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● Recently I watched Peter Jackson's film of the first part of The Hobbit. Tolkien's prequel to The Lord of the Rings was meant for children, so is written in a more whimsical style. The movie was a little disappointing, on the one hand lacking the gravitas of the Rings films, but on the other failing to capture the whimsy of the book.
One scene was rather evocative, however. It is where the wise ones – Gandalf, Saruman (at that time, the number one wizard), Galadriel and Elrond – discuss the big picture. Gandalf suggests some evil is afoot, but Saruman insists there is nothing to worry about. Eventually Saruman starts waffling on and on about how, logically, it cannot possibly be the case that ... it is well known that ... etc. After a while Gandalf and Galadriel simply ignore him and communicate telepathically with one another about what they consider to be the important issues.
I am not sure what the film makers intended here, and it wasn't clear whether Saruman at this point is supposed already to be plotting betrayal, but I found his wittering in an ostensibly rational (but unrealistic, whether or not deliberate) way an effective representation of what I call pseudo-rationality.


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Yao Wang and Banavar Sridhar's "Convective Weather Forecast Accuracy Analysis at Center and Sector Levels" paper has been accepted for publication in the 2010 IEEE/AIAA 29th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC). The paper focuses on forecast intensity and location accuracy at the center and sector levels in order to improve air traffic flow management and increase economic efficiency.
BACKGROUND: For many years, flight delays have presented serious problems in the National Airspace System (NAS). Statistics shows that approximately 70% of delays are attributed to weather and up to two-thirds of weather delays are potentially avoidable. Severe convective weather accounts for a significant fraction of these delays. The economic loss due to flight delays requires studies and reforms to improve the air traffic flow management (TFM) operation.
Weather forecast uncertainty directly affects the accuracy of predicted center and sector capacity. Forecast verification efforts over past decades have been focused on the calculation of traditional standard verification measure scores over forecast and observational data analyses at the national level. This study provides a fresh approach by focusing on forecast intensity and location accuracy at the center and sector levels.
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Sunday, July 13, 2014
The business experience
The conference was good, I networked a lot and it may be possible for me to spend a few months sabbatical next year in UC Davis in California. That would be another dream becoming true, I'll try and figure out this week what do I have to do at my university, but this gave me a very nice and important focus work-wise. The weather in Rhode Island was very good, warm but breezy so overall really pleasant. This is the last time at that location, this conference will be moving to Maine in two years time, looking forward to a bit more life and the ocean view! One highlight of the trip was meeting a cyberfriend and her daughter!! Really lovely afternoon with them and the time just flew by.
Health-wise I have had the usual abdominal pain, not good but not worse than normal, I have started joining a few boards on IBS and see how I can tame it a bit.
I don't know if you remember that two years ago I came back to Dublin and Oliver had been admitted to hospital after spiking a very high fever. Well, this year I came back to Martina with chickenpox! Not as dramatic thankfully and the worse was probably over, but the funny thing was that I was collected at the airport by the same taxi driver as two years ago!!
My parents flew back this morning, they had a lovely time and just as well they were here to help between the sickness and the Mike having to work, it was a great help.
Right, that's about it for now, I'll be back soon!
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- AnonymousJuly 14, 2014 at 2:26 AM
I have only traveled in business class once, and it was for a 2 hour flight...but it does make a difference. When McRuger travels to Asia, his company always buys him a business class ticket...I'm always jealous. I'm glad you had a decent time! And that the hurricane didn't impact your plans. Davis!!! That's awfully close to me (hurray!!).ReplyDelete
yay for meeting cyberfriends! And how nice to have some focus for work too, I always like to work towards something.ReplyDelete
Good to hear you so bubbly, so glad your anxiety seems so much better (from where I read of course)
Hurrah for Mike getting along with your parents, I'm afraid my mother would drive DP mad within two days with her incessant talking!
First or business class is the way to go! We were really spoiled when my husband worked for a very large airline--all our trips were first class.ReplyDelete
Poor Martina! Do they vaccinate for chicken pox there? I think it's a two part vaccine here. I remember having them when I was three. It was miserable.
Hope the UC Davis thing works out for you!
So glad you had a great trip. If you end up at UC Davis...you MUST get in touch. I am very close to there and our fave Fertility Clinic where our babies came to be is right there near the campus! Plus...so close to San Fransisco and Lake Tahoe and some really great CA sights. Sorry Martina got the Chicken pox. Luckily kids usually breeze through that pretty well. Welcome home and I hope your tummy issues get sorted out. Have you considered going Gluten Free? I know so many people who have had good digestive results from that.ReplyDelete


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So it's been a while since I have done anything with my blog and crafting. I done the occasional project here and there just have not really devoted the time to any one craft. I decided this spring brake to go back to card making/paper crafting probably time to start working on the scrapbook too, that kind of fell to the way side. Well I joined this group on yahoo that the first swap was "trees" no rules just your idea of what it would be. I had quite a number of ideas but I just had a hard time pin pointing were to start. This is what I ended up with:
Unfortunately this is the only picture I can get to work at the moment to upload. It was actually pretty fun to make once I was able to set down and give it the time it needed. I don't think it was truly finished but I was afraid of over crowding, and I felt pressured to get it done since the group was already talking about a second swap and I just berry signed up for this one. It is what it is I made it so that the bottom part right under the image would be able to slightly tuck under to make the card stand on it's own, kind of like an aisle card but not quit. Hope you enjoy, and I hope to get more up here for all to see.
