was when I slapped my thigh with a big, wooden ruler with a metal edge down one side. It stung like fuck (duh), but there was a shadow of electric thrill on the tail end of the sting.
I remember thinking "Oh… That's what that's about…" and… that was a bout it, really. Not exactly a paddle experience, but y'know, hey. Something close.
Ms Syren.
So, I was reading… I think it was Radical Ecstasy, but I might be wrong… and one of the authors was talking about how, in so many books on SM, the actions and work of the bottom/masochist get ignored. That they only ever talked about techniques and tricks for the top.
And she's right.
It's very, very rare that I see anything in print that talks about techniques for pain processing or for working yourself towards your Happy Place (or your Scared All To Hell Place, as the case may be. Wherever the scene is meant to take you, at any rate), or for running that energy through you and back out to complete the circuit between you and your top (hint: this will help your top stay energized)… granted, I tend not to seek out stuff that's specifically about bottoming, so I do have a bit of a bias here. Has anyone else noticed this?
Anyway. Trick is, when I have read "How To SM" books (Screw the Roses, The New Topping Book, The Safe Edge, etc) what I've seen is typically writing that only ever talks about the experience of the bottom and the facilitation of that experience through the actions of the top. A situation that leaves me, as a top, feeling a bit like I'm expected to be nothing but a operating system for a flogger (as the saying goes) or else that if I experience something like "top drop" (a situation so common that it has its own cutesy name, no less) or otherwise need aftercare, I'm Doing It Wrong either because I need it at all, or because I've had the audacity to ask for some when the scene is supposed to be all about the bottom.
It was, therefore, interesting to see someone coming at it from a different perspective. It's a good reminder that we can all get caught in a dichotomy of "bottom = vulnerable/passive" and "top = active/invulnerable", a dichotomy that's a little too simplistic to really work in real life.
I think there are holes, at least in The Published Stuff, around how doing a scene "is supposed to" go. When I was learning "how to top", what I was learning was how to aim a cain, how insert a needle, how to swing a flogger. That kind of thing. I was learning that tops check in with bottoms rather than (or to the exclusion of?) checking in with themselves. And I was learning, by-the-book, that SM energy was unidirectional Top–>Bottom.
In practice, thank goodness, it's something else. But how to reach for and establish that link, from both directions, and using different techniques – whether low-key or High Woo – that stuff wasn't typically treated as even something to consider in the intro books I was reading.
Maybe that's because they were "intro books" and How To Books typically aim to, well, aim and avoid things like broken bones and miscommunications. None the less, it's important to talk about stuff like how Reactions on the part of the bottom are actions on their part and are integral to the scene going well; or Syncronizing your breathing can deepen a given scene; or A top might need a glass of orange juice, a cuddle, and some crackers with peanut butter after a scene to help with recovery, just as much as a bottom might.
I'd like to see the complexity of these interactions given more air time. I think it will make us all better (and by that I mean more satisfied) perverts if we have the chance to bring that stuff up and look at it in the light. 🙂
Ms Syren.
So. Andrea Zanin has a post about earned leathers that went up back in 2007. Having just spent a weekend having a lot of discussions about leather identity (and also attending a writing workshop, which might have something to do with this, too), I'm inclined to talk a little bit about leather – as in leather clothing – within the context of Leather (as in leather culture).
One thing that came up in those discussions was that, as a culture, Leather has symbol sets, rites of passage & other rituals, and in some cases even straight-up religiosity built into it. This is a thing that cultures do, so it's no surprise.
We have collaring (and un-collaring) ceremonies. People earn club patches or caps. And we give leather.
We take this stuff – these marvelously durable, frequently (though not always) practical, articles of clothing – and we give them to each other in ceremony, imbued with meaning that goes way beyond "these will keep your feet dry in the rain".
You can read it a bit like this, maybe:
"You have worked hard. Here is some hard-working gear that can stand up to the wear you'll put it through".
"You have created something that lasts. Here is clothing to recognize what you've made. It will last, too."
But… Look, kids, I'm a writer. I tell stories. Sometimes I even tell good ones.
Stories about who we are and where we came from and how we live (or should live, or can live) in the world, these are mythology ("In the beginning, there was the Old Guard…" and "Once upon a time, a plauge ravaged our village"), they are the cosmology and axiology that reiterate and reinforce our values and our understanding of how we (as individuals, and as a community) fit into the world. When we give leather, when we recieve leather, when we inherit leather, even when we buy leather (zomg) for ourselves, we are telling stories about who we are, where we come from, and how we fit in the world.
I can give you the leather coat he wore for forty years before the cancer or the depression won that war, and the story that goes with it might be "As long as you are wearing the skin that touched his his skin, he will never really be gone".
I can put a collar on you so that you feel my hand on the back of your neck, the expectation and the protection both, even when you're not sitting at my feet.
I can give you my old army boots and tell a story that goes "I am with you every step of the way".
I can grant you the privilege of wearing a Magdaleine's Army club patch, and the story I tell you is "You belong; You are one of us".
I can wear my leather – my impractical pencil skirt that I found at value village, my "genuine leather" very high heels that I bought from a certain online mega-retailer, the jacket I picked up at last year's MLO garage sale – and access the iconography of "this is what a leather dyke looks like". It can be a beacon of acceptance for someone who is worried that her choking fantasies mean she's a Bad Feminist. Alternatively, it can announce at the dyke bar, sure as a black hanky, that I would be up for doing something rough in the ladies' room. Either way, I'm making myself known to My People.
