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When you're exploring a life without school, there can feel like a lot of barriers.
You may still be processing your fears surrounding certain things and find comfort in how school seems to effortlessly cover them for you; academics, socialisation, having to do things you don't want to do, access to a wide variety of opportunities and resources, exposure to diversity, discipline, a successful future. School, especially when you're newly considering moving away from that, seems like a catch all answer.
But what if school didn't exist? What if school wasn't sold to you as the easy answer?
How then would you approach your concerns? How then would you approach your life?
Because whatever it is you believe school can provide, you can't separate that from everything else. It is a catch all answer but you're not the only one asking questions and perhaps you're still asking the wrong ones.
Either way you have to take it all.
Keeping school in the back of your mind, prevents you from fully appreciating anything else. School is in the way, blurring the vision of any alternative. It's keeping you stuck in the spiral of its expectations.
So what if you decided that whatever it is offering is not worth the price? What if you took it away as an option?
Suddenly you're looking at a much different picture. You're maintaining personal responsibility for the things you find important and you have the space to focus on those exclusively.
Why would you choose something off the menu knowing it comes with a side order of things you do not want when you can build your own reality from the infinite buffet?
Why would you choose a house somebody else designed with their agenda in mind when you have the option to completely customise your own?
Is the convenience really worth all the things you'd have to compromise?
So forget imitating school. Again, how would you resolve things if school was not an option? How would you live your life if nobody offered you a cookie-cutter blue print?
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Support is requested for a Keystone Symposia meeting entitled Stem Cells and Reprogramming, organized by Deepak Srivastava and Shinya Yamanaka. The meeting will be held in Olympic Valley, California from April 6- 11, 2014. The fields of developmental and stem cell biology have revealed complex networks that regulate fundamental cell fate decisions. Such information was leveraged first to reprogram cells to induced pluripotent stem cells, and more recently to induce cell fate transitions from one somatic cell state directly into another, without involving a pluripotent stem cell phase. This conference will focus on the mechanisms underlying cellular pluripotency, differentiation, and reprogramming. These will include the understanding of signaling, transcriptional, translational and epigenetic events regulating cell fate transitions. The utility of such cellular regulation for disease modeling and regenerative medicine for multiple organ systems will be examined. Translational efforts in academia and industry that are moving toward regenerative medicine will be highlighted, as will efforts to use stem cell biology for drug discovery and evaluating drug toxicity. The emerging intersection of human genetics and stem cell biology that will lead to more personalized medicine will be a thematic focus woven into most sessions of this conference. Opportunities for interdisciplinary interactions will be significantly enhanced by the concurrent meeting on Engineering Cell Fate and Function, which will share two plenary sessions with this meeting.
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Saturday I ventured into terra incognita - 50M at the Dick Collins Firetrails
50. With a long run of 50K at races this July and August and nothing longer than
14M since then, and a TOTAL of 98.7 miles of training in the seven weeks since that
last race (14 miles/week), I was definitely well rested but undertrained. Not only
was I breaking the "if you can run it in a week you can run it in a day"
rule, I was close to breaking the "if you aren't running it in a month, you're
out of your mind to run it in a day" rule.
Adding insult to injury (actually injury to insult as we shall see) were the two new pairs of shoes purchased on race week. The first, an ultra-supportive (anti-over-pronation) shoe the salesperson convinced me to buy, might well be best for me in the long haul, but after two test runs early in the week they were just too different from what I have been wearing for me to be comfortable with them on Saturday. So on Wednesday I bought another pair, these more like what I have been wearing, and managed to work in a 3M track workout on Wednesday night as the only miles on those shoes before race day. Risky, but since the shoes I had been running in had self-destructed at my last race, and my other training shoes were too lightweight for a real long run, there simply wasn't any alternative. The new shoes were very roomy in the toes, which was definitely a good thing.
I had only decided to do this race a week in advance, basically because I had been wanting to do this since I turned 50, and after two good races in the summer I figured it was as good a time as any, nothwithstanding the lack of training. If I couldn't train properly, at least I could prepare. Preparation consisted of heavier than normal eating for three days prior to the race, with a special emphasis on salty foods, and, for the first time in my life, preparing a "drop bag" to be left at the turnaround point (26M), containing every possible contingency - a spare pair of shoes (the first new pair of shoes) in case the ones I was wearing weren't working out, a pair of long thigh-length tights in case I was chafing from the running shorts I was wearing (in the old days I couldn't run more than 5M without chafing while wearing shorts, but things have changed), a shirt in case my shirt was soaking through, a dry headband, a hat in case the sun was getting to me, a bottle of sunblock to reapply, a tube of Body Glide to reapply to prevent chafing, and a host of food items and Advil to replenish any stores I had gone through. Better overprepared than underprepared! In the end I used hardly any of it.
The race starts at 6:30 and I arrived at 5:45, flashlight in hand to find my way to the registration table where I checked in. By the time I went to the bathroom, walked back to the entry kiosk to buy a parking ticket for my car, walked to the truck to drop off my drop bag, and stripped down to my racing clothes, it was nearly 6:30. Suddenly I realized that my drop back not only had a hat but also my form-fitting headgear (a.k.a. "do-rag") so I'd be running the first half of the race with nothing on my head but a headband. I don't like to expose my head to the sun, but I really didn't have any choice, and anyway I'd be taken care of for the sunnier afternoon return trip, so I figured I'd be ok.
A low-key "go" and we're off at 6:30. In mid-October it's dark, but I like to run with sunglasses so the first 15-20 minutes are definitely challenging. A few people have flashlights, though, and the first few miles are also on a paved bike trail along the west side of Lake Chabot, so I manage ok. After the paved trail comes a very hilly section, which I'm familiar with since the Skyline 50K ends on these same trails. Immediately I establish a pattern which will continue the entire day. I'm walking almost all the uphills, but racewalking like a demon and passing people with regularity. Then I'm absolutely hammering the downhills, running them as hard as I can. This can be hard on your quads, of course, but in recent races with lots of tough uphills like Headlands 50K, my quads have never been my weakest link, so I figure I'm going to give it (hammering downhills) a try as a way to make up time lost elsewhere. I'm also using the downhills to mix up my stride length, sometimes running with short strides and quick turnover, sometimes with longer strides and slower turnover. The roominess of the new shoes (size 14) was definitely a plus on the downhills; even by the end of the day, my toes were just fine going downhill, which isn't the usual situation.
