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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Entry #20
by Sandra Cormier
Travis leaned against the rough bark of the willow tree and ripped through a chicken thigh with gusto.
"So…" He wiped his lips. "What turns you on about me?"
"That's a stupid question." Shelley poured a glass of Cabernet.
"Not so stupid. Don't you want me to keep myself up for you?"
"You always keep yourself up for me, you horny bastard."
"I don't mean that. What special thing floats your boat?"
She reclined beside him and laid her head in his lap, tucking her chin against her collarbone to take a tiny sip. "Nothing. Everything."
"That's a cop-out and you know it. C'mon, 'fess up." He held his wineglass over her and tilted it at a dangerous angle.
She splayed her fingers across her face and giggled. "Put that down or I'll scream."
"Not 'til you tell me." He lowered his glass anyway and resumed eating.
She relaxed. "About you? That little spot behind your earlobe."
His chuckle warmed her heart. "I guess I can stop working out if that's all ya got."
Shelley gazed across the rolling meadow. Backlit dandelion seeds floated like tiny faeries in the breeze. She closed her eyes, listening to the crisp rattle of willow leaves. The tiniest pleasures now held such importance.
She squinted up at Travis. His jaws worked the chicken like a machine – he'd easily work it off. She wished she could eat too, but the thought of food made her insides clench.
How will I tell him?
30 comments:
- Laurel said...
Awesome! Love the dialogue and the descriptions and the last line twist is great.
- July 09, 2009 9:22 PM
- laughingwolf said...
very well done, sandra :)
- July 09, 2009 9:32 PM
- Ello said...
I loved it. I'm trying to guess at what she has to tell him - is it the obvious or is it something less obvious? Hmmmm. But very nice!
- July 09, 2009 10:51 PM
- JR's Thumbprints said...
The little descriptions of nature work well with the story's theme. I also liked how you portrayed their relationship through their dialogue and actions.
- July 09, 2009 11:04 PM
OH fine. I'm not even going to ENTER now. Harumph.
"tiniest pleasures now held such importance."
Like your flash fic, Chumplet!
- July 10, 2009 12:07 AM
- Tessa said...
I love the way the gentle rhythm of the dialogue moves towards the denouement. Evocative and beautifully written.
- July 10, 2009 4:22 AM
- Catvibe said...
I liked the feel of it, the romance and the intimacy of it. Very nice.
- July 10, 2009 5:50 AM
- Chris Eldin said...
This is so beautiful! I love the romance and comfortable way of being between the two of them. The part about the dandelion seeds is one of my favorites.
Very, very well written!!!
Oh, I also want to know what she has to say! What an ending!
- July 10, 2009 6:44 AM
This has everything. Great dialogue. Great structure. Great pacing. Great ending. And above all, believable characters.
I'd be surprised if this isn't in the top 5. And I would have given my piece a second thought before sending, had I read this one before. :)
Loved it to the core.
- July 10, 2009 9:08 AM
- Chumplet - Sandra Cormier said...
You wonderful people give me hope! Thanks for the encouragement!
- July 10, 2009 10:15 AM
- Therese said...
You said so much, and gave away nothing. "The tiniest pleasures now held such importance." That made me sigh.
Very well written piece.
- July 10, 2009 12:37 PM
- Karen said...
I love the nature imagery and the way it fits her mood as she considers how to spring the news.
- July 10, 2009 5:47 PM
- Precie said...
So lovely and so sad. Excellent.
- July 10, 2009 10:42 PM
- The Preacherman said...
oh I give up....
nice one babe x
Four Dinners
- July 12, 2009 6:21 PM
- Whirlochre said...
This is one of the best I've read so far.
- July 13, 2009 5:49 AM
- Kurt Hendricks said...
You have a great ear for dialogue.
- July 13, 2009 12:22 PM
- Chumplet - Sandra Cormier said...
That's because I talk too much. Apparently...
Thanks for all the wonderful comments. I submitted a longer version of this piece to Glimmer Train. Wish me luck!
- July 13, 2009 12:25 PM
- BernardL said...
Easy idyllic scene. Very nice.
- July 13, 2009 12:34 PM
- pjd said...
Marvelously written, very smooth. I know and like them both by the end of it, and I feel so sad that my new friend appears to have a terminal disease (unless of course I've misread it completely... who knows, maybe she's just discovered they're biological brother and sister, or that she's suddenly become an Anaheim Ducks fan or something).
You have given us all something to study and learn from.
- July 13, 2009 11:46 PM
- Chumplet - Sandra Cormier said...
Ah, Pete... you're so perceptive. It was the Ducks. Damn those Ducks...
- July 14, 2009 12:36 AM
- desiderata said...
like pjd, i am guessing all sorts of likelihoods, but let me not speculate -- and make a fool of myself! Great romantic teaser hear! YL
- July 14, 2009 11:42 AM
- Hoodie said...
This is an exquisite piece. It feels real and uncontrived and evoked real emotion.
So sad!
- July 14, 2009 2:09 PM
- Meghan said...
I love how the last line turns everything upside down!
- July 14, 2009 2:18 PM
- Gughan said...
This such a beautiful scene!! I did read the title before I started reading the story, even then, the last line was an absolute stunner. Italicizing words make them more powerful it seems.
Speculation time (I don't mind making a fool of myself):
Is she a new kind of vampire-like creature, who can also roam in the day and bite men behind earlobes? :)
- July 15, 2009 4:27 PM
- Dottie said...
