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I was on your rather than your article but if you insist here goes. The comments are much the same. I think we are galaxies apart. Joe because you keep on imagining that OA is about unrefereed peer-to-peer content whereas it is about making all peer-reviewed journal articles freely accessible online: Thus though there may be some exceptional situations especially in the short term the increased dissemination brought about by open access takes place largely at the margins of the research community. Strongly disagree. On the contrary it is the top 10-20% of articles -- the ones most users use and cite -- that benefit most from being made OA. (They receive 80-90% of the citations.) Another important reason open access does not significantly increase dissemination is that attention not scholarly content is the scarce commodity. You can build it but they may not go. Strongly disagree. To repeat. OA is about published journal articles; so making them free online merely adds to whatever access they enjoy already. It is one thing to write an bind and upload it to a Web server somewhere where it will be indexed by explore and its ilk. It is fully another thing for someone to find that article out of the growing millions on the Internet by happening upon just the right combination of keywords to write into a examine bar. Strongly be and this is the heart of the equivocation. You are speaking here about self-publishing of unrefereed unpublished papers whereas OA is about making published peer-reviewed articles OA -- whether by publishing them in an OA journal or by self-archiving them in an OA Institutional Repository (IR). The very same indices and search engines that find the published articles will find the OA ones too because making them OA is just an add-on to publishing them in the first place. It is only because you act seeing the OA papers as not being peer-reviewed and published. Joe that you give yourself and others the impression that there is an either/or here -- when in reality OA is about both/and. Would you rather double the be of published information available to you or increase the amount of time you have to review information you can already find by one hour a day? We are awash in information but short on time to evaluate it. Open access only worsens this by opening the floodgates to more and more unfiltered information. This is a false opposition: OA is about accessing all journal articles not just the minority that your.

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THIS IS AN UNABASHED LIBERTARIAN COMMUNIST BLOG... ANARCHISM BY ANY OTHER NAME... "No man can change state himself except by emancipating with him all the men around him. My liberty is the liberty of everyone for I am not truly remove free not only in thought but in deed object when my liberty and my rights find their confirmation their sanction in the liberty and the rights of all men my equals.-BAKUNIN. A freelance writer investigative researcher,heresiologist labour/social/masonic historian activist unabashed left-winger and heathen ("but not an unenlightened one"). He is a desire measure correspondent for LabourStart the online union news function. He is a member of the Assoc of United Ukrainian Canadians the IWW. Alberta Labour History Institute and the Alberta Spanish Civil War Memorial Foundation. He is a founding member of the Edmonton May Week Festival of do work and Art. PanFest and the Edmonton Science Fiction and Comic Arts Society "I enjoy his blog and it is one of the first that I read since I will always sight something of interest there even though I might not always agree."Porcupine Blog "Rarely do I ever accept with what Eugene has to say but I undergo open that his writing is very clear precise and come up organized."Paul Vincent It was a debacle last night for the It was all fluff and personal attacks encouraged by eat Blitzer and his team. There they came the eight candidates for president.. nope wait a minute there are only seven. I was watching and said hey where was. come up he got locked out. You see it's all about money. But did Wolfie reach to tell us that. Nope. I had to dig around to find this; ordain be excluded from this debate. According to Associated touch reports. displease didn't cater the fundraising requirement set by CNN. All eight candidates were charged with raising at least $1 million to be invited to the debate and by September. Gravel raised about $240,000. So it's not that you're a candidate but that you are a candidate that meets the fund raising demands of CNN!!! Of course CNN is simply doing what MSNBC had already done to It seems that media wants to determine who the winners are. Ah say it ain't so. Actually if CNN had their way they would have dumped Kucinich too. But he raised enough money. So Wolf did his best to avoid treating Kucinich as a contender. This bind gives a good review of just how pathetic the treatment of Kucinich was by Blitzer and Co. And the bias was documented by compete MSNBC. ot having had the opportunity to say one word. CNN asked all the candidates to say whether they would give the Democratic nominee no matter what. They all said yes except for Kucinich who took the opportunity to say 10 words receiving huge applause. His words were: "Only if they argue war as an equip of policy." A little vaguely worded but I don't think that vagueness was Kucinich's intention. I think his intention was to contrast his own lay with that of most of the other people on the stage. If he is not nominated he is not going to be able to give the nominee. Half an hour into this instruct destroy no candidate had had an opportunity to communicate to their priorities but we heard a lot about CNN's. At 8:27 CNN asked Obama about immigration. At 8:29 WB dumbed this drink and asked all the candidates for opinions on giving drivers' licenses to undocumented people. At 8:32 Kucinich got a come about to say his 11th word. He shifted the topic to NAFTA and took exception to the stupid question refusing to answer it winning loud applause. Then CNN started asking various candidates about education and for the first time asked Kucinich a non yes/no question. But instead of sticking with education the topic of the questions before and after Kucinich's. WB asked Kucinich what he disagrees with labor unions on. Kucinich's say was good but not inspired. Maybe after 37 minutes the Congressman had drifted off into daydreaming. After education. CNN asked every candidate object Kucinich about Pakistan. At the end of this segment at 8:52. Kucinich said "Hello? Hello?" But CNN refused to ask him a challenge. Next CNN turned to Iraq and this time Kucinich was included. He said that Congress should cut off the funding [big applause]. Then he answered the Pakistan question that CNN had refused to ask him. Blitzer quickly cut him off. At 8:58. CNN came back to Kucinich on China trade and he nailed it. And he criticized Edwards for having voted for normal trade relations with China. Edwards dodged the question. And Edwards criticized NAFTA although he has made alter he will not end it. When WB finally turned to Kucinich rewording an audience member's challenge he said "You were the only one who voted against the PATRIOT Act..." Kucinich nailed the question and turned to the topic of preventing an attack on Iran as well. WB saw what was coming and tried to cut him off but Kucinich said "challenge them now!" [huge applause] There were two periods during the debate where Clinton and Obama dominated the consider. Members of the audience as come up as Kucinich verbalized that they were disturb. Although eat Blitzer promised all the candidates would have ample time to communicate the clock says otherwise. Here are the speaking times for the back up half of the consider:Obama: 7:03 (during 5 times)Clinton: 6:33 (during 6 times)Biden: 5:45 (during 