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"Whole lotta kielbasa going on," noted one hipster-doofus spectator Friday, December 7, at Miami's Polish American Club, where the scent of porky goodness had permeated even the old living-room furniture out in the lobby. But the sausages flying out of the kitchen on paper plates weren't the reason we'd come to check out "Playtime," an evening of indigenous art and bands both local (Panda Bite, See Venus) and national, in particular Baltimore trio OXES. After taking a brief on-stage nap, drummer Prison made sure the house lights stayed up. Perched atop a tall black box, Dr. Windsor Castle (left guitar), ominously announced to the crowd: "Right now, you have no idea what the fuck's going on. But in a few seconds, you will be forcing your way to the front of the stage." New York City (right guitar), a dead ringer for Jim Varney Jr., howled his Cookie Monster-caught-in-a-garbage-disposal approval, and OXES were off.
Instantly, their identical-twin, wireless, custom-made, aircraft-aluminum guitars ignited a blast of upside-down AC/DC riffs that spun like deranged dust devils from the identical Marshall amps. The guitarists crusaded off the stage to conquer the crowd, which spasmed with appreciation.
The next act, Of Montreal -- from Athens, Georgia -- did not provoke the same glee. Leader Kevin Barnes, a former West Palm Beach resident, hadn't strummed a set this far south since a 1994 in-store appearance at the Wormhole. With Barnes's bandmates helping flesh out his "la-la-las" and "ba-ba-ba-bops" now, Of Montreal isn't the flashiest show horse in the Kindercore stable of geeky pop bands -- nor the most musical -- but the in-jokes about a visit to Barnes's mom and a good-night kiss of the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" sorta made up for that.
Tough as it was for Bandwidth to pull away from the fuse-blowing, breaker-tripping Trans Am, the City Link Music Festival beckoned us to downtown Hollywood. After finding parking just blocks from Young Circle, we noticed that the streets didn't look much busier than on a normal December Friday. Or maybe it just seemed that way, since the festival was spread so thin (11 venues, some separated by blocks), eliminating the congestion of years past but sacrificing the communal feeling. There were still stumbling, two-fisted drinkers to avoid, but fewer per square yard. Many reportedly started clearing out by 11 p.m. -- right about the time Himmarshee Village ignites the afterburners.
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The $10 needed to procure a wristband for the ten-hour bash might have made it less practical for fans to attend, since most of the popular groups that performed regularly play free shows (or, at most, $6 shows) around town. That explains why a band like Hepcat Boo Daddies saw no more folks at the Tobacco Road Main Stage than they would've on a typical Friday night at the Poor House.
By 2 a.m. over at Shukums, it was easy to grab a seat at the same bar where the notorious Hollywood hijackers supped (and argued over their bill) just before their September 11 blaze of infamy. The wait staff seemed the only people in the room immune to yawns when the Avenging Lawnmowers of Justice demonstrated how far they've come in the last two years. Soon it became difficult if not impossible not to succumb to the holiday spirit with the joyous "Santa Claus Is Coming to Rape Your Wife," and the Sally Jesse-ready "Your Sister Stole My Girlfriend."
Yawns at Shukum's changed to shit-eating smiles when the Mowers' loving ode to marijuana -- "that dangerous gateway drug!" -- arrived. "When I get home, I take a big bong hit!" singer/bassist Chris DeAngelis sang with a smile, finally throwing caution to the wind and admitting "I like weed/ It makes me happy!" Down the street, a freakish lad working a booth smiled in synchronicity at his assortment of handblown glass pipes -- it's harvest time in Broward County.
A block away at Try My Thai, a candlelit service was adjourning as the Necrophiles tried out their surf-goth version of the Sesame Street theme on the eight stragglers in the room. Around the corner at Sneakers, the rank odor of fresh vomit still held the air hostage. Something like that mixture of half-digested stomach contents and gastric juices was making a mess on-stage, though no one could say (or wanted to take responsibility for) what it was, exactly. An apparent regular in a backward baseball cap bought the impromptu collective an unrequested and unacknowledged beer as an unidentified woman (someone at the door called her a street straggler) caterwauled through her one and only chance at the big time. Pretty awful. But at well past 4 a.m., she could be forgiven.
The streets sure seemed empty then as the last beer cup was tossed in the trash -- a far cry from Himmarshee's ever-blazing stampede -- although as Bandwidth squinted through the hydroponic haze, it wasn't hard to imagine that one day, the festival will grow to fill its new britches.
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Half of this module is about modelling simple fluid flows; the other half is about mathematical methods. You'll learn how to solve ordinary and partial differential equations such as: Laplace's equation, the wave equation and the diffusion equation; some vector field theory; and Fourier analysis. The fluid mechanical aspects of the module will give you a good understanding of modelling in the context of fluids. To study this module you should have a sound knowledge of ordinary differential equations, vector calculus, multiple integrals, basic particle mechanics and some knowledge of partial differential equations and Fourier series as provided by the appropriate OU level 2 study.
OU qualifications are modular in structure; the credits from this undergraduate-level module could count towards a certificate of higher education, diploma of higher education, foundation degree or honours degree.
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In simple terms, we think of a fluid as a substance that flows. Familiar examples are air (a gas) and water (a liquid). All fluids are liquids or gases. The analysis of the forces in and motion of liquids and gases is called fluid mechanics. This module introduces the fundamentals of fluid mechanics and discusses the solutions of fluid-flow problems that are modelled by differential equations. The mathematical methods arise from (and are interpreted in) the context of fluid-flow problems, although they can also be applied in other areas such as electromagnetism and the mechanics of solids.
