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The Middle Ages have long held a fascination for scholars and non-academics alike. It's easy to see why—the thousand or so years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the onset of the Protestant Reformation (c.500 - c.1500) was a period of extremes, by turns romantic and violent, chivalrous and clandestine.
There were constant struggles between factions of the church, as well as far-reaching wars across Europe and into the Holy Lands, but it was also a period that saw a great blossoming in art and literature, and the foundations being laid for the birth of the modern age. Whatever your reason for being interested in the Middle Ages, one thing is certainly true—you are not alone, and the modern fascination with the period shows no sign of abating.


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Seventy-eight percent of small and medium size business in the United States report that their business is healthier has a competitive advantage or stronger economic footing because they have a Web site. Seventy-six percent say their Web site generates leads for their business.
Is your company in the majority? If not, here are a few thoughts on ways to turn the situation around:
Make your home page shine. Your home page must clearly state what you do and why people would want to deal with you. What makes you different from your competitors, whose sites they can so easily click over to? Why should they trust you? What results have you achieved for others? Be specific. Think from their point of view, not yours. Dont talk about your offerings features, but rather speak to the problems you solve.
Look professional. Avoid animated cartoon figures or scrolling words. Those are sure signs of amateurs. If your site looks amateurish, theyll assume your company is too. On the other hand, dont go overboard with slick Flash animation. The search engines cant read it and neither can a lot of users who are on dial-up connections and/or just dont want to bother downloading a special Flash reader or wasting time watching something cool--but irrelevant.
Introduce yourself. Put a picture of your president on the website, even if the president is the only employee. (They dont need to know that!) Put an e-mail link right below it. Add a personal note. It helps build confidence that your business is for real, and that there is actually someone they can go to if they have a problem.
Give complete contact information. Make it as easy as possible for people to get in touch with you, in any way that works for them. That means providing:
an e-mail address (that somebody checks and answers at least once a day),
your phone number (including area code),
a toll-free number (makes you look more professional, and encourages enquires from other cities), and
your physical address, including city, state or province, and even country. (Remember, your site visitors can be from anywhere.) If you run a business from your home, rather than providing your home address, rent a mailbox and use that as your address. Get one from a private mailbox company so that you can put suite # instead of P.O. Box number. The latter is sure to make you look shady.
a map or driving directions and the hours of operation to the store or retail outlet

