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Toronto-based design firm Yabu Pushelberg's design for the new Four Seasons Hotel Toronto was inspired by a dandelion, as seem here in the dramatic front desk installation. Photograph courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel Toronto.
This floating stairway, designed for the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto by Yabu Pushelberg, leads to Café Boulud, the first Toronto restaurant for New York-based Chef Daniel Boulud. Photograph courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel Toronto.
Yabu Pushelberg's warm, residential-inspired design for the 259 rooms and suites at the new Four Seasons Hotel Toronto uses understated neutrals, elegant floral accents and fresh pops of dandelion yellow. Photograph courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel Toronto.
A Shangri-La Suite at the Shangri-La Hotel Toronto, with interiors featuring sapele veneer, a dark wood from the mahogany family, residential style furnishings and Asian accents, designed by Vancouver-based CHIL (Co-ordinated Hotel Interiors Limited). Photograph courtesy of Shangri-La Hotels.
The Bar, an intimate 30-seat destination that fronts Bosk, the Shangri-La Hotel Toronto's signature 80-seat restaurant, features 180 hand-blown glass fixtures in varying shades of green and amber by the Bocci glass blowing atelier in Vancouver, BC. To the right, an oak wall carves out the name, Bosk and it's definition, "a small wooded area." Photograph courtesy of Shangri-La Hotels.
Guests at the new ALT Hotel Toronto Pearson are greeted by the one-of-a-kind ALTEXPO, a collaborative work of art created from more than 80,000 images submitted by Instagram users around the world and inspired by a daily color scheme. Photograph courtesy of Group Germain Hospitalité.
As in its 153 rooms, the lobby of the new Alt Hotel Toronto Pearson, a no-frills, eco-chic hotel located at Toronto's main airport, features uncluttered design by Lemay Michaud Architecture Design. Here, the lobby furniture is by Italian design house Gervasoni. Photograph courtesy of Group Germain Hospitalité.
The Reflective retro glamour of contrasting inlaid polished marble and mirrors set the tone for the h interior design of the 261-room property by II BY IV hints at the dark drama of the hotel rooms and the lighter colors used in the 118 residences. Photograph courtesy of Trump Hotels.
The interiors of the spacious rooms and suites at the new Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto have a palette that II BY IV partner Don Menchions calls "champagne and caviar." Photograph courtesy of Trump Hotels.
Sleek and light-filled, the Yabu Pushelberg-designed dbar in the new Four Seasons Hotel Toronto features 20-foot floor-to-ceiling windows and décor in an understated palette inspired by a dandelion. Photograph Four Seasons Hotel Toronto.
Neutral stone floors, sourced from Ontario, offset the vibrant textured orange columns that serve as gallery space for pop-art paintings by Mr. Brainwash in Chef Daniel Boulud's first Toronto eatery, a contemporary space designed by Rosalie Wise Designs in the new Four Seasons Hotel Toronto. Photograph courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel Toronto.
The entrance to Momofuku Toronto's four eateries in the new 66-story Shangri-La Hotel Toronto and Residences is dramatically accented by a 72-foot steel sculpture by Chinese artist Yhang Huan. Photography by Bob Gundu.
Momofuku Noodle Bar, located on the street level of the new Shangri-La Hotel Toronto, has interiors by The Design Agency with white oak communal tables/benches and views of the open kitchen. Photography by Bob Gundu.
Nikai, the second-floor beer, wine and sake lounge at Momofuku Toronto was designed by The Design Agency and features a bar with Uminoff stools. Photography by Bob Gundu.
Housed in a restored circa-1940s brick building, Soho House Toronto hired The Design Agency to create the cozy ambience for its Club Floor, which features vintage furniture arranged so members can socialize, work, relax, eat or drink. Photography by Mark Seelen.
The second-floor Pantry Bar at the new Soho House Toronto was design by The Design Agency to have an airy retro vibe with reclaimed wood, antique bar stools and the feel of a country store in the city. Photograph courtesy of Soho House.
A rendering of the view from the plaza in front of the $130 million Ripley's Aquarium of Canada, designed by B+H and scheduled to open in Summer 2013. Courtesy of B+H.
A rendering of the view from the plaza in front of the $130 million Ripley's Aquarium of Canada, designed by B+H and scheduled to open in Summer 2013. Courtesy of Oxford Properties.
Rudy Wallman Architects had the challenge of fitting Ten York, a 65-story, 694-residence glass tower developed by Tridel, into a difficult triangular site between two highways. Courtesy of Tridel.
The plans for the 65-story Ten York, designed by Rudy Wallman Architects and slated to open in 2017, call for a 30-foot glass-enclosed lobby. Courtesy of Tridel.
One Bloor East, a condominium tower designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects and slated for completion in 2016, features undulating, curved balconies, which contrast with the modernist high-rises to its north. Courtesy of Hariri Pontarini Architects.
When completed in 2016, the 65-story One Bloor East luxury condominium, located in tower in downtown Toronto and designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, will feature 687 units. Courtesy of Hariri Pontarini Architects.
The Design Agency's recent interior for Brassai Restaurant and Lounge, located in Toronto's King West District, married French Renaissance details with a modern aesthetic.
The retro-clubby interiors of Soho House Toronto, the newest addition to the London-based group of private clubs located in a three-story, circa-1840 brick building, were created by The Design Agency. Photography by Mark Seelen.