When my wife gave me a hat – bought at a store on Church Street that sold mass-produced leather gear for the kinky crowd – it became something special. Whenever people tell me they like my hat, I tell them who gave it to me. Because on its own, it's just a hat – maybe even a slightly pretentious one – but from her hands, it's a physical manifestation of our relationship: a counterpart to the collar I put on her years ago.
I can gift you with leather, the simplest of vests or the most elaborate, hand-sewn, made-to-measure garment, even just ("just") a bracelet, and what I'm saying is this:
"This is my pride and gratitude made manifest. This is my arms around you when you are far away."
I was at Unholy Harvest over the weekend. As usual, the largest leather-dyke event on the continent was awesome. I sang at the opening cabaret ("Fly Me To the Moon") in a beaded Barbarella dress (harness? I'm not sure how much fabric you need for it to qualify as a dress) that I'd spent the past week sewing. I ran a foot-fetish workshop that was as much an ideas-sharing discussion as a chalk-and-talk "lecture", took in two discussions on leather identity and one on navigating the pitfalls and boundaries of being a kinky health-care and/or mental-health-care service provider (who may run into both colleagues AND clients at parties or other community events). I missed out on a D/s and Mental Health discussion; a workshop on sex with trans women[1]; and watching my lovely wife teach a big chunk of her community how to repair minor issues with their gear (think popped grommets and un-stuck soles) and give a dozen eager people speedy stitchers of their own. I stretched my sadistic, poly wings a little and played with a couple of people whom I've been interested in for ages but was only able to ask (have the gumption to ask) to play with me this year. (It went well. It sounds like they'd both be game for playing again, so YAY! :-D) I saw Jacqueline and Andrea break down in tears when they were gifted leather by Everybody at the closing ceremonies.
It was a good weekend. A weekend where we – not just me, but *so many of us* – disclosed our vulnerabilities (past traumas, current pain, deep-seated insecurities and fears about what it is or isn't okay for us to be) and walked out again feeling heard and less alone.
That's a big deal.
Let me be clear on this – none of this, that I know of, was Ordeal Ritual (although those came up during the Health Care SPs Circle, and someone came and talked to me about That Stuff a little later on. I suggested a book – not an ordeal-focused book, but The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action by Starhawk and Hillary Valentine – as something that might be useful for crafting some rituals she's been working on).
But it's still a Going Through with the arms of your community around you, and that matters.
Which, in a sloppy, abrupt way, does segue into what I want to blog about today.
One of the workshops I went to was about Leather Phamilies – it was facilitated by a couple of people who are creating an anthology about such things, and who were looking for further perspectives on the subject.
Some of the things that came up in the discussion (when we were trying to come up with a working definition of "Leather" before we went on to "Leather Phamily/Family"; but also much later in the car, on the way home, when the same question came up) were as follows:
Leather as a culture – with regional variations, a common value system[2], rites of passage (collarings and uncollarings, the gifting of leather, the earning of club colours), and even "traditional dress".
Leather as a community that hangs out and/or interacts beyond the party circuit or the bedroom[3]; a community that is primarily queer or queer-focused
Leather as a grass-roots social safety net (Mama's Family is one example, but there are also examples of social housing for trauma survivors, and less formal situations like: I moved cities and suddenly lost my job, and this community of people who I didn't even really know yet stepped up and filled my fridge, helped me find new work, renegotiated my rent, held me while I cried, did concrete things that literally kept me going)
Leather as a (working) classed identity[4]
Leather as a community that is very centered on knowledge-transfer
And, perhaps weirdly, that's the one I want to talk about right now.
Because I never thought of it like that. I just assumed that everyone was a huge nerd when it came to kink. But, on the way home in the car, one of the gals – who used to run a club that primarily catered to the pansexual bdsm scene – said that the leather dykes are all about workshops and education in a way that the pansexual bdsm crown… isn't.
And, having since heard a quotation from that Robert J Rubel book (see [3]) siting the dual origins of the broadest iteration of North American kinkdom, I can't help thinking that this makes a lot of sense.
We have in our queer, leather community a history and, I think, a mythology about knowledge transfer.
Weird? Maybe.
But think about it.
Pre-internet, you actually did have to know someone who knew someone to find out when the events were or where they were happening, or even to be allowed in the door. There was no fetlife. There were no youtube tutorials to teach you (oh, for example) how to do a brand safely. There was word of mouth and, if you were lucky, a newsletter on paper that you might be able to sign up for if you found out it existed. By that token, we have a real history of teaching each other in a hands-on, in-person fashion.
But we also have a mythology – and I mean this in the anthropology/religious-studies sense of the word where "mythology" means "our deepest truths; the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, where we came from, and how to live and fit in the world" – about kinky, erotic apprenticeship. Think Mr. Benson or The Marketplace series for example, but also think about the stories and protocols of the Old Guard, of learning to top by bottoming and doing your first topping scene under the supervision of your master.
Hands-on thinky-types who learn by doing as much as by checking out the theory?
I hadn't thought of it that way – or at least I hadn't thought that we were unique in that way. Maybe that's a better way of putting it.
Anyway. Those are some thoughts (or some more thoughts) on leather as a culture.
Ms Syren.
[1] I regret missing this. Apparently it was EPIC. It took seven years for such a workshop to be offered (and, yes, it was taught be a couple of trans chicks), but it was really, really popular when it was. I think this bodes well. 😀
[2] If I were to take a guess? Honesty, loyalty, pleasure (!!!), honour, kindness (and/or compassion?), respect, joy, endurance (meaning both "I can take it" and "I can make/fix something so that it doesn't fall apart"), really good food (maybe that's just the dykes?), trust, flexibility/willingness to stretch and grow (physically but also in terms of skills, experiences, and understanding), knowledge + expertise & thinky-thinking (possibly also just the dykes?), connection(!), DIY and/or self-sufficiency, and got-your-back-itude (support for community / helping when called and stepping up without being asked).