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LITERATURE» Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King's new novella questions mankind's ability to trust others.
[02.21.2011 by Bridget Doyle]
MUSIC» The Top 30 Albums of 2010 - Fashionably, fabulously late, our favorite music (and believe me, there was a LOT) of 2010, the year that some have called the best year for music ever. And only some of those fools work here. Plenty of usual suspects, lots of ties and a few surprises that I won't spoil, including our unexpected #1.
[12.24.2010 by The LAS Staff]
MUSIC» Live: Surfer Blood/The Drums at Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL - Remember when Weezer used to put together records that you could sing along to and rock out to? That's what Surfer Blood's show was like!
[11.04.2010 by Cory Tendering]
Music Reviews
»Screaming Females
Castle Talk
Don Giovanni
»Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The Social Network [Original Soundtrack]
The Null Corporation
Halcyon Digest
»No Age
Everything in Between
Sub Pop
Body Talk Pt. 1/ Body Talk Pt. 2
»The Walkmen
Fat Possum
March 4, 2008It's been a while since I went to a decent hip-hop show. Having watched a few too many of my favorite rappers in high school half-ass their way through a 45-minute set of "throw your hands in the air" with no DJ and a crowd of disappointed and non-participating fans, I had become a little jaded about the whole scene. This is a common dilemma in hip-hop performance. In such an intimate atmosphere with so many discerning fans of the genre, it's terribly difficult to get some enthusiasm and rapport going with the audience, especially an audience that is unfamiliar with a performer's catalog. That being said, last month's release show for Akrobatik's new album, Absolute Value, at New York's Highland Ballroom, was all over the map and ultimately reintroduced what I loved about hip-hop shows to begin with.
I got there in the middle of the first act, whose name I didn't catch and about which didn't bother to investigate. After watching a hella stoned MC Donuts stagger around the stage like a puppet and hearing another MC drunkenly attempt to pump the crowd up ("noifinkDISsideizdaLIVESTNAHMEEEEEANNN??"), I had kind of lost interest.
But shortly thereafter it got great. DJ J-Rocc of the Beat Junkiez came on a couple times in between sets and was positively nuts. Obviously having the most fun in the entire room and playing a somewhat masturbatory set of old funk, J-Rocc was a one-man party and one couldn't help but get wrapped up in his enthusiasm. Although his second set was where people really started to bug out, as he was dropping old J-Dilla beats and original samples from all kinds of stuff. The highlight for me was some record of a kazoo band playing everything from Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries" to "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (this I think is also sampled at the beginning of J-Dilla's "The Shining"). There wasn't a whole lot of technical wizardry that I could pinpoint, but J-Rocc should absolutely play every birthday party from here on out.
Next was another pleasant surprise in the form of Black Milk, who ripped it for an unfortunately brief set. I had only recognized his name from the credits of a few old Slum Village and Pharoahe Monch songs (he produced the two best songs on Monch's new album Desire - "Let's Go" and "Bar Tap"), and I had no idea he had set out on his own. With virtually no crowd interaction, Black Milk churned through banger after banger and everyone went bananas for it. Afterwards I even bought his Popular Demand album, which is definitely the first physical CD purchase I've made in two years (pick it up, it's ill).
Following the Milk was a DJ crew with the unfortunate name of Ill Insanity. I say unfortunate because they were INFINITELY better than their Insane Clown Possee-sounding name suggests. Composed of Rob Swift, Total Eclipse, and (the real reason to see them) DJ precision, Ill Insanity tore through a number of standards ("Let Me Clear My Throat," "99 Problems," et cetera) while doing body tricks and moving onto each other's tables. Each DJ had a typical little mini set where they got to show off their skills, which is where DJ Precision (last year's national DMC champion) positively destroyed his companions. Precision didn't cut up songs; he massacred them and sewed up the pieces into an entirely new entity. He didn't juggle the beat, he was juggling tigers and stadiums. If you're into DJ culture or have a grandfather who wants to know exactly why this is truly an art form, Ill Insanity is all the explanation you'll need.
Mr. Lif and Akrobatik were next. Lif was the far more entertaining MC, floating around on the stage like a spider almost in slow motion, only to explode when the beat was just right. Akrobatik was a large, lumbering force on stage and it looked like it took him a minute to get into it. Maybe he was expecting a bigger reaction when he came on stage, but once they got going he was as captivating as any rapper I've seen. The highlights for me were the cuts from their Perceptionists record, and a few of the songs from Absolute Value, which I think is his best work to date. Lif and Ak make a great duo, and I hope they get it together to do another Perceptionists record. Anyone interested in political hip-hop that's a little more clever and less militant than Dead Prez should peep these dudes.
And finally, the monolithic force of 40-year-old Freddie Foxxx arrived on the scene. I've never been a huge fan of Freddie Foxx/Bumpy Knuckles/The Angriest Man in America, but I certainly wouldn't bring that up if we were to meet. Foxxx spent most of his set expounding on hip-hop's under-appreciation of his persona, and berating other rappers for not having as much gusto as he. And I have to say; by the end I was convinced. Even though he only played about 2.5 songs and forgot the lyrics to his biggest hit, "Industry Shakedown," he was still able to make a case for why he should be respected. And, when DJ Premier accidentally put on a non-instrumental record, Foxx's hilarious pantomime of rappers who lip sync was outstanding. For anyone who's read The Tipping Point, Foxxx is the quintessential Salesman. Everyone in that room was hearing and believing what he had to say. And with that kind of character, who needs songs anyway? SEE ALSO: www.highlineballroom.com
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In today's post, we will explain how to create a horizontal scrolling background in Corona SDK. This is a great and easy way to make your game more interesting. So let's get started!
Our first step is to add the images to our game. We do that by using Corona's display.newImageRect to add 3 background images to the game.
Here's the code.
-- Add First Background local bg1 = display.newImageRect("images/bg1.png", 482, 320) bg1:setReferencePoint(display.CenterLeftReferencePoint) bg1.x = -50; bg1.y = _H/2; -- Add Second Background local bg2 = display.newImageRect("images/bg2.png", 480, 320) bg2:setReferencePoint(display.CenterLeftReferencePoint) bg2.x = 430; bg2.y = _H/2; -- Add Third Background local bg3 = display.newImageRect("images/bg1.png", 480, 320) bg3:setReferencePoint(display.CenterLeftReferencePoint) bg3.x = 910; bg3.y = _H/2;
In the first line of every background, we add the background to the game with display.newImageRect. The next line sets the Reference Point. In this case, we are setting the Reference Point to be the Center Left point. This means that when we position the graphic, the Center Left point will be used for the positioning. Finally, we set the x an y values of the background image.
Next, we'll actually make the backgrounds move. We'll use a Runtime listener to make our background move with Corona SDK.
local function move(event) -- move backgrounds to the left by scrollSpeed, default is 8 bg1.x = bg1.x - scrollSpeed bg2.x = bg2.x - scrollSpeed bg3.x = bg3.x - scrollSpeed -- Set up listeners so when backgrounds hits a certain point off the screen, -- move the background to the right off screen if (bg1.x + bg1.contentWidth) < -480 then bg1:translate( 480*3, 0 ) end if (bg2.x + bg2.contentWidth) < -480 then bg2:translate( 480*3, 0 ) end if (bg3.x + bg3.contentWidth) < -480 then bg3:translate( 480*3, 0 ) end end -- Create a runtime event to move backgrounds Runtime:addEventListener( "enterFrame", move )
This isn't as complicated as it looks. Before we used the code above, we position our backgrounds by placing bg1 on the center of the screen, bg2 to the right of bg1 and bg3 to the right of bg1. When we utilize the Runtime listener, we move all backgrounds to the left according to the scroll speed. (This variable was initialized before the backgrounds and you can download the full source below).
When bg1, bg2 or bg3 hits a certain point (-480), the Runtime listener will move that background to the right of the screen. This is essentially resetting the position of the image. Once it's reset, the background continues to move left. The effect is a horizontally scrolling background with Corona SDK!
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The Manchester School of Liberals
The Manchester School of liberals
The most outspoken advocates of the new philosophy were the members of the Manchester School of liberals. They were businessmen in the Manchester area who urged that mercantilism be immediately discarded and replaced with laissez faire.
They took over the term laissez faire from the Physiocrats, a group in France who also wanted to apply liberal ideas to economics. The cry of the Physiocrats, "Laissez nous faire, laissez nous passer!" ("Leave us alone to produce what we want and to send our products where we want!"), was shortened to "Laissez faire!": "Leave us alone!" This is exactly what the Manchester liberals wanted.
They argued that all relations between individuals should be based on mutual free consent rather than coercion by the state. They stressed the importance of individual freedom in economic affairs, and they believed the state's role in the economy should be limited to the maintenance of law and order. Like the Physiocrats, they argued that the economic activities of buying, selling, and consuming should be completely free, because they are controlled by natural rather than man-made laws.
The free trade argument of the Manchester liberals received theoretical support from Adam Smith and other members of the classical school of economics. Smith observed the gradual decline of the mercantilist system of national economic planning in the late eighteenth century. Individual initiative of businessmen was becoming a mass phenomenon for the first time in history, but business was still hampered by remaining mercantilist restrictions and regulations. Smith believed that control of individual behaviour by the state was not in the best interests of the nation or the individual. He put forth the modern view that mutual dependence of nations leads to progress and is not detrimental to their welfare as the mercantilists thought. He argued that restrictions on manufacturing and foreign trade check the growth of a nation's wealth and impoverish its people.
The classical economists deduced how the capitalistic economy functions on the basis of the assumptions of natural law, universal competition, "economic man," and harmony of interests. Their analysis was centred around the four economic institutions of private property, the profit motive, the market system, and laissez faire. Private property was considered fundamental because it gives the businessman control over economic resources and it serves as an incentive for the accumulation of wealth. The profit motive leads the businessman to expand the output of goods consumers want and to cut back production of less desirable goods. The economic system consists of self-regulating markets which match the supply and demand of goods. Competition in markets sets prices and thereby controls indirectly the activities of buyers and sellers. Laissez faire is essential for the forces of the market to allocate resources efficiently and for individuals to effectively pursue their self-interest.
A new business ethic was needed for the burgeoning capitalistic system, and the profit ethic evolved quite naturally to fill this need. Technology, organization, and business practices had changed so markedly as a result of the Industrial Revolution that the mercantilist view of how businessmen should behave was now quite reactionary. Businessmen advocated the concept of profit maximization as a replacement. It offered them a radical new basis for deciding between morally right and wrong conduct. Businessmen defended the flotation of Russian state bonds in the London stock exchange during the height of the Crimean War on the basis of this new ethic. They argued that there is no relation between foreign policy and the laws of economic life, and therefore it would be foolish not to take advantage of a profitable bit of business. There could have been no sharper rejection of the economic policy and doctrine of mercantilism.
This radical viewpoint became acceptable to social thought in nineteenth-century Great Britain, largely because of the success of capitalism in raising living standards. Herbert Spencer, the most influential social philosopher of his day, shaped this thought by applying Darwin's theory of evolution to social life. He argued that ruthless competition is the basic law of industrial society. Those who win the economic race earn great profits and accumulate wealth, and the less fit share what is left. Spencer believed that anyone who cannot compete in the completely unregulated capitalistic system should not be allowed to survive and weaken the human stock. From this way of looking at things, the good man is the one who pursues profits most assiduously, and his social value is proportionate to his material success.
Classical economic theory supported the profit ethic in two ways: (1) by providing a scientific explanation of capitalism in which the profit motive plays a central role and (2) by defending capitalism and profit making on moral grounds. The classical economists thought mercantilism was wrong because it was opposed to the scientific truth that competition among individuals for scarce goods in free markets is the natural law of economic life. They believed that if all restraints were removed on man's inherent desire to maximize profits, natural resources would seek their most profitable and efficient employment. The profit maximization hypothesis was not only morally justified; it was essential to a theory that purported to predict price, wage, and employment levels, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of income. Mason has pointed out the dual nature of the classical economics as both science and justification of ideology: "As everyone now recognizes, classical economics provided not only a system of analysis . but also a defence . of the proposition that the economic behaviour promoted and constrained by the institutions of a free-enterprise system is, in the main, in the public interest. "
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The top 3 cellulite treatments
People say that dimples come from being kissed by an angel. Dimples on your other cheeks, and thighs, however, are a more devilish sort. About 85 percent of women (and virtually no men) have cellulite; it strikes gymgoers and couch potatoes alike. And there's no cure. What causes it? No one knows for sure, but many doctors say circulation under skin slows (perhaps due to hormones), which swells fat cells. The elastic collagen bands that usually hold down the fat then overstretch or weaken from the extra stress, allowing fat to pop up in between the bands and push on the underside of skin. Voilá—a cottage cheese effect, says Tina Alster, M.D., clinical professor of dermatology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (File under unfair: Men's connective bands interlock and stay strong.)
So far in the battle against cellulite, nothing works permanently or 100 percent or for every person. Only treatments that temporarily reduce the appearance of cellulite are available. They're expensive, it can take several sessions to see partial smoothing, and then you need maintenance appointments every month or few months to keep your rear from regressing. If you're very overweight and inactive, results are so subtle that you're better off with an exercise plan first, derms say. But if you're active and need to do something (anything!) about cellulite, this guide gives you the current options, plus a look at what's on the horizon. You'll hear from experts (many of whom have consulted for manufacturers, connections we've disclosed) and women who've tried the regimens about what to expect to help you get the smoothest possible butt for your buck.
THE SUPER MASSAGE: ENDERMOLOGIE____How it works A technician rolls a vacuumlike hand piece over your backside while its suction and motorized rollers suck up skin, delivering a serious deep-tissue massage. Some doctors believe this action only swells the skin's surface, temporarily camouflaging dimples, says Cap Lesesne, M.D., a plastic surgeon in New York City. According to the company, though, the treatment boosts circulation and helps drain fluid.
How well it works Of the independent research that's been done, some studies show measurable results, others show none. But Klaudia Baucom, 47, of Tustin, California, was pleased after her treatments—14 over seven weeks. "My cellulite looked about 40 percent smoother," she says. The change was gradual, and it motivated her to keep exercising. Once she stopped treatment, however, cellulite started returning within a few months. For most women, the turnaround happens within one month.
Bottom line Endermologie is one of the least expensive options, and it may help smooth cellulite, but you're likely to get better and longer-lasting results from the high-tech lasers discussed on the next page. An initial series averages $1,000; maintenance sessions, $100. You pay about $1,600 for the year.
SPA SMOOTHING: INITHERMIE____How it works A spa therapist coats skin with a clay mask, attaches wires that transmit electric currents, then wraps you up burrito-style. The electricity stimulates cells to flush out water and may help moisturizers in the clay penetrate, among other things. That's why skin could feel and look smoother an your thighs and butt may shrink a few centimeters. But everything usually comes back 12 to 18 hours later, after you rehydrate, says Mitchel P. Goldman, M.D., a dermatologist in La Jolla, California, who offers Ionithermie. The company claims that results can last longer.
How well it works Without independent, published studies, it's hard to tell. Stacy Sindlinger, 44, of Garrison, New York, who had the treatment, says, "My skin was toned and less dimply, but I could still see bumps. It's not worth the money."
Bottom line Skip it, unless you want instant results (before a beach day, for instance), however temporary and subtle. Each session costs $125 to $150.
COOL LASER: TRIACTIVE____How it works A hand piece resembling a large flashlight massages skin while sending infrared energy below the surface. The energy heats the overstretched bands and the collagen within skin, causing both to contract and tighten. The heat may also trigger the fat cells to release some excess fluid, says Bruce Katz, M.D., founder of Juva Skin and Laser Center in NYC. Doctors disagree on the function of the massage. It either jump-starts circulation to move fluid out of the area, Dr. Katz says, or pushes heated fat cells back in place deeper under the skin, according to Neil Sadick, M.D., a dermatologist in NYC. But David Goldberg, M.D., a spokesman in NYC for the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, says it simply swells the skin's surface slightly better than Endermologie. Treatments feel as if you're being massaged with an icy suction (the result of a cooling spray). Bruising, the only potential side effect, is rare.
How well it works A soon-to-be-published study by Dr. Katz (TriActive's maker loaned the device; he was not paid for his time) showed that 16 treatments in eight weeks reduced the look of cellulite in 8 out of the 10 participants. All of the women said they were satisfied, even though for most, the reduction was 25 percent or less.
Kristi Rook, 33, of Long Beach, New York, first noticed a decrease in cellulite following five sessions. She had twice-weekly treatments over eight weeks. Five months and no maintenance later, Rook still rates her cellulite a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10. Valerie Wagner, 35, of Oceanside, New York, said her cellulite went from a 7 to about a 4. Both women would have the treatment again and add that it encouraged them to keep working out.
Bottom line Although you could achieve results similar to Rook's, you might see no change. But, along with VelaSmooth, below, this is the best treatment available. Expect to pay about $1,400 for an initial series of 16, and $125 for additional maintenance treatments. A year's investment: $2,400.
THE NEWEST LASER: VELASMOOTH____How it works The device, made by Syneron, features massage and infrared energy, as TriActive does, and adds radio frequency (RF) energy. That combo heats skin more than infrared alone, increasing the tightening of bands and collagen and the breaking up of fat cells, says Dr. Alster, who once served (unpaid) on Syneron's medical advisory board. Some derms say the extra heat improves your chance—and degree—of smoothing compared with the TriActive laser. During treatment you may feel a warm sensation and mild pinching. Afterward, redness can last about an hour.
How well it works Eight treatments (twice a week for a month) smoothed dimples and improved skin texture by an average of 50 percent in 18 of 20 participants, according to Dr. Alster's study, published in the Journal of Cosmetic Laser Therapy. After six months and no maintenance, only some dimpling returned. VelaSmooth shows slightly better results than TriActive, says Dr. Goldberg, who has done studies for Syneron and is a consultant for Cynosure, TriActive's maker. But in the only study pitting thigh against thigh, the difference was statistically insignificant, says Dr. Goldman, who coauthored the research. (He has done studies for both companies and uses TriActive in his practice.)
What do women say? "It contoured my thighs and tightened the skin; my pants fit better, and my skin looked and felt smoother," says Victoria Duke, 43, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She had a series of 15 treatments over six weeks. Others SELF interviewed had a similar experience. Duke had mild redness after the first few sessions and says her results are mostly unchanged despite having no treatments for six months.
Bottom line As with TriActive, you're not guaranteed a better backside, and simply going for one or two treatments won't be adequate. But many derms familiar with lasers agree that VelaSmooth is the top FDA-cleared option because of the added RF energy. An initial series costs about $1,800, and maintenance averages $200 per visit. Annual cost: $2,700.
How it works Accent uses a type of RF energy that heats deeper layers of skin than VelaSmooth to get an even better tightening effect and more drainage out of the fat cells, says Dr. Goldberg, who's done research for Accent's manufacturer. Only six to eight initial treatments are necessary, but it can take three to six months to see final results. Dr. Goldberg's newest study shows 27 out of 30 participants' cellulite got about 60 percent smoother, better than what's been reported for VelaSmooth and TriActive. Participants' thighs also shrank a mean of 36 percent (1.2 inches). More research is under way. The FDA could clear Accent as early as this year.
FAT-MELTING WAVES: ULTRASHAPE and LIPOSONIX
How they work Both devices use high-energy, focused ultrasound waves to home in on fat pockets and, well, melt them. (The concept and technology come from similar devices that target and break up kidney stones.) UltraShape is approved in Europe, where studies show participants' thigh circumferences dropped 2.5 inches after three treatments. The waves work mainly on fat, so the best overall results might come in conjunction with a laser treatment, which primarily works to tighten the bands and collagen, says Dr. Goldberg, who is a consultant for UltraShape. FDA clearance could come later this year or next for both devices.
How it works The enemy of your face could be your backside's best friend. Your body makes collagenase to clear away damaged collagen, which in your face causes wrinkles, but injected in your thigh may break down fat to smooth out skin's peaks and valleys. A pilot study at Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York found that injections decreased the appearance of cellulite by 80 percent after one month with no change after six months and no extra shots. But it's a mystery why the substance doesn't break down collagen everywhere, a skeptical Dr. Alster says. A larger, phase-II FDA trial is under way; researchers say the shots are at least three years away, if they become available.
How it works Mesotherapy usually means shots of a soy lecithin derivative, phosphatidylcholine, meant to dissolve fat. But the drug (first made to break up plaque in arteries) may also cause bleeding and ulcers. Another problem: The term mesotherapy could, in theory, mean an injection of anything—an ineffective vitamin mix or a potentially dangerous drug cocktail.
How it works A doctor pokes a needle in your thigh and inserts an instrument parallel to the skin's surface. She works the tool back and forth to cut the connective bands and break up some of the fat causing cellulite. The procedure is traumatic to skin—afterward you have pain and bruises—and there hasn't been a lot of research showing it's all that effective, Dr. Sadick says.
Until even better fixes come along, if you decide to undergo treatment, keep expectations realistic and your activity level high. That, the women we interviewed say, will help your own bottom line the most.
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text: Hi, On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:19, Thom Paine <painethom at gmail.com> wrote: > Is there some step with networking that I am missing in getting this to work? Yes, the packet must return to the original source in the Internet with the y.y.y.y source IP. Your machine with IP x.x.x.x probably has a default gateway in eth0, so it will probably try to return the packets through that interface. I see three alternatives here to make this work: 1) Route any TCP packets with source IP 10.10.10.1 and source port 25 using 10.10.10.4 as the gateway. This can be done with help of the utilities in the iproute2 package, with the "ip" command (see "man ip"). This is quite complex but I'm almost sure it can be done. Read http://lartc.org/howto/. I think you can also use iptables to mark the packages with that specification and then use the "ip" command to route them through that gateway. 2) Configure the NAT of the machine with IP y.y.y.y to rewrite the packets to y.y.y.y:25 not only with new destination 10.10.10.1:25 but with source 10.10.10.4. That way the connection will return to the machine with IP y.y.y.y that will be able to NAT it back to the original y.y.y.y:25 address on the source and the original address on the internet as the destination. The problem here is that the box with IP x.x.x.x does not know from where the original connection came, it looks like all the connections are coming from 10.10.10.4. 3) Configure the machine with IP y.y.y.y to send the packets unchanged to machine with IP 10.10.10.1, that is, with y.y.y.y still as the destination address (in other words, no NAT is being done here, the machine is only using 10.10.10.1 to resolve a MAC address and forward the packet to that machine). Machine with IP x.x.x.x *must* have y.y.y.y/32 as an alias in one of the interfaces, otherwise it will reject the packet. Usually the loopback interface is the one used for that (add the y.y.y.y IP to lo:0). This way, the machine with IP x.x.x.x will return the packets through the original source in the Internet through its eth0 interface, the one with x.x.x.x IP, but as the packets have never been rewritten and the machine considers y.y.y.y an IP of its own, it is going to send the packet back with source y.y.y.y:25, which is what is needed for the original host to recognize the connection. This will make the traffic asymetric, entering your network through the y.y.y.y Internet line, but leaving through the x.x.x.x Internet line. Not 100% sure on how to implement the tricky routing without NATing on Linux, almost sure it's possible though. It will probably involve iptables to mark the connection and then using the tools in iproute2 to route them without rewriting. There is a slight issue here that from host with IP x.x.x.x you will not be able to start connections to y.y.y.y and have them routed (through the Internet) to your other host, but you will still reach it through 10.10.10.4 which is probably what you will want. > (I use gshield) Then you should probably ask in a gshield mailing list how to do it with that specific tool. All of the above assumes iptables and iproute2 only, so it might not be directly applicable on the gshield configuration you already have. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 17:57, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > If it was my setup I wouldn't do either instead I would fire up a > VM that had the other gateway as it's default gateway, keep it > simpler. Just my opinion, but I wouldn't say that firing up a VM would make anything "simpler"... Now instead of one problem you got two... :-) Not to say that it wouldn't be possible, and if you're well versed in VM technology and already have the infrastructure it may be a good way to solve such a problem. However, if you don't, then you will have to worry about VM-specific issues, VM-specific networking (which can get quite tricky, especially in a host with more than one interface), VM-related performance issues... Not to mention that you have to administrate, maintain and update two hosts instead of one. In the case of the OP, I would urge him to evaluate if that network topology really makes sense. Does it make sense having two hosts with two different connections? In that case, does it make sense to run services like mail/web servers on these hosts? Shouldn't they be dedicated routers/firewalls instead? And do you really need to use port forwarding connections to a host that is already directly connected to the internet? HTH, Filipe


