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Not many companies can convince investors to give them $100 million before their first birthday.
But Jeff Raider and Andy Katz-Mayfield, the cofounders of shaving startup Harry's did just that — and then they used the money to buy a 93-year-old German factory.
Raider and Katz-Mayfield became friends more than a decade ago, when the two were interns together during college. Raider then went on to help found glasses company Warby Parker with three of his classmates at UPenn. (Today, Raider is still on Warby Parker's board of directors.)
It all began with an annoying trip to the drug store
A frustrating visit to a pharmacy in October 2011 would eventually lead the two to start their own company together.
"I went into the drug store. I'd run out of razor blades and just had a really frustrating purchase experience," Katz-Mayfield recalls. "They were locked in a case, which I found to be a little bit absurd. I was buying razor blades — not diamond jewelry. And I wound up spending over $20 for four razor blades and some shaving cream, and I didn't have a good feeling as a consumer. I knew I was getting taken advantage of, and I didn't really have any choice in the matter."
He left but returned to the store, frustrated. Katz-Mayfield looked at the branding and design of the razor blades on display, and he didn't like what he saw. "It didn't really speak to me as a consumer. It's really deeply rooted in this kind of futuristic technology. There's literally a package with a razor blade flying over the moon," he recalls. "And I understand what they're trying to convey, but to me it almost felt like I was being treated like a child and being sold children's toys."
The next day, Katz-Mayfield called up Raider, who immediately empathized with his friend's experience. The two started thinking about a company that could take the pain out of buying quality razor blades and shaving cream.
"The question that Andy posed that was really exciting was, can we do this better? Can we create a better experience around incredibly high-quality products at really reasonable prices delivered to people in a way that they actually want to buy it, and in doing so, make the whole process of shaving better for guys?" Raider says.
Then reality set in: making good razor blades is actually really hard
The first thing the cofounders learned: Great razor blades are important but they're not easy to make. They started out by trying to shave with every single razor blade out there. "It was a physically and emotionally scarring experience to shave with the lower-end products on the market," Raider told Business Insider.
After trying every razor blade out there, Raider and Katz-Mayfield discovered a 93-year-old German razor blade manufacturer called Feintechnik. The company is "steeped in the tradition of making, literally grinding steel into exceptionally sharp and stable razor blades that then give you a really clean shave," Raider says. "We got to know the folks there, and we created a product with them that was a custom product for Harry's. At that point we were like, 'Okay, we have a product that we're really proud to sell.'"
The two cofounders launched Harry's in March 2013 and were "blown away by the initial response. It far exceeded our expectations, which were pretty high," Katz-Mayfield says. "The brand resonated with consumers. People really loved the product."
Harry's sells shaving kits, individual razors, and bottles of shaving cream. For $15, you can get a shaving kit complete with a five-blade razor, three replacement blades, and shaving cream. When you consider that just a razor and a couple replacement blades from Gillette will run you anywhere from $10 to $15, Harry's kits look like a pretty good deal.
Harry's isn't the only player in the startup razor game. Michael Dubin founded Dollar Shave Club in early 2012 with the promise of sending men one razor per month for a buck. It has raised just over $70 million from investors. Early Foursquare employee Tristan Walker founded another razor competitor in April 2013, Walker & Co, which actually uses the same German factory as Harry's to produce its product, Bevel.
How a 10-month-old startup was able to buy a 93-year-old company
In January 2014, 10-month-old Harry's announced it had raised a $122.5 million investment round from Tiger Global, Thrive Capital, Highland Capital, and SV Angel. At the same time, Harry's announced it would be shelling out $100 million to purchase Feintechnik — both the company and its 93-year-old factory — in the sleepy German town of Eisfeld.
Purchasing Feintechnik was a strategic move — it let Harry's become a vertically integrated company and to control manufacturing. "It is incredibly difficult to manufacture razor blades. There's very few places in the world that can do it," Katz-Mayfield said. "And so it was kind of serendipitous timing where the guys that owned the factory were thinking about potentially selling it, and we had just launched and we were young, but we were fortunate that we had some investors who believed in the vision and understood the importance of controlling manufacturing. They agreed to back us to go buy it."
Vertical integration is an increasingly common strategy: Startups like Harry's, Bonobos and Warby Parker work with manufacturers to make eyeglasses and clothes, which are then sold online directly to customers. This lets companies have more control over the quality of their products and manufacture items for less. Harry's sells most of its wares online, but it also sells some in its own branded barbershop in New York City.
But why would a 93-year-old company, which fondly refers to the Harry's founders as the "American internet boys," agree to sell itself to such a young, inexperienced startup?
In order to buy Feintechnik, Harry's had to earn the respect and trust of the German company. "We always did what we said we would do — like order and pay for a large order (one million razor blades) ahead of our launch," Raider told Business Insider. "So when we approached them with the idea, they believed we would follow through."
From start to finish, the deal took about eight months of negotiation. "We started the process when we were just two months old as a company and ended when we were 11-months-old," Raider says. "It was an exciting time. At the end, we were incredibly excited to have created HF, the combination of Harry's and Feintechnik, and the only fully vertically integrated grooming brand in the world."
It's not easy to acquire a Germany factory into an American startup. Before the acquisition, the Harry's founders secured its financing — the $122.5 million round from Tiger Global, Thrive Capital, Highland Capital, and SV Angel — by telling investors about the model they wanted to create.
"We then convinced a German bank that they should believe in our vision and lend to the company," Raider says. "We were able to do so with the help of the existing management at Feintechnik and were fortunate to find incredible partners in Germany who were excited about lending to us to help us grow."
Raider and Katz-Mayfield wanted Feintechnik's senior management to stay with the company. To that end, the founders and their investors spent a lot of time talking about their global vision. Raider says they learned about the 93-year-old company's history and planned to take over the German company in a way that was fair to the factory's seasoned employees, who stayed on as part of the deal.
At the time Harry's purchased Feintechnik, the company had 30 people on its team in New York and 420 on its new team in Germany. The average Feintechnik employee has worked at the company for 13 years and knows the ins and outs of making high-quality razor blades by hand.
"We spent a lot of time in Germany speaking with the team there, making them feel like they were part of one company," Raider told Business Insider. "I remember the first time, right after we bought it; we stood up on some wood crates on the factory floor, and we spoke to the entire production staff. And this factory's in a very small town in Germany; it felt like half the town was there. We looked at each other, and we were like, 'wow, this is a lot of responsibility.'"
Today, the Harry's founders say they're growing both businesses — the Harry's brand and Feintechnik — rapidly. The founders say Harry's revenue grew five times in 2014, and they're growing faster than they could have anticipated.
Now Harry's employs 80 people in its NYC office and 450 in Germany, though the company will continue growing its German operations. In total, the company has raised $211 million in venture capital funding. "We're investing a ton right now in growth there, basically doubling the capacity of the factory over the next couple years, which is no small feat," Katz-Mayfield says. "It's a large investment — we need to hire over 100 people in the next couple of years there."


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'It sounded like a sonic boom', couple describes lightning strike while on highway
Published Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:59PM MDT Last Updated Thursday, June 5, 2014 7:04PM MDT
A quiet drive on a rural highway turned terrifying for one couple over the weekend, after their vehicle was struck by lightning.
Al and Betty Perry were driving on Highway 14 near Tofield Saturday afternoon, when the unthinkable happened.
"It sounded like a sonic boom," Al said. "It was…that's how loud [it was]."
Surveillance cameras recorded the freak occurrence - showing the moment a fireball struck, and appeared to engulf, the Perry's silver Chevrolet pickup truck.
"It was all blowing up in front of my face," Betty said.
Inside the truck, airbags deployed, the metal body was rippled by the heat, and then smoke began to fill the cabin, making it difficult for either Al or Betty to see or breathe.
Parts of the truck were completely melted, Al said he believed the electrical system inside the truck was also destroyed, and that made escape the vehicle nearly impossible, he tried for some time to get out, but the doors and windows were locked and would not open.
"I turned my body and put my two feet up and tried to kick the window out," Al said. "I don't know how many times I tried and tried and tried.
"How are we going to get out of this particular thing? This is a coffin," Al continued.
Meanwhile, outside, an RCMP officer happened to be driving by – and helped the couple escape.
Afterwards, Al and Betty were checked by doctors, and both were given a clean bill of health, and they celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary a few days after their harrowing experience.
