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Use of Tendon Vibration and Mirror for the Improvement of Upper Limb Function and Pain Reduction (VibMirror)
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Upper limb paralysis following stroke is a very common problem. Only 30% of stroke patients who suffer from upper limb paresis experience a full recovery of function. There is a need for the development of more efficient rehabilitation methods for the improvement of the paralysed upper limb function.
It has been shown that the use of mirror therapy after a stroke induces the activation of motor, sensory and associative regions in the affected hemisphere and is associated with an improvement in the function of the affected limb. Mirror therapy is a treatment modality in which the affected arm is hidden from the patient's sight; the patient is instructed to watch the reflection of his healthy hand on a mirror while he performs movements with his healthy hand and tries to move simultaneously his affected hand. This induces the illusion that his affected hand moves well.
It has also been shown that applying vibration to a muscle tendon at frequencies between 50-100 Hz induces an illusion of elongation of the vibrated muscle, if visual feedback is prevented. For instance, vibrating the triceps will induce a strong illusion of elbow flexion.
In the present study the investigators will couple the use of a mirror with the application of vibration to tendons, in order to obtain a multisensorial and strong illusion of movement in the paralyzed limb.
The study hypothesis is that the administration of mirror therapy together with vibration will induce the activation of multiple motor, sensory and associative areas in the affected brain hemisphere, resulting in improvement of the affected upper limb function, compared to the administration of mirror therapy alone or sham therapy.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Stroke Hemiplegia |
Device: Vibration and Mirror Device: Mirror therapy Device: no mirror, sham vibration |
Phase 1 Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Use of Tendon Vibration and Mirror for the Improvement of Upper Limb Function and Pain Reduction After Stroke |
- Upper Limb function according to Fugl-Meyer assessment [ Time Frame: after treatment, and 3 months after treatment ]
- Activity of Daily living performance assessed by FIM (Functional Independence Measurement) score [ Time Frame: after treatment and 3 months after treatment ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 30 |
Study Start Date: | November 2009 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | November 2011 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Vibraton Mirror (VM)
subjects will receive tendon vibration AND mirror therapy
Device: Vibration and Mirror
10 treatments of 30 minutes in which vibration of 50-100 Hz will be administrated to the elbow and wrist muscles together with the use of a mirror. The patient moves his healthy hand in a certain repetitive pattern and watches its reflection on a mirror. Meanwhile he receives vibration in his affected hand in a timing that induces the illusion of movements similar to the movements of his healthy hand, thereby inducing a strong illusion of movement of his affected hand.
Active Comparator: Mirror (M)
Subjects will receive treatment only with Mirror, together with sham vibration (over bone instead of tendon)
Device: Mirror therapy
10 sessions of mirror therapy: moving the healthy hand while watching its reflection on a mirror. Meanwhile sham vibration over bone in the affected handwill be given to resemble the conditions of the experimental arm.
Sham Comparator: Sham (S)
Opaque board instead of mirror, bone vibration instead of tendon vibration
Device: no mirror, sham vibration
10 sessions in which patient moves his healthy hand and tries to move his affected hand, which is hidden by an opaque board instead of a mirror. Sham vibration is applied to bone instead of muscle, no illusion is generated.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Stroke onset 1 month-1 year ago
- NIH Stroke Scale 3-15 on admission to study
- Affected Upper limb function 10-90% on Fugl-Meyer scale
- Ability to understand instructions and to move freely the unaffected upper limb
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe cognitive impairment- severe Aphasia or severe Neglect that impair ability to understand instructions or to execute tasks
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01010607
Contact: Elior Moreh, MD | 97225844464 | firstname.lastname@example.com |
Israel | |
Hadassah University Hospital | Not yet recruiting |
Jerusalem, Israel | |
Contact: Elior Moreh, MD 97225844464 firstname.lastname@example.com |
Responsible Party: | Elior Moreh/ MD, Hadassah Medical Organization |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01010607 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | November 8, 2009 |
Last Updated: | June 2, 2010 |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Stroke Hemiplegia Cerebrovascular Disorders Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases |
Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Paralysis Neurologic Manifestations Signs and Symptoms |
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Does your boyfriend cringe every time you make him a meal? Does he dive for the takeout menus as a precautionary maneuver? Have we got a show for you!
John Besh, an occasional Top Chef judge who has appeared as a Today Show guest chef, takes on the culinary disasters of ordinary cooks in his TLC show From Inedible to Incredible, which premieres tonight.
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Santa Barbara police said Cora, 45, rear-ended a BMW with her Chevy Tahoe about 6:15 p.m. June 17. No one was injured. She admitted to police that she had three bottles of beer before driving that evening, and her breath samples registered at 0.19 and 0.20, which is more than twice the legal limit.
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!!Subjective tropes present in the original Alter A.I.L.A.:
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Each faction's battle theme, ''especially'' the Rebel theme.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: While wandering through the sewers (in the middle of the abandoned city, mind you), one can come across a ''fully-operational bar'', in which the bartender foreshadows the monsters to come and leaves behind a keycard. While the keycard ''is'' used later [[spoiler:as the first step to getting an EX gun]], the existence of the bar is never explained, and never really acknowledged again. Though it was possibly AllJustADream. [[EpilepticTrees Or a psychic projection of]] [[spoiler: [[EpilepticTrees the Jackal. Or AILA. Or it was something Tinder set up before the game started.]]]]
** There's also no real explanation for [[spoiler: Shadow Red's appearance in the Innovator route; Orange talks at him a bit before fighting]], but it's never clear whether it's AllJustADream, a psychic projection, or just a metaphor.
* CharacterTiers: The strength of characters varies wildly. Some, like Indigo and Orange, are pathetic, while characters like Black are almost GameBreaker territory.
** '''Top Tier''': Black (Mask Off), Grey\\
'''High Tier''': Blue, White, Black (Mask On), Green\\
'''Mid Tier''': Red, Yellow, Violet\\
'''Low Tier''': Indigo, Orange
* CompleteMonster: PsychoForHire Red joins TheEmpire simply because it's the strongest of the factions and allows him to direct his bloodlust at the Imperialists' targets. An AxeCrazy lunatic who favors strength above all else, Red spends the game brutally murdering or attempting to murder everyone in his path and has designs on the throne himself. He aims to [[TheStarscream backstab the Imperials and take over himself]] before reigning as TheCaligula. He also intends to rape Violet once he learns that [[spoiler: she's hypnotized]], only demurring when he learns that she's still fully capable of fighting back.