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Still not conviced the zombie threat is real? Take a gander at this video of U.S. Representative John Haller (R-PA, 12th District) reading a heavily censored version of House bill HR8791-- the Homeland "Terrorism" Preparedness Bill.
Although he did his best, just substitute the word "Zombie" for "classified" and the real purpose of this bill will shine through. At least we know the government is providing contingency plans. [via bluesnews]
Click through to see a transcript.
Congress shall now vote for approval of HR 8791 Homeland Terrorism Preparedness bill, err, said bill requests emergency response funding up to and including, I'm sorry this section is CLASSIFIED er, dollars to prepare for national level terrorist attack and or attack from CLASSIFIED.
Funding for first responding personnel and vehicles would be doubled if said attack leads to more than 80% of national population being affected by CLASSIFIED.
This funding shall commence in conjunction with the first attack on erm, CLASSIFIED or the first large scale outbreak of CLASSIFIED depending upon which comes first.
Civilian and military units shall be trained in containment and combat of CLASSIFIED including irradiated CLASSIFIED with possibility of CLASSIFIED airborne CLASSIFIED flesh-eating CLASSIFIED and/or all of the above in such event as CLASSIFIED viewing CLASSIFIED escape are released or otherwise become uncontrollable.
Air Force units my also be directed to combat said CLASSIFIED due to their enormous size and other-worldly strengths, should event occur in urban areas, Jesus, thats CLASSIFIED, far surpassing our darkest nightmares should casualties exceed CLASSIFIED body disposal actions shall be halted and associated resources shall be re-allocated to CLASSIFIED underground CLASSIFIED protected birthing centers er... New Bill of Rights shall be drafted and approved by CLASSIFIED.
Having now reviewed the bill I ask you to now please cast your votes.
If they were threatening a REAL zombie emergency, and we had America's full support, they would easily be overpowered. Either way that's a HUGE, as in GIGANTIC, OBESE, GARGANTUAN, 'if'. Are you willing to spend, what is it now?, around 500 billion dollars? trying to prevent something that unlikely, and even less likely to harm us?
Oh, and EVERY zombie is a threat, should we go to war with every zombie to prevent them from developing angst against us in the future?
Im not trying to make trouble, but why shouldn't we consider them a threat? They do have a pretty crazy taste for brains. And in the future they may develop angst against the US, just sayin'.
I wrote to him to let him know i don't lilke where this is going!! They arn't a threat!!! i showed this video to stubby and i don't think he liked it!!!! We should all let him know what we thing!! LOL! :-)
Why are we worrying about this? If this were important, we'd hear about it on TV. What's important is Ellen has given away her dogs. You have to keep focus, folks.
Sure, "Jess". Are you part of a deliberate government disinformation campaign? Are you denying the zombie threat? I suppose you missed the following hearing on "America's Wild Goats-- a Disappearing Nuisance"? Are you denying our wild goat problem also?
Thanks for pointing that out. EVERYONE else who watched the video TOTALLY missed that they were watching *Onion Span*. THANKS GOD, people like you are around to help out all the dumb people :-). Play along. Its more fun. AAAAAAAA ZOMBIES ARE COMING!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
watch 28 weeks later that explains alot....you will be surprised if you listen to this then watch 28 weeks later
It would seem to me to be a bill against NBC attack on american soil. NBC = NUCLEAR< BIOLOGICAL< CHEMICAL attack. the result would require containment, suppression of spread, clean-up And, the bill seems to touch on elimination of any "infiltration" at any level, of our governing system. Death on a massive scale could result from said attacks and so the aforementioned CLEAN-UP would be required in order to further suppress the spread of disease. But, if the mass of deaths is too great the efforts for clean-up would be halted, and a need for the survivors to evactuate underground would be most likely. The Underground facilities would be relatively safe from radiation, viral, and bacterial contamination.
This is only a GUESS at what this bill is about. So dont take my word on this.
That video is from "The Onion". a fake news source that did that for laughs. Find it on their website.
I can't know if zombies are real or not, it's an urban legend and a damn rapid spreading one at that. 6 out of 10 urban legends are scientifically well founded. Up to this time, scientificallyiologically there are several plausible theories and scenarios to explain the process of a possible zombie outbreak. All I'm saying is, if anybody is gonna dismiss a scientific possibility of this type of viral infection(reanimation or just a bizarre disease) they're no more open minded than the Spanish inquisition back in the day. As of now, there are to few and frail solid arguments to counter scientific scenarios, mostly founded on skepticism (religion is vague and diverse). And just as a note, political or biological threats are always covered up or engineered to contain panic. It's been like that with wars(showing up on the news long after the information could cause political damage) small scale 3rd world genocides and so on.
MFZAR!!!!!! I am leaving tonight at 6:00 to go to Mercy Hospital (cause for some reason its always better to travel at night when there is a zombie outbreak, or so it shows in movies). I have a party of 3, looking for one more. Need an older guy, in his 30s that hates lots of things, especially vans and police. We are traveling by sewers. Gonna hit this Left 4 Dead style! Bring your own pills, don't think there are going to be any along the way.
So, if there is a zombie outbreak, I got my gun (until ammo runs out), a weedeater (until it runs out of gas), and got a board with a nail on the end of it. I am good for a little while. Come get me!
OK... Some say it's a hoax others say it's not! Well just for the hell of it I took the time to try and find this "Hoax" on Onion news... I punched in "Homeland Terrorism Preparedness bill" in the Onion browser and this is what it gave me..."Report: Majority Of Americans Unprepared For Apocalypse" This is the ONLY INFO ON ONION!!! I typed in HR8791 and came back "Sorry no results for HR8791. So... U decide ;)
That's all well and good,but what about zombie rights?all we ask is one brain a day from the upper class of intellectuals and academics of the world.End zombie ignorance today!!!
As A Retired High - Ranking Officer, with close-ties to various US Federal Agencies, I am placing ALL of You on the Wikileaks Terrorist List.
This is Classified Information.
BTW, Just For The Record. I may have sworn to protect all of You (in spite of your treacherous ways). However, if Those Zombies begin chasing us, I am tripping You as I keep running (Just saying.......)
Semper Fi,
"Major Pain"


