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August 2003
Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life has taken the US economic development industry by storm. This professor of Regional Economic Development at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, entered the discussion of "what now?" and "what next?" as the high-tech stock market was making its rough ride to the bottom and America was reconsidering its deconstruction of the military/industrial complex in favor of consumer products. His fresh writing style and data-driven analysis appeal both to the armchair economist and the popular culture watcher.
His thesis? There is a significant contingent in the 18 to 35-year-old demographic that is quietly having a large impact on the future of the development of products and ideas in this country, and their potential to shape our culture is just beginning to be revealed. If properly identified as one of our richest natural resources and employed in the context of economic recovery, this resource, which is flocking to certain locales throughout the country, has the vitality and promise we are looking for in the current recession.
Why is recognizing this contingent important to managers of knowledge generation and management functions? Because the creative class that Florida describes is largely composed of people in these functions. He looks at how their values, level of self-direction, portability, and social mores impact attracting, retaining, and applying their talents from a regional standpoint. He also discusses how their lifestyles and work styles coalesce and how they are motivated-largely by their curiosity and opportunities to express their creativity. His analysis of their sometimes surprisingly conservative values, preference for loosely coupled relationships, and focus on place is peppered with numerous insights into working with and motivating these valuable human resources.
In summary, this 404-page book, with index, covers the topic in four parts and 15 chapters. Appendices beginning on page 327 show the cities and various indices he uses in evaluating certain locations' attractions for this class of worker.
Part One: The Creative Age
These three chapters provide the obligatory, and somewhat scholarly, backward glance to give context for the rest of the discussion. This is great reading if you are interested in economic and social history, as I am. In Chapter Four, Florida explains his working definition of "creative class" and how it relates to similar analyses of work culture by other scholars:
The rise of the Creative Economy has had a profound effect on the sorting of people into social groups or classes. Others have speculated over the years on the rise of new classes in the advanced industrial economies. During the 1960s, Peter Drucker and Fritz Machlup described the growing role and importance of the new group of workers they dubbed "knowledge workers." Writing in the 1970s, Daniel Bell pointed to a new, more meritocratic class structure of scientists, engineers, managers, and administrators brought on by the shift from a manufacturing to a "postindustrial" economy. The sociologist Erik Olin Wright has written for decades about the rise of what he called a new "professional-managerial" class. Robert Reich more recently advanced the term "symbolic analysts" to describe the members of the workforce who manipulate ideas and symbols. All of these observers caught economic aspects of the emerging class structure that I describe here. (p. 67)
Part Two: Work
This section begins to cover the social and cultural differences between the creative class, their parents, and their peers-including what may be a few surprises. In a section on managing creativity, Florida discusses human resource management strategies as they have emerged in high-tech companies. Then, he makes an interesting observation:
And these practices offered one great efficiency to firms-and one incredible advantage to capitalism-which ultimately assured their further diffusion. They enabled firms and the economy as a whole to capture the creative talents of people who would have been considered oddballs, eccentrics or worse during the high period of the organizational age. Richard Lloyd quotes the founder of one of the Chicago high-tech firms studied as saying: "Lots of people who fell between the cracks in another generation and who were more marginalized are[now] highly employable and catered to by businesses that tend to be flexible with their lifestyles and lifecycles." (p. 140)
And later, he makes some observations about managing creativity in high-tech companies that may not surprise you:
We selected an edgy high-tech company as the venue for our workshop and invited two of their top executives to join in the discussion…. As we got further into it, the two high-tech executives began to chime in with their views, which essentially amounted to a high-tech version of "management by stress"-working people as long and as hard as they could stand. It quickly became clear to the group that these two did not have the foggiest idea of how to motivate or even treat creative people, let alone build an effective and enduring organizational culture. (p. 142)
Part Three: Life and Leisure
In section three, composed of two chapters "The Experiential Life" and "The Big Morph (a Rant)," Florida goes deeper into how lifestyle and work intersect in the creative economy. In the first chapter, Florida describes the kind of experientially rich communities and workplaces members of the creative class tend to choose. In the second chapter, Florida discusses the tension between the Protestant work ethic and the bohemian ethic that the creative class successfully embodies. While this chapter is, indeed, a rant, it is also a good read:
What happened instead was neither sixties nor eighties, neither bourgeois nor bohemian, but the opening of a path to something new. The great cultural legacy of the sixties, as it turned out, was not Woodstock after all, but something that had evolved at the other end of the continent. It was Silicon Valley. This place in the very heart of the San Francisco Bay area became the proving ground for the new ethos of creativity. If work could be made more aesthetic and experiential; if it could be spiritual and "useful" in the poetic sense rather than in the duty-bound sense; if the organizational strictures and rigidity of the old system could be transcended; if bohemian values like individuality-which also happens to be a tried-and-true all-American value-could be brought to the workplace, then we could move beyond the old categories. (p. 202)
It is worthwhile to note here that Florida spends basically no time looking at how this idealism contributed to the rise and fall of the dot-bombs.
Part Four: Community
In this section, Florida talks about the importance of place to this demographic-and to creative work—and he talks about how a spirit of tolerance acts almost as a cradle for creativity. He discusses creative class members' preference for loosely coupled interpersonal commitments rather than the tightly coupled group affiliations of the previous generations' sense of social capital and some of the implications of this change. This chapter may be the most data-based in the book because he classifies hundreds of communities into Classic Social Capital Communities, Organizational Age Communities, Nerdistans, and Creative Centers. Odds are, if you are living in a community of any size, you'll find your community ranked in the related appendix. Even Yakima, Washington, comes into the discussion.
In an industry where distributed and virtual teams are increasingly the norm, this focus on place is particularly interesting. Many people have very strong feelings about the way computer-mediated communication impacts working relationships. In the section called "The World of Weak Ties," Florida states, "Practically all of us have at least a few such relationships. According to sociologists who study networks, most people have and can manage between five and ten strong-tie relationships." But, he counters, "weak ties are often more important… research on social networks has shown that weak ties are the key mechanism for mobilizing resources, ideas, and information, whether for finding a job, solving a problem, launching a new product, or establishing a new enterprise. A key reason that weak ties are important is that we can manage many more of them." (p. 276-277) This strategy of maintaining many weak ties to facilitate creative connection is supported by tools like contact databases, email, automatic task reminder systems, and various remote communication and collaboration technologies.
