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Thursday, 1 December 2011
Maybe you got this in your inbox too.
George Orwell
When the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Is this man truly a genius? Checked out and this is true...it DID happen!
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
My comment:
Can you really believe that any university would really do that? Can you believe any group of students would all return a paper with an opinion opposite to that of their professor? Did Obama really say: 'no one will be rich and no one will be poor'?
In this society there is a such inequity because we do not value the work of people who clean hospital floors for $4 an hour but do value a director of Lehmann Brothers who gives himself a $30 million bonus for dreaming up yet another way to siphon off more wealth through dodgy accounting. Who is offering value for money? Do you really think the cleaning lady could ever become a director of Lehman Brothers because of the rewards that offers?
Perhaps if George Bush's tax break billionaires paid their fair share of tax, she might be paid enough to not need food stamps and maybe put her kids through university and surely a million or two for sitting around a board table is enough, and like her, only if he performs.
Nobody is suggesting everyone gets the same rewards, just that the extremes are pulled in a bit so more of the pie can be shared. That seems to me what Obama wants, but propaganda like the above with it dishonest and simplistic message is paid for by the very rich to influence voters and it works. I wonder how many cleaning ladies can pay a PR company to flood the internet with such crap!
How about we send this quote out to Republicans and Tea Party members?
H.L. Mencken said: "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple--and wrong."
82 comments:
Stafford, try "Truth or Fiction" or "Snopes Urban Legends Reference Page" to run down this kind of crap. I often do this and send the results to people who send me such garbage, but they never get around to acknowledging their error.ReplyDelete
Snow, I had a trawl through 'Snopes" and it is an eye opener. It seems many of the 'urban legends' originate from wannabe politicians desperate for an issue. Perhaps we should check on any such claims before we vote!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2011 at 8:34 am
Sadly I know field loads of people who get fed this propaganda all the time and they believe it - over here it comes neatly packaged in the Daily Mail, middle Englands favourite read.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 December 2011 at 8:35 am
Snopes is great! Thanks for this Stafford - brilliantly argued. I hate the propoganda that gets emailed from 'friends' and even popped in your letterbox. This sort of stuff and racist stuff (one of the mums at school gave a racist slip of paper to everyone, telling how the muslims were going to take over the world - totally ignorant crap based on made up bodgy statistics, but people will believe that stuff).ReplyDelete
An excellent commentary, Stafford. Unfortunately, too many people would never read as far as your postscript. They fall victim to the simplistic argument every time - especially (dare I say it) in the USA, it seems. Part of the blame, surely, is that all the major free-to-air TV stations there are commercial. Except in a major crisis, where coverage can be phenomenal, most US news reports are so dismal, they're not worth watching. But don't get me started......ReplyDelete
The recent Qantas fiasco is a good example.ReplyDelete
'The rank and file can't have an increase in pay, but we on the board will have us a nice raise in our salaries.'
I know who I'd rather get more money - the people who keep the bloody planes in the air.
The same goes for teachers, nurses, cops etc. They are all underpaid.
At least here we don't have to rely on tips to make up wages.
It seems that is the limit of the comments, few but high on quality. Thanks everyone for your thoughts.ReplyDelete
It seems the economy is no longer designed by the people to serve the people. It is now designed by a few to serve themselves and most of us are expected to serve Their Economy!
- Anonymous2 December 2011 at 9:38 am
There is so much paranoia and fear surrounding politics at the moment. The problems in society aren't caused by things like socialism, they're caused by corporate bodgyism (I just coined that phrase, do you like it?) and a focus on consumerism. There is a lot of inequity and I think people are sick of it. There is no argument in the world that can convince me that giving your banking CEO a 30 million dollar bonus and 6 months later having that same bank expect a government bailout, is right. But my objection to it doesn't alter the fact it is happening.ReplyDelete
The media and government put so much rhetoric out there regarding economies crashing and never recovering if big corporations aren't given assistance. And to a certain extent that is true but look at what's about to happen in Europe and the UK - CRASH BABY CRASH. Much worse than before. And the US isn't far behind.
I don't have the answers - if I did I'd be Queen Of The World - but it sure doesn't help when you watch the US Republican race and there is so much focus on being against abortion, Muslims and gay marriage. What about your economy and the fact it's about to tank? What about your homeless problem and the fact that a vast majority of your population can't afford to go to the doctor? But if you drill for oil in Alaska or even the Grand Canyon all will be well, right? Those Republicans are totally missing the point almost as much as Tony Abbott is.
Talk about frustrating. I can see why people run away to join the circus. Good grief!!!
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Hi Selma! Join the circus? How could you explain current political shenanigans if politicians were not clowns and we were not trapped in a circus!? Good grief!!!ReplyDelete
Most people seem to miss the point that it was the professor who decided to give all the students the same grade. He represents either the extreme liberal who calls for every one to have the same pay, or the ultra conservative who decided that he should be the only one who benefits.ReplyDelete
dfish, of course you are right, of course it is the latter. Here were recently flooded with $110m worth of advertising by big overseas owned miners who predicted huge job losses, loss of government revenue etc. etc. because our government wanted to tax their use of our non-renewable resources. No sooner had our government basically backed down, than Rio Tinto (70%) foreign owned posted a half year profit of 17 billion!ReplyDelete
Poor dears, of course we must continue to subsidise them so they can continue to rape our resources and expatriate more cash than many countries' total revenue.
This tactic worked everywhere governments attempted to impose a resource rent tax and it worked here. We are the losers in this global Monopoly game until we have the guts to call their bluff.
