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Chapter 253: Where's Jonathan?
"Quest Complete: The brutal war between The New Goblin Empire and The Dwarven Republic has finally ended with a peace-treaty between the current Supreme Commander, Jason Jade, and Empress Lorelei Fleischer. Millions died during the few weeks that the conflict raged, but the end result was that thirteen cities are currently under the Empire's control, eighty-two have remained within the Republic, three were completely annihilated, and one was 'bought' by a mysterious third party. The neutral city 'Nekoshire' coincidentally contains one of the Seven Great Gateways of Light, which is connected to the Gateway of Light that has been awarded to you and your Companions for participating in ten Battlegrounds during the war."
Michael yelled "Holy cunt-monkeys, I totally forgot about that shit!" Unlike the two dumbfounded beautiful women, he was surprised simply because he had a disturbingly bad memory.
Elina shouted "Why would they do that?! I'm happy that the war is over, but how could they just make peace so easily?! Also, since when is Uncle Jason the Supreme Commander of The Dwarven Republic?! He was only a General the last time we saw him!"
"Gagagago~! Agawanaponokoago! Chawakifaupolouso~!" Rachael was trying to imitate her parents, but everything she said was just gibberish.
Talia sighed, "It is far too convenient to be a 'coincidence'. Most likely, that 'third party' is the reason for the entire war in the first place. Hmmm, Jasmine… why was she at Nekoshire when you first met each-other? Why did we always go back to that place?"
The shadowy man snickered, muttering "Meh, it's all time-travel bullshit… The other 'us' are definitely out there, pulling the strings behind the scenes. Well, maybe not us, but Arcana? I mean, who the fuck knows? I wouldn't be surprised if one of us turned out to be Arcana's mother or father… Hell, all of us could be Arcana! Arcana could just be a figment of our collective imaginations!"
"Gagogoaga~!" Rachael pounced towards her illusory father and passes straight through, smacking her face into the Huntress' perky left breast. The force was enough to cause the High-Elven woman to fly backwards a few meters, but she swiftly regained her posture.
Aside from an awkward pink apron, with a green heart between her bosoms, she was wearing black jean-shorts and a light-red tank-top. The entire outfit was rather strange, but at least she wore clothing.
Elina jumped off of the bed and soared over to them, pulling the crying baby off of Talia's breast. She shouted "You could have at least tried to catch her! Aw~, don't worry Honey, Mommy's here…" as she held the little Lamia in her dainty hands.
"Anyway~, since you're taking care of Rachael… Blondie, I know you're having so~ much fun baking cookies or whatever, but we still have a few Quests that need to be finished. Hmmm~, okay, you just need to fly across the Archean River and search for an Undead Hobgoblin named Jonathan Carelia. Like, it sounds kinda vague, but I doubt that he made it very far from Carrabelle Plains. Just past over the river and look around umm… Perceval's Savanna and I'm sure you'll find the bastard pretty quickly. If it gets too hard, just ask Aeris for help, hehe~. Ah, gotta go, about to cum!" The moment that Michael finished speaking, his shadowy Avatar vanished into nothingness.
Talia muttered "Five-hundred experience and two-hundred gold coins for merely locating an individual; there was a time when such rewards would have seemed too fantastical to possibly be true, but alas… I would rather stay home and spend the day lazing about."
The angelic cat-girl finally managed to soothe her crying baby by allowing her to suckle on her golden left teat. Elina sighed, wondering "How is it possible for such a tiny little body to drink so much?"
After a few moments of internal debate, the Huntress managed to overcome her lethargy and made a productive decision. She smiled at the beautiful woman and the tiny serpentine child, before saying "Do not allow her to leave the house and never let her out of your sight. I shall head out in an attempt to complete this Quest, but if anything happens, be sure to let me know immediately!"
As the two-meter tall High-Elf walked over to the floating cube to teleport out of the room, Elina walked up and used her free arm to hug Talia tightly, whispering "I'll take care of Rachael… I love you, and be careful out there."
"Te amo y hasta luego…" After saying that brief farewell, the Huntress was released and she immediately teleported to the roof of their surprisingly large house.
It was the middle of the day, so the sun was high in the sky, but it was fairly cloudy and it was easy to tell that it was going to rain soon. She glanced around for a moment before instantly shoving her entire outfit into a single bag-slot.
Her naked body was swiftly covered by a brown leather jacket, dark-green mini-skirt, and a pair of black-leather boots. In Talia's left hand appeared an inconspicuous recurve bow, which was at least five feet long. Compared to her height, it wasn't too outrageous, though it was still rather large.
With her long blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail, she slowly began levitating and once she was a few dozen meters above the house, she flew over to the mountaintop. It was a relatively small and flat peak, with a decent amount of foliage and even a volcanic crater.
She glanced down into the hole and saw two giant red-scaled lizard-people, 'wrestling' with each other. Thus, she continued soaring by and heading to the northeast at around one-hundred miles per hour.
Within a few minutes, she was able to reach the southern edge of Ariel's Meadow and continued forward at a steady pace. However, she maintained her vigilance and never unequipped her bow, holding it tightly in her left hand the entire time.
A deep bellow rang out and she swiftly removed an 'Enchanted Ironwood Arrow' from the flower-like quiver dangling around her wrist. There were dozens of enormous bright-blue furred gorillas, battling against a horde of golden-scaled alligators, but she was far too high for any of them to care about her presence.
Unfortunately, the 'Gargantuan Turkey Vultures' who were circling the battlefield, felt threatened by the level twenty-seven Huntress. They swooped over and vomited out globs of acidic sludge towards her body.
Talia dove down, while twirling around through the air, nocking an arrow and firing it through the skull of a level-twenty, rank-E, brown feathered bird. After that, she gracefully flipped and dodged a beak that was larger than her entire body.
She shouted "You impudent creatures must be tired of living!" Three arrows were nocked at the same time and all of them were shot directly through that vicious vulture's back.
Of course, she didn't fail to evade the three gigantic globs of deadly bile, but the toxic fumes temporarily caused her to lose sensation in her lower extremities. In that momentary lack of focus, she failed to avoid a vicious talon, which slashed through the thin cloth of her skirt. Crimson blood spurted out of her mangled buttocks and she screamed in agony, while hurriedly casting 'Rapid Regeneration'.
As Talia was failing towards the ground, she managed to attract the attention of a massive bright-blue gorilla. The ape roared as its huge frame leaped dozens of meters off of the ground and a gigantic hand wrapped around her waist. Right when she was about to fire an extremely powerful arrow of wind through that monster's left, glowing-green eye, she heard a deep voice yell "Stop! I was trying to help you!" Then she turned her aim towards the sky and sent a 'Guided Missile' into the heart of one of the few remaining vultures.
Once they reached the ground, the gorilla released the wounded High-Elf and slammed its fist onto the head of a giant golden alligator. The two magical beasts were rank-D, level-25 Elites, but their base stats were much higher than 'normal'.
That colossal lizard was over ten meters long and the height of 'her' back was a lot taller than Talia. However, regardless of how powerful they were, it was nothing compared to the outrageous little fox-girl.
In fact, the gorilla that was trying to help her, Tony, was weaker than either Michael or Alice, even without their gear. Thus, the Huntress wasn't particularly frightened or impressed by the ridiculously large beasts.
Talia knelt down on one knee and cringed from the pain in her buttocks, but nocked three arrows nonetheless. Each of them was poisoned and were immediately fired, plunging deep into the gums and throat of that gargantuan alligator.