What If You're Not (Chronologically) a Kid Anymore?
As the Biography page on Florida's site at CMU states, "He is widely regarded as one of the most influential academics on the shift to the new, knowledge economy and has spearheaded national debates on industrial competitiveness, high-technology industries, and the globalization of industry." What about those of us over 35? While Florida concentrates on this demographic through most of the book, the last chapter, "The Creative Class Grows Up," focuses on what needs to be done to ensure that the creative class-the knowledge workers you may be managing even now-is properly fostered in the US. Generally, building wisdom seems to take time, though the passage of time is far from a guarantee of the development of wisdom. The development of wisdom requires paying attention, something that Florida believes this class of workers has not done well.
Vast numbers of Creative Class people are concerned mainly with building their resumes, building their bodies and acquiring the status kit of our age: a stylishly renovated home with a Sub-Zero refrigerator, Viking stove and an SUV in the drive. They naively assume that if they take care of their own business, the rest of the world will take care of itself and continue to provide the environment they need to prosper. (p. 316)
Further, true to his creative class values, he goes on to warn about emerging class divides.
America is far from a unified society…. The worsening divides in our society are not merely a problem of social equity; they are economically inefficient for the nation as a whole…. Why, then, should promoting creativity everywhere be a main theme of our policies and our lives? Why not focus on promoting some attribute that seems to be more universally positive and beneficial-say, spiritual growth, or civility? Wouldn't that, over the long run, make us better people who can more wisely direct the creative impulse that flows so naturally? My answer is that of course, we should cultivate both of those virtues. But neither of them is an economic force that increases the resources with which we may do good in the world. Creativity is. (p. 320-325)
Managers of knowledge workers in the current economy, particularly managers of those workers in high-tech companies, have seen their ranks drastically thinned. This downsizing is ironic in the face of the compelling argument that Florida details in this book. But it is not surprising when this book is read contemplatively.
We knowledge workers, as a class, don't know who we are. And those of us who identify primarily as writers have never really been able to characterize our value to corporate America. Wherever there is a successful organization, though, there are writers-perhaps they go by other titles, but they are there. Preoccupied by our bohemian druthers, apologetic for our lack of eloquence in the face of bean counting skepticism about our value, we bow and scrape by, often bowing out the door when the going gets tough for the organization-never knowing that, increasingly, we have spun the thread and woven the cloth the corporation has made its expensive suit from.
I think Florida would point out downsizing writers as a critical lapse in business sense-on our part, as much as the corporation's.
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A new version of God of War will be released, but it will be a mobile version.
Here are some details.
"The mobile game promises an original adventure in which Kratos is mistakenly believed to have turned against his fellow Olympians and must use the power of your keypad to win back their favor. No solid date for the 2D adventure was available, nor was information on the game's threesome mode."
The only betrayal here is that a piece of the God of War story is going to mobile phones rather than a gaming platform that matters.
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Two pairs of eyes trained on Will Hill, as if trying to peek into the deepest corners of his soul. And suddenly, the talkative, confident safety didn't feel so confident at all.
He desperately wanted to impress Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell and safeties coach David Merritt in this late-spring meeting, wanted to show that he could help the Super Bowl champs. But at this moment, at this time, he needed to deal with his sordid past, explaining the Twitter meltdown and the marijuana suspension and the attitude that had disappointed so many scouts a year ago.
He thought about deflecting blame, as he'd done so many times before.
No. Not this time.
"I put everything on the line, just told them the truth," he says. "I said, 'I'm trying to come here to work and to help this team. I'm not gonna be a problem. I won't be a distraction.'"
It was the proclamation that Will Hill needed to make, the only way to earn a second chance for a career in free fall.
Five years ago, Hill was the pride of East Orange, N.J., a freakishly athletic safety who had his pick of colleges (he chose the University of Florida), and a seemingly surefire path to the NFL.
But a series of missteps in college nearly transformed him into yet another pro sports cautionary tale. Since 2008, Hill has fathered four children through three different women, been married, separated and started working toward a divorce. He has tweeted so brazenly that NFL scouts were scared off (and he eventually shut down his account, @trill_sg), he has struggled with drugs, and he has pondered leaving the game.
The player who will take the field on Sunday in Philadelphia insists he has learned from that past. For the first time in years, he is settled and focused, he says. And for the first time in his life, the 22-year-old is showing maturity.
"He'll tell these stories sometimes," says Giants safety Stevie Brown. "I'm like, you've been married - and divorced? He's 22, but he talks like he's 30."
Hill isn't a child anymore. And as he stands on the deck of his new home in West Orange, watching his dog Mercedes frolic in the backyard while his girlfriend Jennifer Gonzalez chases after his son Jezreel, he understands that.
"I can't just live carefree," he says. "I got worries now. My kids, these responsibilities. You have your fun, but it's time for responsibility."
Hill is working on that lately, and his hair is even further evidence.
During his four years at St. Peter's Prep, a top high school program in Jersey City, and his three seasons at the University of Florida, and even throughout the NFL draft process that shocked him into changing 2011, wildly long dreadlocks were his signature look.
He changed that in February of this year, heeding the advice of former NFL cornerback - and current football trainer - Ray Buchanan. Buchanan made the suggestion when he was working with Hill in Atlanta. A few weeks after they wrapped up in April, Hill texted Buchanan to let him know he'd shorn his locks.
"I was like, 'Oh, he's serious,'" Buchanan says.
"The NFL is tricky," adds Buchanan, who played from 1994-2003. "It's hard to get back in there. If the NFL has a stamp on you, on what you're all about, you need to change that."
That's been an ongoing battle for Hill, who admits that he branded himself during his days at Florida.
"It was all me," he says. "I made a lot of mistakes."
