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The Ohio-based chain, for the first time ever, plans to open most of its 800 stores for 48-hours straight the weekend before Christmas Day.
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"For the first time ever, Macy's will keep most stores open around the clock for the last weekend of holiday shopping," said Peter Sachse, Macy's chief stores officer, in a statement.
The announcement is an extension of 2011's holiday hours, when 14 Macy's stores were open for 24-hours.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic and the University of North Florida are honoring National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October by hosting the eighth annual "Upbeat Pink: A Musical Tribute to Breast Cancer Survivorship" concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, at Lazzara Performance Hall on the university's campus in Jacksonville. The Upbeat Pink concert is free and open to the public.
The concert features the UNF Wind Symphony, conducted by Dr. Gordon Brock and the UNF Chorale Ensembles, conducted by Dr. Cara Tasher. The theme for this year's program is "A Night on Broadway" featuring popular songs from Broadway musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rogers & Hammerstein.
The Upbeat Pink musical tribute is a prelude to the sixth annual "26.2 with Donna: The National Marathon to Finish Breast Cancer" scheduled for Feb.17, 2013 in Jacksonville Beach. The marathon is the first devoted exclusively to raising funds for breast cancer research. The Donna Foundation will again donate a majority of the proceeds from the marathon to Mayo Clinic for breast cancer research. The 2012 event attracted more than 10,000 runners from around the world.
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(1) Daily Mail, HuffPo Dumb Down Dinosex By Brian Switek Wired Science July 12, 2012 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/daily-mail-dumbs-down-dinosex/ I promised myself that I wouldn't write about prehistoric sex for a while. Between copulating turtles, romantically entwined sharks, a review I'm writing of John Long's Dawn of the Deed, and, not least of all, the chapter on dinosaur sex in my next book, I've said plenty about fossil fucking. But the Daily Mail is making me break my vow. Earlier today, the tabloid published a brief article on dinosaur sex that amounted to "Hur hur, dinopeen." (It's a close retread of a similarly titled article the Daily Mail published last February.) And the missive is clearly cobbled together from various quotes found around the web, from the ruminations of the late dinosaur sexpert Beverly Halstead to comments from paleontologist Gregory Erickson published at the Huffington Post yesterday. In fact, I have to admit that I'm puzzled by the spurt of attention dinosaur mating rituals have received over the past 24 hours. It's not as if there's a bedrock-shaking new study to talk about, or any kind of pertinent hook. I guess, on a slow news day, dinosex sells. Unsurprisingly, the Tyrannosaurus sex tale has rapidly proliferated across the internet. While I'm generally happy to see dinosaurs bask in the media spotlight, though, the Daily Mail and HuffPo stories piss me off. The stories are simply excuses to show off computer- generated dinoporn and, in the process, they trivialize the actual, amazing science behind our growing understanding of how dinosaurs reproduced. I wrote an article on this very subject for Smithsonian, and followed that up with a four part series (1,2,3,4) earlier this year, but let me hit a few of the highlights. Thanks to globs of specialized bone inside well- preserved dinosaur fossils, paleontologists can now identify pregnant dinosaurs. No one has found a way to reliably sex all dinosaurs, but, thanks to this peculiar type of tissue (called medullary bone), we can pick out gravid females from among the lot. And that's not all. By combining this tissue type with studies of how old dinosaurs were when they died, paleontologists Andrew Lee and Sarah Werning figured out that dinosaurs started mating early, long before they reached skeletal maturity. In other words, many dinosaurs were undoubtedly teen moms. This has important implications for how the biggest dinosaurs mated. Even though giants like Apatosaurus could stretch to 80 feet, and even bigger titans such as Argentinosaurus grew to be over 100 feet long, these dinosaurs started having sex at smaller sizes. It's entirely possible that the reproductive lives of sauropods were limited to a few years after they became sexually mature, before they got so big that sex because difficult or dangerous. There's no need to speculate that Brachiosaurus and kin relied on Jurassic hot tubs of just the right depth to fool around in. Even better, the fact that we can now reconstruct dinosaur feather colors means that - with adequate sample sizes - paleontologists can examine whether or not fluffy dinosaurs put on breeding colors, or if there were color differences between males and females. Even if the results come back negative, that will help us better understand dinosaur social lives and behavior. There's a lot more to the science of dinosaur sex than what position they preferred. In fact, I think many paleontologists have been lax in their circumlocutions about dinosaur mating. Everyone is agreed that male dinosaurs mounted females, most likely from behind, so that the pair could bring their cloacal openings into contact. There are enough illustrations of the archosaurs going at it dinostyle to fill a book. But look closely at these images, as well as those posted with the Daily Mail and HuffPo stories. The tails of the male dinosaurs aren't in the right position to inseminate the females. Their cloacal openings, which exited between a backward-pointing bone of the hip and the base of the tail, aren't very close to the genital opening of the female. The dinosaurs are frustratedly, ineffectually humping. Figuring out the mechanics of dinosaur sex isn't so simple as it sounds. We need to take a more rigorous and detailed approach to figure out whether male Triceratops, and its disparate relatives, really did throw their legs