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Extracts from the Aug 2013 Journal
Across the divide to Eastern Europe
The great bulk of the AJR's membership has always consisted of Jewish refugees from the German-speaking lands of Germany and Austria that were situated to the west of the Iron Curtain after 1945 and formed part of Western Europe for the entire period of the Cold War. That also applied to East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, when the reunification of Germany brought about the reintegration of the former GDR into a reunited Germany; from then on, Jews who had been born in Leipzig, Dresden or East Berlin could look back on their native cities in much the same way as those who had been born in Frankfurt or Hamburg.
That was not the case for those refugees who were born in the formerly German areas to the east of the Oder-Neisse line, since 1945 part of Poland, or, in the case of the enclave of Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), of Russia, for the entire German element in those areas was systematically removed after 1945. If they had returned, Jewish refugees from Silesia, East Prussia and eastern Pomerania, areas that had been part of Germany until 1945, would have seen only cityscapes from which everything German had been erased. The same is true of the port of Danzig (now Gdansk), which enjoyed the status of a free city between the wars, of the provinces of Posen and West Prussia, most of which became part of Poland after 1918, and of Baltic cities like Memel (now Klaipeda in Lithuania) or Libau (now Liepaja in Latvia) that were mainly or partly German-speaking until 1945.
The German and Austro-Hungarian Empires that extended across Eastern Europe before 1918 contained large concentrations of Jews in their eastern reaches, communities that were often German-speaking and in many cases identified themselves more with German culture than with that of the local nationalities surrounding them. Their admiration for Germany, the country of Goethe, Schiller and Beethoven, is one of the ironies of history, given that it was Nazi Germany that destroyed the Jews of Eastern Europe, often with the willing assistance of the local populations. This article will concentrate on the eastern territories of the German Empire, and next month's will cover Austria-Hungary.
Those areas of the German Empire the population of which was in the majority Polish, Posen (Poznan) and West Prussia, became part of the newly re-established state of Poland after 1918. Posen had long been a source of abundant Jewish emigration to the cities of Germany to the west, and that increased after the First World War, as Jews opted for Germany in preference to Poland. The family of Herbert Friedenthal, who was born in the city of Posen in 1909, became Herbert Freeden after emigrating to Britain and was one of the founding editors of this journal when it first appeared in 1946, was typical of the middle-class, German-speaking Jews who moved to Berlin to avoid Polish anti-Semitism and to demonstrate their preference for the liberal, progressive values and the high intellectual and cultural standards with which pre-Hitler Germany was synonymous for Jews across Eastern Europe.
Small towns in the province of Posen often contained Jewish communities from which emerged impressive numbers of famous figures. The small town of Rawitsch (now Rawicz), for example, was the birthplace of Marcus Brann (1849-1920), the noted Jewish scholar and historian who succeeded Heinrich Graetz at the head of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau in 1891; the mathematician Alfred Loewy (1873-1935); the sociologist and Zionist Arthur Ruppin, who was born there in 1876, moved with his family to Magdeburg in 1886 and was to play a pioneering part in the creation of the city of Tel Aviv; and Max Auerbach, who moved to Berlin, where his son Frank, a Kindertransportee now celebrated as one of Britain's greatest artists, was born in 1931.
Most of West Prussia, including towns such as Thorn (now Torun) and Graudenz (now Grudziadz), was allocated to Poland after the First World War. It became known as the Polish Corridor, the area that divided the main body of Germany from East Prussia, which, with its German majority, remained part of Germany until 1945. However, Danzig, the largest city in the area, situated at the mouth of the River Vistula, had a large majority of Germans and could not be allocated to Poland without seriously breaching the principle of national self-determination that underpinned the territorial settlement created by the Treaty of Versailles. To give the new state of Poland, which would otherwise have been landlocked, an outlet to the Baltic Sea, the victorious Allies declared Danzig a free city under the control of the League of Nations, thus ensuring that German territory could not block Poland's access to maritime trade and commerce.
Danzig, a classic Hanseatic city, had a Jewish population of some 10,500, residing amidst a German majority whose language and culture it largely shared. In the interwar years, the city became an important place of refuge for Jews fleeing Poland and the Soviet Union since it was both a free city to which entry was not limited by visa restrictions and a port of emigration. Though the Nazi Party took control of Danzig after 1933, the city remained separate from Germany – Hitler's attempt to incorporate it into the Reich by force in September 1939 led to the outbreak of the Second World War – and the Jewish community was to a small extent better placed than its counterparts within Germany. Many of Danzig's Jews shared the fate of Sigismund Markus in Günter Grass's novel The Tin Drum who commits suicide to escape the marauding Nazis, but many more succeeded in emigrating, probably because it was somewhat easier to emigrate from a free port than from Nazi Germany proper. The chairman of the Jewish community of Danzig was then Ernst Berent, who played a major part in organising the emigration of the community before escaping to Britain in November 1938, where he became an active member of the AJR.
Of these eastern provinces, it was Silesia that played host to the greatest concentration of Jews. Its largest city, Breslau (now Wroclaw), contained the third largest Jewish community in Germany after Berlin and Frankfurt, numbering over 23,000 at its peak. Breslau's Jews excelled in a wide range of professions and activities, from the scholar Heinrich Graetz to Ferdinand Lassalle, founder of Germany's first workers' party. Abraham Geiger, one of the founding fathers of Reform Judaism, held the post of Chief Rabbi in Breslau in 1840-63, during which period he helped to found the Jewish Theological Seminary, the first modern rabbinical seminary in Central Europe. But the city was also the setting for the widely read novel Soll und Haben (Credit and Debit) (1855) by Gustav Freytag, Silesian-born but not Jewish, in which honest, virtuous Germans are contrasted with the mercantile villainy of Jews and the uncivilised wildness of Poles. It is perhaps not surprising that the Viadrina, the first Jewish student fraternity, was founded at Breslau University in 1886, becoming the model for Jewish self-defence organisations across Germany.
Among the Silesian Jews who fled to Britain were Nobel Prize-winning scientists like the physicist Max Born and Fritz Haber, a chemist whose work made possible the fertilisers that feed the world (and the poison gas used by the German army in the First World War), the sociologist Norbert Elias, Alfred Kerr, Berlin's premier theatre critic, and the spinal injuries specialist Ludwig Guttmann. Hans Reichmann, chairman of the AJR in 1954-63, came from a Silesian family, while his wife, the historian Eva G. Reichmann, was born in Silesia, as was her sister Elisabeth, who in Britain married the writer Max Beerbohm.
Far to the east, stretching along the Baltic coast as far as the Lithuanian border, was East Prussia, which had been colonised by the Teutonic Knights in the thirteenth century and whose indigenous population had been largely germanised. In the sixteenth century, this Duchy of Prussia came under the rule of the Elector of Brandenburg, who ruled from Berlin. Only with the partition of Poland in the late eighteenth century was the predominantly Polish region of West Prussia acquired by Frederick the Great, thus linking East Prussia to the rest of his realm. It nowadays requires an effort of the imagination to recall that the Russian city of Kaliningrad was until 1945 Königsberg, capital of a German province and city of the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
The most easterly of the major German cities, Königsberg also contained a significant Jewish community, its numbers boosted by Jews fleeing from neighbouring Tsarist Russia. It was a centre of liberal, progressive politics in the nineteenth century, when Jews like the outspoken left-winger Johann Jacoby (1805-77) and the Liberal Eduard von Simson (1810-99) were notable players on the national stage. Jews also lived in the vanished German towns of Elbing and Allenstein (now Elblag and Olsztyn in Poland), Insterburg and Tilsit (now Chernyakhovsk and Sovetsk in the Kaliningrad enclave of Russia), or Heydekrug (now Silute in Lithuania).