Great story. Sometimes leaving something so ambigious doesn't work. But it's perfect here and you set it up so well. We know enough about the characters and their relationship that whatever the outcome they will prevail.
- July 16, 2009 11:40 AM
- JaneyV said...
Sandra - this was damn fine writing.
- July 19, 2009 7:55 PM
- J.C. Montgomery said...
So much in so little perfectly put together. Oh dear, I'm gushing. Good job. ;-)
- July 20, 2009 1:23 AM
- Jade L Blackwater said...
Wonderful - great dialog and mystery!
- July 20, 2009 3:21 PM
- Angela said...
Stellar imagery and fabulous/authentic dialogue! Loved the way it ended! Truly evoked emotion and engaged me.
- July 20, 2009 8:04 PM
I get the feeling she has a terminal illness. Well portrayed. Especially the description of the tinest pleasures.
Welcome to The Forties Club!!
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This morning I am wearing a headache like a skull cap. This is one angry, useless brain bowl. I am also unconvinced that my tea is steeping properly, despite several attempts to relieve it of the air bubble that keeps it bobbing at the surface instead of sinking down and succumbing to thorough saturation.
But what is a headache when you have been to the best concert of your life. It reminded me of the time I was driving and I crested a hill to see the full harvest moon dangling in the sky like a caramelized fruit about to drip. I leaned over the steeling wheel and screamed. I screamed because howling didn't seem like it would drive enough energy from my body.
Before last night I had never heard of Béla Fleck. I had seen the name Oumou Sangare on the concert bill and everything else went a bit blank. It wasn't until a few days before the event that I had realized this would be a collaborative gig.
In 2005 Béla travelled through several countries in Africa in a bid to meld the sound of the American banjo to West African stringed instruments like the Ngnoi, the kamalengoni, and the kora. The man obviously knows how to build relationships. I sat there, dumbfounded as I watched three of Mali's most famous musicians, all of whom I absolutely adore, all on stage together, jamming with the cherub-faced banjo player who had brought them together. Did I mention I was in the front row?
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-When Béla and Bassekou Kouyate played back and forth, smiling madly at each other. Bassekou, known as the "wizard of the ngoni," (ngoni: a plucked lute that is the ancestor to the modern banjo), had brought his whole band, including two drummers, two other ngnoi players, and his stunning wife on vocals. To get a sense of the energy of this set, go to Bassekou Kouyate's Myspace page and listen to the live track.
-Being just feet away from Toumani Diabate as he played the kora, leaning in close to the bulbous base of the instrument and shaking his head slowly back and forth as his fingers flew.
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-Liam's solo. Some people are born with an ancient lament on their tongues, and no matter how many times they try to shed it through song, it will still be there.
-The wonderful, round hip-jutting dancing of Bassekou's wife. I want to move like her, wearing that easy smile.
-The gleeful tension in the air as the audience waited to see "Mali's songbird," Oumou Sangare walk on stage. And then she did, and we all melted a little.
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-At the end of the group set when the musicians were all congratulating each other and Oumou made a beeline to Kathleen and gave Kathleen's big pregnant belly a lavish rub that set both women to laughing.
-The encore, when it was just Toumani, Béla and Oumou, and Oumou sang and hit those big, strong notes she is known for. The first one made my eyes go hot with tears and I had to look at the ceiling to make them stop.
You get the idea. Every once in awhile you have the chance to see or hear something that reminds you of our human capacity for joyful, expansive expression. We really can throw all of our toys into the same box and enjoy the best playtime imaginable.
A CD and DVD of Béla's collaborative adventures in Africa called Throw Down Your Heart will be coming out in the next couple of months. If you fancy something that will inspire the heck out of you, give this a go.
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Joined: 28 Apr 2000
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2000 8:46 am
Post subject: back pain and up-hauling
What are the health facts regarding up-hauling and back pain/injury? The other day I sailed in light wind with vast lulls on a 7.5. I had to up-haul it several times and, later, felt a lot of pain in my lower back. It is better today but still feels delicate. Perhaos I must avoid conditions where I might be tempted to up-haul that big sail. Anybody else?
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2000 12:11 pm
Post subject: RE: back pain and up-hauling
paul -- learn to waterstart.
I havent uphauled for years.
you wont hurt your back with
this method.
there are some gizmos that
help you uphaul, you might look in windsurfing magazine for
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2000 12:36 pm
Post subject: RE: back pain and up-hauling
I had two slipped disks in my lower back 14 years ago. When I was learning about 10 years ago, uphauling used to kill me! I switched to smaller and lighter sails to learn on, and found a place with shallow water to practice beach start and water start. These days, I rarely need to uphault, and my back has been ok. A high-waist support seat hardness also helped.
If all else failed, ice ice ice (first 24 hr.)with some Advils, and go see a chiropractor.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2000 1:22 pm
Post subject: RE: back pain and up-hauling
NEVER lift ANYTHING without maintaining a concave arch in your back. Stand up right now. Rotate the top of your pelvis forward to stick your butt out; place a hand in the small of your back to feel the deep concave that produces. Now rotate the top of your pelvis back to suck in your belly button; place your hand in the small of your back and feel how flat it is now. You should ALWAYS -- virtually every minute of every day and ESPECIALLY when lifting -- maintain an arch comfortably in the middle of that range. Letting your lower back slump into a flat or convex arch is absolute HELL on your spine and discs, and can easily put your sacroiliac (SI)joint out of place. Thats the joint between your tailbone and pelvis, and SI displacement or sprain causes anything from a nagging ache to an excruciating pain about 2 left or right of your spine at the waist.