He arrived in Gainesville in 2008, after a magical career at St. Peter's, the high school he'd attended at the urging of his father, Will Hill Sr.
It was partly a way for Hill to escape the dangerous streets of East Orange, a hardscrabble city not far from Newark, and partly a way for Hill to showcase his gridiron talents. By his sophomore year, he'd led the program to a state title, by his junior year, his coach, Rich Hansen, remembers watching him sign autographs before games. And by his senior year, Hill says he'd attained "rock star" status.
Hill says that success left him feeling "arrogant" when he headed to Florida. In New Jersey, Hill Sr. and Hansen had kept him in line, the coach delivering stern punishments for mistakes and the father repeatedly telling his son to watch out for girls and "don't fall for the pillow talk s---."
But in Gainesville, he was alone. So there were parties and marijuana. And, midway through 2008, he met Leisa Bold while playing poker.
"She was cool," he says.
Then she became Leisa Hill. Hill and Leisa married in a Jacksonville courthouse in December 2009, shortly after the birth of their first son, Jalil. A year later, Braylon was born. Hill was still just 20 years old.
That was just the beginning. By his junior year in 2010, he was drawing a two-game suspension for a violation of team rules, and a letter arriving at Will Sr.'s house detailed why: He had been caught with marijuana.
Months later, Hill's Twitter habits placed him in more trouble. For months, he'd tweeted openly about everything from sex and prostitutes to students smoking marijuana at Florida, often using vulgar language.
But when a website printed a selection of Hill's tweets in January, he insisted they weren't his. His Twitter account was shut down shortly after that, and he said he'd been "hacked," a claim he maintained for much of last year.
The NFL would note all these things early in 2011, when Hill declared for the NFL draft after his junior season. He said he did so largely to spend more time with his two sons.
But teams saw little focus on football. Hill was granted a private workout with the Giants last spring, then sent to the blackboard to learn basic plays with Merritt. He says he never paid attention to a word the coach said.
"I was like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah,'" he says. "I figured I didn't need to know it."
When Hill ran his 40-yard dashes in the high 4.6-second range in workouts and struggled to answer questions during team interviews at the NFL Combine, one scout told the Daily News he simply "wasn't worth the risk."
Hill would go undrafted in seven rounds of the 2011 draft, and not a single team inquired about signing him afterwards. The player who had so many options in high school suddenly had none.
"Not to get drafted at all? That was frustrating," he says. "I was crushed."
He stopped watching football, Hill Sr. says. And he stopped training.
He said his friends "abandoned" him; he'd call people and ask for money, and they ignored him.
"This isn't supposed to be happening to me," he told Leisa one night last summer. "I'm supposed to be in the NFL."
The reclamation process began in October of last year. Hill and Leisa had long endured fights and arguments as Hill struggled to balance football and family, and, finally, they parted ways. Hill returned to New Jersey while Leisa remained in Jacksonville. Hill says he has not spoken to Leisa since, and said he is working on finalizing a divorce.
Shortly after that, Hill reached out to Buchanan, a suggestion from a trainer he knew, Chip Smith. Buchanan holds an annual defensive back's camp in Atlanta in February, and Hill hoped to use the camp to round into shape.
Until April, Hill trained with Buchanan daily, breaking down game tape and renewing his love for football. He learned cornerback techniques from the former Pro Bowler and diagrammed plays and formations on a blackboard, almost never calling his parents and barely talking to Leisa.
And then, the teacher made the student forgive himself for all his off-the-field mistakes.
"He told me about some of the troubles that he had had," Buchanan says. "I was like, everyone makes mistakes. But if you're given another opportunity, would you do what it takes to respect the game? Because you have all the intangibles and physical attributes."
Buchanan repeatedly asked Hill why the NFL should give him another chance. Hill had no answers, so he just practiced and trained harder.
"Ray, he was speaking the word," Hill added. "He got my passion going again."
That passion was on display when the Giants brought Hill back in for a workout this spring. He says he ran so hard he threw up. And when Merritt sat the safety down in the classroom - and stared briefly at his new hairdo - the coach was quickly impressed.
This time, Hill asked question after question, making sure he understood the defense. Then, when it was his turn on the board, he dazzled.
"When we put him up on the board, he could draw every single play, tell us exactly where the coverage had to be," Merritt says. "His knowledge of the game was very impressive."
Hill has impressed the Giants with his play on the field ever since.
Rookie corner Jayron Hosley found Hill's all-out approach in rookie minicamp almost strange, marveling at how "he did every drill at like 110%," and that earned Hill a shot in June's mandatory minicamp.
By the time training camp came around, the veterans were noticing.
Fewell experimented with the rookie as his third safety in three-safety alignments. And linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka still remembers Hill covering one part of the field, then rushing to the other to make an interception after a pump fake.
"Coaches pointed it out in meeting rooms," Kiwanuka says. "A lot of people were impressed. From then on, nobody was surprised when Will Hill made a play."
Except, perhaps, Hill himself. The new, hardnosed Hill refuses to believe he made the Giants, and he refuses to slow down. He remembers being with his family in West Orange when he learned he'd made the 53-man roster on August 31. His family wanted to celebrate. Hill didn't.
Instead, Will Hill packed himself into his car and headed to the Giants practice facility to get a playbook and begin studying. He's "early for every meeting," according to safety Kenny Phillips. He's "done everything we've asked and looked good" on special teams, says coordinator Tom Quinn.
Hill has tried to stabilize his off-field life as well. There is no entourage visiting his West Orange home, he says; only Jezreel and Jennifer live with him. He no longer talks of parties, either; instead he talks of converting one of the ground-floor rooms in his five-bedroom house into a room where he can "study game tape."
The only thing he might change is his hairstyle. Sometimes, he misses the dreadlocks.
"I'm thinking of bringing them back," he says. "But I might not."


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It's November and the weather is finally cooling down in the Philippines! This is good news for all us fashion lovers out there. We can finally start layering clothes without ending up in a sweaty mess! As seasons come and go, so do fashion trends. I tried out a few trends for the colder season that could still be worn despite living in a tropical country and I absolutely loved the results! Make sure to try out some of the looks as well and tag me on instagram or twitter so I can see them!