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Ingredients for 4 people: 1kg of pig's liver 1 heaped spoon of lard 4 cloves of garlic 1 teaspoon of oregano a pinch of ground cinnamon 2 spoonfuls of breadcrumbs 2 teaspoons of pine nuts
Chop the liver into cubes and put it to fry in a saucepan with the lard. Reserve two pieces. Put the peeled garlic cloves, the two pieces of liver, the oregano and the cinnamon into a mortar. Mash them well by hand while adding a little water. When the mixture is ready, put it into the dish where the liver is frying and let it boil. Add the pine nuts and breadcrumbs to thicken the sauce and leave it on the heat for another 5 minutes until the sauce is ready.
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The police union said the newspaper wrongly cast the officers as rogue cops
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PHILADELPHIA — Federal prosecutors and the Philadelphia district attorney have declined to file charges against four narcotics officers accused of wrongdoing in a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper series.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey had asked the FBI to investigate the allegations in the 2009 "Tainted Justice" series by the Philadelphia Daily News.
Ramsey said Thursday both the U.S. attorney and district attorney declined to prosecute.
The newspaper detailed cases in which officers allegedly stole from corner stores during raids, lied and mistreated suspects. Its series won the 2010 Pulitzer for investigative reporting.
The officers could still face discipline. An Internal Affairs investigation has sustained several allegations, the commissioner said.
The police union said the newspaper wrongly cast the officers as rogue cops.
"It was death by headlines," John McNesby, local Fraternal Order of Police president, told the Daily News. He said the union would also defend the officers against the internal charges.
Daily News editor Michael Days said the newspaper stands by its stories by reporters Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker, who have also written a book about their work, "Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love."
"We're disappointed, obviously," he told the Daily News' sister paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, "but the citizens of Philadelphia should be even more disappointed."
The U.S. attorney's office would not comment on its decision.
In a prepared statement, the district attorney's office said that it decided to accept the judgment of federal prosecutors given they had "exhaustively investigated" the case over a period of years.
Ramsey told the Inquirer that the department would not have brought the allegations to prosecutors "if we didn't think it was a good case."
Dozens of lawsuits were filed against the city in the wake of the series. The city settled 33 and paid out $1.7 million
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I RECEIVED A CRASH COURSE IN POSTMODERN THOUGHT during my first semester at Swarthmore College. In a lesson that was to be repeated throughout my undergraduate education, the professor opened the class by admonishing us to reject binary thinking. As the class was staring at her dumbfounded, she divided the chalkboard in two with a thick vertical line and asked us to name the dualisms that structure our world. After she provided a few examples to get us started – male/female, white/black – we jumped into the game, calling out binaries one after another: rich/poor, smart/stupid, human/animal, cool/lame, skinny/fat … The game went on until the board was full and the air saturated with chalk dust. Pausing a moment, our comparative literature professor asked us if we noticed anything odd about the list we had constructed.
Looking at the chalkboard, we saw an easy answer: on the left of the line were "good" terms – cool, skinny, rich, smart, white – and on the right were their counterparts, the derided terms. In an instant, our class grasped an essential precept of postmodern philosophy: Western thought has hitherto divided the world into a series of binary oppositions that privilege one side over the other. The political implications of the lesson were clear: Oppression can be traced back to the way we think, and hope of liberation rests on escaping this binary thinking.
The postmodern project of overcoming binary thought, however, is more difficult than it may appear. First of all, one cannot simply flip the terms and privilege what was once diminished – that would merely replicate the binary in inverse. The issue is not which term is privileged but the false belief that existence can be divided into two distinct, competing parts. Thus the task of the postmodern activist became the blurring and problematizing of distinctions in order to destroy dualist thinking. It was all done in the name of political liberation. At least that was the intended goal.
In light of the traumas of modernity, where millions were slaughtered because they fell on the wrong side of the imaginary Aryan/non-Aryan divide, the project of deconstructing binaries should have been a positive development. In fact the primary way of disturbing categories – pointing out that the primary term is only defined through exclusion of the other – might have effectively stalled the pseudo-scientific Nazi eugenic project. The problem with the postmodern approach, however, was that it came too late. While it could have offered a way out of the genocide of World War II, by the time the project of deconstructing distinctions was widespread in academia and had filtered down to society at large, oppression lay not in the maintenance of dualism but in the opposite: increasing hybridization. That is the irony of contemporary philosophy: what we take to be a tool of resistance, the application of cutting-edge theory to our contemporary moment, turns out to be a hammer of our oppression. And by rejecting binary thought outright, we were not challenging the status quo … we were helping it along.
Consider the twisted fate of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's magnum opus, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, a text long hailed as revolutionary because of its emphasis on fluidity, hybridity and multiplicity as anticapitalist tactics of resistance. The book has served as a handbook for leftist activists, anarchists and culture jammers since its French publication in 1980. And Michel Foucault, the archetype of politically engaged French leftist philosophers, even went as far as to declare that "perhaps one day this century will be known as Deleuzian," a statement that was taken to prophesy the inevitable victory of our May '68 inspired anticapitalist struggle.
And yet according to Slavoj Žižek in the final chapter of his book Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences, the exemplars of Deleuzian philosophy are not the anarchists but the late-capitalists: "In short, and stated even more pointedly, the thought of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, the ultimate philosophers of resistance, of marginal positions crushed by the hegemonic power network, is effectively the ideology of the newly emerging ruling class." For Žižek, the misapprehension of Deleuze as a philosopher of resistance has led to the awkward situation where major alterglobalization theorists are espousing a suspiciously similar rhetoric to that of the globalizers. Singling out Naomi Klein, Žižek continues, "So, when Naomi Klein writes that '[n]eo-liberal economics is biased at every level toward centralization, consolidations, homogenization. It is a war waged on diversity,' is she not focusing on a figure of capitalism whose days are numbered? Would she not be applauded by contemporary capitalist modernizers? Is not the latest trend in corporate management itself 'diversify, devolve power, try to mobilize local creativity and self-organization?' Is not anticentralization the topic of the 'new' digitalized capitalism?"
The significance of Žižek's stinging critique of Klein is that it effectively tars an entire lineage of leftist political theory leading from Deleuzian multiplicities to Hardt and Negri's multitude. And in light of there having been no compelling response to Žižek's critique, it is hard not to doubt the postmodern tactics we've been using. Could it be that while we've been smashing boundaries and crossing borders, consumerism has quickened its global expansion by piggybacking on our identity-blurring efforts?
And now, entering a new era of humanity where postmodernity is slipping into altermodernity, we find that the binaries we rejected are not only blurring but finally collapsing. Unable to say with any certainty what is real or virtual, human or animal, organic or genetically modified, some wish to resuscitate again, but this time with nostalgia, the failed antimodern project of shattering distinctions. While the chorus – composed now of cyberpunks and activists joined by capitalists and technocrats – rejoices in the indistinguishable difference between online and offline, organic and synthetic, man and machine, the most crucial distinction of all – that between resistance and complicity – is collapsing as well. Unless we can discover a way to critique the system without furthering the system, we shall be lost.
It takes courage to insist that in the coming era differences do matter – like the difference between comrade and consumer, human and glutton or the good life and consumption – and that without a return to the genocidal modernist project, we can forge a new path that gathers its strength from the difference between spiritual wealth and material greed.


