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I received a mail today containing a list of laws (in the scientific sense), all of which were silly observations just for amusement, but this one stood out.
"The Law of Logical Argument – Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about."
Although not directly relevant, that got me thinking… I answer a lot of questions on forums and one of the things that strikes me time and again is people find is really difficult to define and communicate their problem. In some cases there's a language barrier to contend with, but most of the time it comes down to a basic lack of thought by the poster. How many times have you spent days following a forum thread only to find the question you were answering was not the question the original poster "thought" they had asked? This is not just a feature of forum posts, but also in every day interactions. People will spend hours skating around issues, but never formally outline what the issue is. In many cases, the process of clearly defining the issue actually allows them to answer the question for themselves, or at least highlights a possible path of investigation.
Unless you can clearly define a problem, there is no way you can communicate it to anyone else. What's more, unless you have an understanding of your problem, you can't judge the value of answers, making you susceptible to suggested voodoo solutions.
Over the years I've had the good fortune of interacting with a lot of people I consider Uber Geeks, but what continually strikes me is the simplicity of their approach to solving problems. They may sometimes look like they are making leaps, but that's just because experience allows them to do the steps quickly in their heads, rather than have to draft it out on paper, but most of the time they are following a fairly simple recipe to solve the problem, the first stage of which is actually defining the problem itself.
Is it surprising that database performance tuning is still considered by many to be some form of black magic? Not at all, because it is one of those areas that requires thought, reason and a meticulous approach.
Enough ranting for today. I'm off to run a database on a single 1TB disk and wonder why my I/O throughput is so bad. Must need a faster CPU.
PS. Someone on Twitter recently linked to an article called The Lost Tools of Learning. It's quite long an a bit heavy at times, but some of the points it makes tie in with this post and I think it's worth a read.
I signed up for the beta program, so now I'm rockin' UltraEdit (beta 5) on Mac. It's not perfect yet, but it's already so much nicer than TextWrangler.
Since we published the RAC book, Oracle has released patchset 18.104.22.168. Amongst other things, this improved the RAC One Node option, exactly the way we expected.
How it was
A quick recap on the product as it was in 18.104.22.168: RAC One Node is part of Oracle Enterprise Edition, any other software editions are explicitly not allowed. Another restriction exists for 3rd party Clusterware: it's not allowed to use one. RAC One Node is a hybrid between full blown RAC and the active/passive cluster. The option uses Grid Infrastructure for cluster management and storage provisioning via ASM. The RAC One instance starts its life as a RAC database, limited to only one cluster node. It only ever runs on one node only, but that node can change. It is strongly recommended to create a service for that RAC database. Utilities such as raconeinit provide a text based command line interface to transform that database to a "RAC One Node"-instance. In the process, the administrator can elect which nodes should be allowed to run the instance. The "omotion" utilities allowed the DBA to move the RAC One Node instance from the current node to another one. Optionally a time threshold could be set after which all ongoing transactions were to move to the new node. This feature required TAF or FAN to be set up correctly. The raconestatus utility allowed you to view the status of your RAC One Node instances. Conversion to full RAC was made possible by the racone2rac utility.
If you were after a Data Guard setup you'd be disappointed: that wasn't (and AFAIK still is not) supported.
So all in all, that seemed a little premature. A patch to be downloaded and applied, no Data Guard and a new set of utilities are not really user friendly. Plus, initially this patch was available for Linux only. But at least a MOS note (which I didn't find until after having finished writing this!) exists, RAC One — Changes in 22.214.171.124 [ID 1232802.1]
Instead of having to apply patch 9004119 to your environment, RAC One Node is available "out of the box" with 220.127.116.11. Sadly, the Oracle RAC One Node manual has not been updated, and searches on Metalink reveal no new information. One interesting piece of information: the patch for RAC One Node is listed as "undocumented Oracle Server" section.
The creation of a RAC One Node instance has been greatly simplified-dbca has added support for it, both from the command line for silent installations as well as the interactive GUI. Consider these options for dbca.
$ dbca -help dbca [-silent | -progressOnly | -customCreate] { } | { [ [options] ] -responseFile } [-continueOnNonFatalErrors ] Please refer to the manual for details. You can enter one of the following command: Create a database by specifying the following parameters: -createDatabase -templateName [-cloneTemplate] -gdbName [-RACOneNode -RACOneNodeServiceName ] [-policyManaged | -adminManaged ] [-createServerPool ] [-force ] -serverPoolName -[cardinality ] [-sid ] ...
With RAC One Node you will most likely end up with a policy managed database in the end, I can't see how an admin managed database made sense.
The srvctl command line tool has been improved to deal with the RAC One node. The most important operations are to add, remove, config and status. The nice thing about dbca is that it actually registers the database in the OCR. Immediately after the installation, you see this status information:
$ srvctl status database -d rontest Instance rontest_1 is running on node node2 Online relocation: INACTIVE $ srvctl config database -d rontest Database unique name: rontest Database name: Oracle home: /data/oracle/product/184.108.40.206 Oracle user: oracle Spfile: + DATA/rontest/spfilerontest.ora Domain: Start options: open Stop options: immediate Database role: PRIMARY Management policy: AUTOMATIC Server pools: rontest Database instances: Disk Groups: DATA Mount point paths: Services: rontestsrv Type: RACOneNode Online relocation timeout: 30 Instance name prefix: rontest Candidate servers: node2,node3 Database is administrator managed
Note that the instance_name, although the instance is administrator managed, changed to $ORACLE_SID_1. Relocating works now with the srvctl relocate database command as in this example:
$ srvctl relocate database -d rontest -n node2
You'll get feedback about this in the output of the "status" command:
$ srvctl status database -d rontest Instance rontest_1 is running on node node2 Online relocation: ACTIVE Source instance: rontest_1 on node2 Destination instance: rontest_2 on node3
After the command completed, check the status again:
srvctl status database -d rontest Instance rontest_2 is running on node node2 Online relocation: INACTIVE
The important difference between an admin managed database and a policy managed database is that you are responsible for undo tablespaces. If you don't create and configure undo tablespaces, the relocate command will fail:
$ srvctl relocate database –d rontest -n node3 < PRCD-1222 : Online relocation of database rontest failed but database was restored to its original state PRCD-1129 : Failed to start instance rontest_2 for database rontest PRCR-1064 : Failed to start resource ora.rontest.db on node node3 CRS-5017: The resource action "ora.rontest.db start" encountered the following error: ORA-01092: ORACLE instance terminated. Disconnection forced ORA-30013: undo tablespace 'UNDOTBS1' is currently in use Process ID: 1587 Session ID: 35 Serial number: 1 CRS-2674: Start of 'ora.rontest.db' on 'node3' failed
In this case, the database runs on the same node. Check the ORACLE_SID (rontest_2 in my case) and modify the initialisation parameter.
SQL> select tablespace_name from dba_data_files where tablespace_name like '%UNDO%'; TABLESPACE_NAME ------------------------------ UNDOTBS1 UNDOTBS2
So the tablespace was there, but the initialisation parameter was wrong! Let's correct this:
SQL> alter system set undo_tablespace='UNDOTBS1' sid='rontest_1'; System altered. SQL> alter system set undo_tablespace='UNDOTBS2' sid='rontest_2'; System altered.
Now the relocate will succeed.
To wrap this article up, the srvctl convert database command will convert between single instance, RAC One Node and RAC databases.
It's been a while since I've post the first part of this series.
I created a little tool, snap, which is more or less a combination of Tanel Poder's snapper and a script from Tom Kyte. I used this for the first part to give me all the details of database process I was using. The next step is invoking Oracle's Parallel Query feature. Parallel Query means multiple processing are working together to execute a query.
In the previous note on local indexes I raised a couple of questions about the problems of different partitions holding different volumes of data, and supplied a script to build some sample data that produced the following values for blevel across the partitions of a list-partitioned table.