Two dear friends, two very different fates
I attended an unusual book launch in Berlin's Centrum Judaicum in June this year. The book* was dedicated to the memory of some 1,000 Berlin Jews who were deported to the Minsk ghetto in 1941-42; all but a few were murdered there, together with thousands of others from other German cities and tens of thousands of Russian Jews. These lives would have passed into oblivion had it not been for the commitment of students from Humboldt University, who in 2009 began the heroic undertaking of uncovering the fate of some of these Berlin Jews and reconstructing their lives. This book encompasses 59 biographies, remembering a total of 129 people, and careful research has yielded not only their life histories but also documents and photographs of them and their families. Of the 1,000 Jews deported in 1941, only three men and one woman survived. The woman was Margot Aufrecht (see below).
The launch was attended by hundreds of people and was extremely touching. The introductory greeting came from Dr Hermann Simon, the Director of the Centrum Judaicum, and he was followed by Dr Michael Wild, Professor of Twentieth-century History at Humboldt University. The two editors, Anja Reuss and Kristin Schneider, who had also written the chapter about Margot Aufrecht, then explained how the book had come about.
In 2009 a group of students had decided to embark on the research that led to the book. Initially their findings were displayed in a travelling exhibition in 2011 and this was eventually expanded into book-form. The book has several introductory and informative historical chapters providing background information and details of the deportations, which were carried out with customary Nazi brutality. Shamefully, the collection point was the synagogue in Lützowstrasse, which had already been desecrated. The building was kept in total darkness and the overcrowding, with appalling sanitary facilities, was hideous. Each person had been allowed one suitcase or bundle and most were robbed of valuable items such as jewellery and watches. Those carrying money preferred to throw it into the toilets rather than hand it over and the toilets soon became clogged. Personal details were ascertained with the utmost bureaucracy. Men, women and children were required to strip naked for body searches; for orthodox women, this was a particularly humiliating procedure in the presence of men.
Two nights had to be endured in the synagogue. Representatives of the Jewish community did their best to ameliorate conditions for the elderly by providing mattresses, but there was little food and hygienic conditions soon became catastrophic. The 1,000 detainees were then taken to Bahnhof Grunewald and sent in 20 overcrowded third-class carriages, with wooden benches, to Minsk, a journey that took four days. On arrival, they were led into the ghetto, which was already vastly overcrowded with Russian Jews. Many of the Russians were shot in order to accommodate the new arrivals, who also included Jews from Vienna.
The editors read excerpts from three of the biographies. The high point was a speech, given in somewhat imperfect German, by Dr Felix Lipsky, a Russian Jew who was one of the very few survivors. He had been taken to the ghetto with his family as a three-year-old and he recounted some of his still vivid memories of hunger, deprivation and mass shootings. Striking among them was his account of the problematic relationship between the indigenous Russians and the more highly educated and generally better-off Jews from Berlin, some of whom entered the ghetto with jewellery and watches they were able to trade. Their fate was, of course, ultimately the same. Dr Lipsky mentioned the name of Margot Aufrecht as one who had also survived.
Why was I at the book launch? Margot Aufrecht had been a close pre-war childhood friend of Ruth Albert, née Loeser. Ruth had come to England on one of the last Kindertransports and we had become friends. She died in January 2013 (see my obituary of her in the May 2013 issue of the Journal) and had left among her possessions three letters written to her by Margot towards the end of 1945, when Margot still resided in the rebuilt Bergen-Belsen camp, to which she had been taken three months before its liberation by British troops. Ruth's daughter Franny Swann does not speak German and she asked me to translate the letters for her. Needless to say, they were incredibly tragic as Margot, for whom Ruth represented a lifeline, described not only her life in Bergen-Belsen but also some of the extreme hardships she and her brother had to endure in the Minsk ghetto.
There is no record of the letters Ruth had sent her but Margot's first letter was clearly in response to one joyfully received from her friend. How could Ruth have known that Margot was in Bergen-Belsen? I think I can provide a clue. Margot and her younger brother Herbert, who was shot in Minsk together with his parents, had attended as day pupils the school in the Berlin-Pankow Jewish orphanage for boys when they could no longer continue their education in their local primary schools. One of the teachers there was Heinz Nadel, who escaped to England in 1939 and joined the British Army soon after his arrival. He served in the Intelligence Corps and his unit entered Bergen-Belsen within a few days of its liberation by British troops. He was instrumental in supporting the surviving children and organised schooling and entertainment for them. One day he ran into the emaciated and very ill Margot, who recognised him. Heinz Nadel, by then Harry Harrison, kept in touch with several former pupils of the orphanage after the war and Ruth Albert must have been among these. I recall this encounter in my autobiography (Sunday's Child? A Memoir, Bank House Books 2009, ISBN 9781904408444), in which I devoted a chapter to Harry Harrison with the title 'Quiet Hero of Berlin', a title The Guardian had given to my obituary of him in 1989.
Having translated Margot's three long handwritten and badly faded letters, I felt emotionally so engaged that I decided to discover what happened to her subsequently, the correspondence between the two friends apparently having ceased. Several approaches proved futile until my friend Karin Manns in Berlin discovered, after many hours spent on the internet, that a book about Berlin Jews incarcerated in the Minsk ghetto was due to be published in June and that one of the 59 chapters was devoted to Margot and her family! A frantic email correspondence between one of the editors and myself ensued and, as a result, the letters, together with a photograph of the young Ruth, were incorporated into the chapter at the very last moment.
And so the two friends were re-united - at least on paper - although both were already dead, Margot having died in 1988. She had emigrated to Australia in 1948 to join an uncle mentioned in one of her letters and there she had married and had two children. I have exchanged emails with her daughter, Ruth Lismann, and it turns out that Margot had left her children completely in the dark concerning her wartime experiences, which she was evidently determined to put behind her once and for all. At Ruth Lismann's request, I sent her my translation of the three letters her mother had written and, not surprisingly, she and her brother were deeply shaken by these revelations and by the information in the chapter devoted to their mother in the book.
What had seemed an impossible task that I had set myself was, surprisingly, accomplished and several weeks of searching and several nights of lost sleep were amply rewarded. The book's editors are hoping that an English translation will appear in due course.
* Unvergessene Lebensgeschichten. Ein Gedenkbuch für die nach Minsk deportierten Berliner Jüdinnen und Juden (Unforgotten Biographies: A Memorial Book for Jewish Women and Men Deported from Berlin to Minsk), edited by Anja Reuss and Kristin Schneider, Berlin-Minsk: Metropol Verlag, 2013, hard cover 496 pp., ISBN 978-3-86331-116-2, 224 Euros
Art Notes
If you ask people living in Manchester or Salford today if L. S. Lowry's paintings resemble their home town, they will probably look blank. His northern cities with their 'dark satanic mills', the dour heritage of Britain's industrial revolution, have disappeared. In Lowry's early-20th-century mill-towns, with their smoking chimneys, etiolated white streets and skies, people are swept, bowed down with responsibility, towards the factory, the protest march or the football club. Even the church offers no sanctuary - just a dour and gothic sense of swallowing up mankind. Far-sighted Jewish industrialists, impressed by his record of what would become a swiftly changing world, are claimed to have been the first to snap up Lowry's paintings.
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life at Tate Britain (until 20 October) seems a strange title for an exhibition that so totally reflects the past. But in this regard Lowry was a modernist and, more importantly, a symbolist, a socially aware artist who shows us how the machine age dwarfs humanity against the looming edifice of the mills and the tiny, back-to-back tenement houses of the working poor.
Originally influenced by Utrillo, Lowry was encouraged by his teacher, Valette, to instil a more rounded, European atmosphere into his work. His skylines, with their reeking chimneys, were dark and threatening. Eventually commercial interests persuaded him to lighten the background, using flake white and raw amber. Against this pallor, Lowry's walking masses possess no individuality. And yet it is the plight of man that engages him.
Most of the work here is repetitive, with no sign of his more emotional paintings of mining tragedies. But in the repetition he is really on-message, drawing you into his world - his panorama of little people crushed by the machine age. Finally, in two panoramas, Lowry accepts some grandeur in the industrial development which has subsumed the countryside - but they don't quite come off.
