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|Address: 30, Arihant Industrial Estate, Behind Ansa Industrial Estate, Off Saki Vihar Road, Andheri (E) , Mumbai - 400 072 , India
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Manufacturers and exporters of automatic bottle filling machine, ropp cap sealing machine, automatic cap feeder, screw capping machine, packaging belt conveyor, slat conveyor, pressure vessel, rotary bottle washing machine, storage tank and storage vessels.
|Address: Gala No. 19, National Chemical Compound, L.B.S Marg, Vikhroli (W) , Mumbai - 452555 , India
|Phone: +(91)-(22)-25785028
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|VRJ Machinery Co., Ltd.
We are professional manufacturer of automatic filling machine, capping machine, sealing machine, labeling machine etc.
|Address: No.c-09, Jinzhong Science And Technology Park,dongli , Tianjin - , 300240 , China
|Phone: 0086-22-24783921
Fax: 0086-22-24720382
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|Venus Oil Corporation
Suppliers and exporters of automatic filling machines, motorized grease pumps, grease pump hubs, silicone greases, grease pump holders and grease cleaning products.
|Address: E-53, Site-3, Panki Industrial Area , Kanpur - , , India
|Phone: 91-512-2691764
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|Galaxy Packaging Machines
Engaged in exporting and manufacturing of packaging machines, automatic packaging machines, bottle packaging machines, automatic filling machines, packaging machine, automatic packaging machine, powder packaging machine, etc.
|Address: Circular Road, (Near Novelty Cinema) , Ambala - , 134002 , India
|Phone: 91-171-2518515
Fax: 91-171-2518517
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|Address: PLOT NO:25A,E.C COMPLEX, KUSHAIGUADA ,HYDERABAD , Hyderabad - , 500062 , India
|Phone: 91-040-65127779
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|Walco Solutions
A joint venture of Walrus Marine Engineering Co.Pvt.Ltd.(An ISO 9001-2008 Certified Company) and Solutions Institute of Engineering and Technology (a 10+ year old training centre in the field of engineering). The Walco Solutions Automation training division was conceived with the vision to train professionals to meet the challenges in the field of automation with the aid of apt training modules specifically programmed to deliver a broad perspective of the Engineering disciplines and tap the opportunities in the field.
|Address: Namboori Madathil Centre,near Museum Of Kerala History , Pathadipalam,edappally - , , India
|Phone: 91-484-329 8994
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|Zhoushan Jinqi Food Machiery Co Ltd.
We are manufacture & suppliers of filling machine, seaming machine, beverag machine components etc.
|Address: Dagan Putuo , Zhoushan - , 12345 , China
|Phone: 86-139672-16190
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|Gongda Machine Co., Ltd. Shandong.
We are leading manufacturer trader & suppliers of beer filling line, carbonated beverage filling line, water/juice filling line, wine filling line, sterilize equipment, filter machine, malt equipment, water treatment system etc.
|Address: North of Expressway,Qihe Economic Development Area , Dezhou - , 123456 , China
|Phone: +86-531-82378355
Fax: +86-531-82378345
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|General Labels & Labelling (M) Sdn. Bhd
Manufacturing and exporting of sealing machines, automatic filling machines, bottle sealing machines and turn table along with automatic sticker labeling machine.
|Address: Lot 132, Jalan 16/1, Kaw. Perindustrian Cheras Jaya , Selangor - , 43200 , Malaysia
|Phone: + 603 - 0 - 90803333
Fax: + 603 - 0 - 90766515
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|Associated Pack Tech Engineers
Manufacturer & exporter of sealing machinery, cap sealing machinery, fully automatic cap sealing machinery, automatic foam machinery, automatic filling machinery and automatic sealing machinery.
|Address: 44, Bhagirath Industrial Estate-1, Behind Swastik Textile, Gulabnagar , Ahmedabad - , 380 026 , India
|Phone: + - - 22773447
Fax: + - - 22773447
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|Shenyang Beiya Beverage Machinery Co.,ltd
We are leading supplier of Fully Automatic Gable Top Filling Machine, Semi-automatic Filling Machine, Brick Carton Filling Machine, Granule Filling Machine etc.
|Address: No.32 Tawan Street, Huanggu District, Shenyang Prov. China , Shenyang - , , China
|Phone: +86- 24-86748080
Fax: +86-24-86783978
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|Monika Internationall
We manufacture & suppliers of bottle filling machine, ampoule filling machine, filling machines, vial filling machine, filling machine, bottle fill machine, vial fill machine equipment\'s etc.
|Address: 68/a, Pushpraj Complex, Near Jasoda Cross Road, Vatva Road , Ahmedabad - , 123456 , India
|Phone: +91-79-9904242700
Fax: +91-79-9904242700
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|Unique Associates
Manufacturers and exporters of automatic filling machine, automatic form fill machine, semi automatic filling machine, liquid fill machines, flow wrap machines and automatic form seal machines for packing tea, coffee, pan masala, granules, dhana dal, tabl
|Address: Plot No. 24b/5, Industrial Area, N. I. T , Faridabad - , 121 001 , India
|Phone: + 91 - 129 - 5057522 / 2441919/2441920
Fax: + 91 - 129 - 212596/2441919
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|Tribhovandas Vendravan & Bros.
Suppliers and exporters of motorized grease pumps, grease pump hubs, grease pump holders, automatic filling machine, grease cleaning products, silicone greases.
|Address: 500, R.G. Street , Coimbatore - , , India
|Phone: 91-422-2398074
Fax: 91-422-4359328
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|Frontline Associates Pvt. Ltd.
Suppliers and exporters of automatic filling machines with motorized grease pumps, grease pump hubs, grease pump holders, grease cleaning products, silicone greases, etc.
|Address: Fa-226, Mansarovar Garden , Delhi - , , India
|Phone: 91-11-65461293/25109084
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|Teknikeller Machinery
We manufacture & suppliers of Cube sugar making machines with automatic filling, box sticking and packaging etc.
|Address: Ivogsan Güleryüz Sanayi Sitesi 529. Sokak No:13 , Ankara - , 12345 , Turkey
|Phone: +90-312-3975347
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|Traxit Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
Suppliers and exporters of automatic filling machine, motorized grease pumps, grease pump hubs, grease pump holders, grease cleaning products, silicone greases, etc.
|Address: 406, Solaris Ii, Saki Vihar Road, Opp. L & T Gate No. 6, Powai , Mumbai - , , India
|Phone: 91-22-66938739/28471705
Fax: 91-22-28578451
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|Harikrushna Machinetech Pvt. Ltd.
Harikrushna Machinetech Pvt. Ltd. is the dealer of automatic sticker labeling machines, automatic rotary/linear washing machines, automatic filling machines and automatic capping machines.
|Address: C-1/4310, Phase IV, Gidc, Vatva , Ahmedabad - , 382 445 , India
|Phone: + - - 25840112
Fax: + - - 25840112
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|Dura Pack
Automated Bagging Machines
|Address: 7641 Holland Road , Taylor - , 48180 , United States
|Phone: 1-313-2999600
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|Sonu Internationalin
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|Address: F-12, Rangoli Complex, Opp. V.s. Hospital, Ashram Road , Ahmedabad - , , India
|Phone: 91-07930-30006468
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|Address: No. 207 Fuyi Road, shiji Town, panyu District , Guangzhou - , 510000 , China
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Many many thanks for your help with this problem, The P.C seems to be running a lot better now thanks to all your instructions and tools you told me to use.
I will slowly digest what you have written about the extra bits and pieces for keeping my system clean etc. I will certainly join the complaints forum although what i'd like to do to the people responsible may not be suitable for the general members to read!!!!!
John, should i now uninstal combofix, atf cleaner, malewarebytes or should i leave them on my P.C?
Point taken about internet explorer. I do have firefox installed on the P.C and shall endevour to use it from now on.
Thanks again for all your help. Without people like yourself, myself and many others i suspect would be in grave trouble with P.C problems.
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I already won twd cup. Where is my medal 10 years ago?
I already won twd cup. Where is my medal 10 years ago?
Originally Posted by jerome
I won't be able to make Sunday's games i have a job im doing on a new house sunday. I think in the future if this cup things happens again. Since 99% of the players are now adults and have lots of things going on " we are not 15 years old anymore fellas" we should try to just set up agreed times from both squads for games to be played anytime like TWEL, instead of a set schedule. Since we are just using twd bots it shouldnt be very hard. Just my 2 cents since we are all old as fk!
Playing earlier at any time isn't a problem really. It would be best to announce it before or at least ensure a host is available to witness the score and in case anything goes wrong and you want rights to appeal, etc.
Playing later than Sunday is problematic, since then the whole league gets postponed due to the double elimination bracket format we're using. This was pretty much relayed to Paladen/Potenza at the captains meeting. So if both squads want to play between now and Sunday - by all means.
