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If you go
What: What We Love Winery grand opening
When: 1-6 p.m. Saturday
Where: 1501 Lee Hill Road, No. 14, Boulder
Cost: $5
Info: whatwelove.com
If you go
What: Settembre Cellars Winery & Tasting Room grand opening
When: 1-6 p.m. May 24-25
Where: 1501 Lee Hill Road, No. 16, Boulder
Info: settembrecellars.com
It's a love story.
That's as good a description as any as to how the opening of a new winery in Boulder came about.
Three years ago, Michael Hasler, then living in New Zealand, took an Alaskan cruise for his 50th birthday. He met a Boulder woman, Carolee Corey, on the trip.
"We enjoyed each other's company. I followed her back to Boulder," Hasler says.
The story is more complex than that, though. Hasler's trip took place after the death, from cancer, of his first wife, Eva, in 2007.
"It sort of ripped the guts out of me," he says.
The two had worked together to build an ecolodge in New Zealand, but after Eva's death, he lost his passion for the project. Thus, on a whim, he found himself on the cruise where he met Corey. After building various items such as benches for her day care center, The Strawberry Farm, Hasler returned to New Zealand and put the lodge on the market.
Back in Boulder, he began to tinker with winemaking. His experimentation had a solid base of knowledge. An Australian by birth, Hasler had received a degree in wine science in that country and worked in the wine industry there, as well as in California and France.
At the ecolodge, he had created an unusual mulled wine, made from red wine, dark chocolate, coffee, vanilla and spices. He met John Garlich of BookCliff Winery and began making some wine in his spare time.
"I had time on my hands. I was just playing around, looking at what I wanted to do," he says. "It then sort of jelled into a business plan."
His first wine, a bottled version of the mulled wine, came out last fall. It was called Decadent Saint. The wine, at 41 proof, could be consumed straight like a port, or it could be diluted and heated for mulled wine.
At What We Love's opening this week, Hasler will introduce a summery Decadent Saint sangria, made from red wine, orange, black currant, vanilla and a touch of cinnamon. The sangria, which is also 41 proof and can be diluted with seltzer, will be available at the opening.
In addition to the sangria, Hasler has several varietals such as chardonnay and sauvignon blanc to sell, most made from California grapes. The California grapes will contrast with BookCliff's offerings, and another winery, Settembre Cellars, will open the following weekend, offering another consumer option in the same building.
Tracy Eliasson of Settembre, who owns the winery with her husband, Blake, says they had been looking for a new space for their seven-year-old business, which had manufacturing facilities in their garage on Grape Street in Boulder. The spot they found, between BookCliff and What We Love, will open Memorial Day weekend. The three wineries will combine marketing efforts, opening their tasting rooms at the same time and putting together events such as progressive dinners among the wineries with local chefs. The name of their combined effort will be Boulder Wine Studios. That coordination is set to begin in June.
"There are lots of opportunities," Garlich says, adding that having three wineries to try offers a destination experience, one that might could draw Denverites, as well as folks from Longmont and further north.
Eliasson says customers can experience three different wine styles in one trip.
"It's a great way for locavores to learn about Colorado wines," she says.
For Hasler, the winery opening represents a story coming to fruition. He's using the wine experience from his youth and the business skills he learned at the lodge.
He and Corey married in August.
"We crushed grapes three days later. There was no honeymoon," he says.
When they had the logo created for their wines, the artist came up with a Celtic heart. That was the way Hasler's first wife always drew hearts.
"It's funny," he says. "(It all came) full circle with the heart on the bottle. It was like a message from Eva."
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HEBRON – For Ian Johnson, Alden-Hebron High School's small population isn't what mattered. It was the quality of the education he and his 27 fellow graduates received.
The high school Sunday bid adieu to 28 students.
Johnson, the class salutatorian, said even though Alden-Hebron was a small school, it gives students opportunities to do well.
Johnson will attend the University of California-Los Angeles and play lacrosse.
"At the beginning of my high school career, I didn't think that was true at all, but at the end of it, I'm headed to a huge university in California," Johnson said after the commencement. Being in a small school "really hasn't been a setback, and I thought it was going to be."
During the ceremony, Johnson and valedictorian Kelly Warren performed a duet. They wrote about memories from their freshman through their senior years to the tune of Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)."
Warren will attend Trinity International University in Deerfield, and will possibly major in psychology.
"I made so many great friends here, teachers, friends, that I hope to carry onto college," Warren said after receiving her diploma. "This school pushes you to work hard and to get good grades; that mentality of going into college and striving to do my best."
Alden-Hebron students brought in $111,500 in scholarship money from college and universities.
Principal Tim Hayunga called the class a hardworking group.
"They're just a real joy to be around, constantly coming in with a smile on their faces," Hayunga said.
Students from the Class of 2013 will attend Lakeland College, Southern Illinois University, Augustana College, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Concordia University of Wisconsin, Southwest Florida College in Bonita Springs, Ripon College, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and others.
"It's important for people to know that just because you're in Hebron doesn't mean you can't go out and enjoy different things," Hayunga said. "Absolutely, we would love them to come back and be here, but at the same time, if there are things out there for you that are other places, go get it."Alden-Hebron High SchoolWoodstock grads urged to start on life scripts


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'Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood' (Pablo Neruda). It's the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable. Her father, who regularly delivers halves of pork for the butcher, spent several years in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Algeria and Syria – a period which he partly glorifies but which still also haunts him. Franzi immerses herself in this world by looking at an abundance of beguiling yet disturbing photographs taken at the time by her father. Her own childish fantasy realm of fairy tales and picture books soon intermingle with nightmares as reality merges with imagination, war, horror and beauty. Decades later, Franziska, now a successful photographer but still overshadowed by her father's memory, undertakes a journey back into his youth. She wants to understand his war trauma and shed light on her family's past. But it soon transpires that her search for the truth has ambivalent consequences. [Synopsis courtesy of Berlinale]


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CARDINAL George Pell yesterday welcomed a national royal commisison into child sexual abuse, calling it a chance to deal with the issue and "to separate fact from fiction".
The Ballarat-born Catholic cleric faced journalists in Sydney, telling a packed press conference that media reports had included "significant exaggeration" of the issue.
Answering all questions put to him, Cardinal Pell spoke on a wide range of issues, including his time in the same parish house as convicted paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale and his regret for supporting Fr Ridsdale during a 1993 trial.
Cardinal Pell said he expected to be called to give evidence against claims he had participated in any cover-up of abuse by priests and would co-operate fully with the royal commission.
On the royal commission
We think it's an opportunity to help the victims. It's an opportunity to clear the air, to separate fact from fiction.
We are not interested in denying the extent of misdoing in the Catholic Church. We object to it being exaggerated.
We acknowledge, with shame, the extent of the problem and I want to assure you that we have been serious in attempting to eradicate it and deal with it ...
On media reporting of abuse
To what extent are wounds simply opened by the re-running of events which have been reported not only once, but many times previously?
On moving offending priests
It is completely prohibited to shift priests who have been charged, to shift them around.
If and where that has been done, that is against the protocols.
On Catholic Church processes
These are adequate procedures. They've been out for months.
I'm interested in asking whether police have sufficient resources to deal with the day-to-day problems, as well as historical.
On supporting convicted priest Father Gerald Ridsdale by walking him to court in 1993
In retrospect I didn't realise then what a wrong impression that would give to the victims.
On what information priests can give to police following confessions of child sexual abuse
If that is done outside the confessional (it can be passed on) but the Seal of Confession is inviolable.
If the priest knows beforehand about such a situation, the priest should refuse to hear the confession.
On public opinion
We have been unable to convince public opinion that basically for the last 20 years, whatever the imperfections, we've been serious about this.
Because there's a press campaign focused largely on us, it does not mean that we are largely the principal culprit.
On instances of abuse
I would welcome the release of the statistics which are available showing the number of cases that the police are dealing with, how many of them might involve Catholic teachers, priests or others, how many of these incidents are historical incidents, how many are happening today.
I'm interested in asking whether police have sufficient resources to deal with the day-to-day problems, as well as historical.
- Archdiocese seeks to follow NSW law and canon law when dealing with sexual abuse claims.
- Allegations of sexual abuse are reported to the police.
- Church inquiries are put on hold once police investigations start.
- Accused priests and church workers are not "tipped off" about police investigations.
- Silence isn't demanded from victims in return for financial assistance.
- Church entities can be sued.
- Priests who have committed crimes against children or pose a risk to them are permanently removed from public ministry, including where they have not been convicted or arrested.
(Source: Sexual Abuse: The Response of the Archdiocese of Sydney)


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Submission + - Will Microsoft dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers? 2
theodp writes: Just when you think the cable TV viewing experience couldn't get any worse, GeekWire reports on the Microsoft Xbox Incubation team's patent-pending Consumer Detector, which uses cameras and sensors like those in the Xbox 360 Kinect controller to monitor, count and in some cases identify the people in a room watching television, movies and other content. Should the number of viewers detected exceed the limits of a particular content license, the system would halt playback unless additional viewing rights were purchased. As Yakov Smirnoff might say: In Soviet Russia, Kinect-equipped Motorola Model 20F2 console TV watches your family!