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- 1 Setting up an Environment for the OSLC Workshop
- 2 Getting started with the Workshop
Setting up an Environment for the OSLC Workshop
OSLC Workshop
The OSLC Workshop was originally designed to go along with a VMWare image which had all of the prerequisites installed and the projects pre-loaded in the Eclipse IDE. These instructions are intended to help you run the workshop outside of VMWare in your own Eclipse IDE.
The workshop takes you through a scenario where you build an OSLC Adapter for the Bugzilla open source bug tracking tool. You must have access to a Bugzilla 4.0.x or higher server. By default, the workshop Lab projects are configured to use a public Bugzilla server on the internet called landfill. If you want to use landfill, you will need to create a new account.
Alternatively, you can install your own Bugzilla server from the Bugzilla project home. You will need to ensure that Bugzilla's XML-RPC support is working. The SOAP::Lite and Test::Taint Perl modules must be installed for XML-RPC to work. See the Bugzilla installation and configuration documentation for details.
Rational Jazz tools
An optional Lab in the workshop works through connecting the Bugzilla OSLC adapter to a Rational Jazz tool supporting OSLC such as Rational Team Concert. If you wish to run this Lab, you will need administrative access to an RTC server of your own. If you wish to install your own server with a trial license, it can be found here.
Eclipse IDE Prerequisites
- Eclipse 3.6 or higher IDE
- EGit team provider.
- m2eclipse for Maven support in the Eclipse IDE
Clone the Lyo Git repositories
You will need to clone three Lyo Git repositories to get all of the code needed for the workshop.
- org.eclipse.lyo.core.git: Lyo OSLC4J
- org.eclipse.lyo.server.git: Lyo OAuth provider
- org.eclipse.lyo.docs.git: Lyo OSLC Workshop source code and documentation
- Open the Git Repositories view in Eclipse and click the Clone Git Repository icon
- Use git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/lyo/org.eclipse.lyo.core.git as the URI. User/Password are not required.
- On the Branch Selection page, select the master branch
- On the Local Destination page, specify a location or accept the default and click Finish
Repeat the above steps for:
- git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/lyo/org.eclipse.lyo.server.git
- git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/lyo/org.eclipse.lyo.docs.git
The repositories should now show up in your Git Repositories view. Next step is to import the projects.
Import Eclipse projects from the git repository
- Import projects for OSLC4J
- In the Git Repositories view, right click org.eclipse.lyo.core and select Import Projects
- Select the Import Existing Projects wizard and click next
- Import the projects you want. At a minimum, you must import
- org.eclipse.lyo.oslc4j.core
- org.eclipse.lyo.oslc4j.provider.jena
- org.eclipse.lyo.oslc4j.provider.json4j
- org.eclipse.lyo.oslc4j.wink
- Import projects for the Lyo OAuth provider
- In the Git Repositories view, right click org.eclipse.lyo.server and select Import Projects
- Select the Import Existing Projects wizard and click next
- Import the projects you want. At a minimum, you must import
- org.eclipse.lyo.server.oauth.consumerstore
- org.eclipse.lyo.server.oauth.core
- org.eclipse.lyo.server.oauth.webapp
- Import projects with the Workshop documentation
- In the Git Repositories view, right click org.eclipse.lyo.docs and select Import Projects
- Select the Import Existing Projects wizard and click next
- Import the projects you want. At a minimum, you must import
- Lab1 - Lab6
- ninacrm
- LabMiscellaneous
Along with the Lab projects there is a project called org.eclipse.lyo.oslc4j.bugzilla. This is the completed OSLC Bugzilla adapter.
Getting started with the Workshop
The Lab 1 content includes a PDF with the workshop documentation. The documentation currently includes references to the VMWare image users and passwords and URLs which will only work if the hostname you are working on is "oslc". To have these URLs work on your system, give your systems loopback address (127.0.0.1) an additional hostname of oslc:
- On a Linux, Mac or other Unix system, edit /etc/hosts. On Windows, edit \Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
- Add oslc as a hostname for 127.0.0.1. Example: 127.0.0.1 localhost oslc
Configuring the Bugzilla server and user
Instead of firstname.lastname@example.com as the user, you will need to use a login for your Bugzilla server, whether that is on landfill or on your own Bugzilla server. To configure the adapter with your Bugzilla server location and user:
- Each Lab project as a file called bugz.properties in the src/main/resources folder. Edit this file
- set the value of bugzilla_uri to the base URI of your Bugzilla server (default is landfill)
- set the value of admin to your Bugzilla user (e-mail address)


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Mississippi College (2-0) scored two early goals and then held off Birmingham-Southern College for a 2-1 win in the final game of the Jim N' Nicks/Puma Labor Day Classic at the BSC Soccer Park on Sunday.
The Choctaws finished 2-0 on the weekend to win the Classic, while Birmingham-Southern and Sewanee both went 1-1 and Blackburn College went 0-2.
Mississippi College got on the board first against BSC when Fredy Banuelos punched in a rebound off a save shot from Rafael Guzman 36 seconds into the match.
Brian Vasquez found the back of the net from the middle of the box on another feed from Guzman in the fourth minute to give MC a 2-0 advantage.
The Panthers got on the scoreboard when freshman Tobias Winter scored off a cross from Nico Reitmeier in the 36th minute to cut the deficit to 2-1, but were unable to score again in the match.
BSC outshot the MC 17-7, including 6-1 in the second half. Each team posted six shots on goal.
Freshman Sveinbo Grimsson had four saves in goal for the Panthers, and MC's Robert Jackson was credited with three saves.
BSC returns to action against Greensboro College and Huntingdon College next Saturday and Sunday at the Kyle Rote Jr. Invitational in Sewanee, Tenn.
In the first match of the day today, Sewanee defeated Mississippi College 4-0.
The Tigers' (1-1) first goal came on a penalty kick when Blackburn's Paul Tamakloe whistled for a foul in the box, setting up Ball's first goal in the 23rd minute.
Three minutes later Ball tallied his second goal off a feed from Matt Lightfoot in the 26th minute to give Sewanee a 2-0 lead heading into halftime.
Will Morgan extended the Tigers' lead to 3-0 taking a free kick from Watson Hartsoe in the 53rd minute.
Lightfoot tacked on the final goal of the afternoon on Hartsoe's second assist of the afternoon in the 69th minute.
The Tigers held a 18-4 advantage in shots and had nine shots on goal to the Beavers' 1. Lightfoot led the Tigers with four shots, two on goal, followed by Ball with three. Bryan Lambdin had two shots, one on goal, for the Beavers.
Derek Williams started in goal for the Tigers and didn't face a shot on goal while Conrad Bandoroff started the second half and made a save. Blackburn starting keeper Jake Peters made four saves.