To uphaul, squat by bending the hinges at each end of your femur -- at the knees and at the hips -- but keep that concave arch in your back. Then keep your elbows straight (because bending your arms adds nothing to the early part of the uphauling process), just lean back, and let gravity do the heavy lifting work.
Mike \m/
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2000 8:33 pm
Post subject: RE: back pain and up-hauling
Start in a squat on your board and pull on your uphaul by leaning like youre going to roll on your back. Work your way up your uphaul by using your body weight and gradually stand strait up with your ascending rig. I have a horrible back and it works for me. Give it a try. Works good on sinkers with no wind, too. Beats swimming.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2000 12:40 pm
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Hello Sylvian,
Thanks to you and all of you for answering my question. We havent gotten an answer to the first part of my question yet,what are the health facts surrounding up-hauling and back injury, but we have a lot of great first person accounts. I have drawn the conslusion that up-hauling is murder on backs and that this should be well advertized. It should be in the videos and a part of every legit instructional course.
It happens that I am an engineer and should be able to come up with an answer. Thanks, Sylvian, for the suggestion. Here is my first cut on it: make a gin-pole for the mast. The problem is we must focus the force needed to lift the sail through our bodies, compressing our spines. The force, according to my chiropractor(Yep, had to go. Saw him yesterday.)is tremendous. When the lowest disk in your back gets a bit too squashed your body says, enough, and causes the muscles of the lower back to spasm as protection for the disk. Voila! Back muscles in spasm.
My solution is to, firstly, avoid up-hauling by sailing in enough wind and, as Spyder suggests, water start. I can, by the way, water start just fine. I was impatient and stuck in a huge lull with no water starting wind in sight. I wasnt going to wait so.... Secondly, if you have to go out in conditions where up-hauling could well be needed, have a stick clipped to your mast that will fix to the mast base or in the track at the base of the mast and, perhaps, at your harness hook. Next hook the up-haul line into the top of the stick. Then hang off the stick; just let the stick take the downward force that you used to focus through your body. A bungy might be used to insure the stick snap back next to the mast after the sail is far enough out of the water that you have to start thinking about controling it. The hardest part is getting the sail, which is lying flat on the water AND is being held down by the light breeze or even a gust (funny how they come along when you hadnt a prayer of a water start before you decided to dump the sail and climb onto the board.)
I have seen water starting techniques for light wind in videos but they require a lot more skill than I have now. They seem to be shown in the same section of the video as helicopter tacks and sailing a board backwards and even the pros demonstrating the technique had trouble with it.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2000 1:56 pm
Post subject: RE: back pain and up-hauling
1. Instructors and instructionals have been emphasizing the risks of improper uphauling and the right way to uphaul since the 70s.
2. Proper uphauling (with a concave arch in the lower back) should not harm a normal back. Lifting anything the USUAL way (back all bent over with a convex lower back) tends to displace the SI joint, and the bodys efforts to correct or accommodate that displacement makes millions of backs go out (i.e., spasm).
3. The light-wind waterstart techniques range from no tougher than an ordinary waterstart to a little extra effort. They are definitely not something the pros, or even most advanced sailors, have trouble with. The only tricky light-air technique Ive heard of actually IS a trick, involving rolling the board over and using it as a lever to raise the sail. The actual TECHNIQUES (as opposed to tricks) are just a simple progression from ordinary waterstarting.
One involves using the front leg to aid momentum and lift (roll forward towards the mast and kick the dangling front leg); the other just requires gripping the rig somewhere below the booms -- the harness lines, the sail foot, the mast, etc. We should start working on these the day after our first ordinary water start, and both will work the first or second time we try them.
4. I havent tried the commercial uphaul gizmos, and thus cant comment on their effectiveness, but hear good things about them. OTOH, Ive seen hundreds of darn small people uphaul just fine when they do it properly, and have never had any need myself to carry around gizmos to uphaul with.
Mike \m/
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2000 2:38 pm
Post subject: RE: back pain and up-hauling
good points.. a comment on light air water starting w./ big sails. Its a bit tricky to fly a large sail in light wind, but having a good understanding of how it works is essential.
A few tips from my experiences:
1). make sure the mast is perpendicular to the wind direction, this acts as the leading edge to get the sail out of the water
2). try grabbing nearer the mid to top area of the mast to help clear the sail from the water (as you pull the mast into the wind).
then as it starts to clear, move your hand down more towards the boom, and keep attempting to fly the sail. eventually the sail will clear and start flying.
3). in really light air (this technique varies), I find that once you commit to raising yourself out, you can pump the sail to provide more force to finish getting onto the board.
other people like to grab the mast near the base and almost jump onto the board, but that doesnt work for me as well. I like the pumping method.
only if the wind is COMPLETELY dead do you have to resort to uphauling, once you have a good waterstart techinque. LEARN THIS! it will be the best thing you ever did for your windsurfing life.
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keep trying to expand your water starting technique. I offered a few tips in a previous post. Only on rare occasions have I had to resort to uphauling, which totally sucks.
Another thing that helps is to have a light rig, carbon boom/mast and light sails.
As for the spasms, I suffered from lower back problems but I have to say that I believe WATERSTARTING FIXED my back! Im pretty sure that it really helped reduce and possibly eliminate my lower back problem.