Trend 1: Dusty pink and yellow, and shades of tan
This season's colors according to the top fashion designers are pink and yellow in their muted shades. I am absolutely in love with this faded shade of pink. I actually did not expect this combination of colors to work at first. When I tried on my clothes however, I was surprised to see that they complemented each other quite well. The pink top, yellow skirt and scarf, and brown belt gave my look an earthy feel. I feel as if the bright colors are a welcome contrast to the darker hues we usually see during the colder season of the year. Make sure to give this combination a shot and keep a look out for these colors when you're deciding what to wear.
Trend 2: Turtlenecks under short dresses
Trend 3: School girl jumpers
However, if you're in a hurry and a bit iffy with trying out new colors, feel free to look chic and classy in neutral colors! In this look I decided to stick to the basics and wore a gray turtleneck under a black jumper. Turtlenecks under short dresses and what some call school girl jumpers have been season favorites. I decided to combine these two trends and I absolutely loved the result. I felt so cozy, but also very chic. I am so glad the weather finally cooled down enough so I could comfortably try out this look. Cold season or not however, I think layering shirts under dresses , and jumpers are must-try looks that anyone could pull off! Just make sure to keep in mind the material of your clothing before you layer your clothes so as to remain comfortable the entire day.
Trend 4: Off-shoulder tops
Trend 5: Bishop Sleeves
Trend 6: Chokers
This season, off-shoulder tops continue to be on trend as they have been all year-round. So if it's a bit warmer, this is a look you could definitely try out. Aside from being off-shoulder, this top also incorporates another trend for this season, the bishop sleeves. Bishop sleeves are sleeves that are loose and then fitted at the wrist. They provide a comfy way to stay warm when the weather outside is cool enough to wear long sleeves, but not enough to want to wear something that sticks to the skin. Another trend that has stayed on top throughout the year is wearing chokers! Several looks during New York Fashion Week made sure to incorporate different types and sizes of chokers in their looks.
Trend 7: Plaid Overcoats
Another trend that seems to come back every cold season is plaid. During New York Fashion Week, plaid was mostly used for overcoats. To make this trend more appropriate for Philippine weather, I decided to go with an oversized plaid button down polo. This is good for those who want to add a bit of spunk to their outfits. Don't worry if plaid polos are usually associated with being basic or hipster. Remember that as long as you feel good and are confident in what you're wearing, you'll definitely look amazing.
Trend 8: Oversized jackets
This season, comfort is in style with oversized jackets! Here, I am wearing an oversized denim jacket. This is actually one of my favorite jackets because it's so easy to pair with anything, and since it is oversized, it feels super comfy. I personally love wearing oversized outerwear because for some reason they remind me of hugs and hot chocolate with marshmallows.
Trend 9: Bomber jackets
Obviously, this list wouldn't be complete without bomber jackets! This trend has taken 2016, and the colder season by storm. Everyone is sporting bomber jackets with everything, from formal dresses to the classic shirt and jeans combo. Who wouldn't blame them? They're super comfy, soft, and chic! I always feel like I'm being hugged by marshmallows when wearing my bomber jacket, and I don't ever have to worry about looking like a marshmallow! I just really can't express enough how much of a classic piece a bomber jacket is. It may be a tad bit pricey, but if you find the right one for you, you'll definitely agree with me that it is worth it! I actually got my jacket at a store that seems like their clothes are pricey yet their bomber jackets are cheaper compared to more popular stores and I find that it has better quality too. Comment below or hit me up on social media if you want to know what store it is!
When I got the idea for this post, I wasn't sure if I would be able to pull off trends meant for countries with colder weather in the Philippines without sacrificing comfort. It fills me with joy that there are still trends that are applicable to tropical countries that are cooling down. These are of course just a few of this season's trends, and as trends are, you are not obliged to follow them just because they are popular. If you are the type of person who sweats a lot or has to walk around, it may not be advisable to wear turtlenecks, so feel free to switch up some pieces with shirts instead. Make sure to still keep your personal style and comfort as a priority when dressing up.
However, also make sure to mix it up once in a while, even by just taking small risks and small steps out of your comfort zone. If you are usually wearing tank tops and cropped tops, and you want to change it up a bit, try putting those clothes away for some time so that you won't be tempted to play it safe and wear those instead.
By putting these clothes away, you're also decluttering your wardrobe, making dressing up easier and more convenient. Personally, I decided to put the clothes that I don't want to wear this season in a box and I tuck it away safely under my bed. However, if you are living in these locations, you should go ahead and check out MakeSpace!
MakeSpace is a new service that comes to your place, grabs your stuff, and stores it. Through the use of their app you can tell them to bring you whatever you need out of storage whenever!!! It's kind of like having a second closet, or even a personal assistant that brings you your stuff at a snap of your fingers.
I am absolutely in love with this idea and I have always wanted a second closet to store away the clothes I no longer use as much, but don't want to give away. Hopefully, they expand to the Philippines soon. In the mean time, those of you who do have it available in their locations, make sure to check them out now! If you have any questions, feel free to comment!


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Genre: Transsexual
Director: Joey Silvera
Cast: Julie Berdu, Kelly Costa, Britney Bitch, Gabriella Andrade, Jessica Fox, Angel Cortez, Mona Wales, Alex Victor
Length: 196 minutes
Date of Production: 2014
Extras: There are good photo galleries, cumshot recaps, websites information, trailers, an EvilAngel.com preview, and a cast list.
Condoms: Yes
Audio/Video Quality: The audio and video quality are very good. This film is shot in High Definition and Dolby Digital.
