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Share your deer photos: First buck
October 28, 2012 4:00 AMAnthony Massarelli, 10, of Plum got his first buck -- a seven point -- Oct. 1 while hunting with his dad and uncle.
Now you can self-publish your deer photos online at post-gazette.com. Go to www.post-gazette.com/yourphotos, click on the "Outdoors" link, then click on "Submit a Photo" and follow the prompts. Accepts .jpg format only, one image per email. Write your title and caption, including name, town, age (for minors), county/township where deer was taken and optional information (sporting arm used, conditions, etc.). Photos will be vetted for content. Text is subject to editing. Check out the reader deer photos at post-gazette.com/yourphotos.


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New App Brings Social Networks to Verizon Feature Phones
Nov 18, 2009, 12:00 AM by Eric M. Zeman @phonescooper
Today Verizon Wireless announced a new application that it is making available to a wide selection of feature phones on its network called Social Beat. The application, which was developed by iSkoot, will let Verizon customers access their social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other feeds all in one place. Social Beat lets users update their status and share information to any or all of their social networks, as well as view friends' activity, news feeds, status updates and new photos from a single portal. Social Beat is compatible with more than 20 handsets that are being offered by Verizon Wireless. The application is free.
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Mila Kunis Named 'Knockout of the Year'
With that leaked-photo scandal behind her, Mila Kunis can bask in the glory of being officially dubbed "Knockout of the Year" by GQ.
The GQ photo of Milena Markovna Kunis (a native of Chernovtsy, Ukraine — which was part of the USSR when she was born) features the actress posing seductively on a backyard swimming pool diving board in nothing but heavy eye makeup, a white tank top, orange bikini bottoms and a pair of high-heeled silver sandals.
Michael Idov, the writer who profiled Kunis for the magazine, found her in jeans and a sweatshirt, however, when he met up with her in Detroit, where she was filming "Oz: The Great and Powerful," Sam Raimi's massive prequel to "The Wizard of Oz." The young woman, whom he describes as "sardonic, brassy, effortlessly real, the girl you can't get out of your head," plays a witch in the movie.
Kunis revealed to Idov a side of her that she has not shown before in public — that of her inner Jewish mother. The 28-year-old is not yet an actual mother, having had no children together with her former long-time partner, Macaulay Culkin.
Apparently, Idov was sick with a cough and laryngitis at the time of the interview. Kunis made him feel at home by telling him it was okay for him to cough all over her, if necessary (though the Shmooze knows for a fact that most Jewish moms remind people to cough into their elbows). She also made him a somewhat scary-sounding home remedy in her kitchen (it contained wine, green-tea powder, fish oil, apple-cider vinegar, and Ayurvedic chai all boiled together and mixed with half a bottle of vodka). Maybe it's a special elixir that makes guys fall even harder for her.
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True Story, Anal, Consensual Sex, Teen, Virginity, Young
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Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Thu 2nd of February 2012
You let yourself in with the set of keys I gave you a couple months back. You throw them on the table, along with your purse, trying to be quiet. You're not sure if I'm asleep or not. You leave all your dirty clothes by the washing machine and dart past the bedroom, naked, into the bathroom. You admire yourself in the mirror thinking even covered in the grime from the day, your hair a mess, you feel sexy. Your breasts are perky, with lovely nipples in just the right location that would give a playboy bunny a run for their money.
In the shower you scrub furiously to get the smell of the day off of you, wash out your long hair and step out of the warm water, reluctantly. The twenty second sprint from bathroom to bedroom to get under the covers is always terrible this time of year. Despite your exhaustion you jump onto the bed to kiss me. I'm as naked as you are, you can smell that I had showered; my body wash (your favorite scent in the world) is still fresh on my skin.
"How'd it go today?" You ask as you get comfortable on your stomach, putting a pillow under your hips (the only way you can sleep) and face the door.
"Amazing, I'll tell you about it in a little bit. I've been waiting for you to get home." You can feel my erection on your skin. Normally you'd be willing to jump my bones, but you had a long day and you're dead tired.
"I want to, but I'm really tired. It's so much more exciting when we're both into it. Remember when we both pulled a muscle trying that one position?"
I kiss the words gently away. I tell you to relax and just lay there; I want to try something new. I stack two more pillows under your hips and get out your favorite peppermint lotion and start to rub your legs and back, my strong hands massaging your aching muscles. You can't help but sigh and moan from my touch. I kiss my way down your back, targeting each vertebra.
I spread your butt cheeks, and slowly start to lick and kiss my way down to your puckered, virgin anus. You're wet by now, which is causing me to throb, as I put a finger into your pussy and slowly finger you. I continue to lick you as your groans grow louder and you relax. I'm not going to hurt you, I say. I grab the bottle of lubricant I had on standby and put a small amount on my finger. You feel the cool, slimy lubricant over the sensitive skin of your puckered rosebud, while my other finger rubs against your clit, building up a delicious and taboo anticipation.
I start pressing the finger into your hole, very gently. It slides in easily, about half an inch before meeting some resistance. I know that it was your inner sphincter and I gently whispered to you to just relax. You comment on how it feels so strange, and new, and wonderful. You're enjoying this anal experiment much more than you thought you would. I continue to rub your clit and you start to loosen up. So many thoughts run through my head, all somehow related to the fact that I can't believe this is actually happening. When we met you said you would never do something like this, and while I accepted it at the time I always hoped your stance might change. I'm having trouble forming coherent thoughts as all the blood rushes to my cock. Then you really surprise me.
"Reach into the drawer on the bedside table and grab the butt plug in the back." You tell me with a smile over your shoulder. My mind spins and my thoughts become incoherent. "I've remembered how fond you were of this and so I've been working up to being comfortable with something in my ass for the past month," you tell me with a sly, devious look. You little minx! I think to myself. I grab the plug and coat it in lubricant, pushing it in gently, the whole time continuing to stimulate your clit.
It still seemed difficult at first as it met resistance, but that's to be expected in a situation like this. I can take all the time I want, I think to myself. I stopped pushing and tell you to relax, and you really do feel it relaxing! I push slowly but firmly, and I feel your ass open and take the plug. It was in! But it wasn't in very far, yet—the thickest part had passed through the barrier of your sphincter, but when it was in only a few inches, I felt some more resistance and you moan and tell me about a mild discomfort. I gave myself a minute and you seem to relax again, so I pushed it in a little further—it was probably about 5" in when the rest of the dildo slid home up your butt.
I was super excited, but I didn't want to mess anything up and hurt you just as I was having success, so I let it sit for a moment, enjoying the thought of your tight asshole stretched around the plug packed tight into your rectum. Your pussy twitched and throbbed with pleasure. I would have cum so quickly if I had touched myself, but I wanted… no needed, to have the pleasure of taking you in the ass. I have had vivid dreams about this. The last thing I would ever want to do is hurt you, but I know that if I do this right you will absolutely love it.
You yelp as I remove the plug from your tight rear door and line up my throbbing dick with the crinkled star of your asshole. As I press against its tightness, you remembered fear. My dick is MUCH thicker than the plug that you'd been using, but you trust me, as you feel your asshole stretching wider than it ever had before. A cry falls from your lips as you arch your back, your asshole clamping down tightly on my head. I moan as I feel your muscles rippling over the head of my dick, forcing another inch into your ass as you whimper, trying valiantly to push me out.
"Can we wait just a second, okay, it hurts a little." You think to yourself that it did hurt, in an odd way that you would never be able to describe... almost cramping, a kind of slick hurt... the feeling that something was being done that SHOULDN'T be done. Your breath catches in your chest as my dick follows your forward movement and another inch was forced into your body.
You moan, leaning your head forward to rest in your hands, panting as you try to adjust to the odd sensation. It felt wrong... dirty... uncomfortable. And erotic for all that, but you are still afraid... afraid that I would slam my dick all the way into you, afraid that something would tear, afraid that this would be more painful than you could bear. So what if you liked sex a little rough, this was an entirely new world to you and you aren't sure what to make of it.