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Government Efficiency
I recently criticized the idea that policymakers should focus their attention on making government more "efficient." Instead, I argued that policymakers should focus their reform efforts on reducing government's size.
Government efficiency proponents make the mistake of viewing the cost of government in the same light as the cost of operating a private business. However, government cannot operate like a business because it isn't a business.
Private businesses obtain their revenue through voluntary exchange: consumers willingly give a business their money in return for a product. Businesses must control the cost of providing a product in order to maximize profits. A business that does not adequately control its costs can find itself undercut by a competitor offering a like product at a lower price. In the private sector, the market sets the price of a product through the interaction of supply and demand.
Government is unconcerned with "profit." The "cost" of government is equal to the taxes extracted from the private sector to pay for government activities, plus the economic damage caused by extracting resources from the private sector. Taxes are involuntarily obtained through compulsion and force. Regardless of the value a citizen assigns to the services provided by government, a citizen must pay for those services, and at a price set by government. The price one pays for government is primarily a function of political factors, which are only indirectly influenced by economic considerations.Details


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Created in April, Police Scotland is the second largest police force in the U.K. after London's Metropolitan Police, with over 24,000 staff, of whom 17,500 are uniformed, frontline officers. It polices a territory comprising 28,168 square miles.
Accenture will develop a central police IT platform called i6 that will support Scotland's new standardized national policing processes and daily policing operations and investigations. The system will be designed to expand, including future mobile functionality for officers as well as "increased online public access," according to a press release.
"Together with Accenture, we can now start on our journey to have truly national policing processes supported by a modern IT solution," said Police Scotland's deputy chief constable Neil Richardson in the news release.
[ Can tech prevent another Sandy Hook? Read Teachers Get Digital Hotline To Police. ]
The new IT system is slated to replace over 120 legacy systems, both IT and paper based, inherited from the eight regional forces that previously supplied law enforcement services to the country. The system is scheduled to be fully functional by late 2015.
"The introduction of efficient and effective ICT will increase the ability of our officers to fight crime and be more visible in our communities," said Richardson. Accenture also will provide user training and implementation support, on-going system maintenance and technology support services. "Through new standardized business processes and the innovative use of
technology, this new system will give Police Scotland the high levels of data integration and information sharing required for their officers to work swiftly and effectively while enabling operational savings," said James Slessor, head of Accenture's U.K. police services work.
The cost of i6 has raised some concern in Scotland, however. The new services originally had been estimated to cost £46 million ($70 million) over a decade, but the government now says total cost might be closer to £60 million ($91 million), once payment for redundant back office staff is factored in.
Accenture's contract with Police Scotland is for 10 years, including a possible two-year extension to a maximum of 12 years. The supplier secured the contract after a two-year competitive tendering process, according to both parties.


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William Michaelian
Grief in finding it broken, joy in the beauty of each new piece.
"William's Law"
William Michaelian is a writer, artist, and poet. His most recent book is the Tenth Anniversary Authorized Print Edition of his first novel, A Listening Thing. His Author's Press Series contains three volumes: The Painting of You, No Time to Cut My Hair, and One Hand Clapping. Two poetry collections, Winter Poems and Another Song I Know, were published in 2007 by Cosmopsis Books.
Michaelian's stories, poems, and drawings have appeared widely in print and online. He also writes a blog, Recently Banned Literature. A second blog is devoted solely to As Is, his free-form essay in nine parts, written and published in 2015. His work has been translated into Armenian, published in Armenia's leading anthologies and literary periodicals, and read on Armenian National Radio. One of his drawings is included in a William Saroyan centennial edition published by Heyday Books in 2008. The author and his wife live in the U.S., near their family in Salem, Oregon.
Note: All of the author's new writing and artwork are publicly shared on his blog.
Print Titles
A Listening Thing (2011)
Primitive: Selected Drawings in Pixel, Pencil & Pen (2010)
The Thing About Strawberries: 31 Dreams (2010)
One Hand Clapping (2010)
No Time to Cut My Hair (2009)
The Painting of You (2009)
Winter Poems (2007)
Another Song I Know (2007)
The Old Language (Armenian, 2005)
A Map of My Heart (Armenian, 2004)
Among the Living and Other Stories (2000)
From Cosmopsis Books
A Listening Thing
Tenth Anniversary Authorized Print Edition
With new Preface & Afterword by the Author,
Extensive New Interview & Materials
from the Original Unpublished
& Online Editions
Cosmopsis Books.
232 pages. 6x9. Paper. (2011)
This special edition is limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. A Listening Thing is printed on archival, acid-free, FSC certified recycled natural paper, with a beautiful matte cover.
"A wonderful book full of heart and common sense.... These are real relationships and real concerns. Even the minor characters sing to us as they do to Stephen. The truck drivers, panhandlers, gas station attendants, and print shop owners all trying to exist as best they can, while the specter of limited funds pushes them on.... A must read for anyone."
— Brent Allard, via Goodreads
"As I enter mid-life and realize there are fewer days ahead than there are behind, I find deep resonance with Stephen Monroe, the central character of A Listening Thing: regrets, mistakes, and like all of William's work, a profound sense of the beauty of life and the hope intrinsic in each new year, each new day. The book is wise and sad and joyful like its creator."
— Paul L. Martin, via The Teacher's View
"A profound vision of the inner life ... Some of the most resonant accounts of dreams in recent literature ... Some of the funniest, most acerbic rants about American society and values in recent literature ... essentially a meditation on loneliness, it is profoundly American ... compellingly human: we never doubt that narrator is telling us the truth. In a society awash every day in public lies, it's refreshing to realize that honest expression is still possible."
— Joseph Hutchison, via The Perpetual Bird
"William, the more I think about it — and I have been, ever since I finished reading your book — it seems that what made your book such a good read for me was that it did not feel like reading at all. It did not feel as if I had been handed a collection of well-chosen words sent to me with the task of conveying certain ideas or emotions, however admirably they discharged this duty, and it was up to me to receive them and judge them. It wasn't even as if you and I were having a conversation across time and space. It felt as if you and I and countless others were sitting together in that moment after the laughter from a really wicked and wise joke has just faded into silence. And then without a word, glasses are raised."
— Gabriella Mirollo, via Recently Banned Literature