You know for a fact Jessup won't sky. For the record I dont want flung back at us that people have tried to flexible for us when they surely haven't. Staff to be fair apart from Henry have been, but ultimatly the power is with Jessup and was put unwittingly with Jessup, which should never have happened.
I am going to be honest, I am surprised they haven't come up with a reason yet to exclude all veterans from playing at this point. They worked hard to ensure a large amount couldn't play in finals, though still a handful made it in. Was expecting them to make up some more hypocritical bullshit to stop the rest of the other vets from taking part. I also am surprised that people even still want to play games in this sad excuse for a league, would save everyone more time and be more entertaining to just give Jessup and everyone on Paladen medals, write their names in the HOF next to Ease, Sika, ect. and be done with it. lol..
I really don't see how we've got to a point where some of the most disliked and terrible players to play this game have got themselves in the positions of power and have completely ruined this game and accelerated it's decline. Hire trash, get trash.
Expecting skyforger and glyde to crawl out of Henry and Jessup's asses to defend them shortly.
We need to hit a reset button and get some people in who can actually get our leagues competitive again, rather than people who have reduced them to activity-based leagues like TSL and TWD Cup so they can actually win something by default rather than skill.
TWL-J Season 11 Champion
TWL-J Season 21 Champion
TWL-B Season 21 Champion
TWDT-D 2017 Champion
TWDT-J 2017 Champion
Too far gone lol
Are Glyde and slyforger actually staff or are people trolling... skyfroggrr was pretty much psychotic a year ago and Glyde is probably the worst player in the zone
I can understand out with the old in with the new philosophy, I just don't understand out with the Old when there isnt any new.
For the record I don't agree with a lot of things about this cup but I'm not playing in it, nor did I contribute any of my own experience to it so what right do I have to complain about it? We do need current/former league player(s) to step up and help put these things together but if nobody does.... You get what you are willing to put into it
Well if when ppl log on, if there's some wbduel, javduel, base, twd, something... to play, then that person is more likely to stay on and play, and more likely to log on again another day.
If people log on, see nothing happening, log off... or even just don't even bother logging on because they know this is what they can expect... then it's some self-fulfilling chicken and egg bullshit.
The chicken is too busy fucking itself to realise it's supposed to be laying eggs.
damn even drama is lacking in quality nowadays, rip.
Skyforger is nowadays. And there you have the biggest problem with staff atm. It's sick/ill. It seems like Beasty doesnt care anymore. Qan cant/shouldnt make decisions (with all respect) when it comes to leagues, if its coding and pub matters its fine. He can be some kind of advisor or something, but not the final call maker. Henry Saari does everything in his power to control everything in staff and kicks everyone he doesnt like or is in his way. Guy kicks me and Ogron (basicly kicked) out of staff cuz we were 'abusing' etc, while the guy has done multiple abuse things the last couple seasons in a row. But hey atleast he is trying to kill this zone as quickly as he did with DSB!
Then we got Jessup... Well we all know Jessup only cares about Jessup and Paladen, not the quality of games and so on. Perfect example may be Yeh season 2 of TSL, if that dude wasnt on Paladen Jessup wouldnt say a thing, because there was no word out of Jessup's mouth about Hellrazor and Cyclone getting blocked/not getting to play.
And it says enough that someone like Wicket666 is head of events... The guy never knew how to host properly. How the fuck can you make someone like that in charge of events?
The head of leagues is even gone I think, markmrw. Which is not rare since he kinda announced after last TWL or TWDT 2 seasons ago he wouldnt be spending his sundays to run leagues anymore. Staff is left in the hands of total nutshells and the game is left to die. Like wiibimbo kinda said, I guess its time to move on for us all.
Major Crisis
Problem kinda is that almost everyone who has league running experience has either quit totally or cant work with half of the top staffers. I know from some people in staff that they wont run a thing because of Jessup and Henry interfering. I think there are enough people who would do some help, but yea as long as there isnt one person stepping up to do the major work, it wont happen.
Major Crisis
Least we can all agree that things were way better off with Ogron running leagues. Henry and Jessup tried to fool everyone into thinking things would be better with them under the helm. Ogron didn't like Jessup and Skyforger, but come on, who does like them? They are both toxic trolls that offer nothing to this game anyways. Keeping those 2 dingletards from playing in leagues while under Ogron is far less damaging than Jessup/Henry/Skyforger running leagues. They ran off hordes of players, we would of lost 2, maybe 3 with Ogron lol..
Beasty got me to join staff then bounced out. I had great intentions to help this zone and took my position quite seriously but Jessup and Henry and Co. abuse powers constantly and don't have a single reason for wanting to be on staff other than to do just that. Who can I complain to? No one. They don't care about this game, it's players or how they represent themselves. We can't even fix the staff situation since those in charge have died, quit or don't give a shit. Henry is clever and surrounds himself with drones that will not ask questions and carry out any agenda's he has. In fact, the last TWDT season, when I traded with Tiny for him, he was going to refuse playing unless me and several others came on here to denounce Ogron and promote Henry for his position. If you look back at my posts from around that time, you'll see the shit he coaxed me into writing for him, let alone everyone else he had do it.
We are fucked quite simply put. With the current people in charge, this game doesn't have a chance at all to maintain a healthy populace or even appeal to new comers via Steam. We can't do anything about it since upper staff is gone for good and there is no chance in hell that Henry and Co. will step down and give their jobs up that they don't deserve to people who actually would make this game enjoyable. It's all a sick joke now, like I've said, they should just give themselves medals, place their names in HOF and move on. They only seek to destroy everything that made this game what it was, legacies and veterans that made them are now being stripped away and shit on. Let them do it, we can't do a damn thing about it anyways.
Everyone keeps grouping Henry and Jessup together and I'm not sure why. Unless there is something else going on behind the scenes that I am unaware of, which I doubt, Jessup has absolutely no influence on any matters at all. Yes (s)he stands to benefit most from this cup in its current format and makes the extra effort to be as annoying as possible about it but as far as I know hasn't contributed anything of substance in any form to any aspect of this zone aside from making pixel medals for his own twd profile in advance.
As far as 'people cant work with the top staffers'...Theres really only 2 that ever show their face anymore. Those being qan and Henry. Changes ARE being made from within but at the end of the day nothing changes if nothing changes. We need quality/knowledgeable players to fill these positions and until that happens we will continue to be plagued by the same problems. If any of you feel like you have something left to give to the zone feel free to use me as as medium. I like to think I still have at least a little influence around here
Edit: Also....Ogron was good at what he did with leagues, but he's wiibimbo 2.0 and made his own bed. Theres no point harping on something that nobody can change


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|24 April 2017 (Monday)
Conference Day 1
|Opening Remarks (A1)
Ms Mary Albertson , President of AUTM
|Presidents Forum (A2)
Ms Katharine Ku, Executive Director, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University
Featuring prominent university presidents in Hong Kong and Macau
|Keynote Address (A3)
Judge Randell R. Rader, Former Chief Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
(Speaker sponsored by: Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding of The University of Hong Kong)
|Coffee Break
|Plenary Session (A4)
"The Role of Universities in the Future of Global Innovations"
Prof Yesha Y. Sivan, Executive Director, Coller Institute of Venture, Tel Aviv University
|Plenary Session (A5)
"Why Should We Teach Technological Entrepreneurship in Universities"
Prof Dan Shechtman, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2011); Professor of Materials Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
|Plenary Session (A6)
"How the Global Changes in Innovation and Venture Environment would impact the University System"
Forum Participants:
Prof Dan Shechtman, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2011); Professor of Materials Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Prof Yesha Y. Sivan, Executive Director, Coller Institute of Venture, Tel Aviv University
Ms Mary Albertson , President of AUTM
Dr Stephen Susalka, Chief Executive Officer, AUTM
|Networking Lunch
(Sponsored by Albert Wai-Kit Chan Intellectual Property Limited)
|Innovation and IP Development (T1)
|University-Industry Tech Transfer:
A Blue Ocean through the Red Sea? (T2)
|Entrepreneurship & Technology Transfer in China, Singapore, United States and United Kingdom (T3)
|From managing inventions to patent filing, to marketing technologies and to negotiating commercialization contracts, TTOs have to juggle many complex tasks. We are also facing a rapidly changing environment with licensees from developing countries. This panel brings together leading TTOs in the East and West to share their best practices and to interact with the audience on new challenges.
Dr Shin Cheul Kim
Director of Technology Transfer Office (TTO), Managing Director of Versitech Limited, and Associate Director of the Knowledge Exchange Office (KEO) in the University of Hong Kong
Dr Angela Kukula
Director of Enterprise, The Institute of Cancer Research;
Chair of Praxis Unico
Dr Jasemine Choy Chambers
Of Counsel, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, P.C.