This is all a far cry from artists like Diego Rivera, whose paintings of Mexico in all its primary colours and dour restraint, inspired by Mayan art, reflect the country's early-20th-century turmoil. The Royal Academy's exhibition, Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940 (until 29 September), conveys the cultural renaissance spawned by revolution and political unrest in a series of photographs and paintings redolent of the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Between 1910 and 1920, presidential assassinations and revolution are depicted in an artistic obsession with death – hanged skeletons are photographed rotting on trees, or ritualistic imagery, whose brilliant colours tell a more sombre and symbolic story.
Artists from Europe and America flocked to Mexico in the wake of a new political invitation to restore art to the desolate country; political correctness was observed at first but was soon disregarded in favour of freer expression. Roberto Montenegro's Mayan Women are almost reptilian in character, with dotted houses and trees as inscrutable as their faces. David Alfaro Siqueiros's portrait of assassinated revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata has a terrifying ghostly appearance: there is death in his eyes beneath his heavy eyelids. Probably Philip Guston best captures the upheaval in his 1940 painting Gladiators, in which faceless bodies writhe in a work suggestive of Picasso's Guernica.
Letter from Israel
In Israel it is a matter of routine for the majority of the population that when a child turns 18 they enlist in the IDF in order to give two or three years of service to the country. Now it is the turn of my grandchildren to serve.
So it was with mixed feelings that I attended the passing-out ceremony of my oldest grandson, Gil. As I look at his impressive six-foot frame, it is with a pang that I remember him as a toddler who always had a healthy appetite, grew at a rapid pace, played football and basketball with his friends, and wasn't a great one for talking. In fact, in common with many of his generation, he seems to have developed a special way of talking and a unique vocabulary that makes it difficult to understand him even when he does speak.
Like many of his friends, on completing high school, Gil was eager to join a combat unit. Not for them the life of the backroom boys who sit before computer monitors or in offices. These boys are only too eager to launch themselves into military training of the most rigorous kind, testing their ability to endure hardship and prove their mettle.
The passing-out parade was held in a grassy area surrounded by woodland. At the centre was a memorial for soldiers from the force who had fallen in battle, fronted by a small parade ground. As is customary at such events, the parade was preceded by a meeting between the families and the soldiers, who had just completed one and a half years of training. Each family had come laden with food and drink for the young men, who fell eagerly upon the feast set out on tables among the trees. The mothers of the soldiers in Gil's unit had organised themselves into a group which was in constant contact through the 'WhatsApp' application. This means that throughout the training period they shared information, even got together at one stage, and served as a support group for one another.
Another Israeli tradition on such occasions is to have special shirts printed denoting the family's pride in their offspring. This too had been co-ordinated by the mothers of Gil's unit and each mother had a pale mauve T-shirt with a cartoon of a soldier saluting a mother on the front and the slogan 'OK, YOU'RE A FIGHTER BUT YOU'RE STILL MY SON!' and her son's name on the back. The mothers had also ordered special cakes iced in the force's colours, decorated with army boots and insignia made out of sugar. An amazing sight!
Following a brief ceremony and speeches by officers, the families were treated to a film showing some of the training the soldiers had been undergoing in the preceding 18 months. It was then that I felt like passing out myself (in the other sense of the phrase). The training was extremely strenuous and demanding. Not everyone who began the course had the strength and stamina to complete it. By the end, it was clear that the participants had been toughened up and were no longer boys but men: they had also developed a special bond, becoming a band of brothers, each of whom would be prepared to lay down his life for the others.
After a brief respite, the real work of being a serving soldier begins for Gil and the others in his special unit. This means that for the next 18 months the family will tune into every news broadcast, keeping its eyes and ears open for information about the political and military situation, knowing that Gil and his companions are on the front line and that their lives may well be in danger at any given moment. Our emotions are a combination of pride and fear. We're keeping our fingers crossed and hoping for a peaceful time.
Art Notes (review)
Years before Photo-Realism, the rapt intensity in Dame Laura Knight's portraits of war-workers and military personnel has a rare immediacy. Her group portraits of women members of the auxiliary air force are part of the National Portrait Gallery's first major exhibition of Knight's work (until 13 October). Some subjects, like the portrait of Ruby Loftus in green hairnet and blue overalls screwing a breech ring, have gained immortality through her art. There are airmen preparing for a sortie, their faces a study in concentration. Undoubtedly these unusually honest portrayals are a social documentary of the British at war.
But Knight, one of the leading artists of the 20th century, departs slightly from Realism in her large courtroom painting of The Nuremberg Trial, which she covered in her late sixties as a war correspondent. While the defendants, including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer and their lawyers, are all clearly depicted, there is a surreal war image of a city burning in the background, a reminder that this is no ordinary trial.
Aged 13, Knight was the youngest student at the Nottingham School of Art. With her artist husband Harold Knight, she moved in the early part of the 20th century to an art colony in Cornwall, where she painted landscapes in an Impressionist style. Her most famous painting from this period is a self-portrait, in which Knight, in red coat and black hat, appears with her artist model Ella Naper. It is a landmark of the exhibition in that both she and her model (also mirrored) are shown only in back view, the artist appearing as a voyeur.
In the 1920s Knight famously painted actors and dancers backstage at the Ballets Russes, gypsies and circus performers. Her dancers contrast strongly with Degas's Impressionist vision, though one, with long red hair, recalls Vermeer. A rugged-faced gypsy who appears to be wearing everything she possesses stares out at us as if there's nothing in life she hasn't lived.
Although very much in the tradition of Realist painting, Knight ventures further, catching a sudden change of mood or expression in her sitter. Typical is her 1926 profile of the pianist Ethel Barlett, caught in mid-conversation, lips pursed, one hand grasping the other.
I was particularly struck by her 1914 portrait Rose and Gold, a strikingly pretty girl with a halo of shimmering red gold hair. Tragically the beautiful model was murdered by her jealous lover soon after.
And now for something really different. Looking In: Photographic Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae at the Ben Uri is the Gallery's take on migrant artists from other communities. Ben Uri Chairman David Glasser refutes the concept of Jewish art and this show examines other immigrants equally seeking identity in an adopted homeland. The young, sadly late artist Maud Sulter examines her Ghanaian-Scottish roots in historical costume portraits on the theme of the Greek Muses. But, rejecting the female passivity which she finds implicit in classic Western imagery, her Muses are powerful and assertive. Chan-Hyo Bae's work is entirely self-portraiture. His severe, whitened face under huge wigs or hats is a lavish, though ultimately self-indulgent, blend of Tudor courtliness and Japanese ritual.


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(a) A Board of Regents is created to take the place of the former board of education.
(b) The Board shall consist of 9 members appointed by the Governor with the concurrence of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Two of the board members shall be appointed from Manu'a, 4 from the eastern district, and 3 from the western district. Appointment of Board members shall be for staggered terms of 2 and 3 years, but members shall serve until successors are appointed by the Governor.
(c) The Board shall meet quarterly and at such other times as determined by majority vote of the Board members or as called for by the Director of Education.
(d) The Board shall function as an Advisory Board to the Director of Education, who shall be an ex officio member of the board.History: 1962, PL 7-15; 1970, PL 11-92.

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Students Surprised to Find Noah's Ark Feasible
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Advanced physics students at Leicester University were tasked with determining if the Biblical dimensions of Noah's ark—assuming it was properly constructed—could have supported the mass of 70,000 animals. Student Kayie Raymer told UK's The Telegraph that after other "more serious" assignments, this one was "something different."1 What did they find?
The students used 48.2cm (almost 19 inches) as the length of a cubit to estimate the total dimensions of the ark. Using the density of water and Archimedes' principle of buoyancy, they calculated the total mass the ark could contain without sinking.
"Previous research has suggested that there were approximately 35,000 species of animals which would have needed to be saved by Noah," according to The Telegraph, though they cited no source for this estimate. Doubling this number to account for a male and female of each species, the student group estimated that the ark needed to have held approximately 70,000 creatures. To the students' surprise, they found that this amount did not exceed the total mass the ark could contain. Physics student Thomas Morris told The Telegraph, "You don't think of the Bible necessarily as a scientifically accurate source of information, so I guess we were quite surprised when we discovered it would work." The students published their results in Leicester University's Journal of Physics Special Topics.
