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Oops. Should have been titled Brazilian. Bazilian I imagine could be translated as the total quantity of garotos de programa TomCal has engaged, i.e. thousands, millions, billions trillions and following BAZILIANS.2 points
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It wasn't bullying I assure it. It was done by loved ones whom I have "rolled" tons of times over the years. It was funny and perfect pay back. I was almost a Christian minister. Had it not been for my gay gene, most likely I would have stayed the course. I loved it then. Now, 30 years have passed and my philosophy has changed but it changed because of the paths I chose. Had I not chosen those paths, I'd likely be married, a preacher and spending weekends in bathhouses when I could get away from my wife. Now, hi, what is your memory that makes you smile the most?2 points
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We have all lived lives full of adventure and fun and work and love, etc. Looking back over your life, what memory makes you smile the most? For me, it goes back to my teen years and my "thing" was rolling yards. Yes, taking toilet paper and cover a friends yard was great fun for me. When I was 16, my mom got me a new baby blue Firebird. It was my joy. Well, one day at church, all the kids I taught in Sunday school were laughing and I knew something was up, I just didn't know what. Everyone was starring at me. I went outside and right in the church parking lot was my beautiful baby blue car rolled with hundreds of rolls of toilet paper. Not only the outside, but the inside had so much paper that I could not sit down. It was payback for years of mischief. Still, to this day I look back at that moment and smile. Sometimes I even laugh out-loud at the crazy things I use to try to pull and in one swoop, the whole gang got together and changed the colorr of my car from blue to white. My best friend said, "only Charmin for your car as we know how you like softness."1 point
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Update on the ongoing Yucca Mountain follies. The $38 billion nuclear waste fiasco Congress chose the site in 1987 as the country’s sole permanent nuclear repository. | AP Photo By DARIUS DIXON | 11/30/13 12:29 PM EST politico.com Doing nothing often has a cost — and when it comes to storing the nation’s nuclear waste, the price is $38 billion and rising. That’s just the low-ball estimate for how much taxpayers will wind up spending because of the government’s decades of dithering about how to handle the radioactive leftovers sitting at dozens of sites in 38 states. The final price will be higher unless the government starts collecting the waste by 2020, which almost nobody who tracks the issue expects. The first $15 billion is what the government spent on a controversial nuclear waste repository at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain until the Obama administration scrapped the project. The other $23 billion is the Energy Department’s estimate of the damages the government will have to pay to nuclear power utilities, which for the past 30 years have paid a fee to DOE on the promise that the feds would begin collecting their waste in 1998. Industry argues that the damages are closer to $50 billion — which raises the bottom line to $65 billion including the money spent on Yucca. The cost of the refunds is little known to the public, but it’s such a huge liability that DOE tracks the figure closely. The government is still fighting the utilities’ claims in court, but utilities have been racking up a string of wins. The costs of inaction don’t just include dollars. The lack of a final resting place for the waste means that each nuclear plant has to stockpile its own. Thousands of tons of waste are stranded at sites around the country, including at plants that have shut down. “I’m trying to think of some fancy words but at the end of the day it’s just a massive consumer rip-off,” said Greg White, a regulator on the Michigan Public Service Commission who also heads the nuclear waste panel for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. NARUC, which represents state-level regulators, won a legal victory this month when the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered DOE to stop collecting the fee. Salo Zelermyer, a former George W. Bush-era DOE attorney who works at the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani, says the waste program has “plainly broken down” and that the government had made “no discernable progress towards its commitments.” Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz also expressed frustration this month, calling the system of storing nuclear waste at reactors sites “politically unsustainable.” “For nuclear energy to be competitive here in the U.S. and ensure its safety and security abroad, we have to address the problem of disposition of used nuclear fuel and high-level waste,” Moniz said during a panel discussion at an American Nuclear Society meeting. He previously served on a blue-ribbon commission that advised Obama on changes to the nation’s nuclear waste policy. But like others in the Obama administration, Moniz maintains that Yucca Mountain is not “a workable option.” Congress chose the Nevada site in 1987 as the country’s sole permanent nuclear repository, but it continues to draw fierce opposition from many of the state’s residents and elected officials. One of its most powerful opponents is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who blocked funding for the project and pushed the Obama administration to kill it — something DOE did in 2010. Reid and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have long argued that the studies supporting the project were discredited because Congress short-circuited the site-selection process to focus solely on Yucca. The administration says the government needs to start over with a new waste site — and this time, the selection process must be “consent based” to win public acceptance. “When this Administration took office, the timeline for opening Yucca Mountain had already been pushed back by two decades, stalled by public protest and legal opposition, with no end in sight,” DOE spokeswoman Niketa Kumar said in an email. The end is still far off. DOE’s latest plan calls for a repository to open in 2048, although the department would try to open a temporary storage site by 2021. Even Yucca couldn’t be finished until at least 2027 if the government were to revive it immediately, the Government Accountability Office estimated last year. Meanwhile, DOE’s Nuclear Waste Fund has amassed more than $25 billion after utilities — and their customers — have paid $750 million a year since 1983 through a 0.1-cent charge for each nuclear-generated kilowatt-hour of electricity. The fund will continue to generate about $1 billion in interest each year, even though the appeals court zeroed out DOE’s further collection of the fee until Congress passes a new nuclear waste program or the agency dusts off Yucca Mountain. When it became clear DOE wasn’t fulfilling its end of the bargain, utilities began demanding that the government repay them for the costs they’ve incurred to store the waste on their own. They include the costs for reconfiguring the increasingly crowded spent-fuel pools, moving and packaging the used fuel rods and providing maintenance services such as on-site security. Utilities have filed at least 61 lawsuits in the past 15 years over the broken promise. And bills have ramped up quickly. Payments to utilities totaled $567 million by the end of September 2009, during Obama’s first year in office. Three years later, they amount to more than $2.6 billion, according to DOE financial reports. The Justice Department is pushing back hard against the utilities, but one lawyer who follows the cases said DOJ is no longer using the “scorched earth” approach it once had. The lawyer said that’s mainly because courts have agreed with many of the utilities’ claims, giving government attorneys fewer legal options to stanch the flow of cash. In another win for the utility side, the Court of Federal Claims on Nov. 14 ordered Treasury to pay $235 million to the owners of three decommissioned nuclear plants in the Northeast — Yankee, Maine Yankee and Connecticut Yankee — on top of a $160 million payment they extracted in February. Those sums cover the utilities’ expenses only through 2008. The costs for storing waste at plants with longer lifespans will undoubtedly be even higher because the utilities will have to move more spent fuel from cooling pools into longer-term dry casks. Each cask costs about $1 million plus handling. Seeking to head off future payments, the government has made some little-noticed changes to DOE’s waste contract with companies building new power reactors. Southern Co. and SCANA, which are building four reactors in Georgia and South Carolina respectively, essentially had to give up the major leverage points that power companies historically used to sue the government over waste storage. The new contract has a more flexible waste pickup schedule, limits the kinds of costs DOE is willing to compensate utilities for and caps certain damage claims. Still, Moniz said this summer that DOE projects the damages will total as much as $23 billion in the next 50 years — assuming the government can haul the waste to either a temporary or permanent site beginning in 2020. Just two years ago, DOE’s estimate was $15 billion. After 2020, the federal government will hand over an average of $500 million a year as a result of the lawsuits. The real twist of the knife for some DOE critics is that the agency doesn’t supply the money it’s losing in nuclear waste lawsuits. Payments to utilities are coming from every taxpayer through an indefinite Treasury account that pays for general litigation against the government. Some critics say this has amounted to a double tax for taxpayers who also happen to get their power from a nuclear plant. DOE has continued to justify the fee based on its latest nuclear waste strategy — the one that envisions opening a repository in 2048. But the appeals court mocked the agency’s defense and called some of DOE’s positions “obviously disingenuous.” DOE’s new plan came partly from the recommendations of the 15-member panel that Moniz participated in, which was led by former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. Critics like White say they respect the commission’s work but doubt the administration’s sincerity. “I’m not convinced, right at the moment, that the Department of Energy, under this current administration, has any interest in doing anything related to this program,” White said. “They’re basically biding time until the current president