I squeeze one of your butt-cheeks, holding my desires in check as I look down at my dick splitting your ass open. I could tell that you weren't completely enjoying this as you fight your own mental battle of pain vs pleasure, and a sick part of me was turned on by that. That part of me really just wanted to slam into your ass, fuck it hard and feel you writhe until you started to enjoy it... but I told you to trust me, and the caring part of me would never hurt you. Maybe as you adjusted I would get rougher…
I grip your hips and push another two inches of my dick into your ass as you moan. If I'm not careful I will cum soon, because this sensation is beyond description. I reach around your body and slide my hands under your chest and squeeze your breasts, feeling your asshole tighten over my dick as I graze your nipples. You bite your lip as pleasure flows from your breasts to your confused groin, your ass tightening uncomfortably making you very aware of where my dick is, but feeling good too. I listen to you and feel you, but don't start fucking you hard like I wanted to... I just stay completely imbedded in your tightness, feeling your muscles ripple over my dick, as I wait for your body to adjust a little more.
I slide the rest of the way in, and then start to come back out. Feeling me move inside your ass is something that you just aren't used to. You bite the pillow as your ass ripples, trying to figure out what was going on inside it, your body bucking as I begin to slowly slide back into your body. In and out, very carefully and gently, although by your reaction a viewer might think it was anything but... you shivered and thrash as I opened up your ass, panting as my dick noses deeply into your body, forgetting about how tired you were just half an hour ago.
My hands began running over you, your sides, back, waist, hips, and ass... sliding down the backs of your thighs... and then circling around to begin playing with your pussy. I rub your wet pussy lips with my fingers, gently tickling your clit, as you feel the tingling fire starting, helping to alleviate some of the strange sensation my dick was creating. I can sense a shift in you, as you finally get out of your own head and begin to enjoy the multiple sensations that you are experiencing. The initial pain of insertion is gone, replaced only with the amplifying effect that anal sex has on the rest of your body. Every touch feels more vibrant, every thrust is exploring a new area. You realize that not only does it not feel uncomfortable, it feels good, and you understand why people say it will get better.
Now you begin shivering for a different reason, your ass moving back against me enthusiastically, swallowing my dick and tightening every time I bury it in your ass. Leveraging yourself up onto your forearms, you begin fucking back even harder, enjoying the way my dick stabs into your ass. I groan and take this as my cue to really let loose; my fingers explore deeper into your pussy as I start thrusting hard into your ass, making you cry out with mingled pain and pleasure.
"Damn you have a tight ass..." I whisper to you. You respond by just slammed your ass back against me harder. You are really starting to get into the butt-fucking, wanting to feel more of me in you, wanting to feel yourself stretch to receive me. It felt so deliciously naughty to you, and the pain had worn down to just a slight discomfort that made the pleasure in your pussy seem exponentially stronger.
Your head rests on your hands, although your forearms are still balancing on the bed to keep your ass high in the air. You moan loudly as I pillage your deflowered hole, as you concentrate on the fire that was burning inside of your groin. My fingers twitch and rub, pressing hard against you clit and you move your hips slightly to rub against the pressure, your legs trembling as an orgasm nears. To date you still have yet to orgasm, which is a constant area of self doubt in my mind. I'm not good enough to get you over the edge. Today, however, with this new sensation amplifying everything around it, you wonder if it isn't possible.
As you start to cum your entire body shakes, your ass tightening over my thrusting dick and rippling with pleasure. Gasping I force my dick in and out of your tightness, increasing your pleasure as I slam deep into your body. Reaching up with one hand to grab your hair, I pull it back, forcing you to arch your back as I pulled you firmly against me. You shriek with pleasure, your hands clawing at the bed as I pulled your hair back, breasts thrust upwards into the air.
With a final plunge, I started to cum, holding your hair firmly as I unload into your ass. You can feel every single pulse of cum forcing its way past your tight entrance and into your body, pushing against the ring of flesh that enclosed the base of my dick. When I finally finish cumming, we both gasp and collapse. You gasp again as my body fells on top of yours, my dick lodged deep in your ass.
You moan, wriggling a little. Now that the pleasure is over you could feel how very sore your poor asshole is, uncomfortable with the dick shrinking inside it. But I hold myself there, enjoying you body even as I shrink. When I finally pulled myself out, your hole is bright pink and starts leaking thick globs of cum. You stayed like that, panting for a moment or two, as I think about what just happened. This was no more than pipe dream just an hour before, and now it was a reality. I wondered if you enjoyed it, if you would do it again.
"So?" I ask as I sit on the bed, stroking your hair. You looked up at me with those pleasure glazed, beautiful eyes, "It hurt," you say, and then smile, "But it felt awfully good too..."
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2012-02-11 21:05:26
mHimJp Yeah, now it's clear !... And firstly I did not understand very much where there was the link with the title itself !!...
2012-02-05 04:46:15
Good story, most well written with a few minor spelling issues. Easily overlooked as your description of the scene was very sensual and erotic. Thanks.
anonymous reader
2012-02-02 20:20:34
There's no better sex then taking a woman's ass-cherry.
anonymous reader
2012-02-02 19:02:16
I said What What in the butt!
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Mohali: Jan 22, 2013
Senior batsman and local boy Yuvraj Singh on Tuesday skipped the team's net session ahead of the fourth ODI against England on Wednesday, due to sore throat.
"He had a sore throat, but he is otherwise okay," cricketer's personal manager informed on Tuesday.
He said that Yuvraj is fit to play Wednesday's crucial game.
On Monday, Yuvraj had participated in the Indian team's training session as he was seen playing soccer and also did a bit of stretching exercises with his teammates.
Yuvraj's fans are equally excited to see him playing in front of his homecrowd once again. Yuvraj, who had emerged as the player of the tournament in the 2011 World Cup, had last played the Cup's semi-final in Mohali against Pakistan, where he failed with the bat.
The left-hander's fans would be keen to see him in action as the illness had kept him out for long. Yuvraj has featured in 280 ODIs with over 8,000 runs that includes 13 centuries.


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Dakar: Newcastle United striker Demba Ba is among six regulars who have pulled out of Senegal's squad for a friendly international in Niger on Wednesday, the news agency said on Monday. (Agencies) Latest News from Sports News Desk
Ba played for Newcastle in their home Premier League defeat to West Ham on Sunday without any visible injury but joins Lamine Sane (Bordeaux), Cheikh Mbengue (Toulouse), Pape Ndiaye Souare (Stade Reims), Idrissa Gana Gueye (Lille) and Qatar-based Issiar Dia (Lekhwiya) in withdrawing from the match in Niamey.
Senegal's caretaker coach Mayacine Mar has replaced them with Ibrahima Ba (Istres), Malick Mane (Sogndal) and Pape Alioune Diouf (Kalmar).
Senegal missed out on African Nations Cup qualification last month when they were formally disqualified after their match against the Ivory Coast in Dakar was abandoned because of crowd violence.


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Infamously shameless German synth-pop artist Peaches recently teamed up with more than 400 Pussy Riot supporters in Berlin to shoot a colorful and absurdist music video in support of the imprisoned Russian art-punks. Let's face it: if anyone's equipped to call out Putin on his "patriarchal bullshit," it's probably Peaches. The singer/producer has also started up a petition to free the wrongfully imprisoned musicians that has been steamrolling its way through the internet. Watch the video of the masked activists below--and keep an eye out for a few cameos from elsewhere in the musical world.
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Curated List of Penetration Testing Reports
Julio Cesar Fort has started putting together a curated list of penetration testing reports from a variety of security consultancies. While the list is new, and not exhaustive yet, it's on the right track and I look forward to seeing it grow. It's always interesting to see how different companies do their reporting, and there is a lot to be learned in these reports. If you're a professional penetration tester, the layout, structure and formatting choices are probably more interesting than the actual content in this case.
The list is on GitHub, so I'm sure we'll start seeing others contributing soon: https://github.com/juliocesarfort/public-pentesting-reports
Revoking Chinese CNNIC Root Certificate in Mac OS X
Earlier this month, Google and Firefox both dropped the Root Certificate of Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC, after it was discovered that it had delegated its authority to an Egyptian intermediary to allow it to fraudulently sign SSL/TLS certificates for the google.com domain (presumably for the purposes of performing man-in-the-middle attacks and snooping on Egyptian internet traffic).
Apple, despite releasing Mac OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3, has yet to remove this rogue CA. I hope that Apple joins in and revokes the CNNIC in an upcoming update, but in the meantime you can remove it from OS X yourself!