The students' results at the ark having 70,000 creatures actually exceed biblical expectations, giving further assurance that the ark could hold all that it needed—including food and even water.
Creatures change within the boundaries of their own "kinds" or fundamental forms, so Noah certainly did not need to take on board all "species,"a modern term that seems to bear as many definitions as there are researchers who use it.
What about the biblical detail given in Genesis, which noted seven of each bird kind—probably meaning seven pairs of each bird kind—on board Noah's ark? If today's "species" were substituted for basic "kinds" here, then the total number of birds would probably have exceeded ark capacity. However, creation biologists have been combing the literature for breeding records that help them estimate which "species" likely belonged to a "kind."2 For example, breeding studies link sparrows and finches as within-kind creatures.3 Instead of over 1,000 sparrow or finch "species," perhaps as few as 14 sparrow-finch representatives were on the ark.
Applying this principle to all "species" would dramatically reduce Leicester University's student-estimated 70,000 animals. Creation researcher John Woodmorappe's book, Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study, estimated the number of ark kinds as the number of families of extant and extinct air-breathing, land-dwelling animals, totaling about 8,000 kinds or 16,000 individuals—including the sevens of birds and clean animals.4 That would require merely one third of the ark's volume, leaving plenty of space for provisions and people.
It's amazing what happens when the Bible's accuracy is put to the test. The Leicester University physics students "were astonished to find out that the Ark would have floated," according to The Telegraph.1 How much more astonished would they be to find that the Ark not only could have floated, but could have carried all its passengers and their provisions for a whole year, just as the Scriptures say? Since the Bible contains spiritual truths, discovering that the Bible also records historical truth turns out to be "more serious" than secularized students at first suspect.
- Knapton, S. Noah's Ark would have floated...even with 70,000 animals. The Telegraph. Posted on telegraph.co.uk April 3, 2014, accessed April 3, 2014
- Henigan, T. An Initial Estimate toward Identifying and Numbering the Ark Turtle and Crocodile Kinds. Answers Research Journal. 7 (2014): 1-10.
- Lightner, J.K. 2010. Identification of a large sparrow-finch monobaramin in perching birds (Aves: Passeriformes). Journal of Creation. 24 (3): 117-121
- Woodmorappe, J. 1996. Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study. Santee, CA: Institute for Creation Research.
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on April 11, 2014.
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How four businesses ramped up their curb appeal with signage upgrades courtesy of FastSigns.
Makeovers-they're all the rage today. Home makeovers, car makeovers, yard makeovers, city makeovers, fashion makeovers, and so on; you name it, it's being made over. The purpose of each makeover, of course, is to have a better looking 'something' when it is done, whatever that something is.
So why not treat a business to a "graphics and signage makeover" and see how it can have a beneficial impact upon a company's revenue stream? That is just what sign-shop franchisor FastSigns International decided to do.
The franchise giant asked its 425 franchisees across the US and Canada to nominate local businesses that needed more than just a sign or two-what companies really needed a total graphics makeover but, for some reason, had never done so? Four finalists would be chosen, and each business would receive a free signage and graphics makeover paid for by FastSigns. The goal was to quantify the value and impact that signage has on a business, and determine if the increased visibility and a fresh look would translate into more sales.
'Signage is one of the best uses of a company's advertising dollars and allows even the smallest business to gain attention,' says Larry Lane, president of FastSigns. 'A sign makeover is a cost-effective way to give a business a fresh, new, and updated image, which can potentially increase the customer base and, most importantly, sales.' Of course, the resultant publicity couldn't hurt FastSigns either. And FastSigns and its franchisees could then use any results for the makeovers as great case studies for prospective customers, and further show the need for good graphics and signage.
All the makeovers focused on ramping-up the curb appeal for the business-including the company's sign, vehicle, and other graphics visible from the street. In all, 25 businesses were nominated for the graphics makeovers; most were small businesses-restaurants, retail establishments, business services, etc.-that were locally owned.
In determining the winners, FastSigns' corporate judges looked at various criteria, including: multiple elements that could be changed (store front, windows, vehicles); geographic location; the potential for a dramatic difference in appearance; and a reasonable cost factor. They finally whittled the nominees down to the four makeover winners:
* All Occasions Florist in Dallas;
* Wrap Shack in Windsor, Ontario, Canada;
* Lutz Plumbing in San Francisco; and
* Morkes Chocolates in Chicago.


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Unix operating system from Sun Microsystems for sparc, sparc64, x86, and amd64 hardware.
For the DRI to work on Solaris, someone would need to implement the DRM layer. This would involve adding a DRM kernel subsystem to the Solaris kernel, and possibly adding some Solaris support to libdrm.
This has been done in the development release of Solaris ("Nevada"), and the i915 DRM module provided.
- OpenSolaris Heads-up: Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) Integration
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I bought a big cone in a neutral color. I put it in the bobbin and top and had to get a magnifying glass to see the stitches. :lol: It's very strong to be so thin. I don't have to worry about getting a scant 1/4 seam in piecing using this. I found this about the thread:
Size 15 and 23 are ultra-lightweight threads typically used for sewing garments and as bobbin thread. It is stronger than comparable spun polyester and cotton threads.
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Ethnic Conflict And Federalism In Nigeria
The problem I want to examine is how to characterize the relationship between ethnicity and federalism in Nigeria. I want to illustrate how the dynamics of ethnicity, by which I mean its manipulation as a political resource of conflict and accommodation by the political elite, has shaped the development of federalism in the country. In what follows I attempt to build on arguments I have advanced elsewhere (Jinadu, 1982; 1984; 1985; 1994), drawing on recent trends in Nigerian politics, and situating the discussion in historical and comparative perspective.
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After living for nearly two years in a corporate rental apartment, BSO Music Director Marin Alsop wanted a place that felt like home.
"I wanted to have my own space," says Alsop, who also shares a house in Denver with her partner Kristen Jurkscheit and their five-year-old son Auden. "I started looking at a lot of high rises with a Realtor, and one day I finally said to her, 'I'm so sorry. I hope you don't think I've wasted your time, but I lived in a high rise in Manhattan, and it's just not what I want.' I said, 'I'd love to live in a church or someplace with real character.'"
Cue the angels singing. Because on the way back from her meeting with the Realtor, Alsop noticed a "For Sale" sign hanging on a Mt. Vernon-area historic church. The building had been converted into four condominiums. She decided to see what was available. Though she was first shown another condominium toward the back of the space, Alsop went wild for the front condo with its majestic, multi-paneled, 12-foot stained glass windows. The space was being rented at the time, but Alsop knew it had to be hers. "Even before I had seen the inside," she recalls, "I knew I wanted to buy it. When I had said I wanted to live in a church, it was like in my dreams, and here I was."
The renters moved out and, by November 2008, Alsop had purchased her dream home. Now she was faced with the daunting prospect of decorating it. (After all, what's the point of having a dream house if it doesn't have a dream interior?) She turned to Steve Appel, co-owner of Belvedere Square's Nouveau Contemporary Goods and senior designer of Whitehead & Appel Interior Design. Alsop and Appel had worked together in 2007, when he transformed her dressing room from fusty to fabulous with the addition of hardwood floors, grass cloth walls, and hip, retro-chic furnishings.
"When I was thinking about trying to decorate a place, I had never used an interior designer—that always seemed like something you do for a hunting lodge," says Alsop. "But Steve's attention to detail was so formidable, I called him when I was looking, and I said, 'Steve, I don't know where I'm going to end up, but I'd like to talk to you about designing whatever space I get,' and then when I found this, and I brought him over, he totally flipped."
While the busy maestra was jaunting between London, Los Angeles, Stockholm, and Spain, Appel began customizing the two bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath space. His challenge? To hit a pitch-perfect decorating note in time for Alsop's Baltimore homecoming in February 2009.