Because of its many applications, fluid mechanics is important for applied mathematicians, scientists and engineers. The flow of air over objects is of fundamental importance to the aerodynamicist in the design of aeroplanes and to the motor industry in the design of cars with drag-reducing profiles. The flow of fluids through pipes and channels is also important to engineers. Fluid mechanics is essential to the meteorologist in studying the complicated flow patterns in the atmosphere.
The module is arranged in 13 units within four blocks.
This is the foundation on which the rest of the module is built.
Unit 1 Properties of a fluid introduces the continuum model and many of the properties of a fluid, such as density, pressure and viscosity. The basic equation of fluid statics is formulated and used to find the pressure distribution in a liquid and to provide a model for the atmosphere.
Unit 2 Ordinary differential equations starts by showing how changes of variables (involving use of the Chain Rule) can be applied to solve certain non-constant-coefficient differential equations, and leads on to the topics of boundary-value and eigenvalue problems. It concludes with an introduction to the method of power-series for solving initial-value problems.
Unit 3 First-order partial differential equations extends the earlier version of the Chain Rule to cover a change of variables for functions of two variables, and shows how this leads to the method of characteristics for solving first-order partial differential equations.
Unit 4 Vector field theory relates line, surface and volume integrals through two important theorems – Gauss' theorem and Stokes' theorem – and formulates the equation of mass continuity for a fluid in motion.
The second block starts by investigating the motion of a fluid that is assumed to be incompressible (its volume cannot be reduced) and inviscid (there is no internal friction).
Unit 5 Kinematics of fluids introduces the equations of streamlines and pathlines, develops the concept of a stream function as a method of describing fluid flows, and formulates Euler's equation of motion for an inviscid fluid.
Unit 6 Bernoulli's equation analyses an important equation arising from integrals of Euler's equation for the flow of an inviscid fluid. It relates pressure, speed and potential energy, and is presented in various forms. Bernoulli's equation is used to investigate phenomena such as flows through pipes and apertures, through channels and over weirs.
Unit 7 Vorticity discusses two important mathematical tools for modelling fluid flow, the vorticity vector (describing local angular velocity) and circulation. The effects of viscosity on the flow of a real (viscous) fluid past an obstacle are described.
Unit 8 The flow of a viscous fluid establishes the Navier-Stokes equations of motion for a viscous fluid, and investigates some of their exact solutions and some of the simplifications that can be made by applying dimensional arguments.
This block looks at a class of differential equations typified by the wave equation, the diffusion equation and Laplace's equation, which arise frequently in fluid mechanics and in other branches of applied mathematics.
Unit 9 Second-order partial differential equations shows how a second-order partial differential equation can be classified as one of three standard types, and how to reduce an equation to its standard form. Some general solutions (including d'Alembert's solution to the wave equation) are found.
Unit 10 Fourier series reviews and develops an important method of approximating a function. The early sections refer to trigonometric Fourier series, and it is shown how these series, together with separation of variables, can be used to represent the solutions of initial-boundary value problems involving the diffusion equation and the wave equation. Later sections generalise to the Fourier series that arise from Sturm-Liouville problems (eigenvalue problems with the differential equation put into a certain standard format), including Legendre series.
Unit 11 Laplace's equation is a particular second-order partial differential equation that can be used to model the flow of an irrotational, inviscid fluid past a rigid boundary. Solutions to Laplace's equation are found and interpreted in the context of fluid flow problems, for example, the flow of a fluid past a cylinder and past a sphere.
In this block you'll return to applications of the mathematics to fluid flows.
Unit 12 Water waves uses some of the theory developed in Block 3 to investigate various types of water wave, and discusses several practical examples of these waves.
Unit 13 Boundary layers and turbulence looks at the effects of turbulence (chaotic fluid flow) and at the nature of boundary layers within a flow, introducing models to describe these phenomena.
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Feb. 10, 2002
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Santa Clara University's baseball team entered Sunday looking for its second consecutive series win over a Big West team, but it was UC Santa Barbara that came away with the win, holding off the Broncos for a 6-1 victory at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Santa Clara (3-3) and UCSB (4-3) each played scoreless ball through the first five innings, getting tremendous pitching outings from each of their starters. But with two outs in the sixth inning, the Gauchos scored the game's first run on a throwing error by shortstop A.J. LaBarbera.
The error forced Bronco starting pitcher John Redmond from the game who finished with an impressive line, throwing 5 2/3 innings of work in which he allowed one unearned run on three hits while striking out five.
The 1-0 lead was increased in the seventh inning when the Gauchos scored three more times off Bronco reliever A.J. Ampi, who allowed five runs on six hits in 2 2/3 innings of work on the day.
Matt Vasquez had all of the run support he would need as he threw eight full innings of work on the mound in which he allowed only one unearned run on four hits. Matt Moran finished the game for the Gauchos in the ninth inning, in which he struck out one batter while facing the minimum in the final frame.
First baseman Josh McCanne went 3-for-4 on the day with one run scored and two batted in to lead the Gaucho offense. Ryan Spilborghs finished the day with two hits, one run scored and one run batted in.
The Broncos had five players with one hit apiece, but it was Joey Gomes who picked up the RBI in the bottom of the eighth inning with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to deep center.
Santa Clara will continue its longest homestand of the season with a 3 p.m. game against BYU Monday afternoon at Buck Shaw Stadium. The Broncos will conclude its homestand Tuesday night when they welcome in the California Golden Bears for a 6 p.m. first pitch.