is no longer in office.” Meanwhile, attempted fixes in Congress have moved at a snail’s pace. Two years ago, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced a bill with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) to fast-track the approval of interim storage sites by offering large financial incentives for the communities hosting them. But the sizable price tag would have been peanuts compared with the liability taxpayers are facing. Since then, Murkowski has worked with Senate energy panel Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to address the price tag while acknowledging the political reality of Reid’s opposition to Yucca. But their bill has stalled this year amid other congressional crises. “Sen. Murkowski still believes that Yucca should still be on the table and that a permanent repository is necessary,” said her spokesman Robert Dillon. “But in the interim, while there are political roadblocks to that, that doesn’t mean you quit working on the liability issue.” Their legislation would create a new agency to handle nuclear waste and allow it to set up temporary storage locations, while requiring utilities to settle their lawsuits against the government in exchange using the storage sites. Former South Carolina regulator David Wright objected to that tradeoff. Forcing utilities to settle would “perpetuate the untenable situation of prolonged on-site dry cask storage,” he wrote the energy committee. White also found the requirement hard to swallow, saying it could damage hopes for DOE to act on a permanent repository. “If utilities have to waive their rights to damage claims then where is there any kind of impetus for the department to do anything?” he asked. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/nuclear-waste-fiasco-100450.html1 point
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"scuddle (v.): to run with an affected haste. Example: “Desperate to look important and with nothing to do, she scuddled around the office like a pinball.” Next time someone tries to look busy by dashing about and panting needlessly, call them on their blatant scuddling." With all due deference both to you and Mr. Forsyth, AdamSmith, I suspect "scuddle" is merely an alternate spelling/pronunciation of "scuttle", a perfectly good (and current, not forgotten) term. Properly used, it's even standard English, not slang. Example: "The priest scuttled into the shadows as soon as the altar boys started pointing at him." "Feaguing" I can accept actually happened, if only because there's hardly anything we humans won't get up to given enough time and boredom, but the thought that it was common enough to require a specific word for it is just horrific beyond words. Speaking of which, what's the word for behavior that's horrific beyond words?1 point
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MAMAE E PAPAI Classical ... You need translation ?1 point
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Mezzaninu sauna is very quiet. Not so many boys (maybe 12 ? ). Not so many customers (around 10 ?). One good boy is sufficient anyway and I am glad to meet Francesco. Tomcal reported about Francesco and posted a picture of him just above. I had great time with Francesco last year. But nothing compared to what he gave me this session. Francesco only wanted 50 Reais (17 €), which is the minimum to be charged in the sauna. Since he spent the whole evening with me, I gave him 100 Reais which is good, but i did enjoy his company and his body. He wants us to go together to meet a transvestite he knows. I have absolutely no interest. He shows me the pictures of this nice "girl" that he loves. Difficult to understand the attraction of many brasilians for the transvestites. He is happy to tell me that the girl has a very small penis ... No attraction. Then he proposes uma mulher coroa (an older female) of 40 years old that we can go fuck together. I will have to pay 150 Reais for the woman and 50 Reais for him We finally combine a session for wednesday when we will start having a session together in the sauna and then invite a boy so that he can fuck him. He seems to be happy with the program ... Will he show up today is another question ...1 point
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This trip, I am having as many new meetings through badoo and disponivel than through saunas ... Of course meeting people from these sites take time and it is necessayr to have some caution of course ... So far I managed to meet 3 good looking guys this trip through one of the 2 sites above. One took me to his house, I took another one in my hotel and we went to a motel with the third. I came into contact with Lucas beginning of the week. Lucas was so eager to meet me that I decided to give him a try. We had a first session on internet yesterday nite and decided to meet today in the center of Porto Alegre. He proposed a motel (love hotel, rent by the hour), which I agreed. Lucas is 30, football player, blond with light eyes, very tight ass and cute, easy going, with a nice face and permanent smile. He arrived on time at the meeting place and we headed towards the hotel. It is clear that Lucas is not used to going to these places (me neither): he does not want us to enter both together !, to which I argue that person at reception sees lots of couples all day and certainly does not care. If they would care, they would change job ! We enter together, we get a key, simple as hello ! and up we go. 501 is the room. Lucas is sooo horny when we arrive. Big hard on. Big smile on his face. Perfect passive, obviously not doing that so often , but what a pleasure to fuck that tight ass ! Long long session. At the same time hard core and romantic. Boa pegaçao as they say here (good session). 