Prof Teck-Seng Low
Chief Executive Officer,
National Research Foundation, Singapore
(Speaker sponsored by: Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding of The University of Hong Kong)
Prof Tim Swager
Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Speaker sponsored by: Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding of The University of Hong Kong)
|While the higher education sectors worldwide have taken much proactive approach towards tech transfer and commercialization, their practice differs from continent to continent, if not from institution to institution. The universal challenge lies in finding effective ways to cross the chasm between academia to industry. The very seasoned professionals will share their experience from various stakeholder perspectives along the value chain - addressing challenges and opportunities in both regional and global context.
Dr Alwin Wong
Director, Institute for Entrepreneurship, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ms Kirsten Leute
Senior Vice President, University Relations, Osage University Partners
Dr Sze Tiam Lin
Director, IPI Singapore
Mr Nick Chan, M.H.
Partner of Squire Patton Boggs;
Council Member of the Law Society of Hong Kong;
Council Member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mr Benjamin Soffer
Chief Executive Officer, T3- Technion Technology Transfer
| Prestigious speakers will give an in-depth sharing on the different aspects of entrepreneurship in these regions, for example their latest IP protection policies and financing models. They will also discuss the roles and future directions of the universities and research institutes in entrepreneurial advancements in today's dynamic and changing world.
Dr Alfred Tan
Head of Knowledge Transfer Office, Hong Kong Baptist University
Prof Ikhlaq Sidhu
Chief Scientist and Founding Director, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC Berkeley
Mr Peter Mok
Head of Incubation Programmes, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Dr Steve Cleverley
Head of Oxentia, Oxford University
Prof Den Huan Hooi
Director, Nanyang Technopreneurship Center, Nanyang Technological University
Mr Dongfang Liu
Partner, Patent & Trademark Attorney, Technology Broker, Beijing Longan Law Firm
|Coffee Break
|Regional Panel Session (S1)
- Australia, UK, Middle East
|Regional Panel Session (S2)
- Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan
|Regional Panel Session (S3)
- ASEAN & India
|The panel aims to share with the audience on the technology transfer landscape in Australia, United Kingdom and Middle East, including the unique challenge and opportunities that practitioners are facing in these regions.
Dr Andy Sierakowski
Chairman Int'l Committee ITTN (China), International Tech. Transfer Network
Dr Michael Murray
Principal, Murray International Partners
Mr Duncan Mackintosh
Investment Manager, Brandon Capital Partners and the MRCF, New Zealand
Mr Tristan Walker
Vice President of Innovation and Economic Development,
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
|Greater China, Japan and Korea have all adopted some forms of government industrial policy, which is also reflected in their strong encouragement of technology development and tech transfer practices. In addition, these regions have unique characteristics of industrial development, and have managed to grow their high tech industry by diverse development models. The relationship between their government, university, and industry is unique in each region, which will be thoroughly explored by our distinguished panelists.
Prof Dongmin Chen
Dean, School of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Peking University
Mr Takafumi Yamamoto
President and CEO, TODAI TLO, Ltd
Ms Eilene Hsu
Operations Centre for Industry Collaboration, National Tsing Hua University
Prof Sang-Keun Lee
Department of Energy System Management Engineering, Dongshin University, Korea
Dr Renchen Liu
Deputy Dean, Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen
|Historically, India and South East Asia had a strong cultural link. Apart from the latest technological and entrepreneurial developments in their own home countries, representatives from these areas will also share with the audience the inspiring co-operative relationships between them.
Dr Alfred Tan
Head of Knowledge Transfer Office, Hong Kong Baptist University
Mr Sean P. Flanigan
Director, Industry Liaison Office, National University of Singapore
Dr Hanumanthu Purushotham
Chairman and Managing Director, National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Mr Stephen Kim Seng Cheah
President, Global Entrepreneurship Thailand
Mr James D. Laur, Esq.
Vice President for Legal and Technology Affairs, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
|Networking Dinner
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Keynote Speaker: Prof Joseph (Yossi) Klafter
President, Tel Aviv University
|25 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Conference Day 2
|Plenary Session (B1)
Ms Ada KL Leung, JP, Director of Intellectual Property, HKSAR
|Plenary Session (B2)
What I learned from co-founding Praxis?
Ms Lita Nelsen, Director (Ret.) Technology Licensing Office, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|Coffee Break
|Technology Transfer Office - Best Practices (B3)
|From managing inventions to patent filing, to marketing technologies and to negotiating commercialization contracts, TTOs have to juggle many complex tasks. We are also facing a rapidly changing environment featuring crowd funding for student projects, faculty's MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), licensees from developing countries (e.g. China and India), etc. This panel brings together leading TTOs in the East and West to share their best practices and to interact with the audience on new challenges.
Prof Andy T.S. Hor, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Hong Kong
Prof Poh Kam Wong, Director, Entrepreneurship Centre of National University of Singapore
Mr Takafumi Yamamoto, President and CEO, TODAI TLO, Ltd
Mr Tom Hockaday, Former Managing Director of Oxford ISIS
(Speaker sponsored by: Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding of The University of Hong Kong)
Ms Imelda Oropeza, Licensing Associate, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University
|Networking Lunch
(Sponsored by TOUSHI)
|Health & Green Innovation in Asia (T4)
|Towards A Smarter Community(T5)
|Emerging Trend in Technology Management and Transfer for Internet Big Data (T6)
|Population growth, aging and economic development contribute to many health and environmental problems in Asia. These impose increasing pressure on medical infrastructures, pollution problems and climate change. In this panel, leading local and overseas Intellectual Property practitioners, technology transfer specialists, R&D engineer and venture capitalists will discuss how Asia coupes with the worrying medical needs and environmental stress via academia-industry collaborations.
Dr Albert Wai-kit Chan
Managing Partner, Law Offices of Albert Wai-Kit Chan, PLLC
Opening remarks:
Prof Walter Ho
Director, Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ms Patrea L. Pabst Esq.
Partner, Pabst Patent Group LLP
Mr Rex Sham
Chief Science Officer/Co-Founder, Insight Robotics Ltd
Dr Kenneth Fong
Chairman, Kenson Ventures, LLC
Prof Young Ho Kim
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering;
Director, Yonsei University Medical Device Development and Promotion Center
Mr Ian Huen
CEO, APTUS Therapeutics Limited
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Dr Kim-fung Tsang
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lesbian slave
In a society that otherwise resembles our own, mass slavery has persisted into the 21st Century. It is a common and accepted feature of public and private life. Males and females of all ethnic backgrounds are held thrall, without status or legal rights. They are quite literally living property, and may be bought, sold and used for any purpose, including: hard labor, breeding, menial work and sexual servitude.
This series of stories, which is not presented in any particular order, explores the daily life of a prostitute-slave named Sara. Purchased at auction by a Las Vegas casino, she is tasked with fulfilling the sexual urges of its clientèle, who pay for her favors along with room service and Wi-Fi access. Subject to their every whim, she has known both anguish and delight, but most often casual exploitation.
When she is not engaged by a guest, Sara must contend with capricious and underpaid corporate overseers and occasionally vicious slave stable politics.
Of course Gretchen keeps me naked around the house these days. Now, you might think that this isn't as embarrassing as being naked in public, however you probably don't know how determined Gretchen is to humiliate me.
For starters, there's a stark contrast between me and Gretchen. She goes around the house fully clothed, whereas I am constantly naked. I'm not even allowed to have any pubic hair. According to Gretchen's rules, pubic hair is a form of clothing and if she finds any on me (even stubble) I'm punished for disobeying her rules.
Then there's the way that she's always having me answer the door. Seeing as how Gretchen is the only one who's dressed, you'd think that she would get the door when somebody knocks, but Gretchen wants me to be humiliated, so she orders me to answer the door every time.
To make matters worse, she's placed a number of orders with toys4lust.com. And every time the order arrives in the mail, I have to sign for it.
Gretchen had talked to the UPS delivery person who services our neighborhood and told her that a naked girl might answer the door at our house, but the first time I answered the door naked she just stared at me for about five minutes before she thought to hand me her signature capture pad and asked me to sign for the package.
However after five of six (or is it seven?) times, she's no longer shocked to see me answering the door stark naked. Now she smiles, greets me name and has me sign for the package and if it's one of those big, heavy packages, she helps me lift it and bring it inside the house. And she always tells me to "have a nice day" before she leaves.
It's very humiliating exposing myself in front of a total stranger like that (and also risk being exposed to neighbors who might be driving by or walking down the sidewalk in front of my house), but it's also very arousing. As scared as I am to answer the door stark naked, my nipples are swollen and erect and my pussy is wet every time. Indeed if it were okay with Gretchen and the UPS girl, I would gladly bring the UPS girl into the house and have her violate me again and again and again. She could use her fingers or her tongue or a wooden broom handle. I really wouldn't care.
Unfortunately the UPS girl is too professional to ever lay her hands on me. A few times I've caught her staring at my shaved pussy, but she's never touched me and I can't touch her without Gretchen's permission.
Mrs. Lassiter has also come over a few times, and I've had to answer the door naked to let her in. She used to blush and stammer when I answered the door like that, but she's starting to get better too.
