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My mom has a hot friend
My name is Adam power and this is a story of the first time I got laid. Before I start I want to describe myself first. I'm 16, I have dirty blonde hair that swoops my bangs over my eyes, most my visible skin has freckles on it, I have greenish blue eyes, a long neck, very slim body,and I'm very tall (a little over 6ft). This story begins on a Friday around 1:00. I was walking to 6th period when I saw our principal walk out of the nurses office and he saw me and he told me to come here so I did. He asked me why my jacket was still untucked even when he was still staring at me, so I started to tuck in my jacket (at my school we're not allowed to have any piece of clothing hide our belt line). As I was doing this he told me that my hair needs to be cut because it was border lining (we also can't let our hair cover our eyebrows) and that I needed to tuck it in all the way around. Well, right then a girl walked up to him and wanted to talk to him so they went the office to talk and I went to class.
That afternoon I was gonna go down to my girlfriend's house for the first time since we got back together 2 weeks earlier but my friend texted me asking me if I wanted to hangout and she hadn't told me if I could come over or not yet so I was just gonna go down there until she told me I could come over. Well, he decided he was gonna meet me halfway this time because it's about a 30 minute walk from my house to his and I don't have a car just yet so I started walking with my skateboard in hand and everything. As I'm walking I see this blue truck recklessly driving down the road and it's all muddy and everything. This truck suddenly screeches its tires as soon as it sees me and I immediately know who it is. It's one of my old friends who I used to live near, Brandon mathers. As soon as the truck stops Chris gets out (the friend I was meeting up with) and Brandon drives away to get ready for a bonfire while me and Chris ride our skateboards to his house.
Chris and I spent pretty much the rest of the day riding our skateboards down humongous hills that are pretty much on top of mountains.
Well, later that day when it turned night, me and Chris had already gone back to his house to play video games when he got a call from one of his friends who I had only talked to once before. His friend asked if he wanted to hang out and Chris said, "yeah but Adams here is that ok?" His friend, rick, must've said that's fine because he said he was coming over.
About 30 minutes later, Rick finally got here. He hadn't eaten yet so he made himself a cheeseburger and ate it while Chris played games and I texted my girlfriend. Once Rick finished his burger, Chris wanted to go ride down some hills since Rick brought his skateboard with him. we headed out to those hills and we went down one of our favorite ones quite a few times then me and Chris started telling him that we went down this really steep hill that he did when it was just him and Chris. So we go over to the hill and since it was night we started working ourselves up the hill. We would start at one point and go down then we would go up a little bit higher and go down again and so on like that. Well, the hill changed pavements towards the bottom. The second time I went down, I hit the pavement change pretty hard and my board went out of control under my feet but I regained control and just kept rolling. I went even higher thinking that I'd regain control if it happened again, well this time I lost control and couldn't regain it because I was going even faster and I flew off. All I can remember is thinking that I don't want to break arm again (I had broken my arm twice before), so I positioned my left hand at my side and my right one under my chest and after that I don't remember anything until I'm pacing back and forth asking chris the same questions over and over agin like, is this a dream?, am I dreaming?, where's Rick?, we're we even with Rick?, am I bleeding?, and other similar questions. He answers them by saying no you're not dreaming this is all real, yeah we were with Rick he went back to his car to get his phone so you can call your mom, and yes you are bleeding. I lifted up my hand to the right side of my face and looked at my finger and saw that I was bleeding. Right then I pulled out my phone to call my mom but she didn't answer. Then blank. The next thing I remember is a lady asking if we needed a ride and if I was ok. Chris said,"yeah we do."
By the way, Rick is back at this point. The lady walks over and asks me where I live and I can't even remember so I told Chris to tell her and then blank. The next thing I remember is sitting on my moms bed with an ice pack on my face and another on my hand and everybody's my moms getting ready to take me to the hospital. I repeatedly kept saying sorry (I wasn't supposed to go anywhere because I went to court the day before for too many unexcused absences). My mom kept saying,"it's okay baby."
Then blank. I don't regain full consciousness until we arrive at the hospital with Chris and Rick. We brought them with us because I didn't remember a single thing. Once I get my clothes off and lay on the gurney, they nurse comes in and takes me to another room to get a CT scan of my head to make sure I didn't break anything or damage my brain. The doctor comes back with the results about an hour and a half later and say that I only have a grade 1 concussion. After the whole accident I ended up with road rash on my face, arms, hands, and knees, a black eye, and a small concussion. While we were leaving the hospital I told my mom about how I got in trouble with the principal and he said that I needed to get my hair cut.
Sunday night after I got a shower, I went into my moms room so she could cut my hair before I went to school the next day. While she was cutting my hair she told me that she'll take me to her friend, donna's, later on in that week to get it all even because she was just trimming my bangs.
Tuesday, after school, we drive over to Donna's shop. Her shop is next to the tanning bed so my mom went to the tanning bed while I went to get my hair cut. I walk in she asks me where my mom is and tell her she's next door. I sit down in the chair and she wraps the towel around my neck and starts cutting my hair. She tells me that she's trying to be careful because of my swollen face and goes on to tell me how good I still looked even with my black eye. I tell her thanks and she keeps on cutting. After a while she takes the towel off me and says,"come on I have some more stuff at my house that'll help me move around your wounds better."
I get up and she walks me out to her car and then goes into the tanning bed to tell my mom and comes back.
We get to her house and walk in. She takes me into the bedroom and turns me around to look at her.
"I didn't bring you here to finish cutting your hair. I already finished. I brought you here to take your mind off all the pain you've been going through these past few days." she says
"how are you gonna do that?" I said playfully.