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Monday, November 23, 2009
On Friday a three hour window of opportunity to have boy sex came my way, and as it was the last gap in my social calendar till Xmas I made a rash decision and took the chance. It turned out to be a very enlightening 40 minutes of my life.
I would like to be able to say, boy sex, tick done - but in reality it's boy sex, big fat fail!
I've now had 48 hours to think it over and realise that the main reason I couldn't go through with it was TEXTURE. He hadn't shaved before turning up and the face roughage was unbearable. I quickly realised I was not able to endure kissing him, plus I had a dinner party on Saturday night and did not want a rash all over my face. Not being able to kiss meant my interest started to wane, so he then took off most of his clothes. I should have realised by the level of whiskers just how hirsute he was. I now have a concept of what George Michael must look like when he misses his waxing sessions, it was possibly even more than your average bear could cope with. I'm known to enjoy a bit of hair pulling, but it's the action of cupping my hand around a head that is enjoyable, being able to pull someones shoulder hair is decidedly not erotic. So now I couldn't bear to touch as well as kiss.
Another reason I couldn't do it was that of power/dominance, or to put it into gayspeak the top/bottom issue. While he was attempting small talk I kept waiting for him to make his move. He's a 35 year old, well travelled man who has spent a lot of time telling me how much he wants to have sex with me, yet during the small talk section I saw that I had all the control, and at one point did say that I could play with his head as well as his body. He had no idea what I meant. As much as the Mrs Robinson scenario amused, it was not what I wanted. I wanted to be seduced slowly and erotically and I could see that wasn't going to happen. Him male - be assertive. If I was going to have to pull out all my seduction moves then it may as well have just been another woman.
The final killing blow was the curtains. When he took his clothes off he pulled the curtains. Those who have spent time in my room can attest to it being a lovely place to while away the time naked with the CURTAINS OPEN and the sun coming in. Also the taking off of his clothes showed that he didn't work out as hard as he implied, and it appears that I like men to be even more cut than women. I was tempted to compare biceps but I guess that humiliation would have been just too cruel.
I then went through a swift mental calculation of; send him away and chill on the sofa with Glee and Oz Idol, or go thru with it as quickly as possible so as to be able to say I DID it. TV won.
I then told him to leave, which he duly did in about three minutes flat.
So lessons learned, and males pay attention. It seems if I'm going to attempt boy sex the male in question needs to have a smooth face, preferably waxed. Chest hair is acceptable but is not to encroach on shoulders or back. Muscles and body definition are important, but what is really important is a positive assertive attitude with the accompanying desire to throughly take control and seduce me in an erotic seductive manner. I fear it may be some time before I try this experiment again.
17 comments:
- XChequer said...
Laugh My Fucking Arse Off!
UPCL, you are an absolute treasure! The poor boy is probably in therapy as we speak; the object of his desire having spurned him so abruptly in favour of the Box.
I have missed your writings so very much!
As a boy........ Ahem ....... Man! that is .......that has had some experience (and before any of you f**wits go on about it, this is not being pretentious or remotely boastful) in sleeping with lesbians, I quite agree. One must be on top of one's game in order to "scratch that particular itch" that some lesbians have.
The big thing, I found is to be a wee bit mature, lads (it can be an effort for some) and realise that it generally isn't about you. She has not normally just had an "awakening" and been lit up in glorious epiphanic light to the wonders of penis.
It's sex.
And, FFS, take pride in your work, guys. Message to your boy, UPCL: Get lessons in basic hygiene and lovemaking. It's worth it and there is generally some woman around willing enough to teach (unless, of course you look as though you have just come from the movie set of "Where the Wild Things Are" in which case can I say invest in an airticket to Uzbekistan). And if you truly enjoy helping someone have a good time, bottom to a dollar, you'll have a fantastic time as well.
After all - isn't that what it's all about?
Thanks for sharing, hon. I wasn't meaning to be pithy about your bad experience however the situation I had in my minds eye made Faulty Towers seem banal in comparison. xx
- November 23, 2009 at 10:03 PM
- Bryan Spondre said...
Well done mate. Have given you a review at Gotcha!, 9.5 out 10. To get a 10 it would have to be my hairy back you were lampooning :-)
- November 24, 2009 at 7:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
Other lesbians I know seems to be wanting to "scratch that particular itch" too.
Is that the lesbian desire du année ?
My friend achieved it by living communally together with her lesbian partner and the lesbian partner's previous partner -- the boy !
Best of both worlds don't you think--UnPC ? Yeah yeah--as long there was no need for waxing
BTW, was event something to do with long time admirer of previous posts ?
- November 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM
- unPC lesbian said...
yes anonymous, I like to think I'm a leader of trends...I'm sure there will be a big rush of lesbians and boy sex happening soon.
However I'm not going to identify in any way the poor boy, but will say that it turns out he had a brief fling with one of my staff. I now look through the glass wall at her wondering how she managed to shag that!
- November 24, 2009 at 6:39 PM
- brian_smaller said...
I see where your problem occurred. You tried boy-sex when you should have tried man-sex.
- November 25, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- unPC lesbian said...
Gosh, at 35 with a couple of degrees under his belt and his own geek business I would have thought he was finally a man.
- November 25, 2009 at 6:59 PM
- XChequer said...
Geekiness does not maketh the man, my dear!
The Geek may, infact, inherit the earth, however the meek will always be meek.
- November 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM
- unPC lesbian said...
Meek geek, too funny. I loike that.
- November 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM
- Art - Nau said...
that was pretty funny
had few gay friends (Lesbian if you wish) and all of them had the same issue and similar problem whn they tried it...
biggest note to self:
if I will ever go on a date with lesbian - SHAVE ... 2th ... maybe 3 times :)
- December 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM
- unPC lesbian said...
I don't understand why boys aren't taught to wax, problem solved. Women do for their men in far more delicate regions, so why do men not return the favour?
Art, make sure you moisturise as well, lots. Maybe start a week beforehand.
I still think boy sex would be good, I just need to get the texture right.
- December 18, 2009 at 7:40 PM
- Bryan Spondre said...
If I wasn't so concerned about being labelled a pretentious metro-sexual I would get my back waxed:-)
- December 18, 2009 at 7:41 PM
- Bryan Spondre said...
The texture ?? Fucking hell, I hope you mean the texture of their facial skin not somewhat lower down. Isn't that what ribbed condoms are for ?
- December 18, 2009 at 7:43 PM
- unPC lesbian said...
Do it! It'll be far better than the perm you've got going on now.
- December 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- unPC lesbian said...
Oh goodness Bryan, keep up. Can't you see we've moved on to gender issues here. Male can't keep face smooth and soft for female pleasure, yet female forcibly rips out hair in delicate places for male pleasure.
- December 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM
- Bryan Spondre said...
Come on now - women remove hair from their genitals so that THEY can derive more pleasure from getting cunnilingus. Don't try and tell me that its for the benefit of men :-)
- December 18, 2009 at 8:04 PM
- unPC lesbian said...
At the risk of sounding harsh Bryan, it's no wonder you are single.
- December 18, 2009 at 8:20 PM
- Bryan Spondre said...
LMAO : - brilliant put down :-) You might take the crown off Cactus soon!!!!
- December 18, 2009 at 8:30 PM