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"What Can I Do With a Major in...Social Work?"
Why Major in Social Work?
The graduate with a Bachelor of Social Work degree will use the knowledge and skills obtained in the program to:
- Identify as a professional social worker and conduct one's self accordingly.
- Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.
- Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgements.
- Engage diversity and differences in practice.
- Advance human rights/social and economic justice.
- Engage research informed practice and practice informed research.
- Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.
- Engage into policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work practices.
- Respond to contexts that shape practice.
- Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
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|Court Appointed Special Advocate
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Senate approves use of computers, smartphones
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Gordon House is finally going fully digital.
Senators will now be able to use laptops, tablets, smartphones and other devices during sittings of both the Senate and its committees.
The Standing Orders Committee of the Senate has agreed that it is time its members have access to digital instruments during sittings.
However, this is only allowed for taking notes and doing research and not for external communications. Members may not make or receive calls from their cell phones, and cannot use audio visuals to compliment presentations without the approval of the President.
The House of Representatives has been using computers for some time, however, the Senate resisted until mid-2011 when Senator Norman Grant, then an opposition member, moved a motion noting that there was no provision in the Standing Orders of the Senate to allow the use of technology during sittings. He asked that the Senate review its Standing Orders, to change the situation. However, although the motion had considerable support, nothing was done as the General Election intervened.
This year, Grant tabled the motion again, receiving support from both sides for the matter to be sent to the Standing Orders Committee for deliberation.
Senator Grant noted that a number of government agencies and department's annual reports were being tabled in Parliament on compact discs, and Senators were at a disadvantage not being able to access them immediately, because of the ban on using the technology during sittings. However, while there was no provision in the Standing Orders for Senators to use digital equipment during sittings, members nevertheless could be seen using tablets, Ipads and Blackberries to send and receive messages.
Senator Grant has often expressed concern about this situation, pointing out that the failure to regularise the situation was tempting members to violate the Standing Orders.
"At this time, we cannot use computers or any form of information technology to read discs that are tabled," he lamented.
This was the second time the resolution was sent to a Senate Standing Orders committee, but this committee had to meet six times before agreeing to the changes.
The latest committee, chaired by the President of the Senate, Stanley Redwood, felt that since the use of technology was already allowed in the House of Representatives, the privilege should be extended to the Senators.
The new provision in the Standing Orders insists that the devices will have to be kept in the silent mode and should not be allowed to disrupt the proceedings "which might compromise the dignity and decorum of the House".
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QuickTrade! is a concept developed by Andru Edwards and Ken Harris which will enable its users to quickly and easily complete their "free whatever" offers by providing a database of users who need to complete offers for specific sites. Do you need to get that last DVRs4Free.com referral to get your brand new TiVo? Just do a search at GearLiveQT.com, and you will be shown a list of users who are willing to complete a DVRs4Free offer in exchange for you completing an offer for them which you have not yet signed up for. The result? Both parties have completed a QuickTrade!, and are now one step closer to their free gear.
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Hard hitting WBC light heavyweight Champion Adonis 'Superman' Stevenson is set to defend his title against former IBF champion Tavoris 'Thunder' Cloud this Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Stevenson shocked the world in June when he won his title with a stunning first round KO of 'Bad' Chad Dawson.
It was a fight that most experts only gave Stevenson a punchers chance of winning but one punch was all that was needed on the night as the Canadian southpaw power-puncher landed a huge left hand to the head of Dawson leaving the American unable to continue after just one minute of the first round.
His challenger this Saturday night will be Tavoris Cloud, a former light heavyweight champion in his own right who held the IBF title from August 2009 when he beat Sheffield's Clinton Woods via a unanimous decision for the then vacant title.
That was until March this year when he was rather easily outpointed by the legendary Bernard 'B-Hop' Hopkins.
The fight between Stevenson and Cloud promises to be a good dust up and it's a fight I don't see going the distance whichever way it goes. Both men have huge power in both hands and they are both capable of beating each other with one good punch.
Cloud is probably the more polished boxer of the two but I believe Stevenson holds the advantage in power.
I believe this is a really hard fight to call and one man who will be watching on with keen interest from ringside will be Liverpool's Tony Bellew who it is believed will get a shot at the winner as he is now the no.1 contender for the WBC strap.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Bellew had this to say when asked about the bout: "It's an exciting fight.
"Cloud is coming off a poor performance against Bernard Hopkins, he was dreadful that night, and he wasn't much better against Gabriel Campillo (who Cloud won a split decision against before the Hopkins fight).
"Stevenson is coming off a career-best performance, a shock knockout against the best light-heavyweight in the world in Chad Dawson.
"So going in, one guy has an awful lot to prove and the other has a lot to maintain, to prove that it wasn't a fluke.
"I personally think Stevenson will win, maybe between rounds four and six. Cloud likes to start slow, but if he does that the fight's over before it begins.
"I'll be looking to see what both guys bring to the table, but I've only seen Cloud live so I need to make the trip and go there and sample the atmosphere.
"It's not something I had to do but it's something I chose to do and it's something that is going to be highly beneficial."
I have to say I agree with Bellew that Cloud must not start slowly because if he does Stevenson's power will more than likely wipe him out early.
I really do recommend this match to anyone who likes to watch a good fight between two men who will not take a backward step. Both men have a lot of confidence in their power and rightly so.
The match between Adonis Stevenson and Tavoris Cloud can be seen live on Sky Sports 1 from 2am on Sunday morning.
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2. Abstract (typed, double-spaced) of no more than 150-words that includes:
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[QUOTE=Dee Dub;546368]By the way, where do you see him as 24 years old? I have read that his birthday is Jan. 1991. That would make him 22.[/QUOTE]
The kid has the makings to be special. However, I have to see him in position drills at OLB before I say he is a fit. He is a hell of an athlete but again, lack of football reps could expose his instincts when he stands up. If the Steelers have ANY plans of 4-3 in the future...Than absolutley yes! When you watch him...He is one of those kids coming out where you just see where he excels & that is on the LOS. He is disruptive and causing match-up problems run or pass. You put him outside shoulder of an OT when you stand him up...His impact may be less.
As far as his age, I heard he will be 24 in may. I think his birthday is 5/29/1989.


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- Swinger Stories : Blind Swinging Date Surprise Boss And Wife! (bis...
Blind Swinging Date- Surprise- Boss and Wife! (bisexuality, swinging, FMF 3-some)
Part 1 of 3
I was always the ?sweet and innocent? type. Consistently, I was told I looked young, and I often heard I looked like a china doll. I dressed conservatively, went to church regularly, and even visited the elderly at a nearby nursing home. I believed in following the rules in society and generally was ?a good girl.? Being a good girl included earning first a college degree and then later a law degree to make my parents proud. I also got married because I thought that was what good girls did.
When I turned 35, things began to change. I found myself divorced and lonely and turned to the internet. It took a while, but I advanced from mainstream dating sites to more erotic and alternative ones, but once I did, I was addicted. I?d spend hours chatting with people who were often faceless bodies ? and often the female only ? attached to a boring profile about what they were seeking. I?d also read erotic stories and enjoy what I?d always called ?naughty? pictures.
It took months to build up enough nerve to actually meet someone from one of the sites. I chose a couple who seemed to be educated and professional. I chose a couple because my biggest fantasy was being with both a man and woman at the same time. Something I had come to think about often, yet never had come close to acting out the fantasy.
The day for us to meet finally came and I was worried about what to wear and how I would know who they were (we had only exchanged g-rated faceless pics, and just the day before, we exchanged cell phone numbers, just in case something came up and we were unable to meet). I also wondered if the people would be as I expected?as they had represented themselves? Would I be attracted to them and would they be attracted to me?
As I drove to the restaurant where we would meet, my heart began to beat very fast. I could feel the heart beats begin deep in my chest and then send reverberating waves throughout my body. ?I?m really doing this,? I thought to myself.
I walked through the door to the restaurant and immediately began looking for a blond couple with the physical descriptions listed on the website. The wife, Lexi, told me she would be wearing a red skirt, but nearly everyone was seated and it was hard to see the color of clothing below the waist.
Before I had time to worry what the hostess would think of my looking around, I was startled by someone. Jim, the newest partner in my law firm grabbed my arm and said hello. All I could think about was what lie I was going to have to make up to explain why I was meeting a married couple. My mind raced. What if the couple found me while I was still talking to Jim. What if they said something to give away what I was doing there? I was horrified. After all, I was a good girl and everyone knew it.
I honestly started to feel a little faint. ?Sweetie, are you okay?? I remember hearing. It was Jim?s wife, Anna. I had met her at the firm?s Christmas party, so I remembered her face. I didn?t see her behind Jim until I nearly passed out. She must have been walking a few steps behind him but them jumped to my aid when the room began to spin for me.
I was hastily shuffled to a nearby chair. My face was flushed, I was hot and my heart was beating even harder than it had beaten in the car. I began to realize what was happening and the scene I had made. I was actually worried about what people were thinking about me when I noticed Anna?s skirt. It was red. Red? Is it possible? Wait, they do both have blond hair. ?Oh, my God, he?s 6?1? and she?s 5?7? and she?s wearing a red skirt? I thought. Now, I really was ready to pass out ? good thing I was seated. ?Is this really possible?? I thought.
?Get it together? I thought to myself. ?Jim?s wife is Anna, and you?re supposed to meet Lexi and Michael.?
I had begun to convince myself Jim and Anna couldn?t be the internet couple when my phone rang. As I answered it, I heard a voice say ?Where are you? We wanted you to know we ran into someone we know.? I didn?t say anything but just looked at Anna and at the same time she looked at me. Both with phones in our hands, she realized she was talking to me on the phone.
That moment seemed to last for an eternity. I just looked at her with a deer in the headlights look. Jim finally said to Anna, ?What?s wrong, hon??
?Nothing, I just have to go to the bathroom? she said as she closed her cell phone. Then she asked if I would join her. ?Wrong number? I said as I put down my phone.
As the two of us strolled off to the Ladies Room, I realized I was at a loss for words. What would I say to her once we reached the other side of the restroom door?
I managed to ask innocently as we walked, ?Your name?s Anna, right??
?Of course my name?s Anna. Anna Alexis.?
As the restroom door closed, I realized it was just a one-stall bathroom. Anna locked the door behind us. ?You?re Lexi and he?s Michael?? I asked.
?This isn?t an easy situation is it?? she said.
?What are we going to do? Jim doesn?t know, right?? I asked.
At that moment her face changed, and the respectable wife of the big time partner attorney said, ?I don?t care what he thinks. You?re hot and I?m bi. Do you think I?m hot??
?I?ve never been with a woman. Oh that?s right, I?ve already told you that. I forgot that you?re not only Anna but also Lexi.?
?Call me what you want, but oh, how I?d love to have a kiss from you. May I??
?Here? In the restroom??
She giggled. ?You are conservative. Just wait until he figures this out.?
?Don?t laugh at me,? I snickered back. ?It?s just that a restroom is a dirty place and ??
Before I could say more, she grabbed me and gave me a deep kiss, gently twirling her tongue around mine. I suddenly felt hot enough to pass out again, but I realized I wasn?t faint, I was just turned on. Really turned on. Kissing a woman was so different than kissing a man. She was so soft and gentle and the way her breasts rubbed up against mine as she pulled me close was getting me exited. I could feel her nipples hardening through her shirt. And I could feel my own nipples become erect and feel the blood rush to my crotch.
Wow, this gives new meaning to the idea of women going to the restroom together, I thought. Why had I never kissed a woman? This was an incredible feeling and I wanted more. I surprised myself my reaching under her shirt and grabbing her left breast through her bra.
?No, touch my skin. I want you to touch me? she said. I pulled the bra upward and both breasts sprang forward as if to reach for me. They were so soft, so soft and warm. I cupped my hand around her breasts, first one and then the other and then I took her nipple into my mouth.
Just then a knock at the door brought us both back to reality.
Anna quickly pulled down the bra and turned to look in the mirror to check her appearance. ?I?ll handle this with Jim. Let?s meet in the parking lot. We?ll find you at your car in just a few minutes. Just give me a couple minutes to tell him.?
I bolted out of the restroom, wondering what on earth I had done ? or was doing ? or was going to do. Jim was my boss and was very respected in the firm. Would I be able to look him in the eye again? Would I have to quit my job?
It didn?t take long for Anna to approach my car minutes later. I asked how Jim took it and she said he was so excited that she was almost jealous of me for it.
All I could do was alternate giggles with the shaking of my head to say I couldn?t believe I was doing this. Then I said, ?How long have you been swingers??
?This is our first time? she said slowly and seriously.
To be continued?