She leans in and kisses me very very passionately and I kiss her back. My 7 and a half inch dick is rock hard at this point and I think she felt it because right then she reached down my pants and started stroking it. After a few minutes she pulls away and gets on her knees. She starts unzipping my pants and pulses them down to my ankles. My dick pops right out. She grabs it at the base and starts stroking it again and then puts her mouth on the tip and sucks it very tightly. Each time going deeper and deeper. I was starting to precum at this point because I hadn't been able to jerk off for a while thanks to the cuts on the palms of my hands. After a while, she stands up and kisses me again. She walks me over to the bed and lays me down gently and takes off all my clothes completely. She then stands up and takes off all of her clothes. Her boobs were about 36 c and were not saggy at all. Her pussy looked very tight for a woman who had given birth to 3 kids. She sits down on top of me and leans in and whispers in my ear to relax and enjoy it. She leans back and starts grinding her tight pussy up and down my throbbing cock. She then takes her hand and wraps it around my cock and stuffs it into her pussy. Immediately she started screaming as my cock was sliding in her. As soon as my cock gets inside her about half way, she starts humping up and down. Each time my cock was sliding in deeper and deeper. It was amazing. Just feeling her pussy grasp my cock as it slid in and out was the best feeling ever. We went on for what seemed like only a few minutes to me but was really 20 minutes, when I started screaming that I was about to cum.
"me too baby. Cum inside me! I wanna feel every burst." se said panting at the same time.
I did exactly what she told me to do. I cummed every last drop I could inside her and as soon as I was done she cummed too.
Afterwards, she rolled off of me and cuddled up next to me and told me how great I was while I stared at the ceiling trying to figure out if I was dreaming or not. I wasn't thank goodness but once I gathered up all my thoughts we both got up and got dressed. As soon as we were dressed, we heard a knock on the door. I wiped the sweat off my face and went down to answer it.
"it looks good. Are you ready?" said my mom.
I nodded my head and she paid Donna and we walked out to the car and went home.
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Good sex comedies know that there's nothing funnier than the seriousness people attach to fucking. Autoerotic, Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard's latest exploration of amorous urban collisions, is only sporadically a good sex comedy, in part because the flat affect favored by its young Chicago cast of hipsters looks an awful lot like, well, seriousness. The movie consists of four vignettes that range from the jokey (a hamster-dicked nice guy becomes a would-be philandering jerk after gobbling penis-enlargement pills) to the tender (a pregnant woman played by Swanberg's wife, Kris, drafts a female friend to help her achieve the Big O, much to her excluded baby daddy's disappointment) to the off-putting (a narcissistic voyeur makes an icky bargain with his ex in return for deleting their old homemade boinking videos). All segments depict some degree of self-love, as the title suggests, and most generate a few laughs — Kate Lyn Sheil deadpans the best line, "Sounds like a good idea," when a pal casually suggests masturbatory self-strangulation in the second bit. There are are flashes of sexual insight amid the movie's lovely, deceptively complex compositions and smartly deployed songs, but overall Autoerotic is as vaporous and vaguely dissatisfying as a negotiated quickie before work.
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Talks between Citigroup (C) and the Department of Justice have broken down as federal prosecutors reportedly are seeking more than $10 billion to settle an investigation into the bank's pre-2008 sale of mortgage-backed bonds.
The Justice Department broke off negotiations on June 9 and is preparing to file a lawsuit against the New York-based lender after Citigroup offered to settle for less than $4 billion, Bloomberg News reported.
The federal government has been demanding — and getting — big settlements from the nation's big banks as the financial crisis recedes into the rearview mirror.
DOJ lawyers reportedly broke off talks with Bank of America (BAC) on June 9 as the Charlotte, N.C.-based lender's $12 billion offer to settle state and federal probes into its sale of mortgage investments was deemed insufficient by government officials, Bloomberg News reported.
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Password Protect a Directory
On www.gmu.edu it is possible to ensure that web visitors must enter a login and password to access a certain directory.
Security Note
One should note that while this technique will prevent most web visitors from accessing the contents of your protected directory, this isn't a particularly secure method. The password is sent in the clear, and in most cases anyone who has server access to the Mason Cluster could download your files through SFTP.
Do not rely on this technique to protect confidential information.
- Connect to the Mason Cluster via SSH
- Enter the following command:
cd /usr/local/htdocs/your_directory_path
appropriately. For instance, if your site is located atwww.gmu.edu/departments/english
would bedepartments/english
) - If you have a directory already created for the page(s) that you want to protect, change into that directory:
cd directory_to_protect
Otherwise, create the directory first:
mkdir directory_to_protect
cd directory_to_protect
- First, we're going to create the file that will hold the usernames and passwords. Enter the following command:
/usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd -c .htpasswd username
with whatever username you'd like. Keep in mind that it's case sensitive.) - To add more users, simply run the command again, without the
/usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd .htpasswd username
- Now we will create the file that ensures the directory is protected. Enter the following command:
pico .htaccess
- This will put you into a text editor. Copy and paste the following code:
AuthUserFile /usr/local/htdocs/your_directory_path/directory_to_protect/.htpasswd AuthName "Password Protected Directory" AuthType Basic <Limit GET> require user username </Limit>
Replace with your own values where appropriate. For multiple users, just add more lines to the Limit block, like so:
<Limit GET> require user username1 require user username2 </Limit>
- Save the file
and exit(Ctrl+X)
. - Make sure permissions on your .htaccess and .htpasswd files are set to 644.
That should do it. Try accessing the directory through a web browser. If it's properly setup, you should get a login prompt, and be able to login with one of the usernames you created.