[3] Robert J Rubel (author of Master/slave Relations, fyi) offered a distinction between what he called "leather" and "not leather" (but which I've also heard described as "leather community" and "bdsm community") that was based on history and origin – "leather", by his definition, grew out of gay veterans communities and motorcycle clubs in post-WW2 United States (1945-ish to 1960-ish); while "bdsm / not-leather" grew out of the swing community (of the 1960s but also much earlier than that).
[4] Which, itself, does tie into the queerness and the motorcycle clubs in our history. Both of those populations have historically been working class and/or poor, have done primarily service-industry jobs, have been sexworkers (men and women), have been able to afford the cost of a motorcycle but not a car, have been working through multiple levels of trauma and/or marginalization and needed capital-C Community to help with that, have joined the army for financial reasons, have been Kicked Out and making a buck in the bars shining boots and hoping to hook up with someone at the end of the night for a place to sleep, have appreciated donated, second-hand, durable clothing like, say, leather jackets or boots or chaps.
The poster pretty-much says it all.
My lovely wife, as she's wrapping up her title year as Bootblack Ottawa 2013, is giving a bootblacking 101 workshop this Wednesday (that's tomorrow) at Swizzles Bar, which is on the lower level of 246 Queen Street in Ottawa.
So. If you love leather and want to know how to take care of it, or if you want to know how to protect your boots against the salt roads of the coming winter, you might want to check this one out. 🙂
I'm pretty sure the workshop is free, although do bring a donation just in case (if it turns out to be free then, hey, bonus).
Hoping to see lots of people there.
Ms Syren.
So here's a thing. Sometimes I get FL messages from people – almost all of whom are male-identified[1] – who I don't know, who open with something like "Hello, Mistress", or similar.
I have NO IDEA (ahaha) whether male-identified dominants get unsolicited "Hello Master" messages from female-identified subs with any degree of frequency or regularity (although I can sure-as-fuck hazard a seriously educated guess), so this is a post talking 100% about approaching dominant (or, hell, NOT dominant) women on fetlife.
See… I think "Hello, Mistress" is probably supposed to be polite.
More accurately, while I'm pretty sure the majority of people who send me this message don't actually give a shit about "polite" because, if they did, they'd be not contacting me in the first place, as per my very clearly stated expectations(see footnote [1]), but I'd also like to hope that at least some of the people who send messages like that, to anybody, are trying to be polite, trying to be respectful of someone's identification as a dominant woman, and are sincerely hoping to interact with the woman they've just tried to engage.
The thing is… trying to be polite doesn't really cut it, and "Hello, Mistress" isn't actually polite unless the adressee has the words "You will address me as Mistress" written explicitely in their profile[2].
So here I am, wanting to explain the reason why it isn't polite.
Have you ever been at a bar (or a bus stop, or a grocery store, or wherever) and seen a stranger go up to someone and address her[3] as "Hey, sweetheart" or some other term of endearment ("baby", "honey", "shorty", etc) that is completely inapropriate due to the fact that they don't know her at all?
You know how that's creepy and entitled and presumptouous and, therefore, incredibly off-putting and gross?
This is the same thing.[4]
When you greet a stranger with "Hello, Mistress", what you're actually saying to her is "I've already slotted you into X position in my life, and I don't care whether or not you're okay with that. Your agency and desire are irrelevant to me."
Which, clearly, is an incredibly shitty way to talk to someone, especially if you're actual goal is to be polite and respectful.
So. I'm going to take a page from Captain Awkward, and offer y'all a (completely, 100% unsolicited, I realize) script for How to Approach Someone on Fetlife.
Caveate: You can't control other people's responses. While using language to
try and manipulate someone into giving you what you want express your desires and make your case for wanting them fulfilled is totally normal and human, it's also not actually guaranteed to work. None the less, treating someone as a unique individual with agency, autonomy, and desires of her own… that's not gonna hurt your chances.
"Hi, [person's name],
I saw on your profile that you're into X, Y, and Z. I've been curious about Y and Z [for a long time / since I took a recent workshop & decided I wanted to know more / since reading that scene in Kushiel's Dart / etc] and I'm wondering if you'd be interested in [talking about it / answering some questions / negotiating a scene] with me.
If you are, please feel free to get in touch. Also, if there's a particular way you'd like me to address you, please let me know what it is.
Hoping to hear from you soon,
[Your Name Here]"
Now, I do have to admit to a bit of a bias here. The only person who has ever approached me like this? Reader, I married her. So clearly this works for me.
Regardless, there you have it. A handy script that is respectful, shows you've done rather more than just looked at someone's sexy, sexy profile pictures, and suggests that you have some kinky interests in common, while also leaving the door open in case someone you approach actually would appreciate it if you called them Mistress during negotiations.
Modify as necessary, and best of luck. 🙂
Ms Syren.
[1] My FL profile says "dudes need not apply", in an effort to cull the flow of random strangers propositioning me. I think it's telling, and also upsetting, that damn near every woman I know who has an FL account ALSO has that disclaimer right at the top of their profile. I also think it's telling, and even more upsetting, that there are still so many dudes who flat-out ignore that boundary and proposition us anyway. It's fucking RUDE. Stop doing it!
