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The Unlived Life of the Parents
One of the most potent forces upon the psyche of the individual, according to C.G. Jung, is the unlived life of one's parents. By this he means the potentials of the parents that have remained unrealized and the personal qualities that have never been developed or expressed.
Jung, however, is not speaking of those things that have been attempted and missed, but rather those things that were never even chanced:
"that part of their lives which might have been lived had not certain threadbare excuses prevented the parents from ever doing so."
In other words, the unlived life is that aspect of one's life that was avoided due to such factors as fear, willful unconsciousness, or an excess of conformity.
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Themes and Meanings
(Comprehensive Guide to Short Stories, Critical Edition)
After a freak accident in 1986, Andre Dubus was confined to a wheelchair for the last thirteen years of his life. The collection of stories Dancing After Hours (1996), from which the story of the same name is taken, was his first work of fiction after the accident. During the intervening decade, he produced one book of essays, many on the subject of disability. Several of the stories in Dancing After Hours feature characters with disabilities similar to his.
Although many authors would have made the wheelchair-using Drew the object of most of the reader's sympathy, Dubus shows that Drew has come to grips more fully with his problems than some of the others have. Emily is more attractive than she thinks she is, but her experiences with romance have left her sad and fearful of seeking love. Seeing how Drew, who has used a wheelchair for years, still seeks joy and adventure helps her to open her heart to the possibilities around her. She is able to appreciate Jeff's kind heart when he speaks of his disabled friend and to look affectionately on the possible romance between Kay and Rita, rather than focus on how she might be inconvenienced if they become involved in a relationship.
Although Drew is the catalyst for the changes in the story's protagonist, his situation is seen only through Emily's eyes. Even with this limited view, however, the author gives his readers an authentic look at the quotidian routines of a quadriplegic. First, Emily worries about how she will be able to interact with a disabled person and is relieved to find that Drew is lively and engaging; then she ponders the personal care he requires from his attendant; eventually, she talks to Alvin about what is involved in caring for Drew; finally, she asks Drew about his marriage and sex life.


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The pencil
The pencils are round and the color of the pencil is represented on the entire pencil, which is good because the text can be difficult to read.
I have some old pencils and when I compare them to the new one (with the same number) they sometimes differ in color hue. So there is some inconsistence in the line over the year.
Prismacolor also offers the same product in art stix form, which comes in 48 colors. Prismacolor also has the verithin line, a hard pencil for details (comes in 36 colors), which is a unique and clever idea to offer a pencil that is the opposite of their softcore. They also have a colorless blender.
Prismacolor, the legend
In Sweden, where I live, we have a lot of different brands from Europe, which produces good quality colored pencils, but we have not, until recently (2015), have any stores that offers Prismacolor. From my point of view it seemed as every American book or blog used a = between colored pencils and Prismacolor. Naturally I became very curious about them. I bought my first set (a 24 set) through Ebay I believe. I hated them. The famous (infamous) breakings of the lead draw me mad. I felt that I had hardly used some colors but had noting but a stump left. However, the years past and after using many other brands I did feel that Prismacolor had a bit of a own characteristic so I started use them again, but this time I only sharpened them with either a mechanical sharpener or the amazing German sharpener from Dux. Nowadays I haven't any problem at all with the breaking and I am a happy owner of the whole 150 set.
Sharpener makes the quality
|Sharpener from Dux
The sharpener from Dux are very high quality and extremely sharp. They have this old fashion look and are heavy in your hand. You can change blade when they go blunt. When you use it the leftover will come out in an unbroken chain of smooth wood. You can choose between three edges by rotating a small wheel on the side. The number one gives a perfect long point, perfect for details.
I really haven't had any problems with my Prismacolor since I bought this sharpener (you can find them on Cult pens among other places).
No glamour
|Prismacolor Premier
I don´t think that Prismacolor Premier is as glamorous as other brands. You recognize the pencil on the end of it, where you can see the core instead of covering it with paint as most brands do. This makes the pencil look a bit simple compare to other brands. Most brands offer their product in beautiful wooden boxes. But there is no wooden box set to buy for the Prismacolors (as far as I know). The paper box for the 150 set is ok, but the plastic hold for the pencils are so soft and weak that it is sometimes difficult to move them around (which you have to do because they are stacked on each other).
Prismacolor is a soft and buttery, creamy pencil. It crumbles not so much. The colors (the pigment) have of course a bit different feel to them. Some are a bit harder than others, but on the whole scale they are among, if not, the most creamy one. They are an excellent choice if you want to draw on a colored paper. Even on black paper they give (depending on the pigment of course) opaque vibrant colors.
ASTM and CPSA have both tested Prismacolor Premier. Mostly they are equivalent, but there are some inconsistencies. Of the 150 set that are now available (they have changed colors over the years) 101 are lightfast (three stars, according to CPSA), 4 has two stars and 43 less (meaning, not lightfast at all). However I could not find two of my pencils in the CPSA list so I am doing my own lightfast test on them. When you are doing your own lightfastness test they are of course never the same as professional testing. But I think that if a color is fading, you know that you should not use that for your drawings for certain. If it does not fade in your own testing, that's what makes it uncertain. The point I am trying to make is that an unprofessional testing can always prove that a pencil is not lightfast but cannot prove it is.
Wax bloom
That very mystical wax bloom everyone talks about is not something I have experienced. However, I guess that depend on what wax bloom really is. I have heard two different explanations. One: it is the shine that appears when using a wax-based pencil. My experience is that the shine will appear on an oil-based pencil to. It is true that some pencils are shinier then other though. Two: it is a white film that appears after some time has past. I have never seen this happen, so it can´t be a huge problem.
Color collection
With 150 colors, and if you have been around for some time, maybe you have some more colors that are now discounted, it isn´t fair to compare Prismacolor's color range with other brands. Prismacolor also offers a blender.
|A set of Prismacolor
However, Prismacolor color choices are very different to most other brands. Large brands like Polychromos or Pablo offers colors that I imagine are single pigment colors. They look very clean and are very easy to define (is it a orange, or a burnt sienna…). Prismacolor has a lot of colors that are very difficult to define. What color is a Ginger root (PC1084)? Or Putty beige (PC1083)? Many of them don´t look "clean"; they look as if at least three colors are mixed together to create the color (many of them include white). If you already have a Faber-Castell Polychromos set (or any other very primary based color set) and want to expend I would recommend looking at Prismacolor open stock, because they really offer colors that are more or less unique.
The greys are offered in mainly three hues in different values, a cooler grey (called cool grey), a warmer grey (called French grey) and a more neutral grey (actually called warm grey). They also have some other greyish colors.
Prismacolor also has gold, solver and bronze (the bronze is not so metallic though) and some neon colors.
The first color that I had to replace was the white (no surprise there).


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Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Really tired today, not done a great deal of anything!! Did a layout yesterday, to catch up with scrap like you mean it, and will try to do some more tomorrow, only 7 more to catch up with. I also have to make some bunting for the girls school at the local village fete. (Huh, more sewing!!) Hmmm, might make some more cards too! Watch this space!!