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Not about the stove...it's about the heat( thermometer).
I have been using my pressure canner for the past 2 weeks on my glass top stove. I don't tighten the lid down for the water bath treatment. My jars are sealing really nice.
One tip: Put a thick bath towel on your counter top. When you bring your jars out of the hot water bath, tighten the lids and turn them over. Place your jars upside down on the bath towel. Let cool down over night. This brings the heat to the lid and seals better. |
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If you're talking ceramic cooktop - it's just slower. I believe the glass is reinforced. you could call the manufacturer of the cooker & ask what the loading is as a first move.
Definitely a slow stove, and what used to really get up my nose was the inability to cook with a wok because the stove 'didn't think you had anything on it' and would turn itself off. To be second-guessed by an inanimate object - roll on "1984." |
Myself, I wouldn't make it a habit of canning on a glass top stove. BUT... my brother and sister in law have pressure canned on their glass top stove for 8 years or better. They do around 300 quarts of meat and green beans on it per year and almost always use two canners at one time. They use 30 quart and 21 quart All-American canners (models 930 and 921) and they use them both at the same time. I'd say that is at least 80 pounds of weight all together. Their stove is a Whirlpool flat glass top and I think they paid a good bit for it, so it might be a heavier model. They always complain about the time it takes to heat up.
I totally agree with dilligaf, get an outdoor propane burner like the ones used to fry turkeys. There is so much more heat and control with that type of burner, it will make your canning ventures so much easier. You will also save gas (or electricity) by not having it on for so long, and your house will be much cooler. |
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I have been canning on my glass top... no problems re: breaking glass, etc. It takes FOREVER to get it boiling with that much water though. I am looking into changing the glass out for the old style elements... mine are interchangable.
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At church we bought two stoves for that purpose. Both are glass top, commercial, GE profile. These are only available thru restaurant supply houses. That is the ONLY one with burners big enough to handle canners. The standard stoves have a problem with cycling on and off to prevent and overheating problem. It can be done, but all of the manufacturers recommend against it. Having been the designer of many of the thermostats on the market in US made stoves (previous life) in the early '90's, I can tell you that thermal protection of the unit is a priority, and they should not allow you to do this.
I can on my ceramic cooktop with a pressure canner with no issues ... but... do not slide the canner around on your stovetop or you will scratch it. (Don't know about water bath canning. Haven't tried that.)
I WB can on our glass top with no problems.
I too use a pressure canner on my glasstop stove with no problems. Come to think of it, I also use a much heavier cast iron dutch oven on it with no problems
I can with a Presto 18 quart model on a glasstop, it's slow. I recently made a custom cover for it with a wool fire blanket. Now it heats up about 20% faster. A 1.5hr boil takes me about 2.5 hours. I even cheat a bit. I cold pack and put the cans in 180 deg+ water to speed up the process. Haven't had a can crack yet......
Thanks a lot for the input!
I'm thinking I'll play it safe and just get a propane fish cooker and use that. Would also come in handy for cooking when the power goes out too. |
I can on my ceramic top stove - I use a steam canner for most of my high-acid things and a pressure canner for the rest - It does take forever to get that much water boiling like the other posts mentioned
I use an All American 921 on a propane turkey deep fryer base. It fit right in. I nevr tried a glass top, but wold be afraid if I slipped and dropped the heavy canner, it might break the glass top.
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We just use our glass top stove as well. We have a family of 10 and we loves to can together great bonding time!
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It all depends on the make/model and age of the stove...some older models of ceramic-top stoves can not handle the weight. I just bought a ceramic-top stove this year, and have had no problem with cooking with cast-iron pans (about all I use) or with pressure canning. I made sure that I bought one with the dual elements of the right size for my pressure canner, so haven't noticed any problems/difference whatsoever.
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Every so often a malicious rumour is put about that opera is an elitist art. Say that to the audience at the Met in New York that roundly booed Placido Domingo early this week or the crowds who gave a rapturous reception to Franco Zeffirelli on his return to La Scala in Milan on Thursday. Placido Domingo's crime had been to fail to give proper conducting support to the new diva of the opera crowd, Anna Netrebko.
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Of course that all changed with the digital age, as the gear got less and less expensive and more and more powerful. Suddenly just about anyone can have more power in their bedroom than The Beatles ever dreamed of having at Abbey Road. But it still involves at least some nominal cost.
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Editor's Note: This article is a Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin from think-tank LEAP/Europe 2020, published in partnership with the Dutch foundation GEFIRA. As such, their aim is to provide state-of-the-art analysis of geo-political anticipation centered around the study and follow-up of the global systemic crisis, itself focused on the evolution of the dollar and of the US economy, and their impact on international economy and financial markets, all that seen from a European perspective
In this GEAB issue, we therefore anticipate the progression of the terminal crash of Western public debt (in particular US and European debt) as well as ways to protect oneself. Furthermore, we analyze the very important structural consequences of the Wikileaks revelations on the United States' international influence as well as their interaction with the global consequences of the US Federal Reserve's QE II programme. This GEAB December issue is, of course, the opportunity to assess the validity of our anticipations for 2010, with a of 78% success rate for the year. We also develop strategic advice for Euroland (8) and the United States. And we publish the GEAB-$ index that will now allow us to synthetically follow the progress of US Dollar against major world currencies every month (9).
In this issue, we have chosen to present an excerpt of the forecast on the explosion of the Western public debt bubble.