- Anonymous15 February 2012 at 2:41 am
I just received the email and did the Snopes search before finding your response which I totally resonate with. I have a Red-Neck, Blue Collar, Racist Step-Father who regularly passes junk email of this kind and he thinks it is clever and profound.ReplyDelete
I believe that some of the best measures of Internet fluff/myth is how big the font is, whether it is bolded and the last line is pushing one to share this morsel of intellectual excellence with the world (with a little red-neck, Republican ideology thrown in for good measure).
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Why printing your pictures is so important.
Why Printing Your Pictures Is So Important
I'll bet you have used your phone to take a picture of your family this week? You might have used your phone camera today, you maybe even use your camera every day. It has never been easier to take photographs – we all carry a camera in our telephone. And yet our children have fewer and fewer physical prints to hold and look at.
When I was a child and even now as an adult I love looking through an old tin of photographs my Grandma kept. Mostly there was writing on the back with names I didn't recognise and dates from long before I was born. There were very formal black and white photographs mounted on fancy card that were obviously taken in Victorian photography studios – solemn family faces and soldiers in uniform. It felt like I was looking at a mysterious forgotten time and I loved looking at the clothing, the old vehicles in the background and seeing how my gran looked as a young woman. It was like I was time travelling. I could spend hours in that tin of photographs and chatting with gran about the people, places and times they pictured.
Imagine if those precious memories were instead sitting on something that needed a machine to let me see them. A machine that was around in the 40's or even the 70's. Even if my gran had kept the machines I'd needed, would just seeing them hold the same magic for me. Definitely not.
So have a think about where you store your own family photographs. Are they on your mobile phone? A hard drive? CD's? Mini discs? (remember those!?) Floppy discs? You get my point – technology is changing so rapidly that it can be difficult to keep up. The must-have storage of today is archived in favour of something new every few years.
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How can cities restore green spaces without displacing low-income residents?
March 23, 2018
There's a long list of factors that have contributed to the housing shortage in California. There's the tech boom, outdated laws and regulations, and the lack of low-income housing. Oh, and the absurd basic cost of living. But one of the little discussed factors driving up the price of housing in California is something that may seem benign to most. The restoration of land in order to create environmentally friendly green spaces is causing housing prices to surge and longtime residents to be displaced.
Efforts to create "walkable cities" have left urban spaces in the hands of developers. Areas that were once considered "blighted" are now seeing the restoration of native plants, efforts to rehabilitate natural habitats, and the "daylighting" of buried urban creeks and streams. But these changes come with a price tag.
And the cost of redevelopment isn't just a bill Californians are paying. All across the country, low-income residents are heading to the suburbs, as the price of housing in the inner city skyrockets.
However, there is a way to go about cultivating healthier living spaces, without pushing residents out.
In 2012, Winifred Curran published the case study, "Just green enough: contesting environmental gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn." In the study, she examines a different model of urban redevelopment. In the Greenpoint community, longtime residents were actively involved in the reshaping their neighborhood. According to Curran, "The neighborhood residents and business owners seem to be advocating a strategy we call 'just green enough,' in order to achieve environmental remediation without environmental gentrification."
And with that, she became credited with coining the term "just green enough."
But Greenpoint, Brooklyn is a rare case, as Jennifer Wolch pointed out two years later in her paper "Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities 'just green enough'."
Wolch, a professor of urban planning and dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, writes: "The 'just green enough' strategy depends on the willingness of planners and local stakeholders to design green space projects that are explicitly shaped by community concerns, needs, and desires rather than either conventional urban design formulae or ecological restoration approaches. Replacing these market-driven or ecological approaches with 'just green enough' strategies is especially challenging, typically requiring community activism."
In a conversation with Wolch, she said that she hasn't exactly seen the "just green enough" model in the Bay Area, but she has seen something similar. "Right now you're seeing the resilience by design strategy," said Wolch.
Wolch said the Ford Foundation has recently funded teams of people — engineers, architects, landscape designers, and more — to work on 10 locations that organizers had identified as high-priority development sites. Wolch said that it's not just about drawing up blueprints for housing and planting native agriculture. "Part of the process has been heavy community outreach."
While contacting the community to see what needs or wants people have when it comes to redevelopment sounds ideal, there's a major hurdle in having the general population involved in the planning process: capacity.
"When you have a community that isn't really organized, the lack of institutional structure causes them to not really respond very well," said Wolch. "It takes capacity building. How do we get communities to be able to respond for themselves?"
In a forthcoming piece for the 2018 California Fellowship, I am going to look at how community members are organizing to have a say in the redevelopment of their neighborhoods, and how the Bay Area is applying the philosophy of making a community "just green enough."
I'll explore places such as San Leandro, where a Bay Area Air Quality District urban planner is trying to revitalize a historic creek with neighborhood involvement — and without impacting the cost of living in the neighborhood. I'll also look at Richmond, where a nonprofit director reports that residents worry they're just cleaning up their creeks for other people to enjoy. And I'll take a look into my hometown of Oakland, where the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project is doing work to retain residents and enhance the quality of the environment. I'll also consider initiatives in places like Marin City (Shore Up Marin), Hunter's Point (Literacy for Environmental Justice), and East Palo Alto (Canopy).
The studies, data analysis and the narrative of those who've been impacted firsthand will be paired with a separate data reporting project that will examine the link between cleanup efforts and restoration initiatives, and the impact they have on housing prices and apartment rents over the last 20 years in the Bay Area.