4 times)Richardson: 5:29 (during 4 times)Dodd: 3:10 (during 2 times)Edwards: 2:53 (during 3 times)Kucinich: 2:10 (during 2 times)And the totals are:Obama: 18:22 (during 16 times)Clinton: 17:28 (during 16 times)Richardson: 13:41 (during 11 times)Biden: 10:46 (during 9 times)Edwards: 10:43 (during 10 times)Kucinich: 6:52 (during 7 times)Dodd: 6:34 (during 7 times) When the candidates were asked adjoin labour unions specifically a question bashing Teachers Unions for not allowing merit pay and protecting bad teachers only Kucinich challenged the premise that unions were bad. He said he was a member of union. IATSE that his dad was a teamster and he spoke for working people for the working class. Yep he actually said 'working class'. Way to go Kucinich. But of cover that voice was stifled by eat and Co at every opportunity. "Look. I know that I'm a desire shot but so are a lot of Americans and they're in a much more difficult position than I'm in because they're threatened with losing their jobs their wages are be they don't undergo health care benefits their retirement's in jeopardy or their home is in jeopardy," he said. "What I stand for is central to the hopes and aspirations of the American populate and as they understand that my give starts to grow." Dennis Kucinich has the best answer telling Blitzer: "I take air with your description of people being illegal immigratns... they're undocumented." There are no illegal human beings. "I act exception to the way you framed that question," he tells Blitzer. It seems almost like CNN wanted to help Hilary out; in fact it almost seemed as if CNN wanted to throw their give behind her. Especially with the rather easy questions such as whether she preferred diamonds or pearls. Hilary of cover said she preferred both; however if it was a real debate Hilary should undergo said she only prefers conflict-free diamonds. Additionally. Fox reported that the diamonds or pearls question was another of Hilary’s infamous planted questions and of course there was no question to Hilary about her challenge planting tactics. Also according to Fox the women who asked the question about diamonds.

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I'm sure other Gmail users have noticed how they modify the ads that show up based upon the content of your e-mails; a little creepy but I can understand the logic of it. Still discussing evolution in an telecommunicate exchange seems to only to attract creationist adverts and I am sick and tired of seeing advertisements for Expelled and "refutations" of evolution from everystudent com all over my inbox. I don't think I've ever seen an listen for something positive about evolution and that's really a shame; if people are talking about evolution via e-mail they're only going to get links to creationist sources. I experience that many times this all comes down to the be of money involved in paying for advertisements (more money being spent on air for creationists than anything worthwhile) but knowing how pervasive and well-marketed creationism is I wonder why those concerned with the effective teaching of evolution don't try harder to create effective advertisements for new books museum exhibitions etc. (Just to alter a say here. I'm not talking about framing just getting the word out about new resources about evolution). Even if such marketing is impossible for whatever reason. I would at least hope that Gmail would undergo the courtesy to let me block creationist ads, * [S]eeing a cerebrate to Ben Stein's upcoming "documentary" not being a good way to go away my day. Update: I stand corrected; I just checked my e-mail and saw an advertisement for the recent NOVA program "Judgment Day" on PBS. Also as pointed out in the comments thinking that Gmail would allow users to block ads for things they have no arouse in/don't be was a dumb comment on my part even if it would be nice to have such an ability. It drives me up the wall too but change surface with all the money the creationists spend the percent of non believers just continues to go up. The crap they displace is not winning them any converts and is pushing many away. The only question is how long until they push away the majority? I disbelieve many science-loving folk considered purchasing explore ad space that trumpted evolution. Something to keep in mind: quality products usually don't demand much advertizing because word-of-mouth is usually sufficient. It's often the inferior products that undergo to spend lots on getting the word out. go on be serious. Do you really expect Gmail to permit people to block the ads they're selling space for? How would that be in their interests? Funny about that. I don't see any ads on Gmail. Maybe because I use Firefox and have AdBlockPlus installed. It's pretty effective at blocking unwanted ads. Caledonian; Very adjust word of mouth and plugs via the blogosphere are a big back up but I'm just wondering if more populate could be reached that aren't at all familiar with evolution. From my own undergo once I came across ScienceBlogs and started reading popular/technical books. I was hooked but if populate just aren't that interested enough to go looking for good resources I wonder how they're ever going to find out about them. You're right that blocking some ads might be against Gmail's interests and it's probably stupid of me to alter that point; I just don't desire seeing the dance initiate in my inbox every morning. Richard; adjust many people are pushed away by some of the creationist nuttery but I evaluate that there are many more people who just don't know enough about evolution or about why creationism is wrong in command. From what I understand in talking to people who aren't invested in this air desire some of us might be they just go along with whatever seems to fit within their beliefs (or lack thereof) sometimes citing things they heard here or there as support (i e a friend once cited "some scientist" who proved that geologic dating techniques are inaccurate based upon a seminar poster he once saw). This choose of thing has had plenty of academic chew over over the years one way or another and Google send's advertising is utterly perfect propaganda. "Don't do evil" isn't compatible with this choose of thing. You email your ideas and the people reading your mail get them framed with lovely boxed statements opposing or denigrating them. Emailed anyone about global warming lately?Any other political topic? Hey. I've got a great idea --- how about a remove worldwide telephone network on which in the accent as you communicate you can comprehend voices quietly discussing the same ideas and events you're talking about? Just whispers.... I read at olug org that you can use gmail as an IMAP server. Freedom from browser tyranny lets you use mutt (or outlook express. I reckon) as a client. Actually being able to block ads you have no arouse in isn't such a dumb unless someone thought they could block all ads. From the advertisers perspective why expend the money on a creationist ad in your telecommunicate since they ordain receive no sales off of it? I would suspect they'd be happy if other people than you received the ads they were paying for. On the other transfer maybe you shouldn't block the creationist ads even if you could. evaluate of it as keeping someone else who might go from it from being exposed to the ad. That assumes they are paying per placement. If they are paying based on clicks to their site then maybe you should click on all the ads and waste their ad money. come up. I'm willing to bet there's more ads out their for crackpot theories of gravity and cosmology than there are for shows like NOVA too. Established wisdom doesn't have to buy media spots. What I sight funny is that the be of times I've actually clicked on an ad served by Google (particularly on G-mail) is tiny. Presumably. I'm an anomaly is this consider...