Thus, the Western public debt crisis is growing very rapidly under the pressure of four increasingly strong limitations:
. the absence of economic recovery in the United States which strangles all public bodies (including the federal state (10)) accustomed to an easy flow of debt and significant tax revenues in recent decades (11)
. the accelerated structural weakening of the United States in monetary, financial as well as diplomatic (12) affairs which reduces their ability to attract world savings (13)
. the global drying up of sources of cheap finance, which precipitates the crisis of excessive debt in Europe's peripheral countries (in Euroland like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, … and the United Kingdom as well (14)) and is starting to touch key countries (USA, Germany, Japan) (15) in a context of very large European debt refinancing in 2011
. the transformation of Euroland into a new "sovereign" that gradually develops new rules for the continent's public debts.
These four constraints generate varying phenomena and reactions in different regions / countries.
The European context: the price of the path from laxity to austerity will be partly paid for by investors
From the European side, we have thus witnessed the difficult, but ultimately incredibly fast, transformation of the Eurozone into a sort of semi-state entity, Euroland. The delays in the process weren't only due to the poor quality of the political individuals concerned (16) as the interviews of the "forerunners" such as Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing or Jacques Delors hammered on at length. They themselves never having had to face a historic crisis of this magnitude, a little modesty would have done them good.
These delays are equally due to the fact that current developments in the Eurozone are on a huge political scale (17) and conducted without any democratic political mandate: this situation paralyzes the European leaders who consequently spend their time denying that they are really doing what they do, i.e. namely, building a kind of political entity with its own economic, social and fiscal constituent parts, …. (18) Elected before the crisis erupted, they do not know that their voters (and the economic and financial players at the same time) would be largely satisfied with an explanation about the decisions being planned (19). Because most of major decisions to come are already identifiable, as we analyze in this issue.
Finally, it is a fact that the actions of these same leaders are dissected and manipulated by the main media specializing in economic and financial issues, none of which belong to the Eurozone, and all of which are, on the contrary, entrenched in the $ / £ zone where the strengthening of the euro is considered a disaster. This same media very directly contributes to blur the process underway in Euroland (20) even more.
However, we can see that this adverse effect decreases because between the "Greek crisis" and the "Irish crisis", the resulting Euro exchange rate volatility has weakened. For our team, in spring 2011, it will become an insignificant event. This only leaves, therefore, the issue of the quality of Euroland's political personnel which will be profoundly changed beginning in 2012 (21) and, more fundamentally, the significant problem of the democratic legitimacy of the tremendous advances in European integration (22). But in a certain fashion, we can say that by 2012/2013, Euroland will have really established mechanisms which will have allowed it to withstand the shock of the crisis, even if it's necessary to legitimize their existence retrospectively (23).
In this regard, what will help accelerate the bursting of the Western public debt bubble, and what will occur concomitantly for its US catalyst, is the understanding by financial operators of what lies behind the "Eurobligations" (or E-Bonds) (24) debate which has begun to be talked about in recent weeks (25). It is from late 2011 (at the latest) that the merits of this debate will begin to be unveiled within the framework of the preparation for the permanent European Financial Stabilisation Fund (26). Although, what will suddenly appear for the majority of investors who currently speculate on the exorbitant rates of Greek, Irish,… debt is that Euroland solidarity will not extend to them, especially when the case of Spain, Italy or Belgium will start being posed, whatever European leaders say today (27).
In short, according to LEAP/E2020, we should expect a huge operation of sovereign debt transactions (amid a government debt global crisis) which will offer Euroland guaranteed Eurobligations at very low rates in exchange of national securities at high interest rates with a 30% to 50% discount since, in the meantime, the situation of the entire Western public debt market will have deteriorated. Democratically speaking, the newly elected Euroland leaders (28) (after 2012) will be fully authorized to effect such an operation, of which the major banks (including European ones (29)) will be the first victims. It is highly likely that some privileged sovereign creditors like China, Russia, the oil producing countries,… will be offered preferential treatment. They will not complain since the undertaking will result in their sizeable assets in Euros being guaranteed.
(1) Worth more than € 1,500 billion per year in 2011 and 2012, including of course the United Kingdom.
(2) The US municipal bond market (" Munis ") is used to fund the local transportation, health, education and sanitation infrastructure, … It's worth nearly 2,800 billion USD.
(3) Source : Reuters, 11/08/2010
(4) In a 11/20/2010 article Safehaven tonne indeed openly expressed surprise over the "silence" of the major financial media on the issue.
(5) The Financial Times, for example, has for the last month, begun to publish two or three articles per day on its website's homepage on the so-called "Euro crisis" and to manipulate news, such as the statements of German leaders, to artificially create feelings of anxiety. Finally, even some of the French media are beginning to realize what an incredible political propaganda machine the Financial Times has become, as this recent article by Jean Quatremer in the Libération shows.
(6) By way of comparison, no investor has lost money in the "Greek and Irish episodes" of the "Euro crisis", whilst tens of thousands have lost considerable sums in the recent US Muni crash… yet the media covers the first and not the second.