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Magnolia Stamps: Tilda with her Kookaburra from the Australia Collection 2012 and Magnolia Branch from Sweet Rainbow Collection 2011
Punch: Martha Stewart Edger Punch Doily Lace
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The Greek Left from the Balkan Wars to the Eurozone crisis: A national/international history
In 2015 Syriza, a party of the European left, rose to power in Greece amidst an unprecedented social and financial crisis that exemplified the structural constrains of the common European project. Why did the Greek people choose a party of the left to tackle the challenges of the 21st century? In his talk Kostis Karpozilos will highlight the importance of historical legacies in the contemporary Greek political landscape and will present his ongoing research project for a national/international history of the Greek left from the Balkan Wars to the Eurozone crisis. Demonstrating how national questions throughout the 20th century interplayed with significant international and regional transformations, Karpozilos argues for a transnational history of the left. This historiographical perspective entails also an expansion of geographical and linguistic boundaries towards the diverse worlds of expatriates, immigrants, and political exiles that shaped the revolutionary projects of the 20th century. The history of the Greek left underscores the globalizing dimensions of political radicalism and offers an opportunity to rethink the links connecting national and transnational historiography.


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Hangar 10
Hangar 10 is a found-footage alien encounter movie set near Rendlesham air base, the site of one of the most infamous incidents of extra-terrestrial contact involving US military personnel in the 1980s. Keen treasure hunters Gus and Sally invite their friend Jake to film them illegally 'nighthawking' on private land, in search of a hoard of Saxon gold. When their search inadvertently leads them onto land owned by the Ministry of Defence, the group encounters what they can only explain as intense extra-terrestrial activity; blinding flashes of light, alien craft moving in formation, objects flying at phenomenal speed. Frightened and lost, the group stumbles upon Hangar 10, an abandoned secret military facility. Here they uncover the truth behind the events of 30 years ago as they become accidental participants in a terrifying new alien incursion.
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|In front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate an hour ago. 'Freedom begins where ignorance ends.'
Sunday, 11 January 2015
Je Suis Charlie
Posted by The Solitary Walker at 17:22
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- George said...
Nous sommes tous Charlie! Un jour, quelque part, nous devons surmonter cette maladie de l'ignorance.
- 11 January 2015 at 22:26
- dritanje said...
The images of so many people in various parts of the world show perhaps more than words, how these events have brought people together in defense of freedom.
- 11 January 2015 at 23:03
- Arija said...
All thinking people abhor this senseless act against free speech.
- 12 January 2015 at 03:16
- Ruth said...
These are terrible and exciting times (I could do with less excitement). Now what will come of this incredible unity?
- 12 January 2015 at 14:41
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Most vegetarians are used to simply substitute stuffing and potatoes for the traditional Tom when grazing from the Thanksgiving spread. But with all the mock-meats available, the only hard part is picking the right one. We checked in with Elizabeth Archerd, Member Services Manager at the Wedge,to give us to lowdown on what to buy. Here's what she had to say about everything from Quorn Turk'y Roast (pictured above) to Tofurkey roast with tempeh "legs"and gravy. (Also, the Wedge is open Thanksgiving Day, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
Wedge Deli Mushroom Walnut Loaf
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Field Roast Celebration Roast
In the refrigerated case between the milk and the eggs, we have these little grain roasts which are stuffed with a savory vegetable filling that includes apples, squash, mushrooms, carrots and spices. It's vegan, contains wheat, and is currently on sale.
The Tofurkey roast is available by itself or in a dinner, with tempeh "legs" and gravy, in the freezer case, along with Tofurky mushroom gravy. Tofurky is made primarily from wheat gluten and tofu, and all the products are completely vegan, contains soy. All Tofurky products are also currently on sale!
Quorn Turk'y Roast
Also in the freezer case, Quorn products are vegetarian and made primarily of a mycoprotein--a tasty little fungus. Quorn contains egg white and is produced in a facility that processes gluten wheat and soy. (Our freezer cases always include a variety of meat-free burgers and such, but for the holiday appetizers people might be interested in the Chicken-Free Buffalo Wings. All vegan.)
Stuffed Squash
I have to put in a plug for buying a little squash, hollowing it out as one would a pumpkin for carving a Jack o'lantern, and then stuffing it with our wild rice salad or bread stuffing and baking it (little cap on) for 45-minutes to an hour. A lovely individual serving for a vegetarian.
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Synopsis: This story is the third part of the "Rebecca's Secret" series, about a young man and his girlfriend, Rebecca, vacationing with a few friends in a house over the summer. On their first night alone together, he discovers that his girlfriend is more than she appears she seems. She is a transsexual, born as a boy, but living as a girl for years. He finds himself surprisingly turned-on by this discovery and the two lovers begin the most exciting and pleasurable night of their lives. Just as they are about to go to bed, however, they realize that Rebecca's secret has been discovered by another housemate . . .
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Kate stood before me, dressed in only a burgundy bathrobe, with her back to the door. She looked up at me as if waiting for me to say something, as if I was the one who needed to provide an explanation. Rebecca, meanwhile, stood behind me, using my body to shield her from Kate's eyes, not that it made a difference now. Kate had plenty of time to see all there was to see.