And so the race progresses. Through Lake Chabot Regional Park, and then on to Redwood Regional Park, past Marciel Road, Bort Meadows and MacDonald Gate and finally up the Stream Trail to Skyline Gate at the northern end of Redwood Regional Park at the 15M mark. This is where the Skyline 50K turns around, so I've never been further than this; geographically speaking, I'm now proceeding to terra incognita. I've reached this point in 2:40, a 10:40 pace. Considering there has been 880' of net climb to this point, this is definitely faster than I expect to average the whole day, but I'm doing this intentionally, breaking another rule and making hay while the sun don't shine. Predictions are for temperatures in the high 80's, and I know I don't do well in the heat, so it seems sensible to get as far as I can while the temperatures are still cool. My "goal", after looking at past finishes of people whose pace is similar to mine, is to aim for 10 hours - 11 minutes/mile plus 5 minutes per hour noshing at aid stations, or 5 miles/hour. Since there are 13 aid stations, if I can cut the aid station time a little, I'll be down around 9:40, which is about as fast as I could possibly hope for. But 10 hours is really what I'm expecting, and of course if I finish in one piece I'll be thrilled with that.
The view West from Skyline Gate
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The view from Huckleberry Preserve
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Aid Station Dist. Time Pace Elev. +/- "Effective" Dist.* Eff. Pace Place Marciel 3.2 35:02 10:57 620/150 3.9 8:59 Bort 4.7 44:15 9:25 460/660 5.1 8:41 59 MacDonald 2.6 27:50 10:42 470/530 3.1 8:59 57 Skyline Gate 4.5 52:46 11:43 900/230 5.5 9:36 56 Sibley 3.4 36:58 10:42 610/495 4.0 9:14 58 Steam Trains 3.3 48:16 14:37 730/465 4.1 11:46 58 Lone Oak 4.3 47:52 11:07 320/1420 4.4 10:53 62 Steam Trains 4.3 1:08:40 15:58 1420/320 5.9 11:38** 61 Sibley 3.3 45:35 13:48 465/730 3.7 12:19 59 Skyline 3.4 41:11 12:07 495/610 3.9 10:33 53 MacDonald 4.5 55:12 12:16 230/900 4.6 12:00 54 Bort 2.6 38:53 14:57 660/460 3.3 11:47 53 Bass Cove 2.9 40:39 14:01 230/590 3.1 13:07*** 53 Finish 3.0 39:10 13:03 210/290 3.2 12:14 54 Total 50.0 10:22:18 12:27 7820/7820 57.8 10:46
* Add 1.2M for every 1000' of ascent, subtract 0.2M for every 1000' of descent
** Includes several minute gear change at turnaround
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Two months ago, Patsy White could barely walk.
Her joints had degenerated so thoroughly that she could only shuffle a few painful inches at a time. "Sometimes I didn't even want to be around people. I just wanted to … sit and veg and not have to do anything," she says.
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A complete month into the college basketball season, here are some things we know:
■ Tennessee is pretty good. The Vols have beaten Villanova in Madison Square Garden and Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh. In fact, Bruce Pearl's team entered Saturday ranked No. 1 in the RPI, and the win over the highly ranked Panthers doesn't hurt.
Scotty Hopson scored 27 points Saturday. He is finally starting to live up to the billing of being Scotty Hopson.
■ Louisville isn't bad either, a point the Cards proved Saturday.
Having played the world's weakest schedule — only the Washington Generals were not on U of L's early-season slate — Louisville was expected to receive a reality check in the KFC Yum Center.
Didn't happen. UNLV arrived undefeated and left with a 77-69 loss. Preston Knowles came alive in the second half.
■ Those hoping for Rick Pitino's demise are disappointed. Not only is Louisville unbeaten, Pitino picked up a commitment from top 2012 point guard Rodney Purvis on Saturday morning. Then Saturday night, U of L signee Wayne Blackshear went out and scored 56 points.
■ Shelvin Mack can't shake the cramps. The former Bryan Station star had trouble with cramps in last year's Final Four. Now Butler's star guard has experienced more of the same.
Mack missed a significant segment of Butler's curtain-dropping loss at Louisville last month. Last Saturday, he missed the final 13 minutes of a loss to Duke at the Meadowlands because of cramping.
Mack says he has been following orders from the trainers. It's a medical mystery.
■ The return of Kentucky's and-ones. After not producing a single basket-and-the-foul against either North Carolina or Notre Dame, Kentucky had five Saturday in the win over Indiana.
Three of those belonged to DeAndre Liggins, who converted the and-one free throw on two of the three trips by the way. Terrence Jones opened the game with the old-fashioned three-point play. And Doron Lamb contributed the fifth, making the free throw, with 2:09 remaining.
■ Duke is darn good, but the loss of Kyrie Irving will hurt. The freshman guard made the Blue Devils head and shoulders above the rest.
It's unclear how long Irving's injured toe will sideline the New Jersey native, but the layoff is expected to be significant. Without Irving, Duke is really good. With him, it is really, really good.
■ Irving nonwithstanding, Jared Sullinger and Terrence Jones are battling for nation's best freshman.
Ohio State's Sullinger scored 40 points in a Buckeyes win early last week. He was averaging 18.1 points and 9.9 rebounds heading into Sunday's game against Western Carolina.
Jones has slumbered through a couple of games, but when he's awake, he's wide awake. The Portland native is averaging 18.9 points and 10.2 rebounds per game.
■ Josh Selby should make a difference. Kansas' freshman guard makes his college debut next Saturday against Southern Cal. The Jayhawks need him. Bill Self's team looks in need of a spark. Selby can start a fire.
■ Tom Crean has Indiana on the way back. The Hoosiers led Saturday's struggle at Rupp 57-56 with 9:40 left before the visitors forgot how to put the ball in the basket. So the final score was deceiving.