The aim of this piece is to interweave elements of health care, environmentalism and housing prices, as well as income and racial discrimination, in an effort to create a dialogue that will bring about policies that protect not only nature, but the humans who call these habitats home as well.
The piece will be published in the summer of 2018, through Bay Nature magazine.
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Mikocka-Walus, Antonina, Fielder, Andrea, Prady, Stephanie L., Esterman, Adrian J., Knowles, Simon, and Andrews, Jane M. (2017) Adjuvant therapy with antidepressants for the management of inflammatory bowel disease (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 7. CD012680.
Ireland, C.J., Fielder, A.L., Thompson, S.K., Laws, T.A., Watson, D.I., and Esterman, A. (2017) Development of a risk prediction model for Barrett's esophagus in an Australian population. Diseases of the Esophagus, 30 (11).
Pelentsov, Lemuel J., Fielder, Andrea, Laws, Thomas A., and Esterman, Adrian J. (2016) Development of the parental needs scale for rare diseases: a tool for measuring the supportive care needs of parents caring for a child with a rare disease. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 9. pp. 425-433.
Sharp, Rebecca, Grech, Carol, Fielder, Andrea, Mikocka-Walus, Antonina, and Esterman, Adrian (2016) Vein diameter for peripherally inserted catheter insertion: a scoping review. Journal of the Association for Vascular Access, 21 (3). pp. 166-175.
Crawford-Williams, Fiona, Fielder, Andrea, Mikocka-Walus, Antonina, and Esterman, Adrian (2015) A critical review of public health interventions aimed at reducing alcohol consumption and/or increasing knowledge among pregnant women. Drug and Alcohol Review, 34 (2). pp. 154-161.
Crawford-Willilams, Fiona, Fielder, Andrea, Mikocka-Walus, Antonina, Esterman, Adrian, and Steen-Greaves, Mary (2015) Does the poor quality of Australian health education documentation undermine the message? A review of documents informing pregnant women about alcohol. Evidence Based Midwifery, 13 (2). pp. 40-46.
Sharp, Rebecca, Cummings, Melita, Fielder, Andrea, Mikocka-Walus, Antonina, Grech, Carol, and Esterman, Adrian (2015) The catheter to vein ratio and rates of symptomatic venous thromboembolism in patients with a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC): a prospective cohort study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52 (3). pp. 677-685.
Sharp, Rebecca, Grech, Carol, Fielder, Andrea, Mikocka-Walus, Antonina, Cummings, Melita, and Esterman, Adrian (2014) The patient experience of a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC): a qualitative descriptive study. Contemporary Nurse, 48 (1). pp. 26-35.


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|Originally posted by wayneb
Well done for getting your art on the album, Ritchie. I liked the stuff on your site.
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You guys want a sneak peek at the credits?
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Miss out on our "Dig Here Said the Angel" Vinyl Kickstarter? Well, we've added the limited edition vinyl pressings to our store page! They won't be ready to ship for a little while still, but they will ship as soon as they arrive from the printer. These are signed & numbered, colored vinyl double LPs in a gatefold sleeve. Don't miss out!
|Originally posted by wayneb
It's a great album, for sure. I guess that I will be waiting a long time for my autographed CD to be sent here to NZ, but I will see if I can get a review done for one of the magazines here. There are other DA fans around, I know.
We still have a big Christian music festival here (Parachute) that attracts around 20,000 people each year. Steve Taylor was here as a guest speaker this year and Randy Stonehill as a performer last year. Will the boys come Down Under? Bring the Dogs, The 77's and the Choir as well! (Hoi Polloi reformed and played here this year to a small crowd). Dreams, dreams, dreams.....
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Is that list of artwork contributors a list of all contributors, or just those that were used in the artwork?
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Another day, another unusual health claim sweeping the Internet. Today, it's that toothpaste slathered on your breasts can make your boobs bigger.
Yes, you read that right.
One YouTube user who goes by the name Editorial Naturalbeauty556 recently shared a video titled "Tighten Sagging Breast in Just 5 Days Using Toothpaste No Joke." In the video, she claims that mixing up a combo of toothpaste, flour, egg whites, and cucumber and applying it to your breasts will firm up your boobs.
According to Editorial Naturalbeauty556, toothpaste "helps shrink pores and it also helps to tighten up the skin." (Her video has received 7.7 million views.)
A YouTube account called Susana Home Remedies also posted a video claiming that putting Vaseline on your boobs and toothpaste on your nipples will help them firm up and can make your boobs bigger by increasing "the cup size of your breasts." The video recommends using it "nightly" until you see results. (This one has received over three million views.)
Read: 15 things you didn't know you could do with vaseline.
These are just two of many, many videos on YouTube where people try variations of this hack to get firmer, larger breasts.
So: Does toothpaste help increase breast firmness and size?
Not so much, says women's health expert Jennifer Wider, M.D. "It may give a temporary feeling of tightness when the toothpaste dries, but that will quickly disappear when you wash off the toothpaste," she says. Ditto for Vaseline – it might moisturise the skin on your boobs, but that's about it.
The only thing this will do is give you minty-fresh boobs, Wider says.
Read: Does toothpaste really work on spots?
Most women should have no side effects, but some might have skin irritation or contact dermatitis, a skin rash caused by contact with certain substances (in this case, toothpaste), Wider says.
It should be noted that Naturalbeauty556 has a disclaimer below her toothpaste video, stating:
'The information provided on this video is for general purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. I am not a licensed professional so make sure to consult with your professional consultant in case you need to.'