* FanNickname: Limit Green, for [[spoiler: the battle against Green when she's fighting at full strength]].
* GameBreaker: On the Independent route, at the vending machines before your first fight with the Imperials, grab all the Acid Bombs you can. You ''will'' win every boss fight afterwards.
** Black's "Mind Blast" skill, too. Just buy a few Sanitizers and watch everything in your path be obliterated.
* TierInducedScrappy: Many people hate Indigo because she is by far the weakest character, in addition to being a BrattyHalfPint.
!!Subjective tropes present in the remake, Alter A.I.L.A. Genesis:
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Blast My Desire", the BattleThemeMusic for {{Bonus Boss}}es and late-game {{Climax Boss}}es. For area music, the BGM for Avalon is quite nice as well.
* CharacterTiers: Despite the author's best efforts to balance characters this time around, Jake and Hawk are too weak/slow to be useful, and Indy's only use (equipping a static-damage sync and dishing out Vampire constantly) is superseded by Violet, who is better at it and less [[SquishyWizard squishy]].
* EndingFatigue: Neok admits that by the time he had gotten to writing the ending, he had begun to lose steam, and, unfortunately, it shows. [[spoiler:The final boss fight can be a major letdown to those who played the original; Aila becomes reduced to a cardboard cutout villain with no real motive due to the fact that her MotiveRant was completely removed. The endgame also lacks the explanation of things like the BackStory and Kugar that the original had]]. The two postgame {{Bonus Dungeon}}s originally had full subplots surrounding them as well, but had to be cut because Neok had burned himself out writing the rest of the game. Fortunately, he plans to rectify this by giving those explanations in the sequel.
** The postgame itself can feel this way due to the above. After such a story-heavy and character-centric game, a postgame consisting of nothing but long dungeon slogging without any additional story information can feel rather dull.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: "People are selfish and prideful." The fact that Leon is such a moral person is a very big deal. [[spoiler:This is subverted by the ending, however, when the heroes all put aside their differences and agree to work towards a common goal, three of them even performing {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s.]]
* FridgeBrilliance: Psychokinesis is toxic to humans. The high level modes usually grant large amounts of EX and AP in exchange for health degeneration. What's probably happening is that they're amplifying the latent psychokinetic energy in the character equipping them, but, since that same energy is toxic, causes an overflow which saps their LifeForce.
** "Interference", a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere in the dam facility. It's in the shape of a large silhouette. If you look at it closely, you'll realize that [[spoiler:it's a silhouette of ''Aila'', and probably some form of [[FightingAShadow astral projection]] she's using to attack the jackal]]. Suddenly, its actions make sense, huh?
* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:Erin constantly tells Leon about how the CrapsackWorld will corrupt a moral person like him, and so will she, due to being a cold AntiHero. However, she's a moral person as well -- the reason she's telling Leon this is because she was exactly like him, and ''the same thing she describes happened to her''. [[TearJerker Kind of depressing]].]]
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "[[DeadpanSnarker Build a functional submarine out of scrap parts, no problem. Cheer up a little girl, no can do.]]"
** Also, some of G-Bot's questions.
** If you choose the "talk" option during phase 5 after [[spoiler:Jake and Dread]] join your party, Celia will ask why [[spoiler:Jake]] looks so young. They do not give a direct answer, simply stating that the key to a youthful appearance lies in proper skincare products. The final lines of their conversation are:
--->'''Celia:''' So, do both you and Indy do this thing?\\
'''[[spoiler:Jake]]:''' That's classified information.
** Erin outlining [[ToThePain exactly what she'll do to Scott]] if anything happens to Indy. Her sudden BattleAura cinches it.
-->'''Erin:''' When I get free from here -- and I ''will'' get free because you guys are going to get me free. And God help you if you decide to run away, because I ''will'' get free someday. And when that happens, then you had best pray for death to save you. Because ''nothing'' will stop me from hunting you down and stringing you up in the most unsightly manner. So when I get free, she better be exactly as she is now, not a hair harmed on her body. Else terrible things may happen to you, that may result in harsh physical, mental, or emotional trauma, lasting the rest of your miserable lives.
** This exchange:
-->'''Violet:''' [[CatchPhrase Scott, before we die, I just want to say 'I love you'!]]\\
'''Scott:''' And I just want to say 'I love cheeseburgers'!
** In Phase IV, Ceres II, you're supposed to get to the top of the tower after parting with Scott. After reaching the top, you find Kugar's loyal servant Lavitz blocking the path, forbidding anyone from going through, but Scott as well as Violet looking dandy and all pop up. Despite what happens next, their reactions were just worth it.
-->'''Scott:''' Now then...
-->[[spoiler: *[[FaceHeelTurn Scott's shotgun points at Leon's]], but a rifle points at Scott as well*]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Leon:''' Huh?]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Scott:''' Huh?]]
-->[[spoiler:*Erin fires her rifle first, only for Scott to dodge quickly*]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Scott:''' Whoa! [[CurseCutShort Holy Sh-!]] She actually fired! Goddammit, that was too close!]]
* GameBreaker: G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N., a sync that causes a character to always deal 1100 damage no matter what, on a character with multi-hit attacks. Indy in particular is good for this; with the right mode, she can dish out 5500 damage every other turn and heal 550 HP with every Drain spell. (Violet is also a good candidate, capable of dishing out 3300 damage per turn with her machine gun attack)
** You can buy this sync from Tinder should you find him. You can even find this as a random treasure late in the game.
** Also the Vice/Pulsar/Chaos modes, which gives characters tons of EX and AP per round. Only downside is that they have extreme health degeneration, but with a good source of healing such as Erin, that's not a problem.
** [[OneStatToRuleThemAll Speed Boost/Crush Fields]]. Nothing can seriously challenge you when you're getting twelve turns to an enemy's one.
** Devices, special items that had passive effects such as increasing experience gain, were so gamebreaking that Neok actually made them DummiedOut! [[spoiler:You can gain them anyway by defeating the final BonusBoss, however.]]
** Equip two Zero-Systems and a Flame Bolster. Let your HP run out. Execute an EX attack. Watch the damage numbers go through the roof. One can be found in a chest, while more can be bought from Tinder within a small time frame.
*** Taken to [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale its logical conclusion]] in the UpToEleven link above.
