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"Sex Acts and Facts: The Risks"
(An excerpt from Men Like Us, pages 66-68)
A Hierarchy of Risks
Receptive Anal Intercourse (Getting Fucked)Listen to men talk about how they got infected with HIV if it happened recently, and it's often portrayed as a fluke: "The condom broke," "We had oral sex," "He put it in for a second," "I got it from pre-cum." But most gay men with HIV, whether we got infected last week or last decade, got infected through unprotected receptive anal intercourse (getting fucked) by someone positive. Except for sharing needles, which gay men have also been known to do, letting someone with HIV fuck you without a condom is the most efficient way to get yourself infected. Unprotected anal sex also exposes you to gonorrhea, syphilis, and other STDs.
Even with a condom, anal sex comes with risks. The least serious, and most common, is a little aggravation to your system -- maybe some gas, or cramping, or runny bowel movements. If those don't go away shortly, or if you have a discharge of mucus, you may have an aggravated anus or a more serious infection or inflammation. Condoms help but don't completely protect you from warts or herpes, which can range from a pain in the ass to a serious and ongoing medical problem.
Oh, and one last thing. Lately, more gay men have been experimenting with a "just a li'l bit" approach, that is, putting your penis in (or letting him put it in) just for a little while without a condom. It sounds good, and it may feel great, but in safety terms it's a gamble. Remember high-school health class and how the withdrawal method doesn't prevent pregnancy? Having him pull out before he comes doesn't mean no cum or pre-cum gets inside you. And if you've ever tried to hold your orgasm back but still passed the point of no return, you'll know it's also a risk to assume that he won't pass that point, too. If you're on the bottom, no matter how well you think you know the pump of his hips or the tone of his moan, you can't necessarily feel it coming.
Active Anal Intercourse (Fucking)Yes, tops do get HIV, though being the one to put it in puts you at lower risk than getting fucked. It's unclear how much lower the risk is, so most AIDS educators across the world leave unprotected anal sex in the "high-risk" category. See below for some of the factors that might increase your risk as a top.
As for STDs, you can get most of them -- herpes, warts, gonorrhea, syphilis, and others -- from unprotected anal sex. A condom helps but does not fully protect you from warts and herpes.
Oral/Anal Sex (Rimming)
In terms of HIV, rimming is more of a theoretical risk than a real one: Most studies haven't looked at eating ass as a sex act, and those that did haven't found evidence of HIV transmission. It's conceivable, though unlikely, that he'd have blood in his shit or his anus that would get in your mouth. For some of the more serious STDs, however, most notably parasites and hepatitis, rimming is definitely high-risk behavior. And sorry -- while keeping clean down there is folk wisdom among gay men, doctor after doctor says it's impossible for cleanliness alone to wash away all the tiny eggs that transmit parasites. Using plastic wrap with a dab of lubricant on the side that touches his hole can give you protection but still let you both feel the heat, says New York City doctor Dan William, MD, as will cutting a condom lengthwise to form a barrier. If what you're looking for is the pleasure of getting inside, or putting your mouth where it "oughtn't be," then you may choose to skip the plastic and turn your tongue loose on someone you know is STD-free. That kind of knowledge, though, usually comes only with long acquaintance and honest conversation.
Being rimmed does not put you at risk for HIV. You could get herpes or warts.
Fingering is safe in regard to HIV so long as you don't have cuts or cum on your fingers. The hyperhygienic use gloves, or little latex covers called finger cots, but keeping unwashed fingers away from your own ass, your mouth, or any body part your mouth will be touching should protect against parasites and hepatitis. Being fingered is safe, too, if his fingernails are smooth and short, and his finger hasn't been in his own or someone else's cum or ass. You can get herpes and warts from touch as well as penile probing. If you're HIV-positive, you may want to be especially careful about what goes inside you.
Fisting, or the insertion of any large object in the rectum, is not risky for HIV, but it can be seriously dangerous. The inner walls of the lower colon, often described as having the consistency of wet paper towels, are soft and easily torn. The lower colon is also called the sigmoid (S-shaped) colon because of its several curves, including a sharp one about eight inches in. A jagged fingernail, an overly aggressive or ignorant approach, or a bottom who's high or tired or timid enough not to know or say when he's in pain can all lead to a break in the colon wall. Internal bleeding isn't obvious from the outside, and peritonitis (poisoning of the system) is a real possibility. If you experience sharp pain, fever, weakness, or bleeding after fisting or anal penetration with a big dildo or large penis, go to an emergency room immediately, and take someone with you.