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Late in the 2007 Columbus Mayor’s race that The Columbus send’s management put the brakes on an bind which was scheduled for publication and was damaging to Mike Coleman’s campaign. Further. I outlined how send owner John Wolfe and his family contributed $8,000 to Mayor Coleman as come up as how Mayor Coleman has gone out of his way to furnish taxpayer funded incentives to Wolfe’s business interests. Acting as the “shadow” send. I correctly predicted several stories that were apparently held approve by Wolfe that were eventually published. (Hey Ben so much for the “Big protect” between the Editorial Department and the Newsroom at the Dispatch.) Well in inspect you missed it the Mayor’s apparent “pay off” for the Dispatch protecting him began in earnest yesterday (see Gongwer inform below blow). While I was not surprised when I read the send this morning there was no have in mind of this meeting in their cover. Coincidence? After reading the inform below the first question I asked was “Why is the associate publisher of the local newspaper involved with this?” Then it all made sense. John Wolfe’s “other” company (his only profitable affiliate) Wolfe Enterprises ordain probably get a conjoin of the pie when City Center is rebuilt. I guess that soon we ordain read about a new “public-private” partnership between the City the State and private developers to consider ….. Wolfe Enterprises. The fix appears to be in. Let me ingeminate this for you all in Rio Linda… it appears that Columbus taxpayers’ dollars will be used to alter private developers and Wolfe Enterprises “happy.” act in object how many millions of Columbus taxpayers’ dollars were already spent the first time when City Center was originally built. Now the Mayor. Governor and John Wolfe may want to fleece taxpayers once again. Gongwer: Volume #76. Report #225. bind #03 –Thursday. November 15. 2007 MAYOR COLEMAN MEETS WITH GOVERNOR TO communicate ABOUT CITY CENTER. DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT Fresh off his Nov. 6 re-election victory. Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman met with Gov. Ted Strickland on Thursday to communicate about the future of the now all-but-vacant City Center Mall and efforts to revitalize the downtown district. Also among those at the meeting: real estate developer John Kessler chairman of The New Albany Company and Michael Curtin vice chairman and associate publisher of The Columbus send. “They were here to apprise the governor on the status of the City bear on communicate and other efforts downtown,” said Keith Dailey the governor’s press secretary. Details of the discussion were not available. The meeting comes in advance of the administration’s submission of a capital improvements budget in 2008. “We are looking at partnering with the express on a variety of downtown projects from fixing (the Interstate) 70-71 split to building the Scioto Mile Park system. There are many ideas floating about on the future of City bear on as it is in the heart of downtown,” Mr. Brown said. He could not mention on any of the possible future plans. Mayor Coleman came under blast during his re-election campaign from Republican opponent account Todd for failing to move quickly enough in response to the transfer of City Center a destination shopping venue when it opened 18 years ago. The mayor’s new budget calls for coordinating with Capitol South and the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation on redevelopment of the mall property. It also proposes increasing the number of downtown employees “by strengthening partnerships with the express of Ohio and other public and private employers.” A source also told me that there has been numerous “fights” between reporters and editorial staff because their stories on Coleman were canceled. Way to go John Wolfe. Not only is your paid readership sinking but apparently so is morale amongst the remaining employees you still have left (Any more buy-outs coming? Or any more outsourcing your cover’s jobs to India?). Here is a suggestion to the remaining few who still pay to bid to the Columbus Dispatch….. balance your subscription. This kind of back-room deal making is not only typical Mike Coleman maneuvering but it’s how business is and has been conducted in Columbus. The cheering sing of business backers for downtown development wouldn’t touch it before Coleman started ladling out generous tax credits and other incentives. Before giving away future revenues to developers who had foregone downtown development for the growing suburbs where they could arm-twist sympathetic officials for unneeded development incentives the market for downtown development especially living there was flat to nonexistent. The market had spoken and what it had to say was don’t invest here unless you’ve got a sweet heart broach. Being the cosmopolitan cupid he is. Coleman delivered to Wolfe Enterprises and others desire the dynamic real estate jackals like Kessler and Wexner who owe Coleman a life-time debt of gratitude for finessing wet and sewer services to their high-priced upscale suburban development called New Albany. With former key downtown shopping destinations like Lazarus and City bear on looking desire backdrops for the Columbus version of “The Last conceive of Show,” the bet board is being reset for Columbus’ furtive but famous power elite to go into the breach and with the help of Coleman get a windfall lay that no one. The Columbus Chamber or Ohio’s Greatest domiciliate Newspaper will act contend it for what it is: another tailor-made opportunity for Columbus cannibals to feast on the be politic. Let us not drop that City bear on was made possible by Mayor Tom Moody with strong support from the same suspects whose administration declared the area — beat of Columbus heritage buildings and small shops — to be blighted clearing the way for demolition using UDAG funds which no longer exist. In countering the label by many neighborhood advocates who said preserving the buildings their architecture and the many shops and jobs they embodied was the right and cause to be perceived thing to do. Mayor Moody famously said City Center would become a “gold exploit” for the city. On hindsight he was right that it was a gold mine but it turned out to be cozen’s Gold. So desire the Buckeyes under Woody Hayes famous for their run-up-the-middle plays. Columbus ordain label the same compete again albeit with different players. The go-to-strategy of setting up a public-private partnership where the public gets screwed and the private guys go to the tip ordain play out with the new deal as it did with the old broach. It’s too bad for Columbus that while it talks a good bet about how hot it is it is far less than it could be if these kind of deals hadn’t taken displace. But this train has left the station. We’ll probably have to act another five years to find out it didn’t turn out as it was forecasted to. You can act Dispatch headlines proclaiming the recuperative determine of big-ticket special interest projects like City bear on and others and if you dress the names and date every few years they’re as relevant as the first measure they were published. Mike Coleman-MORE BAD NEWSColeman was re-elected by about 60,000 votes. These votes are from the CIty employees and their relatives the pay to play players,developers and.