"It needed to fit her like a glove," says Appel. "It needed to have areas where she could relax and write scores, listen to music, and spend time with her son. She also needed a very sophisticated area to entertain BSO patrons. These were her directives. I tried to bring out the ideas that were deep inside of her that she couldn't express in this sort of venue. She could express it in music, but not in interior design."
When Appel first stepped into the space, he had a vision of incorporating elements of the church into the design.
Luckily, thanks to the foresight of builders Louren Roddick and Jerome LeBlond, such items had been painstakingly saved and restored. As a result, Alsop's home is now filled with unique liturgical relics, including pipe organ pedals artfully suspended on a wall in a sitting room, original church pews with inset Minton tiles that stand in as dining room seating, and a massive circa-1900 amber colored converted gas lantern, once hung over the main altar, that now illuminates the dining room table.
"Some guys might pick up a hammer and start swinging," explains LeBlond of saving parts of the original church. "That's what we didn't want to do."
An added decorating bonus: Alsop's parents, both professional musicians, are also inveterate collectors. "Whenever I move somewhere, my parents love to come with a big truck and unload a lot of their antiques like the three-legged tables," chuckles Alsop. "They'll say, 'Oh, this only needs a little work.' I wanted to bring in their love of old things because I love old things, too, but I still wanted a place that was livable and hip and cozy and comfortable."
Appel offered to view her father's collection. After an arduous, nine-hour, snowy drive to her parent's property in Saratoga Springs, NY, he found himself rummaging through two barns and a basement filled with a lifetime's worth of antiques and bric-a-brac.
"Her dad is an obsessive collector," notes Appel. "Antiques Roadshow could be filmed at his house."
Recalls Alsop: "Steve was running around while he was on the phone with me saying, 'Okay, I like that tricycle,' and I'm thinking, 'Tricycle? What are you going to do with a tricycle?'"
Among Appel's finds that are now placed throughout the maestra's home: a wooden scooter from the late 1800s, intricate blue and pink Art Nouveau panels of stained glass, a 1920s black fan with brass blades, a dark walnut Empire-style mirror, an antique manjo (a cross between a mandolin and a banjo), an RCA Victrola, and, of course, that red 1920s tricycle, which is now prominently suspended in an alcove between the sitting and living rooms.
Alsop's own sense of beauty was nurtured through exposure to many forms of art. When she wasn't learning to play the piano (age 2) or taking on the violin (age 5), she helped her parents rehab several fixer-uppers, including a modest two-bedroom home in Westchester, NY, where Alsop's father, Llamar, built a 40-foot cathedral ceiling room for chamber music. "We had this tiny little house with one bathroom, and this huge living room for chamber music," says Alsop with a laugh.
As Alsop grew older, her father purchased the house in Saratoga Springs, NY, a converted Victorian-era nursing home that, at the time, was quite ramshackle.
"I spent my formative years peeling paint off that house," says Alsop. Although the house itself needed extensive work, Alsop's father—always a bit of a dreamer—decided it was a priority to build an addition, a concert hall that seated up to 150 people. "My father loves architecture and has always fancied himself a bit of a designer," she says.
Alsop's father even smuggled in a bit of rare contraband to finish the space. "They used to have these beautiful wooden beams for light poles on the West Side Highway," she says. "When my dad heard they were taking them down, he wanted to put those in the concert hall. He did some deal with one of the workers and picked them up in the middle of the night, but because we didn't have a babysitter, my parents woke me up, and off we all went to the highway. We spent our free time on these crazy projects."
Her parents' anything-goes approach to objects, art, and architecture, made an impact on their only child. "I'm an odd amalgam—I appreciate and have a fairly decent eye for old things, but I also love simplicity and clarity and non-clutter," Alsop says. "I'm a mix of really simple taste and over-the-top taste at the same time. I think it is reflected in this place. I want to respect tradition but do the unexpected, too, and do it in an air of comfort not to put people off."
Those very words could describe Alsop's approach to conducting. After only two seasons, Alsop has made her mark on the BSO, which just signed her to a five-year extension. She has been lauded for making classical music accessible and affordable to all, lowering ticket prices, and designing innovative educational programs for school children.
"The [condo] is a fantastic blend of antique and contemporary, much like Marin's programming at the BSO," says Alsop's former executive assistant, Jeffrey Luther. "She often pairs a contemporary piece of music with a classic piece, putting the older piece in a new context and highlighting the inspiration behind the new piece."
Alsop enjoys the same sense of the unexpected in her adopted hometown.
"It's a little quirky," Alsop says of Baltimore. "It's the perfect combination of east coast city but has a really nice, warm, small town feel to it as well. I find it interesting and curious and different, and the people are so nice. People are always asking, 'How can I help with the Symphony? How can I help with the outreach programs you are doing?' [That's] not usually the first question people ask completely unsolicited."
As Alsop gets ready to launch the BSO's 2009-10 season (beginning September 12), she credits her new space with helping to inspire her.
"I started thinking about how we all share an innate understanding of music and art," explains Alsop. "This season is really a celebration of our shared musical roots and to have this space to come to and reflect, I find really healing and inspiring. Living here, I feel a little bit like I'm in the eye of the storm where everything is going on around me, but my place is very calm. When I'm on the road and in hotels, there is a lot of trying to cope with existing. Finally, having a space that is aesthetically pleasing and emotionally rewarding feels great."


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For some peculiar reason it appears that nearly all of my stories features one Draco Malfoy. I cant promise to rectify this situation at all it appears he is the character I find it easiest to write. And I certainly do like to write about him.
My first story is called 'How a Murder May Change a Life,' and it's now all done.
'A Suitable Young Man.' is now all done :) The three stories featuring Draco/Ginny are sort of connected (but can perfectly well be read separately).
Right now I'm writing away on my Sirius/Ginny story. Not abandoned - just taking a rest. Third chapter shouldn't be too far away.
I'm also pondering a Blaise/Ginny story ... hmm. Back to thinking.
Nominated for a Quicksilver Quill for Best Romance-Non Canon
Written for the Life Begins at Forty Bookbasilisk Summer Challenge.
Written for the Gift of Gab Bookbasilisk Summer Challenge


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(NBC News) Defense Secretary Hagel is off to Norfolk today to explain billions in cuts he's proposing for next year.
The cuts would shrink our military to its smallest size since world war two.
Pentagon leaders say with 13 years of war coming to an end and massive deficits, they have to make these cuts. The new goal – defending the homeland while fighting one war at a time.
The army would lose up to 80-thousand soldiers though special operations forces would grow.
The F-35 would replace slower, more expensive A-10s, drones would replace the cold war U-2 spy plane, and army training helicopters would be retired. "We must now adapt, innovate, and make difficult decisions to ensure that our military remains ready and capable," said Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.
The military would have to use one-percent raises to help pay for housing and other subsidies being cut. "What we're trying to do is solve our financial problems on the backs of our military. And that can't be done," said Rep. Buck McKeon, (R) California.
Governors are concerned about the impact on their National Guard. "It could weaken our abilities as commanders of our National Guard[,] especially during times of disasters," said Governor Mary Fallin, (R) Oklahoma.
The Pentagon's plan gets a stamp of approval from the White House.
One governor described the president's tone as aggressive: "Don't start coming in now complaining that these cuts are effecting you, because you said you wanted it. Now you're going to get it," said Governor Nikki Haley, (R) South Carolina.
MILitary families are concerned shrinking the force could make it harder to recruit. "It means they might not even want me as a pilot, which scares me because that's what I want to do," said Army Recruit, Sean Anderson.
The pentagon warns, if Congress renews the Sequester in 2016, expect even deeper cuts.


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NEWARK – The 3-percent budget cut mandated by the Worcester County Commissioners could harm education in the local school system, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jon Andes said the week after the cuts were announced.
"The reduction will impact the quality of our schools and school system," Andes said.
Board of Education member Bob Hulburd echoed Andes' sentiment, saying, "There's going to be some tough times. I don't know yet exactly what we're going to be able to do about it."
Last week, the County Commissioners issued an edict to county departments and the school board limiting budget requests for the next fiscal year to 3-percent less than the current operating budgets.