** You can also buy enhancers, which [[RareCandy permanently raise your stats]], potentially making any character in the game a tank of you can spare enough money. They cost 2,000 Creds a piece for the single enhancers, 3,000 for one that raises two stats simultaneously, and 4,000 for raising all three. Just fight machine enemies that drop common parts and sell them; for every three or so you sell can get one regular enhancer. Near the endgame, the enemies will drop Rare Parts, which sell for a whopping 10,000 Creds. Prepare to watch your stats go through the roof.
*** Note that you will need to buy a ''lot'' in order to see any worthwhile change, as they only increase your stats by pitiful amounts. They can add up, though.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: [[spoiler:Indy cheering up Celia after she goes through a HeroicBSOD early in phase 7.]]
** [[spoiler:During the ending, Kugar telling Erin that if she gave her life back to him, he would simply return it again so that she could live.]]
* JerkassWoobie: Erin.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The Orbital Prison. ''Especially'' the core.]]
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Indy. She is no longer [[JokeCharacter completely useless]], and her personality has been tweaked, making her into less of a BrattyHalfPint and more of a legitimately well-done child character.
* TearJerker: If you didn't choke up upon seeing [[spoiler:Lavitz]]'s death, ''you have no soul''.
** [[spoiler:The ending]] doesn't pull any punches either. It contains no less than [[spoiler:''three'' (nearly four)]] {{Heroic Sacrifices}} in quick succession, and [[spoiler:Scott]]'s is absolutely heartbreaking.
** The cutscene explaining [[spoiler:Hawk]]'s backstory, where it's revealed that he [[spoiler:formed the Rebellion -- the one group that looked like it had actual morals in the game's CrapsackWorld]] -- just to preserve his pride. It's more dramatic than saddening, until [[spoiler:Celia]] -- a naive, six-year-old girl, looks at [[spoiler:Hawk]] like she's heartbroken, and says simply, "Old man...did you really [[spoiler:form the Rebellion]]...just to save your pride?"
** The early scenes with [[spoiler:Erin]] on a replay, when you know that she's lying to [[spoiler:Leon]] about not being a monster...yet you also know that she desperately wants to believe those lies as well. Imagining the internal pain and confusion she's going through is rather depressing.
* ThatOneBoss: Ultima Weapon and [[spoiler:[[DuelBoss Limit Leon]]]] are one of the few fights where you're pretty much guaranteed to say "screw this" and just chuck bombs.
** Also, [=GWeapon=]. It takes half damage from all Attack abilities, and there's only one character on your team at that point who is even ''capable'' of using a Spell-type ability. To make matters worse, it has a constant Debilitate field effect, which can render you helpless if you haven't bought a ton of Animant effects to cancel it out.


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Debate the issues facing Seattle Public Schools, share your opinions, read the latest news. Organize and work for high quality public schools that educate all students to become passionate, lifelong learners.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Friday Open Thread
Hey, we now know who the mystery date superintendent finalists are. I am planning to be ready with at least three questions to each finalist (I'll be lucky to get one but better to be ready).
Upcoming threads:
- International Education and its costs
- CTE - looks like the Obama administration is coming back on-board with that issue
What's on your mind?
29 comments:
- mirmac1 said...
Interesting reading...
Missouri closing six Imagine charter school campuses
Teach for America's new partnership with largest for-profit charter network
- SPSLeaks said...
City and power brokers want to control Creative Approach Schools
Anyone know when the district will post the document showing the number of kids on wait-lists at each school?
NW mom - 4/20/12, 11:40 AM
- SPSLeaks said...
A good question for the new sup candidates would be to ask about the positive or negative impact of Race to the Top. He or she would win me over with a statement like this one from Montgomery MD super Joshua Starr. See this link.
Is there a chance that any one of these candidates is in the Starr mold? - 4/20/12, 12:12 PM
- seattle citizen said...
Globally, we've been suspecting, Facts has been ill. We've seen as much in many stories about education, for instance. We ourselves have been aiding and abetting this tragic demise in comments made by both "sides" of the education debate (including yours truly.)
Now it's come to this: Rex W. Huppke, Chicago Tribune reporter, reports that Facts is dead.
Facts struggled gallantly to the end, especially lately: "Facts, which had been losing a battle against the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet...Florida Republican Rep. Allen West's claim that as many as 81 of his fellow members of the U.S. House are communists was the fatal wound for Facts..."
RIP, Facts (360 B.C.-A.D. 2012.) We'll miss ya. Sorry I wasn't always with you there towards the end; I wish I'd been more supportive. In your memory, I'll try to be more dilligent in my truthiness, uh, I mean my facts. - 4/20/12, 12:16 PM
- Melissa Westbrook said...
Jack, what a find! I love this guy:
'Starr added that he isn't opposed to charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently run, but said he "doesn't know why they would be needed here in Montgomery County.. . . I don't see what the value add would be," he said. Charter schools have struggled to gain a foothold in Montgomery during Weast's tenure."
He really seems to be operating from the lens of "what will help my district?" Impressive. - 4/20/12, 1:15 PM
- Sahila said...
Reminder: Michelle Rhee's ed deform astro-turf lobby group - StudentsFirst - has Washington State in its sights; begins its campaign with this event: https://www.facebook.com/events/223046607795596
Speaking of Joshua Starr, check out the previous superintendent of Montgomery County , MD schools, Jerry Weast, who retired last year. He wrote a book called "Leading for Equity, The Pursuit of Excellence in Montgomery County Public Schools." He was able to reduce the achievement gap in his district.
There are models out there of successful method to reduce the achievement gap, albeit ones that take a lot of effort and change. I am not sure why we keep trying to re-invent the wheel, or are we not willing to go the distance to make it happen.
Wake County, NC also made some amazing innovative changes in the early 2000's. - 4/20/12, 3:14 PM
- Jan said...
Oooohhhh -- anon at 3:14. Moniker! You have to sign with some name! So -- here is your post, reprinted to save it for posterity! You wrote:
"Speaking of Joshua Starr, check out the previous superintendent of Montgomery County , MD schools, Jerry Weast, who retired last year. He wrote a book called "Leading for Equity, The Pursuit of Excellence in Montgomery County Public Schools." He was able to reduce the achievement gap in his district.
There are models out there of successful method to reduce the achievement gap, albeit ones that take a lot of effort and change. I am not sure why we keep trying to re-invent the wheel, or are we not willing to go the distance to make it happen.
Wake County, NC also made some amazing innovative changes in the early 2000's."
