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Cherry: hmm.....

Dani: nice

Cherry kisses you deeply

Dani: wonderful

Cherry: very ... I’ve waited all day for this, he he

Dani: very nice

Cherry: Dani.... I...I...

Dani: yes Sweetie

Cherry: looks down shyly at the floor. Whispering I ... want you..... so much tonight......

Dani: Oh love

Dani: I will hold you tight

Cherry: looks up innocently into your eyes

Dani: Heart beats together

Cherry: I lay my hand on your shoulder, my other finding your hand and holding it

Dani: I need to be held

Cherry: wraps my arms around you tightly, resting my head on your chest

Dani: I brush your hair with my fingertips

Dani: whispers I love you

Cherry: I take a deep breath, whispering, I love you too

Cherry: whispering

Dani: our eyes meet

Dani: our lips touch

Cherry: I lay back as I kiss your soft lips.... my hands falling into yours entwine our fingers

Dani: I hold you so tight and close

Cherry: I feel your warmth and your love filling me up inside

Dani: our breathing is together

Cherry: as I hold you tight and close to my body

Cherry: listening to your heart beat in sync with mine, feeling complete laying in your arms

Dani: I feel happy to be in your arms

Dani: A golden glow fills my being

Dani: completely satisfied

Cherry: I kiss you gently with longing and need for you that have built up over night

Cherry: you’re aura’s beautiful tonight

Cherry: such a mix of emotion, its amazing

Dani: Oh my dear

Cherry: it’s all good emotion though. All loving, ah it fills me up so much

Dani: I am not on the usual wave

Cherry: its ok I sense that too, I love you though

Dani: I am the tide going out; you are the tide coming in

Cherry: looks deep into your eyes getting lost... Dani... That line its beautiful

Cherry: your are the light, I am the dark

Dani: perhaps I will tell you a story

Cherry: that would be nice :)

Dani: I am going to the airport to pick you up

Dani: You are flying to start a vacation to the Caribbean islands

Dani: but you stop off for a visit to Florida

Cherry smiles

Dani: I meet you leaving the secure area with a hug that lasts so long

Dani: Your eyes are dancing your smile only the loveliness matches your golden tresses

Dani: hand and hand we walk to the car

Cherry: hmm.... :)

Dani: Stopping to kiss

Dani: they are far better than you dreamed

Cherry: ohh

Dani: The sound of your voice thrills me

Dani: we get in the car and drive through palm trees, lovely lakes and canals

Dani: the sun as a wondrous quality, the sky blue

Dani: puffy clouds

Dani: We stop near the beach to shop for suntan lotion and cold drinks

Dani: We hold hands and walk into a trendy store; you need a second bathing suit

Dani: for the trip

Dani: we find a blue floral little French number

Dani: You blush at the thought

Dani: but agree to try it

Cherry: LOL

Dani: we find the changing room and I slip in with you

Dani: kissing your neck and lips

Cherry: mm

Dani: You taste like soft peaches

Dani: Don't giggle so

Dani: we will get thrown out...

Cherry: he he... true

Dani: You are so lovely

Dani: I can hardly believe it

Cherry smiles

Dani: I help you undress

Dani: kissing and touching to your delight

Dani: I slip out again when no one is looking

Dani: we get funny looks as we pay for the bathing suit

Dani: LOL we laugh and run to the car holding hands

Cherry: LOL...

Dani: as we drive off I can't hide my erection

Dani: So you drop your hand on it and squeeze and play

Cherry: mm...

Dani: Stop until we are not driving...

Cherry: yes Dani

Dani: We find a parking place in the shade near the beach

Dani: I have brought a lovely lunch, soft terrycloth blankets

Dani: a shade shelter also

Cherry: smiles

Dani: We load it into a light beach cart and walk through the sand dunes

Dani: the temperature is warm, with a cool breeze

Dani: Your hand squeezes mine, not wanting to let go

Dani: as we find the beach and walk

Dani: the surf and bird sounds warm your soul with the bright sun, green palms, waving grass

Dani: a little way down the beach we retreat back a little between two small dunes

Dani: finding lovely soft silky sand flanked by grass and small trees

Dani: with scented yellow flowers almost as lovely as you

Cherry: blushes

Dani: we set up a beach towel. The sunshade, the lunch basket

Dani: We lie down in the warm sun, remove our cover-ups

Dani: I shutter with joy as we kiss, deeply

Dani: Your hands hold me

Dani: tongues dance and intertwine

Dani: we are together at last…

I want to stop this open pit mine. Can anyone give me ideas? The glaciers and polar regions are melting at a rapid rate now. Energy is expensive and they plan to move huge amounts to earth and rock. They plan a 20 mile dam and lake of toxic waste. Do any of the presidential candidates know or care? The taxes benefit on the mine are peanuts compared to the profits for the Canadian Investors. Who are these people? What about the beauty of the area? Please help me stop this mine!!

Pebble Creek Mine. In one of the drainages of Bristol Bay which is a hugely productive salmon fishing area. It is being headed by a Canadian mining company that is on record to their shareholders stating a few unsavory ideas.