Coming up Friday, June 6, 2014 David Ewasuk will have the story of the RCMP officer who came to the couple's rescue.
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Caffeine controversy percolates, CRN stimulates a label changeCaffeine controversy percolates, CRN stimulates a label change
As the caffeine controversy continues to brew, the dietary supplement industry seems to be caught like coffee grounds in a French press.
April 3, 2013
It's time for the brewing industry to wake up and smell the coffee. That means debunking the misinformation about the regulation of caffeine-containing supplements and getting ahead of the industrys critics by giving consumers absolute transparency about the caffeine content of these products to demonstrate that we have their best interests in mind.
Unfortunately, caffeinated energy drinks and energy shots have received a lot of bad press lately. It began with the reports that a particular energy drink was connected to the death of a 14-year-old girl. At the time, the product was labeled with Supplement Facts" and did not disclose the amount of caffeine in the product, although there are plenty of similar products that are labeled with Nutrition Facts" too. Immediately, the consumer press began to report that the choice to market the product as a dietary supplement was strategically made because supplements arent regulated by FDA and marketers could avoid FDA attention with a Supplement Facts" label.
First, as we all know, dietary supplements most certainly are regulated by FDA. In many respects, they are more regulated than traditional beverages that would sport Nutrition Facts" labels. Dietary supplements are subject to much stricter good manufacturing practices (GMPs) than traditional food. Just compare Part 111 of FDAs regulations for supplements against Part 110 for food. That may be one of the reasons the product in question has subsequently decided to re-label itself as a food instead.
Then, there is mandatory adverse event reportingunder which supplement companies are required to notify FDA within 15 days of receiving any reports of a serious adverse event associated with their products. Its only because of the mandatory reporting system for dietary supplements that this incident with the young woman and several others came to light. Food has no such requirement. Had the product been labeled as a food, the incident might never have come to FDAs attention, so the notion that caffeine-containing dietary supplements are less regulated than food is without basis.
Then, theres the misstatement that food products have limits on the amount of caffeine, but dietary supplements dont. That too is false. FDA has not established a specific limit on caffeine for either class of products. The confusion apparently comes from the provision in FDAs GRAS (generally recognized as safe) regulation that acknowledges the safety of added caffeine in beverages up to 0.02 percent, or about 70 mg of caffeine per 12-ounce can of the product (21 CFR 182.1180). The level set in that regulation only establishes the amount at which a manufacturer may use the ingredient without conducting any safety tests of its own, essentially a safe harbor." Caffeine in food at or below that amount is presumed to be safe, but that threshold in no way prohibits food manufacturers from exceeding that level if they are prepared to self-affirm the safety of a higher level. And, of course, many beverage manufacturers do. Note too that the GRAS caffeine level applies to added caffeine, but not to naturally occurring levels of caffeine in food. Thats why coffeehouse lattés can have caffeine much higher than 70 mg per 12 ounces.
By contrast, dietary supplement manufacturers must be able to demonstrate the levels of ingredients in their products are safe based on the label instructions (including serving amounts) or, if no instructions are provided, under normal conditions of use. A product posing a significant or unreasonable risk of injury or illness may be removed from the market by FDA. Whether marketed as a beverage or a supplement, these products are subject to similar oversight.
A third misconception is that beverages must include on the label the amount of caffeine in the products, but supplements do not. One look at a cup of coffeehouse coffee should dispel that myth as well. While the American Beverage Association promotes a voluntary guideline for labeling the caffeine content in energy drinks (although many beverage marketers dont observe it), there is no such requirement for either beverages or supplements. Added caffeine must be listed among the ingredients in descending order of predominance, but that doesnt tell consumers how much caffeine is there.
Nevertheless, one cant deny that as a result of all this attention, manufacturers of caffeine-containing supplements are under the microscope as never before. Just like their beverage brethren, many supplements did not disclose the total amount of caffeine on their labels. This was further compounded by the fact that other ingredients like guarana, green tea and yerba mate contain naturally occurring amounts of caffeine. If the manufacturer lists those compounds in the ingredient listing, and indicates the formula is a propriety blend," the law doesnt require the product to disclose the actual amount of guarana or green tea or yerba mate, much less the amounts of caffeine they contain. As a result, consumers were left in the dark as to how much caffeine they were getting. Members of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) decided to change that with a voluntary program to disclose the total caffeine content from all sources on their product labeling. The guidelines were adopted in March 2013 for implementation within 12 months.
The voluntary guidelines contain four sections:
Companies that manufacture or market dietary supplements containing caffeine should provide the total caffeine content from all sources either in the Supplement Facts box or elsewhere on the product labeling. The guidelines allow some flexibility between naturally occurring and added caffeine; they require the amounts from both sources and must be combined to provide the total caffeine content. Products are exempt if they contain less than 25 mg of caffeine from naturally occurring sources and no added caffeine.
Supplements containing more than 100 mg of caffeine should also include consumer advisories on their labeling to indicate that the product is not recommended for children, pregnant or nursing women or those with caffeine sensitivities.
Manufacturers are urged to develop serving size and daily intake recommendations that are consistent with safety information about caffeine established by competent and reliable scientific evidence.
Lastly, manufacturers should not market or otherwise promote the use of caffeine-containing dietary supplements in combination with alcohol or to counter the acute or immediate effects of alcohol.
By adhering to these guidelines for their products, supplement manufacturers can provide transparency to their consumers and give them the information to make informed decisions about their use of these products. A copy of the CRN recommendations is available on our website. Adherence to these rules may not satisfy our fiercest critics, but it will demonstrate that while we stand behind the safety of caffeine, we are committed to helping consumers select products. What better way to energize our customers than to earn their trust?
Steve Mister is president and CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN).
Editor's note: The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), another trade organization for the natural products industry, also recently amended its caffeine labeling requirements.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Whitmore-Bolles Splash Pad Ribbon Cutting
with Mayor O'Reilly, Gary Woronchak, and SODA.
When: July 22nd - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Where: Whitmore-Bolles Park
Come out for a community picnic in celebration of the opening of the new Whitmore-Bolles Splash Pad!
The City will be providing hot dogs and drinks, music, and children type games.
SODA will be passing out custom water bottles to help you keep cool and hydrated all summer along.
This event will take place instead of our SODA Summer Saturday event.
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I'm crazy about music, and as a software engineer, I'm fanatical about the audio equipment I use to play it. Suffice to say I'm no professional reviewer (in fact, this is my first), nor do I use my setup for mixing/studio purposes.
I decided to review these two sets of headphones, the Audeze LCD-4, and Meze Empyrean, as I can't really justify keeping both. This review will hopefully help me to decide which to keep.
The Audeze LCD-4 is originally a 2016 model, but the drivers and ear pads were replaced last November. The Meze Empyrean was made in November this year, so both headphones are basically brand new.
Audeze LCD-4
- Style: Over-ear, open-back
- Driver Type: Planar magnetic
- Impedance: 200 Ω
- Sensitivity: 97dB
- Frequency response: 5–50,000 Hz
- Weight: ≈ 690 g
- Retail price: $3,995
Meze Empyrean
- Style: Over-ear, open-back
- Driver Type: Planar magnetic (Rinaro Isodynamic Hybrid Array)
- Impedance: 31,6 Ω
- Sensitivity: 100dB
- Frequency response: 4–110,000 Hz
- Weight: ≈ 430 g
- Retail price: $2,999
Customer service
This might be a little unusual to open with, but for me, customer service is a very important topic when it comes to products that retail this high. I attach special value to after-sales customer service and warranty, and I suspect others do as well. Below I will comment about the customer service experience with each company involved in this review.
I currently own the LCD-XC (Barton Pereirra edition) as well as the LCD-4 from Audeze. Both are purchased on the used market. I got my XC from Head-Fi and my LCD-4 on a trade-in at a French dealer. Both are manufactured in 2016.
I've had problems with the left driver in both pairs of headphones. First with my XC; the(in)famous crackling sounds of the diaphragm (and this isn't actually acknowledged as a defect).Then with my LCD-4, I had some bass distortion on the left side, after I tried to replace the ear pads myself.
Audeze's customer service and transferable warranty policy are simply fantastic and it's fair to say that I've never experienced anything like it. For both of my Audeze headphones, the drivers were replaced with the latest versions and brand new ear pads, all free of charge.
An additional three years of warranty are offered on the replaced drivers. The original warranty on the headphones themselves is one year. Their support desk is very responsive and helpful too.