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I was shocked to learn of the death of a classmate from Jr. High and High School. Tony died suddenly, in his sleep, last week. We were never close friends. He was in the band and that fraternity while I was the kid who couldn't carry a tune, and ran around with those who like to march in JROTC and argue on the debate team. But I knew who he was and was shocked to read about his death on Facebook. A good friend of his, who was also a friend of mine, wrote a moving tribute. Furthermore, as Facebook tries to match you to "new friends," it was a little haunting to see Tony's name and picture come up in the corner of my screen the day after his death… I clicked on his profile and his privacy settings allowed me to read his news feed. I was moved by comments from classmates who'd been close friends. Tears then filled my eyes when I got to the comments written by his "little girls," his daughters, who appear to be in their 20s. They'd just lost a father and their grief was great. Tony was 53 and, from what I knew, in good physical health. It seems as if we have lost a number of classmates in the 35 years since graduation. Of course, there were 750 or so of us and according to actuarial tables, we're bound lose a few. Still, such deaths cause me to ponder my own mortality.
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Recently I learnt that one of my closest school friend committed suicide. I simply couldn't believe it. The Swati I knew back then would have never done it. I don't know what compulsions drove her to it. Yet I feel if she had only shared with us. She has left behind two small daughters. Her parents have completely come apart. Sometimes the whys/hows never get answered.ReplyDelete
Last month we lost two members of the running club. One, a 75 year old I knew well and with whom I ran many times, was expected. He had a brain tumor and it was terminal but when I heard while on vacation that the son of a good friend, 25 years old, had died in his sleep, that shook me. Same as you, we were not friends, I saw him in the gym, I said hello, I made a few comments to him and viceversa but his death really upset me. Thinking of his mother on mother's day, just 2 weeks later. So sad.ReplyDelete
My sympathies to you and prayers for his family.ReplyDelete
It is moments like this which should shake us from our daily routine and ponder the shortness of life and the things we should be doing.
It is always disconcerting to lose a classmate, and it will lead to much introspection and wonder about the scheme of things and where you stand in it. I'm sorry, Sage.ReplyDelete
Gautami, it's been 3 1/2 years since I lost a good friend to suicide and I still find myself asking why and wishing I could call on him to talk things over.ReplyDelete
Just because, I know that mother must be crushed... Why do these things happen?
Randall, yes, life is shorter than I ever imagined!
Kenju, The scheme of things is that we're all getting older! But its also that life is fleeting and we're not really captains of our destiny
The first of my classmates to die actually drowned while we were in high school. I'd hung out with him only a day before and it was a shock I still remember.ReplyDelete
We feel others passing far more than we will regret our own...ReplyDelete
This is was precisely the reason why my father in law said to me yesterday he would never have a FB account. To avoid these shocks. He's 85 -but very fit and computer literate-.ReplyDelete
On a different matter, yesterday I had a similar shock as yours: one of my fellow bloggers from the UK (Mutley, the author of Mutleythedogsdayout -you surely saw him commenting in my blog sometime-) died last Friday peacefully in his sleep.
He was only 46 and apparently fit. He was an excellent writer and a very nice man. I can't believe he's gone.
I'm sorry that you've been through this, Sage. Your friend was very young to go too. This makes us ponder about the fragility of life. I know the feeling and I send you all my support in these moments.
Prayer & a Hug sage!ReplyDelete
I kinda Understand,
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear of his passing. It sounds cliché but I'm glad he didn't suffer. So sudden, though!ReplyDelete
Your blog header shot is amazing. I don't know how long it has been there but I'm not out on blogs much. I like FB because I've reconnected with classmates and college roommates I'd lost touch with long long ago.ReplyDelete
I often get lost in myself thinking about my mortality. Wondering if today is your last day. I guess that is why we should never take anything for granted.
I'm sorry about your classmate. I know how close to home that always feels--same age, same basic demographicsReplyDelete
There were only 240 of us and the first to die was a close friend who was an undiagnosed schizophrenic--we were young and I always felt guilty because I knew there was something wrong. He was a high school football star who became progressively more quiet--and "killed" himself when we were 23--we had stayed in touch
By the time of the reunion 14 were dead that we knew about--they were from every strata of our class
It makes you feel scared. It makes you feel lucky. It makes you feel too many emotions
I like the FB memorials. It's a way a person can live on
Things like this remind me that I can't count on reaching retirement age. Instead of waiting to take that national parks road trip when I'm older, I'm taking it NOW. I could get a part-time job and earn some money this summer, which is what a lot of people think I should do, but I'm not.ReplyDelete
No matter how you slice it, 53 isn't very old.ReplyDelete
Then again, 100 doesn't sound all that old to me, either.
Life's just too short.
Deaths just keep getting closer and closer to my age. I'm not ready for people my age that I know to start moving on but already it is happening. It always reaffirms that I am mortal and that I need to make good use of what time I have left. It is always nice to know that those that do leave ahead of us are missed by others. If only they could have known just how many...ReplyDelete
I can't imagine what it's like for those girls to lose their dad at such a young age. How awful.ReplyDelete
I'm in my 40s and I realize I won't be around forever, so I try to live and enjoy every moment of the time God's given me on earth. I feel you do, too, and that's all we can do, my friend...live and enjoy the moments.
It is sobering no matter one's age, but when we're near/at/past mid-life it seems to cause so much more reflection.ReplyDelete
I had three guys who were all within 3 or 4 years of my age pass away in the first few months of 2010.ReplyDelete
The same thing happened on Facebook with one of them. It kept popping up, asking me to leave him a message. Eerie.
Then I ran into another of the guy's parents at my last 10K a couple weekends ago. There's just nothing you can say.
It definitely left me asking, why them and not me.