Simply run the following command in the Terminal and *poof*, another unnecessary and untrusted CA bites the dust:
1 | sudo security delete-certificate -c "CNNIC ROOT" /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain |
It's worth pointing out that a deleted Root CA cert may re-appear in a subsequent system update (I will check when 10.10.4 comes out). The alternative to this, which can only be achieved using Keychain Access (I believe), is to tell OS X to never trust a given Root CA certificate – a setting that shouldn't be undone by future updates. To do this:
- Open Keychain Access
- Click on 'System Roots' on the left
- Right-click on the Root CA you don't trust (ie. CNNIC ROOT) and select Get Info
- Expand the 'Trust' section
- Select 'Never Trust' from the "When using this certificate" dropdown
- Close the panel (OS X will probably ask for your password to authenticate the change)
- You should then see a red X icon next to the untrusted cert.
I personally think that our operating systems and browsers already trust far too many Root CAs, many of which are unnecessary, others are potentially malicious. OS X by default trusts around 204 Root CAs. I'm planning on cutting this down to a short list of CAs that are both (a) trusted and (b) necessary for normal day-to-day use of the Internet. I'll report back on that when I get time.
Unfortunately, there is no mechanism in iOS to remove certificates from the Root CA store. The list of current trusted Root CAs in iOS can be found here.
Dome9 Package for Synology NAS
I own a Synology DS413j NAS, and without wanting to write a whole review about it, these things are awesome, the management UI is great, and you can run all kinds of packages on them. One thing I like to do with mine is run an OpenVPN server so that I can VPN into home and do cool stuff.
But I was a bit concerned about the notion of having my NAS internet-facing, even if it was only OpenVPN's UDP port. So, powering through with my love for all things Dome9 (I swear they don't pay me), I wrote my own little package that installs the Dome9 Agent onto a Synology NAS and allows you to control its firewall (and make dynamic access requests) through the Dome9 service. Now I can make pretty much any of my NAS' services available to the internet, and not have to worry about random attackers discovering those services. Similar to Single Packet Authorization (although easier to set up and use), Dome9 allows you to dynamically open one or more ports to a given IP for a period of time, and so while the port is available to you, the services remain completely invisible to everyone else.
This is the first release of the Dome9 package, and while it may need more work to support other VPN protocols, it's ready for testing. If you do use this package, I'd be keen to hear from you, as I've yet to find another Synology-owning Dome9 user!
To install this package, simply download the dome9.spk file (below) and use the Manual Install option in the Package Center in DSM. You will need to have a Dome9 account and enter your pairing key to allow the agent to pair with the Dome9 service.
Honeyport Python Script with Local Firewall and Dome9 Support
Following on from my linux bash honeyport script (read this first if you don't know what a Honeyport is), I wanted to write a script that works across platforms to accept connections on a given port and block that IP using the local firewall – IPFW on Mac OS X, iptables on Linux, or Windows Firewall – or using the Dome9 service (I'm hoping to add Unix support soon).
I chose to write this one in Python as the cross-platform language of choice, and it's compatible with Python 2.7 to 3.4. One feature of this script is that you can optionally configure it to run another Python script whenever a client connects to the honeyport. The client's IP will be passed to the called script as an argument, allowing you to do whatever you want with it. The script's output is then sent back to the connected client before they are blacklisted.
Check it out on GitHub, improvements and additional ideas are welcome!
Honeyport Script Dome9 Blacklist TTL Update
Dome9 just introduced the ability to set a time-to-live (TTL) option for blacklisted IPs, something I may have bugged them for about once or twice! This is nice as it allows items on your blacklist to expire after a pre-determined amount of time instead of living on in perpetuity. It's particularly beneficial when you run something like my Honeyport that can end up blacklisting over 400 unique IPs in about two months — it saves having to go in and manually remove blacklisted IPs periodically.
I've updated my Honeyport script to include the option to set a TTL on blacklisted IPs when using Dome9. Note this doesn't yet work when using IPtables as it doesn't have an easy TTL-style option for rules. This functionality for IPtables is on my TODO list.
Check out honeyport-0.2.sh here!
Linux Bash Ncat Honeyport Script with IPTables and Dome9 Support
After securing systems by hiding them completely from the network/internet using Single Packet Authorization, I've recently been interested in doing more so-called 'active' defense, by implementing solutions to delay, confuse, or thwart attackers. Completely hiding one's system is not always feasible (ie. in the case of an internet-facing server), and monitoring, apart from being purely reactive, is not always easy and requires the involvement of a human. An alternative to these is to do some automated active defense. One simple tool in the bag of active defense tricks is the honeyport. Read more
The pending apocalypse? Maybe more fact than fiction
Forget for a moment that the following video is a trailer for an upcoming Tom Clancy game, because it's beautifully done and highlights a real danger that our world faces as we rely more and more of increasingly fragile systems and infrastructure. I think the things depicted in the video are a far bigger threat than things like terrorism, yet are hardly addressed today.
For those of you actually interested in the game, this gameplay trailer looks pretty cool.
Lock Screen Bypass in iOS 7 Beta 1
A new version of iOS, a new lockscreen/passcode bypass! Luckily this one was caught early in the first Beta of iOS 7 released to developers at WWDC 2013. Although this lockscreen bypass is simpler than some of the previous ones that required some tricky steps to pull off, it's probably worth pointing out that it will only allow access to the phone's photos, and the ability to delete, email, tweet or upload the stored image files. It does not allow access to any other apps.
I should point out that I played with iOS 7 for a day, and it was so buggy that I had to downgrade back to iOS 6. Luckily Apple has plenty of time to fix all these issues come the release date this fall.
To bypass the lockscreen simply follow these easy steps:
- Pull up the Control Center
- Tap the Calculator icon to open it
- Pull up the Control Center again
- Tap the Camera icon to open it
- Tap the photos icon in the bottom-left corner to get full access to the photos
Check out the video below to see it in action.
iPhone and iPad Activation Lock Coming in iOS 7
Those of you who have been diligent in securing your iOS devices with passcodes, wiping and Find My iPhone, just to have a thief restore your device and keep on going – well – your prayers have been answered. Coming in iOS 7 is a great feature called 'Activation Lock'.
With Activation Lock enabled, even if your iPhone or iPad is restored to its factory settings, the user will need to activate the device using the Apple ID of the previous user. Also, if the device was put into Lost Mode in Find My iPhone, the lock screen will continue to display the fact that it is lost until the device is activated.
This is a hugely useful feature that, if used properly, will make iPhones and iPads a significantly less attractive target to thieves, as the stolen devices would be rendered useless to them. It was nice to see Apple address one of the main concerns that users have been expressing about the bypass-ability of Find My iPhone. Check out Protecting and Recovering Your iPhone and iPad from Loss and Theft (will be updated soon with this new feature).
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Ah, hell isn't as bad as I thought. -Kim Jong-il, Osama bin Laden, Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi
Not the "Ghost" remake we where hoping for. -Kim Jong-il
Just great. They'll probably find a way to blame me for this as well. NOM NOM NOM. -Barack Obama
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Kasim Reed's bad week continues with "Pants on Fire" from Politifact
Coming fresh off a "Meet the Press" stop, an appearance laden with barbs at Republican Mitt Romney for his career in private equity, it was revealed that Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed appeared to have no personal problems with the governing capacity of Bain executives. Reed, who hired two top Bain execs, days after his 2009 election, to help steer the government of Atlanta, found himself in a political trap built of his own accord.
Today, his week just got worse, as Politifact Georgia has given him a "Pants on Fire" rating regarding the Atlanta Mayor's statements about the new international terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson airport.
After almost a decade laden with setbacks, the terminal opened on May 16th of this year. At the opening ceremony, airport surrogates, and Mayor Reed himself, stated that the terminal was opening "on time and on budget". Politifact's piece points out that initial estimates "pegged the cost at $719 million" in 2000. However, six years later "auditors concluded that at an estimated cost of $1 billion, the international terminal's price tag was spiraling out of control", and, by 2007, "the expected price was as high as $1.5 billion, even though it would be 400,000 square feet smaller than planned". The final budget, following Reed's election, was set at $1.4 billion, a far cry from the initial $700 million.
As for timing, the terminal was initially expected to open in 2006. Come 2005, " airport officials said that costs were rising for the new terminal, and its opening would be delayed until 2009″. That was delayed another year as the terminal team was fired, and "by 2009, planners projected an early 2012 opening".