Meze Audio
Unfortunately, I received my brand new Empyreans with a few marks on the grill and frame. After some back and forth between my dealer, distributor and Meze Audio, I got a replacement within a few days and on top of that a 50% discount on the balanced cable I was about to purchase.
You'd say this is a fantastic solution and I was very happy, but when the second pair arrived there was once again a little mark on one of the cups. After having spoken to Meze directly I'll get another replacement, which will arrive soon and hopefully will be perfect. Third time's a charm, as they say.
Even though it's a cosmetic fault, I think they need to step up their quality control, much the way Audeze did after their driver issues. If they really want to succeed in the high-end headphones market, I think it would be wise to give this area a little more consideration.
I agree with Antonio Meze's technical explanation for the marks and from an engineer's perspective, it makes perfect sense. However, from a client perspective, the nicest technical solution isn't always the best.
Their warranty is not transferable between owners and they give one year on the headphones, including drivers. There's a side note, as I quote Meze Audio from an email conversation:
"The warranty of the drivers is something that we discussed with our partner Rinaro in depth on a number of occasions and it's a complex debate."
They say that in theory and with normal use the warranty can be 10 years but this doesn't include accidents and other user-generated potential mishaps.
What this exactly means I cannot tell for sure so we prefer to offer a 1-year warranty for the entire product, but we will support the driver failure even after the one year period.
Again, discussed in particular case by case with the client or dealer/distributor.
The ideology is to underpromise and overdeliver in case something unexpected happens. We're still a young company and don't have experience with what can go wrong in normal usage of the planar drivers.
Update: I've received my third pair just before Christmas and this pair is immaculate. It also looks like Meze adjusted their production process already as the frame looks slightly darker to me. I asked about this and this is Meze's explanation:
Audeze LCD-4
The LCD-4 arrives in the same recognizable flight case as the other LCD models. It's very robust, practical and it looks nice. Inside is a pair of gloves (I wonder how many people actually use these gloves), a manual, an owners certificate and a 2.5m long baby blue cable, terminated in 6.35mm. From what I understand you can ask for a different termination upon purchase, free of charge.
Meze Empyrean
The Empyrean arrives in a flight case too, but less bulky and more stylish. Inside is an extra pair of ear pads (microsuede), an owners certificate and a 3m long (black) cable terminated in 6.35mm. Upon purchase, you can choose a 3.5mm termination instead of the 6.35mm jack, but balanced is an upgrade you need to pay for.
However, if you already own a balanced cable with mini‐XLR jacks (like Audeze or ZMF headphones), feel free to use this cable with the Empyrean.
Build Quality and Design
Audeze LCD-4
The LCD-4 comes by default with a high-quality carbon leather headband and premium leather ear pads. I'd have preferred the leather-free ear pads, but for other reasons than quality. The wooden cups, chrome grill and chrome connectors look very solid and premium too.
The ear pads are glued on the cups and there's a spacer between them and the pads to prevent the build-up of air pressure, which can cause a driver failure (the diaphragm can rupture).
Because of these spacers, it's impossible to replace the ear pads yourself, and Audeze, therefore, recommends replacement with them if you need new ones.
I really like the LCD models in general, but the LCD-4 feels very exotic and deviant in comparison, but then, it is a flagship. The headphones, at first glance, are beautifully designed. But look closer and the spacers become a bit of an eyesore; more so, a design flaw. The first models didn't have the spacers, but after numerous driver failures, Audeze had to come up with a solution.
Meze Empyrean
Like the LCD-4 the Empyrean also has a high-quality carbon leather headband. The frame is built out of a single piece of aluminum, and the Empyrean comes by default with two sets of replaceable ear pads: premium leather and one pair of microsuede. It's extremely easy to swap pads and both of them look premium and are built of high-quality materials.
Not only do the Empyreans have a unique driver developed by Rinaro, but also a unique design with amazing details; such as the CNC milled grill. The pictures speak for themselves and I think the Empyrean is the most beautifully designed pair of headphones I've ever seen.
On the Empyrean product page, they explain the technology and design very well. Definitely worth having a look and I recommend it too.
Audeze LCD-4
The headband looks like a suspension headband, but it doesn't suspend at all — at least not on my head. After suffering for a while and struggling with the weight, I decided to shorten the leather strap to achieve suspension and remove the hotspots. This worked out well, and now I'm able to wear the headphones for hours in a row without any discomfort. The weight of the headphones doesn't bother me at all now either.
The clamping force is perfect, although I wouldn't recommend head-banging with these as they will probably fall off your head! I think this is more due to the weight than lack of clamping force.
Usually, when I use my headphones I don't wear glasses, but when I do while using the LCD-4, I don't have any comfort issues either.
In the past, I've had some headphones (Audeze LCD-2, Sony MDR-Z1R) where my left ear was touching the drivers (I think this might say more about my weird left ear than anything else), but I don't have these issues with the LCD-4. In fact, the Audeze earpads are very comfortable.
Meze Empyrean
Compared to the LCD-4, the Empyrean isn't heavy at all. On top of that, the suspension headband is very well designed and doesn't cause any hotspots like the LCD-4.
I've had some clamping force issues with Meze's 99 Classics, but the clamping force of the Empyreans is beyond perfect. Even though it feels similar to the clamping force of the LCD-4, some head-banging wouldn't dislodge these headphones.
I highly recommend to any metal fans among us! Both ear pads are extremely comfortable, but the microsuede is more comfortable to me.
As with the LCD-4, I didn't have issues wearing my glasses while using the Empyreans. Same goes for my ears, they do not touch the drivers.
The Empyrean is definitely the most comfortable pair of headphones I've ever owned.
I'm a big fan of vinyl and CDs, but I'm also a big fan of Tidal. To keep it easy, I've used Tidal as a source for this review.
I've used a Chord Qutest and Violectric HPA-V281 as the solid state setup. For my tube setup, I've used an Icon Audio HP8 MKII (with Jensen capacitors, a matched pair of Shuguang Treasure CV181-Z tubes and a NOS Mullard ECC83/12AX7 Long Plate F92 tube) and Mytek Brooklyn DAC (not the plus version).
For the portable setup, I've used a Chord Hugo 2.
Audeze LCD-4
I believe that the LCD-4 in general is a warm pair of headphones with a laid back sound. The bass is the best I've ever heard in a set of headphones, amazingly accurate and with so much slam. Perfect.
Although the mids are very smooth and detailed, I do think there is a lack of air. The treble seems slightly too relaxed, but this works just fine for me. To try and give some context, I find the treble of the HD800s overly piercing. The soundstage is very intimate, but definitely has depth and instrumental separation is very good.
The LCD-4 is probably one of the most power-hungry headphones available on the market, and very difficult to drive. Therefore I believe the amplifier choice is limited if you really want to push them to what they're capable of.
Chord Qutest + Violectric V281
Thanks to the power of the V281, you get the exceptional bass of the LCD-4 that you wouldn't get with less powerful amps. Good dynamics, details and very musical — I could listen for hours to this pairing without any fatigue.
Mytek Brooklyn DAC + Icon Audio HP8 MKII
The HP8 doesn't have enough power to let the LCD-4 really shine, you can notice this especially in the lower end. There's no slam and punch in the bass. The mids and treble become a slightly more crispy and present though, thanks to the tubes. Although I still enjoy the LCD-4 with this pairing, it doesn't match the V281 in my opinion.
Chord Hugo2
Even though many people think the Hugo2 is not powerful enough to drive the LCD-4, I actually think it does it very well. Of course there's a big improvement when listening over the V281, but still, I enjoy this pairing. Plenty of dynamics, details and musicality.
Meze Empyrean
I find it very difficult to describe the Empyrean. They play every song perfectly, and have what feels like a real ease to adapt. For these reasons, I like to compare this pair of headphones to a chameleon.
It's like they alter to the music, letting you hear the music just as the artist intended. It's all so effortless, and they very much remind me of the sound of Harbeth speakers.
I wouldn't describe them necessary as warm or laid back, but neither would I describe them as neutral. However, I do think they lean more towards a neutral tone than a warm one. With the leather pads we tip even more towards neutral; with the microsuede pads, you'll get that bit more warmth.
The bass isn't as exceptional and slamming as the LCD-4, but it's good — very good. The mids are crispy and very airy. The LCD-4 has the best bass I've ever heard, but the Empyrean easily gives the best vocals I've ever heard. The treble is sparkly and precise, but never harsh. It does have some kind of smoothness, but definitely nowhere near as creamy as the LCD-4.