[2] In which case chances are good that the Mistress in question (A) is a professional, in which case she's here to find clients, not lovers, and you will be expected to pay for her services; OR (B) is potentially Lady Dommely-Domme (they do happen, occasionally) and… probably won't be all that much fun to spend your time with. Just sayin'.
[3] Because we're talking about "Hello Mistress" here.
[4] Yes, if their FL name is something like "Mistress Serengeti", that's different. Saying "Hello, Mistress Serengeti" is like saying "Hello, Josephine". It's someone's name. That's fine.
Princess Kali (of KinkAcademy and PassionateU) is running a year-long online course called the Kink Leaders Program. It's a minimal time committment (call it 4-6 hours per month?) that culminates in the organizing and running of a Fabulous Kink Event/Project/Service in one's own community.
I'm looking at this because (a) it would be a handy skill-set to build on, (b) it would be useful in areas other than kink, (c) it would be a handy networking opportunity within the wider (North American? Global Anglophone?) kink community, and hey (d) it would give me a new project to work on (with help!) which would be awesome. 🙂
So I've sent off an email to Princess Kali asking a few questions (mostly around scheduling, to be honest), and am prepping to add this handy-dandy program to my personal 2013-2014 course of study on Leather, Power, Magic, and Religion.
Depending on what is or is not allowed in the conditions of the course, I may wind up blogging my homework assignments as I go along. We shall see. 🙂
Either way, I'm excited! 😀
[EDIT: I have now enrolled in the course. Here's to a year of learning! :-D]
Ms. Syren.
Today marks three years of the service-arrangement that I share with Ghost.
Along the way, she has become my friend, my lover, my sweetheart, my partner, my property, and (most recently) my wife.
Tonight, my altars are (finally) burning, we have an out-of-town friend staying an unexpected extra day, I've smoked the house with myrrh (purification and blessings), and I have a duck roasting in the oven. The three of us are drinking red wine (yet another bottle from the wedding, as it happens).
A year ago, I posted about what I had learned about myself as a dominant, among other things. This year has been one of learning how to… not "share" power, but learning how to hold power and share my submissive – both with her vanilla partner and with someone over-whom she holds power.
The whole year hasn't been taken up with this, I realize, but it's been something that, one way or another, has been on my mind.
A while ago, I wrote a post called "H is for Honour". Learning how to share, without dropping my submissive's reins and without "losing" my Place in her life (or letting resentment develope due to feeling like that's what's happening) is a way of living with honour, I think. Certainly, it's one more way in-which I strive to live with grace as a dominant.
Happy Anniversary to us. 🙂
Ms Syren.


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Oops... silly me. Sharia law is soon to take over in the UK
And people actually listen to what this bat-shit crazy old broad has to say? Sounds as if she's a bit more of this. But on the other hand, possibly this little ditty works better as this gal blitzkrieg's her way through the UK.
Anyhow, if there's going to be a Catholic Re-Awakening in the British Isles, the intrepid and oh, so courageous bishops better quit sitting on their hands and start acting like Catholic Bishops. But don't count on that happening any time soon. Waaaaaay too much "Spirit of Vatican II" huggy-touchies that have the priority over actual evangelization.
That is before the Neo-Druids unwittingly finish paving the way for the moslems. Mark my words... once any semblance of Christianity has been wiped away, that's when the moslems will fill the void and turn a particular Sceptered Isle into The Sultanate of Englandobad.
But here's some of a rather interesting article from LifeSiteNews.com; (Emphasis mine)
Called "a regression to the brutal ancient world, when enforced suicide as a punishment was commonplace"
LONDON, September 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview, Baroness Mary Helen Warnock has said that people suffering dementia have a duty to commit suicide.
Baroness Warnock, called the "philosopher queen", is regarded as Britain's leading moral philosopher. She said that she hopes people will soon be "licensed to put others down" who have become a burden on the health care system.
She told the Church of Scotland's Life and Work magazine, "If you're demented, you're wasting people's lives - your family's lives - and you're wasting the resources of the National Health Service."
In another article for a Norwegian periodical, titled "A Duty to Die?" she suggests, "There's nothing wrong with feeling you ought to do so [commit suicide] for the sake of others as well as yourself."
"In other contexts, sacrificing oneself for one's family would be considered good. I don't see what is so horrible about the motive of not wanting to be an increasing nuisance."
John Smeaton, director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, wrote that Warnock's comments are "a regression to the brutal ancient world, when enforced suicide as a punishment was commonplace."
Warnock's ideas, however, can also be traced to a period of history much closer to our own. In his book "The Origins of Nazi Genocide: from Euthanasia to the Final Solution", US holocaust historian Henry Friedlander chronicled the growth and application of utilitarian and eugenic philosophies identical to Lady Warnock's.
Under the influence of utilitarian eugenic philosophies, also called "social Darwinism", German officials in the 1930s instituted a program of mass euthanasia for persons the state considered undesirable, labeling them "lebensunwertes leben": life unworthy of life and "useless eaters." Among the groups targeted for euthanasia were developmentally disabled people, disabled children, and elderly people suffering from dementia.
In Nazi Germany's Aktion T4 programme, in which the gas chamber technology was developed, patients "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination," were killed by physicians on the grounds that they were a burden to their families and to the state. After the war, the Nuremberg Trials found evidence that about 275,000 people had been euthanised.
An important part of the Nazi euthanasia program was a campaign of propaganda to convince the public that euthanasia was a "compassionate" solution for patients and their families and that it would control the costs of health care.