If you want to have firmer-looking boobs, Wider recommends wearing a the best sports bra possible (one that's supportive and comfortable) and doing upper body exercises to tone your chest muscles and give your boobs a slight lift. And save your toothpaste for your teeth.
This feature first appeared on Women's Health US.
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Lower interest rates will not hurt South African banks' profit margins in the long term, a study by global business advisory andauditing firm Ernst & Young has found.
Released on Monday, the study, Financial Services Operators in a Low Inflation Environment, investigated the effect of a long-term decline in inflation rates on the South African banking industry's profit growth path.
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Beacons in a team's branded mobile app
Today many businesses rely on vast retail spaces. As shops continue to grow, stocking more and more products, the busy shoppers often don't have time to explore the large brick-and-mortar kingdoms to find what they're looking for. When it comes to sports teams, the problem gets bigger. Fans want to quickly find their seats in big, crowded sports arenas. They would prefer to spend time on any other activity instead of setting out to the game well ahead of time to comfortably take their seats. The saving solution lies in using beacons, the leading geofencing and navigation technology. A team apps for clubs and leagues should embrace beacons for reasons that go beyond comfortable navigation for fans. The technology will kickstart the transformation of the sports arena, as we know it, into smart stadiums which would heavily rely on technology to create new marketing and fan engagement opportunities.
Branded team apps and customizable notifications
Content runs the modern world, informing and entertaining us. Nevertheless, there is too much information around us, and most of it is far from meaningful. Finding the right video or news piece often becomes tiresome and time-consuming. Since the sports business is as eventful as the movie industry, spot-on content delivery is crucial. With a branded team app, the team's marketing managers are able to send the right content to their fans at the right time. A game-changing star player transfer is in talks? The marketing team would keep the fans up to date on the potential signing, fueling the excitement in small news pieces. There's a surprise cheerleader performance during the break? Entice fan excitement by sending a notification to the branded mobile app well ahead of the kickoff.
Branded app for team, Live chats, and Chat bots
A branded team app is the best new teammate for everyone involved in the game—especially the fans. It gathers all the meaningful content in one place, and this should include a number of chats. First, a general fan chat, where fans can discuss every team event and accomplishment. Second, a chat for team members to engage with the app users. This would involve instantaneous live broadcasts straight to the branded mobile app: right before the game starts, as players are leaving the locker rooms and heading to the field, right after the game, or even as the team is heading home, in the bus. Moreover, there is space for conversational commerce. A team sports app can be integrated with an additional chat, where fans would buy tickets with the help of chatbots. Be it as it may, none of the above eliminates the need of social media integration into a branded app for teams — the fans will want to share content with their friends outside the sports fan community, too.


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The medium to be conveyed by the boiler forced ventilator is air, and the maximum temperature is not more than 80 degrees. The conveying medium of the whole equipment is flue gas, and the maximum temperature should not exceed 250 °C. Before the induced draft fan, a dust removal device with a dust removal efficiency of not less than 85% must be installed to reduce the dust content of the flue gas entering the fan to improve the service life of the fan.
Classification of boiler forced ventilators
1. Boiler forced ventilators can be divided into several types according to their use materials, such as iron shell fan (common fan), FRP fan, plastic fan, aluminum fan, stainless steel fan and so on.
2. Fan classification can be divided into centrifugal fan, axial fan, diagonal flow (mixed flow) and cross flow according to the direction of gas flow.
3. Fans are divided into axial flow fans, centrifugal fans and diagonal flow (mixed flow) fans according to the flow direction after the airflow enters the impeller.
4. The fan is divided into press-in type local fan (hereinafter referred to as press-in fan) and explosion-proof motor according to the purpose, and the explosion-proof motor is placed outside the flow channel or in the flow channel, and the explosion-proof motor is placed in the explosion-proof sealed cavity. Fan).
5. Fans can also be divided into single-stage, two-stage or multi-stage pressure fans according to the form of pressure. For example, 4-72 is a single-stage pressurization, and a Roots blower is a multi-stage pressurized fan.
6. Fans can be divided into: axial flow fan, mixed flow fan, Roots blower, roof fan, air conditioner fan, etc. according to the purpose.


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Hello and Happy Friday! I have two very special dates coming up this weekend. One, my birthday is Sunday! I've finally reached the Big 40. And... It's The Sergeant's Five Year Anniversary! Wow. I can't believe it's been five years since I first started this self publishing journey and set Logan and Clay loose on the world.
Over the next few days, I though it'd be neat to share a few Cuffs, Collars & Love throwbacks and extras, plus do some giveaways! To start, I have a short for Logan and Clay, written for The Sergeant's One Year Anniversary. Clay decides he wants to try being the Dom for the night and switch-a-roo sexy times ensue. The prompt was provided by Denise over at Two Chicks Obsessed. Please check out their blog. They have amazing recs and reviews. Okay, without further ado I present to you - For One Night Only
Logan lay back in his big bed. His submissive, Clay, lay across his chest. Logan gently brushed his fingers through the silky, dark curls of Clay's hair as they both caught their breath. They'd been together for nearly seven months now. But their love for one another hadn't faded and neither had their passion. Logan looked down as Clay propped himself up to look at him. The beautiful flush had faded from his face, but his blue eyes were still soft, his lids still low.
"Do you think we'll still be this rambunctious in bed when we're old?"
Logan arched a brow. "We've only been together for seven months and you're talking about us being old? I'm still in my prime." Clay dug an elbow into his ribs, making him wince. "Ow!"