Thanks for the book reference. In terms of reinventing the wheel, I don't think the issue is whether "we" are trying to reinvent the wheel or not. I think it is more that a group of "pre-vetted," "pre-approved" solutions has grown up around an ideological model (pro-private enterprise, anti-collective labor, pro-business-oriented-solutions). These solutions involve things like TfA and teacher evaluation reform (both of which are useful ideas -- but not as now implemented) that diminish the professionalism of teaching and the power of teachers' unions and teacher input; high stakes testing -- across all subjects, and often, using a nationally standardized curriculum (helps with evaluations and the push against teacher tenure), provides a (faux) basis for comparing schools against each other and from year to year; gives a (faux) sense of overall student achievement on a state/national level; and charters/vouchers/privatization of the delivery of educational services and the transfer to the private sector of school/education-related public assets.
The groups espousing these reforms are ONLY interested in this stuff, and are specifically NOT interested in anything that runs contrary to it, or significantly detracts from their message. They want only so much "accountability" as will advance their agenda and preferred solutions, and none that might inconveniently suggest that these solutions don't work or are harmful.
Between those willing to live with the status quo (not a huge group -- and the accusation leveled by ed reform against anyone opposing their slate) and those who are actively pushing ed reform to the exclusion of any other solution, there isn't much ability for anyone else to get a solution on the table these days, no matter how willing they are. - 4/20/12, 3:48 PM
- Sahila said...
According to the StudentsFirst page, Rhee's event has 10 people committed to attending... including Rachel Hug, Communications Coordinator at Alliance for Education (Seattle) and people from Lake Forest Park and Monroe...
Montgomery County was using Singapore Math with those amazing scores.
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- seattle citizen said...
Anonymous 4:55 - as Jan indicated, you have to either come up with a user name, or come up with a name (yours or made up) to put on the bottom of your post. It helps everybody keep track of "who" says/thinks what, and blog admins will delete un-"signed" posts.
Here's your post again, in case it gets deleted. Thanks for pointing us to Weast - I'll have to look into what he's doing, sounds interesting.
Anon 4:55's post:
In response to Jan, in response to me. First of all thanks, I am new to this.
In terms of re-inventing the wheel, I was not referring to the various "theories" of "reform" that are bandied about by the many folks who seem to know how to solve the achievement gap. I am referring to actual whole school districts that actually have reduced the achievement gap. See what works in practice in a large scale and from many points of view (teachers, unions, parents, students etc).
I confess, I haven't read Jerry Weast's book but just learned about him from someone who heard him speak in Vancouver, BC last weekend. The woman who heard him speak said he got the unions on board, had the teacher's design their own evaluation system, researched extensively what a successful college graduate looked like in kindergarten and worked very hard at kindergarten readiness. He stressed that he did not use the work reform in his work as it is degrading to teachers. - 4/20/12, 6:33 PM
- Sahila said...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Education should not be unnecessarily made into a scarce resource for the purposes of profit. People should not be branded "failures" by an impoverished K-12 school system that has failed them, only to leave them as fair game for the prison system. People should not graduate with tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars in debt for deciding to go to college in order to gain skills that will be used in the name of the common good. For these reasons and more, we are having a national DEBT JUBILEE on student loan debt and developing a system of FREE EDUCATION FOR EVERYONE.
Beginning at 6pm on April 25th, people will gather at Westlake Park to share their respective experiences with the education-prison-military industrial complex as a horizontal teach-in on that subject. Through this process of collective sharing, we will create the knowledge we need for our collective liberation from this system that was never built to serve our interests in the first place. There is also likely to be free food, music, speak outs and possibly even theater.
We will be liberating learning and knowledge creation from the clutches of the 1%. WE WILL democratize the dominant economics through free sharing of knowledge. Since knowledge sharing can happen freely and knowledge expands in quality and quantity as it is shared, sharing it freely creates an environment of rich abundance in the knowledge economy. Here is where we must look at the picture of the economics of education.The dominant schooling system, the education-prison-military industrial complex, functions on a paradigm of scarcity of access to "legitimate" or "qualifying" knowledge (i.e. there are X number of jobs and Y number of prison cells with the distribution of people to jobs and prison cells closely relating to their "success" and "failure" with respect to the school system.) After high school, many people are forced to join the military as the only option promoted to them for entering "higher" education through which we are told we will be able to escape poverty. However things do not have to be this way. Knowledge can be freely and democratically shared and through doing so we create an economy where everyone wins; subjugation to both a knowledge economy and the more general market economy dominated by the 1% are easily escapable through collective operation in a horizontal and mutualistic fashion. - 4/20/12, 11:39 PM
Here is an excellent forum. Too bad it is in Spokane:
The forum deals with the media and superintendent candidates, and FOIA requests.
Brian Rosenthal, we are counting on you for complete and unbiased reporting. - 4/22/12, 9:29 AM
Oops. Seminar is conducted from a then superintendent candidate regarding FOIA. Still, should be good.
The National Council for the Social Studies will be holding its annual conference in Seattle this fall (Thursday - Sunday, November 15 - 18).
The conference will be in the Washington State Convention Center and in the hotels nearby.
Sandra Day O'Connor will be in Seattle for the conference!
--Old School Music - 4/22/12, 10:24 AM
Watching Jessica Gao on The Impact interviewing Rodney Tom last night on TV. I almost got up and ran around the room I was so mad at him.
He said in so many words including these that our system of teacher evaluation is failing and the proof? Just look at all those "hot" young teachers being riffed in favor of older teachers.
Umm, age discrimination anyone? I wonder if we shouldn't vote out old useless people like Tom in favor of some "hot" younger legislators.
BTW, I thought in most vocations, one wanted age and experience. My home tile setter is in his seventies and knows more about tile than anybody else I know. And master craftsman in any profession, vocation, whatever, usually designates someone who has been around a while and knows the craft.
That comment was purely reflective of age discrimination. And he then called himself a "progressive."
He's no progressive. He sounds like a Republican. Sheldon - who votes with the right often - Katayama, and Tom. What a not-so-hot trio.
BTW, Gao should have called him on that - "Isn't that age discrimination, Senator Tom?"
The worst part of his age-discriminatory claim is that it shows his values. It is better to take older women out of the workforce? Where will they go? Too young for pensions (plan 2 requires you to be sixty-five) and social security isn't available until sixty-two.
There are so many corrupt and moral collapes in his little interview that went unnoticed by Gao. Unbelievable.
n... - 4/22/12, 10:58 AM
- seattle citizen said...