As one of the world's most prominent proponents of the "new" utilitarianism, in 2005, Baroness Warnock said that Britain should follow the Dutch euthanasia model in setting an age limit below which premature babies would not routinely be resuscitated. She said that only those infants who show a strong chance of living to be healthy should be allowed to survive.
Her interview this week was not the first time she has suggested that there is an obligation for suicide among seriously ill people. In 2004, she told the Times that parents who want to continue medical treatment for their seriously ill children should have to pay for it themselves. "I don't see what is so horrible about the motive of not wanting to be an increasing nuisance," she said. "I am not ashamed to say some lives are more worth living than others."
"Maybe it has to come down to saying: 'Okay, they can stay alive but the family will have to pay for it.' Otherwise it will be an awful drain on public resources," she said.


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Hi everyone! New here :)
I just posted in the July roll call to introduce myself. We just started TTC #1. You all seem so nice and supportive. Can't wait to get to know you! :smile:
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Welcome! I hope your visit here is short and sweet! I recommend reading some of the journals to familiarize yourself with everyone's TTC journey... Although I was not too good at mine and lapsed, LOL.
Look forward to getting to know you!
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:welcome: Blueskies, I'm Jen (26) one of the co-hosts for the board. Me and DF have done IUI#2 this cycle and have all our fingers & toes crossed.
Sorry about the possible chemical, hopefully you'll get your BFP soon :gl:
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Hi Blueskies :waves: I am Elle. Welcome to the board!!
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The girls here are so awesome and supportive!
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I'm Kelley. Good luck on your TTC adventure!
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Howdy! I'm Shandy (27) and DH (30). We have been TTC for 5 months.
I read about the possible chemical and my heart goes out to you. I hope you can get some answers from your doctor. Look forward to getting to know you better but hope your stay is short and sweet!
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@Ari - I saw in the roll call that you're going to Japan?? That is awesome! My mom is Japanese and I've always wanted to go there. Have you been before? Let me know how you like it! I'll get over there someday.
@Anna - where can I find the journals? Maybe I'll try to start one too!
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Hi! I'm new, too. I'm Mel, been TTC#1 for about a year. Unfortunately I've had 3 losses, but I'm hopeful and looking forward. I hope your OB appointment goes well, and that you get the support you need!
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Hi Mel! Thank you. I'm so sorry about your losses. Fingers and toes are crossed for all of you ladies! :greencheer:
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When the body of missing computer expert Martin Longthorn turns up in the morgue of a teaching hospital under a false name, Strickland (Anthony Calf) asks the team to look into the case. Martin worked for the Metropolitan Police and his disappearance caused concern at the time. However, it now appears that Martin died of natural causes so why was his body hidden - and by whom?
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Clear Blue Water
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February 1, 2013
I wish to make it clear that the Haloche requires that cases involving criminal activity must be reported to the authorities (social services or police) without delay. Victims of crime who do so, will of course be given all appropriate support. Where criminal activity is only suspected, the above also applies, however care must then be taken to ascertain that these concerns do indeed have a reasonable basis.
May God grant all of us the protection necessary to ensure that the situation never occurs in practice.
Good Shabbos
Rabbi Cohn
So it appears we have a serious machloikes haposkim (dispute of the authorities). Rav Padwa is of the view that reporting abuse to the police is mesira and anyway "the police is not the solution," while Rabbi Cohn thinks it is actually haloche that requires one to report all criminal activity to the authorities which includes the police.
Rabbi Cohn as we know is also an 'honest broker' in the UOHC convened Beis Din investigating the Towelgate affair and it was he who put out a call for witnesses to come forward. One therefore wonders what his advice will be to complainants who allege criminal activity.


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ORLANDO, Fla. — Through the North American Menopause Society Menopause Health Questionnaire, researchers report they were able to assess the negative view of menopause associated with its symptoms.
"As we know, there are multiple determinants of menopausal experience, including biological, psychological and sociological factors that influence the experience," Richa Sood, MD, NCMP, of the department of general internal medicine and the women's health clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said during a presentation at the North American Menopause Society 23rd Annual Meeting.
Sood and colleagues used self-reported responses to 33 questions in section 13 of the Menopause Health Questionnaire to examine how bothersome symptoms were for patients. The median age of the 2,126 patients included in the study was 52 years.
According to Sood, the most common symptoms included difficulty staying asleep (51.6%), feeling tired (49.8%), hot flashes (42.7%), lack of interest in sexual activity (42.4%), weight gain (41.9%) and night sweats (37.9%).
The researchers found that positive views of menopause were reported by 1,161 women, and 210 women reported a negative view of menopause. The remaining 755 women in the study did not report a clear view.
According to data, the most common symptoms among women who viewed menopause in a negative light included difficulty concentrating (34.9%; OR=2.1; 95% CI, 1.6-2.9), anxiety (30.9%; OR=2.3; 95% CI, 1.7-3.1) and irritability (29.4%; OR=2.4; 95% CI, 1.8-3.2).
"A negative view of menopause was associated most commonly with symptoms of anxiety, irritability, and concentration. Hot flashes and night sweats, although frequently reported, were not as commonly associated with a negative view of menopause," Sood said.
More research is needed due to the multifactorial nature of symptoms and view of menopause, Sood said. – by Samantha Costa
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Hole 1 – 376 yards, par 4: 4
Played safe with a five-wood into the heart of the massive fairway, followed by a sand-wedge to 12 feet and two putts.
Hole 2 – 453 yards, par 4: 4
Made light of an unsighted tee shot by opting for the driver – one 300-yard blow later, he was reaching for the nine-iron, leaving himself another 12-foot birdie attempt.