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Why I Am a Catholic
by Garry Wills
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002
(390 pages; $26.00, hardcover)
reviewed by William J. Tighe
Garry Wills's earlier book, Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit, was written to expose what the author believes to be a systematic pattern of papal deceit and self-deception in refusing to acknowledge the changeable nature of Catholic doctrine and practice and in refusing to embrace what he sees as much-needed changes. These changes include making clerical celibacy optional, ordaining women, accepting contraception and homosexual practice, and at least ceasing to condemn abortion, if not actually accepting "conscientious" decisions to have an abortion (on this subject Wills is anything but clear).
Both those who applauded the book and those who objected to it asked how a man of his views could remain a Catholic, and he responded with Why I Am a Catholic. It is not an orthodox Catholic response, nor one that would be likely to appeal to those—Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants alike—who wish to stand within the Christian Tradition as they understand it, as something received rather then recreated. But it outlines what Catholicism seems, in the end, to amount to for Wills.
I write "seems," for he is far from precise. Though he sometimes writes as if Catholicism had an objective and unchanging authority (as witness his view of the Creed, which I will describe in a moment), he also approves the refusal of "Catholics at large" to accept papal statements as "dispositive," even when such statements reaffirm what has been taught "everywhere, always and by all." He assumes that "the experience we had of what our Catholic lives meant at their deepest level" is determinative, and that "if the pope said something that claimed we could not be living that life of faith, then the pope would have clearly been wrong." (The emphasis here and in the rest of the review is Wills's own.)
Using as an illustration a woman using contraceptives who continues to receive the sacraments, which the Catholic Church believes a mortal sin, he writes that if such people "are told they are doing what 'the church' forbids, they respond that they are the church, they are the people of God." In these cases, he insists, "the pope is out of step with the church."
One has to search through the book quite thoroughly to find the answer to the question the title poses. It consists of five parts, and the fifth, "The Creed," offers a detailed treatment of his reasons for believing the Apostles' Creed. He regards it as "the church's central message, against which the importance of other things is measured" and states that there are certain doctrines "which one must believe in order to be a Catholic." There is trouble even here, though.
Wills's Answer
Witness, for example, his obscure, not to say evasive, treatment of the phrase "born of the Virgin Mary." After a quotation from the late Catholic Scripture scholar Raymond E. Brown seeming to denigrate any emphasis on a "literal" or "biological" virginity, Wills insists that it is her "spiritual" virginity that is important—without clearly specifying what such a "spiritual virginity" entails as regards her real virginity.
He then insists that the early Christians cannot have believed in the perpetual virginity of Mary, since "they calmly accepted the fact that Jesus' brother James was the leader of the church in Jerusalem"—a position, though accepted by many Protestants today, regarded as heretical by both Catholics and Orthodox and condemned by the Council of Ephesus in 432.
Even on his own chosen ground of "The Creed," Wills's attempt to vindicate his orthodox Catholic credentials would thus seem to be a failure. At best, he does not speak of its claims with the clarity one expects of orthodox Catholics, and one has to suspect that for him there is some other measurement against which the Creed itself is to be measured.
However much some of Wills's strictures on the papacy might appeal to some of my Orthodox or Protestant friends, or his doubts about the common Catholic and Orthodox dogma of the perpetual virginity of Mary to the Protestants among them, none of them would be able to follow him to the "democratic" basis on which he would want to found them. I am tempted to think that if he really believes what he writes, he ought to join my Protestant friends, but I suspect that he would find serious "sola scriptura" Protestantism too traditional. In any event, he does not seem to be the sort of man who would find intellectual submission to Orthodoxy or Protestantism any more possible than adhesion to orthodox Catholicism, and a convert of his views would not strengthen in any way whatever church he joined.
Disparaging the Papacy
The heart of the book is the three middle parts on the papacy. The first attempts to undermine the apostolic foundations of the papacy, the second tries to discredit the papacy in the second millennium as power-seeking, unscrupulous, inept, reactionary, and fighting against "progress."
The third gives both a long paean of praise of the Second Vatican Council for "liberating" Catholics from the shackles to which they had hitherto been bound and setting them free to follow the dictates of their own consciences, and a sustained assault on the subsequent attempt to "roll back" its "gains." In Wills's view, there is a steady decline from the good Pope John XXIII to the weak Paul VI to the bad (but personally impressive) John Paul II, who for Wills has happily failed to achieve his restorationist purpose.
Wills has done a tremendous amount of research, but in this section especially, time and again he presents the most radical conclusions of exegetes and historians as though they were the firm, assured, and unquestionable findings of disinterested scholarship. Again and again he passes by in silence not only alternative scholarly views, but even facts and historical events that go against his denigrating and minimizing slant on the papacy.
In the chapter entitled "Peter," for example, we learn that the language of Peter as the "rock" on which the Church is to be built either was fabricated by the author of the Gospel of Matthew decades after Christ was purported to have spoken them, or else was Jesus' ironic comment on Peter's weak and vacillating character; that there were no bishops in Rome until the second century, when the idea of the "Apostolic Succession" of bishops was invented to combat Gnosticism; and that St. Ignatius of Antioch, who held the "recently established office of community 'overseer,'" had been rejected by his own church—a remarkable flight of fantasy, without any support in the ancient texts—and that Ignatius's own letter to the Roman Church shows that there was no bishop in Rome at that time.
Similarly, from reading Wills's account of the papal excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I of England, one could easily conclude that Elizabeth—whom he confusingly describes as seeking "a via media between Catholic and Anglican tenets and worship while suppressing dissenters like the Puritans"—was some sort of moderate, reform-minded Catholic whom the papacy had needlessly alienated.