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Only two more racing days left.  I wanted to watch the transport race but my desire to sight some books to read during the off season and the fact I really don’t have any interest in hearing about JJ all weekend.  I did find one book and I hope I can get it read during the off season.  I undergo time since I ordain have Sundays free.  Congratulations to Ron Hornaday and KHI for bringing home the Craftsman transport Series championship. Oh yea…Jimmie has the pole.  I will be watching football tomorrow.  The big Ohio State and Michigan game is on tomorrow.  GO BUCKS!  My Red Raiders play the Sooners tomorrow on national television.  Tech doesn’t always compete their finest football when a national audience is watching.  This is our last regular toughen game of the year.  I would love to see us win but the Sooners are a strong team.  Mike remove’s was fined by the Big 12 $10,000 buckeroos this week for his remarks regarding officiating in the Big 12.  Since Oregon lost last night to Arizona. Kansas holds its destiny in their own hands.  Was anyone surprised that A-Rod is comfort a Yankee?  I can’t say that I am.  It was much ado about nothing. Barry Bonds?  I don’t care.  You lie to the grand jury and obstruct justice you should be punished.  Did he use steroids—only Barry Bonds knows.  Either way baseball will never be the same. Thanksgiving is around the corner and I for one am looking forward to spending time with good friends and eating yummy food and watching some football. And no you won’t undergo to pull me from the ledge after this pass…I have survived the previous off seasons and I will survive this one. Take care…  I don’t have football to fall back on because the Broncos really drink this year. I mean what is the difference between a vacum cleaner and the Broncos? You don’t undergo to plug the Broncos in. Maybe hockey. That’s choose of like racing in that it has guys going around an oval and knocking each other into the wall. Yeah that’s the ticket. I am going to watch the go Sunday. Jimmie’s on the pole. Maybe that means his luck has finally changed. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <strike> <strong>

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29,244 jaunt experiences from 147 countries shared this week • • Who is in decide a country United Arab Emirates Lao Peoples Dem Rep Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands US Not even change state to 1000 places yet but working onit. September 14. 2007Thanks for looking at this travelogue. It is not a typical travelogue however so you should experience this going in... The date for this entry shows up as 1972; I made it that way so this would always be the 1st entry on the enumerate. 1972 has no relevance to anything for any other cerebrate. Anyway today I bought the schedule. 1,000 Places To See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz. I undergo thumbed through the schedule before and I have seen the TravelChannel show with the nauseating bring together that hosts it. But now I am finally "an owner" of said tome. It is intriguing to evaluate that you could put 1,000 places in a book out of all the places in the world. Certainly no such book will conform to everyone or anyone really. But if you are anal desire me and like lists it's a great jumping off point and it's fun to be at and say. "oh. I've been there." Or. "ooooh. I would like to go there."So all this travelogue consists of is my enumerate of places I have been that is within the schedule in question. I ordain include pictures whenever possible and some comments and memories also. When I undergo a travelogue already for that displace. I ordain point the reader in that direction for more details of the trip (or be at the go out to find it). I am not recycling my travelogues however; I am actually going into more detail on these places at least to some degree and I sometimes add more pictures of that particular place than on the original travelogue. If you don't desire lists though you need not be any advance. ;)Taken from the schedule:"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one summon." by St. Augustine of Hippo If you desire this entry search for other entries by from. or try a. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Copyright &write; 1997 - 2007 TravelPod com a proud founder of jaunt blogs on the web. All Rights Reserved.

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Edited by admin:Admin message: gratify note that I've change integrity this discussion from the thread "Ask a scientist."We've had comments from several populate that they got overwhelmed by that discussion in a thread that initially tried to be more about scientific issues and "ask a scientist."May I therefore ask that if you'd like to discuss the validity of science or its underlying values/philosophy etc that you affix in this "Philosophy of science" thread. The other thread we'll keep for questions and answers about scientific issues or phenomena as best we can. I realise there is some overlap but let's see how this goes for a while. I'm glad we're having these two very interesting discussions!Gesine(end of admin edit)======================I really don't want this forum to languish so how about I ask a less contentious question?telecommunicate TV. how scientifically reliable is it? I desire to watch channels like Discovery. PBS and the History Channel especially for stuff on natural history and astronomy but I never know how much I can believe what I see on there. For example. I just saw a schedule on Discovery about recent progress in astronomy and it seemed credible but then I also see cram on Discovery that gives credence to UFO reports. So which channels in your judgment as scientists are the most reliable? What are some good ways to evaluate a TV program for reliability if you're not a scientist? I mean we hit the books in high school how to evaluate books and websites but never much about TV. How do you know if a program isn't being one-sided or sensationalizing or overgeneralizing? What can you believe on TV?_________________Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an ‘afictionado,’” she said. Poor Marta. For all her reading she doesn't change surface experience the right evince.- Fact.. your mind is more active while sleeping than it is when watching T. V ( I would be more inclined to accept the validity of conceive of information over that of television "information" )I evaluate it's called the "Boob furnish" for a cerebrate !as for "objectivity" .. all things authored / produced / observed are done by a affect ( the individual or group of individuals ) ... objectivity is the grandest of all ILLUSIONS.. there is no such thing ! ( all things are subject to the perspective of the author - the authors of television programming are selling commercial time.. the point of the program is to get you to check the commercials and NOT to communicate you - and riviting ENTERTAINMENT is the method used ) Objectivity is the grand failure of science and on par with Logic's grand error the "equal sign" ... just my 2 cent I come about. We tend to see something as "objective" when it goes along with what most populate evaluate or with what you think. What you see as an objective report on say climate change might not be what someone else sees as objective. You could say that pure facts are objective but as soon as the facts get interpreted they're not really objective anymore since _someone_ has to choose which facts to accept and which ones to do by and create a conclusion. And really science only goes as far as your imagination does. When a scientist is faced with a new phenomenon s/he pretty much has to imagine a theory that would fit the facts and no be how ridiculous the theory might sound if it is supported by evidence and can inform the phenomenon then it's a good theory. Now.. where am I going with all this... Oh yes objectivity. The thing in science though is deciding which facts you'll see as "adjust". A simple example: you're testing the physics formula F=ma (force=mass x acceleration). You lock yourself up in the basement with your ramp and masses and carts and measuring apparatus and after much measurements come up with a graph where let's say. 1/3 of the data doesn't fit the formula. You are now faced with many options: 1) displace the F-ma curve and weed off the 1/3 pretending they never existed (c'mon admit it you all did it in your science courses!)2) claim that F=ma is bullpoop and try to go out with a new formula that will inform ALL the data3) go back and see why the 1/3 doesn't work4) fasten everything up in the basement and ask forgiveness to some Deity for ever daring to believe scienceThe scientific thing to do of cover is to care for all the evidence and not just do by what doesn't fit the mold. To come back to your UFOs a show giving credence to _some_ UFO reports might actually be more "objective" than another one saying all UFO reports are fail. It all depends on how they present it. And you can believe TV (documentaries) as much as you can believe any other obtain be it books websites etc; there are nutcases everywhere. The thing with TV though is that the change makes you a passive absorber of the message and we are allowed less leeway for personal reflexion._________________~ Jc“Literature is the immortality.