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My mom told me she'd know the name of my son was official when she saw it posted on my blog. Since Dawn and I have been calling him by name for the last few weeks, I think it's official. His name is Noah John Mihelis. We both like the sound of Noah, not to mention the biblical significance (minus the part of him getting drunk and... well you know). John, as you may have imagined, is primarily honoring John Piper who has impacted me through his writings and shaped my view of God more than any other individual in the world. I say primarily, because it was also intentional sensus plenior - John also honors John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards (who influenced Piper), John Murray, Owen, Bunyan, Flavel, of course the Apostle and every other John who was a great calvinist :-) Our prayer (and we hope that you will join us) is that our Noah too, will find grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Friday, March 31, 2006
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Forgive me, Grammar, for I have sinned. My sins are [insert your worst grammatical sin whether due to ignorance or to mistakes because of rushed writing and other random chances of error].
Oh, Grammar, I'm heartly sorry for having offended you, and I detest all my grammatical errors because of the just punishment of shame (from critics who tell you that "you should have learned that in grade school," when you actually know the rule, but you simply made an honest mistake, when they should have given you the benefit of the doubt, when they should have given you a modicum of respect even if you're just a young writer, when they really should have said "please correct this," but they don't have time to do this, because there's no time to be nice, only time for derision. Maybe they should have learned sensitivity in grade school, or maybe a little bit of humanity. And you laugh at them when they make such mistakes such as writing "the group are", and your laugh is cold and vengeful).
But most of all, because my faults have offended you, Grammar, when you are all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of your guidelines to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sinful typos.
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Former BJ reporter Jim Ricci, a Los Angeles Times retiree, crossed the country to attend Larry Froelich's memorial June 20 in Lexington, Kentucky, where Larry lived with wife Suzanne Dolezal Froelich.
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Another former Steubenville resident and BJ reporter, Charles Montague, also was there, but from much-closer Akron.
Montague wrote:
"I asked him why he had made such a long and expensive journey to attend memorial and he said, 'Hey, this is Fro'
"That sums up why I went, too, and really says it all about Larry.
"Another Akron guy from past who was there was Steve Ferrer, who did PR for Goodrich -- I think; wasn't taking notes. (Hope I am spelling his last name right.) He said Fro was best labor reporter he ever encountered."
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Unfortunately, Paula Tucker and I were cruising down the river – the Illinois River out of Peoria – and couldn't make it to Larry's memorial.
Except in spirit.
Larry passed away June 5 in the Akron area.
Froelich grew up in Dover, Ohio and is an Ohio University graduate.
In 1970, he was part of the Beacon Journal team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Kent State massacre, in which Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others, including some who were not part of the protest as bullets were sprayed everywhere.
Larry is survived by his wife, Suzanne; three children, Mark (Christa) Froelich, Britta (Marc) Spanke, and Eric (Stephanie) Froelich; and five grandchildren, Jack, Halle, Lindsay, Clare and Robert.
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So I'm out for my morning prayer-walk yesterday when I meet a lady on the sidewalk striding in the opposite direction. We smile and exchange our "good mornings" as we pass by one another. Just as soon as I'm shoulder to shoulder with her I detect a strong fragance. She's obviously wearing perfume. Now, she's sporting work-out clothes and is obviously exercising. It's not like she was on her way to work. Still, before she left the house she apparently felt like it would be nice to spritz herself … perhaps more than once. A good ten yards past her I could still detect her fragrance. It's like for several seconds I was moving through her aromatic jet stream!
In this case, I didn't mind. Frankly, the fragrance was a nice one. But the idea that though she had moved on I could still smell where she had been arrested my attention. I thought of the following words penned by the Apostle Paul:
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? (2 Corinthians 2:14-16)
At the risk of greatly oversimplifying what Paul was doing in this passage, I want to point out how that he speaks here of Christians bearing the "aroma of Christ" and of spreading everywhere the "fragrance of the knowledge of him." It makes me wonder: When I'm in someone's presence, what kind of aroma, spiritually speaking, am I giving off? To what degree am I redolent of a wise, courageous, compassionate Jesus? Do my words and actions remind people of Christ, or is it just me they see? And, after I'm gone, what kind of spiritual aroma, if any, lingers? Is it the smell of death, or the fragrance of life?
Common wisdom says that most people who wear perfume or cologne tend to overdo do it. But when it comes to bearing the aroma of Christ can this ever really be the case? Can we ever do too good a job of spreading everywhere the knowledge of him? I don't think so.
Oh, and by the way, I suspect that the only real way to put on Christ's brand, is to spend time with him. Which begs the question: Did we spritz today?
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CFO Awards — KJ Tjon
KJ Tjon knew there would be tough work ahead.
As CFO of what was then called Hawker Beechcraft Corp., Tjon was at the forefront of company's battle against its debt in the face of a depressed market for its products.
When the company announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2012, questions about the company's future naturally arose.
But Tjon had seen this type of thing before. Prior to joining the company in 2011, Tjon had worked for Alvarez & Marsal LLC, a global professional services firm specializing in corporate turnarounds.
So while the questions about the company swirled, Tjon knew companies could emerge successfully from bankruptcy, and she knew Hawker would too.
Her experience, she says, enabled her to "know there is going to be a better day and see a way through the process."
That helped her stay calm and focused, which helped those around her do the same.
Now the company is Beechcraft Corp. It has emerged from bankruptcy, shed its debt and streamlined its operations.
In the first quarter, the company saw deliveries increase 76 percent year over year.
Looking back on it now, Tjon says, it's all pretty incredible.
"For a company this size and with this complexity, for us to be in and out of bankruptcy in basically nine months was amazing."
A new focus
Tjon was able to stay calm during the bankruptcy process, but that wasn't because there were few challenges.
When Beechcraft filed for bankruptcy, it outlined three distinctly different means of reorganization.
Two would have kept some business jet production to varying degrees, while the other — the route the company ultimately chose — halted jet production entirely.
Then there was also the possibility of a sale of some or all of the company, an option it most earnestly explored.
With so many different scenarios for what the company might look like in the future, Tjon says, flexibility was key.
"The biggest challenge was that we had a fair amount of optionality," she says. "Each of those scenarios had very different outcomes and would affect people in profoundly different ways."
Through the process, however, Tjon found opportunities to integrate herself and her team more closely with rest of the company, something CEO Bill Boisture commends her for.
"KJ has brought a new sense of focus to our finance team as partners with our operating leaders, and she has developed several of our young people for larger responsibilities," he says.
Tjon says she enjoys seeing people grow but tries not to micro-manage them.
Among the people she has led to larger roles at Beechcraft is corporate treasurer Rhonda Harkins.
"KJ has been very engaged in providing me with opportunities. ... She provides positive encouragement as I step out into new areas and is willing to let me make, and take ownership of, my decisions," Harkins says.
Finding her wings
Not surprisingly, Tjon has stayed very busy with work since coming to Wichita in 2011. When she does have some free time, you might find her on any of the area's public golf courses honing her game.
You might also find her out for a walk in downtown Wichita, where she lives.