Wills's Papacy
Wills insists in one of the final chapters of his book, "The Pope's Loyal Opposition," that he is not a Catholic in spite of the papacy, but rather that "I want the papacy. It is a blessing, a necessity—it is a requirement for the mystical body of Christ to remain one body." It is hard to explain his constant disparagement of the papacy and his fundamentally flawed account of its history, save on the supposition that the papacy that he claims to want is one stripped of all claims of apostolic or magisterial authority and resting solely on the "consent of the governed" under the tutelage of up-to-date theological "experts."
Otherwise, it is impossible to reconcile words like "blessing" and "necessity" with his almost hysterically contemptuous scorn for the current pope and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Thus, Ratzinger fears (irrationally, we are expected to believe) "diabolical powers" that he suspects may be returning in the atheistic culture of the modern Western world; thus, the present pope and Paul VI are repeatedly said to hold that women cannot be ordained "because they do not look like Jesus"; thus, Ratzinger opposes certain liturgical changes because in the old practice the priest "was far more important—which is just what Ratzinger misses"; thus, Wills scorns the pope's "willingness to believe in odd things" such as "a farrago of Fatima nonsense"; thus, he accuses the pope of a "homicidal" teaching for condemning the use of condoms as sinful in all circumstances.
All this gives the game away, and reveals this account for what it is: an attempt to "resite" the Catholic Church on another rock than the one on which it professes to have been founded and to substitute a democratic faith under the guidance, not of the Holy Spirit who has spoken as Catholics have believed him to speak, but of the Spirit of the Age as vetted by Garry Wills. One thinks of the "idle babblings and contradictions" of 1 Timothy 6:20.
William J. Tighe is Associate Professor of History at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and a faculty advisor to the Catholic Campus Ministry. He is a Member of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is a contributing editor for Touchstone.
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I... I... I'vegottagodosomething!
Nov 11 '12, 5:50pm
Skeeve Plowse, Dashing Adventurer
Skeeve, with a pleasant expression on his face, waits for Tholt to finish his apology to Angharad. "
Oh, I keep apartments here in the city, actually. I've been living here for about...five years? Maybe six now. I lose track of time sometimes.
It looks like he was about to add more to that statement, but his attention is stolen by a group of people entering the marketplace, especially the two
Atesin and Mirela, to be specific
rather attractive women
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Hm, sorry? I didn't catch that.
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Nov 12 '12, 8:58pm
Looking about the town square casually, Mirela hides the fact that she is checking the area out for potential danger.
Pickpockets, drifters, thugs... this would be the area they'd do the most 'business' in a given day.
Turning her attention back to Misha, Mirela can't help but notice that Misha appears perhaps a little on the nervous side. Moving beside him, Mirela interlinks her arm with his, making it appear as though Misha was merely being accompanied by an attractive young woman as opposed to being led. With a pleasant smile, Mirela speaks in a warm and friendly tone
"Misha, why don't you take us to speak with some of those friendly merchants you had mentioned. Maybe they know something about Cale we don't."
Looking about as they continued to move through the square, Mirela catches the gaze of a
stylishly dressed and handsome rogue
and leans her head back to whisper at Atesin with a light laugh
"Heh, Atesin... don't look now, but we're being watched."
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Nov 13 '12, 5:50pm
Angharad looks up when Skeave's glances away, then just smiles as he turns back.
"I was just curious as to why you stay here, but..."
She gestures in the direction of the two women.
"I suspect the answer is obvious."
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Nov 14 '12, 10:34am
Wellin's words are reassuring. They alone would have made him feel better. To make his relief absolute, Mirela takes his arm to ensure he does not get separated. The way she links arms does not go unnoticed by him; it is a respectful way of staying together rather than making him appear helpless. He sounds far better off as he says,
"Thank you Mister Wellin, Miss Mirela. I'm very grateful."
Now more confident in going forward, Misha scans the nearby area to get his bearings. He indicates to the northeast while saying,
"I can't tell from this distance, but there should be a canopy that is dark green somewhere over there. It specializes in bakery items. There are a few bakers here, but only one with that color. If you see one that has a red canopy, I'd suggest avoiding him. He tends to overcharge for his products and can be... um... sort of harsh with words."
He looks sheepish at this, recalling the baker who had told him and Cale to get lost when neither had the silver piece necessary to buy even one item. The baker's mocking tone at offering to cut it in half for five copper was enough to nearly get Cale to punch him. Misha had managed to pull him away before anything came of it, but they never went back after.
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Nov 14 '12, 5:15pm
At the mention of 'someone watching' Wellin lets his gaze trail around where Mirela was recently looking, that purple hat is not difficult to spot. The well-dressed human chuckles quietly as he brings his eyes back to the direction their small group is traveling toward. "
Stylish, but needs to learn to appreciate beauty without being quiet so obvious.
" Further chuckles and a light smile follow as Wellin listens to Misha's directions and descriptions. "
Yes I think I see what you mean.
" He begins to head in that direction which will bring them a fair bit closer to the 'other' group.
"Well that sounds like a perfectly reasonab-- wait what?"
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Nov 14 '12, 6:32pm
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Skeeve can't help but chuckle sheepishly as Angharad calls him out, and quite rightly so at that. "
Well, I can't deny what's plainly true, I suppose. There are certainly fringe benefits to living in a city; it's easier to meet people.
Fishing a piece of dried meat out of his beltpouch, he offers it down to Coli the wolf, and asks of Angharad, "
So, what brings you and your erstwhile companion to Parthacia, Miss Angharad?
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Nov 15 '12, 3:11am
Pip the Thrush
A tiny bird, no larger than a newborn chicken, lights atop Skeeves hat in a fluff of grey, blue, and white feathers.
"Silly man, wolves don't ride in boats or carriages, so it must have been legs."
the Thrush states matter-of-factly before snapping a fly out of the air that had been circling the young rakes belt pouch.