"What are you doing here?" I asked sternly.
"Well, I . . ." she hesitated.
"I'm already pissed off, Kate," I told her. "Unless you want to get seriously angry, you'd better explain yourself."
"I'm going to get dressed," Rebecca said behind me.
"No!" Kate suddenly said, stepping forward. "I'm sorry. It's not fair that you should have to get dressed on my account. Here . . ."
With that, Kate untied the knot of her bathrobe, and slowly parted the fabric, revealing a length of white skin from her neck, between her breasts, down to the reddish-gold swath of pubic hair between her legs. She pulled the material over her shoulders and let the entire bathrobe fall to the floor. Now she stood naked before us, allowing us to appraise her.
There was no denying that Kate was a beautiful girl. Even though she had a curvy, voluptuous body, there was no man I knew who didn't think she was sexy as hell, despite not being thin. Her auburn hair, white skin, and smattering of freckles made her even prettier. She was nearly the opposite of Rebecca, who was dark-haired and tiny in stature, with small breasts and a skinny body. To me, they were both equally gorgeous, just in different ways.
"There," Kate finally said, "now we're all on equal ground."
I replied unenthusiastically. "Now please tell us what you're doing
in here and why."
"Really?" Rebecca asked, poking her head out from behind me. I was about to ask the same thing.
"Yeah," Kate said, blushing a little. "I always wanted to suggest it but I didn't know how to, you know? Anyway, I was the last person to go to bed tonight, but I could hear noise coming from your room, so I eavesdropped. I know it was wrong but I was just curious."
"What did you hear?" I asked.
"Enough to know Rebecca's secret," she said.
I looked down at Rebecca, who looked up at me, probably wondering what to do next. At last, she bit her lip, and stepped out from behind me. She was completely exposed now. I saw Kate's eyes wander up and down Rebecca's body with a gleaming kind of hunger. Kate had been thinking about the sight of Rebecca nude for a long time, apparently, and now she was relishing seeing it in the flesh.
"It's true, I'm a transsexual," my girlfriend said. "I have a penis. But I don't think that makes me any less of a woman than you."
"I don't think so either!" Kate replied quickly. "In fact, now that I see it, I think it makes you even more beautiful. You have a very sexy cock." Now Rebecca blushed.
"Thank you."
"You do too Jordan, by the way," she said to me.
"Thanks for noticing," I replied. "So what now?"
"Well," she said, "now I want what I've always wanted. I was hoping that you two are already worked up that maybe you wouldn't mind inviting a third into the mix."
So Kate wanted a ménage tois with Rebecca and me. I kept my mouth tightly shut. Of course I've thought about the idea of having sex with Rebecca and another girl, even Kate once or twice, but not so badly that I was going to risk insulting Rebecca by accepting Kate's offer and implying that she wasn't enough for me. If anyone was going to accept this offer, it was going to be Rebecca.
"What do you think?" she asked me.
"It's your choice, sweetie," I replied.
Rebecca thought for a moment, then stepped past me, towards Kate. She reached out and took Kate's hand in hers. With that, she led her over to the bed. Kate had her answer.
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Kate and Rebecca climbed on to the bed. Kate sat in the middle while Rebecca sat to her left. Rebecca indicated that I should come and sit on Kate's right, which I obligingly did. Now the three of us were sitting side-by-side in bed, shoulders touching, each wondering how exactly to proceed.
It was Rebecca who got things moving. She put her arm around Kate's shoulders and raised her mouth to Kate's. The two girls closed their eyes as their lips met. My dick, already getting hard, sprang to immediate attention as these two pretty girls began to kiss right in front of me. A moment later, their lips parted, and I could see the tips of their tongues touching together.
As they kissed, Rebecca's hand free hand reached out, and placed itself on Kate's stomach. As the kissing intensified between the two of them, she began rubbing the soft flesh of Kate's belly, slowly working her way up to Kate's D-cup breasts. At last, Rebecca began to massage Kate's right breast. Kate moaned slightly between kisses. Looking over at Rebecca, I realized then that I wasn't the only one with a hard-on.
"Your turn," Rebecca said to me, after breaking the kiss.
Kate turned to me without opening her eyes and I leaned in to kiss her. Her lips were soft and warm against mine and it wasn't long before I felt her probing tongue. Kissing her wasn't like kissing Rebecca, though. This was an act of pure lust without the emotional impact of kissing the woman I loved. Still, I enjoyed it thoroughly.
At one point, I opened my eyes to see what Rebecca was doing, and saw that she had scooted down until she was eye-level with Kate's left breast. She hefted it in her small hand, bringing the nipple closer to her face. She popped it into her mouth and began to suck. I could feel a burst of Kate's breath into my mouth as she sighed at the added sensation.
We continued kissing. I rested my hand on Kate's meaty thigh and before long I was running my hand up and down its length. My entire body was reacting not only to the pleasure of kissing Kate, but also to the sight of my pretty girlfriend voraciously sucking on her friend's tit.
Kate's arm curled around my head and I could feel her palm against the back of my skull. She gently pushed my head down, away from her face, towards her right breast. I kissed Kate's neck and shoulders on my way down until the nipple was directly in front of me. I looked over at Rebecca, who was smiling at me with Kate's nipple between her teeth. I smiled back and began to suckle Kate gently.