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|A Sicilian treat with a Tuscan twist!
Such a cinch to make!
Few things are more refreshing in the summertime than an icy-cold treat. But, sometimes, I just don't want the heaviness of ice cream. I want something fruity and icey that leaves me with a clean palette. When I was in Sicilia this summer, the icy treat, granita, was as ubiuitous as gelato. In fact, it's popular flavors varied from city-to-city, with an almond granita being very common where we were staying just north of Catania, Siclia.
|Granita di Cafe for breakfast in Taormina, Sicilia
breakfast! Especially the coffee-flavored granita, which went lightening fast! And, sometimes, it came with a side of brioche, which is something you see often served with gelato in Italy. But, I just couldn't wrap my head around that idea, so I skipped the bioche.
After spending a week having my granita di cafe for breakfast, and then some at lunchtime, and well, heck, even as an evening snack, I quickly became hooked. So, when I came home, I was off to the drawing board. Hmmm? How can I make granita even better, you ask? Da Vinci Chianti!
One could say that granita is kind of the historical prelude to gelato. In Italy, icy treats date way back to over 1000 years ago, where fruit juices were poured over shaved ice that was brought down from the mountains. Modern day granita is made from sugar, water and flavorings, and in our case today, Da Vinci Chianti! Perfetto!
In Sicilia, the texture of granita varies from city-to-city, with some cities preferring it chunkier, which is what we had in Taormina, and other cities preferring it smoother, like a sorbet. Granita, actually, has a much looser texture, which makes it different from sorbet, and I find it to be one of the most addictive, refreshing treats. That's probabaly why we looked forward to it three times a day!
1 bottle of DaVinci Chianti (reserve 1/4 cup for syllabub)
|Da Vinci makes it even better!
1 cup of local clover honey
2 cups of heavy whipping cream
2 Tbsp of confectioner's sugar
1/4 tsp of cinnamon
1.) Place 8x12 (or, large rectangular metal baking pan in the freezer for at least 3 hours).
2.) In a small saucepan, dissolve the honey in the water and simmer for about three minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool thoroughly.
3.) Combine the Da Vinci Chianti with the honey water and pour into the baking pan and freeze for about 30 minutes.
4.) After 30 minutes, remove from the freezer, and scrape frozen parts with a fork.
5.) Continue in this fashion at every 30 minute intervals to create the ice crystals.
6.) It should take at least 2 hours to get the desired slushy, consistency.
7.) While the granita is freezing, in a large stainless steel, or copper bowl, combine the heavy whipping cream and Chianti.
8.) Whisk in the confectioner's sugar and cinnamon, and continue to whisk until a thick cream is achieved.
9.) Place syllabub in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Since my adventure as a 2012 Da Vinci Storyteller, I've been incorporating Da Vinci Chianti into a lot of my recipes. It pulls me back to the countryside in Tuscany. It sits me down at the table where we had lunch at Bruno Rosetti's gorgeous villa, one of the Da Vinci growers. It puts me in that relaxing frame of mind, where dining is a social event that connects people, and mobile phones and other technology seem to fade off into the distance. Real face-to-face time has a high premium. This Chianti helps me relive my memories of that simple, Tuscan lifestyle. Trust me, when I say, it was the most relaxing experience that I still draw from, and try to share with my American friends and family through my recipes and stories.
These recipes and stories and photographs can paint a vivid picture, and are a great looking glass into the Tuscan lifestyle, and the "Da Vinci way." Every year, Da Vinci Wine send four talented creative-types to spend a week at the Da Vinci Cantine to soak up the Tuscan lifestyle and learn all about Da Vinci Wine. What's exciting is that you, can help determine which four will be fortunate to be called a Da Vinci Storyteller! To make your voice heard, visit the Da Vinci Wine Facebook Page to cast your vote. And, while you're there, take a peek at the previous Storytellers and what they've shared from their "Experiences." Grab a class of Chianti and andiamo (let's go!)!


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Term has started here at Southampton University, I'm pretty snowed under which is why the blog has been quiet recently.
The original idea of this blog was to publish thoughts on design principles. In the near future I'm going to re-use most of this in a taught course to our Geography post graduate students so as I've been repackaging it for them I thought it timely to summarise the posts for you too. I've put it in a separate post to keep it clean as a reference.