The soundstage and instrumental separation are phenomenal. The soundstage is not as huge as for example the HD800s, but definitely big and deep.
I feel like the Empyrean again just adapts to every pairing, and is very easy to drive. Therefore the amplifier choice is huge and I'm already excited to read about pairing from other owners in the near future.
Chord Qutest + Violectric V281
I really like this pairing. Very enjoyable, good dynamics and details. The bass is fast, accurate and plenty of punch. Definitely no fatigue at all and very musical.
Mytek Brooklyn DAC + Icon Audio HP8 MKII
I was expecting to very much like this pairing, but it didn't meet my expectations. The bass is good and the mids are exceptional, but the treble became a bit too harsh and I certainly didn't take to it as much as with the V281.
Chord Hugo2
This pairing is ridiculously good. This is the pairing I heard the Empyreans with for the first time, at Canjam London 2018, and this is still my favourite. I always thought the filters of the Hugo2 didn't do that much, but with the Empyreans, I can hear significant differences.
Crossfeed is fun to play with as well with this pair of headphones. I didn't expect this pairing to sound better than the V281 to be honest. It's background is dead silent, great dynamics and details. Very enjoyable and I could listen to this pairing all day.
I find it very difficult to compare these headphones, as they're both very different.
I was secretly hoping to keep the Empyrean and sell the LCD-4, but after this review, I'm forced to keep them both.
The LCD-4, in my view, is the king, and rules from the top for good reason. They hold their own against new-market challengers and it proves once again how unique and beautiful this pair of headphones is. Having said that, the Empyrean brings an equal might to the table, though they present completely differently – could they be our queen?
Whatever the case, both pairs of headphones are surely worth keeping, and I'm happy to make the room for two seats for both to lead.
Audeze LCD-4
- Better and transferable warranty policy
- Exceptional bass
- Hard to drive
- Glued ear pads
Meze Empyrean
- Easy to drive
- Extremely comfortable
- Clever replaceable ear pads
- No transferable warranty policy


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OASIS O4 utilizes JSON to allow data to be transferred from the OASIS database into other applications, such as Power BI. JSON removes the complexity of the OASIS databases, allowing data in OASIS UI to be directly transferred into other applications. To complete this process, you will need an OASIS O4 URL with a query string to transfer any required data.
We will provide a test URL that will pull all orders from the last year with the ManufacturerID, Entry Date, Total Price, and Total Earnings.
https://web3.OasisSalesSoftware.com/GENERAL/API?ajax=POListing =bh&Listing=ManufacturerID,EntryDate,Total%20Price,Total%20Earnings&Timeframe=Last%20Year:Last%20Year
Connect OASIS O4 and Microsoft Power BI
1. Open "Power BI Desktop."
2. Select "Get Data."
3. The "Get Data" window will appear.
4. Select "All."
5. Select "JSON."
6. Select "Connect."
7. In the "Open" window, copy and paste your OASIS O4 URL as the "File Name."
8. Select "Open." This will copy your OASIS O4 data into Power BI. If you have pulled a large amount of data from OASIS, a window will appear, showing the amount of time to download. We recommend pulling a month's worth of data, initially.
9. Select the "List" link. They will show each record in the JSON data feed.
10. Select "To Table Convert."
11. The "To Table" window will appear.
12. Choose a setting for the delimiter.
13. Choose a setting for how you want the program to handle extra columns.
14. Select "OK."
15. Select the button. The "Column Import" window will appear.
16. Check the boxes you would like to pull into Power BI.
17. Select "OK." This will pull all the data you selected into Power BI. This will organize data by these columns.
18. Select "Close and Apply."
OASIS Support and JSON
Unfortunately, we are not staffed to provide support on tools like Power BI. We are able to help develop OASIS JSON query strings and other complex JSON requests, and to explain how data is transferred from OASIS. However, once we deliver the data into the system of your choice, we can no longer provide support.


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In the state of Florida, soliciting a minor for sex is defined as using an internet service or an electronic device in order to seduce, lure, or otherwise entice a minor, to engage in an unlawful sex act. Even if one solicits an adult whom they believe is a minor, which is a tactic commonly employed by law enforcement, this is still considered solicitation of a minor.
This is classified as a Second Degree Felony in the state of Florida and punishable by up to fifteen years in prison, another fifteen years of probation, and a $10,000 fine. Additionally, if you use different devices or services to contact and solicit a minor, each one will be a separate criminal offense.
Since this is also considered a sex offense, the defendant will most likely be required to register as a sex offender. Failure to do so may result in a new felony offense. With a first sexual offense on record, Florida, and most other states, will increase the severity of the punishment for subsequent offenses. The long-term implications of this go beyond any punishment you may receive in a court of law. Employers typically perform background checks and, as such, you may likely face a lot of difficulty finding employment with such an offense on your record.
At Musca Law, we know that sex crime allegations can have devastating and long-lasting impacts on an individual's life, beyond any prison sentence or fine. We will work to ensure that your rights are upheld if you have been wrongfully accused. The criminal justice is not perfect, so we will help you not fall through the cracks of its mistakes. Our phone lines are open 24/7, so call us today at(888) 484-5057.


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On 20th February 2020, the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements (Commonwealth of Australia, 2020) was established investigate the most horrific Australian fire season in living memory (Nolan et al. 2020). These bushfires became uncontrollable for many reasons, including the degradation of the forest estate through increased clearing, ad hoc development planning, mismanagement of water, and anthropogenic climate change. With the national inquiry exploring actions to help mitigate the impacts of unprecedented natural disasters and ameliorate the risk of another 'black summer bushfire', now is the time to rethink the management of landscapes and build a resilient future in the face of climate change.
Since 1750, Australia has lost approximately 13,262km2 (30%) of its rainforests (Commonwealth of Australia, 2001). Many conservationists believe that restoring lost and degraded ecosystems to their pre-colonial extent is appropriate. However, rather than trying to recreate what we think the landscape looked like 270 years ago, perhaps we should create a new future made up of vegetation types that retain more water, store more carbon, are fire resistant, are richer in biodiversity, and are resilient to the damaging effects of climate change. This might mean increasing the fraction of wet forest and rainforest in the landscape well above 1750 levels. When vegetation has more than 22% moisture, it is very unlikely to ignite (Sullivan, et al. 2012). Australian rainforests vary in mean fuel moisture content (Stewart, 1967), but in general pure rainforest angiosperm litter can contain 81% (+31%) moisture (Zimmer et al. 2015). Wet eucalypt forests in Australia can hold ~156% fuel moisture content, whereas gullies of dry rainforests can contain ~114% moisture (Nolan et al. 2016). We can use this simple logic to protect both people and nature.
While short-term, labour-intense responses, such as hazard reduction burning, are important, long-term engineering of more resilient novel ecosystems can deliver better and more sustainable outcomes for people and nature.
1. Commonwealth of Australia, "National Royal Commission into Black Summer Bushfires Established" (2020). https://www.pm.gov.au/media/national-royal-commission-black-summer-bushfires-established.
2. R. H. Nolan et al., Glob. Chang. Biol. 10.1111/gcb.14987 (2020).
3. "Australian Native Vegetation Assessment 2001" (Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2001).
4. A. L. Sullivan et al., in Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, R. A. Bradstock, A. M. Gill, Eds. (CSIRO Publishing, 2012).
5. C. M. Stewart, Nature 214, 138–140 (1967).
6. H. C. Zimmer et al., Int. J. Wildl. Fire 24, 349–360 (2015).
7. R. H. Nolan, et al., Geophys. Res. Lett. 43, 4229–4238 (2016).


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Any business or municipality understands the importance of working with professionals when they need something done. Whether the job needing to be completed entails the installation of carpeting in an office building, a new roof, parking lot, or sidewalks, the company needs to have a good reputation. If it's trustworthy, the customer can expect the highest quality of workmanship. Take a parking lot, for instance. Quite often, it takes a few years before cracks are formed in the asphalt that allows water to settle underneath eroding its base. Soon, unsightly and dangerous potholes crop up that need to be repaired. It's very important to call a well-known company with a reputation for making lasting repairs.
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Here's the Rx refill you didn't order
Is your pharmacy refilling your prescription without your knowledge or approval, and billing your insurance company for the cost? If so, it's the latest example of waste we shouldn't tolerate in our health care system.