By this point, Kate had an arm around each of us, holding us to her breasts in a motherly fashion. What was not motherly, however, was the expression of pure rapture on her face as her breasts were licked, kissed, bitten, and sucked.
But Rebecca had even more in store for Kate. She slid her hand down from Kate's breast, over her belly-button, and through her pubic hair until her fingers reached Kate's pussy. From Kate's reaction, Rebecca had no trouble finding her clit, and was doing a good job of massaging it with her fingers, because Kate's harsh breathing became soft moans which only grew louder. Kate was in Heaven, I could tell, getting her tits licked and her pussy fingered by the two of us.
A moment later, I felt Rebecca's hand on mine, and I opened my eyes. She guided my hand down to Kate's crotch and began moving my hand so that now I was the one fingering Kate's clit. It seemed to make no difference to Kate, who continued her blissful vocalizations. Apparently, I was in charge of keeping Kate's clit happy, while Rebecca inserted her index finger into Kate's pussy, then her middle finger as well.
"Where did you learn to do all this?" I whispered to Rebecca, grinning.
"Girl Scouts," she replied with a wink.
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After a while, it seemed Kate was bordering on orgasm, and Rebecca wanted to slow it down before Kate was completely spent. Reluctantly, Kate agreed to move on to something new. Rebecca explained that we had given Kate pleasure and now it was time for Kate to return the favor.
Rebecca instructed me to lay on my back with my head on the pillow and spread my legs. I did as I was ordered and immediately got rock hard just realizing that these two beautiful girls were both staring at my naked cock, both eager to suck it, although for now Rebecca would give the honor to Kate. My girlfriend reached out and held the base of my shaft to keep my cock straight up while Kate moved into position between my legs. I took a moment to admire her curvy body, her wide hips, her huge breasts hanging down proudly from her chest.
Maybe out of slight jealousy, or just a desire to see her man's needs met, Rebecca put her hand on the back of Kate's head and pushed it down towards my waiting erection. Kate reached out to take my prick in her hand but Rebecca slapped it away. "Only your mouth," she instructed. Kate's warm lips closed around the head of my cock and I sighed. She ran her wet tongue all over my throbbing head until the spit was trickling down my shaft.
Rebecca took her hand off my cock and let it rest on my thigh. In a way, that was almost more erotic to me, feeling her soft hand so close to my painfully erect penis. It didn't stay there for long, though. Soon she reached under Kate's chin and grabbed my sack, hard enough to hurt in the most pleasurable way possible. I groaned loudly and began to squirm as she played with my balls. Kate now had most of my cock in her mouth and she was sucking it for all she was worth. Her hands were planted on the mattress on either side of my waist and she was on her knees between my legs. As per Rebecca's instructions, she only used her mouth to service me. I can't tell you how turned on I was by the sight of this chunky red-head on her hands and knees in front of me.
Rebecca looked at me and smiled. I guess she could judge by the look on my face how much I was enjoying myself. But she was a girl with needs too. She crawled towards my head and then swung her leg over me, so that she was sitting on my chest, with her ass pointed at my face. She scooted back until her asscrack was right against my chin, then lifted her butt into the air, and scooted back an inch more.
Her beautiful, round, white ass was right in front of my face and I needed no prompting. I immediately stuck out my tongue and began to lick up and down the length of her asscrack, all the way down to the back of her scrotum,, tasting her sweat and her flesh and litte of my own semen. I found her hole and began to lick a circle around it with my tongue, then attempt to probe inside. I was filled with the desire to get my tongue as far into her ass as I could. She moaned as I tongue-fucked her ass.
Then Rebecca leaned forward until we were in a 69 position. From my vantage point, I couldn't tell what she was doing at first, but suddenly I was feeling two tongues licking at the shaft of my cock. If I hadn't blown my load so recently, I would have erupted right then. Feeling those two hot, wet tongues sliding up and down my cock and over my balls was one of the most intense experiences of my life. Occasionally they would pause so Kate could take me into her mouth, suck me for a few moments, then pass me off to Rebecca, who would do the same. I channeled all the sexual energy that was building inside me into eating Rebecca's butt.
Eventually, when I was only minutes from an orgasm, Rebecca sat back. Because of her position before, she was now literally sitting on my face. Before she could smother me (as if I would have cared! If I had to go sometime, I'd want it to be that moment), Rebecca climbed off. Kate stopped sucking me and I took a moment to catch my breath.
"I think he liked it," Rebecca said.
"Oh God . . ." was all I could say.
"He tastes so good," Kate remarked.
"I know," said Rebecca.
"What now?" Kate asked.
"I think my girls need some attention," Rebecca said, pointing to her penis and balls.
"Let's not keep them waiting!" I exclaimed and they both laughed.
Rebecca took up the same position I had just vacated, lying on her back with her legs spread apart. Kate and I moved into place, each straddling one of Rebecca's legs so that we could get our heads close enough to suck her cock simultaneously. But we didn't go after her cock just yet. Kate began kissing Rebecca's right testicle while I went for the left. First I licked every inch I could, my tongue occasionally running over Kate's as she did likewise. Then I would pinch the baggy skin of Rebecca's scrotum between my lips and tug gently at it, eliciting groans from my girlfriend. Then I would suck her ball into my mouth and put a little pressure on it with my tongue, just enough to make her hurt the way she had hurt me. She loved it.
