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Fans of skull inspired gadgets like this DVD Player, USB Drive, Belt Buckle, and Phone with Glowing Eyes can now add a new USB MP3 player with a built-in speaker to their collection.
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3) If you have lips as dry as a dessert rub a piece of cucumber on your lips! It will heal them and make them smooth.
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June Straight is a sim who resided in Riverview during the majority of her life (although she grew up in Sunset Valley). She lived with her wife, Janet. They also had adopted a son, Dane. June grew up to resemble her mother, having inherited her long black hair and a similar facial structure.
Early LifeEdit
June never really knew her father well, as her parents divorced shortly after she was born. She was raised by her mother and step-father, Morgana and Leighton Sekemoto.
When June was 15, she came out as bisexual. However, she was already in a content relationship with her boyfriend, Taylor Baggett, so she didn't experiment with women during her teen years.
After High SchoolEdit
Right out of high school, June and Taylor eloped and moved into a modest 3-bedroom ranch together. She began training to join the police force, which was her dream job. However, a huge wrench was thrown into the works.
Her father's deathEdit
One day, an attorney and a caseworker from child services showed up at her front door. They informed her that her father and step-mother (Eileen) had passed. Since neither of them had written a will, their kids (Kirsten, Dani, and Nadine) were to be placed in custody of her, since she was the closest living blood relative. However, she didn't hesitate and gladly raised them as if they were her own.
Taylor's affairEdit
While June adapted to parenthood quite well, her husband had very polarizing views on children. They took up more and more of June's time, so Taylor began to grow lonely and their relationship began to deteriorate. Taylor then began to have an affair with a woman named Janet. They were involved for a few months before June found out and filed for divorce. In the divorce settlement, she got the house so she and the kids would at least have a place to live.
Other RelationshipsEdit
After a little while, June and Taylor eloped almost immediately after the finalization of the divorce. After a little while, June began to see an older man named Darren Bowens, but quickly broke things off.
Taylor and Janet's marriage was short-lived, as he also cheated on her. She reconciled with June and the two became friends. Both of them had a feeling that there was something more than friendship between them. One day while hanging out, they shared an unexpected kiss, and began dating.
Move to RiverviewEdit
A few months into June and Janet's relationship, Janet gave her some bad news; she had to move as the Sunset Valley division of Sim Labs was merging with the Riverview division. However, June decided to take a chance on true love, and moved to Riverview with her (as did Justine Schwarz and her mother, as her boyfriend also worked for Sim Labs). She saw it as a fresh start to escape all the drama that happened with her family. Things were genuinely looking up for them.
Getting remarriedEdit
June didn't rush into marriage with Janet, and they had a stable relationship. In fact, they lived together for a couple years before June proposed. They had a small ceremony with only their closest family and friends.
A little while after the wedding they decided they wanted children. The couple adopted a baby boy, whom they named Dane.
By the time Dane was a teen, Justine announced her divorce from her (now ex) husband, Mike. June gladly took her and her daughter, Starr, in. Justine was basically family; June and Janet saw her like the daughter they never had.
Elder YearsEdit
June was unfazed by the fact that her elder years were already upon her. She continued to work in Law Enforcement, and her marriage to Janet was still going strong.
However, one night, June, Janet, Justine, and Starr left Dane home alone while they went to see a movie. They came home to find the kitchen engulfed in flames. But it was too late; Dane was gone. June and her wife stuck together throughout this difficult time and managed to cope with their son's death. Taking their accumulated wealth, June and Janet started, in his honor, The Dane Straight Foundation, a charity raising money to educate underprivileged kids. However, Dane soon began to show himself around the house in the form of his ghost. Thanks to science, June was able to "resurrect" him.
By now, June had finally completed one of her lifelong dreams. She finally reached the top of the Law Enforcement career, becoming an International Super Spy. She currently has plans to release an autobiography about her life.
However, her happiness did last long. Dane and his fiancée, Leanna, had just gotten married. Shortly after the ceremony, Janet fainted. She was taken to county care general hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival, citing natural causes.
A few months after the death of her wife, June's nephew, Tristan, had moved in to help take care of her. June had finally published her autobiography, Unexpected Parenthood, about the trials and tribulations she experienced when raising her three sisters.
However, June wouldn't live to see her book's success. At the age of 89, June passed away peacefully in her sleep. She was survived by her half-sisters Kirsten, Dani, and Nadine, and by her son, Dane. In the will, the house was left to her nephew, Tristan. The publishing rights for her autobiography were left to her sister, Kirsten. Per her request, a large portion of June's wealth was donated to a children's charity. June never retired from the police force, and worked up until the day of her death.
- Rodney and Morgana don't show up in the family tree as June's parents since their Graves weren't in the household when she moved to Riverview.
- Even though June's bio states that she took on parenthood quite well, she does not have the Family-Oriented Trait.


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It's time to apply for the The Elks National Foundation scholarships. They will award 500 four-year scholarships to the highest-rated applicants in the 2016 competition.
Rules for the applications are: Any high school senior who is a citizen of the United States is eligible to apply. Applicants need not be related to a member of the Elks. College students are not eligible to apply. Applicants must be citizens of the United States on the date their applications are signed; permanent legal resident status does not qualify. Male and female students compete separately.
The 2016 Most Valuable Student scholarship contest is open to any high school senior who is a US Citizen. Applicants will be judged on scholarship, leadership, and financial need. Applications for the 2016 contest are available to download after September 1, 2015. The application must be submitted to the Elks Lodge nearest to the applicant's home by December 4, 2015.
Applications must advance through local, district and state competitions to reach national judging. At each level of judging, the Elks National Foundation Scholarship Office will send email notifications to applicants informing them if they advanced in the contest or not. The first round of email notifications will be sent in mid-January, after Lodge judging is completed. District judging will be completed in late January, and State judging will be completed in mid-February.
In late April, the 20 top finalists will participate in a Leadership Weekend in Chicago during which they'll interview with the national judges. These 20 finalists will be vying for two first-place awards of $50,000; two second-place awards of $40,000; and two third-place awards of $30,000. The remaining 14 finalists will receive awards of $20,000. The 480 runners-up will receive fifth-place scholarships of $4,000. Go to http://www.elks.org/enf/scholars/mvs.cfmwww.elks.org/enf/scholars/mvs.cfm for more information.


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When a politician misleads the public with distorted or flat-out fictional data, or uses eight minutes of national TV time to smear the character of the careful scholar who dared to report an inconvenient set of facts, you can always count on Paul Krugman of the New York Times to leap to the defense of truth and honesty — or, alternatively, to jump on the bandwagon if the politician happens to be a Democrat.Read the entire post here.
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Go get 'em Landsburg!