Iolana the Varisian
"Oh? Seeing as how birds don't ride in blouses like lazy stowaways, I'm sure you must have flown into the city then."
responds a chiding voice from the woman crossing over from a nearby baker's stall, the bird twittering a lilting tune as it avails itself of the ample perch the girls light brown leather bodice was creating. The tune blended into time with the clash of the gilded chains around her swaying waist and the jingle of the bracelet of bells on her bare ankle as she walked. She stopped mid step, a hint of thigh showing from the slit in her long, bright red skirt, threw her long, sparsely braided black hair behind her canary yellow garbed shoulders, and flashed a bright smile from between her scarlet-painted lips before speaking to Skeeve.
"I'd say your friend's companion was a strange sight, but Pip tells me there is a six foot tall raven walking around today. They stand out almost as much as that hat of yours."
she waits a moment for recognition before frowning in a slight pout.
"Don't tell me you don't recognize me?"
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Nov 16 '12, 12:16am
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Somewhat startled, Skeeve resists the urge to look up at the sound of the voice coming from his hat, and is rewarded for the lack of the impulse a moment later when the little thrush takes off again. Muttering to himself, "
I wish I could say that was the first time that's happened to me,
" he watches the path the obviously magical bird takes through the air...
...straight into Iolana's cleavage. Skeeve chuckles a little at the woman's banter with her familiar, looking up to meet her eyes after a few moments. "
I'm sorry, miss, but I don't believe we've met. I'd remember if I'd met someone like you, to be sure.
" Sweeping off his hat, he gives a gallant little bow. "
Skeeve Plowse, at your service.
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Nov 16 '12, 1:11am
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"Told you. The hat's too big and he's too small and pretty."
the bird exclaimed before releasing a tiny burp and settling into a light doze.
Iolana the Varisian
"Shush you."
the girl scolded into her cleavage with a bit more color to her cheeks.
"Nice to meet you Skeeve. I had you confused for someone I used to know around here, he had a hat that yours reminded me of. Sorry for interrupting your conversation."
she finishes with a nod towards the woman and her wolf.
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Nov 16 '12, 4:20am
Angharad and Coli watch the baker girl and the bird play with the young man. She gives Coli a warning look only to find it unnecessary. He looks less interested in the bird, than the jangle of the girl. These are unusual sounds for him. Angharad slides closer to rest more of her leg against him for comfort.
"The bird's insinuation is correct, but not the heart of the question asked. I found my home to narrow-minded. So I am wandering in search of a more fitting place."
She looks around the market dubiously.
"I'm not certain this place is it however. Seems a bit crowded."
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Great article! I've never shipped to the wrong buyer...yet. But I have sold something that was no longer in stock...(or, I couldn't find it in my inventory.)
I also learned the hard way that when multiple buyers buy the same item from my store, they all have the same item number in selling manager. Not realizing this, I got one buyer very confused when I looked at the wrong sold item in selling manager and gave him wrong information. He left negative feedback saying I sounded confused. Guess I was.
I hope I've learned enough not to repeat those errors again.
It was a good article...everyone should take responsibility for any mistakes they might make. Nobody's perfect
But it's generally not a good idea to have customers that recieved the wrong package send them to each other...you pretty much blow your DC, you don't have any guarentee that they actually WILL do it, and you've given them personal info about another buyer that should have been kept private. The best thing to do is to have them return the pkg to YOU so you can start over again. (new DC#) Especially if it's a high priced item,
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Great Article!!
Ive been on both sides of mishaps. Im currently forwarding on a Tshirt for a seller that shipped me the wrong one. Ive sent buyers extra items and over and above shipping costs just to say -Thank You- for helping me in my blunder.
Even with all those good intentions, I am currently on the receiving end of a bad purchase.
The item I received did NOT match the item in the picture. (XBox steering Wheel) The pedals and console were different, and on top of it, this barely used item had been opened/tampered with and didn't function very good.
The seller chose to go hardline, insisted on her return policy without shipping compensation either way. Then tried to pawn off I didnt buy shipping insurance to justify the poor functions of it, as if the USPS actually opened up the console and disabled it! Then on top of that refused to acknowledge the item was different ( I sent both pictures, listing & item received) and refused to answer where that listing picture came from! Because she said she had no other unit...so obviously the picture came from someone else.
So now, im out $26 in shipping, Im truly frustrated with this seller, she will receive a negative feedback on her 100% rating, and all because A) wasnt honest with me, and simply refused to refund my original shipping of $13.00
So,.can anybody explain why any seller would hurt their reputation for $13.00..?? 'cause it baffles me.
I would of bent head over heels,...here ya go!! Im VERY sorry etc,...Please let me try and fix things etc..
Ohhh well.
Again - Great article.
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When I read this article, I had to laugh because something similar happened about three weeks ago. A customer ordered 50 Wholesale DVDs that were suposed to be Westerns Comedies and Classics. Instead I accidentally shipped one of my additional Stock boxes which was filled with double titles and not a single Western.
When I realized the mistake it was too late, however, when the buyer e-mailed me about the problem, I just admitted I made a mistake and offered to replace any title he did not want. In the end we exchanged about 15 DVDs. And I received not only a posiive 5 star feedback, but also a nice letter from my seller thanking me for fixing the problems fast without any problems.
So sometimes a mistake can actually help your DSRs
Nice article... this happened to me as well.. as a seller, I shipped the wrong game to a buyer (I happened to have 2 completely different games with the SAME title). My problem with the buyer is that she accepted my apology and I promised a refund, but she wanted that refund posted immediately. I insisted on waiting until the game was returned to me. What are some thoughts on this situation?