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Paris Saint-Germain FC forward Zlatan Ibrahimović has been named Swedish player of the year, with Lotta Schelin picking up the women's award at a ceremony in Stockholm.
Sweden captain Ibrahimović had already scooped the best forward and best goal prizes before being named as Sweden's finest for the sixth successive season. "It's proof I have had a good year and that I keep developing as a player," he said. "I hope to stand here and say the same thing again next year."
Schelin, who won the UEFA Women's Champions League with Olympique Lyonnais in May, was also elated. "I am incredibly proud and happy," she said, before outlining her plans for the next 12 months. "The EUROs on home turf, 50,000 in the stands and us winning the gold."
There was also a lifetime achievement award presented by Peter Schmeichel to Fredrik Ljungberg, the former Halmstads BK, Arsenal FC, West Ham United FC and Celtic FC midfielder who won 75 caps in a ten-year international career.
Men's awards
Goalkeeper: Andreas Isaksson (Kasımpaşa SK)
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Midfielder: Kim Källström (FC Spartak Moskva)
Forward: Zlatan Ibrahimović (Paris Saint-Germain FC)
Newcomer: Oscar Lewicki (BK Häcken)
Goal: Ibrahimović for Sweden v France, 19/06/2012
Women's awards
Goalkeeper: Thóra Helgadóttir (FC Malmö)
Defender: Emma Berglund (Umeå IK)
Midfielder: Verónica Boquete (Tyresö FF)
Forward: Anja Mittag (FC Malmö)
Newcomer: Elin Rubensson (FC Malmö)
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Vote Chulakes-Leetz. You can count on less than two fingers the number of local elected officials who came to the aide of homeowners with defective drywall. Chris Chulakes-Leetz was that sole venturist and we must not forget that.
Leetz spent a great deal of time with defective drywall homeowners understanding the hardships we faced. He visited homes, and offered his help. That help arrived in several ways: He wrote President Obama asking him to declare defective drywall a disaster. He also proposed and had passed a resolution in the City that called on then Gov. Charlie Crist to ask President Obama for disaster relief for victims with bad drywall. Leetz took our plight one step further and wrote legislation and had it passed which eliminated remediation permit fees to homeowners who decided to fix their homes.
Chris Chulakes-Leetz has been there for homeowners with defective drywall. Let's be there for him on Nov. 5, 2013.
Richard J. Kampf
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Lo all,
We've created a new Archives browser to replace the old static page of issue contents. Now you can search by text, author or article type, and there's more information for each issue too.
Currently it has the last six issues -- we'll be adding more next week when it's had some testing and final polish. See what you think at:
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I agree with Bluesboyjr, they are both practically the same thing--GTA all day 14:08, April 22, 2010 (UTC)


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By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
Nov. 1, 2007 - Vice President Richard B. Cheney today emphasized the importance of victory in Iraq and urged continued support for the men and women in uniform. Speaking to about 300 people in Indianapolis at the Indiana War Memorial before the opening of an American Legion conference, the vice president urged vigilance in standing up to terrorists who seek to destroy all that America and the rest of the free world stand for.
"Through acts of stealth and murder and spectacular violence, they intend to frighten us and break our will (and) to hit us again and again until we run away," he told the attendees, many of them veterans and members of the Indiana National Guard.
Cheney pointed to "enormous changes" made since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to better protect the United States and its people against another attack. "But we cannot protect the nation, much less win a war, by simply bracing for another attack," he said.
Cheney cited President Bush's decision "to marshal all the elements of strategic power to confront the extremists, to deny them safe haven, and above all, to deny them the means to wage catastrophic attacks against us."
"We've also made clear that, in the post-9/11 era, regimes that harbor terror and defy the demands of the civilized world should be held to account," he said.
The vice president said he supports U.S. intelligence programs that have produced intelligence that's prevented additional terrorist attacks. He defended CIA interrogation practices against terror suspects. "Our government has taken careful but urgent steps to monitor the communications of enemies at large and to get information from the ones that we have apprehended," he said.
"We've respected civil liberties and upheld the high standards of this great country. And because we've been focused, because we've refused to let down our guard, we've gone more now than six years without another 9/11."
Cheney said the war on terror is more than a contest of arms or a test of will. "It is a battle of ideas," he said, noting that to prevail, the United States must help remove the conditions that inspired violent extremists like those who planned and launched the Sept. 11 attacks.
Cheney praised the troops and urged public support for them and their families as they stand on the front lines in the war on terror guarding against another attack on the United States. He noted the sacrifices they've made, noting the exceptional sacrifice made by Army Staff Sgt. Richard Blakley, an Indiana National Guard soldier killed in Iraq. "He gave his life for his country, and his country will always honor him," Cheney said.
"War is an unpleasant business. It tires the soul of a nation and tests the will of its people," Cheney said.
He urged patience for "a long struggle" that continues in the war on terror. "The day will come when the threat hanging over the civilized world has been lifted," he said, urging attendees to take the message to their communities that persistence will achieve that victory.
"Because all of you are leaders in your communities, your very help is important as we remind fellow citizens of the nature of our broader war on terror, the stakes for our country, and the need for a systematic effort to win decisive victory," he said.
"Above all, you can remind your fellow citizens that the purposes America serves are good purposes," he said. "The United States is decent, honorable and generous, and so are the people who wear its uniform."
Cheney praised U.S. servicemen and women and urged continued support for them. "Right now, members of America's armed forces are serving in countries around the globe –- from the broader Middle East, to Europe, to Southeast Asia, to Latin America, to Africa," he said. "Every day they confront the violent, protect the weak, heal the sick, and bring hope to the oppressed.
"We live in a dangerous world, but it's a world made far better by the active, committed presence of the United States," he concluded. "Our cause is freedom. That cause is right. And by the valor of those who serve it, that cause will prevail."
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Electric City turns down EDC
Electric City's city council meeting lasted just 18 minutes Feb. 14, but it gave members plenty of time to rebuff a request by Grant County's Economic Development Council on a funding request.
The EDC had asked for $532.50 from Electric City, only to have Councilmember Bob Rupe ask, "What have they done for us on this end of the county?"
Fellow Councilmember John Nordine said the work of the EDC helped keep taxes lower for everyone, including people in Electric City.
Mayor Jerry Sands said the last time the city had responded favorably to an EDC request for funding was in 2009.
That prompted Rupe to move that the council deny the request.
That motion ended up lacking a second, so died on the floor, but none of the council members made a motion to move forward on the request.
It was the shortest Electric City council meeting in recent memory, with the council having a history of long meetings.
A couple of weeks ago, Grand Coulee voted to support the EDC on condition that someone from the organization come and tell the city what the EDC is doing.