Sorry to hear that buddy. Mortality is something we can't live without. That holds the mysteries to God and existence.ReplyDelete


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The New York Times highlights a new technology that turns carbon dioxide emissions from coal and gas power plants into the basic inputs for cement. Calera, the Silicon Valley start-up creating the approach, has received some $50 million in financial support from venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Peabody Energy, one of the world's largest coal company, has put $15 million into the idea. While still relatively small numbers compared to overall investments in fossil fuel-related technologies, these first funds signify growing investment in turning CO2 into a reusable, non-polluting resource.
Calera will combine CO2 with "seawater or groundwater brine, which contain calcium, magnesium and oxygen. It is left with calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate, which are used in making cement and aggregate. It plans to sell it to concrete companies for use in pavement." To convince building manufacturers that their material is safe, Calera's CO2-embedded cement is being mixed with Portland cement, the "calcium silicate" binder used in concrete for buildings and transportation infrastructure. Turning CO2 into building materials will make "carbon reduction attractive," argues Brent Constantz, Calera's founder and chief executive.
Coal power plants are major emitters of CO2 emissions. Cement production also contributes large amounts. Creating a cycle wherein the coal plants' waste becomes feedstock for cement will help kill two birds with one stone. Vinod Khosla said: "With this technology, coal can be cleaner than solar and wind, because they can only be carbon-neutral."
R.W. Beck examined Calera's process and determined that its cement process captured 86 percent of CO2 from a flue gas in one power plant. Seawater and flue gas CO2 are the two key inputs into the process; cement, waste seawater, and a harmful acid are the putputs. The waste sea water that comes out of the tail end of the process can be de-salinated, but the acid, if produced in bulk, could create environmental problems, writes The New York Times. "Much of the skepticism about the project stems from the acid created in Calera's chemical process. It has to find a way to dispose of it or neutralize it by adding alkaline materials, without creating more environmental problems or raising costs."
Some scientists raise doubts the firm can pull it off, arguing that the idea has been explored for more than 15 years. There have been earlier failures, largely due to the costs involved. Beyond the costs of the actual process, infrastructure costs associated with scaling this up (and dealing with potentially massive amounts of that toxic acid) also need to be addressed. Ken Caldeira, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford, says: "The idea that they're going to come up with something that's both economic and scalable? I'm highly skeptical."
But other options are also very expensive. Carbon capture and sequestration demonstration projects all show that these projects are multi-billion dollar undertakings. Injecting CO2 into the ground may not be stable in many parts of the world. (see earlier post)
On Calera's web site, the firm outlines their initial target markets, which mostly involve infrastructure: "We will first introduce our […] materials into applications such as pavements and road base course. We will be introducing SCM into applications such as pavers, non-structural block, other miscellaneous precast products, sidewalks, and other similar applications."
Also, check out another technology that would reuse waste products while reducing CO2 emissions. MIT Technology Review discusses a new process that would turn cellulose from agricultural waste into gasoline and jet fuel. "The process is one of a number of new technologies that make conventional fuels such as gasoline and diesel from biomass rather than petroleum."
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"Pinwheel, pinwheel spinning around. Look at my Pinwheel and see what I found.
Pinwheel, pinwheel, breezy and bright. Spin me good morning, spin me good night." –Janet Gardner
It's time for another Messier Monday, where each week, one of the 110 deep-sky objects that make up the famed Messier Catalogue — the first large, accurate catalogue of non-cometary objects — gets an in-depth treatment. These objects are not only a good representation of the brightest deep-sky objects visible from Earth, they're a good sample of the different types of objects visible from any random location in the Universe! They include nebulae, stellar corpses, newly formed star clusters, ancient globular clusters, and galaxies far beyond our own.
These objects aren't evenly distributed throughout the sky, however. Star clusters abound in the galactic plane, star-forming nebulae are clustered together in just a few regions of the sky, and galaxies are found grouped together under the cosmic influence of gravity. The largest of all such galactic groups nearby — very well-represented in the Messier catalogue with 15 members — is the Virgo Cluster. We've still got another month-or-so of these galaxies being visible in the early part of the night before they disappear for a while, so let's take a look at one of the more spectacular galaxies in there, Messier 99.
If you follow the arc of the Big Dipper's handle, you'll come to the orange giant, Arcturus, and if you speed on a little farther, you'll wind up at the bright blue Spica. To the west of those very bright stars, you'll see a row of three prominent stars led by Vindemiatrix at the top (the brightest of the three), with Denebola a little farther to the west than those. The Virgo Cluster is a vast complex in that region, with many different sub-groups. To find Messier 99, you can get some help by looking at the region directly between Vindemiatrix and Denebola.
One of the western-most bright galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, Messier 99 heralds the N-cloud of Virgo, and has a few special distinctions. But if you want to know how to find it among the sea of other galaxies, look for the white naked-eye star 6 Comae Berenices, slightly closer to Denebola than Vindemiatrix and just slightly north of the imaginary line connecting them. Just a single degree back to the east — and immediately below the Hipparcos star HIP 60089 — you'll see the second galaxy ever classified as a spiral (after M51), Messier 99, the Pinwheel Nebula in Virgo.
Seen nearly completely face-on, this galaxy is completely unbarred, and has two giant spiral arms: a normal-looking one, and a distorted one that's far extended compared to the other. Even small telescopes with decent astrophotography techniques can bring this out easily.
This galaxy is remarkable for a number of reasons. First off, it's the brightest member of its subcluster in Virgo, outshining the much larger (but nearly edge-on) Messier 98.