It seems inappropriate to me for me to be naked and sexually aroused in front of Mrs. Lassiter. She's old enough to be my mother, but being naked and exposed and helpless in front of anybody seems to cause massive sexual arousal in my body. The fact that Mrs. Lassiter is almost forty years old doesn't seem to make any difference to my traitorous body. My heart still beats faster and my clit gets hard and swollen and my nipples get so swollen that they ache whenever Mrs. Lassiter comes over and witnesses my naked humiliation. And the fact that she can see my wet, swollen pubic lips every time she comes over just makes me even more humiliated and more aroused.
Her visits are never sexual in any way. She mostly asks how Gretchen is treating me and about my relationship with her daughter. I think she's worried that Dawn will become "corrupted" and start treating me like Gretchen treats me. Mrs. Lassiter is a big believer in human rights and would probably be upset if her only daughter sexually and physically abused one of her best friends.
Dawn herself doesn't come over very often. Although she did one time come over with her digital camera to take photos of my naked body.
I'm not exactly certain what Dawn wants those photos for. Dawn has never claimed to be gay, but seriously why would she want photos of one of her friends in the nude if not to lust over them? Of course I was sexually aroused at being exposed to Dawn and her digital camera. A quick look at any of her photos should show that my outer labia were swollen and plump and my inner labia were exposed.
However more significant than any visits by Dawn or Dawn's mother or the UPS girl are the visits we've gotten from Dana.
Dana has a way of making me feel more naked than most women. She really dresses to impress. Expensive and stylish clothing that would allow her to fit in at any of the fortune 500 companies; she looks sort of like an important executive or powerful government figure. At any rate, she exudes authority and self-confidence and perhaps a little bit of arrogance.
And the way she looked at my naked body made me feel like she was evaluating all of my flaws and assets and deciding how much she'd be willing to pay for me if my naked ass were sold at a slave auction. She made my pussy wet when she looked at me like that, but she also made me nervous.
After she dispensed with polite greetings with Gretchen and me, she set her handbag down on the coffee table and announced, "Gretchen I have a business proposition for your slave."
I noticed that Dana didn't speak to me directly. She apparently wanted to diminish my status by allowing Gretchen to make all of my decisions for me.
When Gretchen indicated that she was interested in Dana's proposal, Dana went on to explain that a number of her friends had pooled their money and created a website called www.punishedbeauty.com. The website was brand new, but when it opened for business they planned on selling monthly memberships for thirty-three dollars each.
"So, what does this have to do with Diane?" Gretchen asked.
"We'd like to have her under contract to be one of our models," was Dana's reply. "We have a computer expert who set up and maintains our website, two photographers, a business manager to deal with all of the taxes and payroll and boring stuff, we even have some models that can play dominants, but we need models that can be submissive and deal with being punished on camera."
"And you want my permission to use Diane?"
"Exactly, we'd love to have her. After witnessing what the two of you did at Diane's birthday party, she seems ideally suited to out needs."
Gretchen seemed to think about this for several seconds. Then she began to ask Dana questions.
Just off the top of my head I remember Gretchen asking how much money they would pay me for appearing at one of their photo shoots. Gretchen also wanted to know when these photo shoots would be scheduled. She wanted to know how time-consuming they would be. She also wanted to know if she could meet the dominant models. She wanted to know what sort of things they would do to me in these photo shoots and she wanted to know if there could be a contract written up that would guarantee what would NOT be done to me in these photo shoots.
Dana was organized and well prepared for every question that Gretchen had. And indeed I was getting somewhat enthused about the idea of becoming a model for Dana and her friends.
First of all the money they were paying was quite a bit. If they brought me in for three or four photo-shoots a month, I'd be making more money than I made working at the bank.
Secondly, I'd have an excuse to spend even more time exposing my naked body in front of clothed people. And I now seemed to have reached the stage where I was addicted to being naked and observed. I wanted to have the feeling of being abused and sexually exploited that came from being the one naked person in a room full of clothed people. And I couldn't get any of that at my job at the bank.
"Diane, if this works out you could quit your job at the bank," Gretchen said, seeming to read my thoughts.
I nodded my head numbly. I could hardly believe this was really happening. It sounded very much as if I would get paid for doing what I love to do!
"I'd like to take some photos," Dana said as she pulled a small, digital camera from her handbag. "We have photos of all the models we have so far. And of course the investors would like to see what Diane looks like before they draw up a contract for her."
"Go right ahead," Gretchen said, giving Dana permission. Nobody asked me if it was okay, and in a way I found that exciting. My nude body was being used by Gretchen and given to Dana. My opinions about how my naked body was to be treated were totally irrelevant.
Dana looked at me with a predatory grin and licked her lips. "On your knees," she commanded me.
And once I was kneeling on the carpet, she added more commands. "Spread your legs," she said. Then she ordered me to place my hands behind the back of my neck and thrust my elbows back while thrusting my breasts forward. She also ordered me to straighten my spine and spread my legs even wider.
"That's good. Hold that position," she said and then proceeded to take dozens of pictures of my naked, exposed body from different camera angles and different camera settings.
It was a difficult position to hold for long periods of time, but Dana didn't care about how physically difficult it was for me. She only cared about getting the idea shots for her camera.
"I love the way that this position causes her breasts to stick out," Dana said, "but I'd like it if her nipples were more pronounced."
"Oh, that's easy," said Gretchen, and then she proceeded to walk over to where I was kneeling and she grabbed each of my nipples and proceeded to pinch and yank and pull on them until I gasped and whimpered in pain. My arms twitched and shuddered and my elbows jerked forward. Then Gretchen ordered me not to break position.
"Sorry, Mistress," I replied through gritted teeth, and forced my elbows back again, and thrust my tits out as much as I possibly could.
"Perfect," Dana said as she observed my now swollen and erect nipples. "This will make her photos look even sexier."
Eventually Dana had enough photos of me in what she called the "open kneeling" position and then she had me stand with my legs far apart but keep my hands behind the back of my neck and my elbows back with my breasts thrust out. This was simply called the "open" position, and it certainly kept every inch of my body open for examination, fondling or punishment. My breasts, ass, torso, pussy and even my inner thighs were exposed and vulnerable to anything that Dana or Gretchen decided to inflict upon me.
Next Dana had me stand with my legs far apart, my hands flat against the far wall of the living room, slightly above eye level and about shoulder width apart, I was leaning hard into the wall and my ass was sticking out pretty far, leaving my pussy and anus very exposed to anybody standing behind me.
Dana referred to this as this "frisk" position or "search" position.
Dana took quite a few photos of me in this position and Gretchen fondled my pussy to make certain that my pubes were as red and swollen and wet as possible for the photos as possible. I moaned as my pussy received much wanted attention, however Gretchen took her fingers away before my impending orgasm could be achieved.
Then I whimpered in frustration.
Gretchen and Dana both pretended not to notice and Dana discussed how my "darling" ass was my best feature and how "tiny" and "firm" it was and how much her business partners were going to love it. She also loved how "exposed" and "vulnerable" my shaved pussy looked. She also said that any model that worked for them "would have to have her pussy shaved just like Diane's".
Gretchen suggested another kneeling position and eventually Dana ordered me back on my knees, leaning forwards, with my wrists crossed, eyes lowered, struggling to put my wrists as far forward and raised up as possible, rather as if I were offering to have my wrists bound by my Mistress.
This position was hard to hold because of the tendency to topple, because of the difficulty in balancing as I was forced to lean forwards. I quickly developed a sheen of sweat on my torso as I struggled to hold position while Dana took her time taking her photographs.
Then to make things even more difficult, Dana said that I wasn't allowed to rest my ass on my heels, so then I had to raise my ass up while keeping my arms raised up as well. By the time Dana finished photographing me in this position, my muscles ached and I was basically covered in sweat.
Dana called this the "offer yourself" position.
The next position was much easier. It required me to get on my hands and knees with my legs as far apart as possible. Dana pointed out how much this left my anus and my pussy exposed. She called this the "bad dog" position and took a lot of photos with me in this position; including quite of few close ups of my exposed pussy, anus and buttocks.
The next position was almost identical to the "bad dog" position, only this position required me to press my forehead into the ground. Dana called this position the "submissive bad dog".
"Her ass would look sexier with a few red handprints," Dana observed. "Gretchen, do you think you could…?" Dana inquired.
Within seconds Gretchen gave me about a dozen hard spanks on my left buttock and four on my right buttock. I gasped in pain and shock, but somehow managed not to break position.
"Perfect" Dana exclaimed with glee and took many more photos of my sore, punished ass.
I was then ordered to kiss Gretchen's feet and Dana took a few photos of that. Dana then said her goodbyes. She shook hands with both Gretchen and I promised that she would be in touch. She was certain that her business partners would offer me a contract and that the first photo shoot was probably no more than a week or two away. I wondered what sort of things might happen to me at that photo shoot. I was excited about the future, but also scared.