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Bubbly beauty BiBi Jones wants to get pregnant but her guy Tommy Gunn is running on empty. Turning to her close friends for semen samples doesn't work out for the blonde babe either. First a furious sex session leads Remy LaCroix and Manuel Ferrara to spoil their sticky sample. Then caught in a heated moment of hardcore fucking Riley Reid and Marcus London slip up as well. BiBi and Tommy are now left with only spouse swapping as an alternative. Friends Kendall Karson and Bill Bailey are more than happy to assist. What happens when hot couples swap partners? BiBi Jones finds out and takes it all inside in Fill'er Up!… (read more)
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Our warehouse was partly 'gutted' to make room for students - photos show warehouse inside and outside awaiting students arrival with the beautiful morning sunshine looking so inviting, then they arrived and starting unpacking to enjoy three glorious days of learning more about computerized embroidery.
Some of the techniques they learned today were: positioning designs, resizing, different stabilizers, hooping correctly, changing lettering to suit, all about needles, using Mylar Embroidery Sheets, Felting, using an Embellisher, velvet stitching, stitching on Sulky Puffy Foam, using washaway stabilizer along for a towel loop hanger, towel embroidery and more.
Let me share some photos with you.
Using Mylar Embroidery Sheets
and stitching for velvet cutting.
Using Sulky Puffy Foam
Making a Loop Holder attached to a towel and then embroidered.Emu Products to all people all over the world.
A GREAT DAY and we are all set for DAY TWO!


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Denver Nuggets all-star and totally not a pot-head, Carmelo Anthony stars in this video about a bet gone awry. We've all been there man, betting shit we really don't want to lose in the heat of the moment. In this case things end with a razor, but on the bright side it wasn't about to cut off one of his fingers.
Fun side note, shortly after covering the Carmelo pot case for the Rocky I got an Xbox 360 invite from one Carmelo. Not sure if it was the same guy, but the timing was oddly accurate and the Gamertag was too. No, I won't tell you what it was. I've since deleted his name from my list, but Carmelo if you're down for some Gears 2 hit me up. Just don't expect me to bet my hair on anything.


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Our faculty and students regularly travel abroad and nationwide to present their original works and research at academic and professional conferences. Our representatives from LU have won numerous honors and recognitions for their efforts, propelling them forward in their career journeys.
All of our departments have consistently received recognition for honors and accreditations, too:
- Deaf Studies/Deaf Education – 2005; Center of Excellence for the State of Texas
- Speech and Hearing Sciences – Graduate program is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
- Music – Accredited and considered in Good Standing with the National Association of Schools of Music.


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With Valentine's Day around the corner, I had to make something sweet after all the savory items I have been making! Well, I must confess that I was kinda sorta forced into it. My 6-year old wanted me to make a Valentine's Day treat!
I am bringing these little goodies to my friends at Throwback Thursday #25, Fiesta Friday #106 and Saucy Saturdays.Angie's Fiesta Friday co-hosts this week are Steffi @ Ginger & Bread and Andrea @ Cooking With a Wallflower.
Servings: makes around 25 bites
Nut butter: 3/4 cup ( any nut butter will do; I used cashew butter).
Oat flour: 1 cup
Honey: 1 tbsp
Vanilla essence: 1 tsp
Chocolate-Chips: 3 tbsp
Chia seeds/sesame seeds: 3 tbsp, for rolling.
Sprinkles: 3 tbsp, for rolling
Toast the chia seeds/ sesame seeds by keeping it on a microwave safe plate in the microwave for 1 minute at a time, for a total of 2 minutes. Make sure you don't burn them.You can also toast them on the stove-top. Keep aside.
In a bowl, take the cashew butter, oat flour, honey, vanilla essence & chocolate chips. Mix together to form a dough.
Spread the dough on a baking sheet/plate.It is preferred to line the plate/ tray with some wax paper. Keep it in the refrigerator for atleast 30 minutes.
Using a cookie cutter, cut out heart shapes ( or any shape that you desire) of all the available dough. Use the leftover dough to make little rolls using your fingers.
Take the sprinkles or the toasted sesame seeds/chia seeds in a small plate. Roll the prepared hearts and rolls in it.
Store in an airtight container.
Stays fresh for 3-4 weeks!
Enjoy! Happy Valentine's Day to all!!
Cooking made easy:
Oat flour can be easily made at home. Just add the desired amount of old fashioned or quick oats into a blender/ coffee grinder and powder it until it is finely ground. Store in an airtight container and use when needed.
Tip for healthy living:
Try to feed yourself and your family a balanced meal whenever possible.
Food for thought:
Love unconditionally, without expectations. Suchitra


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This new episode of Inside the Tanks, filmed at The Deutsches Panzermuseum, Munster, brings you another community favourite - the Hetzer!
The Jagdpanzer 38(t), better known as the Hetzer, was a WWII German light Tank Destroyer, based on a modified Czechoslovakian Panzer 38(t) chassis, and inspired by the Romanian "Mareşal" tank destroyer. Discover more about this well-rounded tank destroyer in our new video!