(7) LEAP/E2020 would like to remind readers of previous GEAB analyses that the discussion over the "Euro crisis" is of the same order as the Swine fever outbreak a year ago, namely a large-scale manipulation of public opinion to serve two purposes: first, to divert public attention from more serious problems (with Swine fever it was the crisis itself and its socio-economic consequences; with the Euro it is simply to divert attention from the situation in the United States and the United Kingdom), and secondly, to serve the goals of players with a major interest in creating this situation of fear (as regards Swine fever it was pharmaceutical laboratories and other related service providers; as regards the Euro, financial players are earning a fortune by speculating on the public debt of the countries concerned (Greece, Ireland, …)). But just as the Swine fever crisis ended in a masquerade with governments stuck with colossal stockpiles of now worthless vaccines and masks, the so-called Euro crisis is going to end up with players who will have to redeem their so "profitable" bonds for next to nothing whilst their dollars will continue to fall in value. The summer of 2010 has already shown, however, the direction of events. Source: Bloomberg, 11/18/2010
(8) Following the methodology of political anticipation, in the past years our team has, of course, looked at the possibility that the Euro might disappear or collapse. Its conclusion is cut and dried because we have identified only one set-up where such a development would be feasible: at least two major Eurozone states must be headed by political forces wishing to revive intra-European conflicts. According to our team, this prospect has zero probability of taking place in the next two decades (our maximum anticipation span in political matters). So, exit this scenario, even if it makes some with nostalgia for the Deutschmark and Franc sad…, some economists who believe that reality pays little attention to economic theories, and some Anglo-Saxons who cannot imagine, without pain, a European continent which carves out its economic and financial path without them. According to Wikileaks even Mervyn King, head of the Bank of England, believes in an accelerated integration in the Eurozone as a result of the crisis, which recounts his conversations with US diplomats (source: Telegraph, 12/06/2010). Our work on the Euro therefore focuses on the anticipation of the Eurozone's laborious journey in adapting to its new status as Euroland in the context of the global systemic crisis. Incidentally, it is worth noting that this orgy of criticism and analysis that essentially the US and especially British media lavish has an undeniable value for Euroland leaders: it throws light on all the obstacles laid along the Eurozone path, a sine qua non for avoiding pitfalls. It's paradoxical, but it's an advantage not enjoyed by British or US leaders … except when they read the GEAB.
(9) And not in relation to "made to measure" currencies as is the case for the Dollar Index.
(10) The New York Times has posted a very informative game called "You solve the budget problem" on its website which allows each player to try and restore the state of federal public finances according to its socio-economic priorities and policies. Feel free to put yourself in the shoes of a Washington decision maker in and you will see that only political will is lacking to solve the problem. Source: New York Times, 11/2010
(11) Sources: CNBC, 11/26/2010; Le Temps, 12/10/2010; USAToday, 11/30/2010; New York Times, 12/04/2010
(12) The United States funds its deficits by a huge daily grab of available global savings. The country's diplomatic credibility and effectiveness are therefore two essential features for its financial survival. But Wikileaks' recent revelations are very damaging to the credibility of the State Department, whilst the recent complete failure of the new Israeli-Palestinian negotiations illustrates a growing ineffectiveness of US diplomacy, already very sensitive at the last G20 in Seoul. See the more detailed analysis in this issue. Sources: Spiegel, 12/08/2010; YahooNews, 12/07/2010; YahooNews, 12/08/2010
(13) Even Chinese officials consider that the US fiscal situation is markedly worse than Euroland's. Source: Reuters, 12/08/2010
(14) Iceland, Ireland … the United Kingdom, the United States, was the accursed follow-on of sovereign insolvency that LEAP/E2020 anticipated more than two years ago. Events are moving slower than we expected, but 2011 risks proving to be a "catch up" year. The United Kingdom is currently trying to save itself at the cost of huge and drastic socio-economic cuts of which student violence, including that against the Royal Family (a rare event), testifies to their unpopularity. But the size of its debt, its financial isolation and the State rescue of its banking debacles (as did Ireland) makes this headlong rush very dangerous, socially, economically and financially. As for the United States, their leaders seem to do everything (by "doing nothing") to ensure that 2011 is truly the year of the "Fall of the Dollar Wall " as LEAP/E2020 anticipated in January 2006.
(15) As Liam Halligan pointed out in The Telegraph of 12/11/2010, this development on interest rates does not bode well for US debt, expressing what LEAP/E2020 anticipated over two years ago now: we are reaching the moment of truth when available global savings are insufficient to meet the needs of the West, particularly the gargantuan need of the United States.
(16) A factor emphasized by the GEAB team for over four years.
(17) European Financial Stabilization Fund, hedge fund regulation, strict limits on bank bonuses, strict regulation of rating agencies, budget monitoring, next reinforcement of the whole of the European internal market financial regulation, first Euroland rating agency, … Sources: European Voice, 10/26/2010; Deutsche Welle, 11/05/2010; Reuters, 07/13/2010; ABBL, 12/08/2010; BaFin, 11/16/2010
(18) Wolfgang Schauble, the German Finance Minister, is currently the only politician who dared to clearly show his colours in his recent interview with Bild magazine, in which he states that during the next ten years, Euroland countries will have accomplished a genuine political integration. Karl Lamers, his colleague in charge of European affairs at the core of the CDU, identifies the crisis as an opportunity for Europe and Germany, as wel as as the too rarely heard American voice of Rex Nutting in the Wall Street Journal of 12/08/2010. On the technocratic side, the ECB President, Jean-Claude Trichet, called for a "budgetary federation" in Euroland. Sources: EUObserver, 12/13/2010; DeutschlandFunk , 12/09/2010; EUObserver, 12/01/2010
(19) For over a decade, public opinion in the Euroland countries has been, in effect, much more "integrationist" than their élite. Thus, rejection of the draft European Constitution in 2005 in France and the Netherlands would not have happened without some "pro-Europeans" voting "No", rejecting a draft that they considered too timid, politically, democratically and socially.
(20) European leaders are like the tortoise in the Jean de La Fontaine fable "The Hare and the Tortoise " … but the race would be described by hares!
(21) By the way, the Eurozone's future political leaders would be well advised to practice, as quickly as possible, how to manage Euroland through two interactive games, Economia and Inflation Island, that the European Central Bank has made available to the public.