Dependent on your definition of "early 2012″, May 16th could potentially fit at least one parameter. Politifact closes by pointing out "that the delays did not take place under Reed's watch", but that he is "accountable for the highly inaccurate claim" of the supposed "on time and on budget" opening of the terminal.
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A few weeks after Enrique Peña Nieto was elected as Mexico's new president, I walked through the gate in the heavy metal security fence and into the modern, high-tech campus of Mexico's Public Security Ministry in Mexico City. I watched Francisco Niembro González, who then served as former president Felipe Calderon's vice-secretary of Information Technology at the security ministry, or SSP for its initials in Spanish, enter into the federal government's crisis-planning center inside a hermetically sealed bunker. He pulled up a map showing the flight trajectories of cocaine-carrying planes leaving Colombia. Curved red lines marked the flight paths of the smuggling routes between Colombia, one of the world's top cocaine producers, and Guatemala and Honduras, two countries to the south of Mexico, the gateway country to the United States, the world's number one cocaine consumer. "Planes with drugs no longer enter Mexico," Niembro explained, aiming a laser pointer at one of the conference room's massive display screens. Another room shows graphics of cartel hierarchies. "Evolution of the Michoacán Cartel," said one poster. "La Familia Michoacána," said another. The faces in the photos were marked with labels explaining which leaders had been killed or captured. "We've invested in technology and the results are there," Niembro said.
Other analysts have been less sanguine about the results of Felipe Calderon's security strategy, which aimed to dismantle Mexico's largest cartels.
In a recent blog piece for Americas Quarterly I explained:
Under Calderón's leadership, Mexico's government succeeded in pushing drug ferrying planes off its airstrips and into airfields in Guatemala and Honduras. Calderón's forces also captured and killed a number of high profile cartel leaders. But after more than six years of continuous anti-cartel operations, the traditional strongholds of the embattled organized crime groups have become the most violent and least stable parts of the country.
In the state of Guerrero, for instance, in 2013 armed citizens groups set up roadblocks, taking the law into their own hands. The Los Angeles Times reported "20 towns in Guerrero along with municipalities in at least four other states reported patrols by armed residents who often wear masks and staff checkpoints." Alberto Salgado Rodriguez, the president of the Autonomous University of Guerrero, recently said, "people are tired because our authorities have not given a response and I think [the citizen's movement] is a call for attention so that the authorities change the security strategy."
Acapulco, Guerrero's biggest tourist city, is now the most violent urban hub in Mexico. The government has established a strong police and army presence within the city, but the violence there and in other more rural parts of the state has continued.
Mexico's current government, which took office on December, inherited a challenging security dynamic but has promised to work to reduce violence.
In my Americas Quarterly piece, I explained:
On February 12, Peña Nieto announced some details about his multi-tiered crime prevention plan. The president has promised to ensure greater cooperation between local and national crime prevention efforts. His government is creating a new under-secretary of crime prevention to deal with this issue. He also plans to send a new national gendarmerie to patrol the most violent sections of the country and send out specially trained federal police units who will work to fight extortion and kidnapping.
In this February 2013 Brookings Institute report, Vanda Felba-Brown argues that although Peña Nieto has promised to reduce the types of crime that affect ordinary citizens' lives, "he has been rather vague about how he actually plans to reduce violence, particularly homicides, kidnappings, and extortion."
Peña Nieto has ended the SSP's reign as an stand-alone ministry, folding into the larger Ministry of Interior Affairs. (Secretaria de Gobernacion).
He also promises to create a national police force. In addition to taking a more holistic view to reducing crime, security analyst Patrick Corcoran explains that "Peña Nieto and his team are de-emphasizing the so-called "kingpin strategy", which was embraced by the previous administration of Felipe Calderon and which focused on taking down the capos like [el Chapo] Guzman." Peña Nieto's government has also discontinued the practice of parading suspected cartel leaders before cameras and in general has shifted the international discussion about Mexico away from security and towards the theme of economic growth.
In the long-run, Mexico will need to continue to improve its legal system and enhance the ability of local police forces to maintain order and uphold the rule of law.
Security analyst Sylvia Longmire told me that "Reducing violent crime at the local level is still EPN's ultimate goal, but [right now] he can't really pull the army out of so many places so quickly. Ripping off that band-aid will lead to too much bleeding."


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HAHA i absolutely loved hearing about ur predicament with the lock and "Pierre" lol..at the moment it might not seem like it but in the end ur glad something like that happened because of the excitement you have to tell the story over to a friend that asks u how the trip went. Because its very unlikely that EVERY trip is PERFECT! and sometimes an unfortunate event can make the best out of a trip. hope u had a great trip!
Anyways, feel free to visit my blog site ALL about Vienna! thanks :)
Trip Start
May 31, 2007
Trip End
Where I stayed
Eb here (finally!). Sorry about the wait, folks.(Eb goes a little red-faced, looks at her shoes)Will try and make this entry worth yer while...
Go make a cuppa, you�ll need one.
We left Berlin in a shower of sparks. Literally.
"Huh!?" you say.
Well, you see, we�d been shacked up in a hostel in the area of Berlin known as �Mitte� - a surly little place where you stick to the pavement and dangerously unpredictable derelicts leer at you before attempting to loft their lungs skyward with the kinds of heaving coughs you only get from German cigarettes.
Mitte is, or rather was, I�m sure, once a lovely suburb, judging from the occasional pre-war building relic you see. However, since much of Berlin was bombed off the face of the earth, these relics are few and far between in Mitte and are instead replaced with grim, Communist-era housing tenements which have themselves seen better days.
About 20 seconds after the Berlin Wall came down, some enterprising scamp had bought one of these tenements, lobbed a half-dozen ex army bunks in each room and called it a Youth Hostel. For us it was Home, sweet home.
All was going nicely enough, since all we really needed was a place to lie down in at the end of the day, until I decided that it�d be nice to get out of Mitte and get ourselves a nice dinner in one of the nicer areas. Since we�d been living on cardboard and free cheese for the past few days, we figured we were good for it.
So, off we went, in our best �non-backpacker� clothes, through the wild badlands of Mitte and into the posh-ish bit. Dinner was nice and the restaurant even played the kind of music you�d hear in an 80�s movie as a backdrop to a restaurant scene to indicate that it was fancy. I was chuffed.
Now - here's where it gets a bit "interesting". I�d cast off the backpack for the night and put all my girly junk that girls feel compelled to drag about with them into a handbag - an item I�d not used since we got here. I didn�t want to look like a tourist for a while. All good.
When we got back to Mitte, I threw everything back into my locker and went nigh-nighs with the view to Liam and I getting up early so we could plan evacuating Berlin for another city, namely, Dresden. So, I dutifully got up at the crack-o'-dawn and went to my locker.
Locker has lock
Lock needs key.
Key not with Eb.
Key in handbag.
Handbag in....
But that�s cool, right? They�ll have boltcutters at the front desk, because dimwits like me do this all the time! No worries! The reception�s manned 24 hours, it�s 5.30am now, I�ll sneak out, sneak in, cut lock, problem solved.
Apparently locking yourself out of your locker is not, as I would have thought considering I was in a youth hostel, (a place the caters mostly to people whom I�m sure aren�t the most reliable of folks) a frequent occurance. And getting into the locker means finding a mysterious �Building Manager� named�, as the lady at the desk blithely put it, "Peter, or Pierre or something" who doesn�t arrive til 9. It was 5:30.
Okay, no sweat, I�ll just kill some time by finding train routes to and accommodation in Dresden. I can wait til 9.
9 came. Peter, or Pierre or something didn�t.
10 came. We were Pierre-less.
At about 11, I cracked it and went trawling the bowels of the basement for Peter, or Pierre or Something and found him casually eating a dripping ham sandwich while leaning on a water heater. He�d been there for quite some time.
Anyhoo, I explained my plight to him and he wordlessly grabbed a ridiculously inadequate set of pliers, you know the ones with the scissor-y bit in the middle to cut hardcore metals like fuse wire....
But I don�t think The Artist Formerly Know As Pierre spoke English, so we wandered wordlessly to the hostel room. The wordless part was good, since I was trying to be quiet for the sake of a small, Spanish woman sleeping off a late and heavy night in the bunk in front of my locker, not more than a metre away. Peter/Pierre took one look at my lock - the kind you would shackle a rabid mastiff with - and left the room without a word. Moments later he casually returned with a circular saw.