Noted economist Steven Landsburg posted a scathing article a couple of days ago in which he takes Democrat politician Sheldon Whitehouse to task for lying and intentionally using deceptive data at a congressional hearing, and also NYT economist Paul Krugman for providing Whitehouse intellectual cover. This is Landsburg at his best: educational, sarcastic, biting, and indignant --- makes for great reading! Here's an excerpt:
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration invites National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) members to participate in its tenth annual training opportunity for community-based organizations, NNEDLearn 2020. The goal of NNEDLearn is to develop members' skills in evidence-supported and culturally appropriate mental illness and substance use prevention and treatment practices and to support practice implementation. This training model includes two introductory webinars, an on-site 2 ½
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Brain imaging study sheds light on Fibromyalgia
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Brain imaging study sheds light on Fibromyalgia
Link found between gray matter and dopamine levels in patients
Changes in the levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine may explain brain gray matter reductions experienced by patients with fibromyalgia, a new study suggests.
Previous research found an association between fibromyalgia and reductions in gray matter, but the cause wasn't known, the researchers wrote.
In this new study, Dr. Patrick B. Wood, of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, and colleagues used MRI to compare the brains of 30 women with fibromyalgia and 20 healthy women of the same age. Significant reductions in gray matter were found in the fibromyalgia patients, confirming previous findings.
The new study, published in the June issue of the Journal of Pain, also found that fibromyalgia patients showed a strong correlation of dopamine metabolism levels and gray matter density in areas of the brain where dopamine is known to control neurological activity.
This association between dopamine levels and gray matter density offer new information about a possible mechanism behind some of the brain abnormalities seen in fibromyalgia patients, the researchers concluded.
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Spinlister (also known as Liquid) is a peer-to-peer bike sharing service offered to anyone willing to change their normal commute and choose a bicycle instead.
The Well Traveled project is a campaign designed to increase awareness of Spinlister by utilizing social media that we're all now very comfortable with. The creative team at Spinlister present the history and story of a bicycle for users to enjoy. If new participants find a bike that suits them on the Well Traveled platform, they too can that bike and add to its story with new images and video and sharing virtually for others to enjoy.
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Pengaruh bahan pengisi serat kaca terhadap sifat fisik dan kristalinitas polipaduan PC/ABS
This research aimed to determine the effects of the addition of glass fibers on the physical and crystallinity properties of PC/ABS polyblends. The ratio of PC/ABS used in this research was 75/25, while the addition of glass fibers ranged from 0; 5; 10; to 15 phr (based on the weight of PC/ABS). Polyblends of PC/ABS/glass fibers were prepared in a twin screw extruder. The test results showed that density and tensile strength of PC/ABS polyblends increased with an increase in the glass fiber content. The presence of glass fibers decreased MFI and impact strength of these PC/ABS polyblends. The functional groups were determined by the fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer while crystallinity was examined using X-ray diffractometer (XRD).
Keywords: PC/ABS polyblend, glass fiber, physical properties, crystallinity.
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Avdeeva, A., Shlykova, I., Perez, M., Antonova, M., & Belyaeva, S. (2016). Chemical properties of reinforcing fiberglass in aggressive media, MATECWeb of Conferences, 53, 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20165301004
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116 years ago, on December 10, 1903, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her husband Pierre Curie received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Eight years later – independently – Skłodowska received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the only woman awarded this distinction in two different fields.
In November 1891, Maria Skłodowska left Poland to study in France and began studies at the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman who studied at this faculty. After two years, she was awarded a degree in physics as the best student, and in mathematics as the second best student.
In 1894 Skłodowska conducted research on the magnetism of metals. During that time, she met a Polish physicist in Paris – Józef Wierusz-Kowalski. Wierusz-Kowalski invited 35-year-old Pierre Curie – a well-known physicist, doctoral student devoted to his work – and recommended Skłodowska to him. He had promised Skłodowska to help her find a laboratory where she would be able to conduct her experiments.
That was when Maria and Pierre met, started working together, and with time developed an affection for each other. In 1895, they got married.
Two years later, in 1897, Maria Skłodowska graduated from the Sorbonne. The researcher began to look for the subject of a doctoral dissertation. She was interested in the rays emitted by minerals and uranium compounds, discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel. The rays would blacken photographic plates with the same intensity for months, which seemed to contradict the law of conservation of energy. Skłodowska decided to investigate this phenomenon, especially that this subject was completely new and had no bibliography.
The researcher decided to investigate whether, in addition to the radiation emitted by the uranium ore that made the air conduct electricity, some other minerals also behaved in the same way. During her research, Skłodowska discovered that uraninite (a mineral from uranium mine in Joachimstahl in Austria) and torbernite (uranyl phosphate) were more radioactive than uranium. This discovery led to the conclusion that both minerals could contain an unknown radioactive element.
Pierre Curie supported Maria during her work. He was so fascinated by the phenomenon observed by Skłodowska that he gave up his research on crystals and decided to help his wife find this mysterious element. The result of research conducted by the Curies was the discovery (in July 1898) of an element with strong radioactive properties – polonium.
"Some ores containing uranium and thorium (uraninite, torbernite, uranite) are very active in terms of emitting Becquerel radiation. In the previous study, one of us demonstrated that their activity is even stronger than the activity of uranium and thorium, and speculated that this fact should be attributed to a different and unusually active substance which is contained in these ores in very minuscule amounts […] We suspect that the body we isolated from the uraninite contains a yet unknown metal similar to bismuth in its chemical properties. If the existence of this metal is confirmed, we propose to name it 'polonium' after the homeland of one of us" – Maria Skłodowska-Curie wrote about her research.
From the beginning of their research, Maria and Pierre Curie suspected that there was a second radioactive element in uraninite that behaved chemically like a barium. That hypothesis was also confirmed. In the conclusion of the article "On a new, very radioactive substance, contained in uraninite", which was sent to the Academy of Sciences, Maria and Pierre Curie wrote: "a radioactive substance contains a new element, which we propose to name +radium+".
On June 13, 1903, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, as the first woman in France, defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Research on Radioactive Substances". Physicist Edmond Bouty, as well as two academics and future Nobel Prize winners, Gabriel Lippmann and Henri Moissan, recognized Skłodowska`s findings as the most important ones ever presented in a doctoral dissertation.
In 1903 Henri Becquerel and Pierre Curie were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics, while Maria Skłodowska was omitted. Pierre Curie sent a firm letter addressed to physicist Henri Poincaré, in which he demanded that the prize be shared with Maria.
Pierre Curie wrote: "If it is true that one is seriously thinking about me [for the Prize] I very much wish to be considered together with Madame Curie with respect to our research on radioactive bodies. Do you not think that it would be more satisfying from the artistic point of view, if we were to be associated in this manner? […] her role in this discovery was very important (she also determined the atomic weight of radium)".
Ultimately, Maria Skłodowska was also incorporated into the nomination for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
On October 12, 1903, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Prize was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity", the other half jointly to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".