The golden monster roared in horror, as Tony grabbed its upper-jaw with both hands, before stomping down onto the inside of its mouth, brutally tearing its entire head apart. Since they weren't in a Party, the ape should have received all of the experience for the kill; fortunately, he was a magical-beast, so it went to the High-Elf instead.
She saluted the giant blue-furred creature with her right hand, shouting "I appreciate your assistance!" Then she continued to bombard the various other golden alligators that were raging around.
Tony chuckled, bellowing "Damn, it's been ten years since I saw you last, but you look exactly the same!"
As he spoke, a blinding light enveloped Talia's body and a loud monotonous voice announced "You have reached level twenty-eight!"
This entry was posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Hardcore OP-ness, Hardcore OPness, Magic, Mature, Transportation and tagged Ariel's Meadow, Elina, HCOP, Home, MC, Rachael, Talia, Tony the Giant Gorilla? by mike777ac. Bookmark the permalink.
23 thoughts on "Chapter 253: Where's Jonathan?"
therealfarfetchd on March 22, 2018 at 3:23 pm said:
"Lorelei Fleischer"? These references to Immortal Soul's names are getting ridiculous, haha
mike777ac on March 22, 2018 at 5:02 pm said:
They aren't really references lol. The names are related to souls, so when you see someone named Michael, they're probably related to Michael Cinagra in one way or another. Lorelei appears in a lot of stories, but only as a MC in Immortal Soul so far lol.
Khang Tran Minh on December 10, 2015 at 2:14 pm said:
Leech on December 10, 2015 at 12:30 pm said:
Thanks for your work.
anarchydev on December 10, 2015 at 8:50 am said:
Wow this chapter was like a seriously about doing a quest. As expected of the honest huntress?
jigglygodnim on December 10, 2015 at 3:12 am said:
well about 300k is a decent read but there are alot of books up to 500k so it wouldnt be to bad.
mike777ac on December 10, 2015 at 3:19 am said:
Yeah, I've seen/heard of books that were super long, but just because they exist, doesn't mean they do well lol. Also, I'm 'technically' a 'new' author, so if the first book I ever published was 1000 pages long, it might not sell very well? I might not sell very well either way, since it was a WN first lol.
Ninja Llama on December 10, 2015 at 3:36 am said:
http://www.betterstorytelling.net/thebasics/storylength.html
This is a website that goes on about word counts in books
Not sure what font they're using as the basis, but with 11, I get about 500 words per page. So, according to them, my book would be 1800-2000 pages long lol.
Zhalfirin on December 10, 2015 at 4:15 am said:
As long as the price is comparable to other works it would compete with, than length shouldn't matter. That said, since it was a WN first you might want to go and split/reorder the chapters to make it more cohesive. Also eliminate any restated info that ended chapter X and begins chapter Y as the WN was designed to be read bit by bit over several days and I know the authors of them tend to recap sometimes at the start of a chapter (I don't know if you've done this but it's something to look for when editing).
I don't recap lol
jasss22 on December 10, 2015 at 3:11 am said:
Sorry about taking so long for this one… I stayed up late last-this morning, and technically finished writing the first book lol. Well, I still need to write an Epilogue, but Book 1 ends on chapter 294. Yeah, I know, right? My OCD was telling me to write 6 filler chapters, but my laziness was saying "Naw~, it's good enough." roflmao. Anyway, there's still more stuff to do with that, but for the most part, Book 1 has been written. Of course, a 425-450k word long book is kinda… Well, it's probably too long. I'd most likely have to split it up into 3 or 4 parts if I try to put it on amazon. Content-wise, I feel like 1-294 is a single book, but considering that I've never actually read a 'real' book before in my entire life… what the fuck do I know? lol
kessanrpg on December 10, 2015 at 3:16 am said:
You technically could put it all in one book, or in a "Trilogy" ….or some thing like that…I am kinda like you, what the fuck do I know myself 😀
Thanks for the Chapter by the way 😀
zoggi on December 10, 2015 at 4:08 am said:
if you've ever read Deja Vu ascendancy it's a 6.5 million word "book" 0.o anyway keep up the good work, love the story man.
That's too much lol
28th00 on December 10, 2015 at 4:46 am said:
that's like 15-20 times the length of my story lol
Yea, it's a monster in its own right the only other one i know of that is close to it (or maybe even longer) is Worm. But it's broken into arcs/viewpoints so it's easily broken into multiple books. though i do agree that monsters like that have trouble selling, I know AA has been trying to get his novel published for almost six years but it's a bit heavy in it's anti religious / political views + all the incest and sex… I doubt most publishing companies would want to even get close to it let alone associate by name.
You can self publish on Amazon pretty easily, idk why anyone would go through the trouble of getting a publishing company to back them etcetera lol.
No idea why either, all I know is he set a 6-7 year limit before he self publishes so I've been keeping an eye on it so I can buy it.
6 or 7 years… why? lol Who has 6 or 7 years to wait for anything?
zoggi on December 10, 2015 at 11:24 am said:
apparently he does lol, honestly though, I've begun doubting it will ever be published. http://storiesonline.net/library/authorBlog.php?id=4688 was his last "update" which was in 13, I've also messaged him a few times and have never gotten a response so I'm half way to assuming he just died / went up in smoke like quite a few authors seem to do.


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Liberal Kemalism is a synthesis of classical liberalism and Kemalism. It was created by Ahmet Ağaoğlu in 1930s, who was previously a nationalist person.

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It is seen that the understanding of individualism has an important place in the thought and political life of Ahmet Ağaoğlu, who is one of the important representatives of the enlightened politician model, which was widely seen in the first years of the Turkish Republic. He evaluates his views on modernization, society, democracy, freedom and economy within the framework of individualism. Considering the general political atmosphere both in the country and in the world, it is clear that Ağaoğlu's approach is quite exceptional. In these years when liberalism lost its credibility in the intellectual and political circles, Ağaoğlu insistently advocates that political, economic and social liberal principles should be taken as a basis in order for the new state to survive and develop in a strong and healthy way.

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Fifteen years after the events of Alien™, Ellen Ripley's daughter, Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance. As Amanda, you will navigate through an increasingly volatile world as you find yourself confronted on all sides by a panicked, desperate population and an unpredictable, ruthless Alien. Underpowered and underprepared, you must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use your wits, not just to succeed in your mission, but to simply stay alive.
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The story here is thin, and the gameplay is simple. It's one note played over and over again, but it's one hell of a note. Isolation's a game about the bad things chasing you around, and that's about it. That's a good thing, since there are no deep systems to exploit, despite some promising ideas presented by the game early on. ...While not without its issues, Isolation is is the best Alien game since Alien vs. Predator.
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This month Westpac Scholars Trust celebrates its first 500 Westpac Scholars, looking at the journeys and achievements of these individuals and how their Westpac Scholarships have helped them along the way. We caught up with a few, including Youtube sensation Toby Hendy, 2017 Future Leader Scholar. Toby made the decision to pursue her career in STEM education through social media, rather than finishing her PhD, and now has close to 700,000 regular subscribers on her YouTube channel.
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My career path changed track when I decided to leave academia and pursue science communication, so even though I left my original study program, I still credit the Westpac Scholarship with giving me the confidence and skills to take that risk. Through the W100, I have connected with some of the most welcoming, intelligent and motivated people I know, and I am very grateful to be a part of it.