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Networking Security Concepts
Stanley writes "The key to network security can be found in understanding the choices and strategies available to you look to the building blocks of network security. These include implementing user authentication, using proxy servers and firewalls, setting up demilitarized zones, and taking advantage of port- and packet-filtering technologies. The overview of these security solutions provided by this article will give you an understanding of the technology. User authentication, the first option discussed in this article, is the most basic component of network security, and its success depends on the method used (encrypted, plain text, and so forth), and on the ability to keep this information from unauthorized personnel. Some of the more popular versions of user authentication include the Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) and the Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)."
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"When pain and pleasure become ecstasy."
And love
Image – Nicola de Luigi
NOTE: Although "Besos De Cuero", "The Hunt" and "The Crystal Sea" are serials, the posts can also be read as individual pieces.
Heaven and Hell
Kitty is a vivacious lusty girl from a dying planet who is abducted and taken as a pleasure slave aboard a strange craft where she immediately becomes the "Captain's pet".
She enjoys her new life – and the extremely physical sex that goes with it – but her only problem is she is just a little bit too curious for her own good and one day is caught up on the craft's observation deck without permission. The Captain reluctantly agrees that Kitty must be sent down to "Engineering" in order to "teach her a lesson".
Escorted by the sadistic female Officer Ryder and wearing only a pair of nipple clamps, Kitty discovers that "Engineering" is a very strange place indeed and that heaven and hell can sometimes be indistinguishable.
Read Heaven and Hell
"The Crystal Sea"
Infinite subspace.
The redemptive bliss that comes with the acceptance of powerlessness.
(Not one sub story but many)
"Besos de Cuero"
A serial (posts 1 – 22)
A chance meeting with two women on a French train leads Amaia, a young student, to Paris and to sexual enlightenment. At the hands of the two dominant women she learns that pain and pleasure can lead to intense ecstasy – and transcendence.
Read "Besos de Cuero"
Short Stories.
Tales of confession, submission and the beauty of whipping.
Read "Whipsongs"
"Slave Tales: The Hunt"
A serial
In a brutal medieval world of slaves and masters, Bella is a beautiful young pleasure slave who is entirely devoted to her Mistress. One day her Mistress sets her a task and enters her for the traditional Thanasius Slave Hunt. When she is captured by the hunters she must prove herself – just to survive.
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"Besos De Cuero"
A serial.
A chance meeting with two women on a French train leads Amaia, a young student, to Paris and to sexual enlightenment. At the hands of the two dominant women she learns that pain and pleasure can lead to intense ecstasy – and transcendence.
A Journey into BDSM, Life, Love and Liberation…
1. On The Train
"Then her eyes descended and she was quite plainly looking at my breasts. It was summer and I was only wearing light clothes – cut-off shorts and a white sleeveless top. No bra. And she seemed to be looking right through my top."
2. "You only get one chance"
They led me back into the empty college gym and made me perform my gymnastic routine for them naked."
3. Realms of Bliss, Realms of Light
"I felt proud. My body was in its prime. I wanted them to see me. And to take pleasure in me."
4. Un objet d'art
"Was I now her slave begging for morsels? Or even worse an ornament to be hung for amusement? A toy to be cruelly played with and then thrown away?"
5. Bliss and Transcendence
"If you get to punish me, I want you to do it with the same intensity with which you just made love to me. Whip me like you fuck me. With passion and love and fire. I want to feel your strength. I want to feel your will overcome mine. Strike hard and win me. Make me yours."
6. Strike dear mistress and cure her heart
"She put the blindfold on me, and we entered the dining room. Now sightless, I felt the adrenaline surge through me, every square inch of my defenseless naked body tingled with the anticipation of some unforeseen danger. Each second seemed charged with possibilities. Pain? Pleasure? A caress? Or the first lash of a merciless whipping?
I felt totally and utterly alive."
7. The Whipping Trees
She looked so strong – her golden tan, muscular thighs and majestic naked torso gave her the appearance a beautiful Spartan athlete. Aroused, I stretched my arms above my head and pushed my pussy forward yielding it willingly to the lashes.
8. The Punishment of Silvie (I)
I was alone in a room with a beautiful girl, whom I desired like no other, and who was kneeling cuffed and bound and, apparently, at my mercy.
9. The Punishment of Silvie (II)
"You can do anything you want to me. You can test me. Push me to the limit. Do you really want to know the truth?"
10. Surrender
"The vibrating bliss penetrated further and deeper into me puncturing my reason until there were no more questions or ideas or even thoughts and all that remained was the sweet hum of delirium."
11. For Your Pleasure (I)
"I writhed captive to a desire that was constant and relentless. I craved the sensual touch of bare flesh on mine."
12. For Your Pleasure (II)
How could the whip make such sweet music?
13. Sisters of Belos
We loved each other and desired only love and pleasure for each other – even if it meant we were not always the source of it.
14. A Gift
The wine was going to my head now and my heart raced knowing that tonight he would be mine to use, savor and explore.
15. The Temple
Madame put her hand on my thigh and flicked the whip at his back. I watched captivated as his rounded ass clenched and his straining naked body heaved the cart up the hill.
16. The Temple (II)
He knew it was coming. But he did not know when. Each second that passed would be a torment of anticipation and dread. So I waited…
17. The Temple (III)
His only sanctuary lay within my pussy and he would crave the heavenly release it offered him.
18. Silvie
Hers to use or to heal. As she willed it. So be it.
19. New Skin
What had I learned in these glorious chimerical summer weeks?
20. La Maîtresse
After a while I thought of these submissions as Madame's little "epiphanies" and began to look forward to them.
21. The Cross
I wished only that my words might fall softly like feathers on their beautiful nakedness, caress their lovemaking and stir them to even greater ecstasy.
22. The Cross (II)
It was so inhuman it was godlike. It was a hungry gluttonous little mechanical deity that drilled a well of bliss inside me that ran so deep I craved to dive into it and bathe there forever.
Short Stories.
Tales of submission, confession, and the beauty of whipping.
Image – Rudolph Koppitz
Ready For Use – "I was just a utensil. My Mistress' little pepper pot."
Whipsong – My Mistress continued. "But it is her singing that gives me the most pleasure. Her song under the whip is the most beautiful whipsong I have ever heard."
The Confessor – "I looked at that pussy. It was far more appetizing than an expensive cigar or a fine brandy. Far healthier for the soul too. It was simply begging to confess its sins to me."
The Zadhyr
A story of magic and lust.
"And you brought this dangerous violent creature into my house?"
"Well, as I said, they are guardians of the tribe's fertility and they say that making love with a zadhyr is the best fuck you will ever have in your life."
He laughed and once more his eyes twinkled. "So I thought he might interest you."
There was such an evil look on his face that I didn't know whether to blush or laugh.
"That say it's almost supernatural. Ecstasy of the most agonizing kind. Your whole body tormented by waves of unbearable pleasure until your mind dissolves into a kind of transcendent euphoria. It's as close as you can get to making love with one of the gods."
He chuckled, "Be careful you don't get addicted."
"The Hunt"
A serial.
In a brutal medieval world of slaves and masters, Bella is a beautiful young pleasure slave who is entirely devoted to her Mistress. One day her Mistress sets her a task and enters her for the traditional Thanasius Slave Hunt. When she is captured by the hunters she must prove herself – just to survive.
Image- Russ Freeman
The Hunt (I)
Another world, another time. The town of Thanasius, the Slave Seminary, the Slave Games and Mistress Theia, "She said watching me flogged was the most graceful, sensual and beautiful thing she had ever seen."
The Hunt (II)
The Slave Games, "The most popular of these contests is the "Kiss of Leather." The trophy goes to the Master or Mistress who can bring a female slave to orgasm by the kiss of leather alone."
The Hunt (III)
Bella needs a man,"My sex required a man's passion. A hard brutish desire to hold me still and penetrate me and raise me and make me soar…"
The Hunt (IV)
Mistress Theia informs Bella she has been entered for the Slave Hunt, "It wasn't just what they might do to me when they caught me. I'd get a whipping and be used for sure but they'd be able to do anything they wanted to me and I would have to submit to it."
The Hunt (V)
The Slave Hunt begins, "In rows of ten, in a field painted in flames of yellow and orange, one hundred slaves, both male and female, penned in on all sides by whip-wielding horsemen, stood naked under a savage burning sun.
The Hunt (VI)
Bella rests and thinks of her sisters in slavery, "Risa leaned in and whispered in my ear, "You're ours now, pretty one. We are going to prepare you for tomorrow."
In a few seconds I had lost all authority over them. They were like two mischievous puppies whose idea of play was to bite."
The Hunt (VII)
A meeting with the River Man, "I sank slowly to my knees. There stood his manhood, risen for me, hard for me, aflame for me. A golden cup, I took it and placed it to my lips. My hands softly caressed its long stem and I took a sip, my tongue relishing its fullness and essence."
The Hunt (VIII)
Bella is captured by a rope artist. She is bound and hung from a tree as a gift for all to use. "May it please the Master to be merciful with me. My name is Bella. I am a slave girl in the house of Mistress Theia. I surrender myself willingly to the Master's grace and mercy."
The Hunt (IX)
Bella is discovered hanging in the tree by a young couple, Alana and Tonaius, who use her for their own sadistic sex games. "She stood up quickly, looked at the firm rounded ass and slapped it. Thwack! Oh the sonorous beauty of flesh striking flesh."
The Hunt (X)
Bella is finally rewarded for her submission, "Cock in hand, he was watching us. His was a hungry monster, engorged and drooling, it reared up at me, scenting the heat of my sex."
The Hunt (XI)
Released by Alena and Tonaius, Bella is captured once more by a band of sadistic hunters, "They slapped and pinched me and horrible ravenous wormlike fingers entered my sex and penetrated me as if to feed there."
The Hunt (XII)
Bella is inspected and whipped by the "Captain", the leader of the hunters. "Running away, eh?" He grinned, "Well, well… We have special punishments for runaways, don't we boys?"
The Hunt (XIII)
Bella is taken to the hunters' camp for punishment. "They led me behind the tents to some wooden cages which were full of naked slave girls."
The Hunt (XIV)
Bella is caged with a beautiful female slave to whom she feels an immediate attraction. "I'd been fingering my pussy for some time and when I opened my eyes my cage mate was staring right at me."
The Hunt (XV)
At my command she was waking now. Surfacing slowly within the pools and eddies of pleasure that I was conjuring for her.
The Hunt (XVI)
Bella's cage mate is Melody, an innocent young slave entered for the hunt as punishment by a cruel Mistress. "If they whip you tonight, think of the beauty you are. That is why they do it. A whipping is a very beautiful thing. For both slave and Master. It brings us to life. Don't fear it. Revel in it. The gods have made us so."
The Hunt (XVII)
Bella meets the Tormentrix. "It's been known for victims to become hopelessly devoted to them, willing submissives addicted to the particular kind of humiliation and excruciating ecstasy only a highly skilled Tormentrix can administer."
The Hunt (XVIII)
"You have an ass that just screams Spank me! Spank me! Did you know that?"
The Hunt (XIX) – "The Kiss of the Cane"
"Is there anything more beautiful than a whipped slave? Look at her. Trapped, bound, arms up-stretched, her tender breasts exposed…"
Slave Tales: The Hunt – "Incarnate"
"Nestled within me, sucking on me, feeding off me, it swelled and grew. Its power overwhelmed me, claiming me for its own, enslaving me to an agony so beautiful, so vast I wanted to lose myself in it forever. "
The Hunt (XXI) – "Sebastian Enslaved"
And perhaps sensing the power of my desire, his cock twitched, shifted, and then, very slowly, it began to rise.
The Hunt (XXII) – "The Ancient Ritual"
The erect cock was recently shaved and perfumed, its texture was hard and smooth, like a firmly flexed muscle. Glistening wet it shone darkly in the moonlight, as if it were covered in a thin coat of melted chocolate.
Slave Tales: The Hunt (XXIII) – "The Gladiator"
Gladiators always fought naked and were often celebrated not only for their prowess but also their physical beauty.
Slave Tales: The Hunt (XXIV) – "To the End of the Night"
Suddenly I knew this moment was meant to be. We were one and the the same. Lovers of danger and the dark and the wild eternal night.
Slave Tales: The Hunt (XXV) – "Birdsong"
Gods, what a body he'd been blessed with. His physique was perfectly sculpted, exactly as nature had intended.
Slave Tales: The Hunt (XXVI) – "The Rod and the Riverman"
She cried out and leaned forward suddenly, almost falling onto him. And then with her hands firmly clutching at his chest, her naked breasts gamboling in joyful abandon, she held him down fast, riding him like a wild horse bucking and kicking beneath her.
Slave tales: The Hunt (XXVII) – "Atonement"
To truly experience his love, to fully know its ecstasy and to bathe in the very essence of it, I need his hands upon me both in tenderness and in fury.
Slave Tales: The Hunt (XXVIII) – "Possessed by the Riverman"
My sun. My ruler. My lord. I was just clay. Putty in his hands. Hands that held me captive only to conspire my liberation. Hands that worked me. Whipped me. Forged me. Created me.
The Hunt (XXIX) – "The Bathers"
I have always loved watching fit young men make love to each other.
So much better than watching them make war.
The Crystal Sea
Subspace is infinite.
The redemptive bliss that comes with the acceptance of powerlessness.
(Not one sub story but many)
Image – Igor Amelkovich
Posts can be read individually or in order.
The Ocean – (A kind of Prologue)
Getting my nipples pierced, my so called "lesbian tendencies" and finding the ocean.
I look back on that time now as a kind lost Eden. I was free. No school. No responsibilities. I could do anything I wanted. It also felt like a time of rebirth. Coming out of my shell. Learning to be me. Becoming. Growing up. All that stuff.
A young girl is walking a long path through a dense forest.
At the end of the path stands a gate.
One she passes through that gate she can never return to the life she once had.
This story is about that girl.
And the importance of fulfilling your fantasies.
"Your classification is 'O'. That stands for 'object' and also 'zero'. It means you are nothing. Without will and without voice. You must remain silent at all times and keep your eyes down. On no account will you speak or make any kind of utterance. When given a direct order you nod once to show you have understood. "O" is the lowest of all the classifications here."
I am a precious doll. A toy to be played with, abused even, but never damaged. I am an object of value to them. A virgin canvas. To their minds a work of art. A living sculpture. A promise of raptures still unrealized.
Subspace. It's full of stars.
Could you pass the objectification test?
They'll probably want to touch you. Slap you. Whatever. They have the right to do that and if they do you must remain passive no matter what.
I'm the new attraction. One of the interactive exhibits. They've put me in a large booth about 7 or 8 feet square. It looks like a department store window. I could be a mannequin displaying dresses except that I'm completely naked and my wrists have been cuffed to a wooden crossbar above my head. I've been on display for barely a minute now and already a small group of passers-by have stopped to stare.
I am a thing.
I am classed as "0".
Zero. An object. An ornament.
An empty vessel.
Cherice laughed and reached forward across the bed pulling my arms in front of me.
"I think she needs to be spanked, boys. Spank her for me, will you?"
"Almost done," the keeper says. "Won't be long now. This one's new. She's a beauty, you won't be disappointed, I promise you. The cunt is tight fitting but supple, succulent and very juicy, she's incredibly responsive and extremely eager to please. "
Heaven and Hell
What if Heaven and Hell were one and the same?
Image – author unknown
Kitty is a vivacious lusty girl from a dying planet who is abducted and taken as a pleasure slave aboard a strange craft where she immediately becomes the "Captain's pet".
She enjoys her new life – and the extremely physical sex that goes with it – but her only problem is she is just a little bit too curious for her own good and one day is caught up on the craft's observation deck without permission. The Captain reluctantly agrees that Kitty must be sent down to "Engineering" in order to "teach her a lesson".
Escorted by the sadistic female Officer Ryder and wearing only a pair of nipple clamps, Kitty discovers that "Engineering" is a very strange place indeed and that heaven and hell can sometimes be indistinguishable.
"I Delicia"
Image – Gustav Klimt
"I Delicia" or The "Delicia Scrolls" are the wild and salacious memoirs of Aurelia Livia Helenus or "Delicia" (her more widely used slave name) who was imprisoned and enslaved on the order of the Emperor Tiberius after her family was accused of conspiracy and treason.
Delicia was renowned for her beauty and it was said that "any man who cast eyes upon her would immediately be smitten by her charms."
After her father's death she was held captive by the Emperor in the cells of his Palace in Rome to be tortured at his pleasure. Then as further act of punishment and, it was said, in order to humiliate her even more, the Emperor banished her from Rome and imprisoned her as a sex slave on Capri, his private Island, which at that time was infamous for its debauchery, wild orgies and sex games.
Somehow she survived to tell her tale.
Delicia often dictated to a scribe and her style is chatty and discursive. She was widely read in the ancient world after the death of Nero, during whose reign the scrolls were written while Delicia was living in Egypt. She was especially popular with Roman legionaries to whom she became a kind of heroine. However the scrolls were probably read furtively or in secret as they were considered immoral and even seditious. Copies have been found in Pompeii, Egypt, Southern France and Spain. The contents are very explicit however they have have not been edited or censored in any way here.
"I Delicia"
Part 1 – The Lady Aristocrat Disgraced, Punished and Sold into Sexual Slavery
Part 4 – Shameless; The Lashes that Liberate
Xtreme Xposure
Image – author unknown
A series of posts on being exhibited naked in public, either as a prisoner, a pet, a pony girl…
A lot can happen to a girl when she's she's stripped down to the essential.
Including getting spanked and whipped of course. Frequently. And just for the fun of it.
- Naked
- Captive
- Prisoner Transport, My Naked Walk of Shame
- Pet
- Whips, Chains and Heavenly Devices to Torment
- A Pony Girl in City Park
I exist to give pleasure. Comment and let me know if any of these posts please you