The Curies were expected to come to Stockholm on December 10 for the official award ceremony and give a public lecture. But they chose not to attend the ceremony – they did not want to disrupt their teaching duties, and Maria`s recent illness was another reason. The French ambassador received the diploma and medal on behalf of the Curies. Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie went to Sweden two years later, in June 1905.
Awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Maria Skłodowska-Curie meant that for the first time in history this prize was awarded to a woman.
The Nobel Prize changed the life of the couple: Pierre Curie was given the chair of physics at the Sorbonne, while Maria, tired of research on radioactivity, the PhD defence and the publicity that followed the award of Nobel Prize, stopped working in the laboratory for three years and focused on her children: Irena (born in 1897) and Ewa (born in 1904).
In January 1906, Pierre Curie died in an accident – he was run over by a horse-drawn wagon. Maria was broken down by her husband`s sudden death of, she started to write a journal in which she described her painful experience. But she returned to intensive research work in her laboratory. She focused on new radioactive elements, managed to obtain radium in the metallic state, improved methods for obtaining other substances. She also actively participated in international scientific conferences.
On November 10, 1911, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded her the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium. She received the Prize on December 10, 1911. In the justification, the Nobel Foundation`s Scientific Committee of Chemistry announced that it awarded the individual prize "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
At the award ceremony, the President the Academy addressed Skłodowska in his speech: " In 1903, the Swedish Academy of Sciences had the honour of conferring upon you the Nobel Prize for Physics for the part which you, together with your late husband, took in the momentous discovery of spontaneous radioactivity. This year, the Academy has decided to award you the prize for Chemistry in recognition of the eminent services you have rendered to this science by your discovery of radium and polonium, by your description of the characteristics of radium and its isolation in the metallic state, and by your research into the compounds of this remarkable element. During the eleven years in which Nobel Prizes have been awarded, this is the first time that the distinction has been conferred upon a previous prizewinner. I beg you, Madam, to see in this circumstance a proof of the importance which our Academy attaches to your most recent discoveries".
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In this post I like to share a few screenshots of the Zoetrope design and printed parts I made. I have uploaded the 3d printable files (.stl) on my Thingiverse page for free download. Zoetrope (Greek ζωή zoe, "life" and τρόπος tropos, "turning") is one of the coolest things I have . . .
Prototype design: crypto inspired mobile cases
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Low Poly Home Office in Blender
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Blender Tutorial – DTube Wallpaper
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Blender Tutorial – Fire and Smoke
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Ok, so I have a roommate. My roommate has a cat. The cat was a foundling that she took in when it was around 2. The cat is highly dependant on her and has various sorts of attention seeking behaviors, ie. playing in the litter box, scratching on the washing machine next to the litter box, eating too fast then throwing up (yes I've taken him to the vet, he's otherwise fine), and caterwauling up and down the hall.
Here I should point out that my dog has a very minor case of SA that really only comes out on week-ends when I run errands (he whines and howls for about 45 minutes after I leave).
When I first mentioned to the roommate (who is gone more often than she's here) that her cat is rather distressed when she's gone often, she shrugged it off saying, 'oh well, I guess Merlin has separation anxiety like Charley does' .
When the scratching on the washing machine picked up (sounds like nails on a chalk board) I mentioned it again since the laundry room is right outside my bedroom and the cat likes to make noise at 4 am, she pulled out all the reasons why she can't be here more (work, overtime, school, studying), apologized for the noise and walked out the door with her boyfriend to go out for dinner and a movie, leaving me to deal with a noisy cat. Please not e that this was a Thursday and she hadn't really been home other than to sleep since the previous Sunday.
I'm getting to the end of my rope... On top of not spending enough time with her poor cat (who won't come to me for attention no matter what I do for him), she not pulling her weight around here, she never does groceries (but she'll pay for half of what I buy), she rarely cleans and if she does its not worth it anyways, and she seems to think that i don't notice when its her turn to clean the litter box and she doesn't do it. There's really nothing I can do because I like to have a selection of food in my pantry, I like a clean house and my cat likes her litter box clean so I end up spending 4 hours of my week-end doing it all by myself all the while listening to her crazy cat caterwauling up and down the hall because she and her boyfriend had to 'get away for the week-end'...
And I know there's nothing that you all can do, that I'm going to have to sit her down and tell her she's torturing both her cat and me and that its going to have to stop. But thanks for letting me vent, I feel better now (or the cleaning products have finally gotten to my head, we have options )
I feel for ya, PetFriendly! Roommates can be awful. I had one during my second year of university that, 2 months running paid his share of the rent (lease was in my name) a week late-in loonies and 2$ bills. He was a waiter, you see, so he gave me his tip money. Yeesh.
My husband's friend just moved out in October. He came to stay with us 5 years ago-just until he got on his feet. Yup. Just 'til we said, "Enough". Never did a bit of house work, never bought common groceries (we did away with community groceries pretty quickly) but sure used his share, made a huge mess all the time...
You never really know someone until you live with them. Sorry your room mate is such an irresponsible pet owner.
I too am sorry about your frustrating situation,but also for the poor cat.
There is no such thing as a crazy cat,maybe crazy for affection and attention,but it's hardly the cats fault.
Your room-mate is being a selfish b@#ch,although I applaude her for taking in a homeless cat,she should also take the responsabilitys coming with pet-ownershhip.
I am afraid the solution will be,to dump the poor cat at the SPCA and he'll be paying the ultimate price for her neglect:sad:
"The cruelest animal is the Human animal"
3 kitties,Rocky(r.i.p my boy),Chico,Vinnie
I'll take her cat in if it comes down to it, he's too chicken to make it at the SPCA and I'd never do that to him, besides, he and my Pringles actually get along, and he's actually quite handsome so he'd be worth it.
Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only, nor the first vicitim of a less than hlepfull room-mate.
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P-F,at least with you around it seems like the kitty is still having a pretty good life,at least he is indoors,well fed etc..it could be so much worse.
I did not mean there are no neurotic cats,there sure are,but most of the time there is a reason for it.
My cats have the"crazies"at least once a day
"The cruelest animal is the Human animal"
3 kitties,Rocky(r.i.p my boy),Chico,Vinnie
thank you so much!!!
I was debating on whether or not I should get a roommate next year, but I think this thread gave me the answer lol
poor cat. It sounds like he's working so hard to get her attention and yet nobody's listening :sad:
umm perhaps it's time to move out??
Hi there PF. Thanks for caring more for this cat than his "owner" does.