Q1: What do you think Oracle will record as the blevel at the global level for the two indexes ?
A1: As one of the commentators suggested, it seems to be the highest blevel recorded for any partition – in this case 2. (It's possible that this assumption is wrong, of course, there may be some subtle weighting calculation involved – but I haven't yet tested that hypothesis.)
Q2: If you have query with a where clause like "id between 100 and 400 and n1 != 5″ – which is designed very precisely to exclude the last, very big, partition – what value of blevel is Oracle going to use when considering the cost of using the index t1_id to access the data ?
A2: As I pointed out in an earlier note on list partitioned tables, Oracle doesn't recognise the (obvious to the human eye) option for partition pruning in this predicate, so it uses the global blevel in the calculations.
The second answer is the one that is causing me a problem – because I have a client system where almost all the data is in a "dead" partiiton – it has a status, stored as the partition key in a list-partitioned table, of "COMPLETE", and lots of their code includes the predicate: status != 'COMPLETE', but this can make the optimizer take the wrong execution path because it uses a global blevel that has been dictated by the huge volume of data that we know we don't want to see.
The client queries are fairly complex, of course, but here's a very trivial example demonstrating the basic problem (using the data generated by the code in the previous note – running under 126.96.36.199):
set autotrace traceonly explain select * from t1 where id = 99 and n1 != 5 ; -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost | Pstart| Pstop | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 119 | 14 | | | | 1 | PARTITION LIST ALL | | 1 | 119 | 14 | 1 | 6 | |* 2 | TABLE ACCESS BY LOCAL INDEX ROWID| T1 | 1 | 119 | 14 | 1 | 6 | |* 3 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | T1_ID | 1 | | 13 | 1 | 6 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 2 - filter("N1"<>5) 3 - access("ID"=99)
From Oracle's perspective it has to visit all six partitions because it can't use the most apporpriate index and do partition pruning – and the final cost of this simple query is 14 because the value used (six times, in effect) for the blevel in the calculations is two; but we have inside information that tells us that this is essentially an unreasonable cost.
If Oracle were to believe that a more appropriate blevel for this query was just one then the cost would drop significantly (although in this case the plan wouldn't change):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost | Pstart| Pstop | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 119 | 8 | | | | 1 | PARTITION LIST ALL | | 1 | 119 | 8 | 1 | 6 | |* 2 | TABLE ACCESS BY LOCAL INDEX ROWID| T1 | 1 | 119 | 8 | 1 | 6 | |* 3 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | T1_ID | 1 | | 7 | 1 | 6 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 2 - filter("N1"<>5) 3 - access("ID"=99)
Of course for a really big system, where the "dead" partition was 200 Million rows, we might have a blevel of three:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost | Pstart| Pstop | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 119 | 20 | | | | 1 | PARTITION LIST ALL | | 1 | 119 | 20 | 1 | 6 | |* 2 | TABLE ACCESS BY LOCAL INDEX ROWID| T1 | 1 | 119 | 20 | 1 | 6 | |* 3 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | T1_ID | 1 | | 19 | 1 | 6 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 2 - filter("N1"<>5) 3 - access("ID"=99)
Note how changing the global blevel by one makes the cost change by six – a consequence of the fact that we have six partitions with no pruning. If you're having trouble with queries against partitioned table that don't use the right index, take a close look at the data volumes and values recorded for blevel at the global, partition and subpartition levels – it's possible that you're suffering from a bias introduced by one partition being much larger than all the rest.
If you're wondering how I got these plans (without simply editing them) it was by using dbms_stats.set_index_stats() to change the stored statistics – see "Copy Stats" for an example of the type of code needed. In cases like this, where I have better information about the data and the intent of the code than the optimizer has, I am perfectly happy to give a "more truthful" picture of the data to the optimizer by writing scripts to adjust statistics.
There are three drawbacks to such an approach, of course. First: on the next upgrade the optimizer might get smarter and make my clever little hack a liability rather than a benefit; secondly, there may be examples of application code that I haven't noticed that might go wrong because of my hack; finally, and more importantly in the short term, I have to make sure that my code runs every time the statistics on the index are modified by any other program (such as the automatic stats collection job).
But the principle is sound – if we understand the system better than the optimizer then it's positively important to help the optimizer in the most truthful way possible. List partitions (in a way similar to frequency histograms) are an obvious target for this type of treatment.
I first wrote a version of this article in June 2000 after someone posted the following question in an Oracle newsgroup:
I'm trying to create a SQL statement which will give me all the days of a given month as individual rows.
This struck me as an interesting question. SQL has the built-in function LAST_DAY that returns the date of the last day in any given month. You can work from that to find out whether the month in question contains 31, 30, 28, or 29 days. For example:
SELECT SYSDATE, TO_CHAR(LAST_DAY(SYSDATE), 'DD') FROM dual; SYSDATE TO --------- -- 14-NOV-10 30
Once you know the number of days in the month, all that remains is to query against a table having at least that many rows. My original article proposed two solutions yielding correct results, but I now replace those with the following, more elegant solution from Anton Zlygostev:
Just got back from watching Skyline. I read some reviews before I went, most of which said it was terrible and something to avoid at all cost. With that message firmly embedded in my brain I went with zero positive expectations and quite enjoyed it.
Most of the reviews said the acting was really bad. It wasn't wonderful, but it certainly wasn't Twilight bad. The reviews said it lacked plot. Well yeah, but Cloverfield and District 9 weren't exactly brimming with plot and they were cool. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not heaping praise on this film, it's certainly a B movie, but it's by no means the worst film I've ever seen. It beats the hell out of any Twilight movie, but then so does a blank screen.
The film wears its influences very much on its sleeve. A lot of the visuals look like they were stolen heavily inspired by The Matrix and Independence Day (I really hate that film). There is a District 9 and Cloverfield feel to the film, with some of the visuals kinda stolen inspired by Cloverfield too, along with a bit of War of the Worlds for good measure.
One of the most interesting things about the film is it allegedly cost less than $10 Million to make. That's like one episode of Friends (final season). I think the visuals are pretty sweet for that price. It also means it might make enough money, even with half empty cinemas, for a sequel to happen, which they definitely want judging by the ham-fisted hook into a sequel at the end. If one happens I will go to see it just out of curiosity.
So go expecting the worst and it won't be quite as bad as you expected, possibly…
Exadata storage software uses the cellcli utility as its command line interface. Unfortunately, although the documentation set that comes with Exadata does have many examples of cellcli commands, and even a chapter dedicated to cellcli, it does not include any reference material on the syntax itself (particularly the LIST command). So I thought I would write up a few of the things I've learned while picking around at it. But first a little bit of a rant on why they wrote yet another command line interface.