over the backs of their female partners. Even then, the same positions wouldn't have worked for all dinosaurs. Just think of Stegosaurus, with that long row of alternating plates. This dinosaur, and its similarly armored relatives, must have had different tactics to avoid injuring each other in the process of making the next dinosaur generation. Contrary to the Daily Mail and HuffPo articles, we really don't have a refined idea of dinosaur sex positions. In fact, the most startling discoveries about dinosaur sex involve other aspects of their biology and behavior. We are gaining a more intimate look at dinosaurs than ever before, so skip the paleo porn and check out the real science. (2) Giant Prehistoric Sperm. `Nuff Said. By Brian Switek Wired Science July 27, 2012 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/more-sexy-fossil-secrets-prehistoric-sperm/ Earlier this month, inspired by Daily Mail and HuffPo nonsense, I went on a tear about dinosaur sex. Because if you're going to rant, why not go big? The post kicked up a good deal of attention, and I was honored to be bestowed with the highly-vaunted title of "the closest thing the Internet has to an expert on dinosaur sex" by Cracked's Daniel O'Brien. After that minor internet kerfuffle, I thought I had said my peace on paleo-copulation. Best to let sleeping dinosaurs lie, especially if they've just had sex. But after I got back from fieldwork at Dinosaur National Monument and starting riffling through journals for new subjects to write about, I saw a paper I couldn't resist. The subject, as the title makes clear in its understated way, is "exceptionally well-preserved giant spermatozoa" discovered in prehistoric ostracods. Giant fossilized sperm? Yes, please! "Ostracod" isn't a household name. That's too bad, because there are tens of thousands of species of these tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans. Typically, their segmented bodies are surrounded by a hinged, tough outer shell, and they occupy a variety of niches in both fresh and saltwater habitats the world over. In this case, the ostracod in question is Cypria ophtalmica - a freshwater species that's still with us today. The Cypria ophtalmica fossils aren't very old. In fact, they barely make the cutoff for what counts as prehistoric. Discovered in the Southern Carpathian Mountains of Romania, the invertebrate fossils are only about 14,400 to 10,000 years old. But what makes them remarkable is the fact that Babes-Bolyai University paleontologist Sandra Iepure and colleagues found prehistoric sperm with both male and female ostracods, the "richest" evidence of fossil sperm yet found. This isn't the first time paleontologists have found evidence of ancient sperm. Previous studies have found sperm among roughly 5,000 year old ostracods from the UK, spermatophores were preserved in 40 million year old amber with an insect called a springtail, and paleontologists identified the essential seminal and receptacle organs among 100 million year old ostracods discovered in Brazil. I never thought that something as ephemeral as prehistoric sperm could survive for thousands or even millions of years, but, once again, the fossil record has shown me up. The new fossil sperm collection analyzed by Iepure and collaborators adds to the catalog of surprising fossils. What makes the fossilized sperm so easy to spot is their size. After some fly species, ostracods have the second longest sperm in relation to their body size. As Iepure and co-authors note, some 1 millimeter long ostracods can produce sperm up to a 1 centimeter long, stretching ten times the body length of the ostracod itself. (I only pray that David Cronenberg never learns this fact.) Sadly, Iepure and co-authors don't provide length estimates for the specimens they describe, but they note that the prehistoric specimens are consistent with what researchers have observed among living ostracods. Between five and ten percent of the ostracods in the study sample contained sperm, but the individuals within this subset don't all preserve the gametes in the same way. In most of the specimens, the sperm bundles appear to be neatly arranged in the position expected for the male reproductive organs. In the other specimens, the sperm bunches are located in a different place and are dislocated from each other. Based on observations of living ostracods, Iepure and colleagues propose that individuals with neat arrangements are males and the ones with the messier bundles are inseminated females. This is the first time prehistoric sperm has been found preserved in both sexes. So we can add a few more amorous ostracods to the growing list of creatures that died just about the time they mated. And, of course, this raises the question of just how far the fossil record of sperm goes. The ostracods in the new study were fortuitously preserved in an environment that kept some of their delicate features intact, and the much older springtail fossil was trapped in amber. The further we go back in time, the less likely it seems that even giant sperm could have been preserved by the typical modes of burial and fossilization, but amber does offer a possible mode of preservation. Perhaps, as they continue to scour amber samples, paleontologists will discover even older prehistoric sperm. Don't hold your breath for dinosaur semen, though. It would take a hell of a coincidence for dinosaur sperm to somehow wind up locked in amber, survive for over 66 million years, be discovered, and correctly identified by a researcher. For now, we're left to marvel at the exceptional gametes of the little ostracods. Reference: Iepure S, Namiotko T, Valdecasas AG, & Magyari EK (2012). Exceptionally well-preserved giant spermatozoa in male and female specimens of an ostracod Cypria ophtalmica (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Late Glacial lacustrine sediments of Southern Carpathians, Romania. 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North Carolina had its basketball media day Thursday in Chapel Hill, and Observer staff writer Bret Strelow was on hand as the Tar Heels talked some about the upcoming season and more about the health of coach Roy Williams.