Or you might see her in the sky, as she is just beginning to take flying lessons. If you see a small plane some weekend morning and notice the takeoff doesn't look too smooth, that might be her, Tjon says.
But that plane will eventually level out and fly straight, just as Beechcraft has.
"We ended up with the right answer (through restructuring)," Tjon says. We're more focused. Yes, we're a smaller team now, but at the same time, we're really able to better compete in the marketplace in everything we do."


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Seinfeld (1990)
1 factual error in The Soup
Starring: Jason Alexander, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards
Genres: Comedy
Factual error: In this episode, after accepting a free Armani suit from Kenny Bania, Bania insists that Jerry repay him by taking him to a nice restaurant. Jerry takes Bania to Mendy's, a Glatt kosher NYC deli. During the ordering process Bania suggests, "Oh, get the swordfish. Best swordfish in the city. The best, Jerry." Swordfish is considered an unkosher fish by Glatt kosher standards since it does not have scales, one of the essential criteria. It would therefore never be served at Mendy's.
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I HATED Rushmore, I did not find it funny. I thought that kindergarten teacher should have run far, far, far away from Bill Murray, the asshole. She should have gone with the very nice, attractive surgeon played by Luke Wilson. But then Wes Anderson cannot have his fantasy life where, even if you are ugly and cruel and get into elaborate revenge warfare with 15 year olds, you'll still get the much younger, pretty woman, ugh! Also Max Fischer (played by Jason Schwartzman) was utterly annoying and obnoxious, though his final play at the end of the movie was kind of amusing
Since I hated Rushmore I refuse to watch any other Wes Anderson movies. I really don't need to watch assholes hurt people and exploit children, and yet still get a happy ending when really they should be bitchslapped and run over by a truck, just so I can claim I am deep and cultured.
Monday, October 1, 2007
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EARLY one dark and dreary January morning a year ago, Alison Vaughan, 36, a director of an art and design firm, dragged herself to the gym.
Joining the gym for the first time was her New Year resolution. Her gym instructor, Jeremy, had brown hair, a toned, lithe body and a cheeky smile.
And the fact that he was ten years younger than her, charming and devastatingly attractive certainly helped motivate Alison in her bid to get fit.
Before she knew it, he had not only talked her into agreeing to do three gym sessions a week, but also persuaded her to get up at 6am for a personal cardio workout.
Jeremy was extremely attentive and his compliments made Alison feel good.
She was proud of herself for finding the motivation to get fit.
At Pounds 25 an hour three times a week, it was an expensive hobby, but she reasoned that if it had worked for celebrities such as Kate Beckinsale, it would work for her.
She also knew how proud her husband Andrew, 42, a director at the same company, would be.
Though they had no children and Alison didn't have the excuse of pregnancy weight gain, she had noticed that she was getting flabby around her waist and thighs. She wanted to make sure that Andrew still had eyes for her alone.
Within weeks, Jeremy offered to take sessions in her house as well as at the gym.
'Soon, I started to look forward to the sessions perhaps a little more than I should,' says Alison.
'If I'd been honest with myself, the real reason for booking more and more gym sessions with Jeremy was that I enjoyed his company.
'My husband worked long hours and I enjoyed the easy banter with my personal trainer. Without wanting to sound like a woman with a schoolgirl crush, I was enjoying the way he made me feel.' The workouts became an escape from the boring outside world of meetings and hard work.
'It was addictive. The fact that Jeremy made me feel attractive even when I was sweaty and not wearing makeup was hugely appealing.
'He made me see the potential in myself to look sensational. I loved his company, the fact he was always complimentary and courteous, and treated me like a lady. After a few weeks, I found myself fantasising about wrapping my body around him.
'I still loved my husband and had never been tempted to cheat on him before but the more I saw of Jeremy, the more I wanted to be with him.
'I knew there was the potential for something to happen between us.
His physical fitness was a huge turnon.
The fact his skin would rub against mine as we were working out and I could smell his sweat was so exciting and intimate.' Jeremy's ability to make Alison feel as though she was the only woman in the world was an incredible aphrodisiac: suddenly, she was ready to walk into a trap which is proving a temptation for many women.
Plenty has been written about relationships between celebrities and gym instructors. Madonna's personal trainer, Carlos Leon, fathered her first child, Lourdes. VANESSA Feltz found long-term solace in the arms of her trainer, Dennis Duhaney, after the break- up of her 16-year-old marriage.
And it's not just famous people who are drawn to their gym instructors.
With more than 5,000 registered personal trainers in the UK, the number of ordinary women using their services is increasing.
And the number of wives finding themselves embroiled in locker room love affairs is growing, too.
The attraction is not purely physical. Cary Cooper, professor of psychology and health at Lancaster University, says that because of the intimate role personal trainers play in women's lives, and the positive encouragement they offer, they can appear to have all the qualities of the perfect partner.
'Busy women with equally busy partners crave the sort of attention that a personal trainer can give them,' he says.
'He takes the role of a confidant in much the same way as a hairdresser does, someone who sees you regularly and will listen to your problems and concerns.
'Working one-on-one can be incredibly intimate, physically and emotionally. The personal trainer has a vested interest in your health and wellbeing, and is there to help you look and feel better. He is supportive and encouraging.
'Moreover, he sees you at your worst, with no makeup and looking sweaty and unkempt. Yet for all that, he still accepts you for what you are.
'Essentially, he is behaving in exactly the same way you would want your ideal partner to.' However, like any affair, a relationship with a personal trainer is inextricably linked with lies and deceit.
In the case of Alison, she found herself acting entirely out of character and actively pursuing an extramarital affair.
'I made the first move,' she admits.
'During one lunchtime session, Jeremy was adjusting some equipment I was working on and I spontaneously kissed his ear. As soon as I had done it, I felt mortified. Not because of my husband but in case Jeremy thought I was crazy. But he responded by telling me that he was extremely attracted to me.
'Later that day, he called me on my mobile phone – he had my number to arrange our training sessions – and asked me to go out for a drink with him the following day.
'I was so excited but my stomach was churning with guilt. He'd awakened feelings in me that I hadn't experienced for many years.
'I knew deep down where it was leading and over the next few weeks our drinks turned from flirty chats to a fullblown affair.
'Once a week, I would tell my husband I was seeing girlfriends, when I was really having the best sex of my life. Sex had suddenly become forbidden, exciting and sensual, unlike with my husband, who was predictable in bed.'
Naturally, Alison's affair started to dent her marriage as she found herself comparing her husband unfavourably with Jeremy. And while he continued to work long hours and so didn't suspect anything, Alison was aware of an unspoken gulf growing between them.
She made the classic mistake of thinking she was the only client Jeremy was involved with and so was devastated to discover he was having a similar relationship with another woman.
'When a gym client I was friendly with told me she, too, had been sleeping with Jeremy, I felt sick. I confronted him and he didn't even try to deny it.
He just said he still fancied me but it was "just one of those things".
'At first, I was hurt, then angry and finally I was overcome with utter shame at what a fool I'd been.