Foolishly I voiced my curiosity about what might happen in the photo shoots. Gretchen got a devious smile on her face and then suggested that we help Dana come up with ideas.
"I'm sure they've got ideas of their own," I said meekly, somewhat afraid of what Gretchen might come up with. If you saw the smile on her face you'd understand.
"Hey, I know," Gretchen said, "let's print out some of your 'adventures of Roberta' stories!"
Just so you know "the adventures of Roberta" were a series of short fiction stories I wrote when I was a teenager. They were erotic stories about a nice heterosexual girl named Roberta who was always getting abducted by sadistic lesbians, stripped naked, tied up, sexually molested, spanked, whipped and just generally abused. The stories were all highly improbable. Even when Roberta escaped one group of sadistic lesbians, she'd just get kidnapped by another group of lesbians a short time later. Even the police in these stories were lesbians who would handcuff poor Roberta and perform invasive body cavity searches on her and force her into lesbian sex. And more to the point Roberta suffered a lot. I wasn't really certain I wanted to go through the same sort of brutal physical and sexual abuse that she did.
"I don't think that's such a good idea, Mistress," I said, hoping I could sway Gretchen's opinion. "Roberta was a fictional character who could take a lot more punishment than a normal human being."
"It'll be fun!" Gretchen proclaimed loudly. "And you shouldn't sell yourself short! Once you set your mind to it, I'm sure you can take lots of pain. You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."
Reluctantly I followed my mistress into the bedroom and watched her sit down at my computer. With only the slightest bit of assistance from me, she found the files with the adventures of Roberta and she began to print up page after page after page, so that she could give them to Dana later.
I sighed. I knew nothing good was going to come of this.
* * * * * * * * * *
Of course I still had to go and work at my job at the bank until I got the modeling contract with www.punishedbeauty.com but it was getting harder and harder to concentrate on financial transactions and bank policy and bank security when Gretchen was keeping me so sexually stimulated. All day long at work I wanted to rip off my clothes and expose my naked body to my boss and my co-workers and the customers and allow them to ogle and fondle and abuse my naked body.
Of course I couldn't do that, and the minutes until I could go home and strip my clothes off seemed to tick by with agonizing slowness.
At any rate, there was one Friday when I came home from work and following Gretchen's orders I stripped naked as soon as I came in the front door.
It wasn't until I was totally naked and just stepping out of my tiny panties that I noticed I wasn't alone.
"Hi there," I heard a female voice say, I yelped in surprise and I looked up.
My sister Amy was sitting on the couch and standing nearby was my friend, Hailey. Of course, I gave Amy a key to the house last year so that she could come over and visit any time she wanted. I guess I was just in such a hurry to get inside and rip off my clothes that I didn't notice her car parked outside.
"Hi," I said sheepishly, somewhat embarrassed to have stripped naked in front of Hailey and my sister. I mean, they've seen me naked before, but somehow it's a new and embarrassing experience every time somebody sees me naked. I don't know why, but I never seem to develop a tolerance to it.
"There's no need to blush," I heard Amy say. "We already know the house rules. You had to take your clothes off."
"Yeah," Hailey added helpfully, "Gretchen said so."
"Um, yeah," I said haltingly, not realizing that I had been blushing before. "So, what brings you guys around?"
"We felt bad that we had gotten you clothes for your birthday," Hailey said. "We felt that you got ripped off, what with the fact that you're now going around naked most of the time. So, we got you some new birthday presents."
Until Hailey said that I failed to notice the boxes with the brightly colored giftwrap on the coffee table. Upon setting my eyes on the gifts, I exclaimed, "That was so thoughtful!"
I walked over to the table and forgetting my embarrassment for a moment, picked up one of the boxes and shook it.
"Open it," Hailey suggested, "it's not like you have to wait at all for your twentieth birthday to roll around all over again."
So I tore through the wrapping paper and found three books, all of the same size and shape.
And upon further examination, I found they were also by the same author; A.N. Roquelaure.
"The author's real name is Ann Rice," Hailey explained, "She just used a pseudonym when she was writing the erotic stuff."
"Erotic?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Ann Rice wrote three books that were centered on bondage, discipline and sexual slavery. A Princess named Beauty is claimed by a prince from a far off kingdom. He strips off her clothes and spanks her and humiliates her in public and gives her to other people so that they can get in on the fun too."
"A prince," I asked somewhat disappointed. "So, it's hetero porn?"
"Parts of it," Hailey responded, somewhat amused at my question. "However I talked to Karl at the bookstore and he assures me that Beauty is used and abused by a number of different women in the book. For starters the prince loans Beauty to his mother in the first book. And there's also Lady Juliana and an innkeeper by the name of Mistress Lockley."
"Mistress Lockley," I said smiling. "Even her name sounds sexy."
"Yeah, so you can just read the lesbian parts and skip over the parts of the story that have a penis."
Hailey was smiling and I could see she put a lot of thought into this gift. Next thing I knew we were hugging and even though I was totally naked, it was more of a friendship hug than an erotic hug. We were just two friends exchanging gifts and I was happy that Hailey cared so much to make sure she got me something she was sure I would enjoy.
"Open mine next," Amy urged, so I broke from the hug and ripped the wrapping paper off of Amy's gift. This revealed a small white box, so I opened the box and inside found black leather wrist restraints and a short stainless steel chain with D-clips on either end.
"They're black leather bondage cuffs with black neoprene padding," Amy explained. "I was thinking those metal handcuffs you were wearing at your birthday party looked really uncomfortable and they looked like they were biting into your wrists and leaving red marks. So, I bought you these."
I took the cuffs out of the box and experimentally attached the D-clips from either end of the chain to the metal rings in the cuffs. Then I shook one of the cuffs vigorously to see how sturdy it was.
"Well, it looks like it'll work," I said.
"You have doubts?" Amy asked.
"Well, I'm not sure," I said. "I mean I don't think I could rip these things off, but there's no actual lock. I could probably undo the buckles or unclip the D-clip and get free."
"While your hands are bound," Amy asked. "Your fingers could never reach the D-clip!"
"But I could unbuckle the wrist cuff, couldn't I? I mean there's no lock!"
"Stick out your wrists, Sis," Amy said as she picked up the wrist cuffs, "Let me show you something."
So I obediently held my wrists out and allowed Amy to buckle the leather restraints onto my wrists.
"Now try to get free," Amy encouraged me.
The first thing I tried to do was unbuckle the buckle on my left wrist, using my right hand, however the chain that joined the cuffs was very, very short and it prevented me from achieving the proper angle to unbuckle the heavy leather straps. My fingers were virtually useless.
Next I tried sitting down on the couch and unbuckling the buckles with my feet, but it turns out that my toes just aren't very talented when it comes to fine detail work. I even tried to unbuckle the buckles with my teeth, but that didn't seem to be working either.
"I think I'm trapped," I said, finally admitting defeat.
And of course, Gretchen chose that exact moment to come home and walk through the front door.
"Well, well, well," she said, "What's going on here?"
Amy explained how she and Hailey felt bad about buying me clothes when I was going to be naked most of the time. She held up the "Sleeping Beauty" books that Hailey had bought me and prompted me to raise my wrists up, so that the leather wrist restraints would be well on display.
"What considerate gifts," Gretchen said in a voice that was smooth as silk, "Diane I think you should leave the wrist restraints on for the rest of the evening. Anything else would be disrespectful to your sister."
"But, my wrists are chained really close together," I complained. "I can barely do anything with my hands at all now."
Gretchen gave me a stern look and then in a voice that sounded artificially sweet she asked, "You don't want to be a bad host, do you? And I'm sure you can do plenty with those wrist restraints on. For instance, I'm sure you can take your clothes down to the laundry room with those on."
I took the hint and walked over to the front door and picked up my discarded clothes. It was awkward, but I was certainly capable of picking them up with my wrists bound.
Going up and down the stairs took longer with my hands bound. Most people don't realize how important a role arms can play in balance. If you don't believe me, just try handcuffing your hands behind your back and try walking up and down stairs. You'll see what I'm talking about.
At any rate, by the time I returned upstairs, Amy, Hailey and Gretchen were reading though the A. N. Roquelaure books about that poor naked slave girl.
"I must say," Gretchen began as she saw me returning to the room, "This book is certainly giving me ideas."
"Is it?" I asked, rather hoping that none of them would get tried out on me.
"Here on pages 36, 37 and 38," Gretchen elaborated, "After a series of brutal spankings a servant girl rubs some sort of soothing ointment into Beauty's very sore bottom. It's surprisingly very erotic. You should read it."
Gretchen handed me the book, although it was difficult to hold it open and turn the pages with my hands bound the way they were. However I managed to read the pages anyway and Gretchen was right. It was surprisingly erotic. This A.N. Roquelaure certainly knew how to write! She took an act that many authors would have made clinical and turned it into something almost dripping with sexual tension and Sapphic overtones.
"You're right, Mistress," I conceded, "It's surprisingly very erotic."
Then Gretchen smiled and said, "We should try this right now! It'll be fun!"