Finally, I couldn't take it any more, I needed that beautiful girly dick inside my mouth. I opened my lips and took every inch inside me. I closed my mouth around the hard meat and let the heavenly taste of it coat my tongue. I opened my eyes long enough to see that Kate was tonguing the underside of Rebecca's balls, then I looked over at Rebecca. Her eyes were closed and she was pinching her nipples tightly as she squirmed in place.
Kate came up for air and I could tell by her expression that she wanted Rebecca in her mouth. I smiled at her, knowing that she must be nervous, considering how nervous I had been to suck a transsexual girl's cock for my first time that very night. At last, Kate took Rebecca's six inches into her mouth, and I saw Kate's eyes roll back. She closed her mouth and began sucking with the same ferocity she had used on me.
I took the time to kiss Rebecca's smooth thighs all the way up to her pelvis bone, then down to her pubic hair. I kissed the soft hairs there, then moved up to her belly button. I put my tongue inside it and began to lick. I dragged my tongue from her belly button up to her breasts, which she yielded to me without complaint. I sucked on each of them, first just the nipple, then taking the whole breast into my mouth. I did that for each one, then moved up to Rebecca's face, the most beautiful part of her body.
"Hey," I whispered.
"Hi, sweetie," she replied.
"I love you," I whispered.
Rebecca pulled my face against hers and kissed me, then whispered into my ear, "I love you too."
Kate was now moaning loudly. I looked down and noticed that while she had been sucking Rebecca off, she had been rubbing her clit as well. Now she was close to an orgasm. Rebecca was too, by the way she squirmed. I lay down on the mattress next to Rebecca and she draped her leg over mine. Kate moved so that she was now straddling Rebecca's and my leg. She reached out and began to jerk me off.
I stretched out my arm and put it behind Rebecca's head. She leaned into me, then turned her face towards mine. We closed our eyes and kissed gently while Kate voraciously sucked Rebecca's cock, then mine, then went back to Rebecca's. Whoever she wasn't sucking, she was jerking, and both of us were coming close to our orgasms. As it turned out, Rebecca would reach hers first.
"I'm . . . gonna . . . cum . . ." she panted.
"Shoot it on her face," I instructed.
Rebecca finally reached down and seized her cock. As I watched, she gave it the final few strokes, and then spewed a geyser of thick, white semen straight at Kate's smiling face. It splattered all over Kate's left cheek, chin, and nose. Once she was done pumping, Rebecca began to stroke my cock as I bordered on an orgasm. Kate moved her face closer, preparing to suck, but Rebecca was too good. Before Kate could open her mouth, my own stream of jizz shot out and splattered the other side of Kate's face. She laughed out loud as the warm liquid hit her.
I took a moment to recover as Kate moved to a kneeling position. When I opened my eyes, I saw her kneeling there with a hand at her crotch, masturbating furiously. Most of her face had a shiny coat of cum on it and some was dripping down her neck. Rebecca and I glanced at one another, then immediately sat forward, and began licking the fresh cum off of Kate's face. I ate some of hers and I ate some of mine. It didn't matter. We just slurped until our mouths were full of cum, then French kissed so we could truly share it all.
Kate's orgasm finally hit and her entire body rocked as she enjoyed multiple orgasms. Rebecca and I pulled her close and we shared a three-way kiss. Kate's saliva mixed with mine and Rebecca's, which mixed with Rebecca's and my semen.
At last, Kate's orgasm ended, and she collapsed on to the bed, breathing deeply. Rebecca lay back as well. I took a place in between both of them, then reached down to grab the blankets which had been bunched at the bottom of the bed. I pulled them over and carefully covered my girls with it. Kate picked her watch up off the floor and set it to 6:00 AM, so she could sneak back into her room before anyone woke up. Then, with no prompting at all, both of them leaned in towards me, snuggling against me for warmth. Rebecca closed her eyes and was almost immediately asleep.
A few minutes later, Kate spoke, pulling me back from the edge of a dream.
"Are you awake, Jordan?" she asked.
"Yeah," I replied sleepily. "What's up?"
"I just wanted to thank you for tonight," she said.
"It was my pleasure," I told her.
"And . . . well, I feel kind of stupid saying this . . . but I just want you to know that I've liked you for a long time," she said.
"Oh?" I asked, surprised.
"Yeah," she said. "That's what made tonight so special. And, I know you like Rebecca very much, but I just wanted you to know that if you and Rebecca ever, you know . . ."
"I know what you're going to say," I told her, cutting her off. "You're going to say that if Rebecca and I break up, then you'd like to go out with me?" Kate nodded. "I'm very flattered, Kate, but that's not going to happen. I don't just like Rebecca very much. I'm in love with her and I know I'll be in love with her for a very long time. Maybe the rest of my life."
Kate thought about that for a minute.
"You're very lucky to have each other," she said, a bit sad.
"Thank you," I said, then added sincerely, "and we're very lucky to have a friend like you."
Kate smiled and I smiled back, then we had a quick, friendly kiss. Kate closed her eyes and snuggled closer to me. Soon, we were all three fast asleep.