'Of course, a man as good looking as Jeremy was going to have lots of women throwing themselves at him. I couldn't believe I'd put my marriage on the line over an affair; but for him, I was just another perk of the job.
'I quickly changed gyms and although I still have a personal trainer, I made sure this time I chose a woman.
'When I see other women in the gym flirting with their male instructors, I feel sorry for them. I know how easy it is to be conned by their flattery and hope they don't make the same mistake I did.' PAUL COOK, a 27-yearold personal trainer from Wimbledon, South- West London, says women throwing themselves at him is just part of the job.
'Flirting with clients has always gone on, and most of the time it's harmless.
The majority of the women aren't my type anyway,' he says.
'It's usually wealthy, married women in their late 30s with children who come on to me. It's not that they're bored housewives – most of them are intelligent career women with great jobs, who probably should know better, but can't quite stop themselves.' Dr Nick Neave, evolutionary psychologist at Northumbria University, says the attraction between a woman and her personal trainer is often inevitable purely in terms of how humans have developed.
'Women prefer physical fitness in men because it indicates they are healthy.
They like broad shoulders, a narrow waist and guys who are hunky but not too muscular,' he says.
'During exercise, the body releases chemicals called endorphins, which make you feel relaxed, happy and can even dull pain. When women feel some of these emotions, they can be far more sexually receptive.
'This natural high makes them feel sexy and, subconsciously, they start looking for a mate.
'Also, exercise releases chemicals called pheromones from a man's armpits, which increase his attractiveness to a woman. These chemicals can even change her perception of his face so she finds him more attractive.' A potent combination of sexual evolution and the fact that many women use their relationships – sexual and non- sexual – as an escape from unhappy relationships and marriages reflects a deeper problem in modern society, where increasingly both partners work hard, leaving little time for intimacy.
This is certainly what happened to Susan Woods, a 30-year-old marketing executive from Jersey.
Deeply unhappy in her live-in relationship of three years, she found her head was turned by the obvious flirting when she started gym sessions with her personal trainer, David.
'It was obvious he was a real ladies' man and the more I saw him, the more the flirting escalated,' she says. HE WAS extremely tactile.
Whenever he helped me use a new piece of equipment or do a new exercise, we would touch and I'd feel a spark between us.
'Sometimes, he would just pat my shoulder or arm but at other times he'd put his hand on my stomach to check I was working my muscles properly or put nearly all his body weight on me to help me stretch, which felt incredibly sexy.
'I had been confiding in him from the beginning about the rows with my boyfriend. At first, it was just like having a male friend to confide in. But then one day, a couple of months after we met, I broke down in tears in the gym after another row with my partner.
'David took me by the hand, led me into another room, closed the door and kissed me full on the lips as I leant against the wall. It was late in the evening and no one else was around.
'I was shocked when it happened – so much so, that I couldn't speak. He smiled and suggested that we finish the workout.
It was surreal, but I wanted more. I felt terrible that I had kissed another man after all, I had never been unfaithful to my boyfriend before.
But I couldn't stop thinking about David.
'The next time I saw him was by coincidence.
The following day, I was walking back from work and he passed by on his bike. He stopped and asked if I wanted to go back to his place. I said 'Yes' – and that's when our four-month affair began.
'While I was seeing David in secret at his flat, I didn't want sex with my boyfriend but he never even questioned it or asked if there was anything the matter.
'This reinforced my decision to have an affair. If my boyfriend didn't care about me, then why shouldn't I find solace with someone else?
'I knew my relationship with David would never go anywhere because I was just another conquest to him.
'I suspected he was having other affairs while he was seeing me – he often used to go outside to speak on his mobile phone and was always flirting with other women in the gym. I never asked him because I didn't need to.
'Looking back, our relationship was based purely on sex. He was passionate in bed and taught me things I had only ever read about. Eventually, I was the one to end things when I moved to Kent to take up a new job.
'Seeing David made me realise that my relationship with my boyfriend was all wrong – so I left him.
'I ended my relationship with David around the same time because I wanted a clean start. He wasn't upset when we split up: he wished me luck and accepted I had to move on. THE AFFAIR served its purpose and I eventually went on to meet someone who was not a ladies' man. I don't think all personal trainers are womanisers, though it would be easy to fall for one because most are charming and you spend so much time with them.
'I wasn't the first client David had an affair with and I'm sure I won't be the last.' But relationships with personal trainers don't have to be sordid affairs. Fleur Rhiannon, 23, who is single and a personal assistant for an actor's agency in Kensington, West London, dated her gym instructor for nine months.
She hired her trainer, Paul, to help her shed a stone in weight. But a feeling of closeness and camaraderie soon developed and they became friends outside the gym. One night, eight months after the training sessions began, they went for a drink in a bar together.
'Trainers have a really bad reputation. I know a few people who have had a fling with theirs,' says Fleur. 'So I assumed Paul would have women falling at his feet and had no intention of being another conquest. But that drink was the start of a relationship that proved me wrong.
'Even though we were dating, while we worked out at the gym he was totally professional and treated me like any other client.
'One of the attractions was the physical element of our training together and the accidental physical contact.
'I was worried that after spending the day with beautiful bodies, he'd come home and find fault in mine. But he never did. He wouldn't even pass a comment if we went out for dinner and I ate fatty foods.
'At the beginning of the affair, I asked him if he'd had a relationship with a client before, but he said I was the first. I still believe him.
'He was friendly with the women he trained and I can see how easy it would be to misconstrue this for something more. I felt jealous of the more attractive ones he worked with. But I felt sorry for the women who made themselves embarrassingly available to him because they must have been lonely and misguided.
'We split up after nine months because the relationship had run its course. I would never put anyone off going out with a personal trainer, but it isn't the easiest relationship to have. The temptation for many gym instructors is too great.' Of course, not all personal trainers take advantage of the situation. Kristoph Thompson, a 23-year-old gym instructor from Eastbourne, East Sussex, has faced women with a crush many times and has learned strategies to deal with it.
'Almost all of my clients are women and about 75 per cent of them flirt with me. If a woman approaches me, I make it very clear that although I'm flattered, I don't mix business with pleasure,' he says.
'I think it would be unprofessional but I know a lot of trainers who don't think that and are more than happy to take advantage.
But they're the ones who give this profession a bad name.'


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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE,v.LARRY W. BIGGERSTAFF, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Hamilton County. No. 94-CF-10. Honorable David L. Underwood, Judge, presiding.
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This case features charges of murder in the first degree and aggravated discharge of a firearm. The accused entered a plea of not guilty. He then stood trial by jury. The jury deliberated on the evidence presented at trial and returned guilty verdicts on both charges. The defendant was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the offense of first-degree murder. The defendant appeals his conviction.
At first blush, the case appears rather unremarkable, tracking a path to verdict common to most cases. Both verdicts are clearly supported by the evidence. However, the verdicts do not reflect a jury determination of what was ultimately placed at issue by defendant's not-guilty plea. The crime of involuntary manslaughter, one of the potential offenses placed at issue, was submitted without a mechanism for the jury to decide guilt or innocence. The jury decided guilt without instruction that allowed it to acquit.