(22) As LEAP/E2020 has repeated for nearly two years, European austerity is politically viable only if accompanied by unquestionable social and fiscal equity and the implementation of major democratic and social projects throughout Euroland. It is here that the real medium to long term weakness of the Eurozone can be found, not in the sovereign debt of the peripheral countries. To illustrate this point, it is useful to watch the very interesting video coverage made by the New York Times during the summer of 2010, called "The Austerity Zone: Life in the New Europe ".
(23) Given the obvious difficulty of the American élite to understand the developments taking place in Europe, LEAP/E2020 wishes to contribute to the debate currently raging on US college campuses where budget austerity has led to heavy cuts in language teaching. As always, behind budgetary justifications, several "hidden agendas" can be identified as well as candid lack of understanding of what's going on in the rest of the world regarding languages. A perfect example of both trends seems to be Richard N. Haas, former key official of the US State Department in the G.W. Bush administration, and now the president of the influential Council of Foreign Relations, who strongly advocates pushing French, German and Russian languages out of US campuses. With such 'enlightened and fair' advisers (qualified as having « an intellectual deficit » to understand the 21st century world at the GlobalEurope seminars in The Hague and Washington in 2004/2005), US students are doomed to be less and less able to understand tomorrow's world. Therefore, LEAP/E2020 finds it timely to circulate its 2007 anticipation entitled 'Which languages will the Europeans speak in 2025?' again.
(24) These will be the bonds used by all Euroland countries and other EU member states who wish to participate as the other countries, except the United Kingdom, did in May 2010 for the European Financial Stabilization Fund.
(25) Despite the denials of French and German officials, these Eurobonds are on the agenda of all the informal discussions of Euroland leaders. Source: Euroinvestor, 12/10/2010
(26) It is also probable that the rise in strength of the political renewals expected in France from Spring 2012, and perhaps also in Germany at that time, will make these issues real campaign topics from the end of Summer 2011.
(27) Liam Halligan, definitely one of the best British watchers of the global crisis, is thus completely right to stress in The Telegraph of 11/27/2010 that Angela Merkel (and other Euroland leaders as well) has every intention of making investors pay for significant share of their Irish and Greek bets. But that will happen in an organized manner, as an effective and forceful strategy which the strong States are used to; not in a panic, in the context of a mini-crisis.
(28) And we repeat that, according to our anticipations, they will probably be the political leaders most independent from banking lobby since the 1990s.
(29) This will also take place in an organized manner of "forcibly" cutting back the damaged balance sheets of the major European banks.


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We've just made More Songs of Innocence and of Experience as part of Our Mutual Friends commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella, London. This online exhibition launches at Jerwood Space in London on 30th August and also includes work by Graham Hudson, Gayle Chong Kwan and Janice Kerbal.
More Songs of Innocence and of Experience are a series of karaoke videos that take a fresh look at unsolicited spam emails and their affinities with the romanticism and realism in Charles Dicken's novel, 'Our Mutual Friend'. In both Dicken's novel and our online culture the language of romanticism and realism becomes intertwined with languages of exploitation whether it be the scam email, the hard luck story that attempts to extort or more generally the realms of advertising, evangelical religion, politics etc.
You can see the first three videos in this series here:
The exhibition website for Our Mutual Friends launches on 30th August, 2012. Our Mutual Friends is commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and presented in partnership with Jerwood Charitable Foundation, Turner Contemporary, Margate and Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.


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I know this is a thing. Was just curious if it has been announced where this mount is obtained from? I tried to find if it has been stated yet but couldn't find word of it anywhere.
They hinted strongly - or just came right out and said it, can't remember - that it will come from a Magitek Factory, which we're all speculating will be (at least in part) some kind of instanced dungeon. Other than that, the typical stuff ("Future patch, please look forward to it!") Oh, damn... I should have trolled you and said Legacy Onry.... /sigh
Only Legacy Members will be able to fight with their Magitek Mounts... (haha! there! i did it!) Seriously, they haven't said, but they have sadistically encouraged us to speculate, and... you guessed it... to look forward to it.
I swear to god, if they make the theme music when you mount your Magitek the Terra's Theme from FFVI, screw crafting, screw leveling, screw endgame and screw gearing up. I'm sitting on my mount outside Ul'dah full time!
From Camate on January 5th of this year (as far as I can tell, the last specifics we've heard about Magitek): " The development team is planning to make it possible to obtain magitek armor via a challenging quest related to the Garleans. From what I hear, it will not be something that is easy to obtain! For those of you interested in customizing your magitek armor, you will be happy to know that the development team is looking into this, but they are heading in the direction where it will not affect stats. This is pretty exciting if you ask me and I hope you are looking forward to it! Snurble, out! "


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Proxy Servers: Unlocking the Keys to Enterprise Security
Proxy servers have been in the news as of late, both as a result of the Iran putative election and a new legal case where Microsoft is suing alleged purveyors of advertising click fraud. This article will explain what prox servers are, how they can be used for both good and evil, and what all the fuss is about.
This venerable Web technology remains a primary way of securing the data perimeter -- nefarious means notwithstanding.First, a little background is in order. When you bring up your Web browser, you are asked how you want it to connect to the Internet. Most of us that have home PCs don't use any proxy, and go out to the raw Internet without any fuss or bother.
But enterprises that want to cut down on their bandwidth usage, improve performance and security, and have control over what employees see use them all the time. Each browser first checks and sees if the Web page that is being requested is on the proxy's cache, or memory, and if so, it saves a few milliseconds or more by grabbing the page directly, without having to traverse the Internet at all.