Even without these emergencies, opening the sphincter wide enough to take an arm or large dildo can cause the sphincter muscles to lose their tone, and make it harder for you to tell whether you're passing gas or fecal matter. The stories about older fistees in diapers are exaggerated, says Dr. Stephen Goldstone of New York City, but they're not pure fiction.
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New Strider Screenshots Slice with the Cypher
Capcom has released a slew of new Strider screenshots that show our hero in all kinds of fast-paced, high-flying action.
We've got 10 more images to tease us with Strider's newest exploits. While we'll have to wait until 2014 to experience all of the ninja-tastic goodness. Judging from the screenshots, there will be no end to the fiendish traps and onslaught of bad guys for Strider.
Thankfully,the cyber ninja is equipped with his shapeshifting Cypher and has to the tools he needs to brave the dangers of Kazakh City. We can't wait to scale walls and slash our foes when Strider is released on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in 2014. Check out the screens below to get hyped.

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Yesterday, Colts backup defensive tackle John Gill was found drunk and passed out in a ditch by members of the Indianapolis police department and arrested for public drunkenness.You might think, in the wake of such an escapade, the Colts would be inclined to cut Gill.
Not so. Turns out that Gill will likely stay on the Colts roster but spend the season on IR to treat his alcoholism. From Phillip Wilson at the Indy Star:
"In respect to John Gill, he's got a problem unfortunately that many Americans are familiar with either in their family or in the workplace," (team President Bill) Polian said after the Colts' morning workout at Anderson University. "The No. 1 priority for him is to get treatment and we're in that process right now.
"Football is not a priority. It's not even a consideration. We're in discussion with the league office and they'll let us know what the appropriate roster category is for him, but he's going into treatment as quickly as possible. That's being arranged with the appropriate people at the league level and we'll move on from there."
Gill hasn't been officially placed on IR as of yet, but Polian and coach Jim Caldwell indicate that should merely be a formality.
As recently as ten years ago, the idea of a player publicly going on IR for alcoholism would have been an impossibility. The fact that the Colts didn't throw Gill out on the street, and the fact that they were so quick with support for Gill, is a sign that the NFL, and the sports world in general, has become much more sensitive to the idea of treating players for illnesses that go far beyond the scope of torn ACL's and sprained ankles.
There was an article in Sports Illustrated a while back that talked about Major League Baseball blazing a trail in this regard, with players such as Zach Greinke publicly missing time due to social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. Football, that ultimate manly man's game, hasn't been as quick to take to such methods.
Plenty of old school hardasses think alcoholism is a character flaw and not an illness. Gill's support from the Colts could be an indicator that way of thinking is slowly being phased out. A year from now, Gill could still be on the sauce and still an alcoholic. But he has a far better chance of succeeding with the Colts supporting him than he would if they had cut him loose. I bet plenty of NFL players in history wish they had gotten a similar second chance.


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The Flying Dutch will be seeking to continue a tradition of excellence with an extra incentive this season.
Hope College will be hosting the finals of the NCAA Division III volleyball championships in mid-November. Coach Becky Schmidt's Flying Dutch will be seeking to advance to the post-season tournament for a fifth consecutive year.
A year ago the Flying Dutch were nationally ranked throughout the season, The team were runnersup in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA), surpassed 20-wins for a school-record seventh consecutive year with a 25-7 record. Hope's winningest volleyball coach, Schmidt will be guiding the Flying Dutch for her ninth season.
Co-captains of the 2012 team will be senior Greer Bratschie of Grand Rapids (East Grand Rapids HS), senior Courtney Earles of Kentwood (East Kentwood HS) and junior Mari Schoolmaster of Portage (Portage Central HS). The pre-season of returning players includes seven sophomores, five juniors and four seniors.