Is your pharmacy refilling your prescription without your knowledge or approval, and billing your insurance company for the cost?
If so, it's the latest example of waste we shouldn't tolerate in our health care system.
As David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times has reported, The U.S. Justice Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, and state pharmacy regulators in California and New Jersey are investigating whether actions by CVS Caremark amount to fraud.
Now, it appears this practice may be more widespread. In Lazarus' latest Los Angeles Times column on the issue, he reports that patients are complaining the same practice is taking place at Target, Rite Aid and Walgreens pharmacies.
As Laura Etherton, health care policy analyst at Iowa PIRG's national federation says in that article, "refilling prescriptions when consumers don't need them is money down the drain."
We all know health care costs more than it should. The high cost of prescription drugs drive many consumers to shop around to find the best deal, leading to fierce competition between pharmacies.
Given that, from the pharmacy's perspective, enrolling consumers in automatic-refill programs is a smart way to build repeat business. And to be fair, these programs can be good for consumers too, especially for patients on critical maintenance drugs who are apt to miss doses between refills. Helping patients adhere to prescribed medication can help keep them healthy and out of the hospital.


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Earth Day Jokes
Q: Why are Tree Huggers bad at playing cards?
A: They like to avoid the flush.
Q: What did Obi Wan Kenobi say to the tree?
A: May the Forest be with you.
Q: Why did the leaf go to the doctor?
A: It was feeling green!
Q: What is a tree's least favorite month?
A: Sep-timber!
Q: What did the Tree Hugging hottie say to the guy in the SUV?
A: "Turning off your Engine, gets my motor humming"
Q: How do Republicans plan on fighting record high temperatures?
A: By switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius!
Q: Why does a Time Magazine survey state only 85% of Americans think global warming is happening?
A: The other 15 percent work for the oil industry!
Q: How many climate sceptics does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. It's too early to say if the light bulb needs changing.
Q: Did you hear the one about the recycling family of triplets?
A: Polly, Ethel and Ian
Q: What lies between a good recycler and a bad recycler?
A: Oregon
Q: How do oil companies deal with with oil spills?
A: Slick lawyers.
Q: What do you get when you cross an environmentalist with direct action?
A: Arrested!
Q: Why did the dog bury himself in the back yard on Earth Day?
A: Cause you can't grow a tree without bark.
Q: Why are people always tired on Earth Day?
A: Because they just finished a March
Q: How do trees get on the internet?
A: They log in.
Being unemployed has really helped to lower my carbon footprint.
In honor of Earth day, I'm sending all of my work-related emails to my "recycle" folder.
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.
Dear Earth, I hope you're enjoying your stupid DAY. Sincerely, Pluto.
"Mother Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
"The earth is what we all have in common."
On Earth Day, take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
For 300 years weve been conquering Nature. Now were beating it to death.
Only after the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
Wind Farms
'I have an obsession with wind farms.'
'Yes. I'm a huge fan.'
Organic Vegetables
A woman called her husband during the day and asked him to pick up some organic vegetables for that night's dinner on his way home.
The husband arrived at the store and began to search all over for organic vegetables before finally asking the produce guy where they were.
The produce guy didn't know what he was talking about, so the husband said: "These vegetables are for my wife. Have they been sprayed with poisonous chemicals?"
To which the produce guy replied, "No, sir, you will have to do that yourself."
Vegetable Garden
Once there was a beautiful woman who loved to work in her organic vegetable garden, but no matter what she did, she couldn't get her organic tomatoes to ripen.
Admiring her neighbor's garden, which had beautiful bright red organic tomatoes, she went one day and inquired of him his secret.
"It's really quite simple," the old man explained. "Twice each day, in the morning and in the evening, I expose myself in front of the tomatoes and they turn red with embarrassment."
Desperate for the perfect organic garden, she tried his advice and proceeded to expose herself to her plants twice daily.
Two weeks passed and her neighbor stopped by to check her progress. "So," he asked, "any luck with your tomatoes?"
"No," she replied excitedly… "but you should see the size of my cucumbers!"


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Anne Rasmussen
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Anne Rasmussen is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. In addition, she is affiliated to the Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, Professor II at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen and a Fellow at the Montesquieu Institute. She serves as a member of the executive board of the European Consortium for Political Research and is a co-convenor of the ECPR standing group on interest groups.
Personal websites & Twitter
Current research
Her current research analyzes interest groups, political representation, perceptions of public opinion, public policy, social media, gender, citizen engagement and political parties. She was the Principal Investigator of the DFF funded project SoMeRep on "Inequality in Representation" and the GovLis Project (www.govlis.eu), which linked data on interest groups, public opinion and decision-making. Currently, she's the PI of an ERC consolidator grant: "Advocacy in Digital Democracy: Use, Impact & Democratic consequences" and a project on Social Media and Political Representation funded by the Danish Research Council. Previously her research received support from organizations such as the European Commission, the European Consortium for Political Research, the British Council, the European Science Foundation and the Danish and Dutch Research Councils. A list of current and previous research projects can be found here.
Published work
Anne Rasmussen is a co-editor of Interest Groups and Advocacy and member of the editorial boards of the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Public Policy, Acta Politica, the Journal of European Integration, & European Political Science. Her work appears in several journals, including:
- British Journal of Political Science
- Comparative Political Studies
- European Integration Online Papers
- European Journal of Communication
- European Journal of Political Research
- European Political Science Review
- European Union Politics
- Interest Groups and Advocacy
- Irish Political Studies
- Journal of Common Market Studies
- Journal of European Integration
- Journal of European Public Policy
- Journal of Legislative Studies
- Journal of Public Policy
- Party Politics
- Policy Studies Journal
- Scandinavian Political Studies
- West European Politics
She has taught courses on interest representation, public policy, comparative politics, research design and methods, European Union politics and policy, and economics.


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I was very excited, for my birthday this year my wife agreed to let me tie her to our bed, gag and blindfold her, and then play freely with her body. We usually don't get too kinky, but I have a bit of a thing for watching her pussy lips spread open around objects… sometimes she lets me use her vibrator on her and it makes my dick incredibly hard to watch her tight little hole spread open around it. It's even better when she lets me use the anal attachment to it and I can watch both of her tight little holes spread open.
My wife, Dee, is incredibly beautiful; 31 years old, 5'7″ with long wavy brown hair, big hazel eyes and long sooty lashes, she has pouty pink lips that I can't see without wanting to kiss them. Her curvy body is a high school boy's dream with full 34D breasts and a slim smooth waist, with her hips flaring out so that she makes a sexy hourglass. Not only that, but lately she's started shaving her mound completely clean of hair so that I can really get a good view when we have sex and I can watch my dick slide into her wet pussy. She's just so sexy, I don't know what she's doing with a schmuck like me, I keep in good shape because I run, but I'm only an inch taller than her and I have boring mouse brown hair and dark brown eyes… but I love her dearly and I worship the ground she walks on and she knows that. Maybe that's why. I love to play with her body, and this birthday was going to be the best ever.
So in anticipation of the event, I started to amass a bit of a collection, just things that grabbed my fancy and that I thought would be interesting and fun to use on her helpless body. Going through the supermarket was the best because I found a huge cucumber, and a very bumpy round piece of yellow squash… I also picked up one of my favorite fruits, strawberries. I bet they'll taste great after being coated in her sweet pussy juices. In the hardware store, a bag of clothespins caught my eye… their grip wasn't too tight, and I wondered what they would do to her very sensitive cherry nipples… into the cart they went. At a sex store I found some clamps that were meant for nipples and clits, and I got them even though they looked a little rough to me, who knows. Maybe if she really enjoyed the clothespins I'd try them out. I also found these great little black tubes that looked kinda like what photo film comes in, when you squeezed the middle of them you could put them over a nipple and the suction would keep them on, and then you could tug on them a bit. The lady at the store let me try them out on myself, and they felt very teasing and good so I got them too, as well as a very wide and long black dildo that was supposed to have been molded off of some porn star's cock. It looked way too big to be real, but I couldn't wait to see what it looked like shoved into my wife's pussy.
That night for dinner we ate corn on the cob, and as I was shucking the corn I noticed that an ear of corn is definitely something that would fit into a woman's holes… and they're all hard and ridged… I don't have a pussy but I bet it would feel fantastic! Putting two ears off to the side – on a little smaller than the other – I didn't cook those, I just left them unshucked for the night and kept them in the fridge with the cucumber and squash.
