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Salters Cove near Garden City, SC
RE/MAX Southern Shores Sells Homes in Salters Cove on the Grand Strand
When you decide to look for a home in the Myrtle Beach area, Salters Cove is a great choice. Salters Cove is located between Myrtle Beach and Murrells Inlet in Garden City, SC. Garden City, sometimes known as Garden City Beach, is a small seaside community nestled in the heart of South Carolina's Grand Strand. Garden City encompasses miles of pristine beach, enjoys a temperate climate and is both an active residential community and a thriving vacation destination.
Salters Cove is a unique planned housing development that offers both raised beach and patio homes east of 17 Business in the Garden City area south of Myrtle Beach. You can feel comfortable knowing that the beaches of the Grand Strand are only a golf cart ride away! Salters Cove is the place to be when you want the peace and tranquility right in the middle of everything the Grand Strand affords.
You do not have far to go to shop, dine, enjoy entertainment or access the Salters Cove amenities! Tennis, swimming, and golf are a few of the activities you can enjoy within a few minutes of your home.
With interest rates at an all time low there is not a better time than NOW to purchase your own "piece of paradise." The homes in Salters Cove are absolutely gorgeous. Many have hardwood floors, upgrades to the fixtures and doors, ceiling fans, Jacuzzis, and ceramic PLUS close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. How much better could it get? All this and at affordable prices - there is no better place to live!
RE/MAX Southern Shores knows the Salters Cove market!
When purchasing a home in Salters Cove, you will be part of a welcoming community. Once a fishing village, this area is now a unique vacation, retirement and full time residential community. Whether you are thinking of a condo, a town home or a single family residence there will be just the right place in Salters Cove for you to live! Let a RE/MAX Southern Shores real estate agent be your partner in making this dream a reality. Call RE/MAX Southern Shores at 843-839-0200 and talk with one of our expertly trained agents. Breathtaking views and the peace and tranquility you will experience will make you glad you have found the home of your dreams at Salters Cove!
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OMG! Pigs fly. I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke — after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America — I really like the paintings of George W. Bush. A hacker today released what are apparently Bush family photos and three of W's own "in-progress" paintings. They all look finished to me. We knew Winston Churchill was a painter. But George W. Bush?! Our W.! I didn't even think he had an inner life, let alone a muse that called him to art! Gawker calls them "awkward" and "simple." Gawker is wrong — way wrong.
I saw only three images. One of W in the act of painting. I love that he wears a baseball cap. Better yet, he paints in the weight room! There are mirrors and equipment all around. What other artist paints in his own weight room!? He is putting touches with a little brush on what looks like a stone house, maybe his own Texas ranch, maybe a settler's farm. [Update: The building is actually St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Kennebunkport, Maine, the seaside town where Bush spent much of his childhood.] The architecture strikes me as real and imagined: a small central home with maybe an addition, and a large round silo. There appear to be two crosses atop this overall structure, one on the main house and a larger one on the silo. American Gothic indeed. The purity of the lone American farmer. Individuality. No neighbors in sight. Alone on one's own land. It is the isolation of rural America writ in bricks and mortar. Clearly this is not a poor person's home. The yard is well kept. Two benches allow contemplation of this secret garden. It's part Grandma Moses, part Thomas Kinkade, part the dry, flickering, detailed brushwork of contemporary artist Ellen Altfest. He should call her.
The other two images are not as sentimental. Both border on the visionary, the absurd, the perverse, the frat boy. Each echoes the same isolation in small space. Rumination without guilt. Thought without dark nights. The light in each is soft, subtle, embracing, even oscillating. As if the unreal has become a companion to the painter. The first depicts a man with gray hair standing in a shower looking at himself and us in a small shaving mirror. We see him only from behind, from the waist up. The shoulders are slightly rounded. The features are Bush's. In the mirror is that stare, that empty, happy gaze. His eyes look slightly to our left, as if he can't meet our own gaze and is in a world of his own. The glass shower door echoes the well-to-do nature of the portrait of the stone home. But also the layers of visibility, transparency, fragility.
The other picture is the strangest, and the strongest. From over his shoulder, we see Bush looking at himself in the bathtub. This means we've seen two images of him cleansing himself, in warm water. It's already enough to set you off on fantasies of aloofness, aloneness, exile, and hiding. Bush regards himself. Yet nothing untoward is showing or seen. He is chaste and untouched even when alone. We see his knobby knees and his toes peeking up above the running water. A Freudian will have to tell us why the water is running in both pictures. Private baptism; trying to get clean; infantile ecstasies; purification rituals?
I love these two bather paintings. They are "simple" and "awkward," but in wonderful, unself-conscious, intense ways. They show someone doing the best he can with almost no natural gifts — except the desire to do this. The reclusion and seclusiveness of the pictures evoke the quietude (though not the insight, quality, or genius) of certain Chardin still lifes. These are pictures of someone dissembling without knowing it, unprotected and on display, but split between the promptings of his own inner drives and limited by his abilities. They reflect the pleasures of disinterestedness. A floater. Inert. The images of a man who saw the entire world from the inside but who finds the smallest, most private place in a private home to imagine his universe. Of almost nothingness. Sweet, sublime, oblique oblivion. The visibility of invisibleness.
Paint, George, paint. Paint more. Please. If you exhibit it, I'll write about it. The Whitney Museum of American Art should get on the stick and offer this American a small show. Or just buy these two paintings. The house, not so much.


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This YouTube video showing a concrete buffer going crazy is a bit slow at first. But give it some time, it soon gets hilariously absurd, with a dozen construction workers trying to stop the beast. Fortunately, there were no injuries. Except for their pride.
The Three Stooges would be proud. [Thanks Paul!]


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I've spoken a lot about the power of your journal, and now it's time to take a break and make sure that you are keeping track of all your progress. This will help you immensely as you look back on how you started your spiritual journey and on how far you have come since you first started.
Use your journal to document three major elements of your life.
- Body
- Emotions
- Thoughts
This can help you discover areas in your life that you would like to change. Of course, this is your journal, so you can feel free to add in any other relevant areas of your life. Just be sure to write about the above three issues, though, because that is how you will really be able to document your progress.
Recipe for Success: Positive Evidence Journal
Develop your awareness of Spirit by writing positive evidence in a journal. Follow these simple steps:
- In the morning, write your screenplay on the left page.
- In the evening, write what happened during the day on the right hand page.
- Remember to express gratitude for the abundant opportunities and blessings in your new life.
It is acceptable behavior in this society to put other people's needs first, while sacrificing your own needs. Living within this norm, it is easy to set the intention for going to work and spending eight hours a day at the office, since people are often reluctant to set the intention to put their own needs first. Here are some hints for when you want to connect to your truth.
- First, listen to your inner voice, and then, set the intention to receive help from your Bliss Guide.
- Second, be as detailed as you can in the creation of your day. For instance, when you are planning your day, include the times you will do something and how long you plan on doing it. Include time for your passions. Be specific.
- Pretend that you are a secretary, making out the schedule for your boss. She is relying on you to plan out her day, minute by minute. She trusts you to create a day filled with important appointments as well as relaxation time (down time). You will find that not only will you will get more done, you will create the day that you want. You will live from your truth.
- Then visualize your day in Technicolor, Techni-smell, Techni-sound, Techni-everything!
Your thoughts and words have the power to create endless experiences. All it takes it your imagination and listening to your heart to be who you want to be. Have you ever envisioned your day and then lived it moment by moment, watching the drama play itself out? It's almost like déjà vu, except that you created the day through visualization. When you have envisioned a scenario, it is as if it has already happened, because the spiritual world will manifest the desire into action. Now's your chance, so live your life to the fullest!