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Kyoto's Shirakawa Dori is perhaps the most beautiful street in the former capital. Located in Gion, one of the licensed geisha areas in Kyoto, it is a graceful and ancient street. Unlike much of modern Kyoto, which is full of clutter in the form of telephone poles and overhead wires, Shirakawa Dori ("white river street") is free of the wires. This affords a lovely view of the buildings and makes strolling a pleasure. Much of the rest of the city reminds one of the early part of the 20th century in the United States, when competing telephone companies strung wires from tenements to poles. Not Shirakawa.
The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.So far, so good. But when Izanagi and Izanami first met on their island, Izanami spoke to Isanagi without being spoken to first. Since she was the female, and this was improper, their first union created badly-formed offspring who were sent off into the sea in boats.The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan.I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Izanagi and Izanami must have been busy little devils with their jewelled halberd...Japan's culture is highly technical and organized. Everything sparkles and swooshes on silent, miniaturized mechanisms.They're a world leader in robotics, and the Japanese have the longest life-expectancy on earth.Text by Steve Smith.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 no.8 Cape Town Ago. 2012
Ascites as an initial presentation of spontaneously ruptured hydatid cyst
Ibrahim Halil Turkbeyler; Taner Babacan; Ismail Dilli; Ayhan Balkan; M Sait Dag; Abdurrahman Kadayifçi
All authors hail from the Gaziantep University School of Medicine, Turkey: Ibrahim Halil Turkbeyler, Taner Babacan and Ismail Dilli are from the Department of Internal Medicine, and Ayhan Balkan, M Sait Dag, Abdurrahman Kadayifçi are from the Department of Gastroenterology
We describe the diagnosis of a 77-year-old woman admitted to our outpatient department with a 3-month history of abdominal bloating and distension. Abdominal computed tomography revealed a large cystic lesion in the posterior segment of the right hepatic lobe, with a separated germinal layer and widespread ascites with dense internal echoes and septal appearance. The result of a serum Echinococcus indirect haemagglutination test was positive and findings were indicative of the spontaneous rupture of a hydatid cyst into the peritoneal cavity without trauma. Ascites is rarely seen in the course of hydatid disease, but can result from cyst rupture into the peritoneal cavity. This should be considered in the differential diagnosis of ascites, especially in areas such as Turkey, where hydatid disease in endemic.
Hydatid disease is a common parasitic infection of the liver with Echinococcus granulosus. Complications include rupture into the biliary tree, peritoneum and chest, secondary infection, anaphylactic shock and sepsis.1 Ascites, although rare in the course of hydatid disease, can result from cyst rupture into the peritoneal cavity.2
A 77-year-old woman was admitted to our outpatient department complaining of abdominal bloating and distension in the preceding 3 months. The patient had lost weight and had appetite-associated nausea, with no history of jaundice. Her physical examination was unremarkable except for the presence of ascites. Serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) was 0.4 - compatible with nonportal hypertensive ascites. The ascitic fluid showed no bacterial or tuberculosis infection and the cytological examination was negative for malignancy. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed a large cystic lesion in the posterior segment of the right hepatic lobe, with a separated germinal layer and widespread ascites with dense internal echoes and septal appearance (Fig. 1).
The result of a serum Echinococcus indirect haemagglutination test was positive. The patient was diagnosed with spontaneous rupture of a hydatid cyst into the peritoneal cavity without trauma. Treatment with albendazol (10 mg/kg/day) was initiated and emergency surgical exploration was suggested. However, the patient refused surgery and was lost to follow-up.
Ruptured hydatid cyst is a rare cause of ascites, but should be considered in differential diagnosis, especially in endemic areas such as Turkey. Because rupture of an hepatic hydatid cyst into the peritoneal cavity can lead to an acute abdomen with chemical or bacterial peritonitis, it can be fatal without appropriate surgical management.
1. Avgerinos ED, Pavlakis E, Stathoulopoulos A, Manoukas E, Skarpas G, Tsatsoulis P. Clinical presentations and surgical management of liver hydatidosis: our 20 year experience. HPB (Oxford) 2006;8(3):189-193. [ Links ]
2. Okan V, Araz M, Demirci F, Micozkadioglu H, Ozkur A. Hydatid cyst: a rare cause of ascites. Comput Med Imaging 2002:26(5):357-359. [ Links ]
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This is in regard to an article in your paper Nov. 14 titled "Vaccine not proven to be safe, effective," by Jessica German. I was quite disappointed in the views expressed by Ms. German, feeling that publishing such opinions could cause some of your readers to forego potentially life-saving flu vaccinations.
While looking on the Internet to try to substantiate some of her claims, I found that Ms. German's views are not only potentially harmful, they are also plagiarized.
See http://www.flu.org.cn/news/200410176557.htm and you will find the original article, sourced as an article by Fred Lowry, published in The Charlotte Observer on Oct. 17, with only minor changes from the article you printed as "by Jessica German."
Forgive me if this next remark seems to impugn all homeopaths and chiropractors, as Ms. German claims to be, but I feel that your readers would be better served if you stuck to publishing medical advice from (medical doctors) when it is available. I think you'll find it to be much more likely based in science. And also much less likely to embarrass your paper and harm your readers.
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Carol and Bob Cox of Mexico Beach were featured in the July issue of Field and Stream Magazine and honored by its Heroes of Conservation program for their volunteer work with the Mexico Beach Artificial Reef Association.
Carol and Bob Cox of Mexico Beach were featured in the July issue of Field and Stream Magazine and honored by its Heroes of Conservation program for their volunteer work with the Mexico Beach Artificial Reef Association.
For their conservation work, MBARA was awarded a $500 grant from Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc.
The Cox�s will also be eligible to win a grand prize of $5,000 and a new Toyota Tundra.
Each month, the magazine profiles three grassroots conservationists who go above and beyond in the protection of fish, wildlife and habitat.
The duo applied for the Field and Stream award online by submitting a detailed breakdown of the work they had accomplished with MBARA. They were eager to seek additional grant money for a cause they are passionate about.
Prior to becoming involved with the reef association, Carol and Bob, who consider themselves �Citizen Scientists,� were stationed on an Air Force base in Guam, a tropical location near the equator known for its coral reefs and clear water.
Already active with fishing, waterskiing and snorkeling, Carol urged Bob to take scuba lessons with her, though he was hesitant to do so.
�I was always fascinated by Jacques Cousteau,� said Carol. �Once Bob got started, he was more enthusiastic about it than I was.�
The pair continued to dive around Guam with Bob eventually becoming a certified Dive Instructor, and Carol, a Dive Master.
In 1998 they were stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base after specifically asking for a Florida assignment. While on base they spotted a brochure for the MBARA and soon became members.
�While we�re here, we may as well do something to improve diving and fishing,� recalled Carol. �The military engrains volunteerism into people.�
Within a few months of joining MBARA, Carol had been elected to the position of secretary. The couple became involved with events like the annual Kingfish Tournament where Carol spent several years as the official tournament photographer.
While in Guam, the couple became fascinated with the local underwater scene and soon learned the art of underwater photography and videography.
The Cox�s praised the MBARA for its active efforts at preserving and encouraging marine life in the waters off Mexico Beach.
�The MBARA is an active organization. You see all the good it does,� said Carol.
According to the Coxes, when the moved to the area in 1998, there were very few places to dive or fish in Mexico Beach, but the MBARA has helped to establish over 140 sites.
Just a few years ago, red snapper was rare in Mexico Beach. Carol reported that the city now has �one of the best snapper fisheries in the state of Florida.�
Bob, now president of the MBARA, and Carol, treasurer, spend their volunteer time conducting surveys on the artificial reefs and examining their structures as they seek out ways to improve future reefs. They also perform fish counts around established reefs to evaluate their performance.
In addition to creating certain sizes and shapes, the couple has found the proper materials that will bring fish to the area and allow them to thrive. They discovered that embedding Florida artificial limestone into the reefs mimicked the hard bottom that occurs naturally in the area.
�We�re helping the local fisheries grow to meet the growing demand,� said Bob. �We replenish it and make sure that it�s healthy for future generations.�
The association currently utilizes three shapes in their reefs. A three-sided pyramid design draws in larger fish; a flat, rectangular reef brings in grouper and gray snapper; and the �Ecosystem� design, which has multiple layers, provides crevices enjoyed by juvenile fish and black sea bass.
The Coxes spend time diving around the reefs tracking their progress, growth and fish that they bring into the area.
They regularly create reports on their findings that are shared in a database and accessible by engineers, the United States Coast Guard, Tyndall Air Force Base and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
�The information is available to anyone doing research,� said Bob. �It�s great information to have, especially in case of a future oil spill.�
Their current project is to discover the cause of lionfish in local waters. These invasive fish reproduce quickly and feed on other sea life vital to the local economy.