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|After three years at war, Jerry Saslav returned to his wife, Lori, and their daughter, Erin, in Framingham. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)
A casualty only a family can feel: The way it was
Like many soldiers, when Jerry Saslav returned from war, he found love and joy and subtle shifts he hadn't foreseen
When Sergeant Jerry Saslav came marching home to Framingham, after three years at war, he arrived to an empty house.
His wife, Lori, and daughter, Erin, uncertain of his exact arrival, were visiting relatives in California. He wouldn't see them until he picked them up at Logan Airport the following day.
It wasn't the homecoming any of them had envisioned.
He got cheated, Lori concedes.
It was a harmless miscue but also a fitting first day of a transition for all three that would be, in some ways, as challenging as deployment. It is a plain hard fact of service life that when soldiers go to war, their proud families, in effect, go with them, forced into wrenching changes, new burdens, dislocation, and loss. Harder to see are the subtler shifts in the way many families work once they reunite - patterns and expectations altered, gaps in relationships that can be hard to mend.
Life as they knew it, another casualty of war.
Sept. 11, 2001, was Jerry Saslav's 35th birthday. Before heading to work, he dropped his mother off at Logan for a flight to Florida. He was looking forward to dinner with his wife and daughter at Bugaboo Creek Steak House in Framingham.
But when he arrived at the TV station where he worked as a cameraman, he heard about the terrorist attacks and was immediately sent back to Logan to cover a press conference.
Ahead of him lay another year of ordinary home life and work. But inside he was mobilizing. He first needed to get back in shape, and would drop more than a hundred pounds before he joined the Massachusetts National Guard in September 2002.
"I felt I had to do something,'' he says on a recent evening, relaxing on the front porch of his home.
Saslav was assigned to the 65th Public Affairs Operation Center in West Newton, where he spent one weekend a month and two weeks each summer training. It was a branch of the service that could take advantage of his background in media - a profession abruptly lost to him a few years into his Guard tenure. In 2006, after a co-worker inquired about his possible deployment, management at his TV station fired him, telling him that they were going "in a different direction.'' He'd been there for 15 years.
On June 7, 2007, he was sent to Fort Dix, N.J., for predeployment training. That August, he landed in Iraq. Except for brief visits, he wouldn't be home again for three years.
Saslav didn't have to be gone that long. He chose to. When his unit went home, he stayed in the war theater. Having no stateside job to return to, and with the US economy in recession, he felt he didn't have much choice. "There were no jobs out there for photo freelancers,'' he says. "I had a wife, daughter, and mortgage.''
He wasn't the kind of combat-hardened serviceman commonly cast in movies, but he played an important role. As the public affairs officer for the Army's Fourth Infantry Division's Third Brigade Combat Team, Saslav's job in Iraq was twofold: to shoot photos and video of his unit, and, when necessary, to shoot his weapon. His images and words were disseminated in local newspapers, and on blogs and websites, vivid and stark reminders of what the troops faced daily. Shelled-out streets. A rocket exploding in the distance. A Black Hawk flying low against a sunset. And there were the more mundane awards ceremonies and cake-cuttings.
Saslav's e-mail signature includes this quote from World War II combat photographer Joseph Longo: "The brave ones shot bullets, the crazy ones were shooting film.'' But Saslav loved the job and says he got e-mail from grateful people who were comforted by the images and stories.
Meanwhile, Lori and Erin were sending him letters and e-mail. His wife says she understands why he redeployed voluntarily. "It would be bleak for him to come back here without work,'' she says. "And he was in his element there, my soldier boy doing his thing. It wasn't that he enjoyed it, but he found it rewarding.''
While Lori felt it was her job to support him from afar, Jerry felt it was his job to protect her from knowing too much about war. When they spoke, it was more about home than Iraq.
While on foot patrol, Sergeant Saslav carried a load: Kevlar helmet, body armor, 330 rounds of ammunition, a rifle, pistol, first aid kit, various tools, a camelback-style water carrier. Then there was civilian equipment: two Nikons with long lenses, flashes, batteries, an audio recorder, notebook, and snacks. Total: more than 50 pounds.
During his second deployment, his unit was in Sadr City climbing a wet, concrete bridge embankment when he slipped and landed on his back. Two months later, he was in a tanker when an improvised explosive device detonated nearby. Saslav, in the loading position, wasn't strapped in and got banged up.
This time, the injuries caught up with him. "I woke up screaming, in the fetal position,'' he says. It turned out he had several herniated discs and a pinched nerve in his back. Because he hadn't been shot, he wasn't sent home on medical leave. He stayed with his unit for a few more months and finally was shipped home.
"Home'' meant treatment, first at Fort Dix, then a year at the Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Meade, Md., where soldiers "recover, rehabilitate, and reintegrate'' back into military or civilian life. Then, finally, on June 23, 2010, it meant family and Framingham.
Saslav was both elated and anxious. Would his wife and daughter be the same Lori and Erin? Would he be able to pay the bills and find work for the long term? How much work would the house need, inside and out?
And how much work would Jerry Saslav need - especially inside?
"Over three years ago, I locked a guy named Jerry, who was a husband and father and photographer, in a closet and a sergeant stepped out,'' he remembers remarking to a colleague. "Now it's time to put the sergeant back in the closet and let the husband and father and photographer step out.''
It wasn't, as the family would learn, nearly as simple.
"My daughter was 7 when I left, and I came home the day before she turned 11,'' says Saslav, 44. "When I left her, she was still into Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, and I came back to the Jonas Brothers.''
He grins while Erin, who recently turned 12, rolls her eyes. But he sobers when asked about his greatest regret of being away. "I missed seeing my little girl grow up.''
There's an easygoing banter between dad and his newly minted tween. When she first appeared in a bikini this summer, Saslav took one look and barked, "Burqa!'' Erin, who has seen his photos of Iraqi women in their long, black robes, replied: "Dad, that is not going to happen!''
Jerry Saslav is a big, voluble guy who holds strong views, in contrast to his wife, a petite, reserved woman who likes her privacy. Both agree the homecoming was not exactly easy, that there were edges amid the excitement.
Lori and Erin had gotten used to their routines without Jerry. "I knew working him back in might not go so smoothly,'' says Lori, 47, who speaks frankly in her quiet manner.
For Erin, it was readjusting to her dad's parenting style, which is stricter than her mom's.
Lori knows her own resourcefulness stood her in good stead, but she says a support system was critical: her family, employer, friends and neighbors, and services available through the National Guard.
Then there's just plain luck. During record rainfall, she feared the basement would flood. She prayed her car wouldn't break down and leave her stranded. Neither happened.
As for Jerry, he couldn't help missing his brothers in the fraternity of war. "The hard part of it is you form a strong bond with your unit,'' says Saslav. "When you're hurt, the medical unit takes care of you. You're a bachelor. Then to come home . . .''
He pauses.
"The good news,'' he continues, "is that I married an independent woman. The bad news is that I married an independent woman.''
There have been times, especially when he first came home, that the house - and their daughter - seemed more hers than theirs.
Saslav, who now works as a public affairs specialist with the 65th unit in Milford, says he sometimes still feels out of the loop. While he was gone, the family of three had, in some respects, become a family of two.
"You have to remember that your wife has been in charge. She's pretty much handled it all.'' In his pride over her competence - "Lori does not rattle,'' he says firmly - there's also a twinge of loss.
Lori, who works in the alumni and development office at Wheelock College, acknowledges that the transition hasn't been perfect. "Erin and I just got used to making our own plans,'' she says. "He was out of the picture and we could do what we wanted.''
She doesn't mean it to sound cold. She loves her husband and is happy to have him home, of course, but there's a new normal now.
Mostly, it's the little things. "I need to keep all my annoying soaps out of the shower and let him park in the driveway,'' she says. She now also consults with him before making plans or spending money on "an extra for Erin.''
Erin, who picked up more household chores while her dad was gone, says none of her friends had a parent in the military. "It was hard, I'd really miss my dad,'' she says. "But after the years, I got used to it.''