Some folks on this site can tell you about something called "Rescue Remedy". It's apparently an all-natural calming agent found in health food stores. I'm not familiar with it, but I'm sure you'll find all sorts of information if you just search this forum for the phrase. Maybe someone who knows what they're talking about can tell you more about it.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. - Dilbert
I am sure she thinks that she doesn't have to give this cat any attention because you are doing it for her. sad
If you do what he wants when he is "caterwaling" (always hated that word - can I say screaming instead or just loudly meowing(, maybe he IS getting what he wants. If you ignore him, he may actually come to you more. I too doubt he is crazy - tho maybe has "issues" as some kitties do - I have a Siamese who talks loudly with a large and gropwing by the day vocabulary when she wants what she wants or thinks something is not beong done that she assumes MUST be done NOW - is he part meezer? (I love meezers for many reasons but one of them is because they do talk so much, lol).
I wouild jusy add that saying the cat is crazy is anthropomorphizing him and he's a cat - he is expressing something and needs you to figure it out since hie so called human won't. He prob likes you just fine but has a unique qay of showing it, esp if you sre there more often and you change the litter and feed him (Kitties DO notice these things, trust me)
Thx for caring about him - and I am guessing that whatever issues he has, he does like you!! Pron better than his so called you know...
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats" Albert Schweitzer
I suggest at bedtime - or other times cat is scratching washer that you cover it with a couple of large bath towels. This will help quite a bit. If the towel falls behind just be ready with a long broom handle to pick it up.
He scratches any time there's an animated conversation going on, if I have the music or TV too loud, if its too quiet, plus he scratches every time he actually uses the litter box...
Here's the set up we have. One of the 'holes' in the lower part of the door is sealed with plexiglass (the one on your right), while the 'hole' on your left has a plexiglass door on hinges. Originally we didn't have the plexiglass, but the smell of the poop was too much for the puppy to resist, since we've had the plexiglass he walks right by it.
Here's the inside. I got the slim box on the week-end thinking that would fix the problem (towels are a good idea but since the machines are stacked it wouldn't work) but he's turned to scratching the stationary plexiglass instead?! I also changed the litter to wheat something-or-other, in case the clay between his toes was bothing him... that didn't help either.
[QUOTE=CyberKitten]I have a Siamese who talks loudly with a large and gropwing by the day vocabulary when she wants what she wants or thinks something is not beong done that she assumes MUST be done NOW - is he part meezer? (I love meezers for many reasons but one of them is because they do talk so much, lol).
My cat Pringles likes things done on a schedule and will let you know if you're running late. She talks rather than yells though and also has a range of octives she can use and will only do so if she has an audience. Merlin just flat out screams all alone while sitting in the middle of the hall way.
What do you mean he's not a human... lol I know exactly what his problem is, his human isn't home and there's nothing I can do to fix that... Except slip some extra catnip into his little houses, seems to mellow him out the way pot does to teenagers... I just might beon to something!
Thinking of catnip, have you tried slipping him some Rescue Remedy or Feliway diffuser?
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats" Albert Schweitzer
My cat (who is laid back and spoiled) scratches the litter box, the wall beside the litter box and the floor outside it-always has, in 4 different houses. I've had other cats that did that, too. I almost think it's somehow soothing for them-a kind of kitty Zen thing, because she looks zoned out while doing it. So maybe it's a boredom or stress reliever for your roomate's cat. Do you have a scratching post anywhere?
Skryker just lit a dormant lightbulb in my brain
Of course he would be scratching at the dryer,since the boxes are against the dryer..
My cats do the same,scratch the walls and anything else near the boxes,send the bathroom-rug for a flight(boxes are in downstairs bathroom)in an attempt to cover their business although way off the mark.
"The cruelest animal is the Human animal"
3 kitties,Rocky(r.i.p my boy),Chico,Vinnie
So what you're saying is that the cat scratching everything in sight is normal... While not so good for my sanity, at least I feel better about the mental stability of the cat!
The cats do have scratch boxes. Both cats like the pressed corugated card board ones (bonus since they are affordable) and we have two in the livingroom, one slanted one and one flat one (my cat likes the flat ones) and each of us have one in our rooms to make sure they are always accessible and visible to the cats.
PetFriendly,I did not mean to say they scratch"everything",only it seems your litter-boxes are wedged in where the dryer is and they would just naturally scratch any area close to their boxes to cover up their business,thinging they are being good little kitties:love:
"The cruelest animal is the Human animal"
3 kitties,Rocky(r.i.p my boy),Chico,Vinnie
Yep, just the stuff "close" to the litter box-and that definition is up to the cat. Poor Merlin does sound as though he has some issues, but aside from annoying you, I don't think the scratching on the dryer is a problem.
I think that maybe, too, cats will try to bury the contents of the litter box as long as they can smell it, so anything within odor range is probably fair game. I know that once in a while I find a magazine from the rack 5 feet away from Dancer's litter box in the bathroom over covering the opening of the box (it's enclosed), and think, "Wow! That must have been a bad one!".
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Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, TheReviewed By Charles Tatum
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Entertaining western with a contemporary, unbiased mind set.Taking place in 1901 Gonzalez, Texas, Gregorio Cortez is a Mexican on the run after being involved in not one but three different murders of some Texas law enforcement personnel. While cut and dried from the Texans' point of view, Cortez's full story of what happened remains to be heard. Edward James Olmos does a great job as Cortez. He does not speak English, and the film makers wisely do not subtitle his Mexican conversations, adding to the confusion of Cortez's crimes. He is confronted by a racist deputy and a sheriff, who accuse him of stealing a horse. Cortez's brother is shot and the sheriff is killed in a bizarre, confused shootout that sends Cortez to a friendly ranch worker's home. There, a posse attacks the house Cortez is in, and two more men are shot and killed. Cortez's brother dies as well.
Bruce McGill plays a San Antonio reporter who rides with the posse, and begins to get Cortez's story, as seen by the Texas Rangers. While the flashbacks to the killings are not along the lines of "Rashomon," they serve to illustrate the Texans' side well. As Cortez is caught and put on trial, he is represented by Barry Corbin, who finds out what really happened and tries to get his client off.
The film makers here do something very unexpected for this type of film- they show us that Cortez is neither a martyr or a saint. Cortez's side of the initial murder is not much different from the deputy's. The shooting started over a misunderstood translation between the deputy and Cortez and escalated.
Cortez's family is locked up in order to flush him out, and civil liberties are broken all over the place. Eventually, thanks to a end credits crawl, we find out Cortez was in and out of the courtroom many times as a result of these crimes.
The film opens with Cortez running, and a bunch of white guys chasing him, and bodies being returned to families, and I had no idea what was going on for the first ten minutes of the film.
Eventually, things begin to click, and Young's sure direction keeps it going. The cast is full of character actors whose names you do not immediately recognize but whose faces you have watched for years. Even Ned Beatty has a rather unnecessary cameo near the end.If you are expecting another politically correct allegory about the plight of the Mexican in turn of the century Texas, you need to look elsewhere. This revisionist western shows us both sides of murder, and how both sides are at fault.