We are thus asked, in the face of overwhelming evidence favoring conviction, to grant defendant a new trial. The request tests a core value of the process by which we judge our fellow man. It questions a verdict of guilt reached by a jury that was not empowered to find innocence.
We must decide whether the failure to provide a jury with the option to acquit, no matter how unlikely the possibility, invalidates a guilty verdict. Since the decision on guilt or innocence is the essence of trial by jury, we grant defendant a new trial. No matter how obvious a defendant's guilt, no matter how overwhelming the evidence, no matter what his lawyer thinks or tells the jury, the constitution entitles him to a jury verdict that decides guilt or innocence. Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. 275, 277-78, 124 L. Ed. 2d 182, 188, 113 S. Ct. 2078, 2080-81 (1993).
There is no real dispute over what happened. The defendant spent most of March 30, 1994, playing pocket pool. He was also drinking beer and whiskey. He was with an old friend named George Feuquay. At one point, Feuquay and defendant had a disagreement over a playing partner for one of the pool games. Feuquay insulted defendant by assigning him a partner that he did not like.
Later that day, defendant left the tavern and went home. He loaded his shotgun and walked down the street to visit his old friend. He entered Feuquay's trailer, sat down on the living room couch, and declared their friendship a thing of the past. Feuquay, who was sitting in a chair facing defendant, started to get up. The defendant then shot and killed him.
The defendant stood trial. Despite testimony that attempted to posture fear as the impetus for the killing, despite defendant's effort to implicate an imperfect self-defense second-degree murder instruction, no second-degree murder instruction was tendered. Rather, defense counsel sought and received instruction on the offense of involuntary manslaughter. This lesser-included offense was thus placed in issue for the jury's consideration. The concluding instruction for homicide cases implicating second-degree murder, as well as involuntary manslaughter, was used as the form for instructing the jury. Pattern instruction number 26.01J (Illinois Pattern Jury Instruction, Criminal, No. 26.01J (3d ed. 1992)) was altered to instruct on first-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. It was fashioned to read:
"The defendant is charged with the offense of first degree murder. Under the law, a person charged with first degree murder may be found (1) not guilty; or (2) guilty of first degree murder; or (3) guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Accordingly, you will be provided three verdict forms; 'not guilty of first degree murder', 'guilty of first degree murder', and 'guilty of involuntary manslaughter.'"
The jury was not provided with a general not-guilty verdict or an involuntary manslaughter not-guilty verdict. Thus, the jury could only decide whether the State had failed to establish first-degree murder beyond a reasonable doubt. It was afforded no mechanism to decide whether the State had failed to prove defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
It is undisputed that the trial court departed from pattern instruction number 26.01J. This departure was accompanied by the tender of verdict forms inconsistent with those contemplated by the instruction. The contemplated ...
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The Silicon Valley venture-capital firm (VC) is under intense pressure from its limited partners (investors) to fund as many startups, and ultimately earn as high a return, as possible. In this high-testosterone endeavor, each VC constantly races its rivals to discover, back, and launch the next Google.
Accordingly, VCs are spread so thinly, sitting on too many boards, that they have neither the time nor expertise to thoroughly screen entrepreneurs' ideas and business plans — instead allowing them to experiment and fail multiple times until something sticks.
In addition to being financially suboptimal, these rapid-fire, mulligan-oriented transactions kill something critical: branding. In fact, branding is extinct in Silicon Valley.
Branding is the art & science of articulating a jargon-free value proposition — before building a product — one that people react to, remember, and repeat. Alas, Silicon Valley is awash in forgettable, indecipherable jargon and ephemeral trends.
Building Companies About Nothing
On 04.26.12, Lizette Chapman penned a revealing piece in the Wall Street Journal about the latest trend in techdom: pivoting, another term for the jargon pile. Wrote she: The founders who change products and markets between one and three times raise more money than those who don't, according to Startup Genome Compass of San Francisco. This defies all logic.
Jeff Bercovici of Forbes amplified Chapman's article by characterizing this flavor-of-the-month trend as a "Seinfeld moment": building companies about nothing!
Pivoting is what a politician does: in chameleon-like fashion, he replaces yesterday's slogan with one that resonates better today — to raise cash and get votes. In essence, he stands for and commits to nothing, the antithesis of branding.
Because VCs are in such a funding rush, largely in preselected spaces like "social media" rather than according to what consumers actually want and need, startups are no longer expected to know what products to build. Instead, they assemble teams and rent offices, then figure out the rest, on the fly. Huh?
What happened to doing your homework BEFORE starting a company, aiming before firing? That's so yesterday. Perhaps VCs have too much of other people's money to chase too few good ideas. Just saying.
Imagine engaging an architect to design your house, approving his plan, getting financing, hiring the general contractor, breaking ground, then watching these folks "pivot" your plan — and your cash — to oblivion. You can't.
Tweaking is one thing, but completely and repeatedly changing course is another. Yet, this is Silicon Valley's current MO — and why branding is extinct here. It's no mystery that nebulous cloud computing originated in Silicon Valley.
Yes, some companies like Instagram will make it via lucky pivoting, but most won't. In fact, VCs are teaching prospective entrepreneurs to fail by becoming companies about nothing.
Rx from the WhiteNoise Doctor™
The only way to convince another that your company is about something is to believe it yourself, with conviction and PROOF that you're solving a real problem — for someone who doesn't live in Silicon Valley.
If, however, you pivot three times after raising seed capital, to attract more capital, you don't know and never knew why your company exists — other than to get the VC's check.
So, what will you do, now that you have the cash, pivot three more times until nobody can fathom your reason for being?
Cisco did this, then had to cut 10,000 jobs before getting back to basics. Cisco ignored the fundamentals of branding at great cost to its shareholders and employees.
Branding is extinct and won't appear any time soon — unless and until Silicon Valley ceases to operate by the current VC-driven model.
About the Author
Marc Rudov is a branding advisor to CEOs,
producer of MarcRudovTV, and author of the book,
Be Unique or Be Ignored: The CEO's Guide to Branding.
© 2012 Marc H. Rudov. All Rights Reserved.
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This is the current version of my ranger. Medium Annuminas pants and chest, light Annuminas shoulders. Although I'm debating about just keeping the Tarwaith shoulder pads, considering the "mantle" look is just too good (I'll get some pics of that up later).
I also had a "white ranger" look as well, sort of like a poor man's Annuminas.
Of course the items are far beyond rare (except for the shoulder pads--light crafted armor). The chest and pants are very rare drops, usually found in the Lone Lands and North Downs. People often throw away one or the other because they don't know there's a matching set. The cloak is the Cloak of the Ancient Ruins (another Rift item and, again, bind on acquire now as well).
There's also my "casual" outfits, i.e. when I'm not out doing rangery business. On slow days:
Quilted pants (light armor craftable). The chest, however, is another rare drop--I believe in the 30 - 40 range (so Evendim and Trollshaws). Note the star on the chest.