As far as a galaxy this bright goes, it's actually pretty small: just 50 billion solar masses make up this spiral, making it only about 5% as massive as the Milky Way. Despite this small size, it's pretty large in extent: 80,000 light-years in diameter, or nearly the diameter of our own galaxy!
The speculation is that the reason this galaxy appears so extended for its low mass is because it's undergoing a gravitational interaction. There are some hints for this other than the goofy-looking arm that's separated from the rest of the galaxy. Let's take a look.
For one, this galaxy is unusually pink, indicative of newly star-forming regions. It's got three times the star-formation rate of a standard, quiet, Milky Way-like galaxy, which is evidence that there has been some sort of gravitational interaction. There are a couple of reasonable speculations.
One is that Messier 99 is falling into the Virgo Cluster for the first time, and this gravitational (and electromagnetic from ram-pressure-stripping, as it runs into matter) interaction — as it speeds through the intracluster medium — is what's causing this rapid burst of star formation as well as the distended arm. There's some circumstantial evidence for this, as Messier 99 is one of the most redshifted of all Messier objects, moving away from us at 2407 km/s, or nearly 1% the speed-of-light! This is twice as fast as most other members of the Virgo Cluster.
Another is that Messier 99 is gravitationally interacting with the nearby, more massive Messier 98, with some circumstantial evidence for that coming from the fact that Messier 98's redshift is about 1,400 km/s smaller than it's supposed to be, meaning that it's even blueshifted (like another Virgo Cluster galaxy we've looked at).
Either way, there have been three supernovae observed in this galaxy: in 1967, 1972, and 1986.
Some observers report a third arm, but a closer inspection shows that these are just wispy filaments peeling off of one of the two main arms. Zooming in to Adam Block's image, above, reveals this in spectacular detail.
The dust lanes, the star-forming regions, and the hot, young blue stars you're used to in a spiral galaxy like this are all present, as is the yellowish central bulge.
But perhaps the most spectacular image of Messier 99 available came from an amateur scanning through the Hubble archives as part of Hubble's hidden treasures contest from last year. The Hubble data itself came from 2010, and the image is spectacular.
There's so much to be seen here: background galaxies, a few new star clusters, some dust lanes, and a variety of colorful stars. But there's one really weird feature that your eyes just might skip over. Take a look at the top-left of this image, and notice the bright yellow/orange star up there. Here, I'll point it out for you in higher resolution.
This star wasn't always there; instead, it brightened by a large amount very briefly, and then faded. Here's the weird thing: it's brighter than any nova we've ever discovered, and yet dimmer than any supernova we've ever seen! What is it? A star that gobbled up a giant planet? A supernova impostor? At this point, the jury is still out.
In the meantime, the highest-contrast views can be seen at the very edge of this galaxy, so that's where I've rotated and cropped the highest-resolution version of this image to give you a spectacular view of this island Universe located 50 million light-years away! In particular, the star colors are simply out-of-this-world.
There's no topping that, so that'll have to be the end of today's Messier Monday! Including today's entry, we've taken a look at the following Messier objects:
- M1, The Crab Nebula: October 22, 2012
- M2, Messier's First Globular Cluster: June 17, 2013
- M5, A Hyper-Smooth Globular Cluster: May 20, 2013
- M7, The Most Southerly Messier Object: July 8, 2013
- M8, The Lagoon Nebula: November 5, 2012
- M13, The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules: December 31, 2012
- M15, An Ancient Globular Cluster: November 12, 2012
- M20, The Youngest Star-Forming Region, The Trifid Nebula: May 6, 2013
- M21, A Baby Open Cluster in the Galactic Plane: June 24, 2013
- M25, A Dusty Open Cluster for Everyone: April 8, 2013
- M29, A Young Open Cluster in the Summer Triangle: June 3, 2013
- M30, A Straggling Globular Cluster: November 26, 2012
- M33, The Triangulum Galaxy: February 25, 2013
- M37, A Rich Open Star Cluster: December 3, 2012
- M38, A Real-Life Pi-in-the-Sky Cluster: April 29, 2013
- M40, Messier's Greatest Mistake: April 1, 2013
- M41, The Dog Star's Secret Neighbor: January 7, 2013
- M44, The Beehive Cluster / Praesepe: December 24, 2012
- M45, The Pleiades: October 29, 2012
- M48, A Lost-and-Found Star Cluster: February 11, 2013
- M51, The Whirlpool Galaxy: April 15th, 2013
- M52, A Star Cluster on the Bubble: March 4, 2013
- M53, The Most Northern Galactic Globular: February 18, 2013
- M57, The Ring Nebula: July 1, 2013
- M60, The Gateway Galaxy to Virgo: February 4, 2013
- M65, The First Messier Supernova of 2013: March 25, 2013
- M67, Messier's Oldest Open Cluster: January 14, 2013
- M71, A Very Unusual Globular Cluster: July 15, 2013
- M72, A Diffuse, Distant Globular at the End-of-the-Marathon: March 18, 2013
- M74, The Phantom Galaxy at the Beginning-of-the-Marathon: March 11, 2013
- M78, A Reflection Nebula: December 10, 2012
- M81, Bode's Galaxy: November 19, 2012
- M82, The Cigar Galaxy: May 13, 2013
- M83, The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, January 21, 2013
- M86, The Most Blueshifted Messier Object, June 10, 2013
- M92, The Second Greatest Globular in Hercules, April 22, 2013
- M97, The Owl Nebula, January 28, 2013
- M99, The Great Pinwheel of Virgo, July 29, 2013
- M102, A Great Galactic Controversy: December 17, 2012
- M104, The Sombrero Galaxy: May 27, 2013
- M108, A Galactic Sliver in the Big Dipper: July 22, 2013
Enjoy the Virgo galaxies while you can; they'll disappear for a couple of months starting at the end of August, and then reappear in the eastern skies as winter approaches. Until then, we'll be highlighting so many of the other deep-sky wonders in the Messier Catalogue, only here, only on Messier Mondays!