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North and South Reading Avenue will soon be overflowing with automobiles.
This Saturday, July 20, From 4 to 9 p.m., cars and trucks from foreign to domestic, classic to exotic, mild to wild, race cars and motorcycles, will make their way into town for Boyertown's 6th Annual Cruise Night.
The event, hosted by Building a Better Boyertown with help from Wicked Effects, will also include a DJ, Do-wop band, food vendors, and specials provided by downtown businesses.
Proceeds will benefit Boyertown's downtown revitalization effort which helps support local businesses.
This night will not only take place along Route 562/Reading Avenue, but also in the lots of National Penn Bank and the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles.
Registration will be held in the parking lot of Good Shepherd Church and in the back of St. John's Lutheran Church.
Sponsors to this year's event include: Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles, Passmore Service Center, Drug Plastics, Rita's Water Ice, Graber Lettering Sign Co., Bursich Associates, It Works, The Auto Tag Place, Hodge Podge Gift Boutique, and Trans Logistics Inc.
A rain date is scheduled for Saturday, July 27. For more information, visit boyertownpa.org.


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A whole mess of Samsung web-enabled HDTVs and Blu-ray players are about to get access to Blockbuster's OnDemand service. Since OnDemand doesn't require a monthly fee, this is a nice little value-add.
For owners of select TVs and Blu-ray players, Blockbuster OnDemand will function just as we've seen it before: as a broad on-demand film catalog with a decent selection of newer films. The press release is irritatingly indirect about which products will be supported, but Crave has parsed it for us:
LNB650 series, LNB750 series, UNB7000 series, UNB7100 series, UNB8000 series, PNB650 series, PNB850 series, PNB860 series.
In addition, it looks like virtually all 2009 connected Blu-ray players from the company will support the service, since they already support other, similar ones, including Netflix. Expect the relevant firmware updates and widget availability in fall of this year.
UPDATE: The official supported list turned out to be a bit shorter: BD-P1600, BD-P3600, BD-P4600, HT-BD1250, HT-BD7200, HT-BD8200.
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Blockbuster and Samsung Sign Agreement to Deliver BLOCKBUSTER(R) OnDemand Services to Select Samsung HDTVs, Home Theater Systems and Blu-ray Players
Millions of homes across America to gain access to BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand movies
Samsung products to also be sold at select BLOCKBUSTER(R) stores and online at blockbuster.com
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., and DALLAS, July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI, BBI.B), a global leader in entertainment, and Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, today announced they are joining forces to enable consumers to access Blockbuster's vast and growing library of premium digital entertainment via select new Samsung HDTVs, home theater systems and Blu-ray players. The new services will be available in the fall of 2009 and are expected to provide millions of homes across America access to Blockbuster's digital library of movies. Additionally, as part of the agreement, Blockbuster OnDemand will have preferred positioning on the Blu-ray interfaces.
The BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand service provides comprehensive on-screen search and browsing capabilities, as well as full details, ratings, trailers, and other information about each movie directly on the television, eliminating the need for customers to manage a viewing queue on their PC. Once a customer rents or buys a movie, they simply press play to begin instant viewing. Blockbuster's adaptive streaming technology ensures quality viewing with immediate and uninterrupted playback.
"This agreement underscores the growing opportunities around digital delivery and the plan to make the BLOCKBUSTER brand as available on screens as it has always been on storefronts. The Blu-ray players BLOCKBUSTER will feature represent the perfect bridge between physical stores and digital delivery by providing streaming digital access to the newest hit movies and high definition Blu-ray product, which is available in our stores and through BLOCKBUSTER By Mail," said Jim Keyes, Blockbuster Chairman and CEO. "We look forward to working with Samsung to showcase their select products in Blockbuster stores while making Blockbuster's digital library available in homes across America."
"Samsung constantly seeks ways to provide greater value to consumers through innovation and connectivity," said Tim Baxter, President of Samsung Electronics America. "Our strategic alliance with Blockbuster means that we will provide consumers another significant avenue to access rich content and a great viewing experience."
The alliance also includes the sale of Samsung Blu-ray players with the integrated BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand service at Blockbuster's thousands of participating corporate-owned stores and franchise stores and online at blockbuster.com, in addition to Samsung's existing retail channels.
The companies expect to have the BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand service integrated into new Samsung Blu-ray disc players and HDTVs by the fall of 2009. Consumers who already own select 2009 Samsung Blu-ray players and home theater systems, as well as Samsung LCD and Plasma HDTVs Series 650 and above, and Samsung LED HDTVs Series 7000 and above, can access the BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand offering at no additional charge by conducting a firmware upgrade (Blu-ray players and home theater systems) or downloading the BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand widget (HDTVs).


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A new music download service to be launched by Virgin Media and Universal Music will let U.K. customers stream and download as many music tracks as they want for a single monthly subscription, the companies announced Monday.
The downloaded music will not expire and will be available on any MP3-compatible device owned by customers, said Virgin Media, a provider of broadband, television, phone and mobile services in the U.K. The service will also have an entry level subscription for customers who don't want an unlimited service, the company said in a press release.
The two companies will also work on education campaigns about online piracy and legal alternatives, but Virgin Media will also suspend Internet access as a last resort for persistent offenders, it said. No customers will be permanently disconnected, it said.
Virgin Media will not "depend on network monitoring or interception of customer traffic" to identify copyright abusers, the company said.
Virgin Media is negotiating with other major and independent music labels and publishers in the U.K. in an effort to offer a large music catalog by the time the service launches later this year.
Virgin Media and Universal Music will also work together to protect Universal Music's intellectual property and reduce unauthorized distribution of its music across Virgin Media's broadband network, Virgin Media said.


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Everyone wants to meet their match, but for leukemia patients in need of a bone-marrow transplant, finding that perfect someone can be a lifesaving setup. Peter and Katharina Harf are all too familiar with the importance of connecting donors and patients—in the early 90s, Mechtild (Peter's wife and Katharina's mother), was diagnosed with acute leukemia and was desperately in search for that needle in a haystack. With only 3,000 registered donors in Germany at the time, Peter—chairman of cosmetics company Coty—along with his wife's physician, Dr. Gerhard Ehninger, decided to take matters into their own hands and hopefully broaden the pool of potential donors (only 30 percent of patients find a match within their family). In 1991, they founded DKMS—the German acronym for German Bone Marrow Donor Center—and, within a year, recruited 68,000 more donors.
Even though Mechtild lost her life later that year, Katharina, then 14 years old, took her mother's struggle to heart, and in 2004, along with Peter, expanded DKMS to the United States. Since arriving in New York, Katharina has helped raise awareness and increase donor registration to 210,000 in the States and to 2.7 million worldwide, garnering support (and cheek swabs) from the likes of Rihanna, Eva Mendes, Leighton Meester and Vera Wang. As part of the campaign, she educates people about easy registration, which requires only a quick swab. So far, 25,000 patients have been paired with compatible partners, who've donated their bone marrow—through one of two outpatient procedures—and saved lives. As Katharina reminds potential donors, "You don't have to be a parent to give life."
This month, nail-care pro OPI (with parent company Coty) has partnered with DKMS—now the world's largest bone-marrow donor center—to help recruit donors. "After becoming part of the Coty family, I learned about DKMS," said Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, OPI's executive vice president I was very happy to design shades that mirror the DKMS logo colors, and OPI will help carry the DKMS message in the OPI bottle. The colors will be available at select Ulta stores throughout the country in August and September."
The professional nail brand is launching two limited-edition "I Love DKMS" shades ($8.50) and pledges to donate $20,000 from the proceeds. The lifesaving lacquers—available in Ruby Red and Shimmery White—coordinate with the charity's signature colors. Regarding her involvement with organizing a bone-marrow drive, V.F.'s September issue cover girl Jennifer Lopez has said, "These things just make you realize we are all interconnected and depend on one another." Whether from your cheek (request a kit at getswabbed.org) or on your nails (purchase either hue at opi.com), one simple stroke will lend a big hand.
See below for a slideshow of celebrities from DKMS 5th Annual Gala: Linked Against Leukemia on April 28th (all photos courtesy of Patrick McMullan).