You were right to insist
Never refund before getting your item back. That's not the way it works. Would she ask for a refund at Walmart without actually returning the item?
If buyer were to open a Paypal claim, they would tell her to send it back (on her own dime).
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This newspaper is one of several I read virtual cover to virtual cover every month. I am a newbie to eBay though I have lurked the site for many years, and subscribed to stores for almost as long. I'm learning a lot, and I am hoping that Auctiva will be a important part of my business in the future. Many thanks.
I read this as I get ready to ship some of my original Picasso Style Paintings from my ebay store Urban Picasso Art.
thanks for all the great tips!
I don't know about getting a negative for shipping the wrong item and selling something not in stock. This has never happened to me. But I think that the real risk of getting a negative is from the buyers 1. who never contact the seller to resolve a problem 2. who are simply dishonest and try to scam you 3. who cannot make the item work (we sell electronics) and blame you for that.
In 20,000+ ebay sales, I've switched packages 3 times. Each time spurred me to tighten my procedures to avoid a repeat.
It's always a major headache, but I've found that most customers are very understanding if you catch the problem (or react, if they catch it first) very quickly and make the resolution as easy for them as possible. What's important is making the situation right for the customer with the minimum inconvenience to him or her.
In each instance, I've asked the recipients if they would be comfortable with my giving their name and address to the person who has their package. When they've agreed, I've paypalled each person the amount of the shipping from their address to the right address plus delivery confirmation with a couple of dollars added for their trouble.
I think it would be quite unlikely that a person would keep the incorrect item, but if they did, I'd try to keep in mind that my own carelessness created the problem and blame myself rather than the customer. Since I sell mostly antiques and collectibles, the chances that a customer would WANT the incorrect item are less than someone selling in a smaller niche.
Having customers return the item to you for remailing would not only greatly increase your mailing costs, but would also build in a delay that would be unacceptable to most customers.
It's been my experience that customers usually realize that accidents happen and respond positively.
Carol Hearn
So what do you in this situation? I sold two laptops the same day and I got the shipping labels mixed up. I was informed by the fist customer that the item was wrong and realizing what I had done, asked if he could forward it to the second buyer. "No problem!" The problem was the second buyer got the better laptop at a greatly reduced price and would not reply to any attempt by me to contact him. In the mean time he receives the laptop sent from the first customer. This guy must have thought he won the lottery because now he has two laptops!
After several voice messages and e-mails he still won't answer me! And get this! I get a negative feedback from this guy that I'm a scammer and have been harrasing him! When I contacted EBay for help in the matter, they said: "the problem was outside of EBay policies" and could not help.
Bottom line is yeah I messed up! But if it happens again, they're just going to have to wait the extra time. "MOST" people realize accidents happen. Not All!
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My daughter has developed a phobia where she will not eat anything that she suspects has nuts. She is afraid of washing as the soap may give her a rash that will turn into her throat closing. She is afraid of taking medicine too. She is seeing a therapist but I am at my wits end.
This will take a lot of patience on your part. It will take time for her to get past this. Having her see a therapist is great; if this one doesn't seem to help, don't give up on therapy, she just may need a different one. Just like it can take time to find the right meds for mental illness, it can take some time to find the right therapist to help.
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That may at least get her to bathe explaining that it isn't soap, it's what hospitals use to clean wounds so it absolutely HAS to be hypoallergenic and no soap or perfume.
Good luck, this sounds rough.
OMG that is a great idea. I did buy J & J baby soap, which she uses sparingly on specific parts of her face. She showers and washes her hair & private parts tho, very odd, the things she targets.
I need also to mention she was on the mini pill which mimics OCD in that the chemicals lower seratonin levels that lead to having false fears. We are off the pill but her pedi says it will take at least 2 cycles before her hormones get back to normal.
Take her to a psychiatrist. She has severe problems. You need counseling, too, to learn how to parent her, and to find out what triggered all this.


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Dear Congressman Sensenbrenner:
Millions of Americans are losing faith in the American legal system. The courts have, in many respects, become places where the hope of justice is illusory because the law has become the exclusive province of an elite "priesthood" of lawyers who the average person cannot afford to hire for any serious problem.
Pro-se litigants are not treated with respect in the courts, and neither the law nor the courts are user friendly.
I am a lawyer in the Boston area with 24 years of experience and am fairly well accomplished and recognized (see
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I assure you that widespread dissatisfaction exists at every level with our justice system. Such issues as gender bias in divorce, the deserved mistrust of lawyers, the lopsided power of major law firms, the elitist attitude of a segment of the judiciary, the maltreatment of dissidents, including dissident lawyers, the refusal of federal courts to address abuses in state courts-- these all contribute to what some experts now call "legal abuse syndrome." Because of widespread immunity granted to government officials, judges and court officials, redress is increasingly difficult.
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I am writing to ask your committee to hold hearings on "Citizen's
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Like David Grossack above, I too years ago offered to appear before Congress along with seven attorneys to testify as to the judicial corruption of the courts. Results: No Response! Not even an acknowledgement. At the time, I did not see the conflict of interest which I now see in appealing to Congress about judicial corruption.
By way of foundation of this conflict of interest, I shall refer to the quote of Thomas Jefferson, "Let no more be heard of confidence in men, but rather bind them down with the chains of the Constitution." Now I shall use
the illustration of prisoners and guards, Congress being the prisoners to be bound down through the judges using the Constitution, and who are the guards. In petitioning to Congress, you are petitioning to the prisoners (Congress) that the guards (the judges) are not doing their prescribed constitutional duty to bind down the prisoners (Congress) who are being given too much liberty by the guards (judges).