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Kabul (BNA) Colonel Jamil Kohistani, head of counter terrorism for MoI in a news conference held yesterday said SOC, a private security company submitted its 120 AK-47 rifles to DIAG.
The company which is active and operating in various parts of the country has submitted voluntarily its 120 AK-47 rifles to Afghan ministry of interior and yesterday they were submitted to DIAG.
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Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents.
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Strange Fruit Founders Release Statement and New Name
Unfortunately for a couple of PR professionals, the odd name chosen for their firm has driven a large share of conversation within the industry on a slow winter news week.
We've been on vacation, so we heard of the Austin-based firm previously known as "Strange Fruit PR" for the first time yesterday. We're still not clear as to why the story just broke when the firm had been using that name since 2012, but happen it did…and now the company has announced its new name: Perennial Public Relations.
Here's a statement from founders Mary Mickel & Ali Slutsky to our own Tonya Garcia, who wrote yesterday's post:
"We sincerely apologize to those offended by the former name of our firm. As of today, we have renamed our firm to Perennial Public Relations. We have always prided ourselves as open-minded individuals and we remain committed to serving our clientele and community. In no way did we ever intend for the name of our firm to offend nor infer any implication of racism. We are grateful for and appreciate the ongoing support of our clients and community."
We feel like Perennial will be fine and that this odd story will fade from memory. A lesson remains, though: context is incredibly important, especially when choosing a business's public name, face, persona and messaging efforts.
Pop culture may seem to belong to everybody, but one person's obscure reference is a very deep and, in some cases, painful element of another person's entire cultural experience. At the very least, research can help avoid the poorly planned appropriation of something as unfamiliar to you or your audience as the experience conveyed in the Billie Holiday song was to the firm's principals.
We have no doubt that mid-20th century race relations in the American South was the last thing on the minds of Mickel and Slutsky when they chose to call their firm Strange Fruit. But, at risk of regurgitating a now-stale question, we still have to wonder: did anyone really listen to the song in question?


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France reiterates two-state solution to end Palestinian-Israeli conflict
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France on September 11 warned against any project that would undermine diplomatic efforts to reach lasting peace in the Middle East, reiterating that the two-state solution was crucial to end the years-long conflict.
"France calls on the parties to refrain from any measure likely to undermine the two-state solution, the only way to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of the Israelis and the Palestinians," said the French Foreign Ministry in a statement.
On September 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his plan to impose Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley if his party wins re-election scheduled on September 17.
The 2,400-sq-km Jordan Valley, which accounts for nearly 30 percent of the West Bank, is regarded to be strategic both in terms of security and agriculture.
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Sheffield United vs Liverpool: Georgio Wijnaldum's goal gave Liverpool a 1-0 victory at the Bramall Lane stadium
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Kindergarten company hit by lawsuits and short sellers
RYB Education, the company at the center of a child abuse scandal, runs about 1,800 kindergartens and education centers around China.
- Caixin reports (paywall) that this week "at least six law firms filed or threatened class action lawsuits against the company" over the abuse allegations.
- RYB listed on the New York Stock Exchange in September this year. Its shares rose steadily until news of the abuses at the Beijing kindergarten spread. Caixin says that RYB shares are now trading at "more than 20% below levels from shortly before the scandal broke."
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"Chinese internet giant Samsung and Taiwanese chip maker TSMC lose combined US$35 billion in market value."
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The ecommerce giant raised $7 billion in dollar bonds "in the world's largest corporate bond offering of the year."
Jack Ma praises Chinese government, says the era of 'guanxi' is over in China / TechNode
China's tech giants have a second job: helping Beijing spy on its people / WSJ (paywall)
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What happens when a crazy alien in love with Death (the person) gains ultimate power? He snaps his fingers, kills half the universe, and then spends six issues talking about how weird it is to have ultimate power, and hey, what is ultimate power anyway?
You'd think we're making this up. We're not. This is the driving thrust behind THE INFINITY GAUNTLET by Jim Starlin, George Perez and Ron Lim, the brilliant, trippy, bizarre Marvel mega-event that dared to ask questions about... well, pretty much everything.
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Tankless water heaters, also called on-demand water heaters, are becoming a popular option for many homeowners. Invented in 1929, tankless options have been in wide use in Europe for decades and are now becoming more available elsewhere. Harmony Heating & Air Conditioning is proud to offer installation of these high-efficiency water heaters in the Calgary area.
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The Republic of the Philippines (RoP) made its long-awaited return to the euro bond market after an absence of more than a decade when it priced on May 9 an upsized 750-million-euro (US$842.70 million) offering.
The Securities and Exchange Commission-registered eight-year deal was priced at 99.104% with a coupon of 0.875% to offer a yield of 0.992%. This represented a spread of 70bp over mid-swap – much tighter than the initial price guidance of between 90bp and 100bp due to strong investor demand, which reportedly amounted to almost 3 billion euros.
The deal comes just more than a week after S&P Global Ratings raised the sovereign rating from BBB to BBB+ with stable outlook on the back of a solid growth trajectory, a strong external position and sustainable public finances.
The rating agency says the Philippine economy is growing at a consistently faster pace than its peers and strong economic growth is expected to continue as long it is able to maintain its investment climate. It also projects an average GDP per capita growth of around 4.9% annually from 2019 to 2022.
Finance secretary Carlos Dominguez III echoes that the successful euro bond transaction is a testament to the international investor community's vote of confidence in the country's strong macroeconomic fundamentals and sustained high growth prospects despite global financial headwinds.
In executing the deal, the sovereign conducted a roadshow to meet fixed income investors in Zurich, London, Paris, Frankfurt and Milan, which commenced on April 26 – a few days before the rating upgrade announcement.
National treasurer Rosalia de Leon notes the sovereign garnered outstanding support from high-quality accounts with a large order book, allowing the RoP to increase the base offering from 500 million euros to 750 million euros. "The successful transaction allowed us to diversify our funding programme to support productive spending for infrastructure and social services," she adds.
In terms of geographical distribution, 24% of the bonds were distributed in Germany, 15% in Italy, 10% in the UK, 26% in rest of Europe, 9% in the US, 6% in the Philippines, 5% in rest of Asia and 5% in other jurisdictions.
By type of investors, fund managers accounted for 59%, banks and corporates 24%, insurance companies, pension funds and official institutions 11%, and other investors 6%.
Proceeds from the latest offering will be used for general government purposes, including budgetary support. Deutsche Bank and UBS acted as the joint global coordinators for the transaction, as well as joint bookrunners and lead managers, along with BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and Standard Chartered.
This year, the RoP accessed the US dollar bond market in January, which raised US$1.5 billion for 10 years. It is also slated to return to the Panda bond market following its inaugural issuance in March 2018 amounting to 1.46 billion yuan (US$214.40 million).