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By Agha Iqrar Haroon
The biggest partner of Kabul in its civil war against Taliban — the United States is openly rejecting any political solution to end 35-year long war in Afghanistan. It looks that use of power is still the only choice for United States that is exhibiting and using all sort of weapons including daisy cutter bombs and Mother of All Bomb in Afghanistan since 2001 but US is yet to achieve peace for Afghan people. US was not alone in Afghanistan rather entire NATO used maximum military power to snub Taliban who controlled less than 5 per cent of Afghan land in year 2002 but now they are controlling over 50% of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, US looks curious and bothers with possibility of deployment of Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) rapid response force in Central Asian countries bordering Afghanistan. US Think Tanks and unofficial intelligence gathering networks are trying to figure it out what happened in CSTO meeting in Bishkek and even contacting media outlets those released news about possibility of deployment of CSTO response force in Tajikistan.
It may be mentioned that heads of CSTO member states met in Bishkek this week and reportedly considered deployment of rapid response force in Central Asian countries bordering Afghanistan.
Though gathering of heads of states of CSTO was officially called "informal meeting", the volatile situation in Afghanistan was reportedly discussed at length in reference to threat of terrorism to central Asian countries due to disturbing situation in Afghanistan where Islamic State known also as Daesh is spreading with every passing day. CSTO members believe that US forces in Afghanistan are not doing anything to stop spread of Daesh while former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in his interview with Voice of America claimed that Daesh is (was) "tool" of the United States. Interestingly, allegations leveled by Karzai against US-Daesh relations are similar to those were leveled by US President Trump during his election campaign.
The CSTO meeting in Bishkek was attended by President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek.
The US urge of dealing with Afghan crises with power play instead of talks is creating more insecurity among countries surrounding Afghanistan. Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and China have already expressed their concerns with Afghan crises where a new phenomenon of Daesh has emerged.
Pakistan that is one of the most important stakeholders in region referring to its historic linkages with Afghan crises supports Russia-hosted Afghanistan Peace Conference in Moscow and considers Peace Conference fruitful. Pakistani Additional Foreign Secretary Tasnim Aslam and former spokesperson of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan attended the Afghanistan Peace Conference in Moscow that held on April 14, 2017. She while talking to Russia media said that all the participants agreed on the idea that reconciliation was "the only way forward in Afghanistan."
Interestingly, US strategic partner—India during Peace Conference In Moscow also supported option of peace talks between Taliban and Afghan government instead of US option to use more brutal military power. All 11 countries, including Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Afghanistan and Central Asian states urged political solution for Afghan crises.
Meanwhile new U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster who had been working with International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) believes that "No one should support the Taliban".
He also expressed his eagerness for a military solution of Afghanistan during his recent visit to Islamabad where he met military and civil leaderships of Pakistan.
"Since Operation Cyclone (code name for CIA program to arm and finance the Jihadi warriors in Afghanistan in 1979), the US is trying to solve Afghan issue with gunpowder, making the region vulnerable and breeding radicalism and terrorism in Afghanistan.
"Afghan Jihad gave birth to a new kind of Jihadi terrorism that has spread all over the world in different forms but still US wishes to gain results with war in Afghanistan. Afghan civil war will spread further if dialogue and peace talks are not provided chance," commented a former military officer who had been performing operational responsibilities during Russo-Afghan Jihad.
Afghanistan is an unfortunate land where world powers play "Game of Détente" although Cold War is officially over.
Should Afghans be not allowed to find their future through dialogue among themselves?
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Twenty-nine-month follow-up of a paediatric zirconia dental crown
- 1Department of Peadiatric Dentistry, Université de Nantes, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Nantes, France
- 2Service d'Odontologie Conservatrice et Pédiatrique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Hôtel Dieu, Nantes, France
- Correspondence to Dr Serena Lopez Cazaux, serena.lopez-cazaux{at}univ-nantes.fr
- Accepted 29 May 2017
- Published 14 June 2017
The aim of this paper is to present the long-term follow-up of one paediatric zirconia crown on a deciduous molar. Preformed crowns are part of the armamentarium in paediatric dentistry. In recent years, aesthetic alternatives to preformed metal crowns have been developed, first preveneered crowns and then zirconia crowns. This paper describes the restoration of a primary molar with a zirconia crown (EZ-Pedo, Loomis, California, USA) in an 8-year-old boy. In this clinical case, the protocol for the implementation and maintenance of zirconia crowns is detailed. The patient was followed up for 29 months until the natural exfoliation of his primary molar. The adaptation of the zirconia crown, the gingival health and the wear on the opposing tooth were considered. In this case, the paediatric zirconia crown allowed sustainable functional restoration while restoring a natural appearance of the tooth.
Contributors SLC is responsible for care and treatment of the patient in the hospital and had written the article. IH and TP participated in the follow-up and critically revised the article. SDT critically revised the article.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Obtained from Guardian.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.


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Well I don't know about you, to me this year seems to be flying past and I can't believe it's 1st May today! That means a new Claritystamp challenge, and this month's theme is In the Air.
Many of you will know that I'm in the process of moving house. Well actually I have moved, only the new property is not ready, so am staying with my parents whilst we and the many other contractors involved, work on it. My sample this month is rather heartfelt as it would have been lovely to bring my old place with me, very much in a homage to the film UP! here it is:-
I started with a square of card and one of the Quirky Cottages, and masked it using one of Clarity's masks.
Using the party balloon stamp (this is one of Clarity's older stamps) make a number of masks from Post-It Notes. Then start to stamp your balloon around the house, masking the balloons as you go. To stamp just the balloon and not the string that's attached to it, I used small pieces of Post-It Notes to mask them off whilst inking the stamp – remember to remove them before stamping the image. Continue until you have the right number of balloons above the house. (You may find it easier to make a practice piece before hand so you know where to place the balloons)
With the masks still in place, create a hill mask from copy paper and add the landscape. I used Distress Ink Peeled Paint for the hills and lightly brushed Salty Ocean for the sky. At this point I drew in the string lines with a pencil.
I used one of the Wee Trees to create the hedges and coloured the balloons using polychromos pencils.
I felt the image was too flat and decided to restamp the balloons, colour and cut them out.
These were then layered over the existing balloon images with thread wrapped around them. The thread was then taken to the back of the card by piercing various parts of the roof. The quirky cottage was also restamped, coloured and then layered onto the card. Both the balloons and cottage were adhered using foam strip.
Wink of Stella was added to each of the balloons and I've tried to capture the lovely sparkle you get –
The flock of birds from the Harbour stamp set were added using three generations of ink, and the card edged with a black Sharpie pen before being added to a card base.
Here's the finished sample again.
I hope we've given you some inspiration for this month's challenge and would love to see your entries on either Clarity Worldwide Facebook group for stamps and stencils and Groovi Worldwide Facebook group for parchment work. Remember you could win a £50 Clarity gift voucher to spend on anything at Claritystamp.com.