Tomorrow's my birthday and I just can't wait.
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Damn but Dee looked good all tied up and stretched out, her wrists and ankles were each tied to a bedpost so that she was totally spread open, her hazel eyes smiling at me over the gag in her mouth before I put the blindfold on. She looked almost as excited as I was, which was encouraging, it would be interesting to see what she thought after I took the blindfold off later and she'd be able to see all the things I'd used on her helpless body… right now I still had everything hidden away and she still had no clue what escort şişli I'd planned. Out of the closet came the clamps, big dildo, little sucker tubes, and clothespins. Squeezing the center of the little sucker tube, I placed it over my wife's pink and slightly hard nipple, it immediately suctioned on to her round breast, and she wriggled a little with pleasure as I tugged gently on the cup. Doing the same to the other nipple, she did look a little strange with the tubes sticking off of her big boobs, but she was obviously enjoying it when I pulled gently on the tubes, her hips were moving up and down on the bed. Opening the nightstand drawer, I pulled out her vibrator and slid it into her already wet pussy, turning it up all the way before I left her there like that, going downstairs to get the rest of my items.
From the fridge I grabbed the cucumber, strawberries, squash, and the two ears of corn that I had shucked that afternoon. Pausing for a moment, I also grabbed our almost empty bottle of Merlot wine and opened the fridge to get a few cubes of ice… this was going to be fun.
Back in the room I lined up all the items on the nightstand but kept the two cubes of ice in my hand. Pulling the little suckers off her nipples, I could see that they were very hard and pink, and I also slid the vibrator out of her happy leaking pussy. Running the ice over her breasts, goosebumps immediately popped up and her nipples gotten even harder as she shivered a little. I covered her breasts in cold wet trails as I followed them with my mouth, giving her cold and heat as I sucked the water off of her soft breasts. Sucking hard on her nipples, I reached over and grabbed the clothespins, attaching them onto the very hard nubs. Dee gasped and squirmed a bit as they filled her nipples with pleasure and pain, her body jerked a little when I flicked the pins, making little darts of pain shoot through the tender buds. God she was beautiful.
With the last little bit of melting ice, I traced her hot wet pussy lips, cooling their heat with the cubes. Watching her shiver and twitch, I pushed the last bit of one cube into the hot hole of her pussy, and the other into her tighter ass hole… her lower body lifted off the bed as her back arched when the cold objects pushed into her body. I could tell she was turned on though, she was breathing heavily and her pussy was leaking tons of juices… grabbing a strawberry, I ran the nubby red fruit over her pussy slit, pushing it slightly into her hole before lifting it to my mouth. The sweetness of the fruit and my wife's pussy mingled deliciously, and I immediately grabbed another strawberry to repeat the process. Her hips were moving as I ran three more pieces of the small fruit up her pussy slit, and I could tell that it was a huge tease to her.
Taking the squash, I used the thin end as a handle to start pushing the bulbous part into her hot pussy, her lips pressed against her thighs as she groaned and her pussy stretched beautifully around the round part. Pushing harder, I fisted my cock with my other hand as the large bulb of the squash sank into her pink wetness; I pumped it back and forth in her, watching as she winced a little with the largeness of the vegetable's bulb, but also moving her hips back and forth as it brought pleasure to her pussy. Pulling it out, I licked along one part of it, tasting her on the yellow skin of the vegetable, then I spread her ass cheeks and slowly starting to work it into her ass. The crinkled hole stretched, almost looking whitish as she panted and heaved while her body tried to accept the huge roundish invader… her ass stretching around the large bulb looking incredible, and her pussy never stopped leaking juices down into her crack. Rubbing her clit with my other hand, I watched as her ass slowly swallowed the squash, closing over the thinner part so that escort etiler the entire bulb was lodged deep in her body, just the end of the stem sticking out of her tight hole. Damn that was hot. I squeezed my cock hard, and then let go of it… I didn't want to cum now, there were lots of devilish things left to do to my vulnerable beauty!
Taking the cucumber, I began pushing it into her pussy, so that her holes were now being stretched by two large vegetables. The ridges and bumps on the cucumber just served to arouse her more, and she panted and moved her hips as I fucked her pussy with it, the long green vegetable looking strangely erotic moving in and out of the pretty pink of her pussy. Taking hold of the stem of the squash in her ass, I began moving both in rhythm, fucking my wife with the foreign objects… it didn't take long before she was cumming all over the vegetables… and the sight of her creaming herself all over these strange implements was too much for my raging hard dick. Putting my hand around it to try and stop the arousal, I came, spurting jets of cum over her body, covering her stomach and tits with white stickiness…
Oh well. I'd probably get turned on again as I used more toys on her. She just looked so damn good, panting heavily and flushed with vegetables sticking out of her holes. But, it was time to pull them out, he had lots of other things to stretch her open with. Pushing the smaller of the ears of corn into her hole, still sensitive from her recent orgasm, she moaned while the ridges ran pleasantly over her pussy, and I twisted it a little so that she could get the full effect. Assured that the ear was now well lubricated, I pulled it from her and placed just the tip of it into her ass. Grabbing the other ear of corn, I placed the tip of the larger one and placed it at her pussy hole. Pushing them both in simultaneously, I twisted them around so that her holes were massaged with the tiny nubs covering the ears, ridges sliding pleasantly over her insides. To my intense pleasure she came again as I slid the ears in, twisting them back and forth in her body as she shook and cried out. Reaching up, I pulled the clothespins off her nipples and she wailed even harder behind her gag, her body thrashing against the ropes that held her down as she orgasmed. After watching the corn slid up her sweet holes, watching her cum again was getting my dick really hard…
I was ecstatic, knowing how sensitive her pussy gets… every time she cums it gets stronger and stronger until it's actually painful for her, a kind of sensory overload, a couple times I've even made her pass out with the pleasure. With all the things I was planning on doing to her, it looked like this might be one of those nights. Twisting the ears of corn inside her body, I watched as her orgasm took a long time to finish while she jerked and heaved, her nipples an angry pointy red from their time spent in the clothespins.
I took the ears of corn from her holes, and then decided to push the larger one into her ass, watching it stretch over the ridges as she shuddered while her asshole was pushed open around the fruit. It looked very good going in, and I bet those ridges in that tight hole felt fantastic. Reaching up for the big black dildo, I couldn't help but pull those pretty and sore nipples into my mouth, licking them with my tongue and sucking hard. Arching her back, Dee pushed her breasts further towards my mouth, she's such a slut for attention to her breasts. I bit down on them gently before pulling away and resuming my activities between her slender legs.
Carefully I placed the extremely large round black head of the dildo at her pussy, it looked very large next to her delicate folds, and the dark color against the creaminess of her mound and the pink of her pussy looked very exciting. Pressing the dildo in a couple bayan escort taksim of inches, I watched while her head thrashed and those beautiful breasts bounced, the dildo was just as wide as the cucumber, but actually longer, a full foot long in fact. I wanted to get as much of it into her pussy as possible. Taking it slowly, I worked the big black rubber dick in and out of her pussy, occasionally pumping the ear of corn in her tight ass. I couldn't believe it as her pussy slowly stretched to swallow the whole length of the big dildo, I was sure it was deep in her body in places I've never been able to explore before. The thought got me incredibly hot and my own dick was back to being rock hard as I began pumping my wife's body with the monster cock, really slamming it into her hard. She was started the make the sexiest noises of pure sensual enjoyment as I pounded her pussy with the huge dong, her breasts waved wildly on her chest as her pussy was stretched wide open and filled with the most massive thing to enter it yet.
It didn't take long for her to start cumming again, and this was a good one, I could tell because it went on for a very long time, and when she finally stopped, she still twitched as I pushed the dildo in and out of her pussy. She was definitely getting close to where the pleasure would completely over come her, I could tell she was getting exhausted from the constant demands I was putting on her body (not to mention to constant pleasure!). I pulled the dildo from her pussy, and took the wine bottle. Shivering, her body shuddered as I pushed the cool class neck up her tender hole, and I knew that she was still very close to yet another overpowering orgasm. Tilting the bottle up, I started to fill her pussy with the little bit of wine that was left in the bottle, as the cool liquid spilled into her hot hole she started cumming again, and I immediately pulled the bottle neck from her and threw my mouth between her legs, drinking the wine as it spilled from her pussy. As my tongue lapped up the sweetness of her wine flavored pussy, her orgasm tripled and she arched so hard against my mouth that I thought she was going to levitate.