At 6:00 AM, the alarm on Kate's watch began to beep on the night table. I woke up to find Kate under my arm with her head on my chest. I gently shook her until her eyes fluttered open and she smiled up at me. I nodded towards the watch and realization hit her. She reached for the watch and turned it off. She stretched and climbed out of bed. It was dark in the room but the sun was beginning to peek in through the curtains. I had just enough light to watch Kate's ample rear as she pulled her bathrobe on around her.
"Same time tomorrow night?" she asked me.
"Of course," I replied.
She leaned over and kissed me on the cheek, then kissed Rebecca (who was still fast asleep). She waved goodbye and crept out the door, heading back to her room. I turned my body towards Rebecca and felt her nuzzling my body for warmth. I closed my eyes once again and quickly slipped into another dream about my darling shemale girlfriend and the night of ecstasy we had enjoyed.


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GIS In The Biosolids Program
by David Smith, UNL Extension Assistant
At University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in Lancaster County, GIS (Geographic Information System) has been used to make the Biosolids Program more robust and easily managed. The many aspects of the program, which are mainly geographic in nature, are handled more efficiently by the use of GIS.
Crop Fields and Sites
Until the implementation of the GIS, fields that were involved in the program were recorded by using paper maps, usually drawn by the farmer, with corresponding information attached to the maps. The boundaries of the fields were somewhat subjective, and the information, such as total acres, was an approximation that was not completely accurate. Further, storage sites of biosolid materials were drawn on the map as the best approximation, and soil test sites could not be accurately recorded. Although these methods are adequate and do not violate any regulations, we wanted to make a more accurate and efficient database of this information, and this is being accomplished by using GIS and GPS. Using GPS, fields, storage sites, and soil test sites can be recorded with a very high degree of accuracy, and these GPS files can be easily converted into a GIS format for incorporation into our GIS.
These field sites are then attributed with pertinent information such as application rate, legal description, cooperator, crop, total acres, etc. which takes the place of the former paper records that accompanied the maps. This "fields" database has all the information for all fields as a complete GIS coverage that can be easily displayed, manipulated, and analyzed from the computer.
Base Maps
The fields are just one part of the entire Biosolids GIS. Many other pieces are being drawn together to make a complete picture of the landscape which will help in analysis and use of the GIS. We are using DOQQs (Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles) provided by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, as a base map to the entire GIS. These georeferenced aerial photos allow a user to orient themselves to known features on the ground and allow us to overlay the other databases in the GIS as successive levels of information.
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The Biosolids Application Program has certain regulations that have to be met both at the federal and local level. These include a certain application distance from critical features in the landscape. For example, biosolids can not be applied within 200 feet of water(lakes, streams), wells, or public drinking supplies. Determining the locations of these features can be made more easy and efficient by using GIS. Databases of existing water and wells is being incorporated into the GIS to be used as a fast way to analyze a field in regards to these regulations. For instance, databases of water features (e.g. wells, lakes, streams, water supplies) can be overlayed on the coverages of the crop fields that will potentially have sludge applied to them. These water features can then be analyzed and a distance buffer constructed around them to determine the areas off-limits to biosolids. The analysis would determine if the field is acceptable for biosolids application and the output would be a map of the field which shows the sections of the field where sludge could be applied.
We are in the process of using GIS in other scenarios in the Biosolids Program, and see the benefits of faster analysis time, accuracy of records, and the ability to perform extensive analysis that GIS provides.
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2008 Graduated from University of West England with a First Class (Hons) degree in Fashion Illustration.
Growing up in a small Cotswold town sparked a passion for nature from a young age. Her Father worked as a commercial printer when she was a child, filling the house with paper, which only encouraged her love of drawing. She shared her childhood with a creative younger sister (now academic & museum Curator), an inspiring Mother & loving Grandparents who encouraged long walks and bird watching.
Her creative enthusiasm was encouraged throughout school and growing up in the 1980's left her with ambitions of becoming an illustrator for Disney.
In 2001 at the age of 18, Gemma was a passenger in an RTA. Suffering serious injuries, including spinal fractures, life went on hold as she progressed through a long period of recovery. The aim to get back onto an artistic path helped her move forward with her life and over 10 years on from the accident she had completed college courses and graduated with First Class Honours from the University of West England.
She now lives and works from her studio in Bristol with her husband contemporary artist CopyRight.
Her contemporary style experiments with pattern, texture and symbolism. Exploring the meaning of Fragility, Love, Life and Loss, drawing on her own life experiences of a near death and mortality.
Her artworks have crossed from gallery walls to high street fashion labels, interiors and street art murals. Exhibiting internationally including the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.
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Feminism, Queer Theory, Arts
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This course considers the influence of feminism in the arts and its emphasis on the (de)construction of norms of gender and sexuality. The question here is how such norms are inextricably intertwined with the political economy, its technologies of power, knowledge, and desire. As an investigation of various performances of gender, especially in painting, sculpture, performance, photography, film and video art, we will also address the intersection of feminism with other critical tools such as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Post-colonial Theory, Media Theory as well as Queer theory and New Gender Politics. We follow the theoretical development of feminism in the arts from the 1960's to the 1980's (the "Second Wave"), especially its critiques of spectatorship and representation; then, from the 1980's to the contemporary (the "Third Wave," Queer Theory, New Gender Politics) and its (re-) investment in questions of embodiment.