So anyway, here's my quick top ten list of things you should know:
So here are a few examples:
CellCLI> help HELP [topic] Available Topics: ALTER ALTER ALERTHISTORY ALTER CELL ALTER CELLDISK ALTER GRIDDISK ALTER IORMPLAN ALTER LUN ALTER THRESHOLD ASSIGN KEY CALIBRATE CREATE CREATE CELL CREATE CELLDISK CREATE FLASHCACHE CREATE GRIDDISK CREATE KEY CREATE THRESHOLD DESCRIBE DROP DROP ALERTHISTORY DROP CELL DROP CELLDISK DROP FLASHCACHE DROP GRIDDISK DROP THRESHOLD EXPORT CELLDISK IMPORT CELLDISK LIST LIST ACTIVEREQUEST LIST ALERTDEFINITION LIST ALERTHISTORY LIST CELL LIST CELLDISK LIST FLASHCACHE LIST FLASHCACHECONTENT LIST GRIDDISK LIST IORMPLAN LIST KEY LIST LUN LIST METRICCURRENT LIST METRICDEFINITION LIST METRICHISTORY LIST PHYSICALDISK LIST THRESHOLD SET SPOOL START CellCLI> help set Usage: SET |
So as you can see, the help system allows you to see a bit of the syntax for each command. You may also have noticed a couple of SQL*Plus carry-overs. SET, SPOOL, and START work pretty much as expected. Note the @ is equivalent to START and that the only things you can SET are ECHO and DATEFORMAT. Now for a couple of queries (er LIST commands):
CellCLI> desc flashcachecontent ^ CELL-01504: Invalid command syntax. CellCLI> describe flashcachecontent cachedKeepSize cachedSize dbID dbUniqueName hitCount hoursToExpiration missCount objectNumber tableSpaceNumber CellCLI> set echo on CellCLI> @fc_content > CellCLI> list flashcachecontent where dbUniqueName like 'EXDB' and hitcount > 100 attributes dbUniqueName, objectNumber, cachedKeepSize, cachedSize, hitCount, missCount EXDB 2 0 4194304 600 208 EXDB 40 0 2424832 376 60 EXDB 224 0 1802240 115 80 EXDB 267 0 458752 128 9 EXDB 383 0 2547712 157 27 EXDB 423 0 1867776 180 41 EXDB 471 0 4071424 552 85 EXDB 472 0 1277952 114 22 EXDB 474 0 13246464 286 326 EXDB 475 0 5914624 519 124 EXDB 503 0 5308416 669 455 EXDB 5710 0 3735552 363 90 EXDB 6207 0 393216 112 9 EXDB 6213 0 3842048 359 147 EXDB 6216 0 1245184 184 29 EXDB 6373 0 3481600 222 61 EXDB 56085 0 4194304 822 129 EXDB 66849 0 438763520 1221 3322 EXDB 71493 0 5636096 302 127 EXDB 71497 0 1351680 320 22 EXDB 71573 0 2760704 101 37 EXDB 71775 0 1801412608 34994 46315 CellCLI> list flashcachecontent where dbUniqueName like 'EX.?.?' and hitcount > 100 - > attributes dbUniqueName, objectNumber, cachedKeepSize, cachedSize EXDB 2 0 4194304 EXDB 18 0 1179648 EXDB 37 0 622592 EXDB 40 0 2424832 EXDB 63 0 524288 EXDB 104 0 688128 EXDB 224 0 3407872 EXDB 267 0 458752 EXDB 383 0 2670592 EXDB 420 0 1507328 EXDB 423 0 1867776 EXDB 424 0 720896 EXDB 471 0 4071424 EXDB 472 0 1277952 EXDB 473 0 2351104 EXDB 474 0 13574144 EXDB 475 0 5521408 EXDB 503 0 5308416 EXDB 5702 0 262144 EXDB 5709 0 2416640 EXDB 5710 0 3735552 EXDB 6207 0 393216 EXDB 6210 0 131072 EXDB 6213 0 4227072 EXDB 6216 0 1245184 EXDB 6373 0 3579904 EXDB 56085 0 4194304 EXDB 66849 0 438763520 EXDB 71493 0 5636096 EXDB 71497 0 1351680 EXDB 71573 0 2801664 EXDB 71775 0 1801412608 CellCLI> list flashcachecontent where dbUniqueName like 'EX.?.?' and hitcount > 100 and objectNumber like '.*775' 2356637742 6 71775 CellCLI> list flashcachecontent where dbUniqueName like '.*X.?.?' and objectNumber like '.*775' detail cachedKeepSize: 0 cachedSize: 1801412608 dbID: 2356637742 dbUniqueName: EXDB hitCount: 34994 missCount: 46315 objectNumber: 71775 tableSpaceNumber: 6 CellCLI> list flashcachecontent where dbUniqueName like 'EX.?.?' and hitcount > 100 and objectNumber like '.*775' 2356637742 6 71775 CellCLI> list flashcachecontent attributes objectNumber, hitCount, missCount where dbUniqueName like 'EX.?.?' and hitcount > 100 and objectNumber like '.*775' 71775 34994 46315 |
So DESC doesn't work as an abbreviation of DESCRIBE. Notice that there are no headings for column oriented output. As you can see, you can run "scripts" and SET ECHO ON to display the commands in any scripts that you execute. One of the LIST commands was strung across two lines by using the continuation operator (-). The LIST commands look a lot like SQL except for LIST being used instead of SELECT and the regex expressions for matching when using the LIKE key word. Also notice that in the last command a number was matched with a regex expression implying a data type conversion, although all data may be treated at text. You can see that the ATTRIBUTES and WHERE key words can be anywhere on the command line after the "LIST objectName" keywords. In other words, these two key words are not positional, either one can be first. Finally, the DETAIL keyword turns the output sideways. Or as the help says, "Formats the display as an attribute on each line, with
an attribute descriptor preceding each value."
So the cellcli interface is really not that bad, I just happen to like SQL*Plus better. ;) I do think it would have been a simple matter to reuse SQL*Plus since they already have all the functionality built into it, but maybe there were other concerns that I'm not aware of. But cellcli works. And by the way, cellcli has the ability to scroll though previous commands and edit them via the arrow keys which is quite handy. The editing capability is definitely a step forward from SQL*Plus on unix like platforms (although you can use rlwrap to accomplish this – see this post for more details on that: Using rlwrap on Windows) And regex also provides a very powerful pattern matching capability although it's still a little confusing to have SQL like syntax mixed with regex to my way of thinking. Maybe if they just added the ability to use the % wildcard in addition to the regex I would feel better about it.
November 12, 2010 I read a message thread on the Oracle-L list that caused me to pause for a moment… If you display an execution plan and see a message stating "Dynamic sampling used", you might be left wondering what caused the dynamic sampling. From the Oracle Database 11.2 documentation, the various levels of dynamic sampling: [...]
… (or "Fall" for speakers of American) has arrived in the UK – and once again I am reminded how gardening and trouble-shooting are just two aspects of the same problem.
I have several trees in and around my garden, including two rather large Oak trees, and at this time of year it takes a couple of hours at the weekend to rake up the fallen leaves. The comparison with solving performance problems is obvious:
Every Saturday, I look at the leaves on the ground and the leaves still on the trees and quite often manage to persuade myself that there's no point in doing anything just yet.
On the Saturdays when I decide that I really do have to rake up the leaves I aim to clear about 99% of the problem – there's no point in clearing to 100% because if I go for perfection it's only going to last a couple of minutes before more leaves start coming down or blowing in. Of course, after I've spent ages clearing 99% of the mess, my wife (the end user) is quite likely to say: "you haven't finished yet"
After I've done a really good job raking up enough leaves I look up at the trees and know that all those leaves are going to be heading my way and I'm probably going to have to do it all over again next week, and there's nothing appropriate that I can do to stop it happening.