Before Williams had surgery on Sept. 19 to remove a tumor from his right kidney, doctors told him they were 95 percent certain he had cancer.
The tumor was benign, and a biopsy on a left kidney tumor revealed it was also noncancerous.
Instead of undergoing a second surgery next week, the 62-year-old Williams can focus on preseason practice, which begins Friday. He said he hopes to coach between six and 10 more years.
Asked if he'll take more time to enjoy life outside of basketball, Williams said he wants to play more golf and see his family more often. He referenced "The Bucket List" and Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying."
"That's a pretty good song," Williams said, "but I'm not gonna get on any dadgum bull named Fu Man Chu."
Fifteen questions and more than 20 minutes into his press conference, Williams still hadn't fielded a question about the makeup of his team.
The first 10 questions were about his health, and the next five came from (Raleigh) News & Observer investigative reporter Dan Kane, who was seeking answers about North Carolina's academic scandal.
When that wrapped up, Williams was asked, "Roy, this time last year they wanted to give you a trophy. This year, you may be perceived as third-best in your own neighborhood."
Williams' response: "It's just a commode lid now. It's not a trophy."
UNC entered last season with the No. 1 national ranking. Injuries took a toll, and the Tar Heels fell to Kansas in the Elite Eight before having four players taken in the first 17 selections of the NBA draft.
Next week, at the ACC's media day, N.C. State and Duke could be picked to finish ahead of UNC, which is adding four freshmen to a group with five established returners.
"The easiest way to say it, this team has got to play as close to their potential as they possibly can to be successful," Williams said.
Who starts at point guard?
Dexter Strickland, a senior combo guard who has almost recovered completely from a February knee injury, said he wants the job. Williams was direct in saying he believes left-handed freshman Marcus Paige, a true point guard, will fill the spot vacated by Kendall Marshall.
"I expect Marcus Paige to be there," Williams said. "Part of it, Dexter is somewhat limited in what we're going to do with him in practice, and Dexter's never been a point guard."
Strickland has played shooting guard almost his entire life, but he was Marshall's backup last season before tearing the ACL and damaging the meniscus in his right knee on Feb. 9.
Cleared to play in late August, Strickland guessed that he's now 96 percent healthy.
"Personally, I want to play the point guard, want to be the '1' guard," he said, "but I think I'll be interchanged with the '2' guard as a combo guard."
"We've made some mistakes, and it's a sad time, but I feel great about what we've done academically since the first day I walked (in) here,"
Roy Williams, a UNC alum, addressing a question about the academic scandal that has damaged the university's reputation.
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Dorit Rabinyan Persian Brides
Rabinyan is an Israeli journalist, poet, and novelist.
Dorit Rabinyan is an Israeli journalist who became a poet and novelist. She wrote her first book, Persian Brides (1997), when she was only 23 years old. Originally written in Hebrew, the novel was translated to English by Yael Lotan. The novel tells the story of Flora, a young woman in the Jewish section of a turn-of-the-century Persian town. Only fifteen years old, a pregnant Flora has been abandoned by her cloth-merchant husband. As Flora pines for her lost love, her cousin Nazie longs for the day when she will marry Flora's brother. The longing of the two girls for marriage is contrasted with the realities of the married women in the village, including hard work and mistreatment by their husbands.
Many critics pointed out the authentic detail Rabinyan used in the novel to create a realistic and vivid setting. Some reviewers referred to the magical, almost fairy-tale atmosphere the novel evoked. Commentators asserted that Rabinyan's understanding of her characters and confident prose style belies her youth. Michael Lowenthal stated, "she writes with the wise and leisurely assurance of a town bard recounting communal myths."
SOURCE: A review of Persian Brides, in Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 1997, p. 1804.
[In the following review, the critic praises Rabinyan for his colorful portrayal of Jewish life in a turn-of-the-century Persian village in Persian Brides.]