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Snapchat's redesign, which was rolled out at the end of last year, has not gone down well with users.
The refreshed look pushed out in the UK, Australia and Canada has proved unpopular, with up to 83% of reviews on the App Store being negative.
Many have complained that feeds are no longer chronological and are confusing.
One user, Leaya Reinhardt, tweeted: "Seriously my snaps To/from people aren't even in chronological order. Fix it, it's quite annoying."
Some have contacted Snapchat support on Twitter to air frustrations and asking it to return to the previous version of the app.
Tech news site TechCrunch reported that data provided to it by analytics firm Sensor Tower showed that only 17% gave it three to five stars, suggesting they approved of it.
No change
Snapchat made the changes as a way for the social network to monetise its service by mixing in more adverts, said experts.
Elyse Betters Picaro, US editor of Pocket-lint and a regular user, said Snapchat had "begun mixing ad-laden Stories into your chats now, because, as the numbers have shown, people are sending tonnes of snaps a day now, but they aren't posting to their stories as much.
"Stories from your "normal" friends now appear in chats, while famous and popular Snapchat users are still on the side with the media, which appears to create a sort of class system.
"It's also difficult to find stories from people who don't follow you back," she said. "Also stories are no longer in chronological order, and you can't play all the stories consecutively anymore."
Ms Betters Picaro added: "It may, as a user, feel like you're missing out on something now, as it's harder to find Stories, harder to play them, and they're just seemingly harder to grasp in general now."
She added that Snapchat boss Evan Spiegel had warned users and investors about the change in November when he said: "There is a strong likelihood that the redesign of our application will be disruptive to our business in the short term, and we don't yet know how the behaviour of our community will change when they begin to use our updated application."
Despite the poor reception, Ms Betters Picaro does not believe the firm will respond to user requests and ditch the changes.
She said: "Unfortunately, people tend to be resistant to change. And this update will take some getting used to, whether you're a fan or not.
"However, I highly doubt Snap will immediately reverse course due to bad reviews from a limited test in the UK and Canada. After all, it hasn't even hit the US yet."
A spokesperson for Snapchat said: "Updates as big as this one can take a little getting used to, but we hope the community will enjoy it once they settle in."
Source: BBC