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Thanks, Lee for sharing your experiences with contract negotiation. Thissummer, I will be involved with contract negotiation for records storage,for the first time. Our current contract was in place when I joined theteam in 1999.This has brought a thought to mind. Perhaps all the very knowledge RecordsManagers out here could provide me with some pointers in negotiating acontract with a records storage vendor. Just brief ideas, (I don't need anovel, and neither does the list serve!) points, thoughts, etc.If you send your pointers on negotiations to me, I will compile a listingand provide it to the List Serve.I look forward to hearing from you!Thanks,Lisa MahoneyInternational Records AnalystLucent Technologies600 Mountain Ave Rm 6D423CMurray Hill NJ 07974-0636V: 908 582-7148F: 908 582-2940E: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^>From: Nemchek, Lee R. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]<snip> John's full email is very relevant to us in our dealings withoffsite storage vendors. Having just gone through the process ofnegotiating a new contract, I can't stress enough the importance ofreviewing and redrafting, as necessary, every single word in the "StandardTerms and Conditions" contract that a vendor might present to you to sign.Literally *everything* in a storage contract is negotiable and open torevision. If a vendor tells you that the warehouseman's lien" language intheir contract is standard in the industry, don't believe it. That languagecan be amended or stricken altogether from your contract, if you negotiateto do so. If you fail to make these kinds of changes, the law firm'srecords might, under very adverse circumstances, be subject to destructionor sale to third parties, without the firm's knowledge or consent. It'staken me almost six months to negotiate our new offsite storage contract.Although the process has been an ordeal, an!d one that I don't want to have to repeat for many years to come, the timespent by me and our firm's lawyers who assisted in the negotiation will havebeen well spent, if it serves the purpose of protecting the firm's interestsagainst all negative eventualities with respect to our future relationshipwith our vendor. Regarding John's opinion about the general futility of posting legalnotices, I don't disagree, but I'll do it anyway as part of our duediligence efforts to provide notice to clients that we can't find, prior todestroying their records.Lee R. Nemchek MLS, CRMInformation Resources ManagerMorrison & Foerster LLP[log in to unmask](213) 892-5359 phone(213) 892-5454 faxList archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.htmlContact [log in to unmask] for assistance
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London's annual Meltdown Festival is one of the U.K.'s hippest
events. A specially selected curator invites artists he or she wishes
to showcase, typically the more adventurous, the better. This year,
free-jazz innovator Ornette Coleman assembled a stellar lineup of
genre-defining and defying acts -- Patti Smith, James Blood Ulmer,
the Roots, Baaba Maal and the Master Musicians of Jajouka, among them.
Some of the strongest response, however, was reserved for a
76-year-old performance artist whose blood-curdling singing has been
testing audiences' limits for decades. That would be Yoko Ono, who
resurrected the name of the Plastic Ono Band for the group that
backed her at Meltdown.
The ensemble included her son, Sean Lennon, guitarist Mark Ronson,
singer Antony Hegarty, the Japanese experimental pop group Cornelius
and Coleman himself, all of whom also appear on her latest album,
"Between My Head and the Sky," out today.
"I didn't expect that kind of big applause and all that warm
reception," she said, speaking recently from New York.
Ono has spent most of her career taking wild risks, as she is with
the new version of the Plastic Ono Band. She and John Lennon
originally gave that moniker to the group that backed them in concert
in Toronto in 1969, a performance that was noteworthy as Lennon's
public debut playing with anyone other than the Beatles.
Yoko OnoYoko OnoYoko OnoOno said she opted to revive the name now,
because she was interested in exploding the borders that separate
styles of music, a creative mission similar to the one that drove her
nearly four decades ago.
"That time, I really felt totally out about the fact I'm going to
change the world," she said. "I was really intent on breaking the
sound barrier. This one is breaking a lot of forms too. It's a
hodgepodge, like real life. It's a very delicate way of expressing
controversial aspects of music."
The new collection is nothing if not eclectic. There's the
percolating dance pop of "The Sun Is Down!," with its repeated
minimalist lyric phrases paralleling a patchwork of vocalization
snippets; the haunting late-night jazz balladry of "Memory of
Footsteps"; and "Moving Mountains," an instrumental experiment in
ambient sounds and rhythm.
Ono's lyrics for "Waiting for the D Train," another track that serves
as a reminder of the influence her early music had on
late-'70s/early-'80s new wave, sound as meticulously crafted as a haiku:
Cueing for my bread
Passing many tunnels
In the cold winter morning
Looking for the end
Yoko OnoOno's work consistently has focused on defying convention,
and she often makes her audience an integral part of her performance
art pieces. For her "Wish Tree" installation, which recently spent
time in Pasadena, visitors attached thousands of handwritten messages
to the branches of 21 crape myrtle trees set up in the courtyard of
an outdoor shopping center.
Because she has been so fascinated with art for art's sake, it's
intriguing to hear her say she also hopes her new music will do well
on the charts.
"People joke about how it's like soldiers getting a medal," she said
of scoring a hit. "But it's good to have a medal. It encourages you."
Her vocals, though, haven't become any more accessible with this
newest endeavor. Of her Meltdown performance, a critic for the
Guardian wrote: "There are many reasons to wish the 76-year-old Ono
well, including her underrated songwriting abilities, her long
track-record of avant-garde mischief and her indefatigable good
nature in the face of four decades of abuse from Beatles fans, but
her vocal stylings are not among them."
In an odd twist of fate, "Between My Head and the Sky" was recorded
in the same studio where Ono and Lennon recorded 1980's "Double
Fantasy" album, released shortly before Lennon was gunned down by
Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan. The name of the facility had
changed, and Ono said she didn't initially realize it was the same
location. "It was very uncanny," she said. "We did the basic tracks
in six days -- the same thing happened with 'Double Fantasy.' We had
a week to do the basic tracks."
Her son with Lennon, Sean, designed the album's cover, a striking
photo of Ono seated at a piano, in a top hat and dark glasses, with
what appears to be a spray of lotus blossoms blurred in the foreground.
"John and I always thought of our own covers," she said. "This time,
Sean said, 'I'm doing it,' and he did it. He's an artist too. I
didn't want to be that overwhelming Yoko Ono trying to control the scene.
"I'm a control freak, in a way, especially with my artwork and music.
This time, I had to get to another level, a spiritual level of
understanding. It's out of love for my son. He's a good one; he has
his own ideas."
CD review:
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band 'Between My Head and the Sky'
By Joe Gross
September 22, 2009
Yoko Ono/ Plastic Ono Band
'Between My Head and the Sky'
Grade: A-
At this point, the only music fans who have heard Yoko Ono's
extraordinary 40-year body of work and don't recognize her as an
innovator are pretty easily slotted into two groups: folks who are
still fuzzy on women's suffrage and Beatles loons who still blame her
for their inevitable disintegration. Even if you don't have much use
for her often extreme music, Ono was there before most folks, pushing
envelopes in art and sound and doing it as a woman whom, for a while
there, the entire planet seemed to hate just kind of on spec.
This is the first Ono album released with the Plastic Ono name since
1973's proto-feminist screed "Feeling the Space" and her first
all-new studio effort since 1995's alt-rock infused "Rising." This
new model Ono Band includes her son Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda from Cibo
Matto, and electronic-dance savant Keigo Oyamada, a.k.a Cornelius.
"Between My Head…" rolodexes 40 years of Ono's tricks. "Waiting for
the D Trains" opens the album with spikey, no wave guitar flail and
wordless yells, while "The Sun is Down" would be welcome at any rave.
The jazz on "Ask the Elephant" owes plenty to Ornette Coleman's
harmelodic funk, while "Memory of Footsteps" and "Unun. To" (the
latter in Japanese) are meditative, small group sketches which are
alternately thoughtful and distressingly Steve Allen-ish. "Calling"
could be a leftover "White Album" jam from a particularly "out"
afternoon or a Sonic Youth rehearsal tape. In no way is this a bad
thing. In no way is almost any of this album a bad thing it some of
the most vigorous, vital rock music a 76-year-old has ever produced.


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I'd rather be able to save the lighting as a sort of "custom lighting preset" you could choose from a drop-down list instead of having to deal with a bunch of exported files.