Worcester County schools currently get $75.9 million of their operating budget from the county government. A 3-percent reduction would subtract $2.2 million from that number, reducing it to $73.7 million.
According to Andes, the cut request from the commissioners comes at a time when the school system is also projecting a large increase in the basic cost of running the school system, from utilities and trash hauling to telephone and Internet service.
"The additional cost of doing business next year will be $2 million. That's our estimate," said Andes.
With the loss of $2.2 million, and the need to accommodate a probable $2 million increase in the cost of basic services, the school system will have to make some hard decisions.
"It will make it very challenging to try to sustain high quality educational services for our students," Andes said.
There is no obvious place to make cuts, Andes said.
"This will really impact some quality programs," said Hulburd. "There's not a lot of fluff anyway."
The 14 Worcester County schools will not present their budget requests to the Board of Education until Dec. 2. The next Board of Education meeting will be held Dec. 16. The school board will begin discussing cuts then.
"We will be having some in-depth conversations about it. This goes beyond just trying to stay where we were," said Hulburd. "We had a goal to stay where we were."
The Board of Education will have to pick and choose and protect the most valuable programs, Hulburd said.
"We've got to sit down and look at the details. We may have to come back to [the commissioners] and say, do you realize what would have to be done?" Hulburd said. "We're going to take a hard look at everything. Everything's on the table."
While Andes could not detail any possible cuts this week, some areas could be less likely to see cuts than others.
"We would do anything we possibly could to sustain our class sizes," Andes said. "I believe the high level of success our school system enjoys is due to our class sizes."
That means keeping enough teachers to keep class sizes small. The number one goal is to protect the school system's employees, Hulburd felt.
"Our priority is the employees. That's what allows us to be effective for the kids," he said.
While the County Commissioners have decreed that county employees will not be getting raises this year, the school board must negotiate contracts with teachers and support personnel.
"Every year we collectively bargain the contract [with the teachers union]," Andes said.
The process starts in December, and negotiations can take up to three months, according to Andes.
Grant-funded programs that have come to the end of their funding this year could also face some challenges. The commissioners have said in strong terms that they will not be picking up expired grants during this budget session. Many after-school and summer school programs in the county are still grant-funded, and the fourth and fifth grade after-school programs are coming due this year, with grant funding no longer available. "That's a challenge for us," Andes said.
To fund those programs within the budget constraints, the Board of Education will have to shift the funding from another program.
Hulburd said he is also concerned that education funding from the State of Maryland could also be cut. Revenue levels can only be projected now. Actual funding numbers will not be available until after the first of the year and in some cases much later.
The Board of Education and County Commissioners have had some bitter disagreements in the past year over money and communications between the two entities. Hulburd said he appreciated that the commissioners have been upfront about the need for cuts early on.
"Our board wants to be team players. We want to work within the restrictions we're all facing," Hulburd said. "We do have to face the reality, and the commissioners are passing that reality on to us."


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Effective teaching can be found in the paper trail of standardized test scores in addition to the inspirational stories told at graduation.
Good teaching also can be measured with a formula using data and numbers, or is success better proved after students leave the classroom?
"An effective teacher can be measured not only by their results on a test but in the impact that you have on that child's life and beyond," said Crystal Gaines, a teacher at John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School. "To me, I know I've been effective when I still have that relationship with them after they leave my classroom because it goes beyond academics."
As intangible as good teaching can be, state officials are working to create a measurement system that identifies which teachers are affecting student success and which are holding students back. The 2012-13 term is the first year of implementation of the Teacher Keys Effectiveness System, which uses classroom observations, student surveys and student academic growth to measure a teacher's effectiveness.
"There was a time when an administrator would go in the classroom, you'd look at the bulletin board, you'd see if the students were extremely quiet, but it's not like that anymore," said Missoura Ashe, Richmond County's executive director of elementary schools. "This is more specific, more in-depth. You are to score a teacher based on what's evident. Not what you think but what you see."
The process began early in the school year with teacher self-assessments and continued with principals' observations. This month, the Richmond County School System is in the midst of the student feedback component, in which students take a 15-question survey that asks such things as, "Does my teacher encourage me to participate in class?" Students answer with a four-point rubric ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree.
Teachers don't see the students' names or how one student answered all the questions, but can view how many students gave the same answer.
"I love it because for me, as a teacher, if there are ways I need to grow so I can teach my kids better, I want to do that," said Pine Hill Middle School English/language arts teacher Leslie LaPrise. "I know what I'm good at, but a lot of times I need feedback on where I need to grow."
Along with student surveys, administrators must observe each teacher based on 10 instruction standards several times a year, in addition to four more casual, unscored walk-throughs.
For subjects that have yearly standardized tests, the growth a student makes will be compared to scores from the year before.
In subjects that aren't tested, such as chorus or physical education, student growth will be measured in before-and-after tests.
The data from principals' observations, student surveys and test scores is compiled in the Teacher Keys Effectiveness System online platform for teachers, who can log in to the system and review their evaluation at any point in the year. LaPrise also uploads video and photos of her instruction to her profile to give more information to her principal and to store ideas.
Dana Rickman, the director of policy and research for the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, said the evaluation system is mostly a tool for reflection and can help teachers grow in areas they didn't realize were lacking.
"The way they wanted this accountability system to work was to be a learning tool for teachers and not so much a 'Gotcha, you're not a good teacher,' " Rickman said. "It's more like, 'Here's the areas where you're strong, and here's where you need work.' "
The state is still determining how to calculate a final score, or effectiveness measure, when the observations, student surveys and student growth components are combined at the end of the year, according to Avis King, the deputy superintendent in the state Office of School Improvement.
Also uncertain is how outstanding scores will be rewarded, whether with merit pay, salary increases or a pat on the back.
"That would take, I believe, legislation or a big change," King said of merit pay. "Our focus right now is making sure these effectiveness systems are the best they can be."
Even without merit pay, LaPrise said, constructive feedback is a reward in itself, giving teachers more specific direction on how to improve their instruction.
Having taught in Maryland and other states, LaPrise said other states' evaluation pieces can be threatening and punitive. But an opportunity to work with a principal to discuss strategy and hear feedback from students broadens her perspective.
"When you feel like your job is on the line, you feel like you have to defend yourself," she said. "But in a system where your job is safe, it's easy to hear 'This is where you need to improve.' It's easy to be open to improvement."


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pro at licking pussy
I'd luv 2 taste u :)
My g/f,s soaking wet after watching lol
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I wish i was her! Just fckd myself nice and hard watching this vid. ;)
This is the lovely Kristina Black.
I know my wife was getting laid by a older man when she was younger. When we first started dating in our late teens she usedto babysit for a couple who worked different times. The husband got home a few hours earlier. When the kids were asleep he'd take my wife into the spare room and fuck her.
That's great!. Eso es fantastico!
I was dating a 42 yr old single mom from work, and met her daughter one weekend (she was19 and at a college). I was 27 at the time. Mom was damn hot (looked about 10 years younger) and one weekend when the daughter was home, we were sitting around talking. The mom had to go pick up some stuff from the cleaners and run a couple of errands, so I was alone with the daughter for a while. Within 10 minutes after her mom left, she asked me 'are you fucking my mom"... I said yes I was... she stood up, opened her robe, and asked how she compared with her mom... very well, I said. We played some, but I didn't want to get caught fucking daughter, but we did enough stuff that the interest was there for both of us, so I agreed to come down to her college and we fucked there. She was hot for an older guy, plus she seemed in competition with her mom. She and I fucked several times that year and I was still fucking mom back home. I miss those days.
Who the hell sits on the shitter and plays with themselves....
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Older guys almost always love stealing girls panties and sniffing them while slapping the cock,
I love smelling some panties from a juicy good looking pussy That has a little mileage on them;)
who's the chick in this video ?
close ups of this guys reptilian ball sack are disgusting
Damn I wish I could suck his cock... I'm such a slut
What is the name of Daddy actor?
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This little redhead can rock my world anytime she wants. Nice cumshot old timer.