Stamps:- Quirky Cottages, Party Balloons, Harbour Stamp set, Wee Trees
Other:- Versafine – Onyx Black; Distress Ink Peeled Paint, Salted Ocean; Wink of Stella; Post-it Notes; Polychromos pencils; Sharpie pen – Black


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Britney could be the new Tammy
Poor Britney. Enough is enough. Taking pot-
shots at this troubled ex-Mousketeer has gone
too far. This week she was attacked in the
US media for not being able to close her
pram properly. And now she's almost being
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FYI: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
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and the Popular Revolutionary Front for the Liberation
of Palestine have so far declined to give their
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Speaking of Britney, who's with me on my theory that she don't want those kids? She's got the rascals out of her hair now, so maybe she's the real "winner" in the custody dispute?


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As I mentioned in last weeks MPM, we have started a food budget this month to track our grocery bill. Last Monday, April 6th I did our weekly shopping and the bill was $71.23. I also picked up some extras mid week for $19.05. So a total of $90.28 is not too bad.
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There are a lot of ways they benefit. One by having mechanisms built into Vista that patrol the user that weren't there in XP that were rejected by XP users when they released WGA. The next is that they actually denied consumers the choice even though consumers asked for it and in the end the only way to get it was to pay for the OS twice (once for Vista and once for XP). OEMs aren't just the big boys such as the royal OEMs.
This person's failure was obviously her failure of knowing the law or getting adequate legal council. Or Microsoft has deep pockets that get judges all hot and wet.
The OEMs were forced to sell Vista and were told not to allow XP. Microsoft's approach to forcing Vista was systematic. It isn't hard to see what they had done over the past two years. Those actions could only be taken by a monopoly in the manner they were, and then again only by a monopoly with something to gain. Microsoft had been directing Royal OEMs to remove support for XP in the BIOS tables and as well had been telling hardware vendors not to provide drivers for XP (sound, wireless, etc). They didn't direct this in this manner without some plan and thus benefit to themselves.
Really, it isn't hard to understand that users wanted X product but were forced to buy V product and then buy X product afterwords. When resellers said they were not able to comply and that Microsoft had discontinued their right to purchase the X product and then systematically denied support, and then lied about the availability of product keys. That's coercion of all parties--to say the least. When you consider Microsoft came up with more product keys after the netbook craze began you can see they were manipulating and coercing OEMs and thus consumers.
If I were this person I'd refile (as I'm sure the case didn't go to trial) and then subpoena all the OEMs and their communications in preparation of the Vista release. I'd be willing to bet there's some real telling details in those correspondences.
No, you're good if the plaintiff doesn't prove you did it.
I have a hard time wrapping idea around the concept of forcing someone to sell something they don't want to sell. The idea is absurd. It's very mafia-ish at the very least.
A computer should be separate from the software; as such a customer should never be compelled to buy a computer conditional on also buying the software on the device. Of course this is already covered under US antitrust law as illegal tying even if it is rarely if ever enforced.
How did they benefit? It's a lot easier to make the case that the end user benefits for actually recieving two (non-concurrent) licenses for the price of a single license, given that the old software has been discontinued. I don't think the OEM price for Vista or Win7 is any different from XP, and the new versions are the replacements for the old - frankly they weren't required to offer an XP option at all (except by the oft-derided free market pressure that was upon them, of course - nothing bad to say about free markets when they help you out eh?), or any form of downgrade. You don't see Apple offering a free downgrade option from Leopard to Tiger, do you? Of course not, ordinarily the idea is absurd. The only difference is that this upgrade was not well-received, and it was offer a downgrade or lose customers.
Since they weren't even required to continue selling XP at all, how the hell can you argue that selling a license that includes a free license for XP is anything but a value-add for the customer?
I have a hard time wrapping idea around the concept of forcing someone to sell something they don't want to sell. The idea is absurd. It's very mafia-ish at the very least.
That's weird... I just realized something... and maybe this is the problem:
"Back in the day" many OEMs were selling the XP Downgrade at an additional cost. Nowadays, it seems one can buy a machine with Vista/Win7 or XP (with a Vista or Win7 license included) at the same price.
Perhaps that is the problem with this suit (or part of it) - nowadays there is no extra charge. When the lawsuit was initiated, virtually everyone (due to Microsoft per their claims) was charging an extra fee for the downgrade license.
Just two months ago, I purchased 4 XP machines for a client. They were the same price as the identical hardware with Vista or Win 7. They came with Vista restore disks but XP pre-installed. And a free upgrade coupon for Win7 (which was honored, btw)... meaning, for the price of one OS, it's come with XP pre-installed, Vista restore disks, and Win 7 upgrade on it's way in the mail (for the cost of S/H). (These were for Lenovo ThinkCentres)
A year and a few months ago, the machine would have been an extra $40-80 for the "downgrade" to preinstalled XP.
Perhaps they had a hard time proving it because there isn't anything available online to help them prove it now. Or they were checking the wrong manufacturers and didnt find any that still may be charging extra.
Most of the world's non-embedded computers run Windows. When a company reaches that level of influence, it ceases to be just another firm and instead becomes a part of our societal infrastructure. It's certainly reasonable to hold such organizations to a higher standard than we hold smaller organizations. The power company can't "do as they want" either.
As long as Microsoft wants to enjoy the lucrative benefits of being a singular part of society's information infrastructure, society ought to have a say in how Microsoft is run.
You might argue that imposing such restrictions is "punishing success". That's hardly true. The people responsible for Microsoft's growth have been rewarded many times over. If Microsoft finds regulations unbearable, it can split itself in two smaller companies, or shrink some other way. Then, it would no longer be subject to the same scrutiny.
But as long as Microsoft
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I have both, although as a single guy I guess both of the rooms could be considered to be my "man cave". The true man cave is for the 2 channel system, and the HT sits in the living room.
Man Cave or No?
Living room is listening room also. Which, as you note, leads to a complicated set of compromises. But, like you, I think I'd feel funny stuck off in a back corner room alone with all my stereo gear in a big mess, even though all perfectly positioned, etc., etc. The nice thing about the living room is that it connects right up to the kitchen, and I rather enjoy cranking up the system while I'm cooking and later eating some complicated concoction (with a glass of wine in one hand, of course).
I found this out the hard way..........for me I do feel disconnected when down in the cave and I find myself listening to much more music in the living room on a simple mass market system simply because I am on the main floor. Dont get me wrong as I love to hang out down there having close to optimal set-up and no WAF grief and its great for hosting my audio buds but I underestimated how much time I wish to be down in basement away from the sunshine in the windows and feeling more a part of life. In a perfect world I would like to have a large family room in back of house open to the rest of house yet out of the way enough that a large system would be acceptable. I have the best of both worlds so I am not complaining but feeling more a part of things with natural light would be ideal for me
i have my 5.1 system in my basement so that my family and i can all enjoy movies and our nintendo wii together,its a nice large space and the setup works well for all of us,we keep our living room as formal as possible with no tv/electronics at all,however i consider myself very lucky with the room i use strictly for 2 channel,its a 14 x 14 room that is solely used for listening purposes and for our cd/dvd collection,god bless my wifes decision to let me use this room for myself,i dont think i would enjoy music quite as much without a dedicated listening room
I have both - actually 2 dedicated rooms in the basement, and I have rig in the living room. My wife really doesn't like music at volumes higher than background music levels, so I retire to the "man cave" for listening unless she's not at home. I do find it lonely at times, though often the solitude and peace is what I want. The other issue is since the cave is in the basement and windows are small, it can be a little dark and depressing. I try to address this with lighting and color, but it's not the same as the living room which has a large picture window with a view of the yard and street.