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Science fiction has long encompassed every aspect of human experience — including sex. For as long as we've dreamed of going to space, we've dreamed of getting it on there. And porn has embraced science fiction as well — from 1968's softcore masterpiece Barbarella to the 1990s cyberpunk boom to the recent craze for porn spoofs, there has always been science fiction porn. After all, porn is an escapist genre when you get right down to it. And the line between a science fiction "B" movie and a softcore porn film is often more seethru than Jane Fonda's breast bubbles.
Here are the greatest science fiction porn films of all time, from 1961 to 1991. It's NSFW! Note: There are a number of exploitation films on this list, but no horror, since that's a very different category. Likewise, no fantasy. Also, if we missed your favorite, please chime in in the comments! With such a huge and sweeping topic, I'm sure we missed some stuff. We'll be covering 1992 to the present very soon.
"Nudist colony" films were a staple of early softcore film-making, and Doris Wishman was one of the masters of the genre. But it was a particular stroke of genius to create a nudist film set on the Moon, eight years before humans actually landed there. Why is the Moon full of naked ladies? With antennae on their heads? It's never entirely clear, but apparently there's a breathable atmosphere thanks to all those trees.
Barbarella (1968)
The original softcore science fiction porn film, which would probably be R-rated today. Jane Fonda's blonde mega-mane and anime eyes radiate sexuality. It starts with a zero-G spacesuit strip show in Fonda's shag-carpeted space capsule, and then she fights off angry dolls in her ripped stockings. Plus she hooks up with a hunky space angel. Best bit: Durand Durand puts Barbarella into his sexomatic Excessive Machine, only to have her burn it out with her over-the-top tantric energy.
Space Thing (1968)
And then there's this all-out sexploitation film, in which a man reading a science fiction magazine in bed with his wife falls asleep... and dreams that he's on a lesbian spaceship, where the sadistic Captain Mother forbids the female crewmembers to get it on with men. At left is our absolute favorite scene, where the main character Granilla disintegrates another man who's jealous that the women are sleeping with Granilla — and then a naked woman shows up to explain disintegration. Another nearly naked woman helpfully shows up and adds, "He had it coming." See more clips from Space Thing here.
Flesh Gordon (1974)
A crazy pastiche of the 1930s Flash Gordon serials, featuring Flesh and his sidekick Dale Ardor. The Emperor Wang bombards the Earth with a sex ray from planet Porno and it turns everybody into a sex fiend. This is somehow a problem. Lesbian queens in black swan spaceships, bearded men with pasties, penisaurs, bearded men with drag queen makeup, sex robots... The whole thing is intensely campy, even by 70s porn standards, and feels like Rocky Horror with more nudity and less singing. And yet it features special effects by people who went on to work on the Star Trek and Star Wars movies. At one point, a giant claymation monster, voiced by Craig T. Nelson from Coach, grabs Dale and carries her up a wall like King Kong. Flash has to battle the lumpy creature to save his hot sidekick.
The Girl From Starship Venus (1975)
Also known as Sexplorer. Basically your classic "alien girl comes to Earth and has to learn about human sexuality" movie. The theme tune (at left) really has to be heard to be believed. "In an atomic burst of energy, she appeared in female form/She investigated lovin' far beyond the human norm/With a bang or two, she started being sexy all around." Yep, that pretty much says it all. Please watch that video, it's amazing. And then click here for her encounter with a man who has a balloon fetish. "My funny ways, you know. We all have them." Indeed.
Spermula (1976)
We wrote about Spermula extensively here. It's your classic "alien women come to Earth to drain men of their sexual fluids" movie — and I believe the process leaves the men impotent afterwards. But one of the aliens is accidentally turned into Udo Kier instead of a beautiful woman, which is really unfortunate. The aliens drive around in a Rolls Royce picking up men, and there's also a subplot with a circus troupe for some reason. Anyway, here are some clips.
Roller Babies (1976)
Carter Stevens brings you this futuristic story featuring lots of molded plastic furniture — see clips at left. It's the future and sex is illegal, but there's pornography on television constantly. And apparently this movie includes a scene of "telepathic fellatio," which sounds unusual. And someone decides that sex on roller skates is what's needed to save this doomed society. Mostly, though, there is sexy, sexy plastic furniture.
2069: A Sexy Odyssey (1977)
Another movie about alien women who come to Earth because their entire planet is powered by... wait for it... human sperm. For some reason, they land in Bavaria. Or Sweden. Anyway, everybody thinks the alien women in their jumpsuits are members of the women's ski team, leading to some hilarious misunderstandings. SFW clip at left.
Sex World (1978)
And here's a porno version of Westworld. People travel to a futuristic resort where they can act out their most ridiculous fantasies with lifelike robots. No Yul Brynner though. Apparently this film is really really good, and might actually be better than Futureworld. Everybody gets paired off with robots that challenge their worldviews, including a lesbian with a male robot and a bigot with an African American robot. Because it was the 1970s, the era of Archie Bunker. At left: the amazing disco theme song, plus another clip and the poster.
Star Virgin (1979)
It's really hard to explain this post-Star Wars porn adventure, but we'll try. In a nutshell, all the humans are dead — except for one blonde in a very Barbarella-influenced space outfit, who was created in a test tube and lives in a space capsule with a robot named Mentor. And the blonde (who has the most distractingly squeaky voice you'll ever hear) begs Mentor to teach her about sex. Which Mentor finally does — by showing her a series of porn films in which vampires wearing Richard Nixon masks get it on. At last, Mentor uses a robotic dildo to make the Star Virgin happy, and shoots white robotic lubricant all over her. Yes, really. More details here.
Galaxina (1980)
An R-rated space comedy that's a very thinly veiled Star Wars parody, starring then-Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten before her husband murdered her. As Star Wars spoofs go, this is one of the least amusing, with the obligatory "visiting an alien brothel" scene replacing the Cantina scene and a lot of unfunny silliness. Here's the first 20 minutes.
Randy the Electric Lady (1980)
This porn movie starring Desiree Cousteau was apparently made by a bunch of art students, with a script by Terry Southern — the novelist who also wrote Dr. Strangelove. And indeed, there's a weird sort of Strangelove shout-out in this film. Instead of "You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" somebody is told, "There's no fucking in the Sex Institute!". The sex institute tries to cure Randy of her inability to have an orgasm by hypnotizing her and connecting her to a computer — leading to a scene where punch cards fly across the room with pleasure. Randy turns out to be the source of a chemical called orgasmine that causes anybody who ingests it to become super-horny. And you can probably see where this is going.
The Beast in Space (1980)
A quasi-sequel or retelling of the sexploitation classic The Beast... only in space! And there are lots of light saber fights and laser battles, because Star Wars. As we explained back in 2008, "The Beast In Space has the laser gun fights and fake light sabre fights with guys in silver jumpsuits, the Han Solo-knockoff, and a robot that rules the planet Longion by keeping everybody in a mind-controlled haze of non-stop sex, in which they never age."
The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue (1980)
This one takes place in a future where everybody lives for pleasure — but one man isn't happy and wants to find true love as well. From the director of Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones, this is sort of a riff on the Logan's Run/Brave New World sort of dystopia, where you can get sex at the push of a button, but people feel spiritually unfulfilled.
Ultra Flesh (1980)
An alien comes to Earth — yes, again — and this time, she's on a mission to cure men of impotence that was caused by evil aliens in the 1990s. The good news? The benevolent alien visitor, known as Ultra Flesh, is played by legendary porn star Seka. Seka calls together the U.S. President and the Russian and Chinese leaders, for an international orgy in which she turns them into "fleshette lovers." Or something. But it turns out that the tiny man who's been pleasuring the President's wife under the table is actually one of the evil aliens. Eventually, Seka has some kind of sex duel with Jamie Gillis, who's an alien with an ice penis. It's a bit confusing.
Programmed For Pleasure aka La femme-objet (1981)
A French movie about a science fiction writer who's searching for the ultimate sexual dynamo. He hooks up with a couple of flesh-and-blood women, including his wife, before deciding to build his own perfect woman, a blonde "sex machine" named Kim, who's up for any perversion he can dream up. It's all fun and games, until she cheats on him with the mailman.
Cafe Flesh (1982)
And then there's this film, which is justly famous and revered — there's been a nuclear holocaust, and most of the population, dubbed "sex negatives," is unable to have sex. A few people who can are referred to as "sex positives," and they are forced to perform in bizarre and surreal ways for the amusement of the rest of the population. Featuring bizarre set designs and the strange visions of future ALF/Permanent Midnight writer Jerry Stahl, this film is a unique dose of weirdness.
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak (1984)
The maker of Emmanuelle, Just Jaeckin, finally went all the way off the rails with this one. It's actually hard to summarize — but basically it's a Raiders of the Lost Ark riff which turns into an exploration of an underground city ruled by women. Full of strange steampunk machines and lots and lots of gratuitous nudity and G-strings. Some of the steampunk machines have naked women popping in and out of them for no reason. Watch another clip and learn more here.
Sex Wars (1985)
Why did it take eight years for a straight-up porno spoof of Star Wars to appear? There were plenty before this, of course, but this was the most blatant. As one IMDB reviewer notes, this film is at least better than George Lucas' prequels. In any case, Princess Layme (ha ha, you're killing me) seeks help to rescue her sister, Princess Orgasma (humor levels escalating) from Lord Balthazar, who's basically Darth Vader but they couldn't think of a riff on Darth Vader that was as witty as Princess Layme and Princess Orgasma. They did manage to name the R2D2 robot analogue 4Q.
Amber Aroused (1985)
When the robots rise up to kill us all, they'll probably cite this film as one of the inciting incidents. The poster pretty much tells the whole story. Amber is hired as a maid at the house of an inventor, who has just created a brand new robot named Woody. And you can pretty much guess what happens next, I'd imagine.
E Three - The Extra Testicle (1985)
Directed by none other than porn legend Ron Jeremy! So you know it's got to be something special. The tagline reads: "After a million years in space... he comes to Earth for a good time." And it appears that E.Three is actually a large bald man with his skin painted green, wearing an orange jumpsuit — he bears pretty much no resemblance to Spielberg's famous wrinkly-headed alien. Although if you want to watch actual E.T. porn and don't mind being scarred mentally forever, click here.
Lust In Space (1985)
On the planet Zitcom (yes, really) sexuality is forbidden by the evil Queen Vixanna. But one alien woman flees to come to Earth, land of unbridled sexuality. Also, Ron Jeremy is a ruler of a different alien planet, where ordinary people are turned into porn stars by contact with special androids and dildos — and he sends his androids and dildos to Earth to turn the people of Earth into porn stars, too. It's a bit unclear, actually — I'm cobbling together a couple different synopses of this one. The poster is pretty hypnotic to look at, though. Oh, and the tagline is, "Contact is made." Which is probably a Carl Sagan in-joke.
Sex Busters (1986)
There's basically nothing I can tell you about this one that you can't glean from the box art at left. Yes, it's an X-rated spoof of Ghostbusters. And the tagline is "I ain't afraid of no ho!". And there is something about "sextoplasm." It's enough to make you not want to be the keymaster or the gatekeeper.
Time Adventure: Zeccho 5-byo Mae (1986)
A classic Japanese "pink film" about a woman who travels forward in time 15 years and has lots of strange sexual adventures in the year 2001. Here's one scene where she finds herself being wheeled along on a gurney, naked, on top of a total stranger. And he has a cute kitten! Also, at one point in the film, a man has an utterly adorable maneki neko tattoo covering his back. The whole thing looks sort of surreal and lush and beautiful. The actual time machine looks very DIY, too.
The Load Warriors (1987)
Yep. It's an X-rated version of Mad Max: The Road Warrior. Because we really needed that, for some reason. And it's set in a post-apocalyptic future where there's only one resource that everybody is desperate for more of... sperm. Particularly, untainted sperm. Peter North plays Moore, the last source of good sperm in this atomic hellhole. Missy (Gail Force) must fight the evil Humongous (Lois Ayres) for Moore's precious bodily fluids. Followed by Load Warrior II: The Second Coming.
Sex Trek: The Next Penetration (1990)
We could be here all day listing all of the Star Trek porn spoofs — and in fact, we wrote a complete history of Trek porn back in 2008, which is looking a bit unreadable at the moment unfortunately. But this was probably the first "proper" Trek porno spoof, featuring the TOS crew going to the planet Uranus to fight the Mugatu for the planet's resources. This film spawned a slew of sequels and rip-offs throughout the 1990s, and then there was a whole new batch of Trek porn films in recent years. Anyway, the clip at left gives a pretty good flavor of the brazen Shatner imitations and terrible porn hair.
Sex and Zen (1991)
One of the most famous Hong Kong exploitation films of all time — which has spawned a few sequels and a 3-D remake — this film is actually an adaptation of the classic novel The Carnal Prayer Mat (Rou Pu Tuan) by Li Yu, a classic 17th century author and playwright. Just like in Li's novel, the main character of the film is a scholar who gets his penis surgically replaced — in the book, it's a dog penis, but in the movie it's a horse penis, leading to a disturbing and somewhat slapsticky surgery scene. One of the more demented erotic movies ever made.
And it seems only fitting to end with quite possibly the most famous porn spoof ever made — you could easily imagine someone deciding to make a porn spoof of Star Wars or Star Trek, and Ghostbusters and E.T. don't seem like too much of a stretch. But it's perhaps slightly more surprising that someone would decide that the world needed a spoof of Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands. Here's a couple of clips from the film — including the opening scene, where a door-to-door dildo saleswoman meets Edward and becomes so taken with his natural dildo substitutes, she brings him home to meet her family. Including her daughter. I'm kind of curious to know if Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have ever seen this movie.
Stay tuned for the sequel, covering the past 20 years of completely inappropriate science fiction porn movies. A version of this article appeared in a vastly different form back in January 2008.