It's apparent that mother and daughter grew even closer during deployment; in an interview, Erin grabs her mother's hand as Lori haltingly describes her feelings.
"I'm not a worrier,'' Lori repeats. "I'm a person of faith, and I was hopeful he'd come home in one piece.''
He did come home, but had a good buddy killed in action. Saslav wears a metal bracelet that says "Major Stuart Adam Wolfer,'' a fellow soldier from Idaho killed in a rocket attack.
Jerry is the worrier in the family. He worries about making a living and supporting his family. He misses his old work friends. "They've moved on in their lives and I'm sort of back where I was three or four years ago.'' He worries about picking up the pieces of his old life.
He also feels a little humbled by all the thank you's his uniform and service evoke stateside, and recalls just one irksome encounter.
That was in the Atlanta airport, when he was still in mid-deployment, coming home on a two-week leave. He'd managed to snag an earlier flight to Boston, had checked his bags and was in the security line, wearing his combat uniform and carrying his ticket and military orders.
Fearing he would miss his flight, he asked if he had to remove his combat boots. A security agent whose back was turned to Saslav said, "Look, buddy. Take off your boots. We're trying to protect the country here.''
That rankled. "You want to protect your country?'' Saslav asked, unlacing his boots. "I'll be back here in two weeks and you can go with me to Iraq.'' The agent turned around, surprised.
Saslav knows that war has changed him, in ways that surprise those close to him. Intense by nature, he says friends comment on how relaxed he seems. He sums it up this way: "Nobody's trying to kill me today.'' His unit, he says, got shelled "every time the sky was not blue.'' He narrowly missed being shot by a sniper.
But he wants no sympathy. "There's a lot more people who experienced a lot worse than I did.''
This is how Lori puts it: "He's not sweating the small stuff, having seen the big stuff.''
They both know he may see the big stuff again. He intends to reenlist when his contract is up in 2014. He knows it will likely be Afghanistan.
Lori won't try to talk him out of it. "I like to see him being fulfilled in his work,'' she says. "He likes his Milford job, but he has this soldier thing in him, too.''
It is, she believes, a "noble'' commitment.
Meanwhile Jerry is settling in, his most fearsome enemy a familiar one - the plumbing upstairs.
It's nothing he and Lori can't handle, together.
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what all the caterwauling comes down to is this....
wanna get rid of all the guns? Come get 'em.
Good luck with that, c*nts.
Australia - a world leader in exactly what?
Speaking Japanese if we didn't save you.
During the Vietnam War, Australia was a legendary place for R&R for American GIs. Why? Aussie wome thought Americans were great because Aussie men were losers. Fact.
Sound like you're afraid of your own shadow down under.
You can protect your home with a shotgun maybe 2. You don't need semi-automatic weapons, assault weapons and large clips of ammo.
We have sporting goods stores that look like Armories in this country.
It's not the gun laws. Its the vast size of the country and the lack of social cohesion that leads to this.
That said, I completely disagree with the "if you outlaw [insert type of gun/ammo] here, then only criminals will have it" line of argument.
The fact is, fully automatic weapons have been illegal for quite some time. Yet spree killers like this pretty much always use legally available weapons, obtained legally, rather than full autos. There are two reasons for that, I think. First, supply and demand; I suspect it's a lot harder to get a full auto on the black market because fewer of them are manufactured, since there isn't a robust legal market to sell them in. And second, because spree killers aren't typically hard-core criminals with ready access to those markets; they're usually the "my god, I never thought he would do something like that" types. And even if they were, black market transactions increase the chances of someone identifying the plan before it happens, if their dealer happens to get raided. Much safer to simply buy guns that are legal and use those.
My bet - and this is mainly based on logic and speculation, not study - is that criminals would continue to primarily use legally available (if not necessarily legally obtained) weapons, with a small, hard core using more significant weapons (like mob-types or professional bank robbers with full autos).
The original purpose of teh bearing of arms was one to assist in keeping the State in check. It's quite obvious, given they had just finished toppling a Govt. that oppressed them.
But as tech has marched on, the armed individual is no longer a check vs. the State. The State, simply, has vastly outclassed them individuals in terms of weaponry, meaning this purpose has, through no fault of the individual, become outdated in real terms. I don't like that, but it is what it is.
As such, my own view is one of compromise. Protect gun rights, while limiting access to high-potential high-ammo high-RoF millitary-style weaponry.
Handguns w/ 10 round clips. Shotguns. Rifles. All legal.
Beyond that, illegal.
I can live with that kind of compromise, IF and ONLY IF we could be assured that like so many issues, this wouldn't simply be taken as Step 1 in a Multi-Step Plan to make all guns illegal. Sadly, I have no faith that the left would agree to such terms for long.
This won't come as a surprise to 'fish, but my personal view is you do the right thing and deal with the slippery slope as it comes.
That's the all too predictable lib/crypto-liberal way-someone shoots up a public place once in a blue moon and all guns must be grabbed-except from Psychotic Muslim US Army Officers (who haven't even been tried yet) Illegal Aliens and Inner Cities.
Never mind hanging the guy from the highest yardarm as he deserves
If only I felt we could be so trusting.This won't come as a surprise to 'fish, but my personal view is you do the right thing and deal with the slippery slope as it comes.
The "slippery slope" defense exists becuase neither side accepts compromise. They simply get their next step, them proceed to march on immediately towards getting the step after that towards their all-or-nothing goals on their pet issues.
I would, then, want any such comprimise laid down in a form that disallowed such additional nit-picks around the edges and further efforts to limit/expand rights. The only route I can think of that would suffice is a Constitutional Amendment clarifying the 2nd Amendment clause on the purpsoe, and right, and limitations, of arms bearing in society today as opposed to 1770's.
But that will never happen. Sadly, we as a Nation have seemingly abandoned the idea of adjusting our basic fundamental rights of law via amendment proceedings. But in my view, it's the only real legitmate route to correction/updating/modernizing our constitutional rights the right way.
Time for stricter regulation.
One would need to know if existing regulation worked or did not work, first. Far too early to know any of that yet. If existing law failed, new law is not neccessarily the answer.
The frequency of events of late certainly does raise the issue though of the very right itself. Has the right (and the original reason for the right) become so outmoded, outdated, and impossible to no longer warrant the right in the first place. Remember, if the purpose was to keep Govt. in check (and in fear) of the people, that purpose is outdated. Handguns and rifles will never overthrow a bad U.S. Govt.
I, for one, would accept stronger regulation and a closing of all loopholes (like gun shows). Limitations on ammunation types. IF these changes came along with very specific protections for the right to own for things like target shooting and hunting, if you're not found crazy or covicted of a violent crime, etc.
Plenty of room to quantify this right further, if we (as a people) wish it.
The regulation not allowing guns at school has made the schools a target.
In china 22 children where stabbed by another nut job.
I like my idea of developing non lethal weapons to defend one self and then much greater regulation of guns
If two or three teachers were armed, i don't think we would have seen anywhere near the loss of life that was seen today.
A surge in gun violence isn't indicative of a need for more gun control, it is indicative of a need for rapid lethal response directed at those perpetrating gun violence.
For the record, i disagree with the notion that the original objective of having the means to resist an evil government obsolete. I also object to the notion that "intent" is more important than the letter of the law. If laws are so poorly written that they do not reflect the intentions with which they were passed, they ought to be rewritten.
Stricter regulation is fine so long as that doesn't limit my right to own.
If I am a law-abiding citizen and can pass a background check, psychological exam, gynecological exam, etc. I should be able to possess a firearm for my own safety/protection/hunting/recreational shooting etc.
I wouldn't care how long the above process might take as long as A. I can still own a firearm and B. it can help prevent or hopefully reduce incidents like the one today.
I am suspect of someone who "needs" a firearm immediately or in x number of days.