"Sorry," Clay said. But the sparkle in his eyes made it clear he wasn't really. "You know what I mean. Do old people still play? Or will we start having vanilla sex all the time?"
Logan laughed. "Would that bother you?"
Clay's eyebrows shot up. "Now that you've shown me sprinkles, caramel and whipped cream? Hell yeah it would."
Logan laughed again. "There are plenty of D/s couples who play well into their golden years. I'm sure we'll be just the same."
"Good." He closed his eyes for a second, taking in a deep breath. Then his eyes popped back open. "Don't go getting any ideas with the ice cream. I'm not really into food-play."
"Is that right? You didn't seem to mind the last time I ate ice cream off of you."
A/N: Hello! Since it's Wrestlemania week, I thought I'd share an old wrestling slash fanfiction of mine for Fiction Friday. It's PWP – Porn Without Plot / Plot? What Plot?, so don't open on your computer at work. ?
The first part of this was written around early 2013, when I was actively writing fanfiction. At the time I was a big Dean fangirl and really into the Ambrollins – Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins – ship. Part one was written as a prize for my good friend, Amanda. They gave me a song to set the writing mood – Depeche Mode's I Feel You. It was a great choice and really helped build the scene in my head.
Part two was written as a response to Dean switching up his ring gear and sending his fans into a tizzy as a result. Other than combining into one doc and adding a few commas, this fic has not been changed from its original posting – so you can see a bit of what my earlier writing was like. I hope you enjoy!
Dean walked up the stairs to his third-floor apartment. The black flak jacket he carried in his hand was light, but it felt heavy. Heavy as the anger that pressed against the back of his eyes. He walked across the small apartment into his bedroom, following the sound of running water. The door to the bathroom was open, steam curling out to greet him in a thick mist. Dean yanked the shower curtain back. Seth shook the water from his face and looked over his shoulder at him.
"Where did you go?"
Seth arched a dark eyebrow. "All night?"
"Yes, all fucking night."
Seth turned his back to the water but he kept washing himself. Dean's eyes followed Seth's hand as they rubbed the bar of soap across his chest, down his belly, and to his sex. He stayed there, washing slowly, bubbles rising and tangling in the dark thatch of curls. His long fingers dipped lower to cup the heavy sack that hung between his legs, washing that area just as slowly. Dean lifted his eyes back to Seth's. "You're clean enough. Get out of the goddamn shower so we can talk about this."
But instead of turning around to face the shower head to rinse off, Seth arched his neck back, way back so that the water splashed into his face and ran down his chest and lower to rinse all the soap away. Dean turned his back on the display. He wasn't going to let the delicious sight of a wet and naked Seth distract him.
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A renewed partnership between Northwestern University and Mather High School will bring nearly 100 elementary and secondary school students to campus for immersive learning and mentorship experiences.
Funded by a $175,000 ASPIRE grant from AT&T, the new Science Explorers Summer Camp pilot initiative with Mather — a Chicago Public School located on the city's north side — will take place during consecutive summers (2020-21). The Summer Camp builds upon Science Explorers, a highly-successful AT&T-funded mentoring program that provides school-day academic support for 9th graders at Mather, and helps develop non-cognitive skills such as time management and study habits.
The summer program will allow high school alumni of Science Explorers — supervised by adult STEM fellows — to co-facilitate weeklong science learning experiences for middle school students at Northwestern's teaching laboratories.
"A deep focus on mentoring and relationship-building is core to our work," said Michael Kennedy, Science in Society director. "This happens not only between Northwestern mentors and Mather students, but also between teachers and staff in both organizations. I've grown tremendously as an educator and advocate for high school youth through this partnership."
Kennedy was joined by Mather Principal Peter Auffant at an event on April 1 recognizing the successful partnership. AT&T Illinois President Eileen Mitchell awarded the ASPIRE grant in front of a crowd of students, teachers, and politicians. On hand to help celebrate the award were Chicago's 40th Ward Alderman Pat O'Connor — a Mather alum — and US Congressman Mike Quigley (D-Ill.).
"Mather High School is greatly appreciative of the continued support from Northwestern, our elected officials, and now AT&T — our newest partner," said Auffant. "As a neighborhood high school on the rise, it is collaborations through initiatives like this that create the type of learning experiences all students deserve."
This article originally appeared on Northwestern Research News.


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The Village of Arlington Heights Board of Trustees has decided that the police department needs a new police station, listing the following shortcomings of the existing facility that will be resolved by constructing a new facility in the same location …
• Safety of officers and residents is a concern with the layout of the current station
• Significant lack of space for a Police Department of this size
• Holding cells do not meet current Illinois Dept. of Corrections standards
• Renovation costs to correct deficiencies is significant
• Roof and windows are beyond their useful life
• Facility is not handicap accessible
• Facility is not compliant with current codes
• Private areas are not secured from public areas
• HVAC system and controls are beyond their useful life
• Sally Port (controlled entryway into Police Station for prisoners) safety is not adequate
• Locker room space is inadequate for current equipment needs
• Security and surveillance are deficient
Use of the same site for a new facility will require leasing a temporary police headquarters in a commercial office or warehouse space for a duration of at least 18 months. Bold items are issues that will also likely be present (and worse) at any temporary police facility for the duration.
Current plans include placing a new police station in a tight space with limited entrance and egress by police vehicles and visitors. The entire north side of the planned facility will be blocked by railroad tracks. The proximity to railroad tracks places the $28 million facility in a location that is vulnerable to train accidents, hazardous materials accidents, hazardous materials incidents induced by terrorists, and obstruction of police responses caused by frequent train stalls or gate malfunctions.