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On the occasion of Frieze Masters London 2015, The Mayor Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of the groundbreaking Polish artist Wojciech Fangor (b. 1922, Warsaw.) After graduating in 1946 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, and an early period of Cubistic landscapes and Poster art, Fangor began experimenting in the early 1950's with paint and colour to create striking chromatic effects and optical illusions.
In 1958 Fangor opened his influential exhibition A Study of Space; where the individual edgeless and vibrant abstract pictures reacted with each other to create new spatial compositions; this was the first Environment in world art. It was not until a decade later after moving to the United States in 1966, when the Light and Space movement developed in California that his work became part of an art movement exemplified by James Turrell, Bruce Nauman and Robert Irwin. Fangor, working behind the Iron Curtain without State sanction and without the new technologies available in Silicon Valley, was able to accomplish this with paint like Mark Rothko.
Wojciech Fangor was so ahead of his time that only now, five decades after his break through, is his work being recognised.
The six mesmerising works from the early 1960's exhibited by The Mayor Gallery are from the collection of Beatrice Perry, one of the principal collector of Wojciech Fangor who identified his genius early on. She exhibited his work at her gallery in the early '60's, promoted and lent his paintings to the 15 Polish Painter's exhibition and The Responsive Eye exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965, as well as his solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1970.
Fangor lives and works in Poland.


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Scott, nice shot, is this Buffalo modified?
Yes....this is actuallyan add on tile on the NW end of the already huge Buffalo Route. Thanks Rick!
The 991 comes sprinting through Franklin Canyon, CA., on this warm summers eve. The sun is almost gone as this train runs 6+ hours behind today.
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I've been running the Amtrak Cascades train a lot recently.
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Blargen Fladibble Nohip!
Take 2 on this route lost what I had started. Two southbound trains out of Wellington, KS.
Looking real good, as usual, Aaron!
94 degrees on the CP heading toward the "Mighty Miss" in Illinois:
Here at home, in the railroad mayhem capital of the world.
Real nice, Ryan!
I have to hand it to all of you creative Painters who come up with these sweet fictional paint schemes and logos - cool stuff.
Here at home, in the railroad mayhem capital of the world.


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No matter how old you get your birthday will always excite you. It's your day and everyone wants to celebrate your existence, in the most applauding manner. Be it a five-year-old's birthday or a 28-year-old's birthday, it has to be grand in any possible manner. Then comes the party to celebrate your special day, but how do you make it exciting? Listed below are some of the fantastic ideas which are taken from some of the Best Party Venues in Bangalore.that you can choose from to add some spark to your party.
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As if those glowing golden balloons hanging from the ceiling weren't already breathtakingly beautiful enough, their hanging strings have got one of the most precious memories of the birthday person hanging at the ends.
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Clever and easy, all you need are some jars or vases and vinyl numbers to decorate. This is super easy and super cute. You can add fairy lights to these bottles and set them in a corner, this will definitely add charm to a dull corner.
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We just love how this gigantic fringe background sets the stage for the whole party. It is extremely easy to create and adds a colorful charm and can be used as a perfect photo booth. This can be used to fill up some empty walls and lighten up the whole area.
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Using paper lanterns was originally a wedding idea, but that doesn't mean you can't use them for a backyard birthday party! Beautiful lighting is very important and you might want to consider this option because these paper lanterns will make your party look aesthetic.
Balloon Pathway
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Will my computer keep up with Synthogy for windows? This will be my first ever experience with MIDI and computers, so Im not sure.
Processor: 3.0 Gigahertz Processor (Side Bus: 533 Mhz)
Chipset: Intel 845G
Memory: 2 Gb of DDR 266/200
Hard Drive: 80 gig (Ultra ATA/100)
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX
1. My Motherboard doesnt support Serial ATA (1.5gb/s), will Ultra ATA/100 suffice?
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3. Is there a better quality sound card out there with just a midi port and very few inputs/outputs? I dont need a plethora of inputs & outputs.
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My goal is to play classical music (e.g. Rachmaninov, Beethoven) in real time without latency.


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The Times today is reporting a new ComRes poll for OpenEurope, asking about voting intention in the European Elections. The topline European voting intentions are CON 21%, LAB 23%, LDEM 18%, UKIP 27%, Others 11%, and show UKIP with the largest share of the vote.
The UKIP figure isn't particularly surprising. There was a Survation poll of European voting intentions earlier this month that had UKIP in a close second place and Survation and ComRes polls earlier this year when their general election support was lower that had UKIP neck-and-neck with the Conservatives in European election voting intention. Given that UKIP came second in the 2009 European elections when they were barely figuring in general election polling, it seems possible if not probable that they'll get the largest share of the vote at next year's European elections.
What does look very odd is the Liberal Democrat figure, four points higher than they got at the 2009 election when their general election support has haemorrhaged since then. As I mentioned above, ComRes have already done one poll of European Election voting intention back in January, and the changes since then are Conservatives down 1, Labour down 13, Lib Dem up 10, UKIP up 4. I can't think of any obvious reason why Liberal Democrat support in European elections should have more than doubled since January, nor why the Liberal Democrats would be doing better in European election voting intention than in Westminster voting intention, when historically the opposite has been the case. It all looks very odd. The tables aren't up yet on ComRes's website, but hopefully they'll shed some light on what is going on.
In the meantime I wouldn't worry too much about European election voting intention polls anyway. Past experience is that polls of European elections conducted more than a month have borne very little resemblance to the result. One could, of course, make the same sort of argument about general election voting intention polls, but they do at least act as a general barometer for support of the political parties. A European election voting intention poll a year away from an election doesn't serve very much purpose at all.
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In the meantime…
The ComRes EU poll in January gave the following x-breaks for VI at the 2010 GE:
Lab 35% (Con 6%, Lab 83%, LD 26%)
UKIP 23% (Con 33%, Lab 6%, LD 20%)
Con 22% (Con 55%, Lab 3%, LD 6%)
LD 8% (Con 1%, Lab 1%, LD 38%).
The jump in LibDem support does look odd so on the basis that you don't make a judgement on a single poll and doubly so when it shows a swing at odds with everything else going on around them I'll just put a ? Beside these results.
It will be interesting to see the tables.
I wonder if it could be down to weighting. If LibDem's were weighted too the last Euros and have had the least defections to UKIP for the Euro vote it might make them look stronger than they actually are?
Mind you a ten point jump is more than you would expect from weighing.
The Amber Star rule appears to hold good: ComRes polls are rubbish. ;-)
Seems plausible to me that the rise of UKIP in the media is causing some pro-EU types to rally around the only solidly pro-EU party in the euros, whereas before they weren't that bothered, knowing membership of the EU wasn't even vaguely up for debate. Higher euros turnout, for pro as well as anti, isn't going to surprise anyone surely?