And Crean has better players on the way. Come on, the guy has Jim and John Harbaugh for brother-in-laws. He has to succeed, or he'll be the black sheep of the family.
No wonder Calipari joked he might have to cancel the UK-IU series. Or was he joking?
■ My Final Four today: Duke, Michigan State, Kansas and Ohio State.


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BOSTON – Republican Mitt Romney, who last week struggled with his responses to a major foreign policy crisis in the Middle East, will now turn his focus back to the economy with a new offensive aimed at recharging a campaign that even some allies believe he is losing.
The Obama campaign, also sobered by the violent deaths of U.S. diplomats in Libya, seems willing to join Romney in a debate about the economy instead.
The Republican nominee, in speeches and television advertisements this week, will roll out more details about his plans to help the middle class by creating jobs, cutting the deficit and developing more domestic energy resources, advisers said. The specifics are designed to give voters a clearer sense of what Romney would do as president.
Both candidates were pushed off message in the wake of the Middle East turmoil that roiled the campaign last week. President Obama was forced to defend his administration's handling of the crisis as Romney sharply criticized it. But Romney did not appear to make up any ground politically, and some Republican allies criticized him for too quickly politicizing the moment.
Romney is determined to reshape a congealing narrative that he has fallen behind Obama and will spend the next 2½ weeks before the first presidential debate articulating more-concrete details of his five-step economic plan, according to campaign advisers.
The strategy shift indicates the Romney campaign is heeding the advice of senior Republicans, who for weeks have publicly urged the Romney operation to combine its indictments of Obama's record with a stronger rationale for a Romney presidency.
"I think people are waiting to get a little more information, and the key for us is to make sure that voters know why voting for Romney will result in a change and an improved economy," Edward Gillespie, a senior adviser to Romney, said in an interview.
"We're going to keep pounding away on a future-oriented campaign about why the next four years will be better under Mitt Romney than under President Obama."
The Romney campaign has prepared a series of ads, to air in battleground states, arguing that Romney's plan would create 12 million jobs. Aides said the ads will highlight his trade policies to crack down on China, his plans to help small businesses grow and his specific plan to cut the spiraling federal deficit.
The national debt will be a key focus early this week. Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, will highlight the debt burden that mothers and grandmothers will pass on to their children and grandchildren — an issue advisers think can help Romney close the gap with Obama among female voters. The campaign also plans to stage a ticking electronic debt clock at campaign rallies, an aide said.
Romney touched on the debt in a podcast released to supporters over the weekend, saying that Obama was "passively allowing us to go over a fiscal cliff." Romney's plan calls for capping federal spending at below 20 percent of the economy — cuts he says he would achieve in part by consolidating federal agencies and transferring some government programs to the states.
Obama has argued that Romney's proposed cuts would devastate the middle class, and aides said the president will engage Romney head-on in that debate this week. Obama kicks off a busy campaign week by returning to the critical battleground of Ohio, with appearances scheduled Monday in Cincinnati and Columbus.
As he has done repeatedly on the trail, Obama will warn of the consequences of Romney's plans to cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and tout his administration's bailout of the U.S. auto industry three years ago, aides said. They cast Romney as a flailing candidate trying repeatedly to reinvent himself without success.
"Mitt Romney has already laid out his five-point plan, and it is chock full of bad news for the middle class," Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Sunday in an email. She listed repealing changes to Wall Street and Obama's health-care overhaul among the initiatives Romney would pursue if elected.
Both candidates have a heavy load of fundraising ahead as they furiously try to amass cash to finance the expensive advertising blitz in the final weeks before Election Day. Obama will raise money in New York at an event headlined by music power couple Jay-Z and Beyonce while Romney will raise money in California, Texas and Florida.
The two will face off in dueling appearances in Miami at a forum sponsored by Univision, the Spanish-language television network. Romney will speak at the forum Wednesday, a day before Obama, and both candidates will answer questions.
Romney has struggled to make inroads with Latino voters but will make an aggressive push this week, both at the Miami forum and in a speech Monday to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles.
In each case, aides said Romney will talk about his plans to help small-business owners and why he thinks Obama's health-care overhaul hurts Hispanic entrepreneurs.
In the 2008 campaign, Obama won 67 percent of the Latino vote, and the president has heavily courted them this year, touting his recent directive to stop deporting some illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children and have gone on to be productive and otherwise law-abiding residents.
Polls show him leading Romney by solid margins among Latinos, but Obama's pollsters say he needs to extend his margin from four years ago to make up for potential losses among other voting demographics.
Overall, the spate of recent polls spell trouble for the Romney effort. Although the race remains close nationally in head-to-head matchups, Romney is losing ground in several key battleground states, particularly Ohio, that are essential to a winning electoral calculus.
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The first " Digital village" centre was launched at a remote village Nadimpalli in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana.
Intel Corporation Senior Vice-President Gregory R Pearson and Intel South Asia Vice-President Ms Debjani Ghosh launched the digital Village to create a blueprint for digitization of India.
They said, They are collaborating with Telangana Government to create Digital Telangana to provide citizen services and creating opportunities for development and empowerment.
The framework for Telangana Model Digital Village will be created at Achampet . Papa Rao, Advisor to Telangana govt, Telangana IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan also participated in the launch


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Our little town doesn't have a centralized place for teens to hang out. Most of your teens go to a nearby town to visit the mall or the movie theater. And by nearby, I mean 20 miles in a different library district. We have to think up other ways to find the high school teens. Here are some of those ways:
Geeks! Geeks generally travel in groups which means they bring their friends. Geeks are often the smart kids and will be your readers/card holders. Geeks are sometimes technically inclined so if your are trying to get into Minecraft, 3D printing, Lego Mindstorms, etc., these teens can teach you or teach your class. Geeks are sometimes manga readers. If you have trouble buying manga for your collection, these teens can make great recommendations. Geeks are less likely to be involved in extra curriculars such as sports, band, and theater (there are some overlaps with band and theater geeks but these geeks are a geek sub genre). Because sports; cheerleading; band; theater take up a lot time due to traveling and practice, these teens just don't have time for library events. Geeks, on the other hand, do have time to come to the library.