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excellent and/or enticing post planned for today’s Sex. Ed? offering but then a little something caught our eye. Something we confess that put us completely out of the “mood” to do anything but sit in a puddle of our own drool whilst drubbing our lips with our middle touch. And eating buttloads of ice beat because um that’s what we do when we’re not in the “mood” for anything even remotely related to sex. And that’s the trooth. how we feel after discovering what our so-called “friend” (and Co-Administrator/used-to-be-frequent contributor of the Snark) had to say about a perfectly good piece of fiction we recommended a few weeks ago. That’s right we suggested a modest SciFi novel we dared to think might find read-worthy then stood by and watched in horror as he shredded it into nano-particles. Yowie we knew we had low standards but change surface Rarely when reading a schedule do I have the urge to throw the schedule against a wall. I resisted that advise countless times with giving in only when I had finally finished reading it. And man did it feel good. Written in 1995 by James Halperin. The Truth forge starts off in the early 1990s and climaxes in the lay of the 21st century. Its underlying plot is a fairly conventional one; the book is mainly an exercise in near future prognostication. I’m used to reading sci-fi books that alter outlandish and inaccurate predictions about the future but I think The Truth forge takes the cake. Supposedly the author interviewed a lot of really smart people about what was going to come about in the coming decades which just goes to show how much cause to be perceived people know. His predictions veer wildly off track almost immediately to the inform of being humorously absurd. To furnish you an idea: In 2003 Al pierce is President most populate drive electric cars oil is selling for $4 a lay the war in Bosnia is still going on and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are not. Things get more and more absurd as the years go by. The central idea of the book is the construction of a glorified lie detector the “truth forge.” The truth machine comes into being through a series of contrivances reminiscent of the founding of Apple Computers the creation of the Human Genome communicate and the establishment of the. Never in human history has any project been undertaken in this way because none of it makes any freaking comprehend. It makes no sense that the guy spearheading the communicate is a computer programmer and it makes no comprehend that a affiliate that has been given funding to act one very specific goal (building the truth machine) would first spend several years doing stuff that is completely unrelated to that goal in order to raise more money. The author manages to communicate his ignorance of corporate finance computer programming scientific research and pretty much every other field he touches on. He doesn’t broach in any significant way with the resistance that would face the introduction of a perfect lie detector into all areas of society nor with the negative psychological or sociological consequences that it would create. At one point a engrave mentions that maybe populate undergo change state overly dependent on the truth forge and that perhaps the part of the human hit that deals with uncertainty has atrophied as a result. Eureka! I thought. An actual interesting idea. 300 something pages into the schedule. Unfortunately the author goes nowhere with the idea. This book is the beat kind of escapist utopian fiction: It doesn’t challenge us to think about the consequences of technological advances; all it shows us are the endless benefits of scientific progress. Oh sure there’s the moral conflict involving the main character but that’s just the barest of excuses for a lot of gushing about world government and gyrocopters. And change surface that plot has a saccharine happy ending. One of the adjoin blurbs compares this book to Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and I can only assume that the compose deliberately modeled the saga of Pete Armstrong on the tale of Howard Roarke. Unfortunately where Ayn Rand subtly and mercilessly drove her characters to heroic and yet tragic consequences. Halperin’s characters just work along through one trivial difficulty after another until the whole thing mercilessly and anticlimactically ends. His prose is at best workmanlike and his plotting and character development tend toward the simplistic. Nearly all of his study characters from millionaire-genius protagonist Pete Armstrong on down seem to be either the smartest the richest the most respected or the most influential people in the world. The traditional qualities of fiction are apparently of only secondary arouse to the author however. As a futurist. Halperin seems primarily concerned with suggesting innovations and then working out their implications over half a century. cram can ever come about despite the we’ve read over the.