'Swot-I-sed earlier. :-)
I agree with AW that it seems strange to poll so far out but that is of course what pollsters are doing about the 2015 GE so I don't see that Comres have anything to defend there.
Turnout would be important and I don't know if ComRes are taking any account of 'likelihood to vote'.
Seems very odd too that LAB VI has dropped 12 points. Their GE VI has dipped slightly since January, but not to nearly that extent.
The earlier (January) poll did not prompt for UKIP (Other), and was 5-10 likelihood-to-vote, plus don't know/would not vote squeezed and weighted to likelihood-to-vote… is it my imagination or didn't ComRes chop and change without even realising it themselves on one occasion?
Well that poll does serve one purpose, it'll send Nigel Farage to bed with a smile on his face.
Looks like a huge rogue, but there is the point that ukip is the only party who definitely want out and the libdems are the only party who definitely want in, so there is a kind of logic to it but I still don't believe it
Too much information about Mr Farage
It doesn't matter two hoots who "wins" the European election. Most people don't know who "won" the last one, have no idea who their Euro MPs are, and the fact that UKIP might "beat" the Tories, or vica versa is of supreme inconsequence.
I've no idea what some people think they're achieving by backing UKIP to the hilt at a European election, then reverting to Lib/Lab/Con at a Westminster election. It gives the exact opposite outcome to the one they want.
I simply don't believe the LD figure in this poll. The idea they'd increase support from 2009 when a lot of traditional Labour supporters were voting LD as a protest seems hard to credit.
@Jonboy, most people have no idea who their commons MP is. Most people can't name a single local councillor.
@ Wood @Jonboy, most people have no idea who their commons MP is. Most people can't name a single local councillor.
Yes, but they don't know their Euro MPs a lot more than they don't know their Westminster MP.
I know the names of nearly all my local councillors, the name of my MP, but only one (out of seven) of my MEPs (because he keeps writing to me!) and I take an active interest in politics!
Following the yesterday's reports that Tory rebels have enough names to trigger a leadership contest – but are holding fire until after the EU elections, I read somewhere today (now can't find it) that Farage, out of sensitivity to the "vote UKIP get Miliband" charge, has set up a dedicated "EU elections fund" account.
"Yes, but they don't know their Euro MPs a lot more than they don't know their Westminster MP."
Refusing to concede taken to an art form.
"Tory rebels have enough names to trigger a leadership contest – but are holding fire until after the EU elections,"
It will be to late then, the Euro results will be about when Parliament breaks for the summer and they are not back till September just before the Conference Before the Election.
That gives the new leader six months to turn things around assuming it isn't a divisive election or one that Cameron limps through to fight on wounded. With fixed term parliaments they can't go in the Autumn and try for a new face bounce.
I think loser to the mark would be;
" Tory rebels DO NOT have enough names to trigger a leadership contest but are pretending they do"
"I've no idea what some people think they're achieving by backing UKIP to the hilt at a European election, then reverting to Lib/Lab/Con at a Westminster election"
Because everybody if fed up of the Liblabcon party, a lifetime of broken promises from the party.
Wishful thinking if you think they will revert back.
I read today that Labour and Con members has flocked to the new Bridgend branch. It now has 50 attending branch meetings, and that's in Wales where UKIP have no support.
The only reason UKIP haven't broken any promises is because they've never yet been in a position to do so.
The problem isn't that parties break their promises, it's that they make them in the first place.
@wood – My thoughts exactly. I can believe about 18% of Brits want to stay in the EU enough to tactically vote LD. They're the only party fully behind the EU.
Too much information about Mr Farage"
Its ok – he'll have his union jack jammies on.
yes but assuming the rebels install a new leader between the euros and the referendum – what effect will that have on the referendum vote if the leader is of the swivel eyed variety?
Just for fun I thought I would run the Com Res VI figures through Electoral Calculus to see what would be the GE seat prediction.
The result is as follows:
Lab – 259
Con – 183
I would so love to see that result happen. FPTP would be at the point of meltdown and 4 party politics would be utterly entrenched. Well its a nice dream.
It's kind of important to remember the Coalition agreement dissolves on the resignation of either party leader. And the Conservatives still think they could win an election "with a real conservative leader", and the Lib Dems while not having the will to pull out of the Coalition probably could not get a new one passed either.
Dissolving of the Government would certainly be a reason why parliament would have to be recalled. And it's unlikely that the resulting minority Conservative government would survive the inevitable confidence motion.
Does anybody else find it strange that those who vote UKip should be excited about there party doing well in the Euro elections, surely the point of UKip and being a supporter is that the UK comes out of the EU, not that you vote for it's continuation by supplying a new batch of MEP's.
If Farage had any principles, he should practise what he preaches and withdraw his party from the EU alltogether after all as I understand it he's not trying to reform the EU from the inside so whats the point of him being there given his beliefs, other than having a job and drawing a wage and getting publicity, oh yeah silly me.
@The Lorax
You can't have been following polls if you think 82% want out.
@Neil A
Couldn't disagree more; the idea of politics without promises isn't worth bothering with.
@Dan the man
But they demonstrably are reverting back – are UKIP polling 25%+ in Westminster VI? Did they get 17% in the 2010 GE? I wish some of you UKIP posters would actually engage with what people are saying rather than just using every opportunity to ramp UKIP's prospects.
& any potential coalition would involve a PR supporting party. :)
It seems this ComRes poll is more exciting than I thought it was (at least to some posters).
After tonight's YouGov, perhaps they will 'calm down dear'.
Neil A
I been pondering about this 'promise' issue. I can't remember a party promising to put up taxes nor the other way around (did not John Smith promise a 50% income tax rate in 1992?). As tax is the only issue that really matters to most voters, then one has no idea what one is voting for in that case.
@ Craig
& any potential coalition would involve a PR supporting party. :)"
Happy Days indeed!
Its almost (underscore that word) cheering the UKIP on
@Howard, Craig,
The truth is that no party can ever truly "promise" anything. They can tell you what they want to do, they can outline their philosophy and list their priorities, but they can't ever really promise anything. Too much is outside their control.
In the extremely unlikely event that UKIP ever get into government I expect their promises would melt like snow in Spring.
Just look at the DUP. They rose as a force purely on the strength of criticising the UUP for doing deals with republicans. They then jumped into bed with Sinn Fein.
As Anthony mentioned, there has been another EU election poll this month. The Survation poll last week (f/w 17-18 May) had the results:
European Election Voting Intentions, Change Since Survation/Mail on Sunday poll, Jan 5th
Conservative: 20% (-4)
Labour: 31% (nc)
Liberal Democrat: 8% (-3)
Green: 6% (nc)
Other: 5% (-1)
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Survation always shows a very good result for UKIP, so the 30% is no surprise and the Conservative figure is similar if very alarming for them. But while it may be that there has been a massive swing in the last week from Labour to Lib Dem, but I rather doubt it. Not for the first time I'm wondering if ComRes are getting spreadsheet advice from Harvard's Economic Department.