[T]his raucous and colorful first novel by Rabinyan, an Israeli journalist and playwright, convincingly re-creates the complex texture of life in the Jewish quarter of a Persian village at the beginning of the 20th century. The major characters, 15-year-old Flora (who's pregnant, and abandoned) and her younger cousin Nazie (who longs for Flora's brother, to whom she was promised at birth) mature quickly as members of a vigorous subculture of women hardened by their unfair share of the burdens of the world and their combative relationships with men and "tradition." Rabinyan's portrait of their "almond tree alley," often reminiscent of Sholom Aleichem, is distinguished by knowledgeable descriptions of the rituals of birth and burial and peopled with such memorable supporting characters as a prostitute rumored to be the lover of a village demon. A very assured and entertaining debut performance.
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SOURCE: A review of Persian Brides, in Library Journal, Vol. 123, No. 1, January, 1998, p. 144.
[In the following review, Abramowitz lauds Rabinyan's storytelling in Persian Brides.]
Two Jewish girls are the center of this first novel, [Persian Brides,] which describes in almost magical fashion the inhabitants of a small Persian village at the beginning of the century. Fifteen-year-old Flora Ratoryan is pregnant, and her cloth-merchant husband has abandoned her. Her 11-year-old cousin, Nasie, consoles her while wishing for her own marriage to Flora's brother, Moussa, to whom she has been betrothed since birth. The story only covers a few days in the lives of these girls, but the background of the inhabitants of this almond tree alley in the fictional village of Omerijan rounds out the picture. Vivid descriptions of cruelty (Miriam Hanoun, Flora's mother, kills cats; Moussa beats Flora unmercifully because he can't stand her laughter) and sensuality mix with the descriptions of everyday life. This may be too heady a mixture for some readers, but the storytelling is superb.
(The entire section is 169 words.)
SOURCE: A review of Persian Brides, in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 245, No. 2, January 12, 1998, p. 45.
[In the following review, the critic asserts that in Persian Brides, "Rabinyan's brisk, fetching prose expertly summons a long-vanished land and renders it dazzling and delicious."]
It may be true, as Tolstoy wrote, that all happy families resemble one another, but it would be next to impossible to find a family anything like the Ratoryans, the 19th-century Jewish clan engagingly depicted in this first novel[, Persian Brides]—or a writer who could conjure them up more vividly than Israeli journalist Rabinyan. The members of this passionate, superstitious family inhabit a traditional Persian village where, for women, marriage and childbirth are paramount and the news that a girl has begun menstruating is disseminated by carrier pigeon. Flora—voluptuous, adorable, foolish and very pregnant at 15—casts spells every day and sings magic songs every night until her voice grows hoarse, hoping to bring her errant husband, a wayward cloth merchant, back to her. Downstairs, her 11-year-old cousin Nazie dreams of marrying Flora's brother. Episodic but not merely pastoral, the novel tells one poignant, bewitching story after another, seducing us with vivid language and outrageous tales of deception, devotion and magic. Rabinyan crams every page with evocative details: Flora spending the...
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SOURCE: A review of Persian Brides, in Booklist, February 1, 1998, p. 900.
[In the following review, the critic praises Rabinyan's mixing of elements of a fairy tale with facts about Jewish life in Persia in Persian Brides.]
First novelist Rabinyan's earthy and sensual fairy tale[, Persian Brides,] is filled with stories of love affairs, curses, child brides, evil husbands, marriages, demons, violence, and childbirth. At the turn of the century in the Jewish quarter of Omerijan, a small Persian town, 15-year-old Flora Ratoyan, hugely pregnant and deserted by her cloth-merchant husband, is comforted by her orphaned cousin, Nazie. At age 11, Nazie herself is eagerly awaiting her own wedding to Flora's brother, Moussa. Over the course of three days in the lives of the cousins, Rabinyan introduces a colorful pageant of other inhabitants of the village. These include Miriam Hanoun, Flora's mother, who had to appease the cats of the village in order to have her babies live more than a few days. Rabinyan mixes these fairy tale elements with information about local wedding ceremonies, food, childbirth, and the sorry and constrained role of women and female children in a society far away from ours in both time and place.
(The entire section is 197 words.)
SOURCE: "Migration That Leads to Self-Discovery," in Christian Science Monitor, March 10, 1998, p. 14.
[In the following excerpt, Rubin complains of the lack of plot in Rabinyan's Persian Brides, and asserts that Rabinyan's focus is on colorful descriptions instead of the narrative.]
… Only the adolescent girls featured by Israeli journalist, playwright, and poet Dorit Rabinyan in her first novel, Persian Brides, are firmly rooted in their ancestral culture. And judging from Rabinyan's vivid evocation of their fetid, cloyingly closed-in lives in the Jewish quarter of a Persian village in the early years of this century, one would have to conclude that migration is good for the soul….