Hole 3 – 397 yards, par 4: 3
Steered his ball down an undulating fairway for an approach from only 75 yards. A third straight putt from 12-foot range yielded his first birdie.
Hole 4 – 480 yards, par 4: 4
Did not think twice about the island of scrub visible from the tee, clearing it easily with his driver. An indifferent seven-iron left his 40 feet away: two-putt territory.
Hole 5 – 568 yards, par 5: 5
Two lusty blows, with driver and five-wood, left him in the valley short of a green larger than a full-sized football pitch. Missed his eight-foot birdie effort.
Hole 6 – 412 yards, par 4: 4
Escaped the intimidating cluster of bunkers on the left known as 'the Coffins', reducing the hole to a drive and a 70-yard lob wedge to 10 feet. Alas he missed the putt.
Hole 7 – 371 yards, par 4: 4
Almost a drivable par-four for a player capable of his distances, but he resisted temptation with three-wood, lob wedge, and two putts from 40 feet.
Hole 8 – 175 yards, par 3: 3
The ball typically takes a hard first bounce on this green and so it proved for McIlroy, as his seven-iron shot drifted 25 feet from the flag, setting up a two-putt.
Hole 9 – 352 yards, par 4: 2
Called 'End', as it marks the Old Course's farthest point from the clubhouse, the ninth can tempt many players with the breeze at their backs to try to drive the green.
McIlroy, on the calmest of St Andrews mornings, did not profit from any wind assistance but still launched his tee shot far and straight enough to evade two pot bunkers, Boase's and End Hole, lurking in the fairway to swallow up anything short.
Having watched the drive describe the perfect path to finish just 15 feet from the pin, McIlroy holed the putt for a rare eagle two, and a breakthrough that sparked his back-nine surge.
Hole 10 – 386 yards, par 4: 3
Not emboldened by his eagle at the ninth to drive this hole, too, he took out the three-wood and feathered a sand-wedge to six feet for birdie No 2.
Hole 11 – 174 yards, par 3 – 2 Made the most of a forgiving pin position by lofting his seven-iron high over Strath Bunker, holing the ensuing eight-footer.
Hole 12 – 348 yards, par 4: 3
Disregarded the fact that this hole had been lengthened by 34 yards since 2005, leaving his drive 50 feet from the flag and sealing a third straight birdie after an excellent lag.
Hole 13 – 465 yards, par 4: 4
Choked down with the tee shot to a three-wood, seeing the Coffins come back
into a play, but the sensible play resulted in a respectable par
Hole 14 – 618 yards, par 5: 4
Approached the longest hole in Open history aggressively, with driver then three-wood. Skewed his second shot into the boondocks on the right but still got up and down.
Hole 15 – 455 yards, par 4: 3
Swept his three-wood over the Sutherland bunker to line up a nine-iron into the steeply banking double green, shared with the green. Holed out from 15 feet.
Hole 16 – 423 yards, par 4: 4
Respecting the out-of-bounds area all the way down the right, played strategically by sealed his par with three-iron, seven-iron, and two putts from 20 feet.
Hole 17 – 495 yards, par 4: 4
The lengthening of the Road Hole did not deter so prodigious a hitter, as a pure drive produced a six-iron approach to three feet. Missed the birdie putt.
Hole 18 – 357 yards, par 4: 3
Aimed his drive at the old clock on the R&A clubhouse, before letting a lob-wedge run out to three feet from the pin. Made his birdie – a grandstand finish.
McIlroy recorded zero three-putts, hit 17 of 18 greens, 13 of 16 fairways with an average driving distance of 311 yards, and took 28 putts in compiling his most significant number of the day, a 63.


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Using our Scale for a Good is a new Tesco value. It highlights our efforts to exert a positive influence on the world in which we operate. With our size, abilities and reach, we want to be part of the solution to issues which really matter to our customers, colleagues and society in general.
Our role in society is an extension of our Core Purpose: we make what matters better, together. Our scale gives us an opportunity to make a positive difference to some of the biggest challenges facing the world. We have given a lot of thought to where we are most relevant and where we have an authentic contribution to make. That's why we have three important areas where we believe we have the skills, expertise and resources to make a meaningful difference: our three big ambitions.
We want to create new opportunities for young people
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Report: Google disbands Titan Aerospace team
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January 11, 2017 10:26 PM
An up-and-coming New Mexico business chose to join with Google a few years ago. Now, it looks like that move has proven to be fatal.
Solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace was based out of Moriarty. Then in 2014, Google bought the company and moved it to California.
The Washington Post reports Google's parent company is scaling back its program to deliver internet by drone, so they've disbanded the Titan team.
Dozens of employees have been reassigned to other projects.
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text: Hey Guys, I'm back looking for another solution for my friend's DX. He has been trying to get into the nitty gritty world of rooting, kernals, hacking, etc., but he is still very early so a lot of stuff is foggy. He's been trying lots of rooting apps, ROM Managers, and various "easy fix" methods. I'm not a big fan of these because you can't really track what's happening and it just opens the door for more problems IMHO. I'd like to step in and get him on track, with a fresh installation so we can have a clean slate for trying things out (and I can keep track of what stuff is performed), but I know the X is a lot more picky than my Incredible so I don't wanna brick his phone. Here's what's been done: - He unrooted (somehow) and OTA updated to the newest DX update (the one that includes Madden) - He tried rooting using some tool from Droid Life posted today but it didn't work - He still has a version of ClockworkMod Recovery on his phone - I used his clockworkmod recovery to factory reset/wipe his phone - He now has a fresh install with, I assume, the recent OTA "Madden" update, and a ClockworkMod Recovery. How can I, either, root and get him the latest ClockworkMod recovery; OR return him back to the stock recovery so he can be 100% stock and I can do my own research from there to move him along the root/ROM/kernel path? Thanks guys!!!