We ducked for cover behind a door as Pierre-or-Something spontaneously fired up the saw and proceeded to attack my lock, sending sparks and slivers of white hot metal hurtling violently towards the sleeping Spanish girl, who threw her doona over herself like it was a lead shield. It's possible she may have soiled herself.
The lock was thick and P-o-P took about 5 insanely loud and stinky minutes of solid power sawing to get through it. When the lock was finally cut, P-P wordlessly threw the red hot remains into a rubbish bin, wound up the cord and left.
The Spanish girl may need years of expensive counselling.
Embarassed, We grabbed our gear and ran out of Berlin with the speed of two startled gazelles. We hunkered down in the train to Dresden so nobody could see us as what we can only assume were unflattering remarks being hurled at us. Or maybe that was just an auditory hallucination since neither of us can hear properly now.
Either way, Dresden turned out to be a very nice city, full of galleries and museums and scorched buildings, and we had a very nice (though expensive) time there.
We got off the train from Dresden at Prague Holsovice station and into a place I`d like to call "Hobotown". A magical land where grubby men with no pants flung insults and Molotovs at each other while bent and soggy cigarettes danged from their bottom lips. It was gorgeous.
The smattering of `Policie` we saw at the station - men who were armed with so many weapons that their utility belts groaned under the weight, seemed to care about these men and were more interested in practising their 1000 yard stares at the two tourists with backpacks.
We quickened our pace a little as we headed towards the first exit we could see, only to find that it led to a tram stop with a facinatingly vague sign directing us to something that was either a hostel (or possibly a metal refinery) that existed somewhere at the end of a bendy arrow near some blue boxes.
There were no pictures of hobos near the blue boxes, so we set off on foot in the vague direction of the vague arrow. Now, we could have taken the tram, but neither of us knew how the Czech tram system worked and, judging by the attitudes of the `Policie`, we would probably be shot in the back while trying to board.
We followed the tram line along the types of streets you see in films that start with an establishing shot of a scorched playground and a caption listing the year as '2056'.
We finally reached the blue boxes, which turned out to be a `Bazar` selling piles of creepy knick-knacks which would look great in a dark and rickety house owned by an old woman with 40 cats, and a supermarket called `Albert`. Good a name as any.
To our mild disappointment, the "metal refinery" turned out to be a hostel. We checked in and decided that even though the sun was still up, a self imposed curfew wouldn`t go astray.
When we set off the following day, headed for central Prague, we couldn`t help but notice a taxi with two slashed tyres resting limply outside the hostel. Perhaps the driver upset someone at one of the thousands of `Herna` bars Prague has - casinos advertising jackpots out the front of 10, 20, 30 thousand Czech Crowns. Amounts that, until you figure out the exchange rate, seem awesome. We ignored the cab and kept walking. The centre of town and all its glory was calling.
Prague is a beautiful city - or at least the central part is; the part where busloads of American tourists are hurled at each and every day to oggle at the gorgeous buildings and spend money like water on souvenirs. The buildings in central Prague are a visual feast. The city boasts row upon row of the types of carved and ornate edifaces that would each be deemed national treasures had they been anywhere else. Here, they are lost in a sea of other buildings like them, or more ornate, more beautiful and more choked with folks like us, gawking at them and taking happy snaps.
Liam and I went a little boggle-eyed from looking at all the nice things to see. Or perhaps it was that we were still a little shell shocked from narrowly missing being collected by a guy who, when seeing he`d driven past his friend on a crowded street, decided that a casual U turn was an inadequate measure to take. Instead, he opted for a tyre-flamin', smokin' "Dukes of Hazard" style handbrake turn which, had he screwed it up, would probably have sent the car skittling into a group of nuns pushing baby carriages and sending them 40 feet into the air. Something like that anyway.
Since we were still to figure out the tickting system for the Czech tramways and our Eurail rail pass seemed to be valid everywhere in Europe except Prague it seems, we walked everywhere.
I think we managed to cover the entire stretch of central Prague in one day. Wearily, we retired to a park near an 11th century battlement ruin to get our bearings. The park was up about 90 bajillion flights of stairs. Oh. You think I`m joking. 90 BAJILLION.
When we reached the top, I had legs made out of molten metal - however my butt looks awesome in jeans now! (Liam says he could use his to crack walnuts). The main square of the park overlooks the entire city and the view was great - all soaring church spires and gothic towers. The square however was neglected, graffiti-strewn and ruined. It seems that parts of Prague where the tourist buck can`t be easily trooped through are left to be reclaimed by nature, skatekids and hobos. A real shame.
Prague is beautiful. Just not all of it.
We�re in Vienna now. But your eyes are tired. And you need another cuppa. I can feel it. We'll write more later.
Thanks to all those who have written emails and sent messages to us - keep �em coming!
Cheers to all.
Eb and Liam


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The one thing I regret missing at New York Fashion Week was the Ports 1961 show. Granted, it was my first day at the tents and it took me a good 20 minutes to find the check-in tent. Not all was lost though as I did get to watch the live stream in the lobby. Launched in 2004, the relatively new brand already has a strong celebrity including Olivia Palermo, Debra Messing, and Sienna Miller. The structural influences on the clothes can be found in their accessories too. At first glance, the Envelope Clutch looks like a piece of origami, but the clever design reveals much more. The clutch can act as a bold statement piece despite the neutral color if you're going to a lunch meeting or hold all your essentials when you're spending the night on the town. The leather clutch has open sides but before you think all your valuables will fall out, there's a zippered organza pouch inside to hold everything safely.What: the Ports 1961 Envelope ClutchPrice: $495Where to Buy: ShopbopWho Found it: facadeindreams was the first to add the Ports 1961 Envelope Clutch to the Hive.
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I love object lessons. Scouring parenting magazines and Web sources for creative methods to cultivate learning became a pastime shortly after Pumpkindoodle's birth. One of my favorite illustrations involves toothpaste. Each participant is given a travel-sized tube of toothpaste, a paper plate and one ooey-gooey mission: squeeze the tube dry. After the tubes are flattened, participants receive a tooth pick and are given the daunting task of putting the tooth paste back into the tube. It's an impossible feat. The lesson? Words are like toothpaste. Once they're piped out, they cannot return.
Monday, March 31, 2008
If Only I Could Eat my Words
40 comments:
- Corinne said...
That's an amazing post. I think we've all (I know I have) done things I REALLY regret like that. It's hardest when we get a first hand look in someone we love of how our actions might've affected someone. Thank heavens we can always turn to God to make it right and decide to always do better :)
- Monday, March 31, 2008 at 9:35:00 AM EDT
- mer said...
Great post. I have a few regrets of a similar nature, and have had to ask God's forgiveness for my quick and harsh words which can never be totally erased.
- Monday, March 31, 2008 at 9:39:00 AM EDT
- Mocha with Linda said...
Ex.cel.lent. This is something I so struggle with. I think - HOPE! - I'm doing better. I was raised in a very critical household where it was easy to be judgemental and see what everyone else needed to be doing differently, yet ignoring the beam in our own eyes.
Thanks for the great word of conviction and encouragement. - Monday, March 31, 2008 at 9:56:00 AM EDT
- Jane @ What About Mom? said...
Great post. It's too bad that if often takes something happening to us (or a loved one) before we understand how that something feels.
I read an interesting post recently at http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2008/03/08/deciding-when-to-speak-up-and-when-to-shut-up/
It talked about how sometimes it's good to speak up, and in general said speaking up is better than staying quiet.
I had to disagree with that because I think people have to know themselves. I know I've regretted times when I've spoken up more than times when I've stayed silent, but the writer of that post was a shyer person.
Anyway, I'm really enjoying your blog and the thought you put into your posts! - Monday, March 31, 2008 at 11:21:00 AM EDT
- DKay said...
Oh yeah, we all have these regrets and as someone who is notoriously outspoken, I have them a lot. Luckily since I have matured in age and actions, I have learned to not always take those initial "knee jerk" reactions and let my words fly without thoughts of future remorse.
Great post - it is always a good reminder. - Monday, March 31, 2008 at 11:24:00 AM EDT
- Jenny 865-53oh9 said...