A sense of vividness, a kind of larger-than-life hyperreality, may quite possibly have been what Dorit Rabinyan was aiming at in her novel, Persian Brides. Rabinyan transports us to a household in the Jewish section of a small village in Persia early in this century, and a rather peculiar household at that.
Miriam Hanoum's neighbors all consider her the worst and laziest housekeeper in the entire village. But she is also a great beauty, because she avoids scrubbing, cooking, cleaning, and all the tasks that roughen one's skin and dishevel one's appearance, and concentrates instead on covering herself and her daughters in costly oils and cosmetics. This paradox is...
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SOURCE: "The Family Honor," in New York Times, March 15, 1998, p. 27.
[In the following review, Lowenthal, an American author, praises Rabinyan's authentic detail and rich prose in Persian Brides.]
Despite the near-microscopic scrutiny to which our politicians' love lives are currently subjected, we may still be astonished to encounter a culture in which ordinary girls' sexual intimacies are known by every neighbor, mothers probe their sleeping daughters' private parts to confirm the "family honor," and a girl's first menstruation is announced from the rooftops. Dorit Rabinyan, an Israeli journalist, poet and playwright, has conjured precisely such a society in Persian Brides, her lush, lyrical and disturbing first novel. Set in a Jewish community in a village in turn-of-the-century Persia, the story contrasts the experiences and aspirations of two young women: Flora, a 15-year-old pining for her deadbeat husband, a cloth merchant who ditched her with "a baby in her belly and lice in her hair," and Flora's 11-year-old cousin, Nazie, desperate to achieve her menses so she can be wed to Flora's brother. Nazie and Flora's frantic longing for married life is artfully contrasted with the reality of what's in store for them: wives and mothers in their world are violently mistreated by their husbands, spat upon, even threatened with death for bearing female children. With unwaveringly authentic period...
(The entire section is 286 words.)
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Early models for invasive species were nonlinear reaction diffusion equations such as Fisher's equation, which describes quadratic growth coupled to Brownian motion. Here the analysis of traveling waves and of the convergence of initial data to wave solutions has been a fruitful area of classical mathematical research. The traveling wave speed, interpreted biologically as the rate of spread of the introduced population, has successfully predicted spread rates of many introduced species, but has failed dramatically with others. Modifications of these equations to include long-distance dispersal, stage structure, spatial heterogeneity, stochasticity, Allee effects, and nonlinear interactions with resident species (eg, competition or predation) have driven new advances in the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems, while, at the same time, providing a more realistic framework for the study of invasions.
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These are ancient chinese character. It is really hard for a normal chinese to read. The last character seems like "color", also means beauty. Re: Translation needed on Ancient Chinese Writing
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That's really hard, even I'm a chinses.It's probablely ���؞�ɫ or ���؞�ɫ.
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Fred Taich, 86, of Longboat Key, died Jan. 3.
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When the air is still on those hot August nights, you can still count on us to stir the air and stir things up with our Friday Night Films. The films for August offer intrigue, laughs, suspense, and history. We offer refreshment...and refreshments! We begin with Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren in the unforgettable film, The Last Station.
August 6 at 7:30 p.m. - THE LAST STATION (2009) Starring Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, and Paul Giamatti; Rated R; 113 minutes
In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! after she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal to fight for what she believes is rightfully hers.
August 13 at 7:30 p.m. - THE GHOST WRITER (2010) Starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, and Kim Cattrall; Rated PG-13; 128 minutes
When a successful British ghost writer, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agnet assures him it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start -- not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang's long-term aide, dies in an unfortunate accident. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA. Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal on every level -- sexual, political, and literary.
August 20 at 7:30 p.m. - DATE NIGHT (2010) Starring Steve Carell, Tina Fey, and Mark Wahlberg; Rated PG-13; 88 minutes
About an ordinary couple in the right place, on the wrong night. Phil and Claire Foster are a sensible suburban husband and wife slogging through their daily lives and marriage. But a case of mistaken identity sets off an outrageous chain of events involving small-time thieves, big-city mobsters, corrupt cops, and a crazed cabbie, as the Fosters' 'date night' turns into a wild ride they'll never forget!
August 27 at 7:30 p.m. - THE JONESES(2010) starring David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Lauren Hutton, and Gary Cole; Rated R; 109 minutes
the Joneses, a seemingly perfect family, are the envy of their posh, suburban neighborhood filled with all the trappings of the upper middle class. They are the ultimate trendsetters with an endless supply of high-tech toys, designer clothes, fast cars, and the latest gadgets. But as the neighbors try to keep up with the Joneses, none are prepared for the truth about this all-too-perfect family.
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I like stories that are well written and don't have characters or writers with very potty mouths, as this is a turn off for me in stories and feels like the author is just trying to cheap their way out of writing something with real depth.