How do you find the geeks? Start an anime club and advertise it in your manga collection. Offer fandom programs such as Doctor Who, Supernatural, Harry Potter, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Yu-Gi-Oh, D&D, DC Comics & Marvel, Sherlock, etc.
Specialized Programs. If you are noticing that your attendance is mostly 15 years and under, there's a reason for that. 8th-10th graders still rely on their parents to drive them around and give them money. Once teens are old enough to drive, they get jobs, relationships, and a life. The older teens are more likely to come to programs that impact their lives such as ACT prep or other college related programs.
Older teens usually need community service hours for graduation. A creative way to get older teens to your programs is to have a community service program. Their community service can be helping set up and clean up your event. During the event, they can participate but also walk through and clean up a table or pick up the floor. They can also participate by taking pictures with their phone and posting it on their social media sites. This is called a street team or marketing if it needs to be justified. Teens have fun while doing community service and you have teen attendees!
Teens are at School. Every two months we visit the library at our local high school. We sit at a table in the library and have candy, free books, and library info. The school librarians encourage teens in each class period to visit our table and we take the opportunity to talk to them. Sometimes we have a three question survey for them to fill out. If you can bring items with your library name/teen center name or website/Facebook page, this can leave a lasting impression and/or get hits to your page.
We have two high schools and the smaller school doesn't have a library or library hours. In that case, we sit at a table outside of their cafeteria and invite them to free candy as they pass by. (Disclaimer: we are in the process of obtaining mobile circ so that we can bring books to them.)
Some high schools have book clubs during the day or after school. We visit their book club and bring free books we've weeded or obtained from conferences. At one school, the school with no library, we offered to buy two months worth of books because the principal buys their monthly books. This builds great relationships with the schools and the students. You are also attracting readers.
Attendance Doesn't only Count in-House. You can do programs at the schools and this counts as attendance. We do after-school craft programs, we partner with school librarians for Teen Read Week and Teen Tech Week, we run contests for the schools. For Teen Read Week, we had a John Green Quote Off at the high school. Teens created an original quote. The school librarian, my colleague, and I narrowed it down to 5 finalists and the teens at the school voted. We provided a John Green gift basket to the winner and turned the winning quote into enough stickers for the entire school. (Disclaimer: this school only has 430 students and faculty). We had 80 participants. At the larger school during Teen Read Week, we went to the school to help the school librarian with their planned activities. All we did was bring library info and passed out candy. Our goal was to give a face to the public library.
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After-Hours Date Night: We showed a PG-13 movie and served pizza when the library was closed. We encouraged teens to bring a date.
Gaming: Super Smash Bros tourney always attracts older teen boys especially black teens. Table top games are also popular among older teens. Examples include Magic the Gathering; Pathfinder; Ticket to Ride; and Pandemic.
Short Story/Fan Fiction Contest: Many older teens like to write. Geeky teens are often into fan fiction. Get yourself a Wattpad account to connect to your teens. Wattpad is a social media site where people share their stories. Authors sometimes put the first couple of pages of their new books on Wattpad.
What are some ways you get teens to your library programs?


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CNNMoney is reporting that for the first time ever, every company on the Fortune Best Companies list has a policy in place aimed at ending discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Cases of discrimination in Boston have no place in business. Discrimination at work can range from disability to age and gender all the way to race, sexual orientation and pregnancy.
Boston employment lawyers applaud these companies for including a sexual orientation discrimination policy, but recognize this doesn't mean employees will remain unaffected by potential sexual-orientation discrimination while they work.
Companies can have the best-worded policies and scores of training sessions, but still have employees who choose to break these rules. That puts the company at risk for liability and also puts the victim in a difficult position at work. It would be a perfect world if we could eliminate problems for all parties.
According to the news article, the improvement of all companies having a sexual orientation non-discrimination policy in place has been a gradual development. In 2008, 95 of the top 100 companies had such a policy and that number climbed to 99 last year.
Perhaps the next policy to change is that of benefits for same-sex couples. Currently, 89 of the 100 companies provide benefits, which is a large increase compared to five years ago, when 70 of the 100 companies had such a rule in place. Currently, 86 percent of Fortune 500 companies have non-discrimination policies in place that deal with sexual orientation, an increase from 61 percent in 2002.
These are important procedures to have in place. Still, such policies don't always stop these forms of discrimination from happening. If employees or supervisors fail to hire someone and make comments that he or she wasn't qualified based on their sexual orientation, the company can be opened up to legal problems. This can also happen in cases of choosing employees for promotions and training as well.
The way to stop discrimination in Boston businesses is to create an environment where it isn't tolerated. This can sometimes be accomplished by in-house procedures and firings. Sometimes, though, that's not enough.
Often, bringing a formal discrimination complaint and subsequent legal action is the only way to make sure that company leaders aren't allowing this behavior to continue. Policies are one thing, but making sure employees are aware of the rules is a whole other thing. The company must protect itself, but it also must treat workers fairly.
M.G.L.c. 151B, §4 states that it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a worker based on his or her sexual orientation. As LGBT rights are increased throughout the country, undoubtedly more and more conflicts will arise. Issues dealing with gender discrimination had to be dealt with. Same with race and national origin. After litigation on these matters, along with pregnancy, disability and other issues, sexual orientation may well be the next battleground.
A Boston business law firm, The Brown Law Firm, LLC, has offices in Belmont and Boston. For a free and confidential consultation, call Attorney Graeme Brown at 617-489-0817 or contact us through this website.
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We know that Apple will revamp some products on a pretty regular schedule: the iPhone, for example. Others get slightly less frequent updates, like the iPad or MacBooks.
But what about the Apple products that seem to sometimes go years without a refresh? There are more than a few of them, and while some occasionally find themselves in the rumour spotlight, others just continue chugging along as they are – perhaps doomed to an evolutionary dead-end, or maybe to be resurrected when Apple decides the moment is ripe.