2 hours. My dick is more than tired, but I want to go to Mezzaninu tonight, . Not sure I will be able to do much more today .. This motel in the center of Porto Alegre is quite discrete, there is not even a sign on the door showing that it is a motel. Motel do centro. Just the word "Centro" written on the door(http://www.moteldocentro.com.br/). Clean, lot of hot water, nice. 58 Reais for 2 hours (20 €). No need to take any risk with sex in the bushes in the parks close by ! When the session is over, we are both sad to have to leave. Lucas is not available tomorrow and I leave Thursday morning ... A vida e assim ! Such is life ! Maybe we meet next time I am in Porto Alegre ? (next year ?). Who knows ? We keep in touch through Skype. And today we had a Skype call with video and I received this nice message: "se vc foste ficar aqui, eu gostaria de namorar vc" (if you would stay here, I would like us to be boyfriends). I love Brazil !1 point
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We'll be seeing alot of these over the next few months, been given the names Brazuca. Slang for something Brazilian or someone outside the country.1 point
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I guess that I am lucky enough to make this a difficult task to choose one thing that made me smile a lot. I really enjoyed flying the FEDEX MD-11 simulator. I really enjoyed and appreciated the first time I flew a single engine aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. However, overcoming adversity and helping another overcome it, provided at least one of the "top 10" smiles. An instructor at the Piper Aircraft Factory begged and begged me to let him take a trip across the Atlantic. Finally a trip came up that seemed suitable. There were two aircraft so we could fly together with the plan to go to Goose Bay, Canada, then Greenland, then Iceland and finally Scotland and the UK delivery point. We got to Goose Bay OK but he got cold feet. The weather wasn't good enough + a long list of reasons/excuses to not proceed to Greenland. I spent two days talking to him and trying to decide what I was going to do if he really didn't go. Finally, he went. We made it to Greenland OK and re-fueled, then proceeded to Iceland. Spent the night in Iceland. He was elated to have successfully made two 600 mile over water legs and to be in Iceland. I think he ordered the Icelandic equivalent of a bucket of chicken that night. We had one more 600 mile leg to Scotland which was made without further cajoling or unusual conversation about it. Just file the flight plan, get fuel and go. I was satisfied to get the job done and satisfied that he had overcome his personal problems. Apparently he crossed off an item on his bucket list. I don't think he ever did anything similar again. Best regards, RA11 point
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And here's a pic of tom Daley and his ASS1 point
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Actually not a joke in the least. If Physical Diseases Were Treated Like Mental Illness1 point
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Merry Christmas!! Least I could do. On reflection, I suggest six to eight weeks for mellowing. You might want to hold back on the spirits after two or maybe three weeks depending on your druthers.1 point -
I did the Clarke bit from memory, BTW. A decent memory is handy cover for not being that smart.1 point
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Dear Sir: The locus of the contravariant tensor has noncommutative divergence in the region of the transfinite singularity. A simple extension of your theory leads at once to the obviously fallacious conclusion that the polarized proton flux will result in a heuristic phase imbalance of the hypergeometric catenary, so that... The standard nonsense reply that Arthur Clarke would send whenever some crackpot mailed him their "solution" to some scientific problem.1 point
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That was what a Bechtel person told me about the Hanford tanks. Not exactly a surprise to them, but still an extreme vexation. The spent uranium and the other fission products mixed in with it are not just radioactive but also highly chemically reactive, on account of having huge electron shells to go with their large atomic number. Sitting in water, warmed by their own heat, has driven chains of chemical reactions over the decades that are proving very hard to characterize now. Thus the difficulties in devising methods of vitrification or other very-long-term stabilization techniques that we can be sure the nasty stuff won't eat its way out of. Not to mention its already leaking out of those tanks, which were never designed for the 60+ years they've been in service now. One might hope the situation in the commercial power industry wouldn't be quite as bad as in the get-'er-done damn-the-consequences military weapons complex, though I have no knowledge one way or the other.1 point
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