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I absolutely love this stuff! It saved my skin and I'm not just saying that because I work for Clinique. I truly believe in this product. All it takes is a daily routine thats 3 steps morning and night.
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So, i switched birth controls and currently have mirena which doesn't help my acne. When I stopped the other birth control my acne started to really flare up and become a problem for me. I tried using other OTC products before this. For some reason this 3 step was my last resort before going to a dermatologist. Crazy to think I was working for Clinique but never wanted to give this product a shot until I went to school and heard fabulous testimonies. The only thing I add to this is the dramatically different moisturizing gel before the clearing moisturizer just to give my skin an extra, oil-free, hydrating boost.
Let's rewind a bit.... What causes acne? When your pores are clogged with excess oil and dead skin cells the oxygen supply is cut off. Acne causing agents LOVE oxygen starved pores (clogged pores are the acne causes agents homes). The longer each pore is clogged, the more aggravated the acne causing agents become which results in irritation and infection which results in a pimple.... To fight this common problem you must open up the pores with exfoliation thats gentle so you don't continue to irritate the skin. Oxygen rids the pores of acne causing agents. Once the pores are open acne medication can begin treatment.
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It seems the undertanding of fashion has been radically changed: a 72 years old grandpa model got popular now in China!
Recently the online clothing brand Yuekou break the codes of fashion with its new collection with a model aged 72!
The new brand sells wear for Chinese adolescents. The shopper owner, also the granddaughter of the grandpa model tired her model a lot of colors and accessories very "girly" socks with ruffles, leather bags, necklaces, jewelery … The contrast between the cute style and the old model makes it funny and popular online in China. Some Chinese sites even compare him with "Karl Lagerfeld" .


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Just over a year ago my brother in law started hanging out with this pretty awesome girl called Jana. Pretty soon we all knew she was the 'one'. Not just the 'one' he was going to date, but the 'one' he was going to be with… like, forever. But sometimes when we're the midst of things it's so easy to not realize that the other person feels the same way about us as we do about them and as he figured things out, as a family we started to panic that the moment may go by and he'd miss out on being with this amazing girl!
A few months of playing what we've now come to call the 'boyfriend and girlfriend game' they finally got together and we all not so secretly cheered them on. Fast forward a year later he invited us to go backpacking with them, they'd head out a few days earlier and we'd meet them halfway and bring them home. At first I kind of panicked because, well, I'd never been backpacking before and the thought of carrying a backpack for 10 miles was a little daunting; but I also had an idea of what was going to happen during that trip, so the obvious answer was yes!
So Seth & I packed our sleeping bags, camping food, lightest cloths and set out on the trail to Obsidian Falls. About 4 miles in, once I'd gotten used to the 30+lb backpack and managed to get a rhythm so I could keep up with my husband, we find ourselves in 4 ft of snow and struggling to find the trail, and just as panic was beginning to creep in, as if on cue, we heard screams and shouts and saw the happy couple sliding down hill on the snow!
Being a girl the first thing I did was grab Jana's left hand and look at her finger and realized that yes, after all the games and 12 months of dating, he'd put a ring on it! I really thought we'd do some screaming and jumping, but I'm pretty sure that the 4-mile hike in and their encounter with mosquitoes had something to do with the calmer yet excited hugs and embraces! Nevertheless we went up the hill and found the campsite, set out a blanket, pulled out the cheese, crackers, summer sausage and wine and listened to how he asked her if 'he could make her last name sound a little more like his'. We then celebrated by jumping into 32f water (or at least it felt that cold) and watching the sun set
The views were absolutely stunning and included The Three Sisters, The Husband, Mt Washington & Mt Jefferson and more on the horizon. If you ever get a chance to do at least part of the Pacific Crest Trail, this is a beautiful spot to go on it.
Seth & I had planned to sleep under the stars, but we didn't realize how many mosquitoes there would be so we jumped in with Eli & Jana into their two-man tent and slept like sardines. Next time I'm taking a sleeping pill… or bringing my own tent. But what would any trip be without a good tent story!
All in all I absolutely loved backpacking, more than I thought I would – it may have had something to do with the views and the company though 😉


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After I had tracked the footage from my End of the World project I brought it into 3Ds Max, which I have running on Windows XP with Boot Camp. I created a ground plane that matched the footage ground. I applied a matte/shadow material to that plane, so that whatever object I placed on top of it would have shadows that looked like they were actually on the footage ground. Now I was ready to start the destruction, so I started with making a hole in the ground. I placed some debris around and in it, and some dirt around that.
I quickly rendered the scene just to have something to show. There's only a little bit of color correction added over the whole image in Photoshop, but in the final render I will render the 3D stuff separately so I can color correct that separately. I think it looks kind of cool already :).
The next part is adding the meteor impacts using particle systems. That shouldn't be that much of a problem, but it just takes time to create(and when I say it shouldn't be much of a problem it probably is going to be a problem of course).


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Onward electronic soldiers.
A federal grand jury is now investigating charges that TV evangelist Jim Bakker fraudulently raised funds for his PTL ministry and lavished millions on himself.