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February 26th- March 3rd is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. This week's guest bloggers are from Proud2Bme, the National Eating Disorders Association's new website for teens. Today's guest bloggers are Liana Rosenman and Kristina Saffran, founders of Project HEAL
, an organization dedicated to raising funds for people who need eating disorders treatment.
When I was struggling with an eating disorder, I lost myself, I wasn't the Liana that my friends knew. People always told me to latch on to the things in my life and parts of myself that were unrelated to the eating disorder. That made sense, except for the fact that I felt like nothing, not even one small fraction of my life, was 'unrelated to my eating disorder.' Everything I could think of inevitably led back to mirrors, food, or weight. Essentially, I had to wipe my slate clean and restart.
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Who Should Control Portland's Drinking Water?
Portland elections struggle to compete with spring fever, especially in years lacking presidential glamour. Only about 100,000 Portlanders voted in May 2010's local primary—less than half the turnout for the Obama-riffic '12 general. That 2010 ballot featured city council races so uncompetitive the tallies could be from Putin's Russia, and even many of the diligent citizens who filled out ballots didn't bother to vote for city auditor. (Can you blame them?)
This year's May 20 primary, however, poses a question of existential importance. For over a century, the city council has controlled our water supply through Portland's unusual commission system, with the mayor picking a single council member to oversee the bureau. Now a ballot measure—pushed by activists, backed by very thirsty corporations—would create an independently elected volunteer board to govern water and (less glamorous, equally essential) sewer services.
If it sounds a little dull, consider that the move would radically overhaul Portland's system of government. Or consider money and power.
"Fifty thousand votes could decide the fate of $20 billion in public infrastructure," says Nick Fish, the current commissioner overseeing water and sewer. Beyond shifting control of almost $427 million in annual utility revenues, the measure would trim city council's clout significantly. Mayor Charlie Hales called the idea "political terrorism" and "sabotage."
The anti-measure campaign—a roll call of Portland's liberal establishment, heavy on environmental organizations and labor unions—calls itself "Stop the Bull Run Takeover," invoking the Mount Hood reservoir that feeds (and symbolizes) the city's water system. Posters at the Audubon Center added an even more ominous adjective, branding the proposal a "corporate takeover." Early campaign rhetoric describes the measure as "underpinned by a strong anti-environment agenda."
And the pro-measure campaign does shape up as one of Portland's stranger political alliances, starting with its leaders. Floy Jones, a 58-year-old retiree and opponent of covering Mount Tabor's open-air reservoirs, is a lifelong Democrat and quintessential Portland activist. Kent Craford, a 38-year-old entrepreneur, worked for 2010 GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley and for Slade Gordon, a Reaganite US senator. In person, the pair suggests Bella Abzug teaming up with an adult Alex P. Keaton.
They argue the city has mismanaged the bureaus, driven up rates (which will rise 5 percent this year, as they did last year), and channeled revenues to misguided projects. "It's a lot of money," Craford says. "It's going into someone's pockets."
All the same, the measure hardly counts as a populist uprising: the drive to qualify it for the ballot drew almost all its funding from major water users. The computer chip manufacturer Siltronic and Portland Bottling pumped in multiple five-digit donations. Big local landlords like American Property Management and Commerce Properties ponied up; so has the Hilton hotel chain. "Takeover" rhetoric amplifies the legitimate question of what these players want.
"What's the goal?" Fish asks. "Who's going to run our water and sewer system if this succeeds?" Fish and other opponents warn that an obscure board, chosen in equally low-profile elections, could easily become a tool for major corporate water users to slash environmental programs and shift costs to residential customers.
The problem for advocates of the status quo is that the city has screwed up a time or two. Jones and Craford are also working with plaintiffs in a lawsuit that challenges city spending of utility dollars. In a preliminary ruling, a judge decided that the city did misuse funds to pay for publicly financed elections and the Portland Loo, a design for public toilets. The Loo is a legacy of former commissioner Randy Leonard, under whom the bureau built parks and funded a $700,000 water-efficient house, which the city recently sold at a substantial loss. (John DiLorenzo, one of Portland's most aggressive conservative lawyer-lobbyists, represents the alliance that's suing the city. Separately, the ballot campaign has paid DiLorenzo's firm, Davis Wright Tremaine, $26,219 to write the measure's text and for other services.)
The suit could ultimately require the city to pay back millions, but either way voters can expect many reminders of the Loo, the "Water House," Leonard's robust interpretation of his duties, and other water-related controversies before May 20.
"There's been dysfunctional management for years, and there always will be, as long as you have one person as czar in charge," Craford says.
At stake is not merely bureaucratic turf, but a big piece of Portland's soul. "The story of municipal utilities is crucial, even heroic," says Rowan Schmidt, a project leader for a Tacoma-based environmental economics firm. "There are many models, but whatever one is used helps create a city's identity."
As 2013's battle over fluoridation showed, Portlanders don't like messing with their water. That might work in favor of city council. Then again, the council threw its political weight behind fluoride—and lost by 22 percentage points.