Determined, I wrapped my hands under her buttocks to place her at the best height and continued eating her out, drinking all the sweet juices and wine that flowed from her body as she continued to cum. I could tell when she passed out because her body stopped heaving as much and was mostly just convulsing and twitching. But I kept eating her out until she came to again, still in the throes of an intense multiple orgasm. She whined, high pitched, as I twisted the corn in her ass and licked her quivering flesh.
I decided that the nipple clamps would just have to wait for another time, and I ripped off her blindfold and gag as I buried myself in her stretched, wet, sweet, hot pussy and began pounding my dick into her vulnerable and pleasured body.
"OH MY GOD!!" she screamed, finally able to voice her passion with the gag gone from her mouth, I reached beneath our heaving bodies and started to twist the ear of corn in her ass, feeling the ridges massage my own dick in her pussy, "OH MY GOD!! GREG WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME??!! OH GOD I'M CUMMING AGAIN!! I CAN'T STOP CUMMING!! OH FUCK!! OH GOD!! IT HURTS… OH GOD I'M CUMMING AND IT HURTS SO GOOD!!"
Her randy words and the convulsing of her pussy around my cock while the ear of corn in her ass massaged my shaft just completely blew my mind away. I blew my load as she creamed herself on my thrusting dick, sending spurts of white sticky cum into her hot hole.
Afterwards, I lay on top of her, we were both covered in my cum from the first load that I'd covered her stomach and chest in, and her pussy was still twitching and heaving. Finally I kissed her lips, "Thank you honey… I love you so much."
"I love you to," she told me, smiling, exhausted, and wincing a little as I pulled my ass from her overused pussy and the ear of corn from her ass, "But what the hell did you do to me?" Her eyes were wide as she looked over the wide array of items that had been used on her body.
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I'm so glad you're here! "The Art of Life" is where I share my journey as an artist & Momma. It's a place where I hope to encourage other women that they are artists too. In this small little space I seek to share, document, and be reminded of God's wonderful grace, all around us. ....And I would be so happy to have you journey alongside me! So grab a cup of coffee and linger for a while. I hope you leave feeling refreshed.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Sailor Girl~Illustration
~~Yay! Another illustration to share with you all. I was happy with the "vintage feel" that came out in this piece.
As always, thoughts and opinions are welcomed. :)
Posted by Kasie @ ~The Art of Life~
Labels: My Artwork
6 comments:
- Hattie said...
Your vintage look illustrations are absolutely adorable! What talent you have and you do a wonderful job expressing it.
- April 22, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- Belinda Lindhardt said...
Beautiful Kasie :)
Love the new blog look as well, are these for something specific or just for fun ?
They are beautiful regardless :)
- April 22, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- Valerie Jones said...
Too, too cute!
I like your new blog look also.
- April 22, 2009 at 7:43 PM
- Valaine said...
Wonderful illustrations! They are so cute, and look like they are fun to paint. :)
- April 22, 2009 at 8:46 PM
- Jo Castillo said...
Ah, she is so special. Great stuff.
- April 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- misti said...
Your illustrations are beautiful! I also love your new layout! :)
- April 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM
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Cryptocurrency Supervision Will Enter One of SEC's Priority Areas in 2020
Digital assets along with other innovative financial technologies will be a priority for control in 2020. This is stated in the annual report of the Legal Compliance Review Department (OCIE) of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The regulator intends to monitor the offer, sale, trade and management of digital assets, as well as their compliance with the definition of a security and existing regulatory standards.
Also, verification of cryptocurrency companies registered with the SEC will continue.
"The development of financial technologies, methods of capital formation and alternative data sources require maintaining supervision in this area," the OCIE emphasized.
At the end of 2019, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton called the agency's approach to cryptocurrency regulation "balanced" and protecting investors.
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As the most junior of his office's five pathologists, Bennet Omalu had to work weekends. One Saturday in September 2002, he saw on TV that everyone was talking about a great football player who died unexpectedly at age 50: Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame center Mike Webster.
"I went to work and, lo and behold, who was on my autopsy table? Mike Webster," Omalu said. "I asked, 'Who was Mike Webster?' People looked at me like I was an extraterrestrial. It's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and he doesn't know who Mike Webster is."
Omalu, who grew up in Nigeria with little knowledge of American football, then conducted an autopsy that would change his life — and send shockwaves throughout the world of football with the finding of chronic traumatic brain injury.
Thirteen years later, the UC Davis pathologist finds himself again in the spotlight because of his diagnosis. On Dec. 25, "Concussion," a major motion picture starring Will Smith, will be released. It focuses on the life and work of Omalu, the first to report cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in professional football players, wrestlers, other high-impact contact sports athletes and military war veterans.
Pursuit of education
Omalu was born in Nigeria. At 26, after completing medical school and becoming a doctor, he left his country because of its corruption. He immigrated to the U.S., filled with youthful idealism.
Omalu became a pathologist in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and furthered his studies — earning an MBA at Carnegie Mellon University, master's in public health from the University of Pittsburgh and four board certifications in pathology. His dad encouraged him to use his education to make a difference in people's lives.
"I thought education was the key, that education was power," Omalu said.
Uncovering chronic trauma
A Catholic who believes his dead patients still are alive in spirit, Omalu was disturbed by accounts about Webster's problems — which ranged from debt to depression — and by what he saw during Webster's autopsy.
"He was 50 years old. He looked much older — like he was in his 70s," Omalu said. "I walked up to Mike Webster and said in my heart, 'you look like you were sick. Guide me. I think you were a victim.' I opened up his brain and got the shock of my life: Mike Webster's brain looked normal."
Frustrated, he investigated further. Looking at a slide of Webster's brain under a microscope, Omalu saw amyloid plaques everywhere. It resembled what is seen in Alzheimer's disease, although it was not exactly the pattern of Alzheimer's disease.
"He is 50 years old. Why should I see these changes in his brain?" Omalu said. "I was ready to dig deeper. I spent six months with that brain."
He reviewed the literature and found nothing there. He showed his results to colleagues. He thought this was a sentinel case. He named it chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
"Chronic means something long term; trauma – associated with trauma; and encephalopathy simply means a bad brain," Omalu said.
More cases
Then came a second case, former Steelers lineman Terry Long, who committed suicide at 45; and a third case, former Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals safety Andre Waters, who committed suicide at 44.
"That was when professional football woke up from their slumber. They took notice," Omalu said. But rather than rally around Omalu's findings in a search for answers, the sport's biggest boosters were angered by the implication that football was unsafe. "I was marginalized. I was ridiculed. People said on national TV that I was practicing voodoo."
Stung by the criticism, Omalu published papers about the cases but wanted to stop his work in the field. He changed his mind after several football players contacted him and asked how to protect themselves from CTE.
CTE testing
"We started looking for ways to test football players," Omalu said.
Omalu and UCLA colleagues received funding to study five retired professional football players to help detect and track the disease in living people. Aided by a chemical marker called FDDNP, they used a brain-imaging tool to identify the abnormal tau proteins associated with this type of repetitive injury. A second study included 14 retired professional football players. They hope to do a phase three clinical trial.
While the majority of athletes with evidence of CTE have played amateur or professional football, the disorder also has been found in the brains of deceased soldiers who suffered traumatic brain injuries, as well as in hockey players, wrestlers and boxers.
"I have been vindicated," said Omalu, who wants to see more research on CTE and hopes for a cure.
Omalu left Pittsburgh in 2007 for the quiet of California's Central Valley to become San Joaquin County's chief medical examiner and soon joined UC Davis as an associate clinical pathology professor.
"UC Davis has given me the opportunity and support that I needed," Omalu said. "They welcomed me and made me feel at home. I'm deeply, deeply grateful."
Hollywood calling
Five years ago, Omalu got a call from someone who read his story and wanted to make a film with a major Hollywood studio.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Omalu, who consulted on the movie, which has been his focus the past two years.
He gives high marks to "Concussion."
"It's a wonderful movie," Omalu said. "The major objective of the movie is to highlight the need for education. When you make decisions regarding high-impact sports, you need to make an educated decision."
Public forum
UC Davis will host a public event from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the UC Davis MIND Institute, 2825 50th St., Sacramento, to discuss ways to identify, prevent and treat concussion and traumatic brain injury.