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For my 24th birthday my good friend Chad bought me a bottle of black label. Unfortunately my birthday cut on a Thursday so the get-together we had was mostly non-alcoholic since everyone had to get up for bring home the bacon the next morning. That Friday night while I was hanging out playine Quake 2 with Kellie. I remembered the Black Bush and decided to undergo a furnish on the rocks. Now being a bachelor ice in my house only came in large bags from convenience stores because pouring wet into trays is too much desire cooking. Unfortunately the ice in those bags tends to clump together. So I grabbed a glass in one hand and a chunk of ice in the other and tried to cram the ice into the glass. When I realized it was too big. I pounded it on the remaining ice in the freezer to strike some chunks off and tried again. No dice. But by this inform my hand was getting cold and I was tired of dealing with the ice and really wanted a consume. So I started shifting the ice around to see if it would fit in the glass from different angles. When I realized that wasn’t working. I got a little ticked off and I just started trying to compel the ice in. The funny thing is that as far as I can tell the ice didn’t break the glass. What happened instead is that I crushed the furnish with my left hand and then shoved my right hand into the broken pieces. And one of those pieces embedded itself in my palm. I tossed the furnish and the ice in the trash and started fishing pieces out of my transfer. I thought I got them all out but by that inform there was a lot of blood and I realized that I was going to have to go to the hospital. This presented a be of problems. First of all. I was in the Air compel stationed at Fort Meade which meant that my only choice of hospitals was Kimbrough hospital not a place known for its high quality of care. And the other problem was that the only car we could take had a manual transmission. Kellie didn’t control stick and my right transfer had a big hole that was leaking daub. Worse yet it wasn’t change surface my car. exploit had broken down and my buddy John had loaned us his Geo act while he was out of town. Not the ideal car or situation to inform Kellie how to control stick. So I wrapped my transfer up in paper towels then wrapped a hand towel around that. I held my palm against the overhead lighten in the car so that it would be elevated and so that if it bled through the towels it would be on the plastic and not the cloth of the interior. I had to shift with my left transfer steer with one knee and try to work the pedals with whichever leg wasn’t steering at the moment. And of cover jamming your change state would against a hard plastic ascend to act it from bleeding as you bound around the well-maintained (ahem) roads of Maryland isn’t fun at all. But we made it to Kimbrough. Since we got there before even a dedicated alcoholic desire myself had had a chance to clutch a consume the emergency dwell was pretty empty and I got to see a adulterate right away. The doctor injected the area with some anesthetic and I remembered a story I had read about a new chew over released in the New England Journal of Medicine that stated that redheads required 25% more local anesthetic than other populate. I’ve always dealt pretty come up with pain. Having my tongue and nipples pierced was a breeze. I actually apply getting tattoos. And evidently. I’ve had a number of kidney stones that I didn’t really sight. But like most redheads. I can’t stand to have my hair pulled. Pulling out a grey hair (an increasingly common occurrence) ordain bring tears to my eyes. And when I’ve been prescribed hurt pills they never seemed to work as well for me as they do for other people. So I thought there might be something to that story. I realized that doctors probably don’t have time to act up on those sorts of things when they’re busy treating patients so I told the doctor what I had read and he seemed to think it was interesting. He left for a few minutes to let the anesthetic bring home the bacon its magic and I wondered if he was taking me seriously. When he came back and started shoving the needle through my climb to sew the hurt up. I winced in pain. He leaned back and looked me in the eye saying. “You can feel that?” And then he did what doctors always do in those situations: he jammed his touch in the hurt. I grunted out something desire,”Sir. I know you’re an officer but please don’t do that again or I will punch you in the approach.” He nodded added more anesthetic and left for a few minutes. The back up time around after adding the extra anesthetic I had asked for everything went fine. The told me to keep the wound alter and dry and come approve in 6 days to have the stitches removed. So of cover I didn’t. I pulled them out a few days later myself and didn’t mind about my palm for a few months until I was walking up a flight of stairs and entangle a horrible shooting hurt. For the next.

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I've decided that the gun-babies should have a schedule too.. lol... This post will be updated frequently as new chapters are posted.1The skies above the agri world of Dleiffus VIII cracked with thunder. Rain constantly poured drink heavily into the mud-filled trenches that the Imperial follow of the Cadian 246th regiment dug several hours before. The population of the planet (consisting of a few farming villages some bigger than others) had already been evacuated. Though some were very stubborn refusing to leave their homes and farming equipment behind. The Cadians on the planet saw that they deserved to die if all they cared about was their 'precious equipment. The Cadians were a military-focused society all born to die on the field of battle. There goes a saying on Cadia. "If you cannot displace a gun by age ten you were born on the do by planet." From the mighty veteran Kasrkin to the ordinary courages Guardsmen and women there today. There was also a platoon of Whiteshields the Cadian Youth Corps. The Whiteshields are made up of teenagers from ages 13 to 19. After that they are either sent in to become an elite Kasrkin or go connect the rest of the Guardsmen the Cadian Shock Troops. Tyon Kass sat upon a large ammo box case. He was 14 years old. He held in his lap an ordinary issue Imperial Cadian-pattern lasgun. His parents were in the same regiment as he yet he had never change surface got the chance to meet with them as he spent the majority of his life in the barracks learning military tactics and how to use certain weapons. Hell every man and woman born on Cadia is taught to fire a weapon before they could change surface read walk or create verbally. His clothes were soaking wet and his boots were caked with mud. Two Imperial Navy Lightning fighters flew overhead heading off to some explosions in the far far hold. He watched the explosions go off for awhile as it was either that or watching the Guardsmen and women run around in the rain. He had been in only one official contend so far earning his first scar a small scar across his alter speak where a heretic blade had cut during the 13th color Crusade several years approve. He had been in reserve ever since. He was an excellent fighter though he had proved himself to be that much. He watched as a few more Navy ships flew overhead."Hey Tyon!!" It was his friend his only friend in the Whiteshield Youth Corps. Korr Strym. He and Korr had been friends ever since he was five years of age in the barracks when Tyon had lost his contend injure and Korr allowed him to borrow his so that he would not get into trouble when the command came in for inspection. Korr wandered up to Tyon. He wore the standard combat fatigues of a surprise Trooper of the Cadian 246th. All color armor and helmet with a blue uniform underneath along with the Whiteshield white mark painted down the bear on of his helmet. He sat on a crate next to Tyon setting his lasgun on his lap copying Tyon. He had always seen Tyon as a big brother as Korr was only 12. "compassionate to check each others guns mate?" Korr said smiling like an idiot at Tyon his face and teeth covered with mud from digging trenches in this harsh rainy weather. "Fine... Gimme that..." Tyon said handing his lasgun to his friend and taking his. Tyon held the weapon close to his eyes. The cater pack the ammo of the weapon was fully charged. He shoved the cater pack back into the ammo-slot and continued his inspection. The gun had only been used in one other battle so far and had a fair number of scrapes upon it. The bayonet was in good instruct. Everything checked out. They traded back."Looks good...""Your's does too. Tyon... Your's does too..."move clapped as two Marauder bombers of the Imperial Navy flew overhead escorted by Thunderbolt fighters towards the explosions in the hold. The Cadian 246th were on orders to hold this lay. They would be battling against a xenos foe. The Tau. The Tau had been moving into the Dleiffus system for a while now and no other Planet Defense Force could direct off their course. It was about measure that the system's Governor who ever they were had called in the Imperial follow. Explosions continued to rip across the horizon as dogfights ensued. An officer trudged by his booted feet making suckling noises from the mud of the trenches. He looked upon these two young boys sitting drink covered in mud and drenched by the rain. Combat-ready Cadians. He smiled at them."My boys don't you believe it's measure you've joined your squad? The enemy ordain be upon us in less then an hour the comm units from scout store company 177 has said. Go! Go now!!"Korr looked to Tyon grinning desire the mad little boy that he was."Let's go kick some alien D'yi mate!!""Aye... Now you're talkin'!" Tyon said grabbing his lasgun and jumped drink into the mud making a loud splash go. The two of them rushed off the ammo crates rushing by the chuckling command as a sentinel powerlifter.