Tom's "...look at all those "hot" young teachers being riffed in favor of older teachers." complaint is Reform code: "Hot" refers to "on fire" or "energetic" or "with today's program." By combining that with "young," Tom the Reformer is inferring that only young, new teachers are any good. From THAT inference, we read a large part of the Reform agenda: Hire young teachers who will work twelve/seven, use up their energy, then discard them (for of course REAL people, as they age, have complex and demanding lives outside of the classroom, and will therefore become distracted and, hey, tired old people, at which point they should be discarded.
Another inference made from this, as you note, is that experience doesn't matter, that decades of nurturing and succoring and elevating young people doesn't teach a body anything, that only what the "hot" young people bring to the classroom in their first years matter, which is the training they've received from TFA in five weeks. Teachers don't need practice or experience: Everything is packaged for them and they are to deliver this, extended day and into the weekend...with home visits and tutoring and buying lunch (in other words, by being social workers as well as teachers)...
Experience doesn't matter, age creates un-"hot" people...
Get rid of 'em: Reform the system so that young, idealistic people out of college can be handed jobs for two years (which they will certainly take, in this economy) and so create a revolving door of "young and hot" people who will only use the little bit of training they are handed by the minders, the test/curriculum companies.
Solves two problems: It creates a new sort of docile, inexperienced teacher corp who don't have time to learn to really TEACH, and so merely mouth the Reformer's mechanistic rote, and b)education itself is made into mere pap, numbers-chasing, a training program for non-critically-thinking sheep who can push buttons and act on command.
Oh, and bonus: Experience increases value: A new teacher makes half what an experienced teacher makes in salary. Cycling through new, hot, short-timers instead of creating, over time, experienced educators, saves bundles of money. - 4/22/12, 4:02 PM
I agree with your entire post. I would love to see a challenger take on Tom and push those words right back into his arrogant Republican face and ask for an explanation on why he supports age discrimination. He is the Scott Walker of WA State.
If I worked for a candidate and we were challenging him, those words could be used with great effect.
He's no progressive. He's an idiot.
I tried to respond to Gao's show but couldn't find an email address or even a comments section. There was a blog at TVW but all it seemed to feature were news stories. I think they need some feedback.
n... - 4/22/12, 7:09 PM
BTW, anybody know when he is eligible for his pension? At what age after working in the legislature for how many years? I'd like to know.
n... - 4/22/12, 7:10 PM
- mirmac1 said...
Great letter from the National School Board Association. Wish our board subscribed to these values.
NSBA begs Obama for parental sanity in Ed policy - 4/23/12, 6:39 AM
- Sahila said...
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- Sahila said...
And it's awfully clever of them to hold it at Aki because then anyone protesting looks like they're dissing the school somehow - its already got a reputation as being the worst performing school in the district. That was no accident ESPECIALLY AS ONE OF THE AKI TEACHERS IS A STUDENTSFIRST FELLOW. Scroll down to the bottom of the post and see who's on the panel - all LEV people... StudentsFirst In Seattle
- Sahila said...
Movie on effects of poverty and corporate education "reform" on children, created by my housemate yesterday: Mad World
- Sahila said...
Join more than 6300 parents and educators and sign the Letter to Obama at Dump Duncan>
- Sahila said...
Follow the #StudentsFirst and #ALEC money in #edreform: money, money, money
Support for ability grouping in classrooms (it's an older article, but quite relevant):
Montgomery School's New Take On Ability Grouping Yields Results
By Daniel de Vise
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 4, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/03/AR2007110301167_2.html?sid=ST2007110301386 - 4/24/12, 12:47 PM


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Somewhere off the western coast of Africa sits Moore Observatory, which currently holds important strategic value for Earth's Global Defense Force (GDF): somewhere in its data banks, it's recorded the location of the slipgate the Strogg used to transport to our solar system before launching an attack on Earth. Our job is to get in, restore power to the observatory, retrieve the data and transmit it to GDF scientists. Of course, the Strogg know this, and have sent a sizeable force there to stop us, so it won't be easy.
In advance of QuakeCon 2007 later this week, we visited Activision for an exclusive playtest of the newly-unveiled "Island" map from the upcoming Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (which will be on display at the show). In addition to getting our first real hands-on time with the new map, this also marked our first opportunity to go toe-to-toe with the new computer-controlled bots that will be able to fill out games when you're running short a few teammates.
Like most of the maps we've seen in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars to date, "Island" is a hybrid of indoor and outdoor locations. The GDF starts on the beachhead, and first needs to infiltrate a bunker where an engineer must repair a generator that will restore power to the rest of the island.
Starting out, there are multiple routes from each team's spawn point to the objective. There's a bridge to the left of the GDC spawn point, and a few boats directly below to traverse straight across the water. In this case, it's a short distance, but having that second option makes it harder for the Strogg to concentrate long-range artillery on one location, and the boats also make it possible for the GDF to send a small squad further into the Strogg camp to disrupt things away from the frontline.


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Munich Economic Summit
The Munich Economic Summit, a joint initiative of CESifo and the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, organised in partnership with The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal Europe, and Handelsblatt, is aimed at bringing together academic scholars and decision-makers in politics, industry and finance to discuss vital European issues.
The Summit convenes annually and involves only a limited number of invited participants to allow for a private atmosphere.
15th Munich Economic Summit, 30 June – 1 July 2016
"Migration – Challenge or Opportunity?"
This year's Summit will deal with the ramifications of the largest migration wave in the post-war period, which is putting a serious strain on the European community. It threatens to create a new fault line splitting the EU, in addition to the one that yawned during the euro crisis. The Summit will not only discuss the causes of the current refugee crisis, but most crucially how the currently challenging state of affairs can be turned into a win-win situation for both the newcomers and Europe's ageing societies. How can a comprehensive integration of refugees and migrants be best accomplished? How can Europe contribute to solving the causes of the refugee crisis? How are the source countries being affected by the massive exodus, and how can such countries be effectively integrated into a dialogue?
For more information please visit the official website: www.munich-economic-summit.com
6th Summit Lecture, 18 February 2014
In 2009, the CESifo Group and the BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt launched a Munich-Summit-associated seminar series entitled "Summit Lectures", to be held before the Summit itself and aimed at discussing the main theme of the year's Summit in a smaller, more intimate circle.
The title of the 6th Summit Lecture is "WTO - Breakthrough in Bali for World Free Trade?".