The MBARA is currently researching methods for controlling the population, but currently, it�s a mystery as to why their numbers have increased dramatically over the last few years.
Bob said, �You don�t have to have a degree to get involved.�
The Coxes reported that their efforts and the impact have caught the attention of surrounding counties and Bob had been contacted by representatives in Bay, South Walton, Hernando and Taylor Counties seeking advice on how to create similar non-profits that may have an equally positive impact on their local marine life.
The Coxes are pleased with their feature in Field and Stream Magazine, though they see it as an opportunity to shine a light on the organization that they�re so passionate about and put Mexico Beach on the map as one of the United States� best diving locations.
�So many people don�t know what we have in our backyard. They go to the Caribbean to dive,� said Bob.
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beyerdynamic poised for next leg
Entertainment Technology Asia talked to Wolfgang Luckhardt, Managing Director and Michael Kinzel, Director Sales & Marketing Asia about beyerdynamic's future plans in Asia
beyerdynamic recently established its regional offices in Singapore and India. The magazine Entertaintment Technolgy Asia talked to Wolfgang Luckhardt, Managing Director of beyerdynamic and Michael Kinzel, Director Sales & Marketing Asia about their views of Asia and beyerdynamic's future plans.
Original Source: Entertainment Technology Asia, Issue May-June 2013, "beyerdynamic poised for next leg"
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "Establishing a beyerdynamic office in Asia speaks volumes. What instigated this move?"
Michael Kinzel: "When I joined beyerdynamic in 2006, Asia represented roughly 6% of total revenues at the company. Through the steady work from Germany the dedicated team for the Asia region managed to increase this number up to 18% in 2011/2012.
This was a solid basis to do the next step. And the timing was just right – shortly after we "arrived" with our new offices in Bangalore and Singapore, Asia's share got another significant push ahead."
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "Asia is a wide and diversified region. Could you give us a brief idea of which countries and what specific solutions are doing well for beyerdynamic?"
Michael Kinzel: "The region Asia/Pacific/India covers all countries starting from India all the way towards East/South-east-Asia down to Australia/New Zealand. Of course, China plays a major role for us – especially after the re-structuring of distribution channels in 2008. Consumer headphones followed by conference systems create the major part of our business there.
Thanks to our partner TEAC we significantly increased market share in Japan over the last couple of years. Their major focus is on Consumer and Pro headphones. Followed by India with our own operation (headed by Director of Sales India, Naveen Sridhar) where - interestingly enough - our high end conference system play the main part.
Other strong markets are Singapore, Korea and Australia.
You see – we're doing well in many countries and enjoy a healthy diversification within our portfolio which is segmented into Conference, Pro Audio and Consumer.
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "How much in terms of percentage has Asia contributed to beyerdynamic's revenue over the past three years? What is your expectation for this year?"
Michael Kinzel: "As stated before we've managed to increase the percentage close to 20% already over the last 2 years. By end of first quarter 2013 we have achieved 25%! Of course, numbers will vary over the year – but I expect to keep it at least above 20% in 2013.
And this is already quite amazing for a traditional German company like beyerdynamic being in the market since 1924. Especially as we mainly speak about high end hand made products from the factory in southern Germany making their way to the Asia region."
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "Your responsibilities include the Consumer segment of beyerdynamic's business in Asia. Please can you elaborate when did beyerdynamic get involved in a serious manner in this segment? What are the solutions being offered?"
Michael Kinzel: "Being in the headphone business since 1937 beyerdynamic is a legend in the Broadcast field. Already in the 1980s one could find some first "consumer" versions of the beyer headphone classics.
Actually the whole thing only significantly picked up since 2008 when we hired highly skilled staff from the Consumer Electronics field. This brought up new visions and finally went into a very healthy crossover from the Broadcast field into a very nice Portfolio of Consumer oriented headphones.
The release of our all new TESLA driver technology in 2009 brought another significant push into the right direction. But still we're keeping our heritage as a broadcast legend. Our marketing is not shiny bright or supported by big endorsements – it is all based in our huge tradition of more than 88 years of experience."
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "What is your view of the consumer segment relating to beyerdynamic's business?"
Michael Kinzel: "It will definitely play an even more significant role in future than presently. Our team in Germany is capable to come up with enough fantastic new products to keep the ball rolling and the market size alone will do its part here.
The Consumer segment has the potential to become the single biggest business for beyerdynamic in the future."
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "beyerdynamic in the earlier years was renowned for its wireless solutions. It tapered off but most recently there has been a resurrection in this aspect."
Michael Kinzel: "Thanks for this nice lead…Yes, you could say "beyer is back into UHF wireless"!
After several years of being present in this field but not really recognized as a big player we're now able to serve the market with a German made digital UHF system which is able to cover a frequency range from 470 -789MHz with just one hardware. All this combined with beyer's famous changeable capsules, a very nice software, remote functions via smartphones and tablet PCs (each receiver carries its own IP address) and a remarkable latency of just 2.1ms…your readers will know what that means.
It is just fantastic value for the money for a solution made in Germany – and among others also caters for the very big events."
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "What happened previously where the company's interest in wireless was distracted?"
Michael Kinzel: "Well, as a comparatively smaller player you sometime need to decide where to put resources into. And at the time when beyerdynamic lost grip in UHF wireless at the same time we invented the first wireless conference systems running on 2.4 GHz which was and still is a big success story for the company. We've just released the fifth generation QUINTA and it is making its way further.
Nowadays we're in the position to do and support both – UHF and the GHz segment. So you could say we're also a real wireless company."
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "What is the view now in relation to beyerdynamic's wireless solutions?"
Wolfgang Luckhardt: "Our target is to maintain and increase our wireless knowledge and use it to extend our product portfolio step by step. With TG 1000 we have presented a product for the Top level. Now we will collect the feedback and the experience of the users. And of course we want to transform this to products for the semi-professional user. Our wireless microphone sound shall also be available for people with a smaller budget."
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "What are your expectations for the wireless solutions in Asia?"
Wolfgang Luckhardt: "Both, Quinta and TG 1000, the high professional products, will help us to create good solutions for our customers and to spread our brand name more and more also in the wireless area. We are optimistic to make significant sales with both products. And then follow the next (logical) steps."
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "beyerdynamic has incorporated some innovative technologies in its solutions. Could you give us a brief on some of these innovations and their impact for the industry/user."
Wolfgang Luckhardt: "Indeed, our flagship wireless system, TG 1000, is full of innovative features. The most obvious user advantage certainly is the huge bandwidth of 319 MHz. This gives rental companies and all other users utmost flexibility, and it makes TG 1000 a secure long-term investment in times of permanent frequency re-arrangements and Digital Dividends. Another major advantage of TG 1000 is the latency of only 2.1ms, which is a new benchmark of all digital wireless microphones. But we also paid a lot of attention to user-friendliness. A receiver with a large OLED display and all buttons being illuminated, a super-intuitive navigation menu, and our propriEntertainment Technology Asiary Chameleon software, which adapts to all operating systems and runs with all kinds of portable devices. Most of all however, TG 1000 delivers the high-end sound, which you can expect from a premium beyerdynamic microphone. First of all, there is a choice of changeable dynamic, condenser and ribbon capsules from our TG series. All of them are hand-made in Germany, and they all have the legendary "beyer sound". On the receiver-side, TG 1000 has some of the finest 24bit/96KHz converters available, and most importantly, we develop our own TriplePlay audio codec, which combines high-end audiophile performance with high error-resilience. All of these features make TG 1000 a wireless system which truly stands out."
ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA: "Finally what are your future plans for beyerdynamic Asia in terms of staff strength, services to be provided, etc.?"
Wolfgang Luckhardt: We go for the extension of our actual development. With Singapore as the centre we will build up more and more services within the next months, for example, technical support for partners and customers. And our clear focus is to strengthen all Business units. So, the group of beyerdynamic people in Asia will grow.
And in India we will intensify the communication and the support with partners and customers, too. To provide big and smaller dealers with installation products we will open up our warehouse and will do shipments from India to India in the second quarters this year. A very important first step to strengthen our presence in this attractive country.