E.L James has to be the top one for me, I gave up after the first few pages (and I read all the twilight books with not much problem).
Nope, I stay faithful to my Sir. And I'm not allowed to give out my location.
Mr Overtheknee, I do agree with you. After posting a couple stories elsewhere I received some rather "loud and shouty" feedback about pronoun-capitalization, and felt brow-beaten into painstakingly editing every bloody pronoun, just to please the slaves of the world. It seems most Masters could care less, and many like yourself wish it would disappear altogether. Somehow I think this "protocol" was thrust upon us courtesy of Goran Lifestyle as the ultimate express of "more humble than thou" sort of social competion. Every time I ask "Does your master make you write like this?" - same results. eyes rolling, impatient sigh, and "Well how else do you show HIM how humble you are?" The origins of it that I know of is that one guy forced his subs into this type of grammar to make himself feel more superior and from there it was picked up by others.
Maybe it's worthwhile having a sticky "situations vacant" post in this forum - there wouldn't be the excuse of someone not seeing it then(no pun intended with "sticky situation") Agreed! We need somewhere for everyone to just post in to get rid of all these threads.And to the OP - how do we know that you won't break whoever you get?
.... sometimes I travel to exotic places and am not that close to the Internet Anywhere interesting?
I'm going to be very simple and wish for a cuddle.
Test it first so that it actually turns off before you leave the house.....
Not at all to be honest, if I check out guys at all, even when single, I'm usually wondering if my friend would want him. Unless it's whoever I'm with at the time.
"manhandling" a guy's dick just sounds so sore....
Wouldn't do anything to me so no.
It's something I wouldn't agree with, just for the pure freaked out state I'd be in.
Nope, not really, I prefer writing my own.
That was hilarious....
Audio stories should be made from all the written stories. And those who have good way to telling stories should give voice it in. You do realize that these are only available if the author themselves records the story. So it probably won't happen.
Exile Vilify - The National
Now that is one way to get attention if your wanting it.... The wrong kind of attention....
Wow, I didn't think you were still around bakerboy....
Take Melatonin. It is all natural, and you already have melatonin in your body. You won't wake up groggy and you will get a restful nights sleep. Ah Melatonin... Where would I be without you?On a serious note, if you want to start taking the above substance talk to your doctor first to help you figure out how much to take, and don't hassle them to make it higher if it doesn't work as they'll just say there isn't enough proof to do that. (Trust me, I've tried)
This thread needs new posts...... Sub/Dom(me) Frenzy I feel like I should mention this as I've seen it happening of recent times.Sub/Dom(me) Frenzy in a nutshell is when a new sub or Dom/me just wants to do anything and everything. Often during this they throw caution to the wind and end up harming themselves. They don't pace themselves and some don't take the time to learn how to do things safely, they'd rather just be doing the stuff straight away and worry about the consequences unless they happen.The best way to sort this out is by having a more experienced Dom/me or sub keep them in line to make sure that they don't hurt themselves and to watch out for them until such a point as they think the Sub/Dom(me) frenzy stage is over.If anyone has anything more to say on this matter or thinks I'm wrong don't be afraid to speak out.
I'd tell her as she has a right to know what her OH is getting up to behind her back.
Not really, because it would make me think that he thought he wasn't satisfying me enough.
As if you'd ever get a guy who admits he's a virgin... I've had several admit that to me, and I wasn't dating any of them when they said it.
Yes but you can still get hurt. Look around and get to know people before wanting to be their sub. Sexual fantasies must be put after saftey.
There is, but this is not the right way in finding ones that will actually care about you.
Personally I'd prefer the smart wand or the luna beads, but these prizes look good.I think I might actually enter if I can make a story fast enough.(edit - I'm too young to use the beads :( They advise you to be over 30)
I think it's fine as it is to be honest. Any more and lush would start going into people's spam boxes and be unhelpful to others in my opinion.
She really can't make her mind up over that marriage....
Well then, I'll let you take a break, you look so tired.


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Cacao "food of the Gods" + Raw easter egg recipe. By raw foodie Sarah Lea
I've found my secret key to the universe. Cacao. The food of the Gods and the food of Sarah Lea. Not only does it keep my mind focused (usually on eating more cacao), clear headed and bounding with energy, but it keeps me on the raw path. I am truly ecstatic on so many levels that it works for our bodies and minds on so many levels!
Chocolate is the number one food craved by women, although many men in my life hold a secret desire for chocolate within themselves too. We have fallen in love with this alluring food, a seed of a fruit of a jungle tree. We have been blinded by big companies with the introduction of heat and additives such as dairy milk, refined sugars and genetically modified soy lecithin that have denatured our beloved, magical chocolate. Addictions, allergies and intense cravings also appear due to heating – alongside guilt, excess weight and tooth decay.