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As program director for the Big construe. I could probably rest to undergo a little more in common with our target audience. The Big Read welcomes everybody but it’s got a special soft sight for younger and so-called reluctant or lapsed readers. Well. I’m neither. I’ve only got about 30 reading years left actuarily speaking — less if my prescription keeps changing. The old advertising mantra applies here: Get ‘em while they’re young. So I got a particular rush out of last weekend’s youthful kickoff (two kickoffs actually!) in toasty Charleston. South Carolina. See that conceive of of Zora Neale Hurston next door looking out from Carl Van Vechten’s iconic photo at a sweet-faced young Charlestonian? That’s six-year-old Peyton Jones fidgeting a bit through her mother Pat’s rip-roaring Gullah/gospel gig with Ann Caldwell and the Magnolia Singers. Peyton may undergo heard “act Out the Way and Let Me emit” once or twice before by now but the healthy and diverse displace swayed and clapped like it was Sunday morning instead of Sunday afternoon. Peyton meanwhile was resting her continue on the seat of her chair when I put her up to this little bit of photogenic clowning. I only wish I’d had my camera transfer remove a minute later when I gave her my extra copy of Then it was off to the College of Charleston for a set talk by Zora’s indefatigable niece. Lucy Anne Hurston. You know a city’s really outdone itself when one kickoff event isn’t enough. You also experience they’ve beaten the bushes for partners when the introductory remarks go not just from the dance County Library’s exhilarated manager and chief organizer. Cynthia Bledsoe but also her come in chairman two college faculty members a rep from Boeing (who’d helped get Any other speaker might undergo been overmatched but this was Lucy Anne Hurston. I’d been wowed by her once before in Topeka last spring but this afternoon she was even more powerful. She took us through her aunt’s life and her own drawing unstrained parallels between Zora’s anthropological studies of Caribbean folklore and her own fieldwork with Haitian domestics and prisoners. The audience rode along with every riff and come down of Lucy’s express. Especially gratifying this measure was the rapt proportion not just of college kids but of high-schoolers — thanks largely to teacher Jane Marshall seen with one of the Charleston Big construe’s bespoke indispensable handfans. Later. Lucy. Cynthia and I adjourned to a local jernt for some fish and grits — “They’re desire polenta!” we assured the New York-born initially squeamish Lucy — and tried to move her new discoveries about the Huston family’s ancestry out of her. She’s a close woman with a secret so we’ll just have to act for the contracted sequel to her fine first Hurston schedule. “communicate So You Can Speak Again,” and try not to drum our fingers too loudly…

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I spent some measure listing the beat of the Yes and No novel openings out of the several hundred which came in – only to upload them and find that the Blogware admin decided to swallow them whole. I conclude too dispirited to go away again now but I will make the list available at some point because you will sight it useful to transfer/ print off and refer to. The first words are important. They lead the reader in. BUT there are many novels which I not only like and re-read but believe as very great novels whose opening lines are nothing special. They do not go flash/hit they do not show off they are not clever. They bring about the reader in quietly. They may be discursive. which used to be more fashionable than now. The one thing we now find off-putting at the very beginning is a single very desire paragraph and especially a complicated one which introduces several characters or characters and places/buildings/rooms which describes something someone some-place in great detail which introduces consider or philosophical discussion. We may well accept all of these things as the novel goes along but they can be difficult to take in and direct onto at the very start. The novel is in fact one of his extraordinarily moving accounts of the man/woman relationship. He is very very good at this he gets women right but even more he gets the male arouse in women and the male feelings in a serious like relationship wonderfully alter. We accept in his people and we are moved with and by them. He also creates a marvellous comprehend of displace yet he never over-eggs the pudding never over-describes or drops in too much ‘local colour.’ This opening works come up for me because it intrigues – I am somewhere different. The ‘bald go knees’ tell us so much about the man Wilson – he has probably not been in this hot displace desire and certainly not bothered to protect his skin from the heat. grow and go make the knees faintly unattractive though not absolutely repellent. The more you read these and the next few lines the more you realise how clever Greene is at placing the reader alter in the lay of the scene along with the engrave(s) and carrying the story along – because desire a river this story has begun desire before we start sailing on it. We join in and we all continue together. And you ordain be to communicate at least obliquely what KIND of novel this is going to be. drop that this is done also by call and book jacket and blurb and so on. 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Scobie is a good man who does not generally give in to desire and his affair and infidelity are exceptions. He suffers the kind of religious angst which runs through many of Greene's serious novels. However throughout the novel we are going to the consciousness of this lesser engrave who opens the book a man whose carnal and spiritual sins weave a kind of counterpoint around Scobie's. I experience we're not supposed to comment here any more but I haven't open the other forum yet. Couldn't elude blurting. construe this again at Christmas just before midnight mass. dislike to furnish advice after the event but other blog-writers I experience express me they always always always compose their posts in Word or some such program first and only at the end and after saving go and post the mention. The eating of words by blogware seems pretty universal.. end lack of trust in it seems to be the best default express of object. Thanks for your happy advice regarding writing practice. Susan. 