Let's take a moment to praise some of these unsung heroes, and hope that they may one day earn a press release or perhaps, unlikely as it may be, some stage time at an Apple event.
For many of us, a Wi-Fi network is no less crucial to our everyday lives than running water or electricity. (It's certainly just as frustrating when it's not working.) Apple first rolled out its AirPort base station way back in 1999, and since then it's updated the device every few years, as well as expanding the line to include a smaller version, the Express, and a version with an included hard drive for backups, the Time Capsule. The last update to the line, which added support for the newest Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ac, was back in 2013.
I've got an older version of the AirPort Extreme in my house, and it's been running with nary a hitch since I first installed it about six years back. For a while, it seemed like there was a new, faster Wi-Fi standard every few years, but the latest developments in wireless networking have been less about speed and more about coverage. Companies like eero and Google, for example, have started rolling out devices that use seamless mesh networks to blanket your entire house.
This seems like the kind of feature that Apple would want to get in on. Currently, setting up multiple AirPorts to cover your house is not for the faint of heart. I've had great luck deploying the AirPort Express for several members of my family, but I know more than a few folks who end up with some places in their houses that the signal just won't reach. Add in the kind of network control that devices like those or Circle with Disney provide to manage network access for kids and it would make a worthy revamp to Apple's network offering.
External display
When it comes to Apple's displays, Retina has been the watchword for the last several years. The company has added high-definition screens to pretty much all of its product lines. But one whole arena has been neglected in the Retina transition: Macs with external displays.
The last update to the company's external display line was the 2011 Thunderbolt Display, which Apple ceased selling earlier this year. But Apple still sells two headless Macs, the mini and the Pro, both of which could certainly use a high-quality monitor. For the moment, the only real option is to go third-party which, while it may certainly provide more bang for your buck than the traditionally pricey Apple displays, does lack some of the niceties offered by first-party models, such as a power connector for laptops. (Of course, these days Apple has multiple power connectors for its laptops, so that's a little more annoying.)
Rumours have been suggesting for some time now that Apple will launch a Retina successor to its display line, possibly including an embedded graphics card to help drive the display. Like its predecessor, it could also act as a docking solution for Apple laptops, which, if the MacBook is any indication, are going to be increasingly port-shy. While it probably won't be cheap, that's hardly anything new: Apple's brand is predicated on people paying a little more to get a little more.
The iPod
Is the iPod dead? Well, mostly. Like it or not, most people use their phones for listening to music these days. But mostly dead is still partly alive, and Apple's kept the shuffle, nano and touch around. There are still plenty of great uses for those devices, whether it be for working out, lending out digital content in schools and libraries, or as gifts for kids who aren't quite ready for a phone of their own.
I don't expect to see major changes to the nano or shuffle – Apple seems to have taken them about as far as they're likely to go. The iPod touch is a slightly more interesting question: unlike the others, it runs iOS and it was updated just last year, which means it's compatible with iOS 10. But it still lacks many features that are standard on its iOS siblings, like Touch ID, and it's stuck at a iPhone 5s-style 4in screen.
Few of Apple's competitors ever made a device of the iPod touch's ilk, instead preferring to direct customers to phones or small tablets. Not to say that Apple should follow the example of its rivals, but it certainly seems that the writing for the iPod touch is on the wall. Still, an iOS device with a phone form factor and no data plan may remain a compelling product category – perhaps it could someday be reborn as an iPad micro.
Odds and ends
Plenty of other Apple products could use some TLC. The Mac Pro and Mac mini both receive pretty sparse updates. Apple's wireless peripherals could perhaps add some of the features rumoured to come to the MacBook Pro, like a customisable touch bar and Touch ID. And, hey, would it kill the company to put out a wireless extended keyboard with a number pad?
When it comes to products, Apple's got a pretty deep bench, and it's not going to update all of them regularly: it has to pick and choose what it devotes its energies to. But the virtue of having a broad catalogue means that Apple can always decide to bring some of those products back from the dead, when the time is right.


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The Guardian, The Independent and The Times are all losing money. Such papers are effectively being subsidised. So when The Times's Ms Sieghart, the very embodiment of modern free-thinking women, holds forth on feminism, she does so courtesy of the topless girls in the still vastly profitable Sun.
Equally, when The Guardian's Mr Kettle vents his spleen on the excesses of the free market he does so courtesy of the fat profits made by that fine example of the free market – the Guardian-owned Auto Trader.
And while The Guardian's Scott Trust is a magnificent construct that allows some gloriously elevated journalism – and praise be to God for that, say I – let's not beat about the bush: subsidised papers are, by definition, unable to survive in a free market. Their journalism and values – invariably liberal, metropolitan and politically correct, and I include the pinkish Times here – don't connect with sufficient readers to be commercially viable.
Ah, say the bien pensants, but such papers are hugely concerned for the common good. But there is a rather unedifying contradiction here. For the Subsidariat, as I shall dub them, are actually rather disdainful of common man, contemptuous even, of the papers that make profits by appealing to and connecting with millions of ordinary men and women.
How often do you read in the Subsidariat, or hear on Newsnight, contemptuous references to the tabloid press as if it was some disembodied monster rather than the very embodiment of the views of the great majority of the British people?
Fair enough, you might say. The tabloid press – and it's getting confusing here, because The Times and The Independent are, of course, tabloids now – is big enough to look after itself. Except I don't think it is fair because such arguments ignore the ever- burgeoning growth of the most powerful media organisation in the world. I refer, of course, to the hugely subsidised BBC.
And it's my contention in this lecture that the Subsidariat, dominated by the BBC monolith, is distorting Britain's media market, crushing journalistic pluralism and imposing a mono culture that is inimical to healthy democratic debate.
Great civilising force Now before the liberal commentators reach for their vitriol – and, my goodness, how they demonise anyone who disagrees with them – let me say that I would die in a ditch defending the BBC as a great civilising force. I, for one, would pay the licence fee just for Radio 4.