I squirmed nervously and dreaded where this was going. "Can we skip the brutal spanking part?" I asked.
"Oh no," Gretchen responded. "We have to have a series of brutal spankings first. Otherwise the whole thing loses its emotional punch!"
"But, Mistress," I protested, "I haven't done anything wrong! I don't deserve a spanking!"
"The girl in the book didn't deserve a spanking either," Gretchen explained. "She was just spanked as a form of entertainment for the crowd of common folk. And anyway if you're really my slave, that means I can spank you whenever I want. You don't actually NEED to misbehave in order for me to punish you."
Having said that, Gretchen set the book down and stood up and kissed me on the mouth. And then she whispered in my ear, "Don't mess this up for me. What I've got planned for tonight is very erotic. Play along and I promise you'll have a powerful orgasm before the evening is over."
It'd been about three weeks since the last time I'd had an orgasm and there was a chronic feeling of need between my legs. "Oh God, yes", I whispered back, without even bothering to think what else might lie ahead for me.
Gretchen held my naked body close to her clothed one; my aching nipples feeling the friction as they rubbed up against Gretchen's jacket; and then she turned to Amy and asked, "Amy would you do the honors this time and spank your sister?"
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It was one thing for Amy to be a witness at one of my painful and humiliating punishments, but for Amy to actually *inflict* the punishment upon me?
On the other hand, if I went through with it, Gretchen had promised me a tremendous reward afterwards. My nipples, labia and clit are all swollen with sexual need and I would do almost anything for some sexual release. I decided to go along with it.
"Me?" Amy asked. "I've never spanked anybody in my entire life. My mom was always the one dealing out spankings in our house. I'd feel totally awkward and totally out of character. And at any rate, I'm two years younger than she is! Aren't authority figures supposed to older than the people that they're punishing?"
"I think I see what the problem is here," said Gretchen. "You don't feel like you have the right to be meting out punishments. You feel like only authority figures such as your mother should be meting out punishments. But what if your mother had ordered you to spank your sister? Would you have spanked her then?"
Amy considered the question for a few seconds and finally responded, "Well, if my mom ordered me to spank Diane, then sure, I guess I'd have to spank her."
"Well, Amy," Gretchen replied, "As Diane's mistress, I am also an authority figure. And I am ordering you to take your sister across your lap and spank her very hard."
Amy continued to hesitate and then Gretchen added, "If you don't spank your sister I'm going to get out the riding crop and use THAT to punish your sister. And believe me, Amy, a riding crop hurts much worse than your bare hand."
"Diane, is that true?" Amy asked, apparently a total amateur when it came to spanking implements.
"It's true," I responded. "A spanking with a riding crop hurts much worse than a bare hand spanking."
"And Gretchen would really use one on you?"
I nodded in agreement. I'd been punished with worse things. And once Gretchen made a threat there was no way she'd back down.
"Okay, you better get over my lap then," Amy said. Amy was sitting on the ottoman, so I basically just placed my hands flat on the floor and my ass across her lap. My legs dangled off the other side and my feet were just barely touching the floor as well.
I was waiting for the first painful swat to come down on my unprotected bottom when I heard Gretchen say, "No, that doesn't look right at all."
I was curious as to what Gretchen was objecting to, however Amy and Hailey asked first.
"It's her legs," Gretchen responded. "She's got her legs closed together. A slave girl should always make certain that her pussy is exposed and available."
Then Gretchen slapped my left buttock hard and I yelped in surprise. "Legs apart," she barked.
I spread my ankles apart about six inches and then she smacked my ass again. "Further than that," she ordered. "Everybody in the room should have a clear view of your pussy and your anus!"
This time I spread my ankles at least three feet and then I felt Gretchen gently touch the insides of my thighs. "That's better," she said. "A slave should always give her betters easy access to this whole area." Then she gently slid her finger up my swollen pubic lips and across my exposed anus. I shivered as her touch made pre-orgasmic tingles start to spread though my body. If she had done that three or four more times I'm certain I would have had an orgasm.
I whimpered when she took her finger away and then I heard Amy ask, "How many swats?"
"Hard to say," was Gretchen's response. "Let me see how hard you can hit and I'll decide how many times you should hit her."
There was an instant of anticipation and then I felt Amy's hand come down on my right buttock. "If that's the hardest you can hit, I might as well take over. I'll go get the riding crop."
I could hear muffled footsteps as Gretchen walked across the carpeted floor and then suddenly Amy's panicked voice saying, "I can hit harder than that! Look!"
Then suddenly there was a loud CRACK and a painful stinging sensation as my sister smacked my naked ass with great force. I couldn't help but whimper in pain and I think my legs trembled. Apparently my sister could hit pretty hard.
"That's not bad," Gretchen agreed. "Do you think that you could hit her like that twenty more times?"
"Yes, ma'am," Amy replied.
"Well then, Gretchen said. "Do it and I won't have to take the riding crop to your sister's ass."
Without hesitation Amy's hand came down on my naked buttocks again and again and again. I'm certain Gretchen was happy with her performance. If anything her slaps were getting harder and harder. Soon my eyes welled up with tears and I was whimpering and gasping with every blow. I squirmed and kicked helplessly and hot wet tears lid down my face.
And when my ass was very, very sore and I was sobbing uncontrollably, Gretchen told Amy she could stop.
Amy apologized over and over again for hurting me and begged me to forgive her. I could barely hear her over the sound of my own sobbing, but I told her that of course I forgave her. She was my sister, and after all she saved me from an even worse punishment.
"That was very good, Amy," I heard Gretchen say. "Although your sister was rather shameless in the way she kicked her long legs around instead of holding position. I told her to keep her legs far apart, not to squirm and kick her legs about shamelessly."
I sobbed louder at this announcement and Gretchen said, "You get six more, Slave."
I braced myself and locked my legs into place, not wanting to break position again and risk having an even greater punishment. "Yes, Mistress," I sobbed, my lower lips trembling uncontrollably. Amy then laid her hand softly yet firmly across my back and Gretchen took off her leather belt. I had a quick glimpse of the belt in Gretchen's hands and then I closed my eyes tightly, bracing myself for the first blow.
The belt came down hard across both of my buttocks at the same time and it was an explosion of stinging pain even worse than my sister's hand. Of course my buttocks were already sore and burning from the punishment Amy gave me, so almost anything would have hurt at this point.
The second blow came across the back and insides of my left thigh. Amy hadn't spanked that area, but the flesh there is quite simply more sensitive and delicate than the flesh of my buttocks. I screamed in pain and shock.
The third blow once again came across both of my buttocks, adding sharp, stinging, hot pain to the hot, throbbing pain that Amy had already inflicted there.
The fourth blow came across the back of my right thigh, right at the crease where my ass meets the thigh. It stung horribly and I almost broke position. It was only by sheer willpower that I managed not to squirm and buck and kick, however I screamed and sobbed in pain.
The fifth blow lashed across the back of my left thigh and hit my left buttock as well. I continued to sob and cry out, and squeezed my eyes shut tight. The pain was getting worse and worse. It was starting to feel less like a spanking and more like a whipping.
The sixth blow also lashed me across my left thigh, but it curled around the inside of my thigh and missed the tender folds of my pussy by less than a tenth of an inch.
I screamed incoherently, but managed somehow not to break position.
"You did well," I heard Gretchen say. "Now your sister can give you some comfort."
I could barely hear anything that was said after that as the sound of my own sobbing filled my ears, but eventually I became aware that Gretchen had given some sort of ointment to Amy and told her to smooth it into my skin.
"Aahhh" I exclaimed. "Ow! Oh, God,"
"I'm sorry," Amy said as her fingers touched the raw, punished naked flesh of my buttocks. "I'm trying to be gentle."
"I know, Amy," I said through clenched teeth. "I'm just really, really sore."
"Should I stop?" Amy asked.
Before I had a chance to answer, I heard Gretchen reply, "Just keep on going, Amy. She'll adjust. Just give her time."
And so my sister rubbed gobs of this ointment onto my naked buttocks and thighs. At first her fingers gliding across my punished flesh just hurt, but eventually her touch began to feel cool and soothing against my punished flesh and then finally when she rubbed the ointment into my inner thighs, near my pussy I began to moan in sexual longing.
"Did the belt get you here?" Amy asked as she slid her finger gently across my swollen pubic lips.
"N-no," I replied, my lower lips trembling as a wave of sexual tingles ran through me. "I-it came close, but just barely managed to miss my pussy."
I whimpered as she took her hands away from my pussy and continued to stroke my buttocks and my upper thighs. No girl should have such sexual thoughts about their own sister, but I would have done almost anything if she would have just stuck her fingers deep into my pussy and brought me to a screaming orgasm.
Even though she took her hands away from my pussy, I was still highly aroused and eventually my sobbing and whimpering turned to moaning.
And then without any orders from Gretchen, Amy's fingers returned to my pussy. At first it seemed accidental as she was smoothing ointment into my inner thigh and her hand lightly brushed my pussy.