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Battling Pipeline go down to Al Ahly in Club Championships semis
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By CELLESTINE OLILO
Kenya Pipeline on Saturday put up a brave fight before going down 3-1 (25-13, 25-18, 23-25, 25-20) to hosts and defending champions Al Ahly in the 2019 Africa Women Club Championships at the Al Ahly Sports Complex in Cairo, Egypt.
A combination of quick attacks and superb blocking is what the hosts seemed to have specialised in the opening exchanges where they hit the Kenyans 25-13 before their loudly cheering fans.
Pipeline seemed to grow into the game and showed some flashes of brilliance in the next set, but the hosts' experience prevailed. The Kenyan oilers took the third set after what seemed like a purposeful set of play but fizzled out in the last set to hand the hosts another chance to defend their title.
The Kenyans will now seek to defend the bronze medal they won last year when they take on GSP of Algeria in the third-place playoffs on Monday. Al Ahly will renew their rivalry with Tunisia's Carthage in the final also set for Monday.
Earlier on at the same venue, Carthage staged a brilliant comeback to hit GSP 3-1 (25-23, 24-26, 16-25, 24-26) to storm into the final where they will be out to revenge after losing to Al Ahly in last year's final. Carthage last won the title in 2017.
Meanwhile, Kenyan side Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) beat Burundi's USFA 3-0 in the 9-12 classification matches.
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In a document from Head of Public Service, Joseph Kinyua new measure have been outlined to curb the bulging spread of covid-19. Public officers with underlying health conditions and those who are over 58 years -a group that experts have classified as most vulnerable to the virus will be required to execute their duties from home.
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"The period a public officer spends in quarantine or isolation due to Covid-19, shall be treated as sick leave and shall be subject to the Provisions of the Human Resource Policy and procedures Manual for the Public Service(May,2016)," read the document.
The service has also made discrimination and stigmatization an offence and has guaranteed those affected with the virus to receive adequate access to mental health and psychosocial supported offered by the government.
The new directives targeting the Public Services come at a time when Kenyans have increasingly shown lack of strict observance of the issued guidelines even as the number of positive Covid-19 cases skyrocket to 13,771 and leaving 238 dead as of today.
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Principal Secretaries/ Accounting Officers will be personally responsible for effective enforcement and compliance of the current guidelines and any future directives issued to mitigate the spread of Covid-19.
Uhuru convenes summit to review rising Covid-19 cases: The Standard
President Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured) will on Friday, July 24, meet governors following the ballooning Covid-19 infections in recent days.
The session will among other things review the efficacy of the containment measures in place and review the impact of the phased easing of the restrictions, State House said in a statement.
This story is being updated.
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Drastic life changes affecting mental health
Kenya has been ranked 6th among African countries with the highest cases of depression, this has triggered anxiety by the World Health Organization (WHO), with 1.9 million people suffering from a form of mental conditions such as depression, substance abuse.
Globally, one in four people is affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives, this is according to the WHO.
Currently, around 450 million people suffer from such conditions, placing mental disorders among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide.
The pandemic has also been known to cause significant distress, mostly affecting the state of one's mental well-being.
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With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic attributed to the novel Coronavirus disease, millions have been affected globally with over 14 million infections and half a million deaths as to date. This has brought about uncertainty coupled with difficult situations, including job loss and the risk of contracting the deadly virus.
In Kenya the first Coronavirus case was reported in Nairobi by the Ministry of Health on the 12th March 2020. It was not until the government put in place precautionary measures including a curfew and lockdown (the latter having being lifted) due to an increase in the number of infections that people began feeling its effect both economically and socially.
A study by Dr. Habil Otanga, a Lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Department of Psychology says that such measures can in turn lead to surge in mental related illnesses including depression, feelings of confusion, anger and fear, and even substance abuse. It also brings with it a sense of boredom, loneliness, anger, isolation and frustration. In the post-quarantine/isolation period, loss of employment due to the depressed economy and the stigma around the disease are also likely to lead to mental health problems.
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) states that at least 300,000 Kenyans have lost their jobs due to the Coronavirus pandemic between the period of January and March this year.
KNBC noted that the number of employed Kenyans plunged to 17.8 million as of March from 18.1 million people as compared to last year in December. The Report states that the unemployment rate in Kenya stands at 13.7 per cent as of March this year while it stood 12.4 per cent in December 2019.
Mama T (not her real name) is among millions of Kenyans who have been affected by containment measures put in place to curb the spread of the virus, either by losing their source of income or having to work under tough guidelines put in place by the MOH.
As young mother and an event organizer, she has found it hard to explain to her children why they cannot go to school or socialize freely with their peers as before.
"Sometimes it gets difficult as they do not understand what is happening due to their age, this at times becomes hard on me as they often think I am punishing them,"
Her contract was put on hold as no event or public gatherings can take place due to the pandemic. This has brought other challenges along with it, as she has to find means of fending for her family expenditures that including rent and food.
"I often wake up in the middle of the night with worries about my next move as the pandemic does not exhibit any signs of easing up," she says. She adds that she has been forced to sort for manual jobs to keep her family afloat.
Ms. Mary Wahome, a Counseling Psychologist and Programs Director at 'The Reason to Hope,' in Karen, Nairobi says that such kind of drastic life changes have an adverse effect on one's mental status including their family members and if not addressed early can lead to depression among other issues.
"We have had cases of people indulging in substance abuse to deal with the uncertainty and stress brought about by the pandemic, this in turn leads to dependence and also domestic abuse,"
Sam Njoroge , a waiter at a local hotel in Kiambu, has found himself indulging in substance abuse due to challenges he is facing after the hotel he was working in was closed down as it has not yet met the standards required by the MOH to open.
"My day starts at 6am where I go to a local pub, here I can get a drink for as little as Sh30, It makes me suppress the frustration I feel." he says.
Sam is among the many who have found themselves in the same predicament and resulted to substance abuse finding ways to beat strict measures put in place by the government on the sale of alcohol so as to cope.
Mary says, situations like Sam's are dangerous and if not addressed early can lead to serious complications, including addiction and dependency, violent behavior and also early death due to health complications.
She has, however, lauded the government for encouraging mental wellness and also launching the Psychological First Aid (PFA) guide in the wake of the virus putting emphasis on the three action principal of look, listen and link. "When we follow this it will be easy to identify an individual in distress and also offer assistance".
Mary has urged anyone feeling the weight of the virus taking a toll on them not to hesitate but look for someone to talk to.
"You should not only seek help from a specialist but also talk to a friend, let them know what you are undergoing and how you feel, this will help ease their emotional stress and also find ways of dealing with the situation they are facing," She added
Mary continued to stress on the need to perform frequent body exercises as a form of stress relief, reading and also taking advantage of this unfortunate COVID-19 period to engage in hobbies and talent development.
"Let people take this as an opportunity to kip fit, get in touch with one's inner self and also engage in reading that would help expand their knowledge.
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(23.10.2017) There are "reasonable grounds to believe crimes against humanity are taking place", stated Sheila Keetharuth, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, at a major high-ranking international staffed conference held in Brussels this week. The dire human rights situation in the Horn of Africa nation— including arbitrary detention and extrajudicial executions—has "not improved in essentials", she emphasised, despite consistent attention in recent years from the UN and human rights agencies.
The 'Eritrea and the Ongoing Refugee Crisis' conference was a public event attracting an audience of over a hundred from more than 40 organisations worldwide, including supporters of the PFDJ, the Eritrean ruling party. Threats were made by some of these individuals against recent refugees to Europe, who gave their testimonies to the gathering, speaking about the reasons they left the country and the risks they faced in fleeing. Eritreans in exile taking a stand against the regime continually face pressure from the regime's loyalists in diaspora, including threats to the safety of family members still in Eritrea.