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If you go with the O2, be sure to pick up a 16VAC 400mA power supply for it. (probably about $20 including shipping) This is the recommended power supply from the designer and it offers more power to the Mad Dogs than the standard 12VAC power supply that normally comes with it from JDS Labs, as an example. Also, I clipped the resistors for the 6.5x gain, effectively making my O2 gain settings of 2.5x or 1x (no gain). Feeding the O2 with a standard 2V line out, the O2 does a wonderful job with the Mad Dogs with no gain setting, especially at lower volumes. With no gain, this provides a much more useful range with the volume knob and is ideal for finding the right level to listen to with a wider range of music.
While I don't have a Magni, I do have an original Asgard, and the specs are quite similar. I like my O2 a little better in sound quality with the Mad Dogs, but it is a very close call and I am happy either way. The Asgard wins out simply on build quality and ergonomics compared to the O2. (all front-facing jacks is a bit congested) Although the Asgard is a little furnace, and I can't drag it into my bedroom and set it on my bed like I can with the O2, the Magni would not have this problem.
I actually like the fact that the O2 has front facing inputs, makes for easier switching between Inputs which I will be doing.
I guess I will buy the 130 dollar O2 now and upgrade it over time and be happy with it.
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Hamburger Buddy 163 Very finely chopping onion, mushrooms and carrots in the food processor is not only fast--it makes the vegetables hard to detect for picky eaters. They also form the base for the sauce of this ground beef skillet supper. Make it a meal: Serve with a green salad.
Beef & Bean Chile Verde 100 Chile Verde, usually a slow-cooked stew of pork, jalapeños and tomatillos, becomes an easy weeknight meal with quick-cooking ground beef and store-bought green salsa. Make it a Meal: Serve with fresh cilantro, red onion and Monterey Jack. Add cornbread on the side and your favorite hot sauce.
Loaded Twice-Baked Potatoes 52 Potatoes are one of the great comfort foods, especially when stuffed with a satisfying mixture of lean ground beef and broccoli florets plus reduced-fat sour cream and Cheddar cheese. Add a tossed salad and you have a healthy and hearty meal that will leave you feeling good.
Broccoli, Beef & Potato Hotdish 42 This easy casserole, full of ground beef, roasted broccoli and topped with hash browns, was inspired by the classic Minnesota Tater Tot hotdish. Roasting the broccoli before adding it to the casserole gives the whole dish a much more complex and exciting flavor, but it's by no means necessary. If you want to keep it simple, skip roasting the broccoli (Step 2) and use 6 cups frozen broccoli, thawed, in its place (omit 1 tablespoon oil, as well).
EatingWell Sloppy Joes 38 Our updated Sloppy Joe takes lean ground beef and adds chopped cremini mushrooms and diced fresh plum tomatoes, all in a zesty sauce. Served on a whole-wheat bun, it's a hearty dinner sandwich that will please adults and kids alike.
Creamy Hamburger Noodle Casserole 36 The EatingWell Test Kitchen takes lean ground beef and combines it with whole-grain bulgur, egg noodles and a creamy tomato sauce in a baked casserole topped with Cheddar. With less fat and calories than the original skillet meal, this dish is sure to become a new family favorite.
Sweet & Sour Beef-Cabbage Soup 35 This wholesome sweet-and-sour soup combines beef, caraway seeds, sweet paprika and cabbage--ingredients that star in a number of German dishes. It is particularly nice served with crusty rye bread. For an even heartier soup, add diced cooked potatoes along with the cabbage. Recipe by Nancy Baggett for EatingWell.
Chili Cornbread Casserole 25 Here's a fun way to serve chili and cornbread together. Don't let the ingredient list intimidate you--this casserole is easy to make and a real crowd pleaser.
Southwestern Beef & Bean Burger Wraps 24 Kids and adults alike will love these quick, zippy burgers. The beans make the burgers a little fragile, so be careful when taking them off the broiler pan. Make it a meal: serve a green salad and frozen mango slices for dessert.
Inside-Out Cheeseburgers 21 Why put the cheese on top of the burger when half of it just melts off? Instead, form the burger around the cheese so you can char the meat and safeguard the more delicate flavors. Use any mixture of hard or semihard cheeses--Emmentaler and Gouda or Asiago and Parmigiano-Reggiano also pair well.
Rag alla Bolognese (Classic Bolognese Meat Sauce) 20 This is a version of the famous meat sauce of Emilia Romagna, of which Bologna is the capital. Giuliano Hazan's family is from Emilia Romagna, and he learned to make Bolognese sauce from his mother, Marcella, who learned it from her grandmother, Mary. Its classic pairing is with homemade tagliatelle or pappardelle but it's also very good with rigatoni, shells or any substantial pasta shape, preferably one with ridges, that has nooks and cavities to trap the sauce. Adapted from How to Cook Italian by Giuliano Hazan; Scribner, 2005.
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Asian "Salisbury" Steaks 16 The original Salisbury steak was named after a popular late-19th-century diet doctor who recommended a high-protein diet. This version only resembles the classic in name and shape--the flavors are Asian rather than European and it's served atop a tender bed of sauteed watercress. Make It a Meal: Add brown rice or rice noodles and a cold Tsingtao beer.
Portobello & Beef Patty Melt 13 This diner classic gets a makeover by replacing some of the ground beef with finely chopped portobello mushrooms, which add moisture and flavor. We like a smear of pickle relish on top, but you could try chutney, mustard or hot pepper relish in its place.
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Stuffed Chard with Fresh Marinara 12 Reminiscent of the stuffed cabbage of yore, the mild flavor of chard makes these beef-stuffed rolls perfect for the whole family. Make It a Meal: A side of whole-wheat spaghetti to soak up the sauce plus a glass of Syrah.
Szechuan Braised Meatballs 9 We braise these spicy beef meatballs and Chinese cabbage in a bit of beef broth. Make it a meal: Ladle over brown rice or noodles with steamed broccoli and carrots on the side.
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Sins of the Flesh - Part 2
Jessica Greene
Fiction, Blackmail, Coercion, First Time, Oral Sex, Reluctance, School, Teen, Teen Male/Teen Female, Written by women, Young
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Gender: female Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Mon 30th of May 2011
Although my mother holds strong to her strict Catholic beliefs and insists that we are born into this world sinners, I believe that everyone starts out basically good. I think every true sinner has a defining moment, when they cross over the threshold into darkness. I can recall mine vividly.
I woke up in the morning and enjoyed that single moment of bliss before I remembered my terrible mistake from yesterday.