Four players who received All-MIAA honors in 2011 return. Bratschie and sophomore Jenna Grasmeyer of Hudsonville (Unity Christian HS) were All-MIAA first team honorees while Schoolmaster and senior Jessica Maier of Grandville (Jenison HS) received second team recognition. Grasmeyer was also honored as the MIAA's freshman of the year. Sophomore Jillian Sommerville of Plymouth (Salem HS) was voted the team's most improved player.
The team's setter, Bratschie in 2011 ranked tenth nationally (NCAA Division III) in assists per set (10.17). Grasmeyer in her first collegiate season as middle hitter ranked 42nd nationally in kills per set (3.78).
Hope's DeVos Fieldhouse will be the site of the NCAA Division III finals featuring the eight regional tournament champions on Nov. 15-17.
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AHL Game Night 4/7: Falcons at Wolf Pack
ATO's shine in Hartford.
Jonathan Boutin stops 46 of 49 in regulation and OT before stopping 3 of 6 in the shootout for the win. ATO signee Justin Fletcher led the way offensively with a pair of power play goals while fellow ATO signee Jacob Micflikier scored a power play goal of his own and also scored in the shootout. Sylvain Dufresne, Joe Rullier, Kyle Wanvig, Daniel Corso, David Spina and Eric Healey added assists. Spina, Micflikier, Stephen Baby, and Wanvig scored for the Falcons in the shootout. Fletcher and Boutin were named second and third stars of the game respectively.
Boutin sets a new personal best for his young career with his 9th win of the season and, for the moment, gets his save percentage back up to .900. Falcons now riding a rare two game winning streak during this horrendous second half collapse.
First Period
HFD Dubinsky, (20) (Byers, Degon), 2:11
HFD Immonen, (17) (Dawes, Korpikoski), 6:08
Second Period
SPR Fletcher, (2) (Healey, Corso), 14:41 (PP)
SPR Fletcher, (3) (Wanvig, Spina), 19:53 (PP)
Third Period
SPR Micflikier, (3) (Rullier, Dufresne), 6:58 (PP)
HFD Dubinsky, (21) (Byers, Reese), 12:51
SPR- Spina, Micflikier, Baby, Wanvig
HFD- Dubinsky, Jessiman, Bourret
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New Resource Highlights Innovations in Oral Health Care for People Living With HIV/AIDS
October 19, 2012
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Dr. Ron Valdiserri, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Infectious Diseases, and Director, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, US Department of Health and Human Services, offers an excellent new resource published as a special supplement to the journal Public Health Reports. Called "Innovations in Oral Health Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS," it presents findings from the Innovations in Oral Health Care Initiative, which involved 15, five-year demonstration projects supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration's HIV/AIDS Bureau, in addition to resources from the Ryan White Care Act's Special Projects of National Significance.
The findings showed that innovative program models can engage and retain people who are living with HIV/AIDS into oral healthcare services in both urban and non-urban settings. Valdiserri emphasizes oral health is crucial for a person's general health and well-being throughout a lifespan, and it is especially critical for PLWHA. Inadequate oral health care can undermine the success of health outcomes, nutritional intake, and HIV treatment regimens. He notes that oral infections may also spread to other parts of the body, a particularly dangerous occurrence for individuals with compromised immune systems. View this resource at www.publichealthreports.org/issuecontents.cfm?Volume=127&Issue=8.
10.17.2012; Ronald Valdiserri, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Infectious Diseases, and Director, Office of AIDS Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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Storing of your Canyon bicycle
If you take care of your Canyon properly during the season, you won't need to do much when you take it out of service for a short time, except to ensure it is adequately protected from theft. We recommend that you store your Canyon in a dry, well ventilated room. If you want to store your Canyon for the winter period, you'll need to observe the following:
- During the long period of storage the tubes gradually deflate. If your Canyon is standing on a flat tyre for a longer period, this can damage the tyre. It's therefore better to hang up your wheels or regularly check the tyre pressure.
- Your Canyon should also be cleaned if it is not to be used for a longer period.
- Remove the seat post and let any moisture in the seat tube and seat post dry off. Spray some oil into the seat post tube. (Not in the case of carbon frames and tubes)
- Store your Canyon in a dry room.
- Don't expose your Canyon to intense sunlight over long periods. This could cause the tyres to start chafing.
- Shift onto the smallest chain ring and at the rear onto the smallest sprocket. This relieves the tension on the shift cables.