I twitched at this and gasped. Another wave of sexual tingles ran through my body and then I felt Amy's fingers gently take hold of my public lips and spread them open slightly.
When I didn't protest, Amy must have taken that as a single that it was acceptable behavior and she opened me up even wider.
"Oh," I exclaimed loudly and felt the beginnings of a wave that would soon lead to a powerful orgasm.
And then with a few deft movements of her very talented fingers, Amy found my clitoris. It was already swollen and hard and poking out of its hood. My breath came in ragged pants as Amy squeezed it and rubbed it and yet somehow managed to keep my pussy lips spread apart.
"Oh god," I loudly exclaimed and then started making loud inarticulate noises as my sisters fingers worked magic and brought me not to just one orgasm; but to one powerful orgasm after another. I squirmed and kicked and wriggled and screamed and gasped and made an absolute spectacle of myself as one orgasm after another ripped through me and took total control over my body. I shook and shuddered and trembled and enjoyed one of the most powerful orgasms of my life.
I think I must have passed out, because the next thing I remember I was lying on the carpet near Amy's feet. I was no longer wearing my wrist restraints and Hailey and Gretchen were both on their knees, looming over me with expressions of concern on their face.
"Are you okay?" Hailey asked.
"I'm fine," I said, feeling incredible. The afterglow from my orgasm was still filling me with tons of endorphins. I couldn't have felt better if I tried.
"You were totally unconscious," Hailey said. "We were going to call 911 or something. I thought maybe you had a stroke or something."
I shook my head as if to reject that idea. "This has happened to me once before," I explained. "If an orgasm is too powerful it can cause me to pass out. It's sort of like…too much pain can cause people's nervous system to overload. Well, apparently too much pleasure can cause your nervous system to overload too. The human brain just wasn't designed to handle that much orgasmic pleasure all at once."
"What?" Hailey asked, sounding incredulous. "That's a real thing?"
"Yep," I said smiling up at my best friend. "It happened to me once before, in Sessia. A doctor there explained the whole thing to me. It's kinda cool actually."
"Can you stand up?" Gretchen asked.
I wasn't sure, but Amy took my hand and helped me up. My legs were shaky, but I was able to stand with some difficulty.
Amy hugged me close and I felt the hard denim of her jeans against my soft skin. And then I felt something else. The front of Amy's jeans were soaking wet.
I eventually learned that when I came I gushed fluids and I got Amy's lap soaking wet.
"How's your bottom?" Hailey asked. "The color's fading, but it's still red."
"It's sore," I commented. "But now it's a good kind of sore. I know that probably doesn't make sense, but at a certain point pain can become erotic…at least it can for somebody like me."
Without warning Amy kissed me on the lips and forced her tongue into my mouth. She prolonged the kiss for a long, long time and when we finally broke I was gasping for air.
"Well, Diane," Gretchen said with a smirk on her face, "I guess you and your sister have become even closer today."
There were a few moments of nervous laughter and then Gretchen ordered me to my knees and told me to go down on my sister.
"Mistress," I said, convinced that Gretchen hadn't thought this through, "I don't think that Amy would be okay with that. I mean….fingering me to orgasm is one thing, but do you really think that she'd take her pants off in front of you and Hailey just so I could lick her pussy?"
I swear, at the time I was certain there was no way Amy would participate in something so kinky with Hailey and Gretchen watching, but a heartbeat later Amy unbuckled her belt, unzipped her jeans and slid her jeans down to her ankles.
And then I had just enough time to register the fact that her panties were wet before Amy hooked her thumbs into the waistband of her panties and pulled them down as well.
"You were saying?" Gretchen asked, with mirth in her voice and a smirk on her face.
And then I noticed that Amy's pussy was just as bare and clean-shaven as mine.
It was one of the most beautify things I'd even seen in my life. I mean…I know I'm talking about my little sister, but her pussy was so bare and pink and her labia were so puffy and swollen and just begging to be touched.


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Welcome to PM/AM, Popular Mechanics' morning briefing on the top science and tech stories for today.
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Only days before the company's scheduled unveiling of its first smartphone, Amazon released numbers indicating a growing apps tore. "Amazon today announced that Amazon Appstore selection has nearly tripled in the past year and developers continue to report strong monetization from the apps they offer in the store," according to a press release. "The Amazon Appstore now has over 240,000 apps and games, is available in nearly 200 countries and on a multitude of devices."
Although that's no number to laugh at, its far from claiming any top spot among app developers. At Apple's WWDC conference, the Cupertino tech giant relished in the fact that iOS has upwards of 1.2 million apps. Google, who will most likely comment on the matter at this month's I/O conference, will probably report similar statistics. That leaves Amazon's smartphone selection to be more akin to Windows Phone, which BGR reports is around 250,000 as of this April.
But Amazon wants to compete with the big boys, a desire that is clearly seen its attempts to woo would-be developers with revenue statistics in comparison to its competitors. According to a survey of 360 developers (commissioned by Amazon) 65 percent of them say total revenue on the Kindle Fire is the same or greater than on other platform, and 76 percent would argue that Kindle Fire helps them "connect with new market segments."
Despite an obvious attempt to bait customers to Amazon's cause, 240,000 apps in context is pretty impressive for Amazon. When its smartphone finally comes to market, the device's ecosystem won't be comparable to Android or iOS, but with strong developer revenue and its proprietary forked Android API, Fire OS, Amazon could close the gap quickly.
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Seyfarth Synopsis: U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the Travel Ban in their next term.
Shortly before its summer recess, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments on the Trump administration's revised travel ban against nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The hearing is expected to take place this fall.
Further, the Court has reinstated the travel ban for the six countries, but only insofar as it relates to foreign nationals who lack a bona fide relationship with a U.S. person or entity. Examples of individuals who do possess a bona fide relationship with a U.S. entity include students enrolled at U.S. universities and employees of U.S. companies. Conversely, foreign nationals from the affected countries wishing to visit solely for tourism may encounter significant challenges entering the U.S.
This ruling will not impact U.S. employers that employ foreign nationals from any of the affected countries. U.S. employers may continue to sponsor their employees for employment-based visa petitions, and employees may continue to apply for work visas at U.S. Embassies and Consulates. However, all foreign nationals from these countries should nevertheless exercise caution when travelling to the U.S., as they can expect to face lengthy delays and questioning at the border as part of the administration's ongoing "extreme vetting" measures.
Seyfarth Shaw is monitoring the developments closely, and will publish updated information accordingly.
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Model Programs: Reading. Bloom Township High School Reading Program, Chicago Heights, Illinois.
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Bloom Township High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois, has set up a reading program which includes a reading clinic, a reading laboratory, and a program of Individually Prescribed Study (IPS). The IPS helps the students to master the reading skills necessary for his course work in content areas. Used in this program are various materials for working on reading skills including SRA Reading Labs, "Be A Better Reader" and other commercially produced skill books, and materials designed by the staff of the program to correspond to the course work of the students. Personnel of the program include a reading consultant, reading specialists, reading clinicians, and teacher aides. An inservice training program is provided for all freshman English teachers. The entire freshman class is enrolled in the reading program, and it may be elected by students in any other class. Tests and observational data indicate that the program is effective, particularly for boys and for students of lower IQ's. This effectiveness is largely attributed to the program's flexibility. References are included. (AL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Reading, Program Descriptions, Programed Instruction, Reading Centers, Reading Materials, Reading Programs, Reading Skills, Secondary Education
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Two words- Tabitha McGregor. Wow, what a woman. We are so grateful to have been invited into her personal world so we can share with you just what this special lady is all about…
Tabitha not only has two beautiful boys, a husband and a little beach cottage on the outskirts of Byron Bay, she's also co-owner and creative director of Thrills Co., a homegrown Aussie motorcycle brand which sells clothing and bikes. She juggles all of this daily, but admist the nitty gritty of motorbikes, designing range after range, school drop offs and home-making is a beautiful soul with immense artistic talent. Her paintings, illustrations and all of her art reflect who she is to the core. Her story goes a little something like this-
Having parents from opposite ends of the globe meant Tabitha spent her childhood bouncing to and from America and Australia, Australia definitely being her forever home. Having been nurtured in a creative household, taking the artistic life path pretty much made perfect sense for her.
Tabitha started working at the iconic brand Insight, where she met her now husband Brooke. They met on a Monday, he asked her out on a date on Tuesday, they moved in with each other the following Friday! Not long after, they packed their bags and moved to California to start their own sunglass brand- Sabre. When they found out they were expecting their first, it was time to head home. Sabre finished and Tabitha then perused her freelance artist career and they started importing vintage motorcycles from the states with one of their best friends from California and before their eyes, Thrills was born and so was Ace (who's 5)! "Throwing another little human into the mix made life very colourful, loud, amazing, challenging, satisfying, uncontrollable…etc" Brooke and Tabitha married, then they found out Bowie (now 3) was on his way!