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Twenty years after the killing of Chico Mendes, one of the world's most prominent rainforest defenders, hundreds of human rights and environmental activists still face the threat of assassination in Brazil, a new study claims.
The report, compiled by Brazil's Catholic Land Commission (CPT) and due to be released in full early next year, reveals that at least 260 people, among them a Catholic bishop, live under the threat of murder because of their fight against a coalition of loggers, farmers and cattle ranchers.
The list names Frei Henri des Rosiers, a French priest based in the Amazon town of Xinguara, as a particular target. Police are investigating claims he has a £14,000 price on his head because of his fight against slave labour. Also named are Maria José Dias da Costa, a union leader in the remote town of Rondon do Pará, and an Austrian bishop, Dom Erwin Krautler, who has been under 24-hour police guard for two years because of his battle against developers and child prostitution in his Amazonian diocese.
In February this year, Francisco da Silva, a 51-year-old leader of the landless movement in the Amazon, was killed with a single shot to the head. He had been named in a previous CPT report about rural leaders receiving death threats.
On Monday night the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is expected to address the country on television to pay homage to the life of Mendes, a rubber tapper turned environmentalist who was gunned down outside his home on 22 December 1988. Lula's address is part of a wave of tributes across Brazil, from marches on the streets of Rio de Janeiro to celebrations in his hometown of Xapuri. But while his standing as a symbol of protest is not in doubt 20 years on, environmentalists and human rights activists are divided on Mendes's practical legacy.
In September this year government figures showed that deforestation in the Amazon had risen by 64% over the previous 12 months. Earlier this month, members of Ibama, Brazil's environmental taskforce, discovered that nearly 3,000 hectares (7,410 acres) had been deforested, mostly illegally, inside a reserve named after Mendes. "Each year on 22 December I ask myself if he died in vain or not. And today, after all these years, the answer is not yet clear to me," said Alfredo Sirkis, a prominent member of Brazil's Green party and friend of Mendes.
Sirkis said: "I won't say that nothing has improved," but he added that the last 20 years had seen a "continuation of this project of devastation".
Born in the remote Amazon state of Acre on 15 December 1944, Francisco Alves Mendes Filho followed in his parents' footsteps early in life, becoming a rubber tapper at the age of nine.
By the mid-1980s he was spearheading protests against local cattle ranchers and their gunmen, who sought to tear down the forest and drive out the impoverished rubber tappers. Renowned for visionary views on sustainable development, Mendes quickly became a poster-boy for the international green movement, travelling to the US to lobby against infrastructure projects he believed would devastate the Amazon.
"He knew how to talk to the rubber tapper in the middle of the forest in the same way he knew how to talk to a technocrat from the World Bank," said Sirkis. His murder turned him into an eco-martyr both at home and abroad, and catapulted the issue of rainforest destruction further up the international agenda.
"Chico left a great legacy," said Brazil's former environment minister, the senator and former rubber tapper Marina Silva. "Twenty years on, the environmental question has gained strength across the whole world."
She added: "He was a guy that spoke of things which were ahead of his time ... [and he] made me want to be part of that fight."
Bishop Krautler agrees: "It was never in vain. In death he [Mendes] spoke even louder than when he was alive."
Soon after his death, Brazil's government began introducing the "extractivist reserves" of which Mendes had dreamed. The reserves were areas of rainforest where local populations could earn their living while simultaneously protecting the environment. The first, created in 1990, was named after him and now covers 11m hectares of land.
Chico Mendes: Martyr for our times
When I heard, 20 years ago this week, that Chico Mendes, leader of the Brazilian rubber tappers' union, had been murdered, I was sad but not surprised. The last time I saw Chico, five months earlier in the town of Xapuri in the western state of Acre, he told me the ranchers had already tried to kill him six times.
Looking at my notebooks, I now notice that Chico actually named the man later convicted of organising his killing: Darly Alves da Silva, a rancher who has not been seen since escaping from jail where he was serving a sentence for the crime.
Darly already had a murder charge against him in another state, something Chico reported to the police.
It was when Chico's union successfully defended a piece of virgin rainforest sprinkled with rubber trees against the ranchers' attempts to claim it that the struggle became personal. Before the shooting of Mendes only 10 people had ever been brought to court for around 1,000 murders in the Amazon in the 1980s.
But Chico was different and his murder sparked an international furore.
In his speeches he used to say: "Come here and kill me. My chest is open." He knew he might achieve more by his death than he had by his life.
Today the extractive reserves Chico championed are relatively successful in protecting parts of the Amazon, as are reserves run by the rainforest's indigenous people.
Now people talk of using carbon credits to protect similar areas around the world. And I realise that I had met the martyr for our times - the Gandhi, or perhaps the Che Guevara, of our environmental age.
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Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich
Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich nyĭkəlī´ mēkhī´ləvĭch kərəmzēn´ [key], 1766–1826, Russian historian and writer. His Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789–90 (1792, abr. tr. 1957), dealing with a journey to Western Europe, brought a cosmopolitan awareness into Russian writing. Karamzin made the Russian literary language more polished, elegant, and rhythmic. These reforms were important for later writers, especially Pushkin. Karamzin's sentimental story of a betrayed peasant girl,
Poor Lisa(1792), forecast the novel of social protest. His greatest work, an 11-volume History of the Russian State (1818–24), was a widely read dramatic account of the political actions of the Russian princes up to 1613. He believed in a strong monarchic state, but criticized 18th-century rulers in his vigorous Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia, written in 1810–11 (1914, tr. 1959).
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The Girls track team traveled to Ferris State University for the Pioneer Classic. All four relay teams took first place. Individual winners were Allyson Marvel in the pole vault and Kenzie Weiler set a new meet record in the 3200 meter run, while winning the event. Aly Hamilton placed second in the 100 and 200 meter dashes. Other Second place winners were Marissa Oakes in the long jump and Tara Tepin in the 300 meter hurdles.
Other Placers:
Winning Relay teams: 3200 relay team of Hannah Heintzelman, Shayne Mann, Maddie Pekrul and Kenzie Weiler; 800 relay team of Marissa Oakes, Taylor Vanlangen, Olivia Finch and Aly Hamilton; 400 relay team of Marissa Oakes, Taylor Vanlangen, Abby Olszewski and Aly Hamilton; 1600 relay team of Aaliyah Sargent, Hannah Heintzelman, Kenzie Weiler and Tara Tepin.
3rd place: Allyson Marvel 100 meter hurdles; Aaliyah Sargent 400 meter dash; Hannah Heintzelman 800 meter run; Maddie Pekrul 3200 meter run.
4th place: Taylor Vanlangen long jump; Brittany Todd shot put; Abby Olszewski pole vault; Allyson Marvel 300 hurdles; Shayne Mann 3200 meter run; Marissa Oakes 100 hurdles.
5th Place: Maddie Pekrul 3200 meter run.
6th Place: Tara Tepin 100 meter dash; Emily Shaft 400 meter dash.
On Monday May 19 the team traveled to Belding for the 9-10 invite. They placed seventh out of 10 teams. The 400 meter relay team of Allison Hall, Aaliyah Sargent, Allyson Marvel and Tara Tepin placed second.
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3rd: 3200 meter relay team of Aaliyah Sargent, Jenna Heintzelman, Ellie Ovokaitys, and Hannah Heintzelman; 1600 meter relay team of Aaliyah Sargent, Hannah Heintzelman, Jenna Heintzelman and Tara Tepin.
4th place: Tara Tepin high jump; Allyson Marvel pole vault; Aaliyah Sargent 400 meter dash.
5th place: Allyson Marvel 100 meter hurdles; Hannah Heintzelman 1600 meter run.


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During a traffic stop Thursday in Fairfield, Vacaville police officers found more than one pound of methamphetamine, then arrested the driver and a passenger, then another person later at a Vallejo residence.
Members of the Vacaville Police Crime Suppression Team stopped the car and discovered the drugs inside. The amount has an estimated street value of $37,000, Sgt. Rick Elm said in a press release issued Saturday.
The release did not make clear who was driving, but James Jewett, 48, of Vallejo, was arrested and booked into Solano County Jail in Fairfield on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to sell, among other charges, which were not specified.
Officers also arrested Carlos Ballardo, 49, of Fairfield, who was booked into jail on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine.
Afterward, officers then served a search warrant at a residence in the 200 block of Sperry Avenue in Vallejo. There, investigators found additional evidence of drug sales, including suspected methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and marijuana, Elm noted.
Officers arrested Asriel Velaquez, 20, at the Vallejo residence on suspicion of possession of drugs for sale and possession of marijuana for sale, and booked Velaquez into jail.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the Vacaville police drug tip line at 449-5243.


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Now we finally know how Prometheus connects with Ridley Scott's original Alien movie, but does it also have ties to Scott's Blade Runner? A feature in the Prometheus Steelbook Blu-Ray suggests a connection between Prometheus' Weyland Industries and Blade Runner's Tyrell Corporation.
Redditor Huxleyism found this entry from Peter Weyland's journal in the Blu-Ray bonus features, indicating that, in his youth, Weyland knew Dr. Eldon Tyrell and that the two debated the use of biological replicants vs. mechanical androids. Although this may well be just a geeky little Easter egg rather than a serious narrative link, it actually fits with the Weyland corporate timeline. Blade Runner was set in 2019, and Weyland didn't receive his patent on cybernetic individuals until 2023. So perhaps Weyland's cybernetic robots came to replace Tyrell's replicants.
Given that a Blade Runner sequel is in the works, hopefully any future connections between the two universes will be in background references rather than in the narrative. We love Alien and we love Blade Runner, but there's no need to cobble the universes together.
HOLY SHIT. Prometheus and Blade Runner tie in, directly written on the bonus features of the steelbook bluray [reddit via Tor]