What a cute little pink pussy !!!!
i would love to suck that fat cock so badly
wunderschön wie der fette Schwanz die Teenyfotze stößt -
si tengo
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caught sniffing panties leads to great sex
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Jerking off so fucking hard
I edited this POS...;)
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Yeah cuz a hot teen is not gonna fight when a old fuck starts groping her
Can I do it? That was so hot.
based on what? personal experience? thats only generalization because im a young guy and i dont cum quickly.
gotta love the pants down chat...and she was staring at his dick like the entire time :)
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Older men turn me on so much, something about the imagery of wrinkly old man skin against soft young girl skin is so sexually arousing. Sleeping with an older guy is my ultimate fantasy...
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me too ..lol
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Luvs the wzay she sux him off
a big cum for his years!
Her name is Kristina Black
esse homem eh horripilante, mas sabe chupar e trepar.
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whats her name??????????????????
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I wouldn't mind his nose full of diamonds,lol
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She is fucking hot! I would do the same thing to her
very very great story
It's Kristina Black with red hair from Naughty Little Nymphos 7
super hit shot
That is definitely NOT Jenna Haze. Doesn't look anything like her. Completely different face structure.
This is JENNA HAZE. It's one of her first porn movies "Nasty Nymphos 32." I can't believe no one recognizes her.
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LOL jamming retro-guitar solo comes in once she grabs his cock
The way she looks at the end with the old guy's spunk in her hair staring in his eyes licking his prick is so hot.
guy sucks ,i would fuck her better
this is actually decent acting!
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sucks! Bad acting 101!
i like d oooh and aaaahhhh of that pinky pussy girl
how could she let this monster do that
The name of the series is "Naughty Little Nymphos"
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Reynolds, D-backs hit speed bump against Rockies
Reliever gives up two runs in one inning of work; Collmenter works four frames
By Thomas Harding / MLB.com
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Center fielder Dexter Fowler is making Rockies fans happy, not nervous, this spring.
Fowler lashed two hits, including a first-pitch home run to open the sixth inning against former teammate Matt Reynolds, in the Rockies' 4-3 triumph over the D-backs at a sold-out Salt River Fields at Talking Stick on Tuesday afternoon.
The switch-hitting Fowler's 2-for-3 afternoon lifted his batting average to a reassuring .400 through eight Cactus League appearances. He also has three extra-base hits, two doubles and the homer, from the right side against the lefty Reynolds. After hitting a career-high 13 homers last season, Fowler has developed into a power threat from the leadoff slot.
It's a major improvement from last spring, when Fowler hit .149 in 21 games. It was enough of a concern that then-manager Jim Tracy dropped him to eighth in the order at times during the early part of the season. New manager Walt Weiss doesn't have that worry, although Fowler insisted then and believes now that there's little need to put too much stock in the Cactus League.
"It's still Spring Training, just trying to get ready for the season," Fowler said.
The power, he said, comes from experience.
"It's just knowing the league and knowing the people you're playing against," Fowler said. "I've been playing against them for going on five years now. That always gets a little easier."
The Rockies' Ben Paulsen and Henry Wrigley each had run-scoring doubles.
Rockies starter Tyler Chatwood, competing for a spot either in the rotation or in middle relief, threw a solid four innings, during which he gave up two runs on four hits. Chatwood struck out two against one walk, and forced eight groundouts.
Chatwood dueled with D-backs right-hander Josh Collmenter, who already has been placed in a long-relief role. Collmenter gave up one run and four hits in his four innings for a D-backs split-squad. The rest of the squad played the Mariners in Peoria, Ariz.
D-backs right-hander Brad Ziegler continued his stellar spring by striking out one during a spotless fifth inning.
Up next: The D-backs play their second night game of the spring Wednesday night against the Brewers at Salt River Fields, live on MLB.TV and a free dbacks.com audio webcast at 7:10 p.m. MST. It's a big start for right-hander Randall Delgado, who is battling Tyler Skaggs and Patrick Corbin for the No. 5 spot in the rotation. Delgado struggled a bit in his first two outings this spring, but was much better in a rain-shortened appearance against the Angels last week. The game also features the scheduled returns to the lineup by Miguel Montero, Martin Prado and Gerardo Parra, who played for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Bobby Thomas Bear Charm
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- A charm featuring Thomas Bear, our signature teddy, in soft check cashmere with bobby hat. The design features moveable arms and legs.
- This is not a toy and it is intended for collectors of 14 years of age and above.
- Bear: 12cm/4.7in tall
- Outer: 100% cashmere with leather and polyamide trims
- Hat: 100% rayon viscose with lambskin trim
- Hat lining: 100% cotton
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These flame-free candles are lit by energy-efficient LEDs that never need replacing and run all season on one set of batteries. On/off photo sensor
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By Susie Q
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Looks great in upper floor window. Wish I could afford more.
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By Paula
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Put 3 of these in our picture window street-side for the Holiday Season. They came on automatically at dusk and turned off at dawn. Made a beautiful light in the darkness. Used for about 3 weeks straight and tested the batteries before we put them away for the year and the batteries were still plenty strong to save for next year. I've been talking about buying these for years. Glad I finally did.
I would purchase this product again and recommend it.
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from Pittsburgh, Pa
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I have them in my front window. They come on at dusk and turn off in the morning. Don't have to remember to turn them on and off.
Just what I wanted.
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Easy to use. Attractive when lit at night.
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Very pleased with the 3 sets I ordered. I expect to order additional sets in the near future.
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Wonderful - bought one, then two more.
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We have a wall with a window that is inaccessible due to furniture placement and no outlet. With all other windows displaying holiday candles, this battery operated candelabra was perfect for our wider-but-not-double sized window.
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Lovely holiday addition to large window (framed by two smaller windows with single candles of the same kind). Love the finish. And it automatically turns on at dusk and off when the sun comes up, so there's no fooling with switches. And no ugly wires.
Great Candelabra
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I love candles in the window at Christmas. Years ago I used ones with cords. Ugly! I ordered some of these a few years ago and love them. So I ordered more this year. They look pretty, are very easy to use and are well made.