As for her artistic creations, Tabitha "love(s) to draw anything from the mundane to the intricate, found objects and nature. I love the combination of objects to tell a story. For drawing, I love to draw detail and life like interpretations. For painting though, that's where I loosen up and let emotions rule." Although she creates everyday at work, she still finds to create her more abstract ideas.
Dreams, sadness, happiness inspires Tabitha to create, "I am big into symbology…the observer has their own unique interpretation of what a particular object or symbol means in their own personal visual language. Language whether it is written, spoken or drawn is a base of communication and through communication you can express how you feel. Using symbols in art makes me feel like I am creating my own unique language. I really love that."
"My family also inspires me to create, Brooke has been one of my biggest supporters through motherhood at not losing myself in the action of raising children, but rather incorporating my own creativity into the balance of having a family. He reminds me the importance of honouring each individuals unique creative passions, he is also a highly creative person so we understand each others needs deeply on that level."
"Creating with my children is hands down one of the best experiences I have, and in fact my level of creativity has increased 10 fold since they have come into my life. They are a true inspiration."
Thanks so much for sharing with us, Tabitha.
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On December days its deep green foliage stood out against bare stems of other plants. In autumn, though in full bloom, it was lost among the colorful leaves of surrounding trees and shrubs.
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The umbels of its greenish-yellow flowers were surrounded by bees and other insects looking for a late nectar, pollen and honeydew. It's just now, in winter, when the small green berries come into view. In April and May they will ripe and turn navy black. Watch out though, they are poisonous for people.
Usually it's the older, over a dozen-year-old plants that come into bloom, and the flowers appear only on the stems that get sufficient sunlight. The flowering shoots are stiff and erect, have unlobed, poplar-like leaves and they don't produce adventitious roots. As a result, such stems don't climb when rooted, but grow as shrubs or miniature trees, and so they aren't classified as climbers (variety 'Arborescens').
A native Polish ivy variety that grows wild in woodlands is a protected species. It can grow as high as 25 meters, but it is also happy creeping along the ground. It is one of the few evergreen vines that never freeze in the cool Polish climate. It climbs up walls and trees, preferably of a rough surface, using adventitious roots. Ivy has an undeserved reputation for killing trees, In actual fact it doesn't
directly affect the health of the trees it climbs. Its aerial roots are used only to provide support and they never grow into the tissue of the host plant to tap into its resources.
It is a slow grower, climbing under 1 meter per year, but quite long-lived and the oldest specimens are over 200 years old. It's exceptionally tolerant of deep shade, but may also grow in full sun. However, on a sun-exposed wall it may be susceptible to frost. It thrives in soils that are well irrigated, but doesn't like acid soils. It's perfect for walls of all dimensions, both large and small. It makes a fine display overgrowing old, historical buildings like castles, old manor houses or historic tenements. Often grown in cemeteries. Ideal for growing up trees, adding color to bare trunks and branches, after the leaves have fallen.
In a well sheltered spot you can plant the varieties with variegated foliage e.g.: 'Thorndale' with a paler veining, 'Goldchild' with distinctly bicolor leaves, or the less susceptible to frost 'Goldheart' with a splash of golden yellow at the center of a leaf. Apart from that there exists a wide range of varieties with silvery foliage, such as 'Little Diamonnd', as well as with the leaves of different shapes.
In order to enhance its growing conditions it's good to spread a layer of well-rotten manure at the base of the plant, especially around the young plants. It will encourage faster growth, which is crucial for small plants of a slow growth rate.
In antiquity ivy was besides grapevine one of the first cultivated climbers. On account of its longevity and evergreen foliage it was seen by the ancient Greeks as a symbol of eternal life and fertility. It was consecrated to the deities of Nature: Dionysus, Attics (vegetation god) and Cybele (the goddess of the Earth, fertility and the harvest). During the Dionysus orgies the Greeks used to chew its leaves to enhance their vitality, as well as they added it to their drinks as an aphrodisiac. In the Middle Ages it was often found overgrowing castle and monastery courtyards.


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- Principles of Social Interaction Design?
- Designing Social for the Enterprise
- Social design of the collaborative economy
- Mirror, surface, window – three modes of the social screen
- Gravity7 to Enterprise…UX and social in the workaday world
- The conundrum of corporate social media use
- Enterprise systems of engagement — social designers needed
- Apple, the rise and fall of "aura," and the social brand image
- Big UX, small UX
- Instagram profiles: the social image
- The system that breaks is not the system that repairs
- Beyond the Social Object
- The medium and its messengers: story-telling and social media
- Marketers may talk value, but user experience should not
- Zen, and the art of game mechanics
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I make your social media work better for people. Social Interaction Design (SxD) is user-centric approach to social media design, implementation, and strategy that accounts for how different kinds of users engage with social media, and how sites and application design and execution lead to emergent social practices. It applies to user experience design (UX), interaction design (IxD), user interface design (UI), and information architecture (IA). It draws on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, communication theory, and media theory. I am available for consulting to design agencies, social media agencies, startups, and social media campaign managers.
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Designing for dates: when contact needs a helping hand
Posted on October 19, 2010 by Adrian Chan
I got into social media more or less on the heels of running an online dating service in the late 1990s. It was the san francisco bay area franchise of matchmaker.Com, and I was co-owner with a friend. I made … Continue reading →
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Connections: A reflection on the development of social tools
Posted on October 13, 2010 by Adrian Chan
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Designing social tools: core user types
Posted on October 5, 2010 by Adrian Chan
In rolling out and growing a successful social product we need to always think from the user's perspective. Audiences don't view the product as we do, and we should have no reason to expect them to do with our platform … Continue reading →
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Best of the Interwebs 2007Gender, Media, Pop Culture, Race, Sex & Sexuality January 3rd. 2008, 1:51pm
Instead of droning on and on about my year in review and what I hope to accomplish in 2008, I thought I would instead highlight my favorite websites from the past year:
Offbeat Bride is a site tied to a book of the same name, written by Ariel Meadow Stallings. Both the book and site are must-reads for anyone who is planning a non-traditional wedding. Because of my studies, my entire belief system in regards to marriage has been turned upside down and it's been refreshing to witness other couples mix things up a bit.
Electrolicious is the personal blog of the author listed above. I love reading her blog because she captivates me for too many reasons to count—she's a freelance writer, pop culture guru, yoga-practicing vegetarian Seattleite photographer who has amazing fashion sense. What's not to love?
Racialicious is the most comprehensive, intelligent website focused on race relations. Updated on a regular basis (yay!), posts often focus on race in popular culture. And I really appreciate the fact that a majority of the readers offer thought-provoking discussions in the comments section of each post.
Whedonesque. After five months of fairly regular television viewing, I have finally finished Buffy the Vampire Slayer and am one season away from the completion of Angel. Besides mourning the loss of major amounts of time (Buffy alone was 144 hours of programming!), the experience was completely positive. The creator, Joss Whedon, has renewed my belief that television can be a better medium than film—however, most of the current shows on TV are botching it big time. Whedonesque is a fan-created and maintained blog that Joss himself uses to update the world about new projects.
Buzzfeed is a quick and easy way to keep up with pop culture trends across all mediums, from the web and fashion to politics and architecture. If you've ever felt behind-the-times (is Chocolate Rain a new candy?), this site is for you.
FlowTV and Media Commons are my two favorite academic websites this year. Flow focuses solely on television, while Media Commons studies all facets of popular culture—but they both include cutting-edge theory on the media and the intersection of race, sexuality, gender, etc


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The Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, (FIIRO), Dr Gloria Elemo, has said the focus on children nutritional products and needs would boost economic growth in Nigeria.
Mrs Elemo, who spoke yesterday in Lagos, said the research and development of high nutrient density biscuits and drinks were meant to provide school-age children with one-third of their daily dietary needs.
"Our target is school- age children between six and 12 years, and we need serious intervention in terms of attention for the project.
"The goal is to bring about physical development, emotional well-being, as a total package to help the child at that stage,"she said.
She described the institute's research into the children's biscuits as a necessary intervention, as they were not likely to have enough daily nutritional requirements.
Mrs Elemo said:"We see the need for government intervention, to create a sort of nutrient, and it is in this area we need help to push the plan to reality.
"It is important because the future of any nation resides in the youths, and the quality of the youths that comes out matters.
"So, meeting one-third of the recommended dietary allowance for these children during school hours— and for the school feeding programme— is very critical."
She also said that the research work took into consideration factors like food safety and standards, because doing it on homegrown basis might not yield the expected results.
The FIIRO chief said the project would be beneficial to the producers of these biscuits at the specification provided by the institute, in the area of employment generation.
"This alone is a large business because it is not FIIRO that will be producing it; the state governments will also be part of the arrangement. It translates to business and employment,"she said.
She reports that the House Committee on Science and Technology that visited FIIRO on July 8, 2013, was presented with the latest research development to increase food security.