Speakers include UC Davis associate clinical pathology professor Bennet Omalu, who first reported cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in professional football players; the story of his discovery is the subject of the upcoming movie "Concussion" starring Will Smith. Also hear from other UC Davis specialists at the forefront of brain-injury research, diagnosis and treatment. To RSVP, call (916) 734-9450 or email email@example.com.


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Food safety watchdog group, The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CPSI) just announced that it filed a regulatory petition asking the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to deem "f<"https://www.yourlawyer.com/practice_areas/food_poisoning">our antibiotic-resistant Salmonella strains as adulterants in ground meat and poultry†the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) wrote.
To reclassify these strains as adulterants means that testing would be mandated on these pathogens, enabling products contaminated with the strains to be recalled sooner, noted CIDRAP. The four strains are: Salmonella Heidelberg, Newport, Hadar, and Typhimurium. All have been linked with foodborne illness outbreaks, CIDRAP added.
Salmonella Hadar contaminated turkey burgers earlier this year; 12 people in 10 states were sickened, according to the most recent information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), wrote CIDRAP. Also, a 2009 outbreak of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Newport was associated with Cargill beef; about 40 people in four states were sickened said the CSPI.
Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director for CSPI, said, "The research shows that antibiotic-resistant Salmonella in ground meat and poultry is a hazard, and it's time to move to a more preventive system of controlling the risks at the plant and on the farm," quoted CIDRAP. The petition notes that in 1994, the USDA deemed Escherichia coli O157:H7 an adulterant via interpretive rules, not rulemaking, and can use this process again to ensure consumer protection of the very dangerous, sometimes deadly, drug-resistant Salmonella pathogen, said CIDRAP. CSPI noted that these drug-resistant strains pose public health risks similar to the deadly E coli O157:H7 pathogen.
A spokeswoman from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), told CIDRAP that when it receives a regulatory petition, it reviews the requests and make a decision, noting that it also considers comments. Once the review is complete, FSIS will advise the petitioner in writing, placing the petition and comments in the FSIS "docket room†and website, said CIDRAP.
Stephen A. Lerner, MD, an infectious disease expert at Wayne State University in Detroit, was quoted in the press release as urging for a reduction to human exposure to drug-resistant Salmonella. "Our critically important antibiotics are losing effectiveness, and they aren't being replaced by new ones. We must do all that we can to reduce antibiotic-resistant infections from food," quoted CIDRAP
The CSPI said these resistant strains are linked to antibiotic overuse and misuse in feed animals. As we wrote yesterday, we have long warned about this issue and the implications of these dangerous practices to human populations when livestock is over-treated with these powerful medications. We also recently wrote that criticism of this practice is growing, with some in the Obama administration describing the trend as hazardous.
The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a number of its allies—including CSPI and Food Animal Concerns Trust, Public Citizen, and the Union of Concerned Scientists—also just filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put an end to ubiquitous antibiotic use in animal feed, saying this dangerous habit is adding to the issue of drug resistance and superbugs. The lawsuit does not call for any changes in the use of antibiotics to treat ill animals.
The groups asked the FDA to ban nontherapeutic penicillin and tetracycline use in animal feed and to respond to prior, years-long pending petitions seeking this withdrawal with other antibiotics. Pointing out that about 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. are used by farms to increase animal growth and offset filthy living conditions, the group explained that, because livestock is treated with very low doses of the potent drugs, diseases are not being treated, but bacteria remain, growing and becoming antibiotic resistant. This enables bacteria to outsmart antibiotics and to survive, thrive, and strengthen beyond the ability of existing drugs to eradicate them.


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Good morning, I hope everyone had as wonderful a Christmas as I did. It was a little bit different this year and quite but when you spend it with someone you love it is always blessed. Normally we go back to the Midwest to see our kids but this year we did it at Thanksgiving. No matter when we go it seems that the holidays just fly by.
With the holidays my schedule is off a bit and I am having a wee bit of a time trying to figure out what day it is. So I am going to post today the lovely treasuries that featured items this past week from PostcardsInTheAttic and ButterflyInTheAttic.
Thank you to my teammates at etsy for creating these...
Monday, December 26, 2011
Weekly Treasury Overview
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I am a true romantic; I love old Victorian and dream in technicolor. I hunt treasures with passion; whether it is a collection of old postcards at an auction or a crystal hidden in the sand.
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Hi! I'm a new follower from the Promotions Team on Etsy! Those are all nice treasuries.
- December 27, 2011 at 3:55 PM
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Seesaw has recently released a number of interesting features that will help you create engaging learning experiences in your class. Seesaw users are now able to "add videos to the canvas; add links to shapes, labels, and pictures on the canvas; use draw+ record across multiple pages; and access enhanced post views". Watch the video below to learn more about these new features.
For those of you new to SeeSaw, this is an educational platform that helps students showcase their own learning using a wide variety of creative tools. For instance, students can use it to build their own portfolios and share their learning progress with their teachers and parents. SeeSaw also provides teachers with a space where they can track students' work and provide "differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all students". Similarly, using the Parent and Family app , up up to ten families can connect and view students work.
SeeSaw also offers educational resources to support remote learning. These include resources for administrators, teachers, and families.


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At Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, orphaned bonobos are rescued from the illegal trade in wildlife. Bonobos are nursed back to health and cared for as long as needed, sometimes for the rest of their lives. Bonobos who are able are released back to the wild.
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Bonobos are illegally hunted for their meat. After the families are killed, babies are orphaned and sold as pets.
At Lola ya Bonobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we have a team of caregivers for rescued bonobos.
Bonobos are healed with the love and attention of their substitute human mothers, a dedicated veterinarian and the amazing staff. Bonobos love deeply, and bonobo babies would not survive without their caring substitute bonobo moms.
The sanctuary name says it all: Lola ya Bonobo means "Paradise for Bonobos" in Lingala, the predominant language of the DRC.
Rewild and Protect
Ekolo ya Bonobo Community Reserve is the world's only bonobo release site.
Here, bonobos are released back into the wild and provided comprehensive and long-term protection. We conserve their rainforest home and work with local communities to reduce poverty, provide healthcare and education, and raise bonobo awareness.
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Bonobos are primarily killed for bushmeat. The root cause of the bushmeat trade is extreme poverty. We work with communities living near bonobos to build a better future through conservation instead of the bushmeat trade.


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Friday, November 27, 2009
ICU Hop Bars
" Throwing hop bars, while waiting till your pedals get to 6 and 12, makes you look like an ICU patient".
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Originally, calico was printed by hand. The cloth was stretched across a printing table, wound round a roller at each end so that the cloth could be wound on ready for the next length to be printed. The printer had a child helper, a 'tierer', who dipped a small brush in a pot of colour, then brushed the liquid colour evenly onto a sieve or drum floating on a bed of water. The printer then placed an engraved wooden block or copper plate (with a handle on the back), onto the sieve so that it picked up the dye. The block was then pressed firmly onto the fabric to create a pattern. Block-printing was a slow process; it could take all day to produce just six pieces of cloth printed with a plain pattern
The first recorded calico printer in Manchester is William Jordan, 'callique-printer' at Little Green in 1763; the trade in Lancashire gained a strong foothold the following year at Clayton's factory in Bamber Bridge, near Preston.
The days of block printing were numbered when roller or cylinder-printing was patented by Thomas Bell in 1783. A rotating cylinder was dipped into a trough of colour dye; next, a long steel rule or 'doctor' removed excess colour from the cylinder. The cloth to be printed was pressed against the dye on the engraved cylinder by means of a roller, so that the pattern was continuously printed on it as it moved along. Children were employed in the print-work factories, too.
Now hundreds of pieces of cloth could be printed in a day.
Hoyle's Mayfield works at Manchester employed over 200 workers in the 1830s, including over 40 children; the children earned 2s 6d per week when learning the trade, then 3s 6d when 'fully instructed.'
You can find out more about the lives of child printworkers in my book The Children History Forgot, and the Lancashire textile industry here.
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Learn the concepts of Blockchain
Learn to build smart contracts
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This course is all about learning various Machine Learning and Blockchain Workbench on Microsoft AZURE cloud platform.
Machine learning and cloud computing are trending domains and also have lot of job opportunities, if you have interest in machine learning as well as cloud computing then this course for you. This course will let you use your machine learning skills deploy in cloud. There are various cloud platform but only few are popular like Azure, AWS, IBM Bluemix and GCP.
Microsoft Azure a cloud platform where we will going to deploy machine learning skills.
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