But as George Orwell said: 'To see what is in front of one's nose requires constant struggle". And what is in front of one's nose is that the BBC, a behemoth that bestrides Britain is, as Cudlipp might have put it, too bloody big, too bloody pervasive and too bloody powerful.
Firstly, consider the sheer size of the corporation which is, despite its bleating about being underfunded, a conglomerate that employs 26,000 people, has a vast £3.2bn budget, and thinks nothing of paying £18m to a chat show host.
Then consider this: the BBC employs more journalists and their support staff – 3,500 – and spends more on them than do all the national daily newspapers put together.
Pervasiveness? Where there was once just a handful of channels, the BBC now has an awesome stranglehold on the airwaves reaching into every home every hour of the day. Like an amoeba, that reproduces itself by fission, the corporation just grows and grows. On TV there's BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, News 24 and BBC World. Then there's Radios One, Two, Three, Four, Five Live, Five Live Sports Extra, 1Xtra, BBC 6Music, BBC7, BBC Asian Network and, of course, the BBC World Service.
On the web, bbc.co.uk has a staggering 53 per cent of the British online audience and the corporation has just earmarked a £350m war-chest to expand into social networking on the internet.
The BBC has 15 regional TV services across England plus 40 local radio stations and now – in a move that has huge implications for newspapers – is considering launching over 60 local TV news stations across the UK.
No wonder Britain's hard-pressed provincial press complains it can't compete against such firepower, our ailing commercial radio sector is furious that the market is rigged against it by subsidy, while our nascent internet firms rage they're not competing on a level playing field.
No wonder ITV, admittedly aided and abetted by some pretty incompetent management, is reeling on the ropes, while ITN is a shadow of its glorious former self and – wrested from its traditional time slot – News at Ten has become News at When and barely manages an audience of two million compared to the 10 million in its glory days. But it's not the BBC's ubiquity, so much greater than Fleet Street's, that is worrying but its power to impose – under the figleaf of impartiality – its own world view.
Now I don't want to go over old ground. So let's not dwell here on the fact that in the early days, manipulated by Campbell and Mandelson, the BBC was almost an official arm of New Labour. Just what was it doing holding special news events such as NHS Day which was nothing more than blatant Government propaganda. And if you don't accept that, just ask yourself this question: would the BBC ever hold a Private Health Day?
Put to one side how preposterous it was that two Labour stooges became director general and chairman, that the outgoing John Birt walked out of the corporation straight into a post at Number 10 and that the ex-head of the BBC's Political Unit helped write Labour's Election Manifesto. Even if you like, ignore the fact that the BBC has, until recently, been institutionally anti-Tory.
BBC's indecent zeal The sorry fact is that there is not a single Labour scandal – Ecclestone, Mittal, Mandelson and the Hindujas, Cheriegate, Tessa Jowell and Prescott and Anshutz – on which the BBC has shown the slightest journalistic alacrity and has not had to be dragged into covering late in the day by papers like the Mail.
Such pusillanimity is especially shameful when you compare this to the almost indecent zeal with which the BBC pursued Tory scandals. How telling that it virtually ignored the Deputy Prime Minister's affair with his secretary – a blatant abuse of his office – yet could hardly contain itself over the news that John Major had had an affair with Edwina Currie.
I recently had lunch with the BBC's director general and I don't think it's breaking a confidence to reveal that he told me that their research showed that the BBC was no longer perceived as being anti-Tory.
'That's because you've broken the buggers", I said laughing. And it's true. Today's Tories are obsessed by the BBC. They saw what its attack dogs did to Hague, Duncan-Smith and Howard.
Cameron's cuddly blend of eco-politics and work-life balance, his embrace of Polly Toynbee – a columnist who loathes everything Conservatism stands for but is a totemic figure to the BBC – his sidelining of Thatcherism and his banishing of all talk of lower taxes, lower immigration and Euroscepticism, are all part of the Tories' blood sacrifice to the BBC God.
Now, I'm not really worried about this. The Conservatives can look after themselves. What really disturbs me is that the BBC is, in every corpuscle of its corporate body, against the values of conservatism, with a small 'c", which, I would argue, just happen to be the values held by millions of Britons.
Thus it exercises a kind of cultural Marxism in which it tries to undermine that conservative society by turning all its values on their heads.
Of course, there is the odd dissenting voice, but by and large, BBC journalism starts from the premise of left wing ideology: it is hostile to conservatism and the traditional right, Britain's past and British values, America, Ulster Unionism, Euroscepticism, capitalism and big business, the countryside, Christianity, and family values.
Conversely it is sympathetic to Labour, European Federalism, the State and State spending, mass immigration, minority rights, multiculturalism, alternative lifestyles, abortion and progressiveness in the education and the justice systems.
Now you may sympathise with all or some of these views. I may even sympathise with some of them. But what on earth gives the BBC the right to assume they are the only values of any merit?
BBC journalism is presented through a left-wing prism that affects everything – the choice of stories, the way they are angled, the choice of interviewees and, most pertinently, the way those interviewees are treated.
Freedom of Information enquiries tell us, and we should be very unsurprised here, that the BBC Newsroom has more copies of The Guardian delivered than any other paper and that 90 per cent of the corporation's job ads are placed with that paper. Thus are the values of a subsidised newspaper that sells 380,000 copies embraced by an organisation that reaches into virtually every home in Britain.
Like The Guardian's, the BBC's journalists, insulated from real competition, believe that only their world view constitutes moderate, sensible and decent opinion. Any dissenting views – particularly those held by popular papers – are therefore considered, by definition, to be extreme and morally beyond the pale.
Socially, the BBC is snobbish. It is disdainful, in particular, of the values of the decent lower middle classes as they strive to raise their families, respect the traditions of this country, obey the law and get by on their comparatively meagre incomes.
Patronisingly contemptuous But then, the BBC is consumed by the kind of political correctness that is actually patronisingly contemptuous of what it describes as ordinary people. Having started as an admirable philosophy of tolerance, that political correctness has become an intolerant creed enabling a self-appointed elite to impose its minority values on the great majority. Anything popular is dismissed as being populist which is sneering shorthand for being of the lowest possible taste.