Scene One: Blonde Julie Berdu is outdoors sitting on the concrete steps. Soon, she and her fella Alex Victor are walking hand in hand and playing with each other as he feels her breasts. Next, we see the pretty tranny indoors. She caresses her big tits. Her ass is showcased afterwards with some snatch grabbing by Julie. Then, Alex appears behind her as he fondles the woman and kisses her. It leads to some cocksucking action by him. Julie looks good on her back in her blue shirt. The room feels stuffy. The excitement level rises as soon as the woman applies the bj activity on him. I liked seeing drool falling down from her mouth. Afterwards, Alex focuses his attention on her asshole as she sticks four fingers into it. Then, the good fucking action occurs by him. Meanwhile, Julie looks quite hot. She really feels it during the spooning moments as it shows on her face. The screwing activity is reversed when Alex gets fucked by her. The spooning moments looked the best during the tranny on man action. The turn-on activity even got better when the eye candy beauty did the fucking. She looked so happy in that role. A 69 follows with Julie on top. In the end, Alex cums on her mouth.
Scene Two: Kelly Costa is in the back seat of a car. She is talking with Joey Silvera. Alex Victor is in the front seat too. After some titty teasing activity in the vehicle, we see her performing a full tease performance at their indoor location. Afterwards, Alex joins her and he fondles her from behind as they kiss. At this point, the camera does a nice job in focusing on her cock. Suddenly, her partner places his attention on eating her asshole. Then, the beautiful tranny turns around in order for him to suck her hard on. The best moments thus far appear when Kelly provides the blow job action. I liked seeing how fond she is with his dick. It's pretty sensual. Then, Alex places his attention on her asshole a while as she fucks it for the doggie action. The spooning and the reverse cowgirl moments provided the best showcase for Kelly's fuckable body. I was glad to see her suck cock again before the cum shot moments occurred. Later, the woman jacks his dick on her receptive mouth.
Scene Four: Gabriella Andrade is wearing a wedding lingerie type outfit. Alex Victor is applying some make-up on the already pretty woman. The tone feels personal as the tranny has her white veil over her face and she and the man are smiling at each other. Then, she bends over against the window so that Alex can eat her warm snatch. The cocksucking activity looked nice afterwards. I enjoyed seeing Gabriella and him kissing. During the woman's cocksucking activity, I liked seeing her hard dick sticking up. After straddling his groin against her ass, the man starts to suck her cock again. As the doggie session occurred, at times, Gabreilla looked bewildered. During the spooning screw, Alex shoves his hand into her mouth. Then, the nice looking tranny rides him reverse cowgirl style. The increasing flow of sexual activity shows that Gabriella is really feeling his dick in her and is getting a good workout. Finally, she jacks him into her mouth. Overall, Gabriella was a real trooper.
Scene Five: Mona Wales is wearing a red top that has the breast area exposed. She performs a nice tease with good butt shots provided by the director. Then, we see Jessica Fox masturbating a bit. Suddenly, the playful blonde appears beside her and does a nice job sucking her cock. The energy level is good. It heightens when Mona fingerfucks Jessica's asshole. I was impressed with the lengthy cocksucking session. Next, a spooning is applied by the tranny on her partner. I liked seeing them kiss. Also, Mona really feels that dick in her so well that her moans sound cool. We can tell by the look in her eyes that Mona enjoys it a whole lot. Afterwards, while Jessica is sitting on her partner's face, the tranny is applying a vibrator on the woman's wet vaginal plaything. Mona rides her cowgirl style before she fingerfucks Jessica's asshole. I like the effort that she puts in it as well as to her cocksucking activity. Later, she sucks Jessica's toes. Some vaginal play by Jessica follows as she uses her hand and a red toy on Mona's treat. Finally, the tranny cums on her receptive horny mouth.
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Australia are through to the FIFA Women's World Cup quarter-finals after coming from behind to beat Norway and reach the last eight at their opponents' expense.
The Matildas looked as though they had missed out on a place when Elise Thorsnes put Norway – requiring a win to go through – ahead after 56 minutes, but Australia hit back within a minute courtesy of Kyah Simon's equaliser and the striker was on target again three minutes from time to secure a quarter-final encounter against Brazil or Sweden. Norway, meanwhile, exit at the competition's group stage for the first time.
Norway began the match brightly enough and but for the intervention of Kim Carroll, would have taken the lead on the quarter-hour mark when Cecilie Pedersen's goalbound shot was deflected over by the defender. Ingvild Stensland brought the best out of goalkeeper Melissa Barbieri, when her long shot was well held on 32 minutes, while two strikes from distance by the lively Thorsnes were also smothered by the Australia captain.
All Australia had to show for a restrained first 45 minutes was a snapshot by Lisa De Vanna, but coach Tom Sermanni's tactics were doubtless influenced by the knowledge that a point would suffice to reach the knockout stage. Those tactics changed 11 minutes after the restart when a mix-up in the Australia rearguard allowed Thorsnes the easiest of goals.
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5 (15 oz.) cans Great Northern beans
5 cans chicken broth (8 c. or ½ gal.)
2 large white onions
1 tsp. garlic, minced
1 (4.5 oz.) can diced green chilis
1 t. salt
2 t. cumin
1 ½ t. oregano
½ t. cayenne (red) pepper
4 chicken breasts, grilled and cut into pieces
In a large pot, combine beans, broth, onions, garlic, and chilis.
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Ten.One Hundred & Twenty-Six
1. No school today. But a conference. And there's a little slice of sun.
2. I offer strawberry muffins but they choose frozen waffles instead. I make the coffee and settle in front of the fireplace to write my morning pages.
3. The woman in the front office asks me if I'm there for a conference and I say yes and she tells me to go right on in. It's just that I don't know where I'm going. I don't know where any of the classrooms are.
4. The two teachers ask me if I've logged into the system yet. I tell them I haven't; everything is still so new.
5. I wish they helped new parents as much as they helped new students. Why is there no one assigned to us to help show us the ropes?