Oh the follies of our youthful tongue. I don't even want to think about the things that I said because I thought it was my right to say it. Very shameful, but like Corinne, I'm thankful that I have a God to turn to and I pray that he takes my scornful words and erases them from the memories of those I can't ask for forgiveness from face to face.
- Monday, March 31, 2008 at 11:42:00 AM EDT
- Lisa writes... said...
Okay, I have so done the same thing, with a German-born Abstract Algebra professor who told his class on the first day that we would be lucky to earn a C in his class, "Smart students get C's. Exceptional students get A's." Guess what? I got a C, for nearly all of the same reasons you expressed here: his difficult teaching methods, my resulting class absences, not to mention the heavy German accent. And like you, I blamed him for my C and let it rip on the evaluation.
But I didn't feel guilty about it until I read your post. Gee, thanks...
Seriously, wise words we would do well to heed.
And my favorite line? "oats, goats, and banana pokes"--though I have no idea what a banana poke is, I love it! - Monday, March 31, 2008 at 11:45:00 AM EDT
- A. Magner said...
I am also guilty of a ruthless professor evaluation (or 2). I felt like I really tried to be fair with every evaluation, but I can think of one where my comments were less than constructive. I do believe this professor needed attention for the Dean of the Education department, but being nasty was not the solution to this very sure of himself Education Methods Professor from Bermuda who I don't think prepared once for a class when that was part of what he was supposed to be teaching is us to do.
Anyway, I think your post was great. We do need to think about what we say. I honestly had never thought about that evaluation again until reading your post. - Monday, March 31, 2008 at 12:03:00 PM EDT
- Angela said...
I honestly did not want to invoke guilt from any of my readers...only confess to my own. I promise. :-) Oats, goats and banana pokes exist on some type of terrain some where on this planet. And I don't remember what a banana poke is, but I remember memorizing those three items in that order. Funny that it stayed in my head all these years when so many other things flew the coop. Perhaps I was meant to remember for this post. :-) Thank you for all your sweet comments.
- Monday, March 31, 2008 at 12:41:00 PM EDT
- Julie said...
Your heart is SO precious.
You write so beautifully.
Julie - Monday, March 31, 2008 at 11:38:00 PM EDT
- Linda Vujnov said...
I eat crow regularly. God is oh so patient and forgiving.
- Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 12:55:00 AM EDT
- GrandCanyonMom said...
WOW! This is my favorite post yet! Thank you for your humility.
Ever think of writing Dr. W a letter? It could edify, you know?
I'm very curious now about Shepherd's Pie now.
I loved the closing about the No. 2 pencil. Brilliantly written from start to finish!
Loved the post!
Jaime - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 7:04:00 AM EDT
- Andrea said...
Hmmm, I have the same regrets over comments I made about a prof on my student evaluation. What made it worse was he actually asked some of us to get together with him to discuss the evaluations openly so he could learn from his mistakes. I didn't go because I was too ashamed. Thank you for the reminder about words being unretractable.
- Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 2:31:00 PM EDT
- Sarah said...
I think those evaluations egg that sort of thing on sometimes. The anonymity causes us to say things we'd never say to someones face :)
- Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 3:48:00 PM EDT
- Mel's World said...
What a great object lesson...this is actually one of the verses that we have studied with our kids to try and teach them just how important (and deadly) words can be. Thanks for the AWESOME post!
Melissa - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 10:17:00 PM EDT
- WendyJanelle said...
This is an amazing post.
Thank you. The toothpaste object lesson is one I'll have to try soon.
My, oh, my. It's so much easier to dish out than to take, isn't it? And apologizing can't nearly make up or erase all of the careless words I've spoken in my life, especially to those I hold so near and dear. - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 10:53:00 PM EDT
- livin with me said...
Wow. Powerful post. I know I have certainly said things I regretted. I know we all have. Again- wow- this was an excellent post.
- Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 11:02:00 PM EDT
- Deidre said...
Excellent post! I've used the toothpaste illustration in SS lessons before. More often than I'd like to admit, I've wanted to take back my words/actions.
- Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 11:35:00 PM EDT
- Joy said...
Your post brought tears to my eyes. If you are able, find that teacher, write him a note and let him know you've matured and that he is doing an amazing job. I'm sure that while it may have hurt him, I'm sure he also understood you were angry with the C.
*HUGS* Isn't it amazing the things we realize in retrospect?
At least one good thing has come from this story: you can let the Professor know that some of those students are probably more angry with themselves than with HIM. - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 12:00:00 AM EDT
- At A Hen's Pace said...
Hi! Thanks for letting me know you've been stopping by!
Just today--to strip the wallpaper!--I took down that verse from our wall (the first half). What a convicting one--so often do we speak thoughtlessly and dishearteningly to others. I love the toothpaste analogy too--often wish I could pull those words back and unsay them.
Thank God for grace...
--Jeanne - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 1:28:00 AM EDT
- Changed by His Love said...
Hey! Love your blog, and thanks for stopping by mine! The toothpaste illustration is priceless. Thanks for sharing!
- Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 8:03:00 AM EDT
- sara said...
I think this post will hit home to most anyone who reads it! Interesting that my BS this morning was on self-control...regarding the tongue. Thanks for sharing this!
- Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 9:51:00 AM EDT
- Gretchen said...
Stop stepping on my mouth, would you?!!! It hurts.
Lovely post. Great devotional for today. As I told my friend yesterday, who is also looking down both barrels at 40 next year, "Don't you wish we could be wise AND cute?" She was talking about a 20 y.o. employee of her husband's who was just being immature. Even though the Professor and Prof W were wounded, I'm sure, I hope God protected them enough to give grace to those kids. Because we really do make those mistakes in the cuteness of youth. Not that I don't make some now--I've just moved on to different mistakes. :)
Excellent writing. - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 9:53:00 AM EDT
- Tasha said...
Wow, awesome post! Thank you!!!
- Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 1:48:00 PM EDT
- the160acrewoods said...
okay this one the post below.. both of those I could eat. thanks for posting them.. they mean a lot and taken to heart!
hugs and prayers... (my 3-now 5yearold has an attitude like that) - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 3:05:00 PM EDT
- Tonya said...
What a great reminder to "bridal our tongue." There are so many things that I would do differently if I could only go back... that's reason enough to take EVERY OPPORTUNITY to teach our boys that words DO HURT. Even now, our little ones are learning a Proverb.
Proverb 29:11
A fool always loses his temper, but a wise man holds it back.
THANKS SO MUCH for sharing the WORD and making it life applicable. =-) - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 5:17:00 PM EDT
- Chris @ Come to the Table said...
The toothpaste lesson provides such a powerful visual of our "words". I think as I brush my teeth, I will be thinking about the words that proceed from my mouth throughout the day.
- Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 5:49:00 PM EDT
- Katie said...
Wow! What a great post! So convicting!! Thank you for stopping by my blog today! I have enjoyed looking around your blog, and will be saving it in my reader! It looks like you have a great blog! I am definitly going to use that toothpaste demo with my kids! I have heard of it before, but never thought to use it with them! Thanks for the idea!
Katie - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 11:13:00 PM EDT
- Tiffany Stuart said...
I love visuals too. I used this scripture in Ephesians after my closest friend dumped me because of my critical spirit. A hard lesson.
A side note: Thank you for visiting my blog again and for your sweet encouragement. And your added "what breaks your heart" thoughts. My list is long so I wrote just a few.
PS GOD is amazing, not me. I want to credit the one who does the work in me. I know me. I've wandered and I've fallen. God is strong in my weakness.
I look forward to more connections with you. - Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 8:58:00 AM EDT
- Sarah Markley said...
Great post and a great lesson!
- Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 11:34:00 AM EDT
- Shonda said...
This is a great post. Yesterday I felt led to Ecc. 5:2. Today I read this post. I think the Lord is speaking to me.
Blessings in Christ- - Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 1:06:00 PM EDT
- SaraLynn said...
This is wonderful. We all need to watch, not only what we say, but how we say it. Me included.
Thanks for sharing - Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 8:07:00 PM EDT
- Tiffany said...
Okay wow, I came by to say hi and this post....kicked ME in the gut. This was amazing and so insightful. Thank you for sharing this with us!
- Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 8:15:00 PM EDT
- Susanne said...
What an excellent post! Our words certainly do have power.
Thanks for coming by my site and leaving a comment. Have fun with the hair! - Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 9:03:00 PM EDT
- CC said...