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By Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Editor's note: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are the authors of A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity. This is the second in a series of three guest posts.
Secular people often make giving a solitary activity at the end of the year, one that feels like a sacrifice. That's the wrong way to think about giving back. We learned a lot from churches and temples and the way they turn giving into an enjoyable, uplifting social activity. Our profile of a master pastor at a mega-church, Bill Hybels, reveals some of the magic he employs. We all are social animals and when we do things with a group of people we like, the activity becomes more fun.
So form a book club and engage in a few volunteer or giving activities together—or link your book club to Book Clubs for Change, bookclubs4change.org. Choose a need in your community or an area of the world that you all care about. Then choose a topic and an organization you might work with. Or maybe consider an on-location trip to the area and meet some of the people you want to help?
Or join a chapter of Dining for Women, which is one of the secular organizations that borrows from the religious notion of fellowship and joyous giving for a cause. DFW has guests bring a pot luck dish to a host's home and then they all donate the money they would spend at a restaurant to a chosen cause empowering women worldwide. Some groups have a subcommittee screen a list of finalists and the group votes on a final selection. In A Path Appears, we list some other great organizations—there's even one called Beer for Books—that make giving a social and fun occasion.
Philip u are a pig like blue saffron
Leave Philip alone Rupert. ROFLMAO
@Adam. U are a pig
Banasy is not here because she will spend the night in a pig's pen with philip and joey..
Pig list
Eric Holder
Michel Obama
Taylor swift
Jennifer Lopez
Blue Saffron
Shinning Star
Al Sharpton
GW Bush
I am Philip. I live in utah. I am an oil man...a wild catter.
I eat doggie poop.
I like to stalk women. Then steal their under.wear. I wear them when I am alone. Then I chop them up and burn them to ashes.
I have dark desires.
Philip. You are one sick b@s tard.
I have a ra pe kit:
Duct tape
I am Philip. I am a sicko
Phillip, I see you're back to posting your odd remarks.
I suggest you take 50mg of Propofol.
Philip you disgust me.
You do realise @ Observer, that you probably just made his day by telling him that dont you? Thats the kinda thing he gets off on!
Yo. Chrissy. (no, wait. That's my Rocky Balboa) Ahem. Biatch! Who am u think u is.
Not me. I fell asleep right after work and just now awoke.
I'm so blue. I choked my last frog and am out of kittens. ;(
Kitten juggling isn't as fun as frog choking but it's better than nothing.
I'm blue from blowing up frogs. T take swizzle stick straws from my mom and poke them up frog butts and blow real hard and sometimes it makes my head tingle and face turn blue. Mom thinks it's cute of me. 🙂
What will it be like, yo. You do know what I am saying? Word up.
Gettin' jiggy with it.
– Will Smith
@ black rupert...yo, why dont you get jiggy with this~stop calling me a biatch and i wont call you the 8th dickless wonder of the world! Word up!!!!
And for the record @ rupert, most black people i know have more manners than you and dont talk like blooming idiots! Oh and you might be able to have surgery to correct that 8th wonder of the world problem you got going on then you may not be such a miserable fuch!
"Most black people." Lmao
What about most yellow people, Chrissy. How do they behave? In your opinions concerning how people of certain colors behave themselves. Are blacks got better manners than yellows?
bloo. Bbbbbloo.
I think his dick fell off. Am not sure.
Blue! Blue blue blue Bluuuuuue.
Stop choking me, honey.
The only thing you choke is your chicken, Philip.
You can put aside your violent rape fantasies, now.
Also, putting "blue" in front of a name doesn't absolve you from your lie that you never steal a poster's username.
9th Commandment and all, yanno?
I used the term "black" because that was the term YOU used!! And in all honesty MOST people have better manners than YOU no matter what color they are! If you didnt constantly start your crap with me i wouldnt have to toss it back at you! You were a much nicer guy when you posed as little mister! Now youre just a dirtbag always trying to pick a fight. And as one of the most important person in my life is dying im in no mood to be nice to your dirtbag azz!!!
Jimmay! Jimmay?
But i do sincerely hope you never have to watch your daughter die a slow and painful death no matter how mean and spiteful you are! Its the most horrid thing you can ever imagine and i wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy!
Blujoe? (take on King's Cujo)
Sorry to hear about your daughter, Chrissy. I hope she pulls through OK.
Are most yellow people good mannered, I wonder. Chrissy?
@ fake philip i just told you shes DYING! There is no pulling through. And if you were the real philip im sure that would thrill you to no end!
I was being sincere, Chrissy. Sheesh.
"The day of one's dying is better than the day of one's being born" said a man millions call The Wisest Man Who Ever Lived.
Your troubled start the day you are born and end on the day you die, is the explanation.
*troubles start, rather.
If that was meant to make me feel better, it didnt!!!
Your child is falling asleep, Chrissy. This, according to how Jesus described the condition of the dead; sleeping.
The priest and preacher man who claim you either go to heaven or burn in hell after you die are in staunch disagreement with what Jesus taught concerning the condition of the dead.
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Cookbook:Curry Leaf
Cookbook | Recipes | Ingredients | Spices and herbs
Curry Leaf is used in most Indian delicacies, it adds flavor and spicy pleasant smell to the dish. Typically, is fried during tadka or bhagaar - the process of frying spices before adding vegetables for making curry.
Can be found in most Indian grocery stores.
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Letter: My vote for the next presidential election
After 44 presidents, the U.S.A. has its first black president.
All though he deserves respect, Barack Obama's image is now faltering. This is due, I believe, to many poor choices for the Cabinet.
Both Michelle and Barack Obama have lost their law license in the state of Illinois. I am reminded of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman.
Michelle and Barack are now multimillionaires. The U.S.A. does not deserve a president who says, on national T.V., "What difference does it make if now four American citizens are dead?" I am referring to the former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Also, do we need someone who has temper tantrums and throws pots and pans around the kitchen?
With 2016, my vote, if he runs, if Jeb Bush, former Governor of the State of Florida.
— James L. Hesselberth, Rockford


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The course is designed for a technical audience that will be setting up a custom algorithm for the Probabilistic Matching Engine to use Big Match on Apache Hadoop to compare, match and/or search member records across multiple data sets.
InfoSphere BigMatch v11.4 for Apache Hadoop
The IBM InfoSphere Big Match on Hadoop course will introduce students to the Probabilistic Matching Engine (PME) and how it can be used to resolve and discover entities across multiple data sets in Hadoop.
Students will learn the basics of a PME algorithm including data model configuration, standardization, comparison and bucketing functions, weight generation, and threshold.
During the exercises, the student will work on a large use case, where they will apply their knowledge of Big Match to discover relationships be two data sets that can be used to understand the full view of the member data.
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2 dni
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1. Introduction to Big Match for Apache Hadoop
- What is Big Match
- How Big Match Works
- Big Match Components
- Big Match Architecture
2. Big Match Data Model Definition
- Members
- Attribute Types
- Member Attributes
- Sources
- Information Sources
3. PME Algorithm
- Standardization
- Bucketing
- Comparison Functions
4. Bucket Analysis
- Bucket Optimization
- Bucket Concerns
5. Weights
- String Weights
- Numeric Weights
- Multi-dimensional Weights
- Troubleshooting Weights
6. HBase Tables
- HBase concepts
- Big Match commands
- Big Match Tables (.pmebktidx, .pmemdmidx, .pmeentidx)
- Best Practices
7. BigMatch Applications
- PME Derive
- PME Compare
- PME Link
- PME Analysis
- Understand the capabilities of the Probabilistic Matching Engine
- Understand how the Probabilistic Matching engine is used with Big Insights to solve certain use cases.
- Understand the technical framework of the Big Match solution and how member data is derived, bucketed and compared to produce a complete entity from multiple data sets.
- Create a project and data model using the Big Match Console
- Configure the HBase tables that will be used in a Big Match solution
- Configure an algorithm using he Big Match console that includes Standardization, Comparison and Bucketing functions.
- Set up Strings for Anonymous value, Equivalency values, Frequency values, and character maps using the Big Match console
- Set up and run the Weight Generation process
- Evaluate and set thresholds for the algorithm
- Deploy a new algorithm to Big Match
- Evaluate Entity results and reconfigure algorithm based on evaluation. E.g. Large Buckets, Large Entities, Member not belonging to any buckets, etc