The Village of Arlington Heights should use the opportunity of a new police headquarters to provide a new optimal location for a permanent Police Station, and avoid putting police officers in riskier and more dangerous situations resulting from using a temporary facility that is not designed to be a police station.
The police will move out, operate in a temporary location, and move back into the new facility at a forecasted duration of at least 18 months. Since the temporary facility is not designed to be a police facility, there is no way the facility can provide the safety, security and surveillance needed for a modern police station — including handling prisoners and protecting police officers from attack. Expenditures for two moves (instead of one move), building out the temporary facility, and paying rent for the temporary facility is money wasted that would be better spent toward a new police headquarters in a new location.
Arlington Heights police have a nickname for their existing police station. They call it "The Fort" and they expect their headquarters location, off the streets, to be safe and well-organized for operations. Their families, their parents, their wives, their husbands, their sons and daughters also expect them to be able to operate in the safest conditions possible. A temporary police station placed in a building that is designed for everyday office work does not provide those safe conditions — not for one day, and especially not for 18 months.
The current political climate in the United States compounds the decision to operate out of a temporary facility. Attitudes toward police officers nationwide have turned ugly. While major confrontations have not occurred in Arlington Heights, the general attitude portrayed in trouble spots in the United States has seeped locally into the attitudes of some people toward police. There is lack of respect for police among a significant portion of the population. Every time a police officer contacts a person or persons on a call or a traffic stop, the potential exists for abuse and defiance toward police — with reference to national level news stories of police brutality or police shootings, etc. The risk exists that people will act out toward innocent police officers that have nothing to do with (1) bad police officers, or (2) conflicts that have been dramatized by media sources or social media sources to intentionally show innocent police officers in a bad light.
This is no time in U.S. history to leave police officers vulnerable with a temporary police headquarters without permanent and hardened safety and security features. Local crime, violent crime, civil unrest, anarchist activities, Black Lives Matter activism, racism controversies, immigration controversies, nationalism, opposing political factions, LGBT rights, feminism, healthcare affordability, lack of economic opportunities, and poverty are all intense concerns currently. There is anger and frustration, especially from the left, following President Donald Trump's election. Responding to a recent incident in local politics, a feminist faction even managed to show up last Monday at a Village of Arlington Heights Board meeting to vent their frustrations. Some even told the Village Board they are putting the board on notice … that they (the board) are now being watched. There are too many civil flashpoints to even consider operating out of a temporary police facility for 18 months or more in Arlington Heights.
• Nationwide, we have already started out the new year with frequent violent and peaceful protests. Future protests could erupt anywhere for a variety of causes. So far the focus of protests has turned away from the police, and has focused on President Donald Trump's administration.
• The City of Chicago has possibly one of the worst reputations of violence of any city in the world. There is the risk of criminal expansion into the suburbs as gangs may want to escape other gangs in the city, and as criminals and gangs may want to escape a crackdown if potential federal action mentioned by President Donald Trump ever occurs. Every action has a reaction. Crime is already exported significantly to Waukegan, Oak Brook, near west suburbs, the northwest suburbs, and south suburbs. A suburban Evergreen Park homicide investigation recently spilled over into the Deerfield/Northbrook area, which resulted in a shootout with a homicide suspect on a Metra train.
• There is an increased use of weapons on roadways extending into the suburbs — either by unlawful displays of weapons or actual shootings. The signs that shootings are increasingly occurring in public places and on public roadways (compared to private domestic shootings) should be alarming. Shootings have been reported on the Eisenhower Expressway (frequently/monthly/weekly), Route 53 by Woodfield (last year), Algonquin Road in Rolling Meadows (last month) and the Walmart store in Palatine (this week).
• The use of a temporary police headquarters facility could actually attract criminals and terrorists to Arlington Heights — knowing that Arlington Heights Police Department is vulnerable in a temporary facility.
• The choice of location for a temporary facility that would optimally and fairly protect all citizens in Arlington Heights with effective response times would be difficult to select. A poor selection could increase drive times for police to get across town, which could cause delayed response times to emergencies, and cause general fatigue with increased driving time for routine police calls, investigations, and transport of prisoners, etc.
• The use of a temporary police facility would no doubt put unnecessary strain on police officers and their families. Extra duty, extra human effort and extra time would be required to overcome the shortcomings of a temporary facility. While our police officers are highly professional, that human strain (and resulting fatigue) could affect performance on the street, and could cause errors in a profession where errors can be deadly.
• If a police officer were looking for a transfer out of his or her existing police agency, or new police recruits were looking for their first police job; Arlington Heights, with its temporary police headquarters, would probably not be a first choice for those potential personnel.
• While some police officers might enjoy the challenge of using a temporary police headquarters for a bullet point on their resume, many existing police officers are more likely to hasten their retirement and get off the force before they have to endure the hassles, the risks, and the moving process — twice. No doubt, routine professionalism with extra human effort will be required to overcome the temporary facility shortcomings to maintain the high quality of service that is provided by our police officers. Extra load on human energy opens opportunities for human error. Some will likely choose to retire earlier rather than later, before they are placed in a situation caused by sub-optimal conditions … conditions that will unnecessarily endanger their lives or cause them to risk endangering their career and their retirement pensions.
As they say, "Police Lives Matter."
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Do you enjoy Lineage II and especially Chronicle HighFive?
In order to prepare for a new server, we are looking for programmers who know themselves in the game, its principles and the following programs: Java, JavaScript, MySQL, php, Apache, Linux, C, C ++, Python, Tomcat and others.