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Bus blaze not deliberate
Fire investigators say a blaze which destroyed a bus at a Traralgon nursing home on Monday was not deliberately lit.
A Country Fire Authority spokeswoman says an electrical fault in the engine bay sparked the blaze.
The O'Mara House nursing home manager, Gayle Fisher, says it hopes its insurance will cover the cost of a new bus.
She says it is a huge relief to know that the nursing home was not targeted.
"Oh absolutely yes for sure we would hate to think there was an intruder inside the building setting alight ... our bus, so it's certainly a huge relief to know that the fire brigade believe there was no foul play involved in the bus fire," she said.
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How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy
Published: February 28, 2013
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In some sense, the German Baptists overlapped with each of the four dominant categories of long-distance train passengers. They didn't fly for religious reasons; they were not quite obsessed with trains, but they were fascinated by sights of a country otherwise invisible to them; like the Thibodaux 8, they were escaping home while knowing that they would soon return to their looms and their sweet corn. Like everyone else on a long-distance train, they were in-betweeners — in transit, in other words.
The train left the El Paso station, skirting the chain-link fence that traced the Mexican border; to the right were glass office buildings and parking lots; to the left, sloping downward, were Juarez's sandy roads and its orange, lime green and white shacks with laundry hanging from clotheslines over dirt yards. Lynn and her grandmother played the card game Set, which has its own set of cards — they forswore standard decks in order to avoid the temptation of gambling. At the end of the car, the Rodriguezes and Escamillas were betting on hands of poker — five-card stud, Follow the Queen, No Peek — in the same two booths where, 24 hours earlier, the Thibodaux Toups played Pedro.
The German Baptist sisters were visiting relatives in Benson, Ariz. Their grandmother would stay there, but they would return to Ohio, taking the long route in order to see more of the country: the Sunset Limited to Los Angeles, the Coast Starlight to Seattle, the Empire Builder to Chicago and the Cardinal back to Indianapolis. Lynn, six years Sharon's junior, was engaged. Upon returning to Ohio, she would be married. Sharon was single.
"It must be difficult to find a suitable match in such a small community," I said.
"Not really," Sharon said. "There are 40 other young people in our community. More than half of those are male."
She returned, blushing, to her book. It was a first-edition hardcover copy of a 1951 novel, Argye M. Briggs's "Hem of His Garment." Sharon's mother gave it to her for the journey. Sharon didn't find the novel particularly exciting. It was about a young woman whose religious devotion was tested by a difficult marriage and the tribulations of rural life. The heroine's name was Sharon.
Sharon was soon distracted by the scenery outside the train. The Sunset Limited was approaching its second sunset; it had traversed the Continental Divide and the Arizona border. The desert was reddish and brown; the Dragoon Mountains scraped the underbelly of gray clouds. Sharon didn't want to miss anything — train travel was her only opportunity to see the country, after all, and when the sun rose, the train would be in Union Station.
Sharon and Lynn had a four-hour layover in Los Angeles, and they already knew how they were going to use it. They would catch the Big Blue Bus's Rapid 10 line, which ran express to Santa Monica. They would debark at the last stop and walk together to the end of the Santa Monica pier so that they could see the Pacific Ocean. And there they would remain, standing at the edge of the continent, staring at the sea, until it was time to get back on the Big Blue Bus, which would take them to the Coast Starlight, which would take them to the Empire Builder, which would take them to the Cardinal, which would take them to Indianapolis, where a boy with a car would be waiting to take them home.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: March 17, 2013
An article on March 3 about train travel misstated the name of the Amtrak train that runs between Los Angeles and Seattle. It is the Coast Starlight, not the Coastal Starlight.


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Former house of Jihadi John being rented out for £3,000 a MONTH
JIHADI JOHN'S former council house is being rented out for £3,000 a month.
The Islamic State executioner was brought up in the four-bed terraced house in west London's swanky Maida Vale.
His family fled the property after the butcher's real identity was disclosed as Mohammed Emwazi.
Now six housemates are privately renting the home after moving to Britain from France, Italy, Colombia and Africa.
"It doesn't put me off living here, I think I would still have moved in if I had known – it's a house, what can you do?"One of the tenants
They are paying between £600 and £800 a month per room but had no idea it was the masked killer's former digs.
One of the tenants, a 24-year-old restaurant worker from Milan, said: "I saw an advert for the spare room. I had no idea Jihadi John lived here, I am shocked, stunned."
"No-one knew, the landlord never mentioned it. It is strange to think he was here.
"It doesn't put me off living here, I think I would still have moved in if I had known – it's a house, what can you do?"
Jihadi John has featured in a series of gruesome videos threatening the West before beheading Isis hostages.
His victims include British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning as well as US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
The pad was privately owned before Westminster Council provided it to the family through a social housing scheme.
Landlord Ghazanfar Ullah Khan had let the property lie empty for a while but has now decided to rent it out on the open market.


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Austrian architect Nina Mair designed a mirror that is reminiscent of 1950s elegance with its harmoniously shaped radii and brass yet still retains its contemporary aesthetics. The generous depth of the surrounding brass frame is visually doubled in the mirror and gets a special formal conciseness while remaining a fine, elegant line when viewed from the edge. Mounted on the wall, the ribbon-like brass frame of the mirror becomes a surface for cosmetic products or small treasures, which receive a perfect frame - a stage that enhances each object. The Cypris Mirror can be used in lobbies or bathrooms, dressing rooms or wardrobes, living rooms or semi-public areas. It is available in various sizes and can be mounted horizontally or vertically, or even leaned against the wall.