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Something like that would be cool too. I was thinking import/export or copy/paste as they would fit nicely on the new drop-down list in the lighting tab. I'd like to see maybe something like a 'My Light Shaders' folder that they can be saved to. Then when you click on the drop-down or right-click in the lighting tab you could choose 'My Light Shaders' (or whatever) and be able to choose what you want. Maybe there could even be some way to see a thumbnail preview of each shader in the 'Shaders' folder. That may be a bit much though. |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced on Friday that it is sending $2 million in stimulus money to the state DOT to buy four buses. The buses will be owned by the state. Boston Express will use one pair, and C&J Trailways will use the other -- all for free. C&J co-owns Boston Express with Concord Coach. These funds are creating jobs now while investing in the future of our transit systems," Administrator Peter Rogoff of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) said in Friday's news release. "The public's demand for transit service continues to grow, and these dollars will help meet that need."That sounds nice. But it isn't true. Two of the buses will replace C&J buses currently in service on I-95. C&J President Jim Jalbert confirmed to us in an interview Friday that his company would make no new hires in relation to receiving those buses. The other two buses will be used by Boston Express to add new service. The number of new jobs created? "As many as four or five," Jalbert said. They will all be bus drivers. Two million dollars to create "four or five" bus-driver jobs? That's as much as $500,000 per job. How stimulated are you now that you know it's only costing the taxpayer a half a million bucks per job created? Do you think it an accident that this government largess is directed at blue state Massachusetts where Obama's good buddy Deval Patrick is in big trouble? I mean, they wouldn't play politics with our tax money, would they? Hat Tip: Ed Lasky |
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To keep with the tradition, we will be hosting another "Tax Day" rally against big government at the corner of US41 and Pine Ridge Road on April 13 (Saturday) from 2-4pm.
Please share this with your friends and get the information out to your respective e-mail lists, Facebook and Twitter accounts, etc. Thanks!
Please join all the many local liberty groups that make up the Freedom Tea Party where we join together for our "Pre-Tax-Day" Rally.
We have heard all the problems!
We have many solutions!
Now it is time for action!
Come out with your signs, your flags, your Constitutions and join together for a fun afternoon with fellow liberty lovers to celebrate individual liberty and protest big government intrusion in all forms, but especially against the personal income tax, which is theft!Everyone is welcome!
2014 candidates and groups are encouraged to bring tables and/or tents to share there information and materials.
Anyone with a table or tent should arrive early for set up.
Oh Stinks. Still holding those lame rallies on the corner of Pine Ridge and 41 huh? Well, go ahead and continue to make fools of our lovely elderly population here in Collier County. I so love checking out the local news reports and pictures of the lil' ol' grey hair ladies with their straw hats and tea bags hanging off of 'em, waving their lil' ol' American flags, holding their Obama derangement syndrome signs and all. Only now, since We the People re-elected President Obama to a second term a few short months ago, you and your gang look even dumber and more out-of-touch with reality than ever before!
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4 comments:
- Tania said...
that is super cute! He is so big! So are your other kids by the way! Jocelyn looks like a different kid!!! I do enjoy the pics and videos and all.. but... a little MORE OFTEN would be fantastic to those of us that ONLY GET TO SEE THOSE!!! :) love you guys!!
Tania - March 31, 2009 at 6:22 AM
- jennmoya said...
Thanks Tania! You are too sweet! I will try to post more, time is just FLYING by!
Love you guys too!
Much Love,
Jen - March 31, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Sydni said...
Yes! A little more often, I agree, and I get to see them quite a bit! That picture of the brothers is TOO cute! Glad you all made it safely and are enjoying yourselves. ~Sydni
- March 31, 2009 at 11:31 AM
- Caitlin said...
Me three... I wish we could see everyone, and I say that alot, but it's SOOOO true! Everyone has changed so much just after two years!
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Easy to walk to and featuring special activities every day on our visit, Fort Hamilton has great views of the isalnd and a quite wonderful Xmas concert by the bag pipe regiment. Worth a visit.
Easy to walk to and featuring special activities every day on our visit, Fort Hamilton has great views of the isalnd and a quite wonderful Xmas concert by the bag pipe regiment. Worth a visit.
Fort Hamilton is within walking distance of downtown on top of a hill overlooking the city. It is a fun place to explore, especially if you have young children, and have a picnic lunch. There is no entry fee. The moat is filled with tropical plants and worth walking through. Unfortunately, the moat was closed when we lasted visited. When... More
A wonderful spot to see the whole city at a glance. Also great for wedding/family photos.
If you're visiting Bermuda between Nov.1 and March 31, you should know about the Bermuda Rendezvous Activities. Many are free. Pick up a brochure at any tourist information kiosk or check with your hotel's concierge. At noon on Mondays there is a skirling ceremony on the grounds of the fort, perched high above the city of Hamilton and its harbor.Bagpipers,... More
It's a long hike up to Fort Hamilton from the city of Hamilton pushing a stroller. The upper level of the Fort is not accessible with a stroller (or probably a wheel chair), unless you're willing to struggle it up several stairs or a narrow ramp between the stairs. The moat jungle walk didn't seem accessible at all. No information... More
Fort Hamilton has really great views of the city of Hamilton, Bermuda. The grounds "upstairs" are well maintained and pretty. Cool cannons, too. The "moat" area, which was filled in and where tropical plants now grow, is not well maintained at all. The trail through it is in very poor condition and the plants are not well marked. There are... More
Fort Hamilton is a nice little attraction within walking distance of downtown Hamilton. Plus, it's free, so you can't beat the price. A few of the cannons are on display, but some are missing. A sign at the entrance gives you a brief history of the fort, but much of the fort feels like well maintained ruins. The views of... More
We found this to be a special sight, not quite what you would expect. A little hard to find but that is part of the charm. The moat gardens are unique - unfortunately we couldn't descend all the way down but there is still a good view of them from the bridge where you enter. The views from the top... More
Pros: 1. Walkable from downtown Hamilton 2. You can't beat the price: Free 3. Fun to explore the magazine tunnels. 4. The old moat has been turned into a jungle that is nice to walk around. Cons: 1. Confusing to find. There is a sign, but there are multiple paths and we were stopped by someone as we went up... More
Every Monday at 12 noon the Island Pipe band play for approx 30 mins. The settting is delightful and the traditial pipe music, kilts and tartan make a spectacular display. And it is free!!!
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Extreme sports are good for your health : a phenomenological understanding of fear and anxiety in extreme sport
Brymer, Eric & Schweitzer, Robert (2013) Extreme sports are good for your health : a phenomenological understanding of fear and anxiety in extreme sport. Journal of Health Psychology, 18(4), pp. 477-487.
Extreme sports are traditionally explored from a risk-taking perspective which often assumes that participants do not experience fear. In this paper we explore participants' experience of fear associated with participation in extreme sports. An interpretive phenomenological method was used with 15 participants. Four themes emerged: experience of fear, relationship to fear, management of fear, and fear and self transformation. Participant's experience of extreme sports was revealed in terms of intense fear but this fear was integrated and experienced as a potentially meaningful and constructive event in their lives. The findings have implications for understanding fear as a potentially transformative process.
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Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : April 29, 2011
I tried to stay away from being quite as heavy on AT&T Mobility LLC. v. Concepcion today as I was yesterday but this is a big case the case and I'm still seeing a lot of excellent and varying opinions on it. Also, Linda Evers at Smart Grid Legal News has another great interview. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 149.
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : April 27, 2011
For the second day in a row this is a little bit later than normal, but as a result of that and wanting to provide ample coverage to two big legal developments, we're expanding today's roundup to 16 posts. We have a wealth of varying viewpoints on AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion in the Supreme Court and also strong insight on Sony's epic data breach. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 147.
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : April 26, 2011
A busy, busy day at LexBlog means we get to this roundup a tad bit tardy. In some of the biggest news of the last 48 hours, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Nelson granteded a preliminary junction in the players' case against the NFL and temporarily lifted the league's lockout. Gregg Clifton of Jackson Lewis has the analysis. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 133.
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : April 25, 2011
A wet and gloomy Monday in Seattle sees 146 posts hit The LexBlog Network. Today we see some coverage on a subject that's seemingly slipped past the vibrant privacy law community, that being the outage faced by Sony's Playstation Network and the possibility that a breach and lost credit card data may be in play. Interesting stuff.
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : April 21, 2011
Where yesterday's roundup came much later than usual, we're going to get today's out a little bit earlier. Highlighting today's top 10, we have some engaging employment law posts from Rob Radcliff, Robin Shea and Tom Crane. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 125.