Eritrea, which has a population of around 5 million people, lives under one-party rule, without press freedom, and with an obligatory military service for men and women that lasts for an indefinite length. Eritrea experts, academics and activists in exile spoke at the conference about different aspects and consequences, arguing that military service exists primarily to "indoctrinate" and control, and has a disastrous effect on the economy.
Eritrea is the fastest emptying country in the world and many of those fleeing the country are finding their way to Europe at great personal cost. Some European countries e.g. Germany, Switzerland or Denmark are downplaying the disastrous human rights situation and the danger of persecution and prosecution. Therefore, the number of refugees who are accepted under the Geneva Convention is decreasing which is resulting in lower protection status and in some cases a rejection of the asylum application.


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By Dan Savage
I am a young, straight male -- but I have this obsession with male-on-male dino-dragon porn. I don't get it. I'M SUPPOSED TO BE STRAIGHT! Am I psychotic or what?
Dinos Really Are Gonna Overtake Now
You're not psychotic, DRAGON. Just pathetic.
I don't mean pathetic in the "laughable or contemptible" sense of the word, DRAGON, I mean it in the pitiable sense. You're one those poor unfortunate souls saddled with an unrealizable sexual fantasy. Beat off to dino-dragon porn as much as you care to -- and you clearly care to -- but, like a man with a giantess fetish or some dude into boytaurs, you will never meet the object of your peculiar affections in the flesh, scales and tails.
Well, not for at least 50 years or so.
In his newish book Love and Sex with Robots, author David Levy predicts that in five decades or so, people are going to be fucking and falling in love with humanoid sex robots. Levy believes some people are going to have a problem with the humanoid fuckbots in our future. I disagree. People aren't going to have a problem with dudes fucking and/or marrying humanoid robots. It's dudes like DRAGON, here -- men and women fucking and/or married to dino-dragon robots, robot centaurs, 50-foot-tall female robots, and, it pains me to say, kid robots -- who are going to freak people the fuck out.
Let me just say this: There's going to be a lot more to fuckbots than Levy imagines in his philosophy. While Levy foresees fuckbots that can be programmed with voices, eye colors, or "particular personality traits," I foresee a future in which every last unrealizable fetish or fantasy is suddenly within the grasp of all. Well, not all. The first few generations of fuckbots will most likely be available only to the superwealthy and/or those willing to spend a small fortune on a visit to a robot brothel. But the coming of fuckbots is going to make fantasies that are currently unrealizable for reasons of biology, logistics or morality suddenly very, very realizable. Including yours, DRAGON, if you live so long.
As for your supposed-to-be-straightness ...
I've got a file full of letters from supposed-to-be-straight guys -- guys with wives and girlfriends and a passion for pussy -- angsting at me about their urge to suck a little cock now and then. Many of these guys prefer to suck cock that isn't attached to anything recognizably male -- e.g., shemales, transvestites, American Idol contestants, et al. -- because it somehow makes their gay desires less troubling, less, you know, gay.
Your passion for male-on-male dino-dragon porn, DRAGON, may be motivated by the same subconscious impulse. You don't want to let go of your supposed straightness but you're actually turned on by "the cock," as the kids like to say. And by seeking out porn that features nonhuman males, you don't have to confront your hunger, however mild, for cock.
I'm a straight woman and I've been with my boyfriend for four years. The sex is great, but we recently began to experiment with anal. He enjoys it, he takes his time and warms/lubes me up, but it is still painful. I don't let on because I know how much he gets off. Any tips for a beginner?
Silently Whimpering
Smoke pot, SW. Don't break any laws, of course, but if you're using lots of lube, if he's going very, very, very slowly at the start, and if you've read Tristan Taormino's The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women (twice), you might want to smoke a little bit of pot -- just a little bit -- before you give it another go.
And pot or no pot, SW, you MUST tell your boyfriend that, whatever he's doing back there, it's not working for you. THAT'S AN ORDER. Read or re-read Taormino's book, and then try some other positions, more or different lube, longer warm-up sessions, anal-play sessions without any expectations of penetration, and, of course, a consciousness-raising session that involves you doing the boyfriend's ass with a dildo that's roughly the same size as his dick.
What are your academic credentials (if any) that qualify you as some kind of sexpert? I suspect you have none. Are you a guy or a girl? Judging by the bias of your answers, my guess is that you're a woman. Are you straight, gay or bi? Single, married, or divorced? I'm sure your readers would love to know the answers. However, I suspect you haven't got the balls to print this letter.
Chaz The Spaz
P.S.: The Playboy Advisor replies to ALL questions submitted (even those he doesn't print). Do you?
Look up "advice" in the dictionary, CTS, and it says, "opinion about what could or should be done." The only qualification you need to offer someone your opinion, of course, is having been asked for it. As my mail comes addressed to me, I am uniquely qualified to offer advice in this space.
Look my ass up on Google, CTS, and it says that I'm a fag. I've been with the same guy for 13-plus years, we're husbands in Canada, boyfriends in the United States, and our young son's loving parents wherever the fuck we go. I have never claimed to be a "sexpert," whatever that is, and while I do not doubt that the Playboy Advisor is a better man than I in every respect, the volume of mail I get prevents me from answering everyone personally.
I am a 23-year-old female whose boyfriend has a piss fetish. By this I mean that he enjoys it when I urinate into his mouth. While this is not something I find erotic, I have no issue with indulging him. My only problem with it is that I don't like to kiss him afterward because of the taste. I can't stand it. Is there a tactful way to ask him to brush his teeth afterward without COMPLETELY ruining the mood? Thank you very much for your help.
Embarrassed Non-Urine Fan
Seeing as there's no tactful way to ask someone to piss in your mouth, ENUF, you're under no obligation to be tactful about asking your boyfriend to brush his damn teeth. Saying, "Go brush your damn teeth, piss-boy, and you better be back here before I decide to eat asparagus at every meal for the rest of my fucking life," in a low and sexy voice should not only do the trick, it will ensure that his dick is still hard when he gets back.
Hey, everybody: Thank you so much for all the thoughtful condolence e-mails after the death of my mother. Your good wishes, to say nothing of the many pictures of your boyfriends' butts, lifted my spirits. My tickets to the Friday-night performance of The Drowsy Chaperone in Chicago -- they were supposed to be mother's birthday present -- wound up going to a lovely and very deserving mom. And I got to see the show, too -- thanks to Ted at Broadway in Chicago -- at Sunday's matinee.
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Wonderful antique Zhuang wedding blanket made into cushions. This textile was made in the early to mid C20 and would have taken around one year to make by the Zhuang minority group in SW China. The blanket is handwoven in thick cotton and has supplementary weft silk in predominantly coral red colours with accents of orange, indigo and purple. The cushions are backed with antique hemp, have zip fasteners and feather pads. There are 2 available.


Swimming in ice cold water is healthy.
More than a hundred so-called polar bears, i.e. cold water swimmers, from throughout Slovakia along with a fellow colleague from the neighbouring Czech Republic met in the Žabokreky nad Nitrou village (Trenčín Region) for a dip in water of 3 degrees Celsius on December 27. The traditional winter swim was part of New Year's Eve swimming sessions organised annually by polar bears of Veľké Uherce and Patrizánske.
Belis mentioned that the youngest generation is joining the ranks of swimmers, represented by, for instance, five-year-old Natalka of Bošany.
"We are pleased to see even smaller girls gradually joining us," he said.