So proxies are often combined with caching servers to deliver the best combination of features and management. As far as the browsing user is concerned, this happens without any notification, other than the pages seem to load quicker on her PC. About the only configuration option is the IP address of the server, which is placed inside the browser options or network settings. And proxies are available for more than just Web protocols, although that is their most popular use case.
That is the good side of proxies. What about the evil side? Proxies are supposed to be for internal users of an enterprise, but if a hacker can find out the IP address of an internal proxy, he can gain access to lots of network resources.
This was a common MO for the hacker Adrian Lamo, among others, and you still find corporations that haven't locked their proxies down with the appropriate security. It is also possible for proxies to operate on a user's PC without the owner's knowledge, which is a common way botnets are created.
Some proxies can be used to make browsing history anonymous. This too can be used for both good and evil, depending on the information you are trying to hide.
Now to the news: Microsoft filed a suit in federal court yesterday against three people it claims were defrauding Internet advertisers by having automated programs mimic users clickstreams. They found the fraudulent activities by tracing the actions to two proxy servers. Once they blocked the particular IP addresses of the proxies, the fraudsters would simply alter them in a continual game of cat and mouse. The fraud involved is significant, and ClickForensics estimates that 14 percent of the total ad clickstream is faked.
When the Iranian government wanted to block Internet access, several private individuals from around the globe took it upon themselves to set up the open source proxy Squid (squid-cache.org) and other tools on their own networks to get around these blocks. They then publicized (via Twitter) the IP address of their Squid PCs so that anyone could connect to the open Internet, rather than be blocked. Of course, as the government learns of these addresses, it adds them to the block list, so another cat and mouse game ensues.
p> David Strom is an expert on Internet and networking technologies who was the former editor-in-chief at Network Computing, Tom's Hardware.com, and DigitalLanding.com. He currently writes regularly for PC World, Baseline Magazine, and the New York Times and is also a professional speaker, podcaster and blogs at strominator.com and WebInformant.tv
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Artworks by New York City School Students on View at Guggenheim Museum
A Year with Children 2009: Selected Works from Learning Through Art, an exhibition organized by the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the
Guggenheim Museum
, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from May 13 through August 9, 2009. The exhibition showcases artworks by second- through sixth-grade students from 16 public schools throughout New York City. These schools have participated in Learning Through Art (LTA), a 39-year-old pioneering arts education program of the Guggenheim Museum, during the 200809 school year. Approximately 200 colorful and imaginative works will be on display, including prints, paintings, sculptures, mobiles, and more.
Program Overview
A Year with Children is an annual exhibition that presents art by students participating in Learning Through Art (LTA). LTA places professional teaching artists into New York City public elementary schools, where they collaborate with classroom teachers to develop art projects that allow students to learn art skills and techniques and explore ideas and themes related to the school curriculum. The program encourages curiosity, critical thinking, and ongoing collaborative investigation. Additionally, LTA immerses students in the artistic process, encouraging them to view themselves as artists. Each student is given a sketchbook and an artists apron, and throughout the program teaching artists expose students to practices and explorations similar to those with which they themselves engage. Students investigations are also inspired by the exhibitions they visit at the Guggenheim during the school year. When viewing art, students participate in inquiry-based discussions encouraging careful observation and interpretation.
Learning Through Art was founded in 1970 by Natalie K. Lieberman in response to the elimination of art and music programs in New York City public schools. Over the past 39 years, Learning Through Art has served more than 145,000 children and their families, primarily in New York City public schools.
200809 School Year
Approximately 1,500 second- through sixth-grade students at 16 public schools participated in 10- or 20-week projects led by 13 Learning Through Art teaching artists, reaching 62 classes in the 200809 school year. The participating schools are: in Manhattan, P.S. 28 (Washington Heights), P.S. 42 (Chinatown), P.S. 115 (Washington Heights), P.S. 152 (Inwood), P.S. 153 (Hamilton Heights), P.S. 154 (Harlem), P.S. 184 (Chinatown), P.S. 200 (Hamilton Heights); in the Bronx, P.S. 86 (Kingsbridge); in Staten Island, P.S. 48 (Grasmere); in Queens, P.S. 88 (Ridgewood), P.S. 144 (Forest Hills), P.S. 148 (East Elmhurst); and, in Brooklyn, P.S. 8 (Brooklyn Heights), P.S. 9 (Prospect Heights), P.S. 58 (Cobble Hill).
Exhibition Overview
In the LTA program, students examined topics including community, identity, storytelling, peace, and the environment. While engaged with these themes, students explored a variety of materials, and their works on view will include drawings, prints, photographs, clay and found object sculptures, acrylic and watercolor paintings, assemblage pieces, and collages.
A Year With Children 2009: Selected Works from Learning Through Art is organized into four sections, highlighting four ways in which the LTA program creates a unique and transformative experience within the school day. Materials demonstrates how students experiment with various media as a means of expression. Choice reveals the meaningful decisions students make about what to create and how to create it. Knowledge shows how young artists use what they have learned in school to inform and inspire their work. The artworks installed in Collaboration emphasize the power of working together and display how varied points of view impact the creative process.
A Year with Children 2009 is organized by Rebecca Shulman Herz, Senior Education Manager, Learning Through Art, along with Marie Reilly, Associate Manager, and the LTA staff. According to Herz, the exhibition illuminates the process by which LTA strives to transform classrooms into studios and students into artists.
According to a participating fifth-grade teacher from P.S. 200 in Manhattan, This art-based program supports other content areas by opening the students eyes and allowing them to think outside of the box. In social studies, they were able to delve into all of the cultures that they were learning about, and to think about what defines and unites those cultures. In math, they related the shapes and the lines from their self-portraits to the angles and figures they were measuring in class.