Everyone must ask themselves why Congress would be interested in enforcing the Constitution by requiring judges (their guards) to bind them down with the chains of the Constitution? Obviously, Congress wants to take liberties with our Constitution, not less. So Congress returns a "kick-back" (bribe) to the judges (their guards) by rewarding their guards with untold power and protections. Now you are objecting to this sweet-heart deal between Congress and the Judges, and now you want Congress to "take action."
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An open economy new Keynesian macroeconomic model: The case of Turkey
Keynesian Macroeconomic Model emerged at the end of the 1990s. The main characteristics of this consensus are formed by the synthesis of the New Classical, Real Business Cycle and New Keynesian approaches. Although The New Keynesian Macroeconomic Model is based on a general equilibrium model, it can typically be reduced to a three-equation system, consisting of an aggregate supply equation (Phillips curve), an aggregate demand equation (IS equation) and a monetary policy rule. The basic model assumes a closed economy. However, for a small open economy, such as Turkey, whose growth is largely affected by international capital flows, the ability of the standard New Neo-Classical Synthesis model to fully take into account economic dynamics is limited. In this paper, we attempt to extend the New Neo-Classical Synthesis model to a small open economy case by adding equations that would capture the exchange rate movements and the current account dynamics. Results indicate that the open economy New Neo-Classical Synthesis model for Turkey can provide a framework to capture the dynamics of the Turkish economy for the post financial liberalization era and explain the behavior of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
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Lake Elsinore City Council members heaped more work on their proverbial plates last week by creating a series of committees in addition to the many on which they already serve.
The council voted unanimously to form 10 additional committees and assign two members to each panel.
"It's great. It's what I signed up for," said recently elected Councilman Steve Manos of the increased workload.
The lake, Main Street, stadium, economic development, city beautification and city/county committees will serve on an ongoing basis.
The Alberhill, Summerly/East Lake, technology and special events committees were formed on an hoc basis, meaning they will convene until they are no longer needed, said City Clerk Virginia Bloom.
Alberhill is a developing planned community on the north side of town, while at the southern end, Summerly and East Lake are still-developing subdivisions.
"I'm excited because I think it's going to give the council a focus," Councilwoman Natasha Johnson said after the meeting. "It gives us a way to stay in touch with the community. ... We need to know what's going on so we can make good decisions."
In making the committee assignments, the five-member council agreed without dissent to follow the recommendations of Mayor Bob Magee.
Johnson, who was elected in November along with Manos, will team up with Councilman Brian Tisdale on the stadium committee and with Manos on the economic development, technology and special events panels. Manos will work with Councilman Daryl Hickman on Main Street issues.
"I'm good with it," Manos said of the appointments preceding the vote. "It accentuates our strengths."
Magee and Hickman will participate on the lake and Summerly/East Lake committees, while Magee will work with Tisdale on the city/county and Alberhill committees. Tisdale and Hickman will tackle city beautification.
In addition to the committee assignments, the council selected Johnson and Manos to participate on a Regional Youth Task Force that is being formed in conjunction with other nearby cities.
City Manager Grant Yates said he believes the council duos, often called subcommittees, are a good way to work through issues with the staff.
"There are quite a few cities out there that use this concept of subcommittees," Yates said. "What that does is allow for more in-depth conversation and knowledge transfer on specific issues. ... They really help keep the staff on track."
The committees will work with the appropriate city officials and decisions on whether they will meet regularly or intermittently will be forthcoming, Bloom said.
Council members already participate on committees to address the budget and meet with representatives of Wildomar, a coalition of Southwest Riverside cities, the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District and a Lake Elsinore board overseeing the dismantling of the city's redevelopment agency.
Also, individual council members represent the city on a variety of regional boards.


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Look for some torrents, I bet you can find a bunch of stuff.
To any musicians on this board:
I want to find some FREE drum loops to help practice guitar with. I am sick of the online metronome I have been using. I need something with no other instruments involved, just drum beats.
I know there must be some kind of site out there, but everything I google, either has other instruments involved or I have to pay money.
So if you know of anything please let me know... THANKS!!!
Age: 31
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 244lbs
Look for some torrents, I bet you can find a bunch of stuff.
If sense were common, everyone would have it.
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I've been playing for almost 2 decades. The best way you can learn (outside tutoring) is to get a tune you can play, put the record on and play to. If you're good enough to play through out, make up a solo over the tune. It'll teach you more about your abilities than a lesson will.
^^^ This is why I want drum beats. I have been playing for almost 12 years now and in a technical sense I am as good as I would possibly ever need to be. I just want to start experimenting with more riffs and composing instrumental songs, and drum beats would be much more fun and inspiring to me.
The torrents stuff is new to me, but I think I am going to try and find some stuff that way.
What kind of music do you play BTW?
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You could try saving some beats as wav. or aiff files from the likes of this site:
Phatso's Place: Free Funky Drum Loops & Samples
Use this to convert, chop, or even just play on repeat - loops. With this you can also rip songs off cd and cut them into loops: E.g - a drum intro:-
Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
After that, you could put these loops into a sequencer, or use the virtual instruments to make your own beats on the likes of this:-
Storm - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com
The advantage with this sort of 'virtual studio' is that you can record your own guitar licks and edit and apply fx to, and sequence tracks.
I have some pretty advanced stuff at home, and use it to make up songs, anything from garage rock to chilled out stuff. I think without getting into torrents, this is the best sort of thing you could use for free. I've been playing a similar time to you, maybe 15+ years.
If you wanted to spend a little, and set up a pretty decent home studio, which would more than fufill your needs, with sequencing, virtual instruments, audio editing, drum loops and machines etc. etc., you could invest in something like this:
MAGIX > Music > Music Studio 12 deluxe
Although if you went for version 10 or 11 on amazon you could get it for around $15. Bargain if you ask me.