Belis claimed that swimming in ice cold water is healthy.
"In the past three years I have always drowned all bugs in that cold water and never came down with any cold or anything of the sort," said Belis.
The water, according to swimmer Anna Zelezníková, was excellent.
Being a winter swimmer is a different experience, said Zelezníková.


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Medical Act 1983
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Blanket Amendment words substituted by 2005 c. 4 Sch. 11 para. 1(2)
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Blanket amendment words substituted by S.I. 2011/1043 art. 3 6
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s. 41A(3A)(3B) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 6(5)
s. 44B(1) words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 26(2)
s. 44B(2)(a) words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 26(3)(a)
s. 44B(2)(b) words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 26(3)(b)
s. 44B(3) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 26(4)
s. 44B(11) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 23(e)
s. 44C substituted by S.I. 2014/1887 Sch. 1 para. 1(1)
s. 44C(11) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 27
s. 44BA inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 24
s. 45A(5)(d) applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 14 s. 120(5)
s. 45B(2)-(5) applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 14 s. 120(5)
s. 45B(3)(d) words substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 13(a)
s. 45B(3)(e) words substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 13(a)
s. 45B(6) omitted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 13(b)
s. 45C(1) applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 14 s. 120(5)
s. 46(2A)(a) words substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 14
s. 46(2A)(b) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 28
s. 49A inserted by S.I. 2002/3135 art. 12(7)
s. 49B inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 28
s. 49B omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 29
s. 49B(2)(a) omitted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 15(a)
s. 49B(3) substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 15(b)
s. 49B(4) words substituted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 16
s. 49B(7) words inserted by 2018 c. 12 Sch. 19 para. 22
s. 51(3)(a) and word omitted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 17(b)
s. 51(3)(b) words omitted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 4
s. 52B inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 20
s. 55(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(12)
s. 55(1ZA) inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 30(3)
s. 55(3)(4) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 29(c)
Sch. 1 para. 9B(4) inserted by 2018 c. 12 Sch. 19 para. 24(3)
Sch. 1 para. 15(1A) inserted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 21(6)(a)
Sch. 1 para. 23C inserted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 21(8)
Sch. 1 para. 16(3A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 2(6)
Sch. 1 Pt. 3 para. 19F inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 2(4)
Sch. 1 para. 19G inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 3(3)
Sch. 1 para. 23D inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 4(4)
Sch. 1 para. 1A modified (temp.) by S.I. 2008/2556 art. 3
Sch. 1 para. 1A(4) omitted by 2012 c. 7 Sch. 20 para. 6(a)
Sch. 1 para. 9B(4) omitted by S.I. 2019/419 Sch. 3 para. 12(b)
Sch. 1 para. 16(1A) substituted for Sch. 1 para. 16(1)(2) by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 21(7)
Sch. 1 para. 23C words inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 4(3)
Sch. 1 para. 23D words inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(7)
Sch. 1 para. 23(a)(c) words omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 4(1)(b)
Sch. 2A inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 32
Sch. 2A para. 5(2)(a)(iii)(iv) inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(3)(a)(ii)
Sch. 2A para. 5(2)(aa) inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(3)(b)
Sch. 2A omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 32
Sch. 2A para. 5(2)(a)(i) word omitted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(3)(a)(i)
Sch. 2A para. 5(3) words inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(3)(c)
Sch. 2A para. 8(6) words inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(5)
Sch. 2A para. 4(b) words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(2)(a)
Sch. 2A para. 4(b) words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(2)(b)
Sch. 2A para. 6(3) words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(4)(a)
Sch. 2A para. 6(3) words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(4)(b)
Sch. 3 para. 3(1A)(1B) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 33(4)(b)
Sch. 3 para. 4A 4B and cross-headings inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 33(5)
Sch. 3A para. 2(1)(aa)(ab) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 34(b)(i)
Sch. 3A para. 2(1)(fa)(fb) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 34(b)(iii)
Sch. 3A para. 2(1)(q) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 34(b)(v)
Sch. 3A para. 2A inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 17(5)
Sch. 3A para. 3(3)(4) inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 17(6)
Sch. 3A para. 4(7A)(7B) inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 17(7)(c)
Sch. 3A para. 2(1)(q) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 34(3)
Sch. 3A para. 2(1)(mb) words inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 17(4)
Sch. 3A para. 1 words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 34(2)
Sch. 3B para. 5(d)(e) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 19(2)(b)
Sch. 3B para. 6(1)(d) (e) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 19(3)(a)(ii)
Sch. 3B para. 6(2)(d) (e) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 19(3)(b)(ii)
Sch. 3B para. 7(2)(c) and word inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 19(4)(b)(ii)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(1A) inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 23(8)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(3B)-(3G) inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 23(8)(e)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(5A) inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 23(8)(g)
Sch. 4 para. 10A inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 23(14)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(14) inserted by 2018 c. 12 Sch. 19 para. 25(4)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(10)-(12) inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 9(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5C inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 9(3)
Sch. 4 para. 10B inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 9(6)
Sch. 4 para. 1(1)(aa) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(1)(c)
Sch. 4 para. 1(1B) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(8)
Sch. 4 para. 1(2F)(2G) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(9)
Sch. 4 para. 1(2ZA)(2ZB) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(2)
Sch. 4 para. 1(4A)-(4D) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(5)
Sch. 4 para. 1(4E)(4F) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(6)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 10(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(2B) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 10(4)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(3H) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(10)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(13) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(4)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(6)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(3A)-(3C) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(9)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(4A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(11)
Sch. 4 para. 7(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 13(2)
Sch. 4 para. 7(1B)-(1D) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 13(3)
Sch. 4 para. 7A inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 14
Sch. 4 para. 8(2)(e) and word inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 24(1)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 8(6) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 24(2)
Sch. 4 para. 10A inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 12(14)
Sch. 4 para. 11(5) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 17(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(14) omitted by S.I. 2019/419 Sch. 3 para. 13(b)
Sch. 4 para. 1(2A)-(2E) substituted for Sch. 4 para. 1(2A) by S.I. 2015/794 art. 9(1)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(2)-(2ZE) substituted for Sch. 4 para. 5A(2) by S.I. 2015/794 art. 10(3)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(3)-(3G) substituted for Sch. 4 para. 5A(3)(3A) by S.I. 2015/794 art. 10(5)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(11) word inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(3) word inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(8)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(10) word omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(1)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(2)(a)(b) word omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(7)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(3) word omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(8)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(1)(a)(ii) words inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(5)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(2)(a) words omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(7)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(12) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(3)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(1)(a)(ii) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(5)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(3)(a) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(8)(c)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(4) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(10)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(4)(b) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(10)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(5) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(11)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(7) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(13)(d)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(7)(c) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(13)(c)
Sch. 4 para. 10B(1) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(11)
Sch. 4A words added by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(6)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(2)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(5)(a)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(5)(b)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 11(2)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 11(3)(b)
Sch. 4A words substituted by 2018 c. 12 Sch. 19 para. 26(2)
Sch. 4A words substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(3)
Sch. 4A words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 11(3)(a)
Commencement Orders yet to be applied to the Medical Act 1983
Commencement Orders bringing legislation that affects this Act into force:
S.I. 2008/2556 art. 2 commences (S.I. 2008/1774)
S.I. 2009/1604 art. 2 commences (2005 c. 4)
S.I. 2010/478 art. 2 commences (S.I. 2010/234)
S.I. 2010/708 art. 1-14 commences (2008 c. 14)
[F121A Full registration for eligible specialists and qualified general practitionersU.K.