I pounded my fist against the mattress and forced myself not to curse, because I know I would be punished severely if my mother heard me. There was no cursing in her house. There wasn't much of anything in her house.
As I sluggishly prepared for the long day ahead of me, I recalled the details of how I had managed to have an orgasm on the phone with the resident bad boy at my school when he had only called to get me to do his homework. I guess it was my punishment for allowing myself to indulge in pleasuring myself.
As I reached the bottom of the stairs down to my front door, I was greeted with my mother's daily inspection.
"Arms straigt out," she ordered timelessly. After fifteen years, I had learned to do as she asked and saw no reason to protest.
As her eyes examined every inch of my body to ensure I wasn't dressed like an "fornicating harlot," (although I suppose I had behaved as one only hours ago) she stopped and scrutinized the hem of my floral dress.
"I'm going to have to meaure," she murmured to herself as she fetched her tape measure. She ran it from the end of the dress to the beginning of my knee. "This is half an inch too short. Change."
"But, mother-" WHAP! I was flat on the cold, linoleum floor. The side of my face stung, especially where it had made contact with the ring my mother had refused to take off, even though my father had killed himself years ago.
"The LORD cares not for resilient youth, or for harlots. Today you are both," my mother spat callously at me as I picked myself up off of the floor.
Minutes later, I descended the stairs again in a white, lace dress with long sleeves, and thick concealer to disguise the new mark on my face. It was my safe dress that I picked after almost every failed inspection. Once again, it worked like a charm. I was allowed to go to school that day.
Later on, I forced my anxiety down as I turned the knob to my English class. I had expected everyone to have already heard about my ridiculous incident, but the only eyes I could feel on me were Malcolm's gorgeous, emerald eyes.
"How're you doin', Eileen?" he asked as I slid into my desk, opposite from him.
"I'm fine," I stated, pretending to fidget with something in my bag.
"Just... Fine?" he inquired, leaning in closer to me with a crooked grin and devilish eyes. He must have been thinking that I was way beyond fine the last time he heard from me...
"Great," I humored him with a forced smile.
"Thats what I thought," He crooned. I felt something warm brush against my leg and I flinched. It took me a moment to realize that he had removed his shoe and was now caressing me with his foot. I didn't dare say another word all period.
Later, as I shut the door to my locker and turned around, I came face to face with my handsome devil once again.
"Can I help you, Malcolm?" I asked through gritted teeth.
"Yeah... I think you can help me with something..." he breathed as his eyes flickered down to the hard lump in his jeans.
"Listen, I think I gave you the wrong idea, that is not how I am," I scolded him as I pushed past him to walk away.
"Yes, you are," he stated matter-of-factly as he caught me by the wrist. "And I have proof."
"You can say what you'd like to, Malcolm, but you can't prove anything," I spat, wrenching my arm from his grip.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," He taunted me, withdrawing a small mp3 player from his pocket, once again drawing my attention to the rock hard lump in his pants. He extended an earbud to me and I hesitantly placed it in my ear.
I heard the last few moments of the orgasm I had inadvertently shared with him on the phone. He had recorded almost all of the "good parts," if you could call them that. If only I didn't have such a unique voice. My speech came out about an octave below average, making me sound perpetually sultry. The voice on the recording was so obviously mine.
"What do you want from me?" I asked coldly, jerking the bud out of my ear.
"I just want you to come have a little fun with me, Eileen. It's free period, we've got a half hour," he breathed, with that vicious grin.
I opened my mouth to refuse when he waved the mp3 player in my face, reminding me of where I stood.
"Fine," I muttered, resigning myself over to him. My heart beat a mile a minute and my skin grew clammy as Malcolm led me by the hand to wherever ungodly place we were headed. I did fear what he would do to me, but I was even more afraid that I might like it.
He took me down a corridor I had never seen before, mostly empty and had very few occupied classrooms. It looked as if the school had forgotten it as the rest of it evolved over the decades. When we finally came to a stop in a small nook with grafitti covering the walls, and completely out of sight, I knew that this would be where it would happen.
Malcolm brushed my oak-colored hair off of my face with both hands. I grimaced as his skin passed over the fresh bruise on my cheeck. He didn't seem to notice.
"Get down on your knees," he ordered. Once I was on the ground, he spoke again, in that deep voice of his that made me undeniable hot and sent a chill down my spine. "Get my dick out."
I fumbled for a moment on the button of his jeans, causing him to impatiently reach down and do it himself. I managed to get them down to his ankles. It seemed that the moment I tugged at his plaid boxers, his hard pole popped out and nearly poked me in the face. Malcolm laughed at me as I jumped back startled.
His dick was as big as I had fantasized, measuring in at 9 1/2 inches, and pleasantly thick. It was lined with curly blonde pubic hair resting neatly at the base. I wondered if he shaved it to keep it that way.
"Go on, I know you wanna suck it," he enticed me, and try as I might to deny it, he was right.
I wasn't completely sure what I was doing, but I had years worth of gossip overheard in the girls' bathroom to guide me.
I parted my lips slightly and pushed them over the soft, pink, head of his excited cock.
"Christ, careful!" he exclaimed as my teeth grazed his shaft. I was embarrassed at my mistake and folded my lips down over my teeth to avoid repeating it.
I was nearly halfway down his long shaft when I gagged and quickly pulled off of him for air. With nothing but a primal grunt, he forced himself even deeper into my mouth than before. I could see that romance wasn't high on his list, and I secretely loved that.
I began to do swirl my tongue around his shaft in circles. He moaned deeply and pushed himself nearly all the way into my mouth. I almost gagged again. I had a good 3/4 of his slick, salty member in my mouth, but that was just about all I could manage.
"Do this," he whispered, placing my right hand on the base of his shaft and guiding it back and forth.
My tongue slid all around the head of his dick and I got my first taste of his (or anyone's) sweet, salty pre-cum. The taste both revolted and aroused me. I loved it.
"Oh, shit... You're a fuckin' natural, baby," he moaned, thrusting his hips forward to fuck my face thoroughly.
I looked up at him with both scorn and lust in my eyes.
"Don't even fuckin' try to act like- Oh, shit- like you don't like it," he growled as he gripped me by the hair and roughly jerked me back and forth faster and faster.
"Fuck... I'm close," he murmured. "Come on babe, play with my balls some..."
I used my free hand to grope his manhood and squeeze lightly. Squeeze. Release. Squeeze. Release.