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : April 20, 2011
Because yesterday afternoon ended up being quite busy, we're just now getting to Wednesday's look back at the Network's best posts. Within that bunch, Santiago Cuego breaks down registering your intellectual property in a foreign country, Megan Connolly alerts us to the existence of drive-thru funerals and Gregg Clifton comments on the labor peace in Major League Baseball.
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Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : April 19, 2011
Despite it being almost a week later, we're still seeing strong commentary on the privacy bills recently introduced in Congress. This time, it's analysis from an advertising perspective via DWT attorney Paul Glist. Also, David Oxenford has a few words on what Donald Trump declaring his presidential candidacy on The Apprentice might mean from a legal perspective. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 143.
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Today's roundup of the day's best is quite technology-heavy as we have multiple posts on hacking (one discussing the Wordpress breach), insight on how to write blog titles, advice the art of being engaging and commentary on a lawsuit against Match.com. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 138.


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May 17, 2009 The Obama - Netanyahu SummitBy Leo Rennert
Some international summits have a way of arousing heated speculation about dramatic breakthroughs (or breakdowns) but often deliver more prosaic results. This is apt to be the outcome of Monday's White House meeting between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu -- their first since they won their respective national leadership posts.
For weeks, mainstream media have been pushing dire scenarios of presumed differences over Palestinian statehood and other issues apt to create a major confrontation. But in advance of the summit, each side seems to be opting for a less cataclysmic script. White House officials, feeding reporters material for summit-eve articles, are stressing that Obama is not looking for a fight and will not show his cards until after he engages in similar one-on-one get-togethers with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Mubarak in coming weeks. On the Israeli side, the word is that Netanyahu is ready to palliate Obama with assurances that removal of illegal outposts will be accelerated and that there will be no new settlements built on his watch -- as was the case when Bibi was prime minister a decade ago. So what about the expected breach over Palestinian statehood and the two-state solution? The buzz coming from both sides is that some common ground may be found in reviving George W. Bush's "road map," which envisages an eventual Palestinian state, but only after reciprocal, step-by-step confidence-building measures, including complete dismantling of Palestinian terror groups, an end to anti-Israel incitement in official Palestinian media, schools, textbooks and mosques, and -- on Israel's part -- a "settlement freeze" that may be interpreted differently by Washington and Jerusalem but provide a way of moving forward. This was exactly the view advanced by Israeli President Shimon Peres on his recent trip to Washington when he told reporters that Netanyahu already has accepted in principle Palestinian statehood by pledging to abide by all previous signed peace agreements, including the "road map." Whether it's called the "road map" or something else, this would be an agenda consonant with Netanyahu's high-priority insistence during his previous premiership on the need for Palestinian "reciprocity" (i.e. compromises and concessions) to move the peace process forward. As far as the White House is concerned, it would allow Obama to play the role of above-the-fray mediator, pushing both sides to show flexibility and some concrete signs of rapprochement. In any case, while Netanyahu may point to his adherence to the "road map," he also can be expected to make it clear that he doesn't intend to embrace the Annapolis declaration that Condoleezza Rice pushed at the end of Bush's second term when she upended the "road map" and put Palestinian statehood ahead of an end to Palestinian violence. Instead, the prime minister will try to convince Obama that basic Israeli security is non-negotiable -- a goal more easily achieved via the "road map" or some similar process. Also, Netanyahu undoubtedly will look for fresh assurances that Washington and the other members of the international Quartet -- the European Union, the UN and Russia -- will continue to isolate Hamas as long as it fails to recognize Israel, end violence, and abide by previous peace agreements and That still would leave major final-status issues -- Jerusalem, refugees, borders -- for another day. But one summit cannot be expected to solve ingrained differences going back decades. While the media will be fixated on the Palestinian issue, the more compelling and urgent item on the summit agenda is Iran -- Netanyahu's top priority. The prime minister can be expected to press the president to set a definite time limit -- no later than this fall -- for concrete results from U.S. diplomatic engagement to prevent Tehran from going nuclear before Washington moves to far stiffer sanctions. For his part, Obama may be inclined to leave himself more wiggle room in dealing with Iran, thus keeping Israel guessing and increasingly nervous of whether and how much it can count on the U.S. to thwart Iranian designs. Privately, probably in separate talks without top aides, Obama will try to get a sense of Israel's determination and seriousness to bomb Iranian nuclear installations, if all other means fail. For his part, Netanyahu probably will tell the president that Israel will keep the military card in reserve, but only for so long. Each may end up with a better understanding of the other's intentions. Or maybe not. While clarity of respective intentions about Iran would be a desirable outcome, the summit could end up leaving each side still guessing about the other's ultimate steps to prevent a nuclear Iran -- a dangerous prospect indeed. Where the two men are almost certain to disagree about Iran has to do with the Obama administration's linkage of progress on the Israeli-Palestinian peace front with Western attempts to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Team Obama cites this as its prime reason for pushing for a two-state solution, while Netanyahu deems such linkage highly illusory. Along with many other Israelis, he rejects the idea that the advent of a Palestinian state would change Iran's radical extremism. For Netanyahu a major asset in this debate is the growing consensus among "moderate" Arab states that Iran -- not the Palestinian question -- is the most dangerous and destabilizing threat to the region, as a top State Department diplomat told the Senate this week. In turn, this should allow Netanyahu press for high-priority U.S.-Israel efforts to forge common bonds against Iran with Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Sunni regimes in the Persian Gulf. While this first Netanyahu-Obama summit may generate more questions than answers, it may provide a few clues about the respective influence in shaping U.S. policy of top players in Obama's national security team. Will Secretary of State Clinton be seen as the president's chief foreign-policy adviser or will she be usptaged by Gen. Jones, the president's national security adviser? Who will be more prominent in photo ops? Or will Obama keep everyone guessing? Of one thing, we can be sure. Mainstream media will do their darndest to cherrypick whatever anti-Bibi crumbs may surface or be bruited about during and after the summit, while these same media will act as virtual Abbas surrogates when the Palestinian leader arrives at the Oval Office.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
a night at the museum. x 30
speaking of dream jobs, another one that i would've loved to have tried out for is month at the museum 2. that's living at the museum of science and industry in chicago for 30 days and 30 nights.
all access pass to check out all the nooks and crannys of the 14 acre huge museum. exploring the exhibits after hours, partaking in science demonstrations and interacting with museum guests. what's not to like?
a huge science nerd, living and breathing science for 30 days would've also been a dream opportunity.
too bad it's only open to residents of the united states. lucky bastards.
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Mother and I … Poor Dad
A few weeks after I found mother with Clark and Jeremy, and we had our chat about her and dad we kind of dropped the subject of them swinging, will her swinging, dad watching. I got home from school and mother was getting in about the same time. She settled in with a glass of wine and on the patio, before dad got home she asked me if I had given any more thought to her and dad swinging and me getting in on the act.
"Mother you're asking if I want to sleep with dad?"
"No dear, I don't think you want to do that, but I know he has been looking at you these past few weeks in a different way. He is thinking of you and me with two guys and with him watching."
"How do you know that has he said that to you?"
"No, will not until I gave him the idea, that you were getting very grown up and you were attracting a lot of men and it would be easy to make her/you part of our life style."
"He has been looking at me a lot these last few days, since you mentioned it."
"Last night in bed we were getting it on and I started talking to him about you and how you were so much like me, and I told him that you had a high sex drive and that made him go off faster than he has in a long time, he mumbled your name when he unloaded into me."
"So what do you have in mind?" We chatted until dad got home and later that night I started down that road to teasing my father. After dinner and some TV with my folks I had a few phone calls and around 10:30 I came down to the den in a sexy baby doll PJ and sexy high heels. "Mother you think these heels go with my new dress we got for the dance?"