[F2(1)Where a person satisfies the Registrar—
(a)that he holds an acceptable overseas qualification other than a primary European qualification;
(b)that he is an eligible specialist or a qualified general practitioner;
(c)that he is of good character; and
(d)that he has the necessary knowledge of English or is an exempt person,
that person shall, if the General Council think fit so to direct, be registered under this section as a fully registered medical practitioner.
[F3(2)In subsection (1)(b) above—
"eligible specialist" means a person—
has undertaken specialist medical training or been awarded specialist medical qualifications in a specialty in which the United Kingdom awards a CCT, and
has satisfied the Board that that specialist training or those qualifications, or both when considered together, are equivalent to a CCT in the specialty in question;
has undertaken specialist medical training or been awarded specialist medical qualifications outside the United Kingdom in a specialty in which the United Kingdom does not award a CCT, or
has knowledge of or experience in any medical specialty derived from academic or research work,
and has satisfied the Board that these give him a level of knowledge and skill consistent with practice as a consultant in the National Health Service;
has specialist medical qualifications awarded outside the United Kingdom in a specialty in which the United Kingdom awarded a CCST; and
satisfied the former competent authority, or the Board pursuant to transitional arrangements, that those qualifications were equivalent to a CCST; or
has specialist medical qualifications awarded outside the United Kingdom in a specialty in which the United Kingdom did not award a CCST, or
and has satisfied the former competent authority, or the Board pursuant to transitional arrangements, that these give him a level of knowledge and skill consistent with practice as a consultant in that specialty in the National Health Service; and
"qualified general practitioner" means a person—
has undertaken training in general practice or obtained qualifications in general practice, and
has satisfied the Board that that training is, or those qualifications are, or both when considered together are equivalent to a CCT in general practice; or
has been awarded a Certificate of Equivalent Experience by the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice, or by the Board pursuant to transitional arrangements.]
[F3(3)In this section—
"the Board" means the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board;
"CCT" means Certificate of Completion of Training;
"CCST" means Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training;
"the former competent authority" means the Specialist Training Authority of the medical Royal Colleges; and
"transitional arrangements" means arrangements made for a period of time following the transfer of certain functions from the former competent authority to the Board, or from the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice to the Board (as the case may be).]]]
F1S. 21A inserted (17.12.2002) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3135), arts. 1(2)(d), 6(5) (with transitional provisions in Sch. 2)
F2S. 21A omitted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes in accordance with art. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 35(1)
F3S. 21A(2)(3) substituted (30.9.2005 as notified in the London Gazette dated 26.8.2005) by The General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1250), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 9 para. 5


While it is anticipated that most nations will ultimately suffer the adverse consequences from climate change, Niue remains one of the most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. As such, the island faces the most dire and immediate consequences.
Tropical cyclone Heta in 2004 caused major damage to infrastructure and agriculture estimated as NZ$37.7 million, which is close to three times the value of Niue's GDP. To be able to address these growing concerns, Niue will need a guiding policy to provide a comprehensive framework to bring all stakeholders together to address climate change issues.
According to the Director of Environment Mr. Sauni Tongatule; "one of the major issues that Niue faces is lack of coordination to address the many facets of climate change and the climate change policy will provide that national framework".
The policy deals with mitigation and adaptation.
"Even though Niue's global Greenhouse Gas emission is very minimal, we would like to do our part in mitigating climate change."
The climate change policy work in Niue was supported from technical assistance by the SPREP and SOPAC and funded by the GEF/UNDP funded Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change project (PACC) as part of its mainstreaming activity.
"The success of the climate change policy hinges on putting in place a workable institutional arrangement," said Mr. Seve Paeniu, the Sustainable Development Adviser of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Project (PACC) is being implemented in 13 Pacific Island countries. PACC funding will help start adaptation projects on the ground in three major climate change concerns; food security, water and coastal management.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) — Capital Comment — Daily news notes, political rumors and important events that shape politics and public policy in Washington and the world from United Press International.
Ralph Reed, the political wunderkind who helped transform American college campuses into places where Reaganism had a home in the early 80s and built the conservative Christian political movement into a force to be reckoned with in the 90s, is stepping down as chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.
Far from a consensus choice when he announced for the post, Reed presided over what is probably the Georgia GOP's most successful election cycle. On his watch, they won the governorship for the first time in history, cobbled together a first-ever majority in the state Senate, won a U.S. Senate seat and racked up several upset victories in races for the U.S. House of Representatives. Gov. Sonny Perdue's choice to replace Reed is reportedly Alec Poitevint, former state Georgia GOP chairman and former treasurer of the Republican National Committee.
UPI's Capital Comment pushed U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., out of the starting gate ahead of schedule Friday. We said Foley was set to announce his bid for U.S. Senate seat early this week. That turns out not to the be the case, according to Foley's congressional spokesman Chris Paulitz. The five-term Republican congressman from West Palm Beach is gearing up for a run for the seat currently held by Democrat Bob Graham.
Many Democrats have been tearing their hair over the lack of a reliably liberal — and money-making — presence on talk radio. News that a new left-leaning network funded by party donors was in the works may have given them some comfort but it looks like it may have some competition — even before it hits the air and from the unlikeliest of sources.
Fox News, the Rupert Murdoch-led company that is the No. 1 news network on cable television, is branching out into radio. FOX Live with Alan Colmes, a nationally syndicated radio program, goes on the air Monday. The program, which airs weeknights from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m, kicks off on a number of stations, eight of which are in the nation's top 10 media markets.
Colmes is the liberal half of Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, the second-most watched cable news shows in America. Based out of New York, the new radio program will be a news-driven program featuring Fox News reporters and analysis and commentary from Colmes, widely considered one of the most intelligent and perceptive liberals in broadcasting today.
With the resources of Fox News behind it, the program may make a significant impact in the talk radio marketplace in a short period of time. The market is currently dominated by national and local radio programs that — with anchors such as conservatives Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and populist maverick Bill O'Reilly — lean more to the right than to the left.
Like Colmes, Hannity, and O'Reilly are currently ratings dynamite on the company's cable news channel while Limbaugh's long-ago television program was helmed by Roger Ailes, now head of Fox News.
Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain says he will seek a fourth term in 2004. First elected in 1986 as the successor to the legendary Barry Goldwater, McCain has evolved into something of a maverick in the years following the Keating Five scandal in which he was implicated but then exonerated by his colleagues of wrongdoing.
McCain challenged George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, cementing his status as a national political power. Due in part to the leverage he gained as a result of the run, he was able to push the first major overhaul of campaign contribution and spending rules in almost 30 years through the Congress.
His unorthodox approach has led some conservative activists to look for a candidate to run against him in the primary. Early speculation centered on U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., a former think tank executive who is a favorite of the party's pro-growth wing. As of now, however, Flake seems reluctant to make the bid and, as the Arizona Republican points out, was recently listed as an honorary co-chairman of a McCain fundraiser.
I. Andrew Rader, known affectionately to his friends as "Tiny," died of cancer Feb. 17 in San Diego. Rader, who friends say died peacefully in his sleep, was the founding chairman of the Bradley Foundation, a philanthropic colossus based in Milwaukee that underwrites many important center-right initiatives.
The foundation, endowed out of funds generated by the sale of Allen-Bradley to what was then Rockwell International, has been the catalyst behind many significant social and public policy changes since it began operations in 1985. Michael Joyce, whom Rader recruited to run the organization in 1985, gives him much of the credit for its success. "An important part of his makeup was a willingness to shake the status quo," he said.