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The Brite
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About This Property
The Brite is a wonderful little building with many features common in larger apartment houses. With a renovated entrance and carpeted hallways, the building provides luxurious amenities and large scale apartments. The Brite is situated in a great location and is sure to provide a high standard of living.
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The Brite features large studio & one bedroom apartments. Apartments are recently renovated, many with new kitchens, modern appliances, wood cabinets, and ceramic tile floors. Wood flooring is used throughout the apartment, and generous closet space provides ample storage.
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Scottsdale Rotarians Install Floor at Family Promise Homeless Shelter
Scottsdale Rotarians gathered at Family Promise of Greater Phoenix, based in Scottsdale, the morning of November 19 to install a new tile floor in the facility's laundry room and to re-stripe the facility's parking lot. Ted Taylor, Family Promise's Executive Director, graciously guided our volunteer activities with aplomb and provided the obligatory construction coffee and doughnuts to start. A good time was had by all. Scottsdale Rotarians prepared the concrete floor in the laundry room and then installed a vinyl composite tile floor and baseboard. Other Scottsdale Rotarians worked with extraordinary precision to re-stripe the parking area, giving the wheelchair logo a smile. Attending were Scottsdale Rotarians Garrett Olson, James Ogsbury (and his partner Christine Cook), Carl Munding and John Thornton.


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As a financial professional, you've devoted years to grow your clientele by helping them make good decisions. We know how frustrating it is to constantly keep up with all of the changes in your professional life. For instance, there is the stress of…
- New investment products (sometimes it seems like they change everyday)
- The markets (up one day….way down the next and clients either happy or upset)
- And the tax laws (seems like it's becoming more dangerous each time Congress is in session)
The areas of senior estate planning, long-term health care planning, Alzheimer's planning and Medicaid law is extremely complex. Not to mention concerns about malpractice or upset children who feel that their family has spent thousands and thousands of dollars that could have been protected with proper planning.
Your clients expect answers. We're here to help them…and you.
At The Elderlaw Firm we are committed to helping financial advisors and CPA's stay current with estate protection strategies so they can best serve their clients. We regularly offer quality educational programs that teach important estate planning and elder care concepts. We also help provide key marketing tips for the increasingly important long-term health care planning concerns confronting seniors as they age. Dennis Toman, one of the first Certified Elder Law Attorneys in North Carolina, can come to your office for an educational workshop on Elder Law and Senior Estate Planning topics important to you and your clients.
We enjoy having financial advisors taking part in the planning process for our mutual clients. The client relationship starts with an initial conference. You welcome to attend, and we encourage that. In addition, we are available for questions about a situation you're facing with a client of yours, and what might be a good direction to suggest.
Once we start working with your client, we will do everything we can to make sure that you and your client are thrilled with our services, and we will work with you in implementing the plan and any needed asset re-allocation.
We invite you stop by our office for a cup of coffee and talk about your needs for serving your clients. We'd like to know more about your practice, and we'll be glad to tell you whatever you would like to know about our law firm, what we do and how we charge.
Feel free to call our office if you ever have an estate protection or Medicaid question. For example, here are the types of clients you see regularly who particularly need our services and we have answers for them beyond traditional estate planning:
- Anyone who has been turned down for long term care insurance.
- A married couple, where one spouse is in a nursing home or likely to be there in the next year.
- Anyone who has received a diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's, ALS, or is suffering from severe memory loss or the effects of a stroke. These are people who need to know that the time to plan is when they get the diagnosis, not years later after the disease or illness has taken its terrible toll.
- Clients who have had a spouse or a parent in a nursing home or assisted living community. Those clients will know first-hand the importance of expert long term health care planning that goes beyond traditional estate planning. Today the worry of most seniors is, "What happens if I live a long life and become ill, or need someone else to make decisions for me?" These are concerns relating to Elder Law and go far beyond traditional estate planning.
- Veterans who served during a war, are over age 65 and now are facing substantial medical expenses for care in the home, or in assisted living.
- Healthy, vigorous seniors who want to make sure they have their "ducks in a row" for future planning needs.
For more information about our educational programs, please contact us directly. We look forward to working with you soon.