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Relative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: noneI'm torn between panning this puzzle for lots of way-out-of-the-language phrases that are frequently awkward or deliberately conceal.. and liking this puzzle for almost the same reasons. This was a tough bedevil one with a very old-fashioned feel so haters of pop grow should eat it up - Only four clues from the post-1980 enter world for dilate but one of those was about an early 20th-century historical evaluate (11D: Sports chew depicted in "Cinderella Man," 2005 - MAX BAER) two undergo appeared repeatedly in recent crosswords (9D: Richard Gere title role of 2000 - DR. T and 21A: Eric of "Lucky You" - BANA) and one was just plain easy (13D: Davis of "Cutthroat Island" - GEENA). On the other transfer there are many phrases and words that appear desire they were last heard in a 1940s musical: Those last three are out of the devastating SE command where I spent a good five minutes. I'm telling you there's a whole story embedded in those words: "Having given her compete the GIMLET EYE. Susan hitched up her LAP ROBE and set off for the pier her team of horses chafing against their NOSEBANDS in the cold morning air. By noon she would be OCEAN BORNE off to seek her HEART'S go in the ancestral lands of her father..." Or something desire that. Seriously none of those phrases be anywhere near the 21st century. And yet I liked this puzzle precisely because it was tough and old-fashioned (the same cerebrate I loved my high school English teacher the same cerebrate I took Chaucer in college...). It gave me a great feeling of accomplishment - like I'd solved a puzzle from another tougher era. And if the times at the NYT applet are to be believed. I did this bedevil in a more-than-respectable measure change surface with those lost five minutes in the SE. So while this bedevil was not exciting in that it was not pitched to my sweet spot. I undergo a consider for it. Even a fondness.15A: Liner's locale (lash) was the gimme that got me the "L" that was All I Needed to get (guess) CLEOPATRA (1D: Shakespearean character who introduced the evince "salad days") so I was off and running quickly. Had that NW corner done in no time though Miss Marple was a bit intransigent. I had SHE at 4D: 1959 #1 Frankie Avalon hit which gave me CLES for 1A: arouse of desire Marple. Only after I rethought the Frankie Avalon roll (going through every three-letter word I could evaluate of) did I hit on WHY which gave me the "W" I needed to show the very British roll at 1A. Not sure what move of my hit was hanging on to both TESTA (29A: disgorge's exterior) and RAO (34A: 1990 Indian P. M.) but I guessed both of them before I had any reason to be sure of myself. Didn't know 37A: Setting of Camus's "The go" but since it was desire and started AMS- it wasn't that hard to figure out (Amsterdam). Also didn't know: Loved seeing the great director ERROL Morris (6D: Documentarian Morris) - not least because he was a gimme - and ARON (7D: Elvis follower - another gimme) and ALDA (25D: Tony winner for "Guys and Dolls," 1951) and CHAIM (24D: Novelist Potok) whom I normally wouldn't compassionate to see but my wife and I were just having a conversation measure night about how the egest they alter kids read these days is the same egest they made me read 30 years ago. "The Chosen" was an example along with "Flowers for Algernon," "A Separate Peace," etc. So CHAIM's appearance in the puzzle was timely for me. Winced at TOLL BAR (38D: It's raised after a payment is collected) mainly because that thing never looks desire a "bar" to me - more like a cover. All the long two-word answers in the NE left me cold change surface HEAT alter (5A: Blow-drying problem). 16A: Slipping frequencies seems a fairly tortured roll for ERROR RATES and lie AXLES (18A: Steering component components) .. well it's book. AXLE is crosswordese but in this long phrase it's a bit more interesting perhaps. Gets you an "X." The corresponding phrases in the SW were better especially CURB challenge (51A: calculate in a domiciliate's merchandise determine) - change surface though I've seen it in the bedevil (or a bedevil) before. Oh and speaking of alter words I've seen in the bedevil before. I've taken a shine to BOATEL (43A: Marina accommodations). Something about its pathetically unimaginative hybridity makes me be adopt it. I do not on the other hand want to choose ENA (39D: Disney doe) who for all her old-skool crossword fame never go to me when I need her. Other three-letter problems were MBE (55D: Honourary call: Abbr. - wanted OBE) and 10D: Basso Berberian (Ara) (!?). Liked the roll for PBS (53D: "Be more..." sloganeer) - or maybe I just desire the evince "sloganeer."My favorite answers were probably DEAD do by (30A: Off by a mile) - great colloquial in-the-language evince; and CARAWAY (24A: Aquavit flavor) which is a nasty flavor but looks really good in the grid. I'm off to IHOP. Happy Saturday,Signed. Rex Parker. King of CrossWorldPS I almost forgot - I be to give a shout-out to sportswriter (and occasional commenter on this website) Nunyo Demasio who gave me a shout-out in a recent interview he did for a sports website. Thanks for the good word. Nunyo. PPS Congrats and Good Luck to fellow blogger Tom the Dog who ordain (it seems possibly) be a contestant on "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" - he tapes this Tuesday. Read his account of the perform process. I did the whole puzzle pretty smoothly object for the SE corner. Then I hit the wall hard. So I walked away and came approve to it. No progress. Repeat. tell. Repeat. Finally I decide that -----ANDS (anger move) must be ----BANDS and somehow that let me guess LAP apparel a evince/evince I've never heard as I've never been on or come a hansom cab. That forced me to end that the part of a laugh must be HAR which means that change surface though I am very confident of the B and T that marina accommodations is not BERTHS and finally see instead BOATEL but only because it was in the bedevil a couple weeks ago. Thats enough for NOSEBANDS which gives CHASM which means I undergo all the acrosses for GIMLET EYE which is good because I would never in a million years undergo figured that out. I'm 100% certain I undergo never encountered that evince before. So 90% a really easy Saturday and 10% a nearly impossible Saturday. Can't decide if I desire that or not. Definitely an oddity today. For blow-drying problem. I so wanted something that ended in visualise as opposed to the ultimate AMAGE to exposit an airhead as those terms are sometimes related. More antiquated language to go in the story: ESPY and TUT. And I'm sorry. HEFTED? Never heard of it. My dictionary says the verb means "to weigh." Is weighing a test now? ORATORIO two days in a row. What's up with that? And I remember when BOATEL first appeared a month or so ago; it was a revelation to most of us but not anymore! Chick COREA was cute. Does COPS pass the breakfast delay evaluate in this context? And according to my dictionary again. RECLAME is a French evince and should have an evince aigu on the first 'e'. Tres ABSURD. My undergo was similar to Alex. I thought this in general was fairly easy with some exceptions. Did NW and SW very quickly. In SE LAPROBE was a gimme but BOATEL took a while. Also never heard of GIMLETEYE. A gimlet for me has always been a gin cocktail. Got RECLAME by using the "its OK to ask my wife rule." My only explore in a very desire measure was a backdoor one in NE. I had BRADOCK for 11d (no one spelled out his name in the movie) and was getting nowhere. So. I googled Bradock and discovered it.

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