- Hydraulic brake lines can attract moisture after a longer period of time. Therefore, after longer periods out of service, you should check that the disc brakes have a tangible biting point and the brake levers can't be pulled right through until they touch the handlebars. If this is the case, then you'll need to bleed the brakes.
- -Check the correct air pressure of the spring elements and tyres when you start riding again.


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New Movies: 'Devil's Due,' 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,' 'The Nut Job' and 'Ride Along' [Videos]
Oscar nominations came out Thursday morning, with films like 'American Hustle' and '12 Years a Slave' leading the way.
You can probably bet that none of this weekend's new releases will figure into next year's Oscars. However, that doesn't mean there won't be something you like.
The four films opening widely on Friday cover a wide range of genres and styles, a little something for everyone.
'Devil's Due'
In this horror tale, a pregnant woman starts behaving very strangely, and it may well be that the child she is carrying is of a dark, supernatural origin. (No matter how well the movie does, it'll always be remembered for the "demon baby prank.")
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Starring Allison Miller, Zach Gilford, Sam Anderson and Roger Payano
'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit'
Sort of a Jack Ryan origin story, this film marks the return of the Tom Clancy-created CIA analyst, in the story of how he got his start at the CIA and the first (of many) major global threat he helped stop.
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Starring Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner and Kenneth Branagh
'The Nut Job'
One for the kids, this animated adventure tells the story of two friends, a squirrel and a rat, and how their ingenious plan to steal nuts goes awry.
Directed by Peter Lepeniotis
Starring Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson and Katherine Heigl
'Ride Along'
Ben wants to marry his girlfriend, Angela, but first he must get the blessing of her brother, James, a tough-minded Atlanta cop who takes Ben along in his car for one day on the streets to see how tough Ben really is.
Directed by Tim Story
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Playboy, in its early days, ran a lot of these small ads for cocktail and liquor accoutrements. This one's pretty awesome, and I'd love one.
I mean, it's perfect, right? At least assuming you like your martinis at 4 to 1, and I do. And I love that it's normative in this era (unless you're a Mortini drinker) to expect a 3.5 ounce cocktail.


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Changed sonar/bom timer to 64 prescalar
Also fixed bug in the bom's timer usage, where it depended on an integeroverflow that was no longer occuring due to the higher F_CPU.
Changed range sensor to read on-demand
Fixed pins to work with 128rfa1 instead of 2560
Moved some sensors to different timers
Most notably, change the ROS millisecond counter to share the BOM 38 kHztimer instead of having its own. The range sensor and BOM rx will nowshare timer 5, but they both have to be fixed for the higher F_CPU.
Some fixes to BOM, which is now tested and it works
Added initial BOM code
Only the sending code has been tested; receiving will soon be tested aswell.
Fixed range sensor code to support 2
Also, tested (with only one sensor) and it seemed to work adequately.
Fixed compiler errors in scout_avr
Added second range sensor to scout_avr
Not yet tested.
Added and tested range sensor to scout_avr
Max output should be 37500 (max observed value actually ~38600), and itmay be scaled down later. Also, the second sonar will need to be addedlater... forgot about that...
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Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift and Many More Big Names Added to 2013 ACMs Performance Lineup
The 2013 ACMs just wouldn't be complete without performances from the hottest names in country music, and the Academy of Country Music has just announced new additions to the exciting performance lineup, including Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift.
Joining them will be other fan-favorite acts, including Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town, along with a whole slew of previously-announced A-list performers. The ACM Awards are shaping up to be the concert of the year, with the best country music acts, two very funny hosts, and the 3rd annual Fan Jam, all within the same night.
Chesney, who just kicked off his No Shoes Nation Tour, has won eleven ACM Awards in his career, including four Entertainer of the Year Awards and the Crystal Milestone Award, which has only been given to five acts in the history of the Academy. This year, he has the chance to add to his collection, as he's nominated for Vocal Event of the Year 'Feel Like a Rock Star' with McGraw.
Speaking of Entertainer of the Year, Swift is hoping to defend her current title, which would be her third consecutive win in that category. She's also racked up four other ACM nominations, including Female Vocalist of the Year, Video of the Year, and a double nomination for Album of the Year