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What is the Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011 and paid to local authorities by a grant based on the January census figures for pupils registered as eligible for free school meals (FSM) in Reception to Year 11. It was initially allocated to children from low-income families who are currently known to be eligible for FSM in both mainstream and non-mainstream settings and children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months. Since April 2012, the Government widened the coverage of the Premium to include those eligible for FSM at any point in the last six years (known as the Ever 6 FSM measure). Currently, for each FSM pupil and looked after child, a school receives £1320.
Whilst the money is given to schools for each eligible child, schools decide how the Pupil Premium is spent, since it is recognised that they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.
How do I register my child for Free School Meals?
Please register your child if you are eligible using the easy online facility which has been launched by Hampshire County Council Catering Services (HC3S). You can now check your eligibility for FSM. This self-service option is available by clicking here: Am I eligible for Free School Meals?
For this online service, all you need to do is enter your name, National Insurance number or Asylum number, address and your child's details. Then press submit and find out if you are eligible. If the result comes back found, this means your child is eligible for FSM and the system automatically tells the school. You no longer have to find the paperwork and go into school to get it checked.
How the Pupil Premium has been used at Orchard Junior School:
Schools are required to publish online information about how they have used the Premium and the impact it has had. This is to ensure that parents and others are fully aware of the attainment of pupils covered by the Premium. This information should include:
Orchard Junior School uses the Pupil Premium Allocation in different ways for different children. This could mean providing additional 1:2:1 or group support by either a teacher or Learning Support Assistant, providing a range of other services such as Emotional Literacy through our ELSA programme or providing Art or Play Therapy. It may be used to provide additional resources or activities for these children to benefit from.
The main aim of the Pupil Premium is there to narrow the gap between the group of children that the School receives the funding for and all other children.
Impact of Pupil Premium spending here at Orchard Junior School:
In January 2015 we received a letter from Rt Hon David Laws MP, the Minister of State for Schools, congratulating us on the work we do (please click here).
Assessment processes changed during the 2015/16 academic year, so below you can see the impact of our spending both before this change (2015 and earlier) and since (from 2016 academic year).
You will notice a particular spike in the 2014 results. The proportion of children who were eligible for Pupil Premium and also having recognised SEN was particularly low that year (the other three year's are demonstrate consistent improvements.) Removing that year's results, shows the impact the money has been having on the children eligible for Pupil Premium.
On a non-achievement basis, every child was able to join us on our Year 5 and 6 residentials, compared to approximately 90% in previous years. Whilst the school has always offered to fund children where there is genuine financial difficulty, approximately 10% of cohorts in the historic past (pre-2013) would not attend trips for all sorts of reasons. Since Pupil Premium this number has almost been eradicated. Some children took up the opportunity of having extra-curricular clubs funded for them. The additional ELSA has helped support many more children who would either have had to wait or be missed.
Assessment processes and outcomes changed considerably during the 2015/16, so our results in 2016 and 2017 are not comparable to previous years. What parents might find useful is an understanding of how our children eligible for the pupil premium perform against children not eligible, both at our School and across Hampshire. On the whole it is quite clear that our 'gaps' are narrower and, in some areas, quite considerably narrower than the Hampshire 'gap':
What do the abbreviations mean? Exp+ - Expected Standard (or higher); GDS - Greater Depth Standard; SS - Standardised Score; SS High - A higher standardised score; RWM - Reading, Writing and Maths combined (a children must achieve Exp+ in all three subject areas)
What does each column tell me?
Orchard PP – the results our Pupil Premium children got
National Average – the average from the last two years nationally
Our Gap versus the National Gap – the key aim of the Pupil Premium is to close the gap. A positive (+) figure shows that our gap is narrower than the national by the stated amount; a negative figure (-) is where our gap is wider than the national by the stated amount. Because each PP child at Orchard is worth approximately 5% we have colour coded the table to show what the gaps mean in real children.
Plans for 2017/18:
Naturally we plan to continue the good work we have been doing. For the 2017/18 financial year, each child eligible will continue to bring £1,300. For this year we have published our "Pupil Strategy Statement". This document details the amount of money received, where we are spending our allocation, and our rationale for this.
Our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement can be read by clicking the document at the bottom of this page or by clicking here.
The Service Premium:
The Service Children Premium currently stands at £300 per eligible child, and includes children who have a parent who is currently, or within the past three years, been in our Services. (Please directly inform the School Office if this relates to your child, as we have no other means of knowing.) The Service Premium should not be confused with the Pupil Premium as detailed above - it is not intended for the same purpose as the Pupil Premium. The Service Premium is there to enable schools to support the emotional and social well-being at the key times when the children may need it, such as to support them whilst their parent is away from home on duty. Here, at Orchard, it largely goes towards providing our ELSAs and their resources.
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Childcare Expo Manchester
This inspiring and educational event for the early years community is returning to EventCity, Manchester this Summer; a popular show for all those working in the early years sector, from nursery to primary and everything in between.
Childcare Expo Manchester
Venue: EventCity, Manchester
Date: 15 & 16 June 2018, 10am – 4pm
Website: www.childcareexpo.co.uk
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contact Number: 01425 838393
The inspiring and educational event for the early years community is returning to EventCity, Manchester this Summer. Childcare Expo Manchester is a popular show for all those working in the early years sector, from nursery to primary and everything in between.
Are you looking to top up your CPD? Source new play equipment? Discover new ways to engage and interact? Network with the outstanding community and receive support? The show has been adapted to the needs of the visitors following the overwhelming response from previous shows over the past three years for best practice in childcare, EYFS and early years education.
This year, we are delighted to welcome back to the stage Alistair Bryce-Clegg with his seminar 'A World of Endless Possibilities." Alistair will be talking about how an environment built around children's interests can have a significant impact on wellbeing and progress. This is guaranteed to sell out so book your early bird tickets today.
Childcare Expo Manchester brings with it two brand new feature areas. Your Business Café provides visitors with support and advice around running a setting while enjoying free refreshments. The Health & Wellbeing Zone is the chance to explore this vital topic through discussions and workshops.
What can you do at Childcare Expo Manchester?
- Attend educational seminars to credit your CPD
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- Experience expert-led informative hands-on workshops
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The ever-changing environment within the childcare industry requires shows just like this to offer advice and support to the dedicated workers in the sector. The event promises to present its visitors with a host of resources, inspiration and most of all motivation to take back to their early years settings and to continually help them develop both personally and professionally.
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Tautog's Restaurant Review
205 23rd Street
Virginia Beach
This top restaurant in Virginia Beach is unrivaled in the pursuit of providing customers with the finest seafood, service and surroundings.
The Tautog's Restaurant concept was created in an effort to provide customers with a unique dining experience combining quality seafood products, with distinctive customer service in an inviting coastal area setting.
Tautog's Restaurant(s) is a casual dining establishment featuring exceptional fish and seafood entrée's soups, salads, sandwiches and desserts…served by the friendliest people in town.
Tautog's was conceived after partners of Right Coast Properties purchased and committed to the preservation of a unique 1920's beach cottage in Virginia Beach's resort strip area. Right Coast Foods T/A Tautog's Restaurant was created to operate a first class food service business in the cottage. Sight, Sound and Smell is recipe for attracting customers interested in the finest casual dining experience in the coastal zone. Tautog's unique setting is intended to provide patrons a glimpse of the area's maritime past while enjoying some of today's finest seafood fare.
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If you are looking to take a trip to a beautiful beach for a family getaway you should consider one of the beaches along scenic highway 30A. This scenic highway is stretched out all along the beached in between Panama City Beach and Destin, Florida. With one quaint beach town after another you will find plenty of fun for the whole family here.The bike trails thoughout this area are extensive and wide enough to pull your kids behind you in a bike trailer. The trail starts or ends depending on which direction you start from in Rosemary Beach, Florida.You can bike around Rosemary beach and discover all the little shops and eateries. You might even be able to catch a movie out on the green lawn in the evenings.
Next you can bike over to Seacreast Beach and let the kids run through the splash pad. On a hot day this is the best way to cool the kids down quick!
The next area you hit that is worth a stop is Aly Beach. All of the homes they are building in this brand new area are beautiful. They have a nature hike in the back of the neighborhood and they are putting walking/biking trails through the neighborhood. At the front of the neighborhood on the west end is a fantastic children's playground. It has a zip line, slides, and toddler toys. For mom and dad there is little cafe/bookstore adjacent to the playground. You can sit on the patio there watching the kids play.
Once you leave Aly Beach to head further west it is at least a ten to fifteen minute bike ride before you hit another beach town. But if you do keep going you will hit many more beach towns like Seaside, Watercolor and Grayton Beach. In Seaside check out all the art gallaries and if you make it all the way to Grayton Beach be sure to go eat at the Red Bar!
Meagan is our Military Traveling Mom. You can also find her blogging at Mommy Travels. She has a passion for family travel, including maximizing military travel options. For more of Meagan's adventures find her on facebook Mommy Travels, or follow her on twitter @MommyTravels!


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Crafty Secrets Vintage Images & Journal Notes and I tend to save them so I put one to good use and made this card. For sketch inspiration, I played along with this week's Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge and with this week's Splitcoaststampers Crafty Secrets Challenge which is to incorporate lace when creating your project.
S4-286 2010 Snowflake Pendant die template and the raspberry colored glittered paper.
Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge. Be Sweet!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Waltzingmouse Compliments of the Season
Die Templates and Machine: Spellbinders™Nestabilities® S4-133 Classic Scalloped Rectangles LG, S4-286 2010 Snowflake Pendants, GC-001 Grand Calibur
Paper: Crafty Secrets Vintage Images & Journal Notes, graphic45


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Descripción de Kicker 40KMMTES 4-Inch Marine Weather-Proof Speakers Enclosu... – Comprar Desde USATraducir al español
Mounting powerful 4-inch KICKER speakers for external listening in marine and powersport applications just got easier with KICKERs durable and weather-proof KM-Series Tower-Speaker Empty Enclosures. With its bold cosmetics, the black-textured KM enclosures with contrasting accent details complement KICKER's 4-inch coaxial marine speakers. The stainless-steel speaker terminals provide quick and easy wire connections. Designed with a nine-degree axis rotation in either direction, allowing the speaker cans to be aimed in the most desirable location to deliver maximum sound quality. Includes acoustic poly-fill for clearest sound, all mounting hardware, and fits tubing sizes 7/8-inch , 1-inch , 1-1/8-inch , 1-1/4-inch round or 1-inch square. This is just the housing for the speakers! Speakers are sold separately! We are an authorized Kicker dealer 2) New Kicker 40KMMTES 4-inch Marine Weather-Proof Speakers Tower Empty Enclosure Speaker Fitting - 4-inch Speakers Tough ABS, weather-proof empty enclosures with slotted mounting holes for different bolt patterns Nine-degree axis rotation in either direction for aiming maximum sound quality Fits Mounting Tube Sizes - 7/8-inch , 1-inch , 1-1/8-inch , 1-1/4-inch round or 1-inch square Stainless-steel push-type connectors Mounting hardware and polyfill Billet-aluminum mounting brackets Adapter inserts for varying mounting diameters Condition: Brand New! Item Weight: 4 lbs. Part Number: 40KMMTES 1 Year Manufacturer Warranty