The other advantage of the basement cave is that I like to build, (which is one reason I have 2 rooms down there) and I have total freedom to remodel/rebuild as I see fit.
I guess I am a happy cave man - I have a dedicated listening room. When we had our house built, a dedicated room for audio was a must for me. The only thing in the room is my system, a single chair and room treatment. It sure is nice to have a perfectly symmetrical large room with no TV or other stuff to mess up the sound. Now where did I put my bone tool and flint?
If I did not have my own room (away from everything) to listen and obsess I would go crazy. I found this out the hard way the first year of my marriage when my wife, 2 cats, and I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment. A nightmare. My very understanding wife let me take over the bedroom for a 'man cave', knowing my 'situation'. She slept on the couch in the living room. I know it sounds like a bad deal for her, but it had a happy ending. I am now NOT in a mental institution.
I had my system in a couple of small living rooms. My wife was always cool with it but there never was enough room. I did enjoy having music in the main part of the house, particularly on weekends when we have the usual beer-wine-cooking events. Now I have my system in a finished room above an attached garage. The space is nice and I can crank music and my guitar without bothering anyone. But I do feel stupid sometimes sitting up there by myself. The room is pretty isolated from the house and I have to climb a set of stairs so I don't listen as often. I think my ideal setup would be to have a large enough open living space to accomodate my system, music, and instruments.
I can attest to the great difficulties one encounters when merging the "man cave" with the living room, but it is a worthwhile goal.
In my house, there are two generous 'living rooms' but one doubles as a dining room and family room, so I was forced to integrate my cave into the other which we have now dubbed "the music room".
Hiding wires is always a problem and one that in general I have failed to solve. Custom lengths for everything would go a long way in fixing that problem, but for now, I would rather allocate funds elsewhere.
You can see pictures in my system link just below. Since those photos were taken I have rearranged the room and will add new photos soon.
When we moved into our current home, all I asked for was control over the "family room", which is 21x21x8. Which I got, the wife give me complete control over the decorating and media in this room and all I had to give up in exchange was any iota of control in every other room. Thankfully, at that point in our marriage, I understood, trusted and liked my wife's tastes in decorating. So, it was a win-win as far as I was concerned.
In the end, I got one large room with two separate systems. If you click on my systems and take a look, I have to warn you that the room has been changed since those photo's were taken and the layout now is much more 2 channel audio friendly. I hope to update them soon .
To answer your question, if you can have an audio set up in a generally occupied and functional room with as few audio compromises, I think that would the preferred action plan.
But, at either end of the spectrum and forced to decide between cave or no cave, I would vote cave.
I got my dedicated room when we became empty nesters. It's an upstairs bedroom that's occupied by three chairs, the system, cd racks and room treatments. Much better for audio but it can get a bit lonely as my wife has zero interest in listening. Also, on the rare occasion a non-family member visits for a listen it feels strange walking through the upstairs.
This thread is timely for my situation as I'm considering a second system for a more public area of the house. Probably the living room as it is more suitable for a system. Lord knows there's enough extra stuff around.
To have a nice system and having your mate to listen with you from time to time ain't bad at all. When I built my "man cave", I did find myself becoming more disconnected from the wife and kids. Kids grow up so very fast and the wife,I would want to hang onto a lot longer than my gear. {did I really say that} Spending time with them both is more important. Besides when you are home alone, the whole house becomes your man cave, enjoy it to the utmost them.
I have a 2nd floor dedicated room. It's 15' x 22' with small area at the rear side open to a stair landing. The builder called it a "Bonus Room". I call it my "Stereo Room". It's one of the main reasons we bought the house. The length lets me to position the speakers 3.5" out into the room and place my recliner a few feet away from the rear wall. Structurally the room is soggy. 3/4 OSB T&G flooring sits on top of 18" tall 2x4" trusses. The walls are 2x4"s and 1/2 drywall on the interior walls. The exterior walls and ceiling have fiberglass insulation. The exterior walls have 3 coat stucco. My speakers sit on sized slabs of Granite. My Stereo room and the garage are mine, the rest of the house is my Wife's.
An interesting mix of responses. It seems like many folks struggle with the trade off between having a dedicated room for their rig and feeling isolated while there (from family, daylight, streetscape, whatever). Of course those of you with multiple systems, one in "the cave" and another in "the house" have the best of both worlds. Thanks to all for chiming in.
We live in a 1950s era ranch and are fortunate to have a large lot that was conducive to expanding the original footprint of the house. So I achieved a devoted listening room with professionally engineered acoustics by building a new addition on the back side of the house as an extension of the main floor living space. Actually, we built on a pair of matching additions in order to convert what was a rectangular-shaped house into an elongated U-shape with an outdoor courtyard cloistered into the heart of the U. The second, matching building addition comprises a new bedroom that made the construction project appealing to my better half.
The end result is a devoted listening room that is well integrated and well connected with the original living space. I agree with the prevailing sentiment here that I would not use the dedicated listening room nearly as frequently if it were in the basement or otherwise detached from our primary living space. Of course, the downside of this sort of custom construction project is that it is very expensive - much more so than the cost to simply finish or refinish some space within the original shell of the building.
Prior to building the dedicated room, my main audio system used to reside in our living room (to the severe detriment of the aesthetics and nonaudio function of that room). An interesting outcome of moving the big system out - and evolving our living room to a much more attractive and liveable space - was the noticeable loss of music in the center portion of the house. That hole has now been filled with a much lower profile secondary audio rig in the living room. The second system plays a key role when entertaining or dining in the center portion of the house or when sitting around the living room fireplace in the cold weather months. I also find myself listening to the secondary system periodically for a change of pace.
"My son never touched my stereo. I actually took the time to teach him what a toy is! And it worked. Never moved a thing and he never touched it. "
Same true with my kids...they never touch my stuff...intentionally.
But remember accidents can happen and they can be expensive when they do.
Once, my daughter bumped my B&W floor stander by accident while playing and tipped it over. Luckily, the cabinet next to it prevented it from toppling and damage.
Also, all bets may be off when the kids friends come over to play.
Yes, a dedicated man cave for listening to music in the basement. The whole reason for this, was so that my wife would not be disturbed when I listen to music while she tried to sleep.
In fact, we joke the house was built around the listening room, double inusulated and double concrete outer walls, soundproof door, slab with 6" water barrier increasing thickness even more, top floor heat increased ceiling height also, about 24" thick concrete ceiling.
The room is 24.5' x 18.5'. The whole back wall is covered with Ikea Expedit racks and I have room trapping and absorbers strategically placed throughout. I need to update my gallery. Worth it, yes, and also since it is large enough to have a full size couch, my wife does join me often. When friends come over, sometimes we also go to the room and listen to music and drink wine as if we were in the family room.
I can see where people feel like they are isolated from things happening above ground though.


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