The right to disagree was axiomatic to classical liberalism, but the BBC's political correctness is, in fact, an ideology of rigid self-righteousness in which those who do not conform are ignored, silenced, or villified as sexist, racist, fascist, or judgmental. Thus, with this assault on reason, are whole areas of legitimate debate – in education, health, race relations and law and order – shut down.
'Four legs good, two legs bad'chanted the sheep in Orwell's Animal Farm – that study in totalitarianism – and what is in front of one's nose is that the BBC, which glories in being open-minded, is, in fact, a closed thought system operating a kind of Orwellian Newspeak.
This, I would argue, is perverting political discourse and disenfranchising countless millions who don't subscribe to the BBC's world view. Told repeatedly that their opinions are not considered respectable or legitimate, these people are disconnecting – one of the reasons, I would suggest, for the current apathy over politics.
Backlash predicted How instructive to compare all this with what is happening in America. There, the liberal smugness of a terminally worthy, monopolistic press has, together with deregulation, triggered both the explosive growth of right-wing radio broadcasting that now dominates the airwaves and the extraordinary rise of Murdoch's rightwing Fox News service.
In Britain, regulators would not currently allow such 'opinionated'broadcasting – though, of course, there's nothing more opinionated than the BBC's journalism. But democracy needs a healthy tension between left and right and nature abhors a vacuum. If the BBC continues skewing the political debate, there will be a backlash and I predict that what has happened in America will eventually take place in Britain.
At their best, popular papers – that are far more sensitive than politicians and opinion polls to national moods – articulate the anxieties, apprehensions and aspirations of their readers. Genuinely democratic – I mean, you try persuading people to fork out 45p for a paper on a rainy day – they give voice to millions of ordinary people who don't have a voice.
And, because they have this symbiotic, almost tactile responsiveness to their readers, such papers are often able to identify and highlight great truths – truths that are often uncomfortable to a ruling class that is increasingly dismissive of ordinary people's views.
It might sound pious to say, but with a weakened second chamber and a still untested opposition, popular papers are sometimes the only counter-foil to arrogant – and increasingly corrupt – politicians, hugely powerful but unaccountable quangocrats, an out-of-touch judiciary and a ruling class that too often thinks it knows how to run people's lives better than they do themselves.
Is the BBC's civic journalism – too often credulously trusting, lacking scepticism, rarely proactive in the sense of breaking stories itself – up to dealing with a political class that too often set out to dissemble and to deceive?
The bitter irony, of course, is that when, for once, the BBC was proactive in its journalism and did stand up to the Labour Party by breaking a genuine story, the Corporation and its craven governors all but imploded under pressure from a rabid Campbell.
And what is interesting is that this contrasted with the ruthless support for the Iraq war that Rupert Murdoch imposed on his papers and their equally ruthless suppression of any criticism of the invasion whether it involved the Attorney General's malfeasance, virtually ignored in The Times, or Dr Kelly, all but hung drawn and quartered by The Sun.
Indeed, I would suggest that the intimacy and power-brokering between these two papers and No 10 and the question whether Mr Blair would have got away with his falsehoods and misjudgements over Iraq – indeed, whether Britain would have gone to war at all – without the support of the Murdoch empire, is a brilliant doctoral thesis for some future media studies student.
Yes, Murdoch is the media genius of his age. His Wapping revolution led to a renaissance of the British press and the birth of papers that now routinely villify him, but the way he imposes his proprietorial views, and his manipulation of governments is worrying and what a terrible comment on the cowardice of senior British politicians that not one of them has spoken out against his 18 per cent holding in ITV.
Circulations are slipping. Traditional revenues are migrating. Distribution is becoming more problematic. But the greatest threat comes from an ever-more centralising, an ever-more controlling establishment that is becoming increasingly intolerant of any form of dissent.
If we want to avoid the day when headlines and bulletins all recite the same mantra 'Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad'we should all of us, particularly those who care deeply about press freedom, be very, very vigilant.
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Austin school leaders say they can take on $1.05 billion in bond debt without raising the district's tax rate, based largely on climbing property values and the district's ability to pay down more than half of its existing debt in the next decade.
Keeping the tax rate the same is a central feature of the district's political campaign for the bond proposition going before local voters in November. The money from the bond measure would pay to construct new schools, rebuild deteriorating campuses and modernize a school system for which the average building is 40 years old.
The district points to its last bond election — $392 million approved by voters in 2013 — as an example of how it can tamp down the impact on property tax bills. Those bonds were expected to raise the tax rate by 3 cents, or about $38.40 a year to the property tax bill for a $200,000 home.
But instead, the district, buoyed by increasing property values, lowered the tax rate by 5 cents per $100 of a home's assessed value. Homeowners are still paying more, of course, because property values in Austin have shot up 12 percent a year, on average, for the past five years.
The district's exceptional creditworthiness among bond rating agencies and hefty reserves mean it gets very low interest rates on the money it borrows.
The $1 billion in bonds would be issued over a five-year period. The district expects to take on the debt as projects are ready to be built, and school officials said that will allow the district to layer on new debt as the outstanding debt is paid down.
District leaders said the current tax rate is projected to provide enough money to cover the bond repayment, adding that they are not banking on continued rapid inflation in the real estate market to cover the cost of the bond projects. The bond payback plan assumes an annual increase in property values of 7 percent in the first two years and 1.5 percent for all subsequent years.
Property values actually have a 10-year average growth rate of nearly 8 percent in addition to the five-year average growth rate of more than 12 percent since 2013.
"These assumptions about growth (in property values), people are wondering, 'are these going to hold?' " said Nicole Conley Johnson, the district's financial officer. "It's fairly likely that we're going to perform better, but we're using conservative estimates."
Critics point out that the district's pledge to keep the tax rate flat does not mean tax bills won't continue to rise. And they question the district's continuing reliance on property value increases.
"It's misleading to the public to pretend that a tax impact doesn't exist," said Roger Falk of the Travis County Taxpayers Association. "You can't borrow money for free. It's smoke and mirrors."
Falk, who saw Austin's real estate bust in the 1980s, said the district should use only current land values, instead of assuming they will continue to rise.