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Through a special partnership with Points of Light & Hands On Network, Sprint employees volunteered at several schools throughout the country to complete revitalization projects in the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009.
Volunteer Fairfax worked with a local Sprint office to identify projects at KIPP DC AIM Academy and put together a large-scale planting event on the campus. Sprint volunteers were anxious to partner with the school, as it is one of the company's clients. In fact, some of the employees who work on the account came out to volunteer.
The volunteers planted 600 flowers down an entire city block in front of the school, creating a welcoming environment for students, teachers and neighbors alike. In addition, volunteers placed paving stones for access between the street and the sidewalk.
Afterwards, Sprint employees reflected on what they enjoyed most: learning about the school, meeting some of the students, working with other employees, and making a difference in the community.
"Sprint's goal for today was to engage our employees in giving back to the community," says Alex Hahn, Sprint community and public relations manager. "KIPP DC's AIM Academy is a great charter school, and some of our employees in sales and engineering have worked with the school through their day jobs. So it was great to see them and the rest of the Sprint team volunteering to transform this space for the students, teachers and residents of this Anacostia neighborhood."
"Today's project shows that raising our kids is a community effort," says Kristy Ochs, principal of KIPP DC-AIM Academy. "Having the corporate and nonprofit communities come together at AIM Academy shows that we are a neighborhood school becoming an important part of the District. [The volunteers] have created a more welcoming home for our students."


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ARDMORE, AL -- On Wednesday afternoon, I made one of the most scenic drives in the Tennessee Valley, down Tennessee 110, the highway from Fayetteville, Tenn., to Ardmore.
The highway carried me through the communities of Skinem, Blanche and Cash Point, among other places. I passed feed mills, crumbling barns and hills that rolled like spring water.
Finally, we arrived in the border towns of Ardmore, Ala., and Ardmore, Tenn., where the Alabama-Tennessee football rivalry is one of the biggest events of the year.
By most accounts, the towns' loyalties are split almost evenly between the University of Alabama and the University of Tennessee.
"If you rub it in too much or boast too much, they will fix you up," said Rickey Widner, 46, who runs Detail Systems on Main Street on the Alabama side of town. "At the end of the night, you'll know."
Widner is regarded as one of the biggest Alabama fans on either side of town. On game week, he is known to play "Yea, Alabama," the school fight song, a little louder when he enters the drive-thru at Peoples National Bank on the Tennessee side of town.
Peoples National Bank is run by Sandra Garrison, a long-time University of Tennessee fan. Every year, her bank is decorated on the Friday before the big game - half orange and white and half crimson and white.
"We've done it for so long," she said, "people expect it."
After the game on Saturday, scheduled for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff, some of the fans will honk their car horns and wave the flags of their favorite teams. Some of them will paint the score of the game on storefronts, as they do each year.
Then they'll do it again next year.
"It's a big thing around here," said Wayne Daly, who runs a garage on the Alabama side of town. "Everybody has fun with it. Nobody gets mad. We gouge each other this week, but we don't mean anything by it."
It is such a big thing in Ardmore that families are even split. Take the Dalys, for example. Wayne is one of the biggest Tennessee fans in town; His son, Cad, is an Alabama fan.
Widner is such a big Alabama fan that he wears Alabama apparel to work each day - an Alabama jersey or T-shirt and an Alabama ring or necklace.
The floor of his office is a crimson-and-white checkerboard. His ceiling tiles are crimson and white. His office walls are "elephant gray, baby," he said.
His mother, Louise, is a Tennessee fan.
This is the beauty of Southern football - border towns with split loyalties, fans who make friendly bets, fans who show their spirit before and after the games.
"There are usually annual bets," Widner said. "That's standard. But I ain't going to do anything crazy. I ain't going to wear orange. That's out of bounds."


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Why the hawks started worrying and learned to hate the Bomb
John Lewis Gaddis
- The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons by Jonathan Schell
Granta, 240 pp, £9.99, November 1998, ISBN 1 86207 230 2
One of the difficulties with weapons is that they do not automatically self-destruct once they have fulfilled their function. The problem particularly afflicts Americans who, taking advantage of lax gun-control laws, tend to buy whatever they think they need to defend themselves. But as the danger recedes, they frequently forget about the lethal arsenals they have accumulated. Stored carelessly in closets and sock drawers, an appalling number of rifles, shotguns and handguns are used for purposes that their owners never intended. The means of defence outlive the need for it, often with disastrous results.
The world has treated nuclear weapons in much the same way: there is a long history of reinvented purposes. The United States, Great Britain and Canada began to build the first atomic bomb because they feared that Hitler's Germany might beat them to it. The work did not cease, though, when these fears proved unfounded: the Americans simply used the available bombs against the next available enemy, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki the targets.
This preference for adaptation over disposal has continued ever since. With the onset of the Cold War, the Americans deployed their primitive nuclear capabilities against yet another adversary, the Soviet Union, and when it successfully tested its own atomic bomb in 1949, they quickly began work on thermonuclear weapons, a technology the Russians were already pursuing. The first tests convinced both Washington and Moscow that hydrogen bombs were far too powerful for traditional military purposes; purposes were found for them, nonetheless.