SARAJEVO – A workshop on electronic government (eGovernment), promoting information society in South East Europe (SEE) as a platform for economic growth, competitiveness, social inclusion and high quality of living, was held at the premises of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat in Sarajevo today.
Participants discussed eGovernment development, public services and policies, and had a chance to examine local eGovernment transformation. They were briefed on best international and EU practices and presented with case studies. Local experts presented the current status within eGovernment frameworks and exchanged views on relevant issues with the workshop trainers. The seminar analysed key governmental projects and brought discussion on project funding mechanisms.
The workshop gathered governmental leaders, ministry and authority executive personnel and experts in the field of eGovernment from all over the SEE region.
It was held under the auspices of the Southeastern Europe Telecommunication & Informatics Research Institute (INA) Academy, the Development Assistance Programme of the Hellenic Ministry for Foreign Affairs (HELLENIC AID), in cooperation with the Centre for eGovernance Development (CeGD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The event is the third one in a series of five seminars of the INA Academy's "Centre for eGovernance Programme at South East Europe", launched in June 2008, and targeting Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
The programme provides a common regional tool for creation and transfer of knowledge with regard to eGovernance, electronic trade, growth of modern public administration and reform of political institutions.


Neurons in active networks are subject to a fluctuating synaptic drive comprising excitatory and inhibitory post-synaptic potentials arriving at high rates relative to the integration time of the cell. The standard approach for treating stochastic synaptic currents and conductances has been to approximate them by a Gaussian white-noise or coloured-noise process in which the amplitudes of the underlying post-synaptic potentials are considered small. Importantly, this diffusion approximation has allowed for various firing-rate properties of populations of fluctuation-driven neurons to be calculated using Johanessma's  and Ricciardi's  Fokker-Planck framework. This framework in turn has proven to be a powerful theoretical tool for deriving the emergent states of coupled neuronal networks as a function of the properties of constituent neurons. The Gaussian/diffusion model of fluctuating synaptic conductance is in widespread use theoretically, computationally and experimentally and, in many cases, is an excellent approximation to the synaptic drive experienced by neurons in active networks in vitro or in vivo.
The typical synaptic coupling between neurons in many brain regions, however, is often sufficiently strong such that relatively few synchronous synaptic events are required to bring a neuron from rest to the spiking threshold. For example, pairs of neocortical layer-5 pyramidal cells form synaptic connections with amplitudes in the range 0.5mV-6mV with a mean of 1.3mV  and, when correlations are taken into account, near-synchronous pre-synaptic activity will lead to even stronger aggregate EPSPs. Given that the difference between rest and threshold is around 10mV for this class of cell  it is likely that finite-amplitude effects missed by the standard Gaussian/diffusion approximation will play an important role in shaping the steady-state and response properties of neurons in vivo.
Here we present a significant generalization of the standard Gaussian/diffusion approach to treating synaptic fluctuations by exactly solving the firing-rate response for a neuron receiving finite-amplitude Poissonian excitatory and inhibitory post-synaptic potentials . The mathematical framework involves the solution of a master equation and can be applied to synaptic-amplitude distributions decomposable into combinations of exponential functions -similar to those seen in experiment. It will be shown that this more general mathematical description of the neuronal response to stochastic synaptic dynamics is significantly richer and qualitatively distinct from that predicted by the Gaussian/diffusion approximation. As well as providing analytical solutions for the firing-rate response of the leaky integrate-and-fire model, it will be demonstrated how an efficient numerical scheme can be used to calculate, numerically but exactly, the response properties of non-linear integrate-and-fire neurons and also to better capture the effects of synaptic reversal potentials.


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"Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats and Jennie Vee of Eagles of Death Metal: Hollywood's Rockstar Couple Rocks out with Music, Fashion and Fun"
Eileen Shapiro May 23, 2019
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Ready to rock n roll, the father's of rockabilly sensibility, the second time around, the Stray Cats are set to go on a massive European/American tour this summer after the release of their two brand new singles, "Cat Fight (Over A Dog Like Me)", and "Rock It Off". The unveiling of their new album entitled "40", in honor of their 40th anniversary, (their first new album in 26 years), is set to take off on May 20th 2019.
The Stray Cats are an iconic rockabilly group formed in 1979 by three good friends from Massapequa, Long Island, vocalist and guitarist, Brian Setzer, double bassist, Lee Rocker, and drummer, Slim Jim Phantom. They went on to make supreme musical history. After the faction reunited in an inspirational Vegas concert, Setzer began to write new songs, and the chronicle continues.
For Slim Jim Phantom, aside from a new record, a new tour, a SiriusXM radio show, and a rock n roll autobiography, "A Stray Cat Struts", he also has Jennie Vee, the beautiful and talented bassist from "Eagles of Death Metal." Jennie a songwriter/singer/musician who has worked with Courtney Love, supported Echo and The Bunnymen, and currently gigs with Phantom. The two rockers eventually plan to have a rock n roll wedding…I spoke with the two of them about their plans to rock on forever….
So you and Jennie are gigging together?
Yeah, when I do my trio. Eagles of Death Metal will be in New York the first week in June, so I'll just go with them. Their tour is one day over that when the Stray Cats start in Europe so she will just come with us….and change buses. The Stray Cats will be back playing in New York on the 6th of August, and Atlantic City is on the 3rd of August. Then we will continue on in Virginia, Ohio, Detroit, Minneapolis, then LA, and then two in San Diego, and it's going to be great! Then we will see what happens. So far everyone is getting along great, so it's good times.
The first time we spoke some years ago we talked about the possibility of the Stray Cats getting back together. Your answer was, maybe…
Exactly right.
And now the Stray Cats have new music out?
Yeah, we have two singles out and our album comes out May 20th. Our Tour is being sponsored by Sirius XM, which really works out because I do a show for them. It's funny how the whole thing worked out, independent of each other. There was a single that came out record store day and the album is out on 20 May.
I remember you said that you would be doing several gigs together…
Last year we did one in Vegas, one in Chicago and two in LA, and those shows especially the one in Vegas got everyone inspired. So now to see this rockabilly thing years later, and everyone so inspired, especially in Vegas. It was an international event and kids came from all over the world to celebrate cars, and fashion, and American music. It just kind of affected everyone. It inspired Brian and he started writing after we did the ones in LA which was last August. Everyone kept in touch pretty heavily and Brian wrote some songs and sent some demos over. It quickly turned into we made an album and all this time we've been sitting on it. We kept it kind of quiet. Now it's ready to come out. It's called 40 because were celebrating 40 years of Massapequa, Seaford, Belmore…. I wanted to list the whole train line. Believe it or not it was 40 years that we started playing in Lee's garage and in TK's in Amityville, Arrows in Belmore, Yankee Peddler in Merrick and Arthur's in Massapequa. We had a gig five nights a week. That was in 1979.
Then you went to England without a dime in your pocket?
Exactly. That was a good idea. Considering there were no rockabilly types we were packed at all those places. They all came. No rockabilly types but it was all those Seaford, Bellmore, Massapequa, Baldwin, all those gangs of rocker kids. They all came to see us. They were hard guys too especially the ones in Bellmore. They were kind of heavy kids. They were not just goofy stoners and they loved us. We were kind of the local eccentric's and they protected us. We would go to Whitecastle or 7-Eleven after the gigs and we were dressed up but we had the Belmore kids with us so we were safe.
Now your touring all of Europe, starting where?