If you are interested in learning more, do not hesitate to contact us.
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We want to thank your for testing our server and provide you some information.
In this testing we want to show players, what we are preparing for them and get from them reports to make server better and without issues.
This means that server is not completed and you can find problems.
We need to check all official Lineage 2 features and our custom features. (you can find short list of features in Server Info)
All issues report to forum.
Dragon weapons
Dear players and fans,
today in new update we would like to present the implementation of special dragons's weapons.
Use "Full Check" to be sure your client will working well.
On your traveling through wild regions you can obtain new items (fragments of weapons) that are one of important part to build first level of dragon's weapons.
First you need to talk with master Kingley. He will tell you what you need to do. Kingley is near the blacksmith Ishuma.
Kingley is not talking with everyone… you have to collect at least 100 reputation points.
Reputation points can be obtained from the Raid Bosses 83+ and the monsters in locations:
Hellbound, Seed of Annihillation, Seed of Infinity, Seed of Destruction, Dragon Valley, Antharas Lair.
These weapons can be upgraded. Just talk with Ardyll about it.
Dragon's weapons are enchanted by the mighty dragons – Antharas, Valakas and Lindvior. With upgraded weapons you have available these skills:
Unstoppable – Your Mov. Spd. and Debuff immune increases by 100 for 2 min. Skill requires 1 Dragon Blood.
Dragon Howl – Decreases Atk./Cast./Mov. Spd. of nearby enemies by 50% and has chance to Fear. Skill requires 1 Dragon Blood.
Dragon – CP Down – Reduces CP of nearby enemies by 50%. Skill requires 1 Dragon Blood.
Have a fun!
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February 2017 Update
Dear players and fans,
today in new update we would like to present the implementation of special dragons's weapons.
Use "Full Check" to be sure your client will working well.
In this update are server fixes and optimalizations, some of them are described below:
+ Fixed switching Olympiad arenas in the view mode
+ Fixed disconnection in Olympiad mode, the charm immediately disappears from the battle
+ The mechanism of holding the charm in the game is improved
+ Hold mode in the game at the Olympiad removes the "old" character at the entrance
+ Fixed Group Selection
+ Added information about blocked instances for the character when searching for a party and in a party
+ Fixed instance loading
+ Fixed the update of objects and party when you enter
+ Fixed the state of attack from the skill
+ Added traffic activity for the client
+ Fixed: removing (alt + click) custom buff with another visual skill
+ Fixed AI's last attack when cleaning the agro-player
+ Restructuring of loading and spawning
+ Fixed resists calculation
+ Fixed jumping skills and effects
+ Fixed searching point when moving around the target
… and much more
Dark Dragon Team
January 2017 Update
Today we would like to present a few changes and news.
- vote reward change – now you receive 10 DCoins for each vote-site
- Added event engine – CTF, TvT, DM, GvG, Last Hero and Mini Siege / daily every 2-4 hours, reward DCoins, Time Points / registration point on Fantasy Isle or by using our Community Board
several minor game changes and fixes ( client, quests, skills )
Saving Santa Christmas event
Saving Santa Christmas event:
- buy Saving Santa Hat from White Bearded Santa
- find and win battle with a Thomas D. Turkey
- Thomas D. Turkey you can find on 3 places
- ( near Schuttgart, on Dwarven land – Eastern Mining zone or somewhere of Ice Merchant Cabin )
- Put the cap and you can start the game rock, paper, scissors.
- when you win, you have a saved Santa !
Go hunting monsters, and if you're lucky, Santa appears and passes those very interesting gift.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and great gifts!


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ING's orange lion goes way back to ING's Dutch roots. Orange is the national colour of the Netherlands, and the lion the country's national symbol. Several founding ING companies, banks and insurers, had or still have the lion in their logos.
Logos from our banking history
One of ING's founding companies, the Rijkspostspaarbank was established in 1881. Government-owned, the company had the Dutch coat of arms flanked by two lions in its logo surmounting the motto 'je maintiendrai' (I will maintain). In the 1950s and 1960s, another ING founding company, the Nederlandsche Middenstandsbank (NMB), used the same logo on its stationery and official documents.
The logo was modernised several times in the course of the merger of Rijkspostspaarbank and the Postcheque- & Girodienst into Postgiro/Rijkspostbankspaarbank, culminating in privatisation as the Postbank in 1986. The lion rampant became recumbent, lost a little of its wild mane and acquired a longer tail.
Logos from our insurance history
The original insurance companies, De Nederlanden van 1845 and the Nationale Levensverzekering-Bank, both had lions in their logos. For a long time De Nederlanden van 1845 used the Dutch coat of arms. The Nationale had a logo depicting a virgin with a lion at her feet, symbolising the company's courage in looking after its customers' savings deposits. The two companies merged and became Nationale-Nederlanden.
The lion survived
The lion has survived all mergers. The logo was very much a negotiating issue when NMB and Postbank merged, and then NMB Postbank Groep and Nationale-Nederlanden joined forces.
Our current logo
Currently Postbank, our direct bank in the Netherlands, has simply a blue lion's head. Orange is still the colour of Nationale-Nederlanden, and the orange lion adorns our global ING logo.
Today, ING has become a truly global brand. We have rebranded over fifty labels to ING and worldwide brand awareness continues to grow. In 2004, ING first entered the Interbrand top-100 global brands list. Since then, has it climbed to 85th position indicating a growing brand awareness. Across the world, more and more people see that ING is delivering on its promise: a commitment to providing the financial services solutions our customers value.