I think the Magix studio & the Storm studio are the type of thing you are looking for. You can make complete songs with these, as they are in themselves budget production studios. And don't be put off by the term budget, they are still pretty powerful software. Results will be good. You should download a trial and see for yourself.
Also, you could get by using the line in jack on your exsisting soundcard, but to make it sound really clean, it would be worth getting a decent soundcard like this:
Amazon.com: M-Audio Audiophile 2496 MIDI Digital Recording Interface: Electronics
Although, there will be cheaper options out there, this is a good one.
Hope this helps.
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That does help!!! Thanks!!! I have been wishing for some type of home studio for a few years now, and went to guitar center last night to window shop. But unfortunately I have more things I *need* to spend money on. So I wanted to see what I could do for free to satisfy my desires for now. My computer sucks, so I wanted to get a Mac system for the music hobby, plus I am trying to learn AVID editing for my job at work, so I could use it for that too.
But I think what you showed me could do the trick for now. Thanks again.
And to gazhole: I'll check that stuff out too. Thanks!
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I'd hazard a guess that you could run those prorams even on a low spec PC. The higher end stuff like Logic needs a lot of RAM and processing power to run it. Not to mention that audio files eat a lot of disk space.
Good luck with it. Feel free to PM me if you want any advice i might be able to help you with.
I pretty much only use the preset patterns. there are very likely more out threre like it.
this service wont let me post the url, so just google "online drum machines"
I have a pedal with sample looping, I'll do some muted plucking to set the beat and then play along.....the old Korg AX1G...
If on my acoustic some body tapping and foot stomping = my drum loop
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Dave Winer wrote an interesting piece this week concerning Twitter's reaction to an account he had used for testing applications. The @bullmancuso profile was closed by Twitter in October, and when Winer questioned their reasoning he was told:
"Your account was suspended because our specialists found that your tweets were primarily links to other sites and not personal updates, a violation of Twitter Rules."
(read the article in full here)
Ultimately, Twitter restored the account, but Winer observed that, once again, "we're playing in somebody else's ballpark, and they make the rules." He's quite right of course – it is Twitter's ballpark, and we are very much at the mercy of their whims and fancies. They were absolutely within their rights, as per their terms of service, to suspend the @bullmancuso account.
But there are a couple of major problems here.
- Consistency, and
- Fairness
Twitter's actions above might seem a little excessive or harsh, but if that's their policy then that's their policy. Except it really isn't, as there are thousands and thousands of accounts, many of which are high-profile with a million or more followers (such as the New York Times, Mashable, TechCrunch, CNN and The Onion) that do nothing but link to other sites (predominately, of course, their own) and have nary a 'personal' update between them.
I'm reminded once again of Twitter's decision back in March of this year to suspend the Christopher Walken parody account, even though many other parody accounts with equal numbers of followers existed at the same time, and continue to do so today.
More examples? Why is @mashable a verified account, and @techcrunch is not?
Why do some people who ask for help get it immediately, whilst others have to wait months or, with increasing frequency, get brushed off with the standardised response of a list of frequently asked questions whilst their support ticket is immediately closed?
We could live with all most some one or two of these things if we had a little consistency. It's the randomness of the outcome that makes it all so maddening.
Sometimes, corporations make decisions that suck. And the bigger the corporate entity, the more sucky those decisions seem to be, especially for the little guy at the other end of the stick.
When Twitter suspends or deletes an account, most of the time it's for the right reasons. Perhaps the individual was a spammer or crossed the line in some other severe fashion.
Occasionally, however, and I would say more often than most people would suspect, they make mistakes. Or they misunderstand a situation. Or they act in some totally irrational manner which goes against everything else they've done since day one.
It's these instances that concern me. I've written many times about how and why it's so important that we're given a way to easily backup and (critically) be able to restore out Twitter accounts, because things do go wrong, and sometimes Twitter has a strop, picks up its ball and says that it – and more important you – are not playing any more.
But in all these examples, irrespective of where the fault actually lies, it ultimately comes down to your word against Twitter's. Dave Winer has the clout and track record for the powers-that-be at Twitter to pay a little attention, but would they have been quite as forthcoming for somebody with a little less internet presence? Who was slightly less well-known, and perhaps not quite as persistent?
Or would that individual have been completely ignored?
And Then What Happens?
What options would that person have left? Sure, they could open another account and complain that way, but what's that really going to accomplish? And who exactly is going to listen, or even care? It's worth noting that several leading mathematicians recently calculated that your odds of winning the lottery are only slightly worse than those of you actually getting a reply on Twitter from Biz Stone.
Twitter is rapidly becoming a really big hairy deal. In less than a year it has firmly embedded itself, taken root and began to parasitically feed upon and nourish the minds of the public at large and the global media. It's changed the game, and perhaps for the first time in our history, made it a level playing field.
And the thing is, they're our tweets. As a collective, we own Twitter. Take away the tweets, and the company isn't left with much more than a boardroom table and some ill-considered pieces of art. Shouldn't we expect a little courtesy? A little fairness? Some consistency?
All of which leads me to ask this question: does Twitter need a trusted intermediary that can fairly and honestly investigate complaints against it? An appointed official or entity that would investigate complaints and issues raised by individuals who felt they had been unfairly treated by the social network?
More importantly: do we need it?
I think we do, and I think we need it now. Twitter is a big deal today – just what exactly is it going to be in two years from now, or five? Too big, perhaps, to do much about. Better to start setting precedents on both sides in these relatively early stages, than having them laid down upon us in the future to come.
After all, it was us that scorched the sky.