6. Quick edits before making the drive to Evanston.
7. Mindfulness/Mindlessness.
8. She hands me a loaf of sourdough bread wrapped in white paper.
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I am not one that really loves Valentine's Day, it's definitely what they call a Hallmark holiday. It's depressing for those who are single (we've all been there) & it's frustrating for those who are in a relationship because restaurants are booked/crowded, etc. However, with that said I had a totally ROCKING V-day this year. One of our favorite groups was in town and they just so happened to be playing on V-day...Rodrigo y Gabriela! Most likely you have not heard of them: Rodrigo y Gabriela are a duo of amazing guitarists. From Mexico City, with a background in Heavy Metal, they have joined forces to become an amazing duo that really knows how to wow a crowd with their fast and hard spanish sound! This was our second time to see them and we were still amazed at their skills!
When they first come on everyone is excited and we all start screaming, Rod y Gab start to play and the roars are intensified! Throughout the concert you get excited, clap, scream, jump around, and then there are moments you stand there with you mouth wide open in amazement of how quickly Gabriela's hands are moving, how hard she is banging on the guitar, how quickly Rodrigo is picking, or their perfect synchronization! Truly astounding!
Here is a clip from David Letterman, just to give you a little taste! FAST FORWARD TO 55 SECONDS, to pass by all the chit chat. They are a little bit more lively in concert than the are on tv....so just imagine the crowd clapping along, feeling the beat of the guitar in your chest, Rodrigo y Gabriela screaming along, & the volume WAY louder....
Here is our view of the amazing concert:
Here is a close up of Gabriela...she is such an amazing rocker chick! Her hands move so fast I have yet to see a picture where her hands are not blurred:
Our Valentine's Day
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- lucybird said...
they sold out so quickly in austin and our slow asses did not get tickets for last weekend.
urr.. me jealous
Wow!!! They are amazing. How do they keep from bruising up their fingers though beating on the guitar that hard? Thanks for sharing and broadening the horizons of some of us "old" folks :).
Luv ya
- Rory and Cindy said...
Very cool! Do you think they will have carpel tunnel someday?
- Rory and Cindy said...
I heard you are going home for a visit...I'm jealous!!! We should coordinate our trips home so we could catch up while there!!!
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In this month's issue of Electronic Sound we're talking revolution, the DIY revolution. Pinpointing the precise moment when recording music headed into the bedroom (clue: it was the appearance of the portastudio in the late 1970s), we talk pioneering spirit with the trailblazing Thomas Leer. Join us as he recalls his adventures in home recording alongside his old pal Robert Rental, and learn how the ability to release music into the wild suddenly ended up in the hands of everyone.
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Saying Goodbye
As I read this beautiful, down to earth account of Laurie Anderson's "Farewell to Lou Reed", I could not help but become emotional thinking about my own committed partnership, which in so many ways, resembles the story she tells about their relationship. It moved both of us to talk and write about what we will say about our relationship to those who care to listen when, inevitably one will remain behind.
And as I am busy with that, I am struck by how much that is positive and remarkable goes unsaid about our partners, friends, colleagues and teammates. In the oh-so-busy, fast-paced lane we all move in, relationships so frequently become transactional; the direct feedback mostly about how something needs to be done differently or better.
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Choices That Can Change Your Life
The commandments given Moses by God dealt mainly with
selfishness—thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife—which
treated thy neighbor's wife as property of thy neighbor, showing
little if any concern for her as a person. And the same
commandment goes on to name several other things of thy
neighbor's we shouldn't covet—including his donkey or his slave,
male or female. The tenth commandment was not about sex, it was
about learning to be satisfied with the things we have and not
constantly envying others. We, human folk, Church Folk, tend to
misinterpret this scripture, making it about sex. We equate sex
with sin and sin with guilt and we who live under grace and not
the Law nonetheless tend to live a curiously legalistic
existence, fearing the wrath of God not so much for treating one
another like crap—which too many of us do each and every day—but
for turning down the sheets with Leroy. Many of us commit
adultery or fornication and then quake in terror, fearing hell
if we die in our sins. But each and every day we mistreat one
another without a second thought, without any perceptible
concern about our spiritual jeopardy.
We are, in fact, applying man's rules and man's behavioral standard to God, treating God like some Galactic Accountant who keeps a running tally of felonies and misdemeanors which will determine whether or not we get the hot seat. Which is completely anti-scriptural and antichrist, and shame on our pastors for allowing this ignorance to go on. Many of our pastors simply lack the moral authority to do much teaching on the issue of sex because they themselves are carrying huge guilt around because of their own clandestine behavior. We treat sex as though adultery and fornication were, somehow, the only sin if not the most grievous sin, when the bible teaches us sin is sin [I John 5]. God hates it all. But, in our culture, many of us engage in these patterns of giving in to sexual immorality, feeling guilty about it, repenting, only to then start all over. Far too many of our sisters, particularly our divorced or single moms, are simply lonely. And they cave into loneliness moreso than lust, to these clowns who prey on lonely women. Some of these clowns wear clerical collars.
Sexuality is both a human strength and a human weakness. In the proper context, it is a fulfilling and wonderful experience. Outside of that context, it can be a terribly destructive weapon that destroys lives and cripples self-esteem. Most of all, it is something rarely discussed from the pulpit much beyond a crowd-pleasing condemnation of the behavior, a criminalizing of something God ordained to be perfect and extraordinary. And it perpetuates guilt, which holds God's people in bondage because we don't understand what the bible actually says about this stuff and, more importantly, what those words mean. Many if not most of us police our behavior on assumptions, on spiritual hearsay or stuff we done heard someplace. And too many of our pastors simply allow this vague kind of oral history to substitute for sound doctrine. It's much easier to holler at people from the pulpit, telling people sex is sin. Sex is not sin. But that's what pastors allow even married people to believe, this nonsense handed down one generation to the next, guilt-tripping folks while holding everyone to an impossible standard of chastity the pastor himself doesn't always achieve. It's much easier to point fingers and scare people about The Galactic Accountant, about how God will send you to hell for having sex, than it is to tell you why. Beloved, we will never grow as Christians until we stop being lazy. Until we stop governing our lives and measuring our spiritual growth on the basis of stuff we done heard someplace. Stop waiting for the pastor to tell you who you are and what to do, make him tell you why. Pastors: stop being lazy, open the Book and teach.