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the King's Surrender
the King's Surrender
One day a great King sent his representative to Balananda to invite him to
come to the King's palace. Balananda said to the King's representative, "Well,
you are coming from one King to another. You must know that I am also a Kingin
the inner world. Since one King is inviting another King, I feel that I must
go. But first I wish to tell you a story."

Balananda asked his disciples who were nearby to come and sit in front of
him, as he was going to tell a significant story: Once there was a great
spiritual Master who used to meditate for days on end without eating or drinking
anything. It happened that on one occasion he got an inner urge to meditate
for three days sitting in the middle of a public road. On the second day
of his austere discipline, he heard a very loud noise. He opened his eyes
and he saw that a big procession honouring a certain King was coming down
the road, heading towards him. Three of the King's guards came rushing up
to him and said, "Look, look, the King will soon pass by. Leave way for him.
Move aside and leave the road free."

The Master said, "Who?"

"The King himself!" the guards replied.

The Master said, "Don't bother me. I am also a King."

The guards threatened him, "We will strike you!"

He said, "How dare you touch me! Just try!" Then the guards looked at his
eyes and saw that they were emitting fire. They got frightened and ran to
narrate the story to their King.

After he heard the story, the King went up to the Master and said in a mocking
manner, "O saint, I understand that you are another King. Please tell me
how many soldiers you have."

The spiritual man said, "I don't have any soldiersnot even one."

"How can you be a King without any soldiers?" the King asked.

The saint replied, "I have no enemy to fight against. Why do I need any soldiers?"

Then the King asked, "Tell me, please, where is your house? Where do you
He answered, "The whole world is my house. Why do I need a particular house?
All the houses in God's creation belong to me, for God is my Father, my only
Father. The father's house the son can legitimately claim. So all the houses
of this world are mine. I don't need any special house to live in."

The King now realised that this man was not an ordinary human being. He fell
down at the feet of the spiritual Master and begged him for forgiveness.
The Master immediately granted him forgiveness and, with a smiling face,
moved away from where he had been seated in the middle of the road so that
the King's procession could freely move on to its destination.

After hearing the story the King's representative got the point. He was very
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He went running to Balananda to beg him for forgiveness, and then asked him
to initiate him.

After Balananda had initiated him, the King said, "Please tell me how I can
rule my kingdom. I am always assailed by fear, doubt, anxiety and worry."