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Minimal Cutbacks In Corporate Welfare
June 4, 1996
Federal subsidies to 35 of the "least defensible" corporate welfare programs were cut 15 percent in the 1996 budget, according to a just-released study by the Cato Institute.
Cato researchers Stephen Moore and Dean Stansel selected and tracked the 35 most egregious programs from among an estimated 125 corporate subsidies and tax breaks which benefit some companies and industries at the expense of other businesses and taxpayers.
Here are some of their findings:
- The total cost of all subsidies and tax preferences for 125 programs is about $75 billion a year.
- Of the 35 programs studied, 29 had their budgets trimmed by about $2.8 billion, or 15 percent, from 1995.
- Had all of the 125 programs identified as corporate boondoggles suffered the same 15 percent loss of funding, the savings to the fiscal 1996 budget would have exceeded $10 billion.
The size of the cuts ranged from total elimination of some programs to very modest reductions in funding of others.
- Demonstration projects for the Federal Highway Administration -- a $352 million boondoggle for private contractors last year -- were eliminated this year.
- The U. S. Travel and Tourism Administration -- which duplicates the efforts of private companies in promoting U. S. tourism abroad --was abolished for a $16 million savings.
- However, the Agriculture Department's Market Promotion Program -- which pays for foreign advertising of American farm goods -- saw its budget actually increase from about $86 million last year to $90 million this year, thereby helping such needy, threadbare recipients as Gallo Wineries and McDonald's.
The House Budget Committee initially pushed for $74.5 billion in cuts in all business subsidy programs over seven years. The savings were to come through elimination of the Small Business Administration, the Commerce Department and other agencies.
But shifting coalitions of Democrats and moderate Republicans deep-sixed these efforts. The White House also bears much of the blame, according to Cato. President C1inton's original budget proposal for fiscal 1996 would actually have increased spending for the 35 worst programs by 0.3 percent.
Source: Perspective, "Nibbling Around the Edges," Investor's Business Daily, June 4, 1996.
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West Ishpeming, Michigan Drug Rehab Solutions
(POPULATION: 2,792)West Ishpeming, Michigan has seen a tremendous need for drug rehab for quite some time. In fact, countless West Ishpeming, Michigan families have sought help for cocaine addiction, alcohol addiction, marijuana addiction, heroin addiction, prescription drug addiction and many other addictions with the goal of saving someone they love from loss of life, family and freedom. Still, the help those West Ishpeming, Michigan families seek often alludes them due to many factors.
Someone in West Ishpeming, Michigan could be in search of inpatient or out patient drug rehab, detox services, bio-physical rehab in a residential setting or other varieties of addiction recovery. Depending on the local West Ishpeming, Michigan resources that same family may become overwhelmed with the sheer lack of quality rehab they see available. It is one thing for someone in West Ishpeming, Michigan to gain admission to a drug rehab facility but quite another to actually see their loved one regain full control over their life back from the addiction.
It is the families of West Ishpeming, Michigan that drives us to do our research and sort through the confusions associated with drug rehab discovery.


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LOCATION: 1300 N Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23230
HOURS: Monday - Closed Tues - Saturday 11am -12am Sunday - 3pm - 10pm
General Manager: William Query
Born in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Raised in King William county, Va. Served in the United States Marine corps. Enjoys boxing and spending time with his beautiful wife and 11 month old baby boy, Alden.
Joining EAT in 2009, Will has become an integral member of the EAT family. Assuming the helm at Boulevard Burger and Brew at its inception Will looks forward to each day of work where the guest experience is paramount! Come say "Hi" to Will and ask him about his favorite beer on tap.


text: Some years ago we were installing an irrigation system at a new fire station being built in early november, we got slammed with a few inches of snow one night and it pretty much ended our season, we go back a week later to grab our 16' enclosed trailer only to find the latch that held the lock was cut and a hammer drill and some other tools were stolen. I drove over to the townships police station to make a report, as i am talking to an officer he asks me where the theft happened, I literally pointed out his window and said you see that trailer? that's it. It wasn't too funny at the time, but over the years it's made me laugh, just goes to show you that no matter where you are your stuff is not safe.


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The 16-in-1 Screwdriver Set offers the power of a full-bodied screwdriver and the precision of a jeweler's screwdriver. The set features a removable jeweler's carrier which can either be used alone or in conjunction with the 750 series Versa-Grip handle. 8 double-ended screwdriver blades provide viable solutions for most fasteners and are easily stored beneath the handle cap.
California residents: see Proposition 65 information
- Double-ended alloy bits are durable
- Versa-grip handle offers comfort and control
- Set includes a 2-handle, full-bodied screwdriver and 8 double-ended alloy bits
- Bits include #0, #000 and #0000 Philips tips; 3/64 in., 5/64 in. and 1/8 in. slotted tips; 1/2 in., 1/16 in., 5/64 in. and 3/32 in. hex tips; T5, T6, T8 and T10 tips and #0 and #1 square recess tips
- Ideal for both large and small applications
- Blades can be stored beneath the handle cap, helping you and your work station stay neat and organized
- Embedded magnet in the handle helps you use the screwdriver with a power shank bit (not included)
- Removable ABS jeweler's carrier can be used alone in small workspaces, holds screwdriver blades and fits snugly into the handle