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PORTLAND — A Nobel Peace Prize winner will deliver the University of Maine School of Law's second annual Justice for Women Lecture.
The school says Leymah Gbowee of Liberia will deliver her speech on Wednesday.
Gbowee is an activist who led a peace movement that helped bring an end to the Liberian civil war in 2003. She was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, a female icon of the protest movement in Yemen.
Gbowee's lecture will be held at the Westbrook Middle School. More than 800 people have registered.
The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration is required.


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From the NY Times:
"...Sales — when done right — is more than a job. It is an art. It is a high-wire act. It is, as Arthur Miller immortally said, being out there "on a smile and a shoe shine." It is learning the product you are selling, learning it so well that you can describe it while doing a pirouette of smiles for the customer and talking about the latest football scores. It is knowing human nature so well that you can align the attributes of your product or service cleanly with the needs and wants of your customers.
At its best, selling is taking a doubt and turning it, jujitsu style, into a powerful push..."
Hey! Quit pushing! lol
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Yaklich, Gillespie again differ on fire department shifts
The dispute among City Council members over fire department staffing and overtime surfaced again at Monday's meeting — and this time, flooded basements were added to the discussion.
At the close of the meeting, Councilman Mike Yaklich noted that the city has several million dollars' worth of sanitary and storm sewer projects in its long-range plans. If carried out, Yaklich said, these projects might prevent some of the basement flooding that occurred after last week's heavy rains.
The city doesn't have the money available to do all the projects, Yaklich said, and he added that he feels it would be "very irresponsible" of the council to divert money from infrastructure work to other city expenses.
Yaklich has supported a proposal by City Manager Kip Spear to allow four-man, rather than five-man shifts on the fire department, saving $90,000 a year on overtime.
Councilman Duane Gillespie, a fire captain, has opposed Spear's plan. Monday he inferred that Yaklich was referring to fire department overtime when he referred to other city expenses.
Gillespie said he too had flooding on his property, but he didn't think cutting fire department overtime or a code enforcement officer in the police department would have solved his problems.
Yaklich said at a council budget meeting last week that Kewanee has averaged just 12 structure fires a year recently. While that might not sound like much, Gillespie said, it is very significant to the victims of those fires.
Yaklich asked how the fire department handles it when there are simultaneous fire and ambulance calls. Gillespie said a Kewanee Community Fire Department firefighter joins the city firefighters, and the two men on the ambulance go to the fire as soon as they're finished with the run.
"That's very good," Yaklich said. "So there are other options. I'm just saying we should look at other options."
Also Monday, the council spent more than expected on a project at the transfer station, and approved less than expected for summer street work.
The council awarded the contract for a new concrete floor on the upper floor of the transfer station to Forristall Concrete Co. of Princeton for $25,069. That's higher than City Engineer Steve Bruner's estimate of $20,000, but Spear said Bruner feels re-bidding the job probably wouldn't produce lower bids.
Another Princeton firm, Advanced Asphalt, won the bid for the city's summer street maintenance program. Their bid of $318,972 was the lowest of three the city received, and about $41,000 less than Bruner's estimate for the summer work.


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The Florida Panthers will be forced to leave some key players behind as they take aim at their first road victory of the season on Sunday afternoon against the Buffalo Sabres.
The Panther head out on a four-game swing minus forward Scottie Upshall and captain Ed Jovanovski due to injury. Upshall suffered a lower body injury in Thursday's 6-3 win over the Winnipeg Jets and is expected to miss several weeks, while Jovanovski won't travel with the club after missing the recent victory due to a knee injury.
It isn't all bad news as forward Stephen Weiss could return for this game after missing four in a row due to a lower body injury, while forward Marcel Goc returned on Thursday from a six-game absence caused by an ankle ailment.
The Panthers will need all the help that they can get giving that they have lost all three of their road games this season by a combined 13-3 margin.
Hopefully, Florida saved some offense after Thursday's explosion that featured a five-goal third period. The Panthers snapped a five-game slide with their first victory since beating the Carolina Hurricanes on Jan. 19 to open the season.
Peter Mueller was one of five third-period goal scorers and he lit the lamp for a third straight game. Alex Kovalev, Kris Versteeg, Jonathan Huberdeau and Tomas Kopecky all added goals in the frame, while Kopecky ended with two assists as well.
Jose Theodore stopped 22-of-25 shots for the win, which came after Florida had scored just five times total over its slide, but Panthers head coach Kevin Dineen wasn't getting too excited after the offensive outburst.
"We always try to say the right things when we're in the muck, but we were in the deep end there and we're still not out of it," Dineen said. "Let's not kid ourselves. It's only one win. We're still some way from getting back to respectability."
Like the Panthers, the Sabres were hoping to put recent struggles behind them after snapping a four-game slide with a win over the Boston Bruins on Thursday. However, they thumped back into the loss column with Saturday's 6-1 defeat at Montreal to the Canadiens.
Ryan Miller gave up four goals on 21 shots and was pulled prior to the third period. Jhonas Enroth stopped nine of the 11 shots he faced in a period of relief.
Buffalo was held to just one shot in the first period and did not get on the board until early in the third on Thomas Vanek's seventh tally of the season. The Sabres' first-period shot total was its lowest in one frame since being held without a shot in the third period of a game with the Anaheim Ducks on Oct. 7, 2011.
"We were caught up in the notion from the other night and obviously we didn't have our top game from the bat," said Buffalo head coach Lundy Ruff. "We started in the second but it was too late. We made some poor decisions that really hurt."
Vanek did serve as a bright spot as he notched his league lead-tying 16th point. He has recorded a point in all seven games he has played this season.
Defenseman Andrej Sekera was forced to exit Saturday's game after the first period due to a bruised foot.
The Sabres are 4-1-1 in their past six against the Panthers and have won nine of the last 13 meetings in Buffalo.


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Massillon City Council authorized Mayor Kathy Catazaro-Perry to submit an application for municipal funding to help pay for an improvement project to repair Hankins Road NE.
Massillon City Council
KEY ACTION Authorized Mayor Kathy Catazaro-Perry to submit an application for municipal funding to help pay for an improvement project to repair Hankins Road NE.
The city was awarded a combined grant and no interest loan in December to help pay for a more than $2.5 million project to reconstruct Hankins Road NE from Wales Avenue NE to Valerie Avenue NE, according to the Stark County Regional Planning Commission.
The loan and grant money comes from the Ohio Public Works Commission's capital improvement program. The city also will pay an unspecified portion of the overall cost.
Work includes the resurfacing and widening of Hankins Road and installing a new stormwater system, curb and water gutters.
OTHER ACTION Heard from Catazaro-Perry, who gave her State of the City address to council members. The mayor said the city has reduced its approximately $2.4 million general fund deficit in 2013 to about $1.1 million to start the new year.
Much of the deficit reduction came from income-tax revenue, inheritance tax collection and solid waste sales proceeds, the mayor said.
• Passed three separate resolutions commending Donnie Peters, Larry Slagle and Quenessa Hampton as members of city council. All three finished terms ending in 2013.
• Appointed Mary Beth Bailey as clerk of city council for the next two years.
FOR YOUR INFO A public meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Jan. 21 in the council chamber regarding proposed oil and gas leases on city property.
UP NEXT Meets for a work session at 6 p.m. Monday in the council chamber at the Massillon Government and Justice Center, 1 James Duncan Plaza SE.