Eisenhower discovered that nuclear weapons could cut costs: they were cheaper than conventional military capabilities. Khrushchev learned that by coupling them with missiles he could reap political benefits. By the early Sixties, American strategists were beginning to see the ultimate weapon of war as a guarantor of peace: they defined 'stability' in the nuclear arms race as the capacity of each side instantly to annihilate the other. When the Russians signed the 1972 treaty effectively banning defences against ballistic missiles, they, too, accepted the appropriately acronymed doctrine of 'mutual assured destruction'.
It was never easy to see how vulnerability could ensure security, though, and one who resisted making this leap of logic was Ronald Reagan. His 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative turned MAD inside out by finding yet another use for nuclear weapons: they would now destroy enemy warheads in flight, thereby ensuring invulnerability. With defences in place, the President promised, nuclear capabilities would become 'impotent and obsolete'. By a long and circuitous route, adaptation had come around to at least the prospect of elimination.
Few people took Reagan's rhetoric seriously, until Mikhail Gorbachev sensed, on meeting the President for the first time in Geneva in 1985, that he might actually mean what he was saying. The new Soviet leader tested this possibility with a proposal for the outright abolition of nuclear weapons by the year 2000, and at the Reykjavik summit the following year Reagan surprised his own staff by announcing that this was what he had wanted all along. For a few hours an amazed world watched its two most powerful leaders design a future in which there would be no nuclear weapons at all.
The vision quickly faded. Gorbachev demanded an end to SDI testing, Reagan would not grant it, and the opportunity was lost. Nor is it clear, even if they had agreed, that the two leaders could have sold the idea of abolition to their own and allied governments – Mrs Thatcher was particularly scathing. But as Jonathan Schell points out in The Gift of Time, 'history often creates a problem whose only real solution lies beyond the pale of current political acceptability.' Reykjavik expanded the pale: it brought the idea of abolishing nuclear weapons into the realm of mainstream political discourse. It created the prospect that the most destructive weapons of the Cold War might not survive its end.
One such system did disappear: the intermediate-range missiles equipped with nuclear warheads that the Russians and then the Americans had deployed in Europe during the late Seventies and the early Eighties. Reagan and Gorbachev concluded that it would be easier to verify a total rather than a partial ban on such weapons, and by 1988 each side was actually destroying its own under the other's watchful eyes.
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Vol. 21 No. 7 · 1 April 1999 » John Lewis Gaddis » Why the hawks started worrying and learned to hate the Bomb
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In a world that pushes us to always look for the next best thing, BLOOMING INTO MINDFULNESS shows you how to break the cycle of discontent and take control of your own happiness. Narrated with humor and raw honesty, Martha Brettschneider shares her transformation from ego-centered screaming mommy to a meditation-touting creative finally at peace with the world. Inspirational, motivational, and sprinkled with practical tips to silence our internal bully (the first step: recognizing that not all of our thoughts are to be trusted!), BLOOMING INTO MINDFULNESS is a must-read for anyone in search of an extra dose of internal peace. If you're looking for strategies to reduce suffering in yourself and others, boost positive energy in your life, and not only unveil but also embrace your purpose, this book is for you.
Martha Brettschneider is an author, blogger, speaker, master gardener, and award-winning photographer. In 2009, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which reoriented her perception of body, mind, and spirit. A former left-brained international economist and stressed out mom, Brettschneider transformed into a meditation-touting creative finally at peace with the world. Blooming into Mindfulness chronicles that journey. She lives in Vienna, Virginia, with her husband, two sons, and her plant-eating golden retriever Apollo (who has taught her the art of letting go).


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As I weave the last few layers of my silken tomb, the temptation of flight is almost too much to handle. The thought of fluttering, velvet wings, reflecting the guiding starlight, consumes the darkest spaces of my mind.
Previous transformations have denied me my wings. It feels as though the celestial bodies have conspired against me. Maybe my longing lacks purity as my imagination often includes beautiful visions of my new self. Vanity denied.
Perhaps my perception is a bit skewed. And as I refocus, I'm left not with the vision of the butterfly, but with an overwhelming feeling of control. I can reinvent myself in any manner I desire, the only limit is my imagination. I shall put down my needle and thread and instead raise my antennas towards the sky and await transmission.


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Yesterday's visit with the Physical Therapist was really encouraging. My range of motion is improving and my pain is really low. I noticed that the schedule said that I'm good to introduce "Pool Therapy" which I interpreted as the thumbs up for starting to get back in the water.
So last night I went to Rush and swam:
500 kick with fins
100 breast stroke
The Breast stroke was really pretty stiff at the start of the stroke. Can't seem to get my right arm straight out ahead of me like my left one and it was starting to get painful. I already put my shoulder through the ringer at the therapy session earlier in the day and I didn't want to overdo it, so I called it after 600 yards total.
The arches of my feet we cramping pretty bad at the kicking set. The water was excruciatingly warm at the RUSH. Didn't get a temp reading, but I'm guessing it was around 85.
Which by the way I'm officially a coach with the Syracuse Blue Fins. Coaching the pre-comp team on Tue/Thu evenings. My kids are also officially on the team which frees up my Tue/Thu mornings with them, so I can get in my workouts in the mornings now every day except Wednesday.
Excited to slowly build up my swimming back. Seriously for the next month, I'll be swimming Grandpa style, but it's better than not getting in at all.
Total: 600 yards