Dad's eyes bugged out as he looked at everything but my heels. Once I realized that Dad was checking me out every time I came into the room, I started to relentlessly tease him around the house when Mom was gone. I'd walk around in just panties and bra a lot more and if Mom went to bed early, I'd watch TV with Dad in just a baby-doll night thing, making sure to show plenty of leg and hot glimpses of my plump tits. My shorts became shorter and my bikini's smaller as I pranced around the house, seemingly oblivious to the erections I was causing my father.
One fateful Friday night mother and I sat dad up for the big kill. I turned down a date and stayed home. I was up in my room getting ready for the big show. Mother came to my room knocked on the door and cracked it open. "Your father is on his second drink and I'm faking a bad cold and going to bed; make him sweat bullets honey!"
I just smiled and winked at mother and a few minutes late went down to the den. Dad was alone watching TV. "Hey dad mother said she felt a cold coming on and went to bed after taking some pills."
He looked up saw me in a light blue baby-doll with matching sheer thong panties. My dad, well into his third whatever on the rocks, looked up at me from his leather recliner and softly remarked, "You better cover up. Your mother would be mad if she saw you in that."Giggling, I looked him in his robe and I guess his underwear. "Dad can I have a glass of wine?"
"Sure baby, here let me get it for you, I need a freshener."
I sat cross-legged on the couch across from his recliner, my shaved pussy already damp under the semi-transparent panties. "Dad I think mother took something strong I heard her snoring as I came past your bedroom, she is out for the count, oh and you may not want to sleep with her tonight, you might get what she has!" He just nodded yes.
I pretended to be getting engrossed in the horror movie he was watching. Every now and then, I'd give a little shudder or shriek as the suspense built in the movie, making my dad laugh and call me a chicken. All the lights were out in the room, and only the TV was putting out the light that I needed to see my going in the tank father. After a twenty minutes or so had passed, I told Dad I was really sacred and got up and sat on his lap.At 5'9 almost 5'10" at 130#, I must have felt like a full load to my father who is 6'1, 200#. Sitting there quietly, I pretended to be absorbed in the movie and would squirm every so often as if scared by something in the movie. As expected, my barely covered ass, squirming on my dad's lap, quickly aroused my 3 sheets to the wind father. I frequently caught him staring down the top of my baby-doll at my 39D's and I felt his cock grow beneath me as he peeked at my firm, young tits.Leaning back into him I ground my firm around ass hard against his swelling dick in an unmistakable display of intentional cock-teasing.Dad moaned softly as he shifted in his chair, squirming harder, I put one of my bare feet on his thighs and melted back against him.He grunted as my firm ass pressed against his rigid cock. Throwing caution to the wind, I whispered without looking at him I put my hand down on his lap as if I were going to shift my weight and when my hand went down it went down on his cock. He was rock hard and his thick daddy meat stood up out of the fold of his robe.
"Oh good heavens mother would kill us both if she knew I caused you to get a stiff one! Did I cause that Daddy?"
I felt him stiffen. "You cause, ah, ah what sweetie?" he asked cautiously; with his head back on the recliner looking up at the ceiling.I put my face next to his cheek. "Your thing daddy, it's so stiff." Just than I placed my hand down on it and gripped it like a pole. "Oh daddy don't tell mother I touched you, she would be pissed!"
I sat up and tried to slip my leg over him and stand up away from him, but I fell back on his lap and his man meat went for my teenage pussy and only for my thing it might, I said it might have slipped in my sweet young pussy. I looked back at him and that got him out of his swimming head, caused from the hard stuff he had been drinking.
"Oh daddy that big thing almost went in me. Daddy I know you watch me with boys when I'm parked in the drive after a date, late at night." I whispered seductively rubbing my panty-covered ass against his throbbing cock.At a loss for words, my father just sat here silently."I know you come home, have a drink or two, maybe three, and watch me in my room." I went on, leaning harder into him, my voice barely a whisper "You ever watch some of those boys fuck me. Does it make you hard to watch?"My dad groaned helplessly and his hands began to gently stroke my bare legs."You like watching me fuck them?" I asked teasingly, squirming slowly on his lap. "Do I fuck them good?""M-Ma-Marca..." My dad groaned in despair. "I'm sorry. I can't help it. Don't tell your Mom. Please. I just had to look...and now...well...I'm sorry. Look, don't say anything to anyone; I won't watch you anymore."Grabbing my Dad's hands, I pulled them up over my tits and put my other foot up on his empty thigh. Writhing more forcefully against him, I promised, "I'm not going to tell on you if you don't tell on me. You can watch me anytime you want."Wickedly, I continued to torment him. "Do you want to fuck me like they do? Do you want to fuck me too, Daddy?"
Even while fondling his half-naked 17-year old daughter's boobs as I grinded away on his lap; my drunken father played the admonishing parent. "No. No. I can't do that. I shouldn't even be watching you. Get off my lap and get your ass upstairs right now. Go on. Stop acting like a slut."I notice happily that my father's words had no force behind them and I giggled softly to myself as I obeyed his order. I stood up making sure I pushed off him by running my hand over his cock one last time. I turned as I walked away. His cock shot up from his robe; damn he didn't have any underwear on, Jesus look at that pink snake. He saw me looking and quickly covered himself.
"I would like for you to watch me, do an older guy, maybe one of your friends, why don't you talk with mother about it!"
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This week Clark enters a Hapkido demonstration in Seoul. While she thinks she'll be competing in the all women's division she find's her self in a surprising situation.
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I started making bug pendants 5 years ago.
I love working with resins you can have so much fun.
Do as I say not as I do.
Make sure you're wearing clothes you can wreck just in case you wipe or spill resin on you.
I've not used gloves. You REALLY should.
Prepare yourself.
***Open your windows*** or even better do this outside.
More industrial resins should be used outside and with gas masks as fumes are toxic.
When you're using molds it's best to invest in a spray release. This will help prevent from you saying nasty words and getting mad when you can't get your pendant out.
You only need to spray REEEEEAAALY lightly. Like.. you don't want any big old droplets in the mold as the resin will go around it and you'll have big ol' nasty bumps in your pendant.
If nessisary take a cloth and spray it and wipe the mold.
Always use two containers. One for measuring and one for mixing.
I don't recommend reusing these so expect to chuck em. They are cheap.
You can also use plastic cups for mixing.
You want to consider before you start about how much resin you'll be using.
You'll need to set THREE different layers and each layer needs time in between. Which means you need to make THREE seperate batches.
Think of it this way, you got a foreground, a middle ground and a background.
Each layer is about a third of how thick you want the pendant.
Allow each layer to set before proceeding to the next. This can be a few hours between.
Here I am measuring out ONE of the solutions in the kit...the hardner.
Resins are created through a chemical reaction of two solutions. One will be the catalyst.
***Always read the instructions as each resin varies on how to use.***
I'm using Envirotex Lite. In this case it's a 1:1 ration.
So if you use one ounce of one, you use one ounce of the other.
I find it difficult sometimes to see the lines on the measurements and marking your line also will ensure you measure the same amount of the second solution.
Pour into mixing container and scrap with wooden stick.
Measure them same amount of the second chemical/solution.
Remember that line we did?
Aaaand mix for at least two minutes.
It's SUPER important not to rush this step as if it's not mixed right, it aint gonna set right.
Now three things will probably happen when you do this.
1) It might feel if you hold the container that it's getting warm. This is normal since it's a chemical reaction taking place.
2) Air bubbles will appear. We'll talk about this later. Don't worry about them keep mixing.
3) It'll get milky in colour. Keep stirring this will go away.
Pour in a little bit for your foreground.
Wait for the layer to set.
I don't have a picture for this step.
If you've got an object that has small crevises use a paintbrush to paint the small parts to stop air bubbles from forming around your object for the next step.
Pour in the next layer with your object.
You can just cover the object or leave a little exposed it's up to you.
I've used sand and a picture in this example.
TIP: If I wanted the sand sitting behind the object I would had put the sand in the NEXT layer.
Wait again for this layer to set
OR if you want a clear background then just go ahead and cover your object.