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Site Updates – beehive.govt.nz – 23 Nov 2012
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• Canterbury Skills And Employment Hub Opens • Office strategy to save space equal to three Reserve Bank buildings • Trade delegation to New Zealand led by Belgian Crown Prince • Ban on the sale of unsafe multi-purpose ladders • State …
• Canterbury Skills And Employment Hub Opens
• Office strategy to save space equal to three Reserve Bank buildings
• Trade delegation to New Zealand led by Belgian Crown Prince
• Ban on the sale of unsafe multi-purpose ladders
• State highway safety improvements welcomed
• Two Ministries come together to help raise Pasifika achievement
• International recognition for LINZ Data Service
• More funding to support the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• 2012 Rutherford Medal winner announced
• NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants Not-for-profit Special Interest Group
Canterbury Skills and Employment Hub opens
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 04:44 PM PST
Steven Joyce | Canterbury Earthquake Recovery
The Canterbury Skills and Employment Hub is now open and available to help employers looking for workers for the Canterbury rebuild, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce announced today. "The Hub is a business-friendly one-stop shop where employers can list vacancies and be matched up with jobseekers from Christchurch and elsewhere in New Zealand. It is aimed at ensuring employers can easily get the staff they need so there are no roadblocks to the rebuild," Mr Joyce says. …
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Office strategy to save space equal to three Reserve Bank buildings
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 04:30 PM PST
Jonathan Coleman | State Services
State Services Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman says a new Public Service property strategy is likely to reduce the office space foot print in Wellington by the equivalent of three Reserve Bank buildings. Dr Coleman says Cabinet has approved the start of a centralised negotiation for future public service office space in the capital with accommodation leases due to expire for five large government agencies. The leases due to expire include the Ministries of Social Development, Health, Education and Business Innovation and Employment, and the Crown Law Office. …
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Trade delegation to New Zealand led by Belgian Crown Prince
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 03:35 PM PST
Christopher Finlayson | Arts, Culture and Heritage
The Crown Prince of Belgium, HRH Prince Philippe, accompanied by the Belgian Defence Minister Pieter De Crem, will lead a business delegation to New Zealand from 27 to 29 November, Arts and Culture Minister Christopher Finlayson announced today. In addition to engaging in trade promotion, Prince Philippe will meet the Prime Minister and be guest of honour at a dinner hosted by the Governor-General Lt Gen the Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae at Government House. …
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Ban on the sale of unsafe multi-purpose ladders
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 03:23 PM PST
Simon Bridges | Consumer Affairs
Consumer Affairs Minister Simon Bridges has announced a ban on multi-purpose ladders that do not meet Australia and New Zealand safety standards. The ban comes after an investigation by Consumer Affairs which found that multi-purpose ladders sold on Trade Me collapsed well below their advertised weight limit. "The metal in one of these ladders buckled and split, collapsing only seconds after a man climbed on it. The ladder was supposed to hold up to 150kg and the man was only 90kgs," Mr Bridges says. …
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State highway safety improvements welcomed
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 02:15 PM PST
Simon Bridges | Transport
Associate Transport Minister Simon Bridges has welcomed new risk-ratings that show significant improvements in the safety of New Zealand's state highway network, at the launch of the latest KiwiRAP road assessment results today in the Bay of Plenty. KiwiRAP (New Zealand Road Assessment Programme) measures crash risk on nearly 11,000 kilometres of state highway, identifying high-risk roads to help target safety improvements. …
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Two Ministries come together to help raise Pasifika achievement
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 02:11 PM PST
Steven Joyce | Education
A new initiative aimed at raising achievement among Pasifika students has been launched by the Government today in Auckland. The Pasifika Education Plan 2013-2017, which has been developed by the Education and Pacific Island Affairs Ministries sets out how ministries can work together with other agencies, schools and communities to help raise achievement among Pasifika students. …
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International recognition for LINZ Data Service
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 01:27 PM PST
Maurice Williamson | Land Information
Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson says the two accolades Land Information New Zealand won at the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards for its innovative LINZ Data Service is a great achievement. The awards were presented in Canberra last night. "Being named winner of the 'Spatial Enablement' category and the JK Barrie Award for Overall Excellence is recognition of the work Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) has done to develop and implement the LINZ Data Service (LDS)," Mr Williamson says. …
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More funding to support the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 12:01 PM PST
John Key | Prime Minister
Prime Minister John Key has announced further funding to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal to support its work bringing the former leaders of the regime to justice. New Zealand will provide a further $200,000 to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, bringing the total contribution to NZ$1.2 million over six years. Mr Key made the announcement during a visit to the Tribunal in Phnom Penh yesterday. …
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2012 Rutherford Medal winner announced
Posted: 21 Nov 2012 02:00 AM PST
Steven Joyce | Science and Innovation
Professor Margaret Brimble has been announced the 2012 Rutherford Medal winner by Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce. Professor Brimble, from Auckland University's Department of Chemistry, was awarded the prestigious scientific honour during the New Zealand Research Honours Dinner at Auckland Museum tonight. A medicinal chemist, who designs new chemicals for the treatment of disease, she is being recognised for her world-leading contributions to the synthesis of bioactive natural products and novel peptides. …
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NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants Not-for-profit Special Interest Group
Posted: 19 Nov 2012 02:42 PM PST
Jo Goodhew | Community and Voluntary Sector
AXA Centre, Wellington Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. Good evening everyone. Thank you for inviting me to join you in your end of year celebrations. It is a pleasure to be here today and to have the opportunity to address you as the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector. …
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In the City of Lake Oswego, there are over 300 acres of natural character parks. These often overlooked parks are vital to our community. They contribute to important habitat for plants and animals, water shed and stormwater management/health, as well as a place for the community to connect to nature.
When visiting your city parks and natural areas, please stay on trail, keep your dog on leash and pick up after them, and comply with other park rules.
For opportunity to volunteer in natural areas, CLICK here
Here are a few examples of our many natural parks...
Iron Mountain Park
Iron Mountain Park is located on a south facing hillside, overlooking Iron Mountain Boulevard. The site of an old iron mining operation, the park contains a unique plant community and is home to a great variety of wildlife. The park contains 1.5 miles of moderately steep trails. Iron Mountain Park Trail Map (to come)
Iron Mountain Park Trail Map Coming Soon!
Springbrook Park
Springbrook Park offers great hiking and wildlife viewing opportunities and can be accessed by many small neighborhood entrances. Located across Country Club Road from Lake Oswego High School, the park contains nearly 2 miles of relatively flat trails. Springbrook Creek flows through the park, then the Lake Grove neighborhood before heading to Iron Mountain Park and Oswego Lake.For a more detailed map of Springbrook Park, plus additional information about park history and membership, CLICK HERE to visit the Friends of Springbrook Park website.
Springbrook Park Trail Map Coming Soon!
Cooks Butte-Stevens Meadows
Part of the Boring Lava field, Cooks Butte is an extinct volcano rising to 718 feet above the Stafford Basin. There are numerous small neighborhood entrances to the park with a main entrance and smal lparking area off of Atherton Road via the Stafford-Rosemont round-a-bout. Cooks Butte contains 2 miles of trails which are part of the larger Stafford Basin Pathway and Trail System. Stevens Meadows is an open area with a half mile path that circles the site. This area is also accessed from the small parking area off of Atherton Road. The trails of both sites have moderate elevation gains.
Cooks Butte Trail Map CLICK HERE
Bryant Woods-Canal Acres-River Run
Bryant Woods Park is a wildlife rich site containing a seasonal wetland/meadow, upland forested area, and a natural spring with an associated creek. Bordered by Oswego Canal, the park is accessible from the small parking area off of Childs Road and from the north via Centerwood Street. Canal Acres is a largely undeveloped natural area whose sole trail is accessible across the Bryant Woods parking area via Canal Road. River Run, which borders the Tualatin River, is the site of the historic mouth of Oswego Canal and is located at the end of River Run Road. These three natural areas offer great wildlife viewing and contain two miles of relatively flat trails.
Bryant Woods Trail Map CLICK HERE


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STEVENSON, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The securities litigation firm of Brower Piven, A Professional Corporation, has commenced an investigation into possible breaches of fiduciary duty to current shareholders of Virgin Media Inc. ("Virgin Media" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: "VMED") and other violations of state law by the board of directors of Virgin Media relating to the proposed acquisition of the Company by Liberty Global, Inc. ("Liberty"). The firm's investigation seeks to determine, among other things, whether the board of directors of Virgin Media breached their fiduciary duties by failing to maximize shareholder value.
According to Reuters, Virgin Media shareholders will approximately receive $47.87 in cash and stock for each share of Virgin Media common stock they own. The proposed transaction includes $17.50 in cash, 0.2582 Liberty Class A shares, and 0.1928 Liberty Class C shares for each Virgin Media share. This values the cash and stock part of the deal, excluding debt, at $16 billion. According to Bloomberg, at least one analyst price target is above the deal price.
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Today's post is inspired by, of course, St. Patrick's Day, but also, by Booking Mama's Kid Connection feature on children's books. My mother keeps my children well supplied in books and especially well supplied in books that relate to holidays. Seriously, I could have a readathon for Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving - even Groundhog Day! So in honor of St. Patrick's Day, which also happens to be my mother's birthday, I thought I'd write about Eve Bunting's St. Patrick's Day in the Morning, which I read to my son last night in preparation for today.
This is a very sweet story and my 4 yo was rapt while I read it (and I even refrained from feigning an Irish accent). Bunting tells the story of Jamie, the youngest of three boys, who longs to march in the St. Patrick's Day parade up Acorn Hill. He's told that he's too young by his older brothers and his parents, but wakes up early on St. Patrick's Day morning and decides to undertake the hike, with his sheepdog by his side. The illustrations by Jan Brett are wonderful and they, along with Bunting's writing, reveal bits of Ireland that I remembered from my visits - the smoke rising from chimneys all day, every day and the beautiful rolling green landscape. I highly recommend this for reading aloud to your children today.


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