Oh boy. You know ONE negative comment during my brief career as an SAT tutor sent me packing. Okay, it's true I don't have thick skin. But words are very powerful. I always give my professors at least mediocre reviews, even if I really didn't like the class. I just feel bad otherwise.
- Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 9:22:00 PM EDT
- My cup runneth over... said...
What an incredibly powerful post and how beautifully you illustrate the power of our words. Like others have suggested, I'd try writing him him a letter. Imagine how that would touch his heart.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and for your sweet comment about loving Springtime too!
Your blog looks beautiful! - Friday, April 4, 2008 at 12:07:00 PM EDT
- Mocha with Linda said...
Oh, the blog makeover turned out beautifully!!! Love it! The roses remind me of my wedding.
- Friday, April 4, 2008 at 7:41:00 PM EDT
- Beloved MaMa™ said...
thank you so much for praying for the requests!!! you have a beautiful blog.
- Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 7:26:00 PM EDT
- Linda said...
Thank you for this very vulnerable, transparent post. That is honesty, and I can relate to your story here. I have often regretted words that came out of my immature mouth. Great post.
- Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM EDT
- Beloved MaMa™ said...
Thank you so much for praying!!!!!!! Be blessed my friend...I've added you to my "blogs I like to visit"
- Friday, April 11, 2008 at 12:19:00 AM EDT


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The Other Side - Billy Ray Cyrus | |
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While he'll probably be forever known as the "Achy Breaky Heart" singer, Billy Ray Cyrus has proven to be more than a mullet-wearing one hit wonder. Billy Ray's had six Top 10 hits in 10 years and has many more Billboard Top 40 hit singles to his credit. After leaving Mercury Records, Billy Ray recorded two well received albums for Sony (one was released via Madacy Records after a split from Sony). Free from a label, Billy Ray also has played the lead character on the PAX TV hit Doc.
It was on the set of Doc when Billy Ray first thought of doing a gospel record. He had no clue how he was gonna do it he just knew he had to. Shortly thereafter Billy Ray received a call from renowned Nashville producer Billy Joe Walker, Jr. The call was to ask Billy Ray if he wanted to do a gospel record. Realizing that the call was fate, Billy Ray quickly said yes. The first song they recorded together, a blues rock version of "Amazing Grace" secured Billy Ray a contract with Word Entertainment (the same label where Randy Travis has recorded for the last two albums). Months later, Billy Ray Cyrus is releasing his debut Gospel Record, The Other Side.
The album opening track, "Face of God," written by Bob DiPiero, Rivers Rutherford and Tom Shapiro (all 3 with multiple No. 1 hit singles to their credits), tells a loving story of how a man feels when he's surrounded by those that he loves the most. On the chorus, Billy Ray sings some of the words in a falsetto style that he has never done before. It sounds really good and is a song that could be a hit at either country or Christian radio stations.
"Wouldn't You Do This For Me?" is a wonderful story song that tells how the decisions we make should follow the lines of "Do unto others as you'd want done to you." The chorus has a "Chain of Love" style to it in that the song's verses tell stories of different people who are connected. The chorus says: "Wouldn't you do this for me, If I was reachin' out to you, Wouldn't you give me food to eat if I were hungry (-- second chorus--wouldn't you try to save my life If I need you to), wouldn't you do this for me." This song could be a big hit if released to country radio.
"Always Sixteen" is the first single from the album. Written by perennial hit maker Brett James (with Marty Dodson), the song tells an inspirational story of love. It says that the key to being "young" in life is to love like you're "always sixteen."
"I Need You Now" won't be a country radio hit but it sure does tell a great story. It is the story of Jesus written into a four minute song. It is an inspirational story of how one man says that he couldn't know Him back then but that he knows Him now and later sees Him and eventually needs His love. It is a nice song that tells a great story in a unique way. The song was written by Kelly Shiver (formerly of Thrasher Shiver).
"Tip Of My Heart" is a song that Billy Ray originally wanted to record for his 2000 Sony album only to have that label say they didn't "get it." Word Records included it on a sampler of songs they hoped Billy Ray would record. Deciding it was fate, Billy Ray chose to record this song of love. It has the chance to be a smash hit on multiple radio formats (It is the first single at Christian radio). It's about finding love and the faith to hold on tight to it: "I wanna live, I wanna love, I'm afraid my simple faith will never be enough, I want to laugh, I want to be set free, And let you hold all that my soul has deep inside of me, But I don't know where to start, It's on the tip of my heart." The song could be a love song for God or it could be a love song for a wife/husband to share.
"Holding On To A Dream" is a song written by Richard Marx, Lonestar's Richie McDonald and Victoria Shaw. It's an inspirational song that has a nice melody and lyrics that tell us all to hold on to our dreams for they're what guide us into doing what we need to be doing. I wonder why Lonestar hasn't recorded this song, but am happy Billy Ray got to include it on this album for it could be a big hit (much like many songs on this CD) if country radio would only give it a chance.
The Other Side is an album that opened up my eyes. I had long forgotten "Achy Breaky Heart" and accepted Billy Ray Cyrus for what he is, a great singer/songwriter with a bluesy voice that should be a superstar. The Other Side is a labor of love for Billy Ray and it shows in his passionate vocals and wonderful song selection. While The Other Side is a Christian/Gospel album, it really isn't much different from his other CDs in that the album doesn't get preachy. I had no expectations for the album when I first played it and was pleasantly surprised. This album is one of the best releases of 2003 in any genre.
Song List:
- Face Of God
- Wouldn't You Do This For Me?
- Always Sixteen
- I Need You Now
- Love Has No Walls
- Tip Of My Heart
- Did I Forget To Pray
- Holding On To A Dream
- I Love You This Much
- The Other Side
- Amazing Grace
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Forums >Running 101>Dick hurt in the cold morning
Dude, you need a willie warmer.
Get your wife to knit you one--here's the pattern:
Are you sure you read the pattern correctly? Willy holder looks good but the pouch would be roomy for king kong.
Dude, you need a willie warmer. Get your wife to knit you one--here's the pattern: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1r1xvU5ahvbYmY3MTllMzQtOTA0Ni00OWUwLTkzOTAtOGEyYzg0NzVkMWYy/edit?hl=en&pli=1
If you know you can do better, then do better.
Drink up moho's!!
35*F and you froze your junk??? You are not gonna do well this winter.
At 35 I am still wearing regular shorts and have not made the switch to running pants yet.
Chasing the bus
I still have a grudge against the rest of the world after my post-ultra hand sanitizer butt cleaning incident.
Genuinely laughing out loud!
I, too, resisted this one....
yeah. wore just tights down to freezing. Added track pants thereafter down to 10F.
To OP; did you notice any spots?
"You're either on the bus or off the bus." ― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
One of our much beloved forum members over at Runner's World once shoved the Sports section down his pants from a random garbage can during a run.
That must have happened in Cleveland, where sports pages belong in garbage cans (and usually here also).
Not a dude
Is that like "the stranger" or does that only work when your hand is numb?
not lazy, just tired
How on earth did I miss reading this thread. I love this forum.
Not if it makes sense.
Space Cadet
I think it was Cleveland.
Do you have a crochet pattern for this? If I could get something in a doily design, that'd be great. I like to feel fancy down there.
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive.
It happened once to me in a 5K race at 25 degrees. I wanted to be light and just put on normal thin running shirts. You forget about the wind when you run fast. Lets just say that when it happens, well, it will never happen again
Those who try, fail! Those who do what it takes to succeed, succeed!!
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i just use a spare calf sleeve
(sorry, could not resist)
Started-5/12, RWOL refugee,5k-24:23 (1/12/13),10K-55:37(9/15/12),HM-1:52:59(3/24/13)
There was a posting by Mike Hunt on a similar issue. Did anyone read that one?
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Sometimes when I run in the cold for a long time, my nipples try to hide inward. I have nothing else to offer.
I couldn't stop lol when I read this
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Pediatricians' RX for schools: Later start times for teens
CHICAGO (AP) - Pediatricians are sending a back-to-school message: let teenagers sleep in a bit.
In a new policy statement in the Journal Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics says delaying the start of the school day until at least 8:30 a.m. For teens would help curb their lack of sleep, which has been linked with poor health, bad grades, car crashes and even depression and suicide.
The influential group says studies have found that most U.S. students in middle school and high school don't get the recommended amount of sleep - 8{ to 9{ hours on school nights.