Falk's group ran its own numbers using only the 2017 property tax rolls to show the district's payback plan won't work without more increases in land values.
"Markets go up and they go down," Falk said. "They don't always go up. … They should be using honest numbers."
What if the Austin market tanks?
After the first couple of years, the district's payback plan relies on a 1.5 percent per year increase in property tax revenue. But it says that can be accomplished without raising the tax rate.
The finance team for the Austin district says even if the real estate market softens — as it did from 2010 to 2013 — the district can still depend on a gradual increase.
The district also has $46 million in reserves, or savings, which school leaders will rely on if the values don't grow.
The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce's board of directors gathered financial experts to crunch the numbers and concluded there was a very high probability the bond wouldn't raise the school tax rate.
Ellen Wood, the board chairwoman, who also is a certified public accountant, examined the numbers herself.
"There is a very significant income stream already in place," Wood said, "which, when coupled with very modest property valuation projected increases, more than accommodates repayment. … While regional economic forecasts rarely go beyond 12 months, we believe Austin ISD's assumptions to maintain no tax rate increase are conservative and appropriate."
But critics are quick to point out that with the increase in values, the actual tax bills will grow. And if it weren't taking on $1 billion in new debt, the Austin district could lower its tax rate further to cancel out the increase in appraisals.
"You can't borrow a billion dollars without paying more in taxes than you would pay without this new debt," said Bill Aleshire, a former Travis County judge and a former tax collector.
What about the district's cash-flow troubles?
Texas school finance is complicated. Districts in areas where land values are high, such as Austin, are required to give some of their tax money to the state to subsidize poorer districts in a so-called recapture payment. The higher the property values, the more the district must hand over in that recapture payment.
Austin pays the most of any district in the state. This year, the district is estimating its recapture payment to be $534 million, an increase of 32 percent, or $127.8 million, over last year. About $1,700 of the average $4,291 in school taxes that the owner of a home within the Austin district pays will go to subsidize other Texas districts.
The school district tax rate is made up of two parts, one that pays for maintenance and operations, and one that goes toward debt repayment. The recapture payment comes from the maintenance and operations portion of the budget, leaving less for for salaries, campus maintenance and school programs. Next year, 50 percent of the Austin district's maintenance and operations must go to recapture.
The other side of the district's ledger — its debt repayment fund — is more stable and not affected by those ever-increasing recapture payments.
Is AISD planning to use 20-year bonds for technology upgrades?
No. The district will issue the bonds as needed for the projects, commensurate with the life of the projects. The district will use short term bonds, paid back in about three to five years, to pay for computers while using at least 20-year bonds to pay for new schools.
What makes up the $1 billion bond package?
The bond package is among the first in a series called for in a comprehensive 25-year facilities master plan that aims to modernize the district and all its campuses. The projects total $1.13 billion, but leftover funds from previous bond packages and the possible sales of schools that are old and have small enrollments reduce the total cost to $1.05 billion. Here are some of the major items in the package:
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• Phase 1 modernization of Bowie High School.
• New 800-student campus for Eastside Memorial High School on the original L.C. Anderson High site.
• Move the Liberal Arts and Science Academy, which would allow it to expand to up to 2,000 students, to the current Eastside Memorial site on the former Johnston High campus.
• Phase 1 modernization of the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders.
• New 800-student middle school in the Mueller development.
• Phase 1 construction of a school to relieve overcrowding at Blazier Elementary.
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May 14, 2009
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Katie said, "I don't know why I am the only one who was punished for their behavior… I was only 19 when those photos were taken of me, and it was me in my personal life, far before I was crowned Miss Nevada. Carrie actually posed for these professional semi-nude photos. I think that's worse."
Dear Katie,
You probably spend most of your day looking pretty so I'm here to help you through this.
- Carrie tied herself to a controversial topic that if she gets stripped from her crown that it would cause uproar from crazy religious people.
- Your photos are just plain raunchy. Carrie's are 10 times more tasteful than yours.
- You will never reclaim your title also because you now have a criminal record for assaulting a police officer.
Sorry Katie, it's politics. And you got screwed.
Now it's Naked Photo Time! On the left are Katie's naked photos and on the right are Carrie's. I think that Katie has to do a little better than just "I got drunk, those are personal photos" to reclaim her crown.
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it's all crazy!!ReplyDelete
Totally agree with what you said about the potential religious right uproar . . .ReplyDelete
Real double standard here!
They sort of do look alike!! besides the more prominent jaw + cats eye? whatever haha that Katie sportsReplyDelete
i completely agree with you! she actually has a lot of nerve to compare herself to Miss California. yikes!ReplyDelete
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I was just thinking they both looked alike. well, every situation is different. too bad.ReplyDelete
it is hilariousReplyDelete
ok seriously, you are so right. that one chick's pictures are so skanky!ReplyDelete
Thanks for dropping by my blog hehe. Yeah that octopus thing just killled me (; Mmmm hearing much about this scandal too... crazy xDReplyDelete
Interesting cat fight.ReplyDelete
good lord, i hadnt seen the nevada chics - thats so not the same thing. i mean it is, but it isnt...ReplyDelete
Drama drama!ReplyDelete
Hope all is well with you babe!
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both girls are ridiculous! =OReplyDelete
LOL World Peace indeed!!!!ReplyDelete
LMAO! Theres a difference between being classy and being trashy! (whether its taking nakey pictures or not) i can say Katie is by far past trashy. She looks like she was on those girls gone wild videos. lol as to Carrie who can pass to be on the covers of maxim!ReplyDelete
I always found Katie to be trashy.ReplyDelete
Yeah,they have the same look.And i must admit they are both beautiful.Looking forward on your next post.=)ReplyDelete
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OMG i laughed so hard when i read this post and saw the pics. Ewww Katie's pic are girls gone super wild status lolReplyDelete
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these girls are supposed to be role models reguardless of before and after. if i had a little girl i wouldn't want her to think that she has to pose naked/half naked one day to become a Miss something. but this is all in my personal opinion.ReplyDelete
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