However, a taut and focused "Frontline" documentary on PBS charges tonight that federal agencies had significant evidence of fiscal misconduct against Bakker years ago, but inexplicably did nothing to halt his onward march.
News of his 1980 sexual liaison with Jessica Hahn did that. It was the catalyst for Bakker's fall from power and glory as head of a sprawling TV ministry and host of "The PTL Club."


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text: Every semester, the club that I am in at school holds three dinner outings to different Asian restaurants around the city. For this semester, we had agreed on a Korean restaurant. We had been to two restaurants in KoreaTown in the previous semesters so we wanted to try a new one – Muk Eun Ji. Making reservations was extremely easy – even for our large group of 20 people. We arrived about 20 minutes early but they were able to seat us. The outside might look small but it's actually pretty large on the inside. There is a second floor, which was where we were seated. The prices are pretty reasonable for the portion sizes. We decided to start off with some appetizers for the table. We ordered their Fried Dumplings ($9.99), which were hot and crispy. Our waitress gave us the recommendation for them since they were homemade. We also ordered some seafood pancakes and kimchi pancakes for the table, which came out crunchy and piping hot. The kimchi pancakes weren't too spicy at all, which I appreciated. We also ordered a plate of Ddukbokki to share ($15.99). The Ddukbokki was spicy, but not overly so. The spice was just enough to give your taste buds a kick without requiring an obscene amount of water to cool down your tongue. I thoroughly enjoyed this dish – the dduk was soft and chewy while the fishcakes were well cooked. The Boyfriend ordered their Kimchi Soon Doo Bo, or kimchi tofu soup ($11.99). They crack an egg into the soup for you before they serve it to you, which is perfect. The egg has extra time to cook inside the soup – unlike the restaurants that allow you to crack the egg into the soup yourself. The tofu soup wasn't too spicy despite its bright red color. The Boyfriend finished his entire bowl of rice before he even finished his tofu soup, which just goes to show how delish the soup tasted. I went with the Kalbi Bibimbap ($14.99), which was unbelievably delicious. I have only ever had bibimbap with ground beef before so this was a pleasant surprise. The juicy kalbi gave the rice a lot of flavor. I didn't even really need to red pepper paste in order to give the rice flavoring. Since the bibimbap was served in a stone pot, the rice and toppings remained warm throughout the entire dinner. The egg was also nicely cooked due to the stone pot's heat. The service was fast and we all received our orders in a timely manner. In fact, we were all astonished how fast they got all our orders to us since we were such a large party. The banchans were a plenty and they were more than willing to provide us with more kimchi when asked. In fact, we had to keep asking for more kimchi because it was so good. We were all in agreement when we said that we would definitely be back for dinner here. Everything went incredibly smoothly and all the dishes that we ordered was delicious.


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Early in the morning there were dark clouds, we thought it was going to rain but God blessed Ryan and Yora, he gave them a perfect weather. The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart, and come out even stronger.
Fireworks, fun people, lovely weather and splendid things. All of this from Ryan and Yora's wedding.
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Conference on the Automatic Factory
The conference on 'The Automatic Factory – What Does it Mean?' which was organised by the Institution of Production Engineers and held at Margate last week was attended by more than 850 delegates.
In the course of this conference automation, as it is now generally known, was discussed from all angles, including existing applications, equipment for automatic process control now available, the effects the general adoption of automatic control of plant and equipment will have on industries and labour relations, and the challenge the automatic factory presents to technical education.
For his address to the first plenary session of the conference Sir Walter Puckey took for his subject 'The Automatic Factory – Dream or Nightmare?'…
…Automation was then, Sir Walter said, a logical successor to other tools placed at our disposal such as tungsten carbide, fine measuring equipment, TWI, work study and material handling equipment.
Why, therefore, were we excited an possibly fearful about automation? Sir Walter believed the main reason was that, while we may accept the idea that a machine may take over our brawn, it was quite another thing to agree that it should take over our brains.


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April is the month for tiny wheels and fickle engines. Now the Rickshaw Run has finished, it's time for Adventure 10. We've shipped out fourteen Adventure veterans and human guinea pigs to our secret location twelve hours from Marrakech. If that sounds a bit painful, we think they're going to forgive us:
Our Pioneers have to drive 50cc Monkey Bikes 1000kms in six days. They begin in the Sahara, they finish when they hit the Altantic and on the way, they'll have to climb over the Atlas Mountains.
This is Adventure 10, and the pioneer launched this weekend.
Our Pioneers are veterans and adventurers of the highest caliber. And they've agreed to test that caliber against the unpredictable Monkey Bike. What could go wrong on this one? Quite a lot actually:
Luckily, Morocco is full of little bumps. That's not all they'll find hard:
A particularly poetic sendoff. Any final advice? "Let me get my hat" says Peter. Er, probably not then.
After toasting their bravery late into the night, we conspired to give them an unnecessarily early wake up call and an suitably magnificent sendoff.
Good. So, did it work?
And then they were gone.
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Yes, I went crazy whilst Mojo-ing and did a DOUBLE layout with STITCHING! What the, I hear you say...as did I as I sat there and worked on this layout while Peta sat across from me and finished about 50 layouts!!! ;)
Its nice but, I think it was worth it...
Playschool - me & Loz took the little girls to see the Playschool show back in 2009, it was a great day but I cannot believe how little they were...and how big they are now, it makes me sad!
God I'm glad I don't do double layouts very often...as much as I love it, what an effort!!! ;)
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