Select highlights:
P.S. 48, Staten Island, 4th grade
Teaching Artist: Mark Dzula
Fourth-grade students at P.S. 48 explored how stories can inspire abstract art while creating these painted-paper collages. Each piece began with a legend students read as part of their study of the Native Americans. Student artists then learned painting and collage techniques and experimented with ways to depict the characters, setting, and events from stories using only lines, colors, and abstract shapes. The final pieces tell these traditional tales in creative new ways.
P.S. 153, Manhattan, 5th grade
Teaching Artist: Ascha Kells Drake
Through neighborhood walks and classroom discussion, fifth-grade students at P.S. 153 investigated their Washington Heights community and the ways it has changed over time. While learning about the ways in which artists, architects, and city planners change their environments, they created collograph prints of the structures that they observed around them, as well as those that they would like to see in their neighborhood someday.
P.S. 86, The Bronx, 6th grade
Teaching Artist: Jeff Hopkins
As an exploration of how abstract art can relate to self-portraiture, student artists at P.S. 86 in the Bronx considered the ways in which artists represent a subject's character traits and physical attributes. In these examples, students first used watercolors to create a portrait that they felt conveyed a particular emotion, and then cut, tore, and collaged the painting to form a new composition.
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- n. A Spanish and Spanish-American unit of weight equal to 2000 local pounds, or about 2032.2 pounds avoirdupois. It is now applied also to the metric ton of 2204. 6 pounds avoirdupois.
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It was 1.2 times larger than the earlier tonelada or tonel de Andalusia.5
In Chapala, a tonelada (40 bags @ 50 kilos each) delivered to my lot was $1740 pesos MXN.
Cal (lime), 1 tonelada, delivered: 1120 1 truckload JAL (Jalisco sand, very light) delivered: 840
Mortero 1 tonelada (20 sacks-50 Kg (110 lbs)) delivered: 1360 pesos
Por enquanto, o engenho lançado da base de Sriharikota apenas pode colocar uma tonelada em órbita polar, mas futuras versões do foguetão deverão ser mais potentes.
A freight charge of twelve pesos per tonelada is also imposed.
Spanish hospital in Manila, 3,000 pesos; to the physician, 300; to the surgeon, 400; to the barber, 312; to the apothecary, 200; to the steward, 182 and one-half, and one tonelada in the trading ships.
Suppose that they are of 500 toneladas, and that they do not carry any products of the islands, nor any ship's stores, or spices, or anything else but silk, of which every six boxes make one tonelada; accordingly, the thousand toneladas of the two ships would mean 6,000 boxes.
Therefore the viceroy orders that henceforth in the Southern Sea, instead of paying thirty-two pesos on every tonelada, there shall be paid thirty-two ducados on every tonelada of stuffs coming from the Filipinas.
We order that a duty be collected on the first and subsequent sales or all the merchandise shipped from Filipinas to Acapulco, and the pesos per tonelada on freight according to custom; for this sum and much more is needed to pay the troops, and equip the vessels that engage in commerce.


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Biopure also reported detailed data confirming its preliminary report in May that the blood substitute, which is derived from highly purified cow's blood, exceeded the Food and Drug Administration's minimum target for effectiveness in helping patients avoid the need for transfusions of donated human blood.
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Biopure's shares soared in trading on the Nasdaq exchange, closing at $24.55, up $4.65, an increase of 23 percent.
The product, known as Hemopure, is already cleared for use in general surgery and treatment of anemia in South Africa. Analysts who follow Biopure, which is based in Cambridge, Mass., do not expect F.D.A. marketing approval before the end of next year at the earliest. Even if Biopure is approved, they said, the F.D.A.'s review of the results could lead to restrictions on its intended use.
Hemopure is not a complete substitute for blood, which has many life-sustaining and disease-fighting functions. Like most other substitutes currently being developed, Hemopure replaces red blood cells in carrying oxygen to the body.
In theory, such products could have numerous advantages over donated blood. Donated blood must be refrigerated and used within six or seven weeks, and must be matched to the patient's blood type. Blood supplies, while currently regarded as extremely safe in developed countries, have repeatedly been contaminated by viruses in recent decades. Currently, fears over mad cow disease have led American blood banks to curtail sharply the use of blood donated in Europe or by Americans who have lived there.
As a result, analysts project a multibillion-dollar market for companies that develop successful substitutes.
Biopure's trial involved nearly 700 orthopedic surgery patients. They were randomly given either Hemopure or donated red blood cells once their doctors determined that a transfusion was needed. About 60 percent of the patients who received Hemopure were able to avoid any blood transfusion during surgery or the 42-day follow-up period covered by the research.
The severity of any reported adverse responses was scored by a panel of doctors selected by Quintiles Transnational, a clinical trial management company, without any involvement of Biopure. The reviewers were not told which patients had received which treatment.
The statistical analysis of the blind scoring was performed for Biopure by another independent contractor, Red River Statistics. Biopure declined to discuss the details or extent of adverse reactions for either Hemopure or the human blood, saying only that it had met the F.D.A.'s requirement that Hemopure not increase the overall risk to patients.
Analysts said that the results announced yesterday should at least temporarily deflate the large contingent of short-sellers of Biopure's stock. In recent weeks, such skeptics had borrowed and sold an unusually large portion of the shares in public hands in anticipation that the safety results had been disappointing and that the stock would tumble once they were reported. Shares of Biopure had fallen nearly 50 percent from their high of $32.70 in May to $16.66 last Thursday.
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