Kristen Amundson, Executive Director of the National Association of State Boards of Education, says later start times for teens is really an issue of cost because bus drivers would have to be added and buses rerouted.
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Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma
What is Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma (JNA)?
JNA is a benign tumor (growth) of the nasal cavity that typically affects adolescent boys. Although it is non-cancerous, it can be grow to a significantly large size and expand itself from the nasal cavity into a variety of compartments in the head making it a challenging tumor to treat.
What are the symptoms of JNA?
The symptoms are typically nasal obstruction and bleeding from the nose. Occasionally, headaches and facial swelling may be present. Bleeding from only one side of the nose is typically concerning for tumors such as JNA and should be examined by an otolaryngologist.
How is JNA treated?
Surgery is the preferred method of treatment. In the past, surgical management included surgical procedures that required incisions in the face or mouth (lateral rhinotomy, transpalatal, transmaxillary, and mid-face degloving approaches), but more recently incision-less approaches through the nose using advanced endoscopic sinus surgery techniques have been used successfully. Considerable surgical experience is required to successfully perform the endoscopic operation. The nasal and sinus surgeons at UCLA Department of Head and Neck Surgery have significant experience with endoscopic treatment of JNA.
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Rituximab and Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) for Desensitization in Renal Transplantation
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Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Kidney Transplant |
Drug: IVIG and Rituximab |
Phase 1 Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase I/II Trial to Investigate the Safety and Efficacy of Rituximab and IVIG as Agents to Desensitize Highly-HLA Sensitized Dialysis Patients Awaiting Kidney Transplantation |
- Success of transplantation [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Number and severity of rejection episodes [ Time Frame: 12 ]
Enrollment: | 20 |
Study Start Date: | September 2005 |
Study Completion Date: | May 2007 |
Primary Completion Date: | May 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Drug: IVIG and Rituximab
Patients eligible for the study will be those who have anti-HLA antibody (Panel Reactive Antibody {PRA}) of >30%. If patients meet these criteria, patients will be asked to have an assessment of the ability of IVIG to reduce the anti-HLA antibodies activity in the test tube. Patients will receive IVIG 2gm/kg x1 on hemodialysis. Seven days later, patients will receive Rituximab 1gm in the CSMC Infusion Center as per protocol for Rituximab infusion. The second Rituximab infusion will be on day #22. Additional IVIG infusion will be given at month one.
Patients will continue to be followed for an additional 12 months after the last IVIG infusion and will be asked to return for follow up visits at month 1 through 5, month 7 and 12.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients eligible for the study will be those who have anti-HLA antibody (Panel Reactive Antibody [PRA]) of >30% and are eligible for transplantation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. We currently anticipate entering 20 patients over the course of the study. We currently have ~100 patients on our wait list that would meet the above criteria. Patients will be selected based on the ability of IVIG to inhibit the cytotoxic anti-HLA antibody activity in vitro. They will then receive IVIG 2gm/kg X1 on day 1 while on hemodialysis. Seven days later, the patients will receive Rituxan® 1gm in the CSMC Cancer Infusion Center as per protocol for Rituxan® infusion. The second Rituxan® infusion will be on day#22. The patients will have monitoring of anti-HLA antibody and outlined tests as shown above.
- Able and willing to give written informed consent and comply with the requirements of the study protocol
- Adequate liver function, as indicated by normal liver function tests (NL: AST, ALT, Bilirubin and negative tests for hepatitis C and hepatitis B.
- Negative serum pregnancy test (for women of child bearing age)
- Men and women of reproductive potential must agree to use an acceptable method of birth control during treatment and for twelve months (1 year) after completion of treatment.
Exclusion Criteria:
Treatment with any investigational agent within 4 weeks of screening or 5 half-lives of the investigational drug (whichever is longer)
- Receipt of a live vaccine within 4 weeks prior to randomization
- Previous Treatment with Rituximab (MabThera® / Rituxan®)
- Prior antibody therapy
- History of severe allergic or anaphylactic reactions to humanized or murine monoclonal antibodies
- History of HIV (positive HIV, HIV conducted during screening)
- History of Hepatitis B and/or Hepatitis C
- History of recurrent significant infection or history of recurrent bacterial infections
- Known active bacterial, viral fungal mycobacterial, or other infection (including tuberculosis or atypical mycobacterial disease, but excluding fungal infections of nail beds) or any major episode of infection requiring hospitalization or treatment with i.v. antibiotics within 4 weeks of screening or oral antibiotics within 2 weeks prior to screening
- Lack of peripheral venous access
- History of drug, alcohol, or chemical abuse within 6 months prior to screening
- Pregnancy (a negative serum pregnancy test should be performed for all women of childbearing potential within 7 days of treatment) or lactation
- Concomitant malignancies or previous malignancies within the last five years, with the exception of adequately treated basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ of the cervix.
- History of psychiatric disorder
- Significant cardiac or pulmonary disease (including obstructive pulmonary disease)
- Any other disease, metabolic dysfunction, physical examination finding, or clinical laboratory finding giving reasonable suspicion of a disease or condition that contraindicates the use of an investigational drug or that may affect the interpretation of the results or render the patient at high risk from treatment complications
- Inability to comply with study and follow-up procedures
Laboratory Exclusion Criteria (at Screening)
- Hemoglobin: < 8.5 gm/dL
- Platelets: < 100,000/mm
- AST or ALT >2.5 x Upper Limit of Normal unless related to primary disease.
- Positive Hepatitis B or C serology
- Positive HIV
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00642655
United States, California | |
8700 Beverly Blvd. | |
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048 |
Principal Investigator: | Stanley C. Jordan, MD | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Study Director: | Ashley A Vo, PharmD | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Stanley C. Jordan, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00642655 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
U3176s |
Study First Received: | March 19, 2008 |
Last Updated: | March 24, 2008 |
Keywords provided by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center:
IVIG Rituximab Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplantation |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Rituximab Immunoglobulins, Intravenous Antineoplastic Agents |
Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs Antirheumatic Agents |
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Western Park Boskovice
Would you like to spend your leisure time the way you could remember it with pleasure for long time? Would you like to gain experience that would encourage you for new activities? Then come to visit us in Boskovice!
The Atmosphere of the Western Park Boskovice will absorb you so much that for a while you will feel like a true cowboy or an unbounded Indian. Despite your objections if any, that you need to think of your work or problems, we will not give you a chance to get bored and we will entertain you without a stop.
Funny performances take place in a natural amphitheatre, in which there is a beautiful waterfall that adds to Indian and cowboy stories a true magic. The daily program offers a lot of activities not just for families with children but for everybody who wants to have fun.
Western park Boskovice
Komenského 50
680 01 Boskovice
More Information
Naděžda Kučerová
Phone.: +420 737 000 000
E-mail: email@example.com
Web: www.westernove-mestecko.cz
Location of Western ParK
Western Park Boskovice is located in an old sandstone quarry at the very end of the street of Svatopluk Čech. GPS: 49°29'40.898"N, 16°41'9.369"E
Tourist Attractions
- A Show on the horses – The treasure of Apache
- Theatre Performance
- Catering in Western Styl
- Accommodation in Western Styl
- Saloons
- Restaurants and pubs
- Mexico Shop
- Accommodation (tents, Tee Pee, hostel, hotel)
- Supervised car park and Taxi
Special offers and events
- Corporate and Social Events
- Show and Theatre Performance - Main Street Show
Opening hours
May and June – only at weekends and state holidays available for public. Weekdays are only for school trips and Corporate events.
July and August – program according to schedule takes place, except for Monday On the days of State holidays we are open.
Country balls, Night performances, Grande Show will take place according to a scheduled programme. Special weekend events will take place in-between the main theatre performances.
Prices here.
Tips for trips in the surrounding areas
- Chateau and Castle Boskovice
- Jewish Town of Boskovive
- Chateau in Kunštát
- The Cave of Blanický rytíři in Rudka close to Kunštát
- State Chateau in Lysice
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All area is barrier free accessible.


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- Gol is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Gol. Gol was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. The area of Hemsedal was separated from Gol in 1897 to become a separate municipality. The municipality of Gol is bordered to the north by the municipality of Nord-Aurdal, to the east by Sør-Aurdal, to the south by Nes, and to the west by Ål and Hemsedal.
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