The tailings would be piled up and left there. The tailings would have various heavy metals which would leach out. The proposed dam is supposed to retain that leach water.

Like most any modern low-assay gold mining operation, they'd use cyanide leaching to recovery the gold (like those eastern Nevada open mines). And,of course, cyanide is not good for anyone or anything's health.

While Bristol Bay is a large body of water and would provide a lot of dilution of any spills, the drainages that the mine is in could definitely be killed off for several years in the event of a spill, accident, or damn failure.

While it is possible to build damns that last 100 years, this wouldn't be constructed of concrete and steel but of tailings. And Alaska is a pretty seismically active place.

My last concern about it is that the bonds and insurance requirements placed on mining companies are vastly smaller than the potential clean-up costs. Look at ID and MT for examples of that. Or read Jared Diamond's "Collapse" if you want all the references and footnotes.

I suppose the other perspective would be that even though some mining in Alaska has already left behind heavy metals, nuclear material and lowered the pH enough to eliminate all plant growth in the area, those areas are small compared to the whole state. And that there would be various fairly well-paid jobs for people without professional skills - truck drivers, welders, etc - and as a state, we get excited about those projects.

But I don't feel that we shoud be trashing another area. There might 10-20 years of gold extraction and jobs followed by centuries of problems.

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I live in Alaska. The local paper carries the development, permitting, and legislation related to the mine. Our area would be a jumping-off point for power, supplies and workers for the mine and already is for the exporatory work.

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Wow, I hit the gold mine. Great answer! What are the chances of this mine opening? American Photo magazine said the dam to hold the back a toxic lake 20 miles square. I want to fight this project! he dam would be 4 times the size of the china's concrete Three Gorges Dam. Please help me fight this.

I yield the keyboard to Circe, the queen of Second Life music:

I'm Circe Broom. I have been involved in music in SL since I joined over 3 years ago. At the advent of live music in SL, I was first to stream some of those who are the biggest stars of today, such as Cylindrian Rutabaga, Jeff Tully, Edward Lowell, Silas Scarborough and Slim Warrior. I want to give thanks to my friend Lucius Templar for allowing me to use some of the words from his recent article on this subject.

I own 4 venues, and am music director for several more. I run the music program for Ratepoint Cafe, and my own Concert Hall stands on land donated to me by Ratepoint, on their island. I run 25 shows a week at my venues, and more for the ones I work for. I pay out of my pocket over $1400 US a month in fees for musicians, plus tier and stream costs.

I cannot sustain this much longer. As I want to continue to provid quality venues for the best of the live entertainers in here, I must find a way to get more funding. In SL Music, venue owners give performers a chance to put their talents out on display, give them space to put up promotional advertisements and/or vendors and usually pay them a booking fee + 100% of all the tips. For the venue owner there are additional costs of manpower, a monthly stream, and promotion. There is little compensation for this work in terms of lindens and the dwell benefits only apply to those running a venue to improve the commercial appeal of a sim. So the question remains - why are we paying someone to promote themselves on our land? Fees for artists for whom playing in here costs nothing, are rising. A year ago, I was paying 1500 lindens an hour to musicians. Now, it has doubled and MORE. There are artists I cannot stage, simply because the 1400 dollars a month I already pay is ridiculous. I love music, I love helping these wonderful artists share their talent, but I need a break. One musician I know of, has publicly said that venue owners who can't afford to keep up with it.. should just close down. I say what would happen to musicians if all the venues closed? Could they play in the Welcome areas? Would that be as lucrative for them? I don't think so!

There are several ways this problem can be addressed.. I am not opposed to contributing to an artist’s costs. But I am opposed to having to shoulder the burden on my own while everyone else enjoys the shows for free. One of the reasons quoted for increasing the prices of performances is people do not tip very much anymore. Hence playing for tips is no longer adequate if you wish to meet your in world costs.

One of our artists, Silas Scarborough, has written a script which was put in use by him a a small few other artists, which has already helped me; he made the tipjar split tips with the venue.. he suggests and uses himself, 25% to the venue owner. If every artist did that, we would be able to operate more easily. As noted previously, folks dont seem to be tipping as much as they used to.. so this can be only part of the solution.

Another way would be to use the box office paradigm, and charge cover. When a group of venue owners met some time ago to discuss its possible implementation, there was a huge uproar about it, led by a musician, probably afraid that a cover charge would cause her to receive less tips. The sentiment expressed was.. venue owners should swallow the cost alone. My island was heavily griefed as an aftermath to that meeting..

The way I think we will meet this dilemma is via corporate funding. Music venues have some of the highest traffic in SL; would not a well placed, tasteful sign from, say.. a Real world Clothier or shoe maker, or cruise line, computer maker, whatever - make sense in these areas?

Our music utopia is changing.. Venue owners are no longer viewed as supporters and benefactors but people to exploit. Perhaps artists themselves are taken for granted by an audience used to getting everything for free. Perhaps our live music community is surreptiously being turned into a live music industry. What happens when an artist is measured by broad commercial appeal rather than by artistic contribution? What happens if the only venues that can afford to operate need to be associated with large malls, sex sims or corporate sims? To me, such a transition will be– the day SL music dies.