True, the Tories could dissolve the government and then sit back and see Nick Clegg keep his job while Ed Milliband took Cameron's.
"The Times today is reporting a new ComRes poll for OpenEurope, asking about voting intention in the European Elections. The topline European voting intentions are CON 21%, LAB 23%, LDEM 18%, UKIP 27%, Others 11%, and show UKIP with the largest share of the vote."
With all the exposure UKIP has been getting recently I would had thought they would be polling a bit higher especially for a European election.
Howard – well there isn't a YouGov poll tonight (bank holiday = no poll) so that won't be calming anyone down… dear.
We need a repeat YG Euro poll to clear this up.
If the Tories come third in the European elections (which is not looking unlikely) I would imagine David Cameron would be finished as Tory leader, even if he limps home to a GE defeat.
Only question is who should take over? As a Tory friend of mine has suggested, it's clear the situation is desperate when Michael Gove and Theresa May are talked up as the best candidates.
I often wonder whether all this could have been got out of the way earlier had Ken Clarke won the leadership and they had this fight while in opposition.
why do poiticians jump on phrases?
"show a bit of leg" is the latest to be recycled ad nauseam and probably ahead of "not fit for purpose" in my alltime hate list.
they are living in cloud cuckoo land [no.3]
Was the COMRES taken on a Bank Holiday weekend?
The reason why people get excited is probably because the euro elections are not FPTP, and so give a hint to the direction (if not the ultimate destination) that voting might go if FPTP was replaced with a PR-type system.
In the same sort of way that Labour has to suddenly take the concept of the OBR seriously, as though it's as ancient and august as the Treasury, when it's arguably just a contrivance to make Coalition policies seem more rigourously thought-through; UKIP knows that MEPs have to be taken seriously by pro-EU MPs, despite ridiculously low turnouts, because to do otherwise would undermine the supposed democracy of the EU.
If the pro-EU parties were honest, and admitted openly that the EU-elections and the MEPs are a pointless sham, and the EU is not very democratic, and rather corrupt, then they would be proving UKIP right.
So you have an interesting situational irony and circular reasoning in which the anti-EU party has to be taken seriously on it's EU platform in order to prove it wrong about all that it says about the EU.
Calling UKIP "clowns" and "loons", is undermining the EU election process and thus, by implication, the EU itself; and this is part of the mechanism for why UKIP's support rises – because you are proving them right… that they are a "boom bang-a-bang" party in a "Eurovision" polity.
I bet AW is hoping for the sake of the website that we don't get PR. There's nothing to interpreting polls when all they mean is a bit of simple maths.
@Mr Nameless,
It's certainly true that Cameron's days seem numbered.
His chances of winning the next election seem to be diminishing rapidly, and only "events" can change that.
Having said all that, it's also important to remember that the most likely next leader of the Tory party is *not* one of the names being touted, but rather, a backbencher who currently has no profile – there's nothing more effective than a new broom, so I would put money on it being one of the 2010 intake.
Its no simple maths working out who wins what seats in the European election. Can you get a European calculator? It might bedifficult I suppose, unless you have regional breakdowns.
"Howard – well there isn't a YouGov poll tonight (bank holiday = no poll) so that won't be calming anyone down… dear."
Shouldn't that mean we're due a refund Anthony?
Mr nameless
Don't you think it's time you got a name?
As for polling being boring under PR, it's not at all boring working out which coalitions are possible, wondering if a party's has lost vi because they have been cozying up with the a party to the left or right then them………
…almost as interesting as speculating on who might replace the current leaders of the three main parties, none of whom, appear to be particularly captivating, engaging, or talented.
I wonder how large a majority a party leader needs? There are certainly a couple of candidates in the 2010 Tory intake that would make *very* interesting leaders instead of anyone in the front bench… people like Andrew Percy and Jason McCartney, who can certainly speak well, and erase the toff image that Cameron and Osborne can't escape.
As for the LibDems, it's pretty self-evident that Vince is going to take the helm if Clegg continues on the current trajectory.
John Cruddas is about the only credible replacement for Milliband in Labour that I can think of.
What about Farage? Behind Labour and the Conservatives in the polls, sack him too.
You are one ruthless Seal.
The Lib Dem figure is surprising, but this is a European election poll and it could be that the Lib Dems are being seen as the Party for pro-European Union voters to rally round as they are the only unashamed pro-EEC Party who can counter the up and coming anti-EEC Party UKIP. Tories and Labour are both split on the issue. It would be quite refreshing of people voted in a European election on – Europe!
As Farage goes, so goes UKIP. If he resigns or dies, that's pretty much it for them in terms of public profile.
Is Farage the leader? Or just the figurehead?
Given that UKIP are the only one of the main four on an upward trend since the start of the year, I imagine the daggers will remain sheathed.
There are a few other Tories that could happily replace Dave… Steve Baker is a plausible one.
I suppose for Labour to follow the trend, they'd have to pick a leader from the 2005 intake, and there aren't too many of them.
Have the LibDems got anyone in their squad other than the keeper, Vince?


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Israeli forces have bombed Beirut's international airport in the fourth raid in 24 hours.
The attack came shortly after six aircraft were evacuated to Cyprus, after contacts between Fuad Siniora, the Lebanese prime minister, and Jeffrey Feltman, the US ambassador to Lebanon.
Five aeroplanes of the national carrier Middle East Airlines and a private aircraft owned by Najib Mikati, the former Lebanese prime minister, left the airport after Siniora was assured that the aircraft would not be attacked by Israel.
A Lebanese official denied that a terminal had been hit and said that only runways had been attacked.
Israel has imposed an air and sea blockade on Lebanon and also hit the main highway between Beirut and Damascus, virtually cutting off its northern neighbour from the outside world.
Israeli air raids on suburbs of the Lebanese capital killed three people and wounded 55 overnight, police said on Friday.
Rocket attacks
Hezbollah fighters fired 20 Katyusha rockets in three attacks on northern Israel on Friday, with six people injured, one of them seriously.
The strikes hit Nahariya, Hatzor and Safed, about 15km from Lebanon.
Of the injured, five were in Safed where a house was directly hit, and one person was hurt in Hatzor where a rocket landed near a car.
The attacks raised to about 160 the number of rockets that have hit northern Israel in the past two days.
Nasrallah targeted
The Israeli air force has hit many targets in Lebanon, focusing on buildings that it believes holds weapons belonging to Hezbollah and its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
Major General Udi Adam, the chief of Israel's northern command, has said he does not rule out killing Nasrallah.
Ronnie Bar-On, the Israeli interior minister, said: "Nasrallah has issued his own sentence. I doubt if he would be able to find a life insurance agent these days."