We start in Spain. There's a big festival. Then there we will do two in London at Hammersmith. We are there two nights because the first one sold out, so they added another. Hopefully that one will go too. London is like going back to the second place, really the first place in a lot of ways because we had such big success there. After that there is a month in Europe. We're going everywhere, to Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, so it's going to be a good one.
What does the future look like for you and the Cats? What are you hoping for?
What I would hope is for it to happen every couple of years. To go out and do this. Since we've become established as the representatives of that music, to come back every couple of summers and really have a nice summer would be great. There's really something special about it, the three of us. By the time we started 40 years ago we had already known each other for 10 years. So there is a special feeling to it and it does translate now. I don't know if I realized that so much in the past but lately when we all talk, we have a little email thread where we talk to each other and tell little jokes that no one would care about except us. It's a very special thing now and I really like it. I like to be friends with those two so hopefully we can do that and do another record. We could do that and it doesn't have to be the be all anymore. Then we can have time for all of us to do the other stuff. Jennie and I are going to make a record. We started to do this documentary about rockabilly music. We're not halfway done but we have done a lot of the interviews. It's with everyone, Shirley Manson, Josh Homme, Billy Zane I just did. Hopefully I'll do Ringo and those guys and it will be just about the influence of rockabilly music. I also have a bunch of the original guys from Little Richard's band, I'm going to go to the guys who are left from The Blue Caps, Bebop A Lew, there's a few of them left. And then I want to do the current people as well, the younger breed. I'm just a link between it all, between the original guys from the 60s and 70s and then it continued after us. So I think we were kind of a little bit of the thing that kept it going. I've just been interviewing people and Jennie is producing the film. She put it all together and we have a couple of Hollywood types helping. That's really what I want to do. I will focus on it more after the Stray Cats tour. So I just wanna be able to have fun and ultimately be with the stray cats every two years to sort of remind everyone. It's always a good calling card and that reunites everyone again. It makes all the other projects kind of fun.
It all sounds fun and perfect.
Yeah, if I would've been smart back then I would've been dangerous.
The only drummer that ever played standing up.
Yeah, how long can you do that?
Aside from all the excitement with the new music and tour from the Stray Cats, what's new with you and Jennie?
We just did a gig last night. It's good now because we have a built-in rhythm section. If I lose my cell phone we have her cell phone. We like to stay sharp because her band starts rehearsals next week and the Stray Cats never rehearse. I practice the drums at home but it's good to go out and do gigs. So we go out and do gigs. It's something we do together. It's just a cool thing that keeps you sharp as musicians and we also have fun together. She plays bass great and looks great which takes some of the pressure off me up there. Everyone's looking at her instead of me.
Are you married yet?
No, as soon as we get our schedule together we're going to get married. Part of it is because we want to make sure everyone else is there. It's hard to rally the troops sometimes. This time a year everyone is doing their thing. Everyone you know is hopefully doing gigs. We want to do a nice Rock 'n' Roll wedding where we could all play and have everyone come and just have a big blowout. We are just trying to sync everyone's schedules so we can get most of the gang down there.
What else are you up to?
We started this line of jackets. If you go to my website https://www.slimjimphantom.com
it will take you right to it. We made a line of denim jackets. Levi jackets or wrangler, real classic ones that we put patches on. We have been doing that over the last year. Jennie has mine, the one I used to wear in the 80s. I would get all these patches from the different places we would go to. So I had this fantastic jacket and it was in storage and Jennie started to wear it. All her friends loved it, I guess it's a little in vogue. So we started making them. She sews, all by hand and I would find the patches. So now this is something else that we do together. We go to yard sales and all of that stuff and just collect patches. It's taken almost a year but right now we have 12 jackets available. It's called Phantom Vee. I just launch them and have already sold a few. When we get enough time this is the thing that we really want to do. Each jacket is very, very custom. We will be focusing more on that after the tours.
I want one!!
They are high end, and we've sold a few. They are completely hand vintage, and ready to go. We're mom and pop now…
Mom and Pop of the rock world, I love it.
Jennie Vee:
There are lots of exciting things going on for you right now.
Oh yeah, non-stop action, Eagles of Death Metal just released an awesome covers album. You've got to hear it because it's not just the usual suspects of a rock band covering other rock bands. There's a version of George Michael's "Careless Whisper", there is "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige, which is amazing. It's a really, really cool album. It's called, "The Best Songs We Never Wrote." It's just a really, really fun record. I'm going out on tour in June in Europe. I'm sure we will play a few of those covers in the set. It's going to be a great time and my tour bleeds right into the Stray Cats tour, so I'll be out all summer, half with my band and half with Jim's band. Do you think it could be more perfect, I don't think so?
That's fun. The two of you are also playing together.
After we met we just started playing together. It just made sense. I learned all the stuff. Jim has always had a trio and this really expanded my repertoire. I've been playing for many years, 25 years and this kind of upped my game as far as being a musician because I never really attacked rockabilly. I started out playing punk and nu-wave and post punk and then meeting Jim I kind of went back and started playing what Jim and the Stray Cats were playing. So I have really diversified my style and it's awesome. Then we do the jackets on the side which is so much fun. Then me personally I've got my own sunglasses coming out in August. There is a company in Australia and they are awesome. The shades are super fashionable and really high-quality and I did a frame with them. I helped design it, the shape and the color. They look good on everyone and they work with a bunch of cool influential people. So I'm really honored to have my own frame coming out.
When you and Jim gig together do you play only rockabilly?
Yeah, we stay true to the rockabilly classics. We do the Stray Cat ones which are a blast, Elvis and Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, it's very rockabilly our set. It's just really, really fun. I mean we do everything together.
So the two of you are all over the place in a good way.
I know, that's why Jim says we have to find the time to get married, which is true. We want to have a really cool wedding and make it real Rock 'n' Roll. Between us always having something to do, going out for the weekends for gigs and going on tour and designing jackets, and sunglasses and taking care of the pets, we have to really set aside some time. Hopefully in September we will have a little bit of a break after we finish the summer tour will be able to round everybody up. Will have a wedding tour. We talked about doing it in different cities.
Everybody loves romance and Rock 'n' Roll
Exactly. A Rock 'n' Roll romance. I'm super grateful. And then I start to feel bad for everybody else that doesn't have a Slim Jim phantom.
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Is there a way to circumvent the Recycle Bin GUI and perform the operations from e.g. Command Prompt or PowerShell?
What would the command or script for the following operation look like?
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...I am not a coder so I am unable to use these solutions ... the most I can do is put a script into Notepad, save as PS1 file, and run with PowerShell!
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Despite living in San Diego, there are plenty of seafood markets and grocery stores that offer live Dungeness crab from the San Francisco bay region. This light and tasty seafood dish can be enjoyed anytime Dungeness crab (or any substitute crab) is in season.
Finely dice fennel, garlic and chilies and place in a large pan with olive oil and begin cooking on low heat. Stir occasionally.
Meanwhile, fill a large pot with 3/5 water and excess chili stems, fennel and sea salt while bringing it to a boil.
Once water has come to a boil, carefully place Dungeness crab head first into the pot and close the lid. Cook the crab for approximately 15 minutes (depending on weight) and once completed place crab on ice to stop cooking. Re-use the flavored water and next place linguine into pot. Cook for approximately 7 minutes.
Once cooled, remove crabmeat from the legs, claws and head and transfer to a mortar to breakdown into a single consistency. Add crabmeat to the fennel, chili and garlic sauce and add fennel tops and lemon zest.
Add the pasta to the sauce and stir until all the flavors are married.