But let me roar from the rafters it doesn't have to be this way! More and more health shops are selling raw chocolate bars, cacao beans and nibs. There are raw chocolate recipes abounding the internet, and recipe books to gorge on. Perfect for vegans, children, pregnant or lactating mamas, treating depression, allergies or just for unaldulterated joy!
In a nutshell, cacao is a superfood gift wrapped by nature. Whether you are looking for love, flexibility, healing, brain nutrition, healthy heart, excellent mood elevation or just plain saving the planet, raw cacao delivers every time. It creates huge pockets of bliss, creativity and optimism as well as gifting us the one of the most nutrient dense food to fuel the body.
It feeds my inner child when I give the girls raw chocolate cake or raw chocolate ice cream for breakfast and sit down to watch Willy Wonka and the Oompah Loompahs. It nourishes us all when the sun wanes to winter and we gently warm it in nut milk for a deliciously delectable hot chocolate. It activates my bliss when life comes on a little too strong.
Hardly containing my excitement all week in determining what recipe I was going to gift today … I was entertaining thoughts of wild mushrooms packed with wild green pesto and crushed cacao nibs, silverbeet wraps bursting with a mix of seasonal veggies, avocado and cacao or just plain old cacaoslaw! You can quite literally eat it with anything! I opted for Easter delicacies instead, seeing as the season to indulge in copious amounts of chocolates is upon us. Wahoo! That aside, the best, most intensely pleasurable way to eat chocolate for me? Placing a peeled cacao bean on my expectant tongue for a short while, playing with it, teasing out the flavours. Then crunching in delight as the sacred knowledge of the universe enters my being.
Enchanted Easter Eggs
2tbsp organic virgin coconut oil, gently melted
2tbsp raw cacao powder (not to be confused with cocoa powder)
1 tsp raw agave nectar
1tsp maca powder
1/2 tsp wild blue green algae (or spirulina)
Blend all ingredients until smooth, then pour into a mini egg mould and place into the fridge until set.
Feast on with a friend and giggle your way through the day.
Sarah Lea
Sarah will be holding a Easter Raw Chocolate workshop this Saturday 31st March from 10-12pm at The Brigand Cafe, Takaka, Golden Bay. Bookings essential. Phone 03 525 9102
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Your words are as delicious as the chocolates Sarah! YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
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Where could I find some of these ingredients in Auckland, please?!?!?
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Wise Ciacada Organic Shop at 23 Crowhurst Street, Newmarket supply lots of yummy raw product. Get in touch with them. A fabulous company that give presentations and workshops too. 09 5299529. Have an outrageously raw easter!GD Star Rating
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New Mercedes-Benz E-Class Nearly $5,000 Cheaper than Outgoing Model
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We're used to seeing things get more expensive – especially luxury automobiles – but here's an example of getting more for less: Mercedes-Benz USA has announced that the price of its new E-Class sedan will actually drop by nearly $5,000 with the introduction of the new model next month. So while the outgoing E350 currently sells for $54,075, the new model, with a V6 engine and rear-wheel-drive, carries a list price of $49,475...or $4,600 less. Of course options add more to the price, and there's no shortage of extra equipment on offer from the Mercedes catalog. All-wheel-drive adds $2,500. The V8 version, another seven grand. Diesel, wagon, coupe and convertible versions are also on their way, with market introductions staggered between this June and next. However while the two-door E-Class doesn't significantly drop in price, it does move up in its market position over the CLK it replaces, which was positioned between the C and E-Class sedan ranges. Mercedes says the adjusted pricing was affected to reflect actual transaction prices, meaning there's less wiggle-room for negotiation, but less negotiation required.


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I've looked but haven't found this info, so maybe one of the Prius owners can help: If you sit on an open road at ~80mph, what fuel economy does the prius return?
AFAIK, the motor system in a situation like this is simply dead weight.
The closest I could find are the US "highway" figures, which are 41-45-48mpg (gen 1-3).
Possibly also worth noting that the Prius doesn't use an otto-cycle engine - which goes some way to explain its efficiency and relatively poor power output for its displacement.
I just get the impression that they would have liked to build a pure EV, or a "proper" hybrid, where the engine simply drives a generator. As I said before though, I understand that everyone was massively hampered by the restrictions in available batteries.
I'm not sure it's realistic to compare the prius to a hummer, the hummer is far from an average or common car. How do you figure the emissions for the hummer? If CO2 it should be proportional to the fuel consumed. If NOx, SO2 etc, then fair enough.
The hybrid system works at all speeds and applies power whenever it needs to. Driving with cruise on a motorway trip at 140 kph I can easily get 5.1 L/100kms, or 55 imp mpg or 45.79 us mpg.