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This analysis will provide targeted analysis and heteroplasmy quantification for mtDNA point mutations and unclassified variants. The detection threshold of massively parallel sequencing analysis for heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA point mutations is approximately 1.5% for the Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform. This analysis will not provide heteroplasmy quantification for mtDNA large deletion and multiple deletions.
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Grief, reflection mark Flight 93 memorial ceremony
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. – A decade after 40 passengers and crew died when Flight 93 knifed into a Pennsylvania field, family members grieved and reflected on a sacrifice described by a former president as among the most courageous in U.S. history.
On Sunday, a day after the Flight 93 National Memorial was dedicated with speeches by former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, placed a wreath at the memorial by the 40-panel wall bearing the names of those who died.
Sandra Jamerson, 59, of Antioch, Calif., met the Obamas because her twin sister, Wanda Green, was among the 40 passengers and crew killed when they decided to fight four hijackers for control of the plane during the Sept. 11, 200,1 terrorist attacks. Jamerson attended Saturday's dedication of the national memorial and Sunday's memorial service there to remember the victims.
Jamerson said Saturday's dedication was "very significant because it was an accomplishment because we've waited so long" for the national park.
"Today was more personal," Jamerson said Sunday, adding that she plans to attend a private ceremony Monday at which some remains of the victims will be buried at the crash site while the park remains closed to the public. "It's significant to me primarily because this will be her final resting place."
The family members gave Somerset Coroner Wallace Miller, a local funeral director who has kept custody of the remains, a standing ovation when his work was recognized during Sunday's ceremony. Miller choked up behind dark glasses as he read a tribute to the victims with the refrain, "We Remember Them."
Sunday's event was muted and more somber than the Saturday dedication at which Bush called the passengers' efforts "among the most courageous acts in American history." Clinton also spoke.
The Obamas visited the Wall of Names, where 40 marble slabs inscribed with the name of each victim of Flight 93.
More than 3,000 people, more than half of them regular citizens, stayed after the ceremony and pressed together as the Obamas walked to a security barricade to shake hands and have their pictures taken. Some briefly chanted "USA! USA!" Another man shouted: "Thanks for getting bin Laden!" a reference to the death of Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan earlier this year.
Jaleel Dyson, 18, came to the memorial to honor the victims, but was excited to shake the president's hand and get a picture of him on his smartphone.
Dyson, who is from Washington, D.C., but attends college in the area, said it was "important that the president shows his support for the families that lost loved ones."
The visit came as the families of the 40 passengers and crew were praised for helping to inspire a new generation of Americans while keeping the memories of their loved ones' dedication and courage burning brightly.
John Mulligan, 66, of New York City, the brother-in-law of passenger William Cashman, praised the memorial site as "very nice, very quiet, very peaceful.
"It's so tranquil now it lets you come back to reality," he said. "These 40 people will be remembered forever in the history books. They changed the world."
At the earlier ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks, nearly 5,000 people listened as the names of the passengers and crew who were killed were read aloud while bells tolled. Afterward, a children's choir sang as those in the crowd — including family members, first responders, politicians and more than 1,000 other private citizens — listened intently.
Although the ceremony included a moment of silence at the exact minute three other hijacked planes were crashed that day — two into the World Trade Center towers in New York and a third into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. — the crash of Flight 93 at 10:03 a.m. that same day was not marked by silence at Sunday's memorial, despite a program that listed such a pause. Organizers couldn't immediately explain the change of plans.
"Over the past 10 years we have heard this place compared to many other places" including the Alamo and Gettysburg, Gov. Tom Corbett said at the newly dedicated national park that marks the site where Flight 93 crashed. "But the truth is that this place is like no other because the deeds aboard Flight 93 were like no other."
Corbett said the victims "charted a new course, set a new standard for American bravery."
Sunday's memorial service at the Flight 93 Memorial, about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, was being held in concert with ceremonies in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Tom Ridge, Pennsylvania's governor at the time who was then named the nation's first head of homeland security, thanked the regular citizens, many of whom traveled from other states for Sunday's service.
"I think your presence today means almost as much to the families, perhaps as much as the memorial itself," Ridge said. "Your very presence is a powerful message of comfort and understanding and love."
The families then turned and gave the visitors a standing ovation.
Ridge went on to pay tribute to the victims, saying their actions prove "Americans don't live in fear, we live in freedom"
Gordon Felt, brother of passenger Edward and president of the Families of Flight 93, directed some of his comments to the relatives of the other victims.
"I only wish I could have gotten to know each and every one of you under different circumstances," he said. "We lost too much."
Susan Stine, 52, of Tamaqua, Pa., said she has come to the Flight 93 crash site to mark the anniversary each year.
"Everybody was going to New York for the first anniversary and we came here. I can't imagine not being here on 9/11," Stine said.
"I feel differently when I leave here every year," she said. "I feel better in my heart."
U.S. Rep. Mark Critz, D-Pa, choked up as he spoke about the Wall of Names. Told that the pattern of the wall delineates the flight path of the jet before it crashed, Critz said, "Ten years of emotion came rushing in."
Flight 93 was hijacked after taking off from New Jersey. It crashed after passengers and crew, some alerted by cell phone calls from loved ones about the New York attacks, decided to fight the hijackers. Investigators later determined the hijackers intended to crash it into the Capitol in Washington, D.C., where the House and Senate were in session that morning.
Flight 93 National Memorial: http://www.nps.gov/flni/index.htm


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2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 First Test
Cargo Hold: We Sample Both Engines in the Redesigned Sprinter
If you follow the path the Sprinter take taken since it first came to the United States in 2001, you know that it has had plenty of twists and turns. It first came here as a Freightliner, later as a Dodge, and eventually as a Mercedes-Benz (and Freightliner again). It makes the most sense to call it a Mercedes, though, because this really is the Mercedes-Benz of vans. Over the last 13 years, the Sprinter has established itself as the most refined in its class, with the nicest interior, excellent V-6 turbodiesel, and Mercedes-quality amenities. However, competitors from Europe are coming, such as the Ford Transit (in 2015) and the Fiat-sourced ProMaster (in 2014, like the new Sprinter). Is the redesigned Sprinter ready for the new competition?
To determine the answer to that question, we got behind the wheel of two different 2014 Sprinter 2500s. Both of them reflect the new look of the Sprinter, inside and out. The nose looks different now, even though it retains the front step that makes it easier to reach the windshield and engine bay. The Sprinter has a new grille, one that aligns its looks more with the rest of the Mercedes-Benz line. It's flanked by new headlights and sits below a hood that is now taller and designed to provide more protection for pedestrians.
But it's what's under that taller hood that serves as the biggest news for the Sprinter for 2014. Now it comes with a second engine, a 161-hp, 266-lb-ft 2.1-liter I-4 turbodiesel, which serves as the van's base engine. Unlike the returning 3.0-liter V-6 turbodiesel, with 188 hp and 325-lb-ft, the new four is backed by a seven-speed automatic. (The V-6 continues on essentially unchanged with a five-speed automatic.) We drove both Sprinters, empty and full of gear, and were pleasantly surprised by the amount of power the I-4 provided in the van. We knew the V-6 was an excellent engine, one well suited to the Sprinter. But how would the smaller diesel fare?
Surprisingly well, actually. Despite the difference in power -- the inline-four puts out 27 fewer hp and 59 lb-ft less -- there is plenty of power, and anyone spending day after day making deliveries would be happy with the power delivery. The seven-speed helps make the power discrepancy less noticeable. At the track, the four-cylinder van accelerated to 60 mph in 12.6 seconds and finished the quarter mile in 18.8 seconds at 70.9 mph. What is truly impressive about these numbers is that they really aren't that far off from those of the V-6-powered van, which hit 60 in 12.4 seconds and ran the quarter in 18.7 seconds at 71.8 mph. That also makes us wonder what the V-6 could do backed by the seven-speed automatic. The van stopped from 60 mph in 134 feet in the V-6-equipped model and 136 in one with the I-4. The other things drivers and fleet owners will like is the fuel economy of the smaller turbodiesel. While it isn't EPA rated, we could see van owners getting near 20 mpg around town.
The cabin now has new features that make it easier to get from Point A to Point B, such as a new navigation system, Bluetooth, and aux input as standard equipment. A rearview camera is optional. Above and beyond that, though, the seats are comfortable and the seating position for the driver is quite good. Even without the new technology, this would still be an excellent van to drive.
There are some downsides, though. Aside from the shallow shelves above the sunvisors, there isn't a lot of storage up front. The van could use a center console, in which you could securely stow a laptop or tablet. The other big shortcoming is price. This is the nicest van on the market, and that comes at a price. In the case of the two vans we drove, the one powered by the four-cylinder was more than $53,000 the V-6-powered 2500 cost nearly $60,000 as tested. But for businesses that can afford to add Sprinters to their fleets, the new changes will make owners -- and drivers -- happy.
|2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500
|Passenger Van 144
|Passenger Van 170
|Front-engine, RWD, 12-pass, 3-door van
|Front-engine, RWD, 12-pass, 3-door van
|2.1L/161-hp/266-lb-ft turbodiesel DOHC 16-valve I-4
|3.0L/188-hp/325-lb-ft turbodiesel DOHC 24-valve V-6
|7-speed automatic
|5-speed automatic
|5858 lb (53/47%)
|6343 lb (53/47%)
|144.3 in
|170.0 in
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|232.5 x 79.7 x 107.5 in
|273.2 x 79.7 x 107.5 in
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