Choosing Boo: Hearing the call of the Holy Spirit and being lured away by our loneliness.
Choosing Boo
Many people, faced with a choice between their God and their
Boo, choose Boo.Which is utterly stupid. Because Boo never
lasts. Ever. And we always think it will. We always think, this
time, we'll get it right. And four months, six months later,
we're wounded and broken and wondering why. It's all such
foolishness, the time and energy and money we spend on this
nonsense, how great a distraction all of this is. Imagine who
you could be, what you could be, where you could be, if you
hadn't wasted so much time in that relationship. That
relationship that ended just like every other relationship: with
you barely speaking to this person you'd invested so much of
yourself in. If Boo were a Christian, marriage would be in this
equation somewhere. The fact you're forced to make a choice
between God and Boo guarantees this is a broken relationship
just waiting to happen, and you are therefore risking your
eternal soul over foolishness. But people are frightened of
loneliness. People are human beings with real biological urges
and needs. And a spiritual life loses much of its appeal when
faced with the looming specter of celibacy. So people delay,
deny, put off a commitment to God, carving slices of their
humanity, when God intended us to be a whole people, a well
people. But there is likely no bigger crippler of God's people
than sex. And that's mainly because (1) pastors don't preach
about it and (2) we, as God's people, are just sort of winging
it, living our lives by assumption. Cutting ourselves off from
God. It's a lack of faith which stems from the puritanical moral
standard we've set for sexual behavior, a standard based upon
vague and ambiguous spiritual hearsay rather than any firm
understanding of what the bible says (or doesn't say) about sex.
In our minds, we set this bar so high, going completely cold
turkey (and with most churches claiming the bible condemns
masturbation as well—another untruth (see Part 4). we know we
can never maintain that standard for long. I mean, how long can
you hold your breath underwater? Abstinence is the sexual
equivalent of holding our breath underwater.
Churches universally gloss over this business of breath-holding by insisting, "The Holy Ghost can keep ya." And, yes, that's true. But learning to function within the Holy Spirit, learning Who He is (most of us still refer to the Holy Spirit as an "it") and learning what His Office (His function) is and how He works in our lives, takes time. Christian conservatives tend to bristle at this, and Christian charismatics tend to focus too much on the sensational aspects of the Holy Spirit (tongues), but the Holy Spirit is real, is God at work in us. But learning to trust Him, learning to operate within the Spirit is kind of like a Jedi mind trick: it's not something that comes about intuitively or easily. Throwing single people to the wolves with a pat on the shoulder and "The Holy Ghost will keep ya!" is what we do. But if we were honest with ourselves we'd discover likely two-thirds of unmarried congregants are struggling with this issue, a struggle the church continues to inadequately address.
To my experience, there is very little teaching going on in the black church about sex. There is the gold standard: sex outside of marriage is wrong. Period. Hold your breath. Singles classes incongruently being taught by married folk, folk who get some whenever they want it and, therefore, have an intrinsic disconnect between themselves and the realities of single or divorced people. So people don't come to Christ. Well, not yet. We have developed this culture of spiritual hearsay—a vague understanding that we should never have sex under any circumstances—which confuses faith with morality and practices religion by means of guilt. The result is two-fold: a large segment of Christians who are burdened by guilt over their sexual relationships outside of marriage, whose guilt is at times overwhelming, cutting them off from God and, therefore, whose faith seesaws back and forth based on how long they've managed to be celibate this time. The second group is a group of hardened Christians who, weary of the seesaw, have simply stopped trying to reconcile their sex lives with their spiritual ones. They've just shorted out the guilt circuit, raising holy hands on Sunday while conducting their sex lives exactly the way the world does. Both extremes are wrong.
Preachers will tell you the bible holds up a moral standard, which is sex outside of marriage is wrong. Well, first, the bible does not hold up any moral standard whatsoever. The bible is, literally, the orderly and progressive self-revelation of God. It proclaims the truth of God's love and the redeeming power of Jesus Christ. Our sense of morality is the product of our decision to accept or reject that truth. Different people are at different stages of spirituality and discovery. The word of God was never intended to be a one-size-fits-all standard [I Cor 8:7-13]. It was not intended, for us, as a legal document. It exists for one purpose only: to reveal God to us. The more we allow Christ into our hearts, the more decisions we'll make that please Him.
Second: nowhere in the bible does it say sex outside of marriage is wrong. There are admonishments and warnings about specific sexual behavior (see the Levitical Code), and the Apostle Paul lays out warnings about the dangers of following lustful desires and pastoral instruction about sexual purity, but there is no passage in the bible that literally or specifically states thou shalt not hit it. Look all you want—it's not there. The church's position on singleness is not God's law, it is man's doctrine. Doctrine is something that is taught; a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government. The Word of God is inerrant. Doctrine is not. Which is not to suggest the church's doctrine is in error, but it is to separate scripture (God's Word) from doctrine (our response to it). I'd guess 90% of Christians reading this are shaking their heads now, this "God demands celibacy" and/or "The bible says sex outside of marriage is wrong..." stuff is so deeply ingrained in Christian culture, that to even suggest the exegesis behind such claims is faulty puts me automatically on the defensive. So, don't believe me: do your own research. Look for yourself. It ain't there. However, the doctrine is, I believe, correct. Doctrine is a conclusion based upon a collection of empirical scriptural evidence. While we may not find the command-line detail of thou shalt not..., taking the bible as a whole, taking the scriptures into context, the conclusion we arrive at is that, yes, God intended sexual intimacy to exist within a Holy covenant. My fight is not with the church's position, but the distortion of scripture routinely employed to support it.