By the time I get through town or to my destination that always drops to 4.2-4.5. Something no Diesel I've ever driven of similar size could match.
Most of my commute involves a mixture of speeds from 80 kph to 120 kph.
So far over 165 kms on this tank of petrol I'm averaging 4.2L/100kms
Again, the prius is not a normal car and those figures take a bit of practice, so you can't drive it like a normal car, there is far more driver involvement!


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Should You Be Investing in Platinum Instead of Gold?
Midas Funds' Tom Winmill on the expected increase in demand for platinum.
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Prices rallying nearly three and a half percent today a big day for gold but we've got someone who says there's another metal that you should be watching.
Tom windmill is the portfolio manager -- -- in my despondent he joins us right now.
What's quite -- what the answer that question what should we be looking at if not gold.
Let's take a look at platinum platinum is a roundup 14145.
Dollars an ounce right now I'm the cost of producing an ounce of -- about -- 18100 dollars an ounce.
It's a very capital intensive.
-- -- to pretty steep out of the ground most of the comes from South Africa and those that has seen some problems they have.
Electricity generation -- -- can't generate -- next enough electricity to run their -- so there's a shortage we believe a platinum in the market now we know that.
GDP in the first half United States was largely.
Up because of the increase in car sales and that's reflected it's reflected generally improving economy with more economic recovery -- -- a lot more demand for -- Okay but Tom let's go back to gold that everybody wants to know about holding you would not only are bullish but you think that there is one company in particular.
Whose costs are so low and I -- have a repeat this figure because I wasn't sure got to right the cost for this company gold corpus the company.
The cost for producing one ounce of gold is only 250 dollars an -- for them that's a huge profit margin.
It's a huge profit margin and it's one of the highest quality companies out there it's also in the largest -- has a big.
Growth platform as well so it get -- quality blue chip quality high margins big growth about 50% increase announces from.
But two and a half million ounces this year to around three point eight million ounces of after four years.
So they're making tons of cash flow and that's not reflect in the stock price that's about.
That's what we're we're looking -- -- right now so either way on the on the screen put put this put it back up on the screen.
You can see it's close to its one year low right there are so it's not it's a perfect time -- -- Buy low sell high this one has come down -- -- they had some trouble with the mine but.
Tom I think the big question people have a hum though is.
If you think that the precious metals are gonna go higher why not just invest in the precious metals.
You're talking about buying these companies because of where metals prices are going.
Would you suggest that these stocks are gonna attract the models.
Well you -- Francisco -- up about 4% today the gold price up about 3% usually the miners.
-- produce outperformed the gold price and that's up and on the way down record bullish.
On -- we would suggest taking advantage that with the leverage situation in the gold Meyers a well run senior gold Meyer Michael core.
-- -- to have yachts and I'll put them both out -- because we have a little time -- with our satellite -- to get the first back caviar is what about the Fed the Fed has made.
Pretty clear that they're not interested in the QE3 in less things only fall apart US.
But that's one thing that that is might might be depressing the price of gold the fact that the dollar might strengthen as a result of that the second what is if the Euro falls apart.
Doesn't that mean the collapse of the gold price.
Right that's right will the Euro is particularly.
Tied with the bill press that they you're against them -- we -- priced it down because it's a counterweight to the dollar people trying to.
Divest -- a dollar exposure so that's an important consideration now.
The Fed is -- an interesting spot very aggressive accommodative policy on top of the fiscal policy which is out of control so.
We're seeing 31 basis point two years but the inflation rates one point 7% so we have a negative real return on treasuries -- that's the time you want against a hard assets like gold we see that changed.
Wanna go back and financial assets like treasury.
I exit Tom probably gold watchers out there -- -- the price that we should be watching -- looks like right now we're just below 16100 dollars an -- Where's it going.
-- -- up and down quite a bit we expected to end up around 19100 dollars spent in the year it could get extremely volatile though we think.
In the fourth quarter because of that triple witching effect of the expiration of the bush tax cuts and sequester and the debt ceiling -- see a lot of dismay about the dollar in the US they're rethinking the fourth quarter to be higher gold prices as a result.
You know metals are such a crazy market it's so rare to find somebody that's sensible -- actually looks like he's got a an academic background right behind advancement is looking at something out I think Goldie like platinum to top -- -- Midas fund portfolio manager Tom.
Thank you so much for being here appreciate every weekend RA.
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Rick Steves' Europe: Algarve, Portugal
On Portugal's south coast, The Algarve is home to both sun-seeking tourists and working fishermen with their colorful boats
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Imagine my surprise when I open the pictures and saw the photo of the sign pointing to our favorite place In Salema.
We have been there many time when we stay in the Algarve
and have watched this little town expaned over the last 10 years. My husband has spent two bithdays there walking the beach and drinking great wine.
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