"That's it... That's it... That's fucking IT, baby!" he groaned loudly. His moans of ecstacy grew louder and louder. He was beginning to hurt me as he slammed his pelvis against my face over and over again, jamming his dick down my throat. I could feel the moisture soaking through my panties, but I didn't have a free hand and it was a little late to start working on myself.
"Oh, FUCK! Here it comes, babe..." he warned me, still raping my mouth full-force.
As I pulled him out of my mouth while continuing to jerk him he growled, "NO! I wan' you to drink it!"
"Well, I ain't gonna," I responded with more fire and defiance than I had ever allowed to consume me in my life.
Before we could argue anymore, I felt several splashes of what felt like white hot liquid against my face. I smelled that salty man-smell and made a mental note if it to enjoy later on my own.
Malcolm forcefully rubbed his cock all over my face. By the time he was done, his juice was smeared all across my nose, cheeks, and plenty had found its way into my bangs.
"Hell, you done that before?" he asked me as he began to compose himself, hoisting his boxers and pants back up his legs. I shook my head no, rising up off of the ground. Had that really just happened?
"Shit, that was fuckin' crazy, you oughtta be in porn or somethin'..." I couldn't help but think of what my mother would do to me if she could see us right now. I shuddered at the thought.
"Hey, what happened to your face?" Malcolm questioned me at that very moment. I suppose cover-up isn't built to last through having cum rubbed all over your face, I would have to re-apply it in the bathroom. He ran his fingers over the wound. I flinched at his touch. "I didn't do that to you... Did I ?"
"Uh... No, it's nothing," I replied, unable to think of a single good excuse for my bruise.
"No it ain't! Jesus, Eileen, that things the size of Texas!" he exclaimed. Maybe Malcolm wasn't a terrible guy. Sure he had coerced me into oral sex with him, but he'd known that I wanted it, and now here he was concerned (or at least pretending to be) over a mark on my face. Men were a mystery to me sometimes.
"I fell off my bike," I lied. "Now are you going to delete that recording?"
"After that? Hell, no!" he exlaimed, forgetting about my face (which I was going to have to wash before all that crud dried up) as he remembered his conquest of the day. "But maybe next time, I could do you," he crooned with that evil, irresistable grin.
I hoped to God he couldn't see the goosebumps rising on my skin.
The bell rang, I would have to make quick work of cleaning myself up and getting to class.
"Well, I'll being seeing you soon," he dismissed me with sex dripping from his voice. He patted the mp3 player, with its incriminating evidence, in his pocket and left me standing there, horny, cum-drenched, and probably about to be late for class.
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2011-08-10 11:42:38
i luuuuuv malcolm!!!!!!!! i luv bad boys n i reli want him 2 fuck me
anonymous reader
2011-06-05 02:10:05
Wish it was longer stories other than that very nice
anonymous reader
2011-05-31 03:33:39
Real great start! Looking forward to the next installment!
anonymous reader
2011-05-30 17:30:43
great direction and pacing, I'm sure we'd all love to hear more. The detail is absolutely splendid too
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2011-05-30 16:39:56
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• This will be the clubs' eighth UEFA meeting. Dynamo have had the upper hand in the past, with the record W5 D1 L1 (W2 D0 L1 in Turkey).
• On matchday three, a Denys Garmash goal in second-half added time (90+3) gave Dynamo a 1-0 win against Beşiktaş, who are yet to score against their opponents in four visits to Kyiv.
• They met in last season's UEFA Europa League round of 32, where Yuri Semin's Dynamo beat Bernd Schuster's Beşiktaş 4-1 in Istanbul and 4-0 in Kyiv.
• The teams for their most recent meeting – on 17 February 2011 – were:
Beşiktaş: Hakan Arıkan, İsmail Köybaşi, Sivok, Ricardo Quaresma, Hilbert, Mert Nobre (Hugo Almeida 69), Bobô, Guti, Ferrari, Ernst (Erhan Güven 56), Mehmet Aurélio (Necip Uysal 80).
Dynamo: Shovkovskiy, Danilo Silva, Vukojević, Shevchenko (Kravets 84), Yarmolenko (Garmash 89), Milevskiy, Mikhalik (Popov 73), Gusev, Eremenko, Yussuf, Leandro Almeida.
• Hugo Almeida was sent off three minutes into second-half added time.
• The result represented Beşiktaş' heaviest home defeat in their UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League history.
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• Beşiktaş have won three of their last four European home games, and have scored eight goals in the two most recent continental fixtures at the Inönü Stadium (against Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC and FC Alania Vladikavkaz).
• Dynamo are unbeaten in seven UEFA Europa League matches, while their last seven UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League away contests have ended W4 D2 L1 – with that lone defeat a 1-0 at Manchester City FC in last season's round of 16.
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• Two of Dynamo's three group stage goals this season have come in added time. But for those late efforts, they would go into this game with two points rather than five.
• Beşiktaş defender Egemen Korkmaz turns 29 on the day of the game. He has never played in a UEFA competition game on his birthday. Nor has his team-mate Veli Kavlak, with the midfielder turning 23 on the same day.
• Dynamo's Ayila Yussuf will turn 27 the day after the game.
• Once a midfielder and forward, the vastly experienced Semin is in his second spell as Dynamo coach, having won the 2008/09 Ukrainian title in his first stint. He also lead the club to the UEFA Cup semi-finals that year. Semin made his name in his native Russia with FC Lokomotiv Moskva, winning titles in 2002 and 2004, before going on to manage the Russia national team in 2005.
• Semin's Lokomotiv lost 3-0 away and 3-1 at home against Beşiktaş in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round.
• Portuguese coach Carlos Carvalhal is in command at Beşiktaş. Once a defender for SC Braga and FC Porto among others, in his last post before coming to Istanbul he coached Sporting Clube de Portugal in 2009/10.
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I was wondering if this multitouch wireless trackpad is HId-compatible and if anyone has tried to get the positions of fingers in with Max/MSP yet ?
Maybe it could be a decent alternative to the Magic Trackpad for Windows users.
Roald Baudoux
It should be, as it has USB. It will be compatible with Windows at least, so it should appear as a device (once the drivers are installed) using the [hi] object. The nature of the data in depends entirely on what configuration it is set to. You will most likely have to confine the values based on an X/Y position.
There may also be issues with the multi-touch elements.
Might be worth emailing Logitech support.
1st Creative Labs Support Team firstname.lastname@example.com
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…I'll post the information here if I get any.
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