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For some years now, Nigeria has been notorious for cyber crime and the notoriety is rising. The "419ners" have given birth to a crop of younger criminals, called "yahoo boys". As you would expect, times are harder now, and the younger ones are more desperate for wealth. They have discovered other avenues for easy money. The latest is ritual killing.
Recently, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State cracked down on suspected yahoo boys, following the gruesome murder of a student of the Delta State University. The young female was kidnapped and killed, with her breasts and tongue removed, obviously for ritual purposes.
But the brutal murder of Elozino Ogege is not an isolated case. Several such killings have been reported in the last few months, suggesting that our society is clearly a sick and depraved one. However, we must admit that this wicked and anti-social behaviour are connected with the joblessness of our youths and unbridled desire for quick money.
With an unemployment rate of over 40 per cent, there is no doubt that many of our youths are experimenting with evil in their bid to make a living, in a society where money is deified and certainly can solve almost all problems.
If an idle mind is truly the devil's workshop, then we know why many young people are venturing into crime, fraud and violence. The worst is that society's love for money is scandalously high. It does not matter where and how people get money, family accepts it; community condones it; society welcomes it, banks hide it and even the church celebrates it.
Some prosperity preachers and donation seekers are sending the wrong message to everyone about money. Hard work is not praised or rewarded publicly. On the contrary, indolence can be rewarded as long as it comes with a deep pocket and flashy cars, ready to throw money around and donate to church projects.
That is why Yahoo boys have grown more wicked and desperate in their search for wealth. The get rich-at –all-cost mentality is strong and spreading. The latest is that some of our young boys, rather than look for work, are now looking for used female under wears for money rituals. How sad!
As the general election draws nearer, chances are the ritual killings will continue. The sensible part of our society must reject this and say a capital, "NO!" Let this evil not become a new normal. Once evil is allowed to grow, it becomes difficult to control or eliminate. In this case, who knows who the next ritual victim will be?
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Real-time measurement of vertical wheel loads applied to the rail is commonly carried out using strain gauges. One standard approach involves measurement of shear strains at the rail neutral axis, and use of the differential shear concept. Strain gauges are typically mounted on the rail neutral axis between two adjacent ties (over the crib section). A set of four strain measurements (two each, pointed at 45 degrees up and down from the horizontal) are carried out at each end of the crib section, and the measured strains are used to calculate the shear strain magnitudes; this shear strain is in turn used to calculate the applied load. In practice, the four individual strain measurements on each end of the crib (on either face of the rail) are arranged in a single Wheatstone bridge circuit. The purpose for using this common strain measurement configuration lies in the circuits' ability to eliminate crosstalk, or strain unrelated to the load being measured, e.g. bending strain, or strain due to lateral loading, etc. This paper will propose a new measurement approach whereby eliminating this Wheatstone bridge configuration and measuring eight independent strain signals will enable direct quantification of the vertical as well as lateral load magnitudes. Instead of having to install additional strain gauges on the rail base to measure the lateral loads, the same strain gauges mounted on the rail neutral axis can be used to measure both vertical as well as lateral loads. This proposed technique will simplify the process of vertical and horizontal wheel load detection, and may increase the applicability of these circuits to detect loads in curved sections of track as well as near special track work.
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Quantification of Vertical and Lateral Loads Using Strain Gauges: Eliminating the Wheatstone Bridge
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Boise State University, Boise, ID
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Boise State University, Boise, ID
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Boise State University, Boise, ID
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Ensco, Inc., Springfield, VA
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Boise State University, Boise, ID
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Boise State University, Boise, ID
Debakanta Mishra
Boise State University, Boise, ID
Radim Bruzek
Ensco, Inc., Springfield, VA
Paper No: JRC2019-1271, V001T01A010; 6 pages
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Money might not bring happiness, but it does make life easier. Because we want you to be able to focus fully on the tasks at hand, we support you with an attractive salary and numerous benefits.
Our working world is undergoing a constant change process. Digitization will lead to far-reaching changes at many levels in our lives. Autonomy with respect to time management is increasingly important, people are very conscious again of personal development and evolution, and pensions are a key part of life planning. Given these vital issues and many others, Deutsche Telekom has considered its staff and offers attractive benefits:
If you want to maintain your standard of living after retirement, you should think about your old-age pension in time. Deutsche Telekom supports its workforce with two different models:
Firstly, the Telekom Group offers its employees an attractive company pension scheme based on voluntary commitments. The employer-financed pension commitments are handled via the Capital Accounts Plan, which is a modern, contribution-based pension scheme.
Secondly, there is the option of an employee-funded pension scheme. Employees have a statutory right for portions of their salaries to be deferred as a contribution to their pension scheme. The Telekom Pension Fund is the perfect means of implementing this statutory right. It is a modern, future-oriented approach, which offers the opportunity to make full use of the benefits of gross deferred compensation and/or net deferred compensation (the so-called "Riester" pension plan). Both alternatives are encouraged by the state with generous benefits.
Should they suffer from sickness or an accident, our staff continue to be paid their full salary for up to two years. As the employer, we bear all the costs of accident insurance and sickness insurance premiums. Employees who leave Deutsche Telekom but who are still entitled to insurance benefits receive a daily allowance of 80% of their last salary.
We give you the chance to finance an e-bike as part of the salary conversion scheme. You are given the bike under an employee lease scheme. If you belong to the eligible group and would like to finance a bicycle through the salary conversion scheme, you will receive part of your salary not as cash, but as a non-cash benefit in form of a bicycle.