In the last layer you can always add colour or more embellshments as a background.
Some resins you can get colourant to add to the resin to create... well colours.
I've just gone for clear.
Allow to cure for 24-48 hours.
You should be able to literally just POP your pendant out of the mold.
Use a drill with a small drill piece for your hole an add your metal piece for hanging your necklace.
Drilling tip.. have it on a soft surface so it doesn't create too much pressure when drilling to avoid breakage. ( you can see mine chipped a lil here)
You can sometimes buy polishing solutions if you want your object more shiny.
Nasty-son-of-a-gun bubbles.
Depending on your resin here are some ways to help get rid of them.
I mentioned in another tutorial blowing on the product Envirotex lite which is a polymine hardner or using a blow torch will make the bubbles pop. It's the CO2 in this case that makes them pop.
Polyester resins and polyurethane resins: One you mix your chemicals together tapping for a few taps the container on the bottom can help clear some out. OR when you are pouring hold the liquid high above the mold (several inches) and allows the stream the become very thin while you are pouring, bubbles will pop as the stream should be too thin for the bubbles.


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I hope you're all having a lovely weekend, mine has been pretty good so far, a few drinks with friends and the boy on Friday night, a relaxing Saturday waiting for my eBay listings to end, good food and a night of X-Factor, now I'm just about to go out for a few Sunday evening drinks.
Funnily enough the day I took these pictures I noticed another blogger Sarah wearing almost the exact same outfit, so obviously I wasn't meaning to copy her, but I think we have quite a similar look in many ways. Which blogs do you share your style with and which do you draw inspiration from?
If you're a regular reader of my blog you will have seen these shorts numerous times, but I do love them as they are so very versatile and I'm sure they will be in many more outfit posts to come.
I'm crazy for polka dots at the moment, I picked up this blouse from a Charity shop a few weeks ago, I changed the buttons as they were originally mother of pearl, I think these look much better and give it that vintage feel.
This was also the first outing for the H&M lace-up boots I mentioned in a previous post, they were love at first sight really and I'm so glad I decided to buy these and return the worker boots, these are much more my style and don't make my legs look about 2 inches long.
I hope you all have a great week.
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Vintage Polka Dot Blouse - Thrifted - £3
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Tan Leather Belt - H&M - £7.99
Lace-up Boots - H&M - £24.99
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How We Afforded Our Adoption
One of the biggest hurdles on the road to adoption is finding the necessary funds. While the adoption tax credit and employer benefits can help after the fact, many readers came up with creative ways to raise the money before they adopted. Here, we've compiled their best ideas for affording adoption.
Tapping Assets, Taking Loans
A kind banker organized a total re-finance of our house at a lower interest rate. For our second adoption, we had the chance to save and prepare (having a lower mortgage payment helped), and our banker wrote up a short-term note for a revolving line of credit "just in case." If you go to a "hometown bank" (not part of a big national chain where employees are usually not given much leeway) they will usually bend over backwards to help, especially when you tell them why you need the loan. People want to be nice and helpful - especially when it comes to something as wonderful as an adoption!
Jean and Steve, Minnesota
First we applied for an adoption grant. Then we took out a small loan from our 401K and set payments to reimburse ourselves at a 5% rate. Next, my daughter and I took coupon clipping to a new level. I started working for mystery shopping companies, and changed my insurance coverage to increase the deductible. I called my cell phone, Internet, and long distance providers and negotiated better rates. At Christmas, we spent half the normal amount. My mother-in-law paid for travel expenses as a gift to her future grandson. Our daughter even babysat for extra money!
The Runnels Family
We found our credit card's interest rate much lower than any adoption loan interest rates. My husband's company reimburses $5,000 of adoption expenses. Adopting two at a time helps with the cost as well. We are in debt, but we'd rather be broke and a happy family than rich and lonely!
Warren and Stephanie
I participated in my company's stock option plan for years. It was a nice way to save and think about what I was working towards.
My husband and I are currently funding our adoption with an equity line of credit on our home. We chose the line of credit because it allows the flexibility of early payoff or overpaying, a fluctuating credit line for purchases or payments to agencies as needed, instead of an equity loan which would require us to take a lump sum and pay interest on the whole amount.
Wendy and Jeff, Pennsylvania
We sold a home we had been renting out. Our profit covered our adoption expense and we got the $10,000 tax credit as well. Our daughter was definitely the right choice!
John and Michele, New Hampshire
We drained our CDs (Certificates of Deposit). One had nearly $15,000, which enabled us to complete the adoption.
Gail and Marty
My husband learned that his position was being outsourced to China and that he had just trained his replacement. So rather than take another position in the company, he found a job with another company and took the parting gifts to fund our adoption.
Rebecca, Pennsylvania
I worked an extra job for over six months. For my second adoption, I charged everything I could on a credit card. When I got home I worked like crazy to pay the bill before the interest kicked in. I called my second child my "Visa baby."
Kathy, California
Tightening Their Belts
We budgeted our household based upon my regular salary, and the hours I worked beyond that (both from overtime and moonlighting as a teacher) were put into savings. I worked like crazy from the time we filled out our adoption application until we received our referral.
Kathleen, Colorado
We went without vacation, new clothes, meals out, or gifts, and kept the heat low. We picked up any overtime we could, and I got a second job on weekends. We furnished our nursery almost entirely with second-hand treasures and hand-me-downs.
I sold my grand piano to get the money for the adoption. I had a piano party with my friends the night before the truck came to take it away. One Kawai Grand, $10,000. One daughter, priceless. I've never missed that piano.
Mary Anne
We knew that after we came home from China with our daughter, I would take a few years off from teaching. So we started behaving like a one-income household a year earlier, and socked away my paycheck into a separate savings account. When it was time to travel and pay those last-minute fees, all the money was there.
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I made a brochure explaining who we were and why we wanted to adopt a boy from Russia. I put it in every hand I could find - I even sent one in when I paid my bills! One day a man from New York called to ask how much we needed. I told him we still needed $20,000, and he said, "It's yours." He had adopted from Russia six years earlier and had intended to adopt more children, but decided that his new son needed undivided attention. His way of bringing home more children was to provide the funds for another family.
My husband and I ran a marathon and raised support that way. We trained together for months and sent out letters and sponsorship cards. We were blown away when our sponsorship added up to almost $27,000!
I set up a "Miles for Mariya" fund, and asked friends and family to pledge a dollar per mile (and contribute what they could) to bring Mariya home. Our church pastor appealed to a church committee for money to start the fund, and sent a letter to the congregation, inviting everyone to help. The result was fantastic! Many people contributed financially, and the whole church has adopted Mariya as their special girl. Shortly after she arrived, the congregation held a shower for her and for her friends back in the orphanage.
Abbie Lampe
With only $2000 in savings, we were far from able to finance it. To raise the money, we planned a family Bike-a-Thon. We asked friends, relatives, college roommates, sorority sisters, doctors, dentists, and co-workers to sponsor us or to join us in the ride and get their own sponsors. My husband, three children, a close friend, and I rode 27 miles in one dayraising more than $7000 for our adoption!
Maeve Van Hoorde
Chose the Less-expensive Route
We adopted older children, for whom adoption fees were less than average.
We used an in-country agency and were able to complete each adoption (including all travel) for under $10,000 each. This is under the allowable IRS adoption tax credit limit, so we were able to get all of our money credited towards our taxes - essentially getting our last two adoptions for free! The communication between the foreign agency and us was greatly improved, because there was no American agency as a go-between.
We didn't have to finance our adoption: We adopted two children through the state foster care system, and received foster care payments, WIC, mileage reimbursement, clothing vouchers, and day care and medical services while the children were in our care. The state also paid our attorney fees. We will receive a monthly stipend and medical benefits until the children are 18. There are so many children who need parents, and thanks to adoption support programs, finances don't have to be a barrier.
Maeve MacSteves
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