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|2008-05-31, 06:17
|Link #481
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And that's all that matters. That You are satisfied, Takumy. And maybe you should try another coloring technique? Cos your sketches are much better, and I would like to see some of those feelings that you put there, in the finished pictures.
Have a great summer Takumy, and make sure to draw a lot!
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|2008-06-06, 08:42
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I never said everyone's opinion was unqualified just my own. I can look at a piece and say 'I like it' or 'I don't like it.' but I can't draw and have no concept of what it takes to create a picture. I'm not qualified to comment on technique. Please don't put words in my mouth.
I also never said she wasn't a professional artist as well as an art teacher. I only mentioned her background as a teacher as a way of saying she gives artistic critique as part of her career. Those who can't, teach but those who can create great art and pass on what they know.
|2008-06-09, 13:08
|Link #483
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Florida
@Xinio: Nice coloring job. Line quality is a little meh, but considering what you were working with, its good. Maybe it'll look a little better if it were resized smaller?
@KiNA: Well, it looks like her so good job, but I'm not too crazy about photoshopping art like that. Just a personal preference.
----Since it's the summer I decided to make a more summery fanart of Kairin making a splash at the beach. Enjoy!
|2008-06-20, 23:25
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So, the picture of Kairin that I really liked disappeared from the front page, and I came here to see the work of the new one.. and found out lots of people had been mean to Takumy about it since it first came out.
A moment of true WTF for me, as I like that one better then the one that's up there now.
So, it provided me the impetus to register.
Takumy, keep up the great art! We miss you! ;P
|2008-06-21, 10:54
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I also liked the previous picture. It's application to occasions and seasons seemed never ending with the theme and style used.
Also, I haven't been around the forums much lately, but reading the responses to Takumy's work had me reading a bunch of crap about how creating works and putting them out in public view makes it subject to good/bad criticism. This is not true. It only subjects the work to being COMPARED to what's already out there. If it's the style that'll be discussed, it will be compared. If it's the theme, colors, or something else, then it will be compared. To say it is bad, disgusting, not good, horrible, stupid, or whatever is blatant disregard that you're basing the criticism on nothing. Criticism should not be without reason. Explain why it isn't so good. What is "good" then? The "good" that would put the discussed work to shame? If it is good, why is it good?
You people know exactly what I mean. Back in the 1920s, 40s, 60s, certain styles were considered good, great, beautiful, lovely, dashing, and fashionable! Women were probably slightly chubby/meaty for the era/time period. But look at today. What is fashionable/sexy now? What is currently acceptable? Anything created or formed is compared to what today's standards are considered acceptable for certain levels of critique. If you want to be recognized as having made something sexy, you need to follow the acceptable parameters that's widely accepted today. Thusly, something to compare new works with.
So, back off if you've got nothing but disregard for the rules of society and feel that your on-the-fly crap needs to be said. Or at least practice first before attempting. For example, look on the back of a NYTimes bestseller book and read the criticism provided there. They mention why the book is so good, or enjoyable. "Dan Brown provides a unique sense of mystery," blah, blah, and so on.
Anyway, Takumy, as a fellow fan of Kairin, I certainly wish you would shut out the people who are doing nothing but wasting your time. If they don't want to help you better you work with criticism that indicates what a problem is, you need not waste a drop of sweat for their sake. "The first time will be the last," for those people anyway. I understand it all started with an edit of your work without your consent and that hurts deeply. It is essentially someone taking something away and never giving it back so he, or she, can benefit. "Look what I did!"
|2008-06-21, 15:34
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Yuri Land
Age: 31
Well..its good to see new works of kairin come up... Inspite of the criticism, i believe one thing..u cant have enough of Kairin
Neway..i m here today to post the latest page of my Claymore Doujin where i introduce Kairin the Claymore finally. I thnk Kiva again for makin such an awesome character.. Hope u guys like it. For reading more pages..u can come to my thread..although u ll find only 5 pages >.<
neway ENJOY
|2008-06-23, 01:20
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Location: In Your Base, Killing Your Mans.
Age: 33
Well it may not be anything all that good, but I did take a fifteen minute break from my studies and paid homage to Kairin. I kind of liked it a little, so it tempted me into registering to post it up. Don't ask me to color it or anything, because I suck majorly at that. =)
Oh and BTW, if it seems crappily shaded, it's because I did it with a mechanical pencil. :P
|2008-07-14, 18:46
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Hello... I just wanted to say how much I enjoy the Kairin picture right now... I was browsing this forum to see some past pictures I may have missed and I was really shocked to see people putting down artwork of Kairin at all... silly silly.. so I just wanted to say that I really really really like the artwork that's up right now.. who ever created it --- you're awesome! and I hope to see more
|2008-07-31, 17:01
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Finally! My contribution to the growing Kairin fanarts collection.
I had to finish the coloring with a mouse, so it's not the cleanest painting ever. Also not sure if it looks like her (!?), but I think I liked the result.
Here you go:
Edit: Images removed because the external hosting service was "upgraded" in Jan 2014.
This means the images were deleted. What remained here would only serve as an advert so has been removed.
Clothing is a mix of thai dancer and chinese goddess. XD With the nouveauish look, for sure, yay!
Hope someone likes it.
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BLOOMINGDALE – The latest pastry craze, known as the cronut, is a hybrid between a donut and a croissant.
Croissantlike dough is fried to perfection, rolled in sugar, filled with cream and topped with a glaze or frosting. This creation first was engineered by Chef Dominique Ansel of Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York in May, according to the bakery's website.
But Chicago residents don't have to go to New York to get on the cronut bandwagon.
Chicago Pastry in Bloomingdale, known for its cannolis, was the first bakery in the Chicago area to bring the fad to the Midwest. The bakery's owners have nicknamed their cronut-inspired pastries "dossants."
Chicago Pastry serves three original flavors: The Raspberry, with raspberry filling topped with pink frosting, cannoli and their most popular, French cream, stuffed with French cream and topped with orange frosting.
Three new flavors hit shelves June 17: Chicago banana is filled with banana cream and sprinkled with nuts, Wannabe Eclair is stuffed with cream and topped with chocolate frosting and sprinkles, and The Luau is filled with pineapple chunks and French cream and sprinkled with shaved coconut.
The bakery hopes to introduce a trio of new flavors each week.
"People are really curious at first," said Jenna Turano, manager at Chicago Pastry. "We have an 'Introducing Dossants' sign, and samples are offered every day."
Carmen Turano brought his brothers, Mariano, Attillio and Eugenio, to America from Italy after World War II. In 1981, the family founded Turano Bakery. Owners Remo and Egidio adopted the names Chicago Pastry and Casa die Dolci, meaning the house of sweets, in 2008.
The bakery also offers cookies, cakes and other pastries. The cookie menu includes traditional Italian cookies like mezzaluna cookies, egg taralli, lemon knots and chocolate amaretti cookies. The cake menu features a unique canoli cake and traditional Italian crostata cake that comes in different flavors.
"The recipes have stayed the same," Turano said. "Just the name has changed."
Customers seeking Chicago Pastry's dossants can visit the shop or buy an order online or by phone for pickup.
"Come on in and try them," Turano said. "They are just as good if not better than New York's cronuts."


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Linked by Yoni on Fri 18th Jan 2013 21:56 UTC
"Never mind the fact that the iPod turned the entire music industry on its head. Never mind the fact that most successful notebooks today resemble designs first popularized by Apple. Never mind the fact that the blueprint of the modern day smartphone remains the original iPhone. Never mind the fact that competitors are scrambling wildly to copy the success and design of the iPad. Forget all of these things, because when it comes to Apple, the 'what have you done for me lately?' mentality reigns supreme."
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what should apple do next?
by bnolsen on Sat 19th Jan 2013 03:56 UTC
Historically Apple seems to be repeating the same deal. Come up with a new innovative market, do well in that market for a little bit, then start to lose that market to people better at commoditization. I'd say it's probably high time Apple shifts gears and finds something else in the technology world to revolutionize. I'm not sure what that market is, but I'm sure its there. Gaming? Entertainment? Transportation?
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DEAFestival 2013!
DEAFestival Los Angeles
Saturday, September 28, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
DEAFestival Los Angeles 2013: September 28, 2013 at NOON
at City Hall LA!
Join us as we celebrate our 15th Anniversary!
Please register for admission and raffle prizes!
The mission of DEAFestival is to unite the deaf community once a year at an event that will:
- Promote high self esteem and confidence among deaf children
- Provide information on the available services for deaf individuals and their families
- Educate the general public on the value and presence of the deaf community
- Enhance the profile and creative contribution of deaf artists to the contemporary cultural landscape.
DEAFestival is a free, daylong family event that offers hope and guidance while raising self esteem among our Deaf youth. We also strive to educate the general public on how a Deaf individual can thrive in a hearing world. The Deaf artists performing at DEAFestival aide in promoting public awareness and serve as role models for our Deaf children by demonstrating firsthand how it's possible to be a Deaf professional who embraces their culture and flourishes in a diverse setting like Los Angeles.
An event where you can gather the information you need to expand and enhance your capabilities, see demonstrations of the market's new and existing products, and most importantly improve the quality of life for the deaf community. It is not only an event for the deaf and hard of hearing, if you are a family member, senior, an educational professional, you will find helpful products and information you can afford to miss.
Have questions about DEAFestival 2013!? Contact DEAFestival Los Angeles
When & Where
Los Angeles City Hall
200 N Spring St
Los Angeles,
Saturday, September 28, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
Add to my calendar