Christians quaking in fear of losing their mortal souls need better pastors. God doesn't toss us out for committing a sin or even eleven hundred sins. The fear and guilt we experience is not God withdrawing from us, it's us withdrawing from God. We toss God out by cutting Him out of our lives—which is exactly what happens when you choose Boo over God, when you withdraw from Him because you're so ashamed of what you've been doing. All that quaking is over some stuff you done heard someplace, that you've broken God's commandment or God's law by having pre-marital sex. Well, we're not under the Law, we are under grace—which doesn't give us a green light to sin [Romans 6:14-15], but it's worth pointing out, being under grace, there are hundreds of laws we no longer follow. A presumed legalism should not be our motive for remaining pure outside of marriage. God responds not to our words or even our deeds but to our motives. If you are abstaining only because you are afraid of hell, that is not a motive God honors. You are wasting your time. A Christian abstaining simply out of fear of hell is like a dry drunk. A dry drunk is just a drunk who stopped drinking. It's not a real or sustainable commitment. A recovering alcoholic, on the other hand, is engaged in the struggle to change. Has come to terms with their own weakness. Has submitted themselves to a higher power.
Pastors who preach the doctrine of Santa Claus—He sees you when you're sleeping, He knows when you're awake, He knows when you've been bad or good—diminish God's inestimable sacrifice at the cross of Calvary, reducing it to a child's fairy tale in order to police behavior. We, as spiritual leaders, should not be in the policing behavior business, but, rather, should be proclaiming truths both eternal and infallible and letting you be a grown up and handle your own business.
What We Leave Behind: Little pieces of ourselves; breadcrumbs dropped along the way..
Casting The First Stone
We, as ministers, as pastors, have a dual responsibility: (1) to
report accurately what the bible says and stop helping God out
by changing or, in this case, limiting the meaning of words in
scripture, taking those words out of context, adding in words
that aren't there or, worse, omitting words that are but that
don't fit our agenda. Just as important, (2) to model the
personal example of Jesus Christ, Who, the record presumes,
lived a celibate life and didn't marry just to get some. Wasn't
it Jesus Christ who refused to stone the woman caught in
adultery [John 8]? Did He endorse that behavior? Of course not.
But this is the elemental work of grace: to stop looking at
human failure in a legalistic fashion. To stop trading in moral
absolutes. To stop keeping score. To forgive ourselves and to
forgive one another. And to allow God dominion over our lives.
Most pastors, if they preach anything about sex at all, preach this garbage of God sending people to hell for having sex. Preachers need to stop preaching that, need to stop treating us like children. In our zeal to do God's work, we frequently tend to help God out by reporting doctrine as scripture [Matt 15:19]. We stand before you and proclaim, "The bible says thus and so…" when the bible, in fact, says neither thus nor so. Rather, under certain conditions we should more accurately proclaim, "Our doctrinal belief, the conclusion we have come to about how we choose to live our lives, is that sex outside of marriage is wrong." That's much more accurate. I'm not arguing the doctrine nor the pastoral advice of purity in singleness, I'm saying most of us tend to use faulty exegesis. We arrive at the same place, but most pastors I know arrive there by means of legalism and threat, holding a gun to the head of people already struggling with loneliness and personal weakness. None of which is love, and none of which is, I believe, an accurate implementation of biblical teaching.
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14 September 2008
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I guess that's why I'm so peeved. The majority of idiots who do this sort of non-crediting thing day-in-and-day-out on the Internet are people I rail at — they are not me, and I am insulted to be included in that lot.
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Saturday, we photographed 30 cats and dogs during a Clicks for LIcks portrait project. The numbers are still being calculated but I already know it was a great success. Dogs of every size and shape turned out for the event with their adoring people. And after eight hours of non-stop photography; nearly 800 shutter clicks and at least two bags of dog treats - we all walked away smiling.
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So, how to be mindful and apply it into daily life?
A million dollar question. We as modern age multi-tasking generation, can barely find a moment of stillness and quietness, let alone be mindful all the times. So how do we start? I sometimes take few minutes to clean my jewellery, to polish the worn-out silver, to organize my jewellery pieces, and only keeping the pieces I love most. But an easier way is to pick one thing out of your daily routine. It can be the morning walk you take to work every day- even if it's just round the corner. Start by noticing your walk, and count each step. It sounds silly but once you get into the routine of being aware of yourself and your environment, you start noticing so much more than you realize. When you are eating, try to pay attention to how each bite or sip tastes differently to you - do you taste the tomato sauce in the pasta? do you feel the creamy texture in your cake? what does that chocolatey taste reminds you of? Feel it.
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I'm red again! Well technically 'Mahogany Copper' so it will hopefully be okay for work haha! You'll know it's not if you see me whining about it on twitter. Till then I thought it would be a great time to do a 'hair journey' post. I've seen a couple bloggers do this so it ain't original but I love seeing all the ups and downs of people hair. So now you get to ogle at mine!
My journey started at a very young age, of about 6 or 7. My mum decided she wanted to dye my hair red and I eagerly agreed. I walked into my catholic primary school proud and head held high (they were horrified) but I was addicted.
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6-12: Red Long hair, reds in different shades I experimented with very bright in your face reds and darker more natural shades.
15-16: I cut my hair short and put in awful layers and a side fringe. At this stage I was brunette again but I bleached streaks into my hair and made them bright purple.
16: This was my scene/emo stage, I went back to bright red and for some reason decided to add two thin, long electric blue extensions into each side of my head. Hey I thought it was super cool at them time.
17: I got a bloody awful front fringe (like seriously it did not suit my face shape at all) and went the brightest pink known to man. This later changed to cotton candy pink. A lot of friends told me I looked like an anime character haha!
18: I went back to Brunette with an ombre finish. I started to grow my hair out again and tried to be on trend with everyone else.
19-20: Red again (can you see a pattern?) and I went to a very dark brown.
21: This is where I started getting shorter hair again, I cut it shoulder length and became a copper colour, which I adored.
21-22: Cut my hair all off to my above my shoulders! One of my favourite hairstyles, I think the short hair made me look more my age. But for now I am growing it out again and I'm mahogany copper!
There is a lot more experimenting I want to do but as I said above my job doesn't allow me to have 'unnatural' hair colours. Maybe before I leave for Europe I'll go full on blue! That's the dream…
I guess what this proves is that I trust you all with my high school self haha, but hey, we all have those awkward stages mine just lasted years longer!
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