Balananda said, "It is very easy. From now on, let all your possessions remain
with you, but feel that they are not yours. They belong to God. God is the
sole owner of all the things that you claim to be yours; you are only His
manager. He has asked you to manage these things on His behalf, but He is
the real owner. You are the false owner. Since the real owner always takes
care of His own property, the false owner must surrender to His Will. Pray
to God to make you an unconditional instrument of His. In that way you will
never be assailed by fear, worry, anxiety and doubt; you will be only a dear
instrument of His."

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In the category of epic typing battles: I wrote 14046 words today #acwri This may be an all-time record.— Dr Eva Lantsoght (@evalantsoght) March 11, 2017
How did this word count break down?
I didn't write all 14046 words on a single writing project. Instead, I worked on several projects, as I do virtually every working day:
- 969 words on emails and admin
- 2536 words on my blog
- 1301 words on a journal paper writing project
- 8627 words on my book
- 613 words on a research report
The main chunk of my writing was done that day in the afternoon, as I was working on the first draft of my book, the A-Z of the PhD Trajectory. The book won't be published anytime soon, but it needs to go for review by March 31st 2018. I like being ahead of deadlines, and especially with the baby coming, I'm trying to finish up as much work as possible before I enter a stage in my life of which I have no idea what it will be like (and have no idea how to plan my days for).
So, what did I do that day that made it such a success?
- I slept 9 hours and 37 minutes, according to my fitbit stats, and woke up at 7:46 am. Unfortunately, that rather late wake-up did not give me enough time to squeeze in my yoga practice.
- I must have started with work some time between 8:30 am and 9 am. I worked first on my paper, and then on my research. The idea was to do about 2 hours of each, but since I got off to a late start, it must have been more like 1,5 hours of each. For the research, I was doing calculations, and writing the report about these calculations at the same time, so it was a bit of a combination of writing and the actual number-crunching in matlab.
- I had lunch. Since I was working from home that day, I think I didn't spend more than 30 minutes on lunch: warming up my plate of food, and then quickly eating it.
- I wrote 25 entries for the extended glossary list of my book. When I was working on writing these entries, I made a list with the numbers (1-25), and write down the title for every 5th entry. After each entry was finished, I checked off the number. After 5 to 10 entries, I took a break. This writing kept me busy from 1 pm until about 5pm.
- I replied email for about an hour, and made my planning for the next week.
- I went for a walk while talking to my mom via Skype, and had my dinner.
- I took my laptop to the sofa to type a blog post.
- According to my myfitnesspal account, I had three servings of chocolate peanut butter avocado pudding.
I'm not sure what is the main reason for my major productivity that day: the long sleep the night before? The fact that I was working from home rather undisturbed (except for the lady coming to clean the apartment)? All the chocolate pudding I ate that day?


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Make it six of the last seven semesters that Tennessee Tech's student-athletes have a combined overall grade point average of 3.0 or higher. For the recently completed 2010 Fall semester, Golden Eagle student-athletes managed a combined 3.17 GPA, the second highest in school history behind the 3.2 average last Spring.
Just as impressive, 11 of Tech's 14 teams recorded team GPAs of 3.0 or higher with five squads at or above the 3.50 mark.
The softball team led the way at 3.56, the sixth time in seven semesters that coach Tory Acheson's squad was at the top of the chart. The soccer team, under first-year coach Daniel Brizard was a close second with a 3.53 GPA. Three women's teams coached by Tony Cox – cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field – all boasted a 3.50 GPA.
The combined Fall semester GPA of 3.17 for all student-athletes in Tech's 14 intercollegiate sports was the second-highest semester GPA since the Athletics department began tracking academic records in 1971.
"Success in their academic pursuits is equally as important to our student-athletes as their efforts in trying to become the best athletes they can be," said Mark Wilson, TTU Director of Athletics. "We see it in their work ethic in competition as well as in the classroom.
"These results are a testament to their commitment, and also an indication of the dedication of our coaching staff and the programs and personnel we have working with the student-athletes to ensure academic success."
Tech's eight highest semester GPAs have all come in the past five years. Following the record combined GPA of 3.20 in Spring 2010, Tech's next seven best semester marks are 3.17 (Fall 2010), 3.11 (Fall 2009), 3.04 (Fall 2008), 3.03 (Fall 2007), 3.02 (Fall 2006), 3.01 (Spring 2009), and 3.0 (Spring 2008).
"This outcome reflects the continued progress that our student-athletes are making, and it comes from the outstanding support and teamwork of faculty, support and clerical staff, Athletic personnel and the student-athletes themselves," said Dr. Lance Jasitt, assistant athletic director for academics and student welfare. "It is the result of a total team effort."
For softball, each year's team has a lofty academic tradition to uphold.
"Obviously we are very proud of the success our softball student-athletes are having in the classroom," Acheson said, "and there are several factors contributing to our strong run.
"Some of the credit goes to Lance Jasitt and his staff for the outstanding support our kids get. I also want to single out Kristina Hortert, who has been working with our kids the last couple of years on specific things such as study skills and tutoring," Acheson said. "She has been instrumental."
Ultimately, he said it's the players who get the job done.
"They take the 'student' part of student-athlete seriously," he said. "We have an outstanding tradition and they look at it as something they want to carry forward. They don't want to drop the ball and be the weak link. They want to continue to achieve at the highest possible level."
Cox gives credit to the quality of student-athletes attending the University.
"This kind of overall success by our student-athletes begins with the quality of young men and women that each team recruits," Cox said. "Every single student-athlete on every single team represents the university, both in competition and in the classroom, and we are extremely proud of how hard they work toward success in both areas."
In addition to the five teams that reached the 3.50 plateau, Tech teams with combined 3.0 GPAs or higher included men's tennis (3.32), women's golf (3.22), volleyball (3.07), women's basketball (3.06), men's golf (3.05) and baseball (3.04).
For coach Matt Bragga's baseball team, punching through the 3.0 barrier is the culmination of a long, steady climb that saw his Golden Eagles narrowly miss that mark in recent semesters. The team has set new highs for the baseball program every semester in each of the past four years.
"We've set program records, but the 3.0 mark has eluded us," Bragga said. "We have been so close, so it was nice to break that barrier. Our team goal is to be above the 3.0 mark again this spring and set another GPA record for TTU baseball.
"Our guys are working hard on and off the field, and will continue to do so," he added. "We are blessed to have so many great young men on this team."
Finishing just below the 3.0 mark were men's basketball (2.79), men's cross country (2.72) and football (2.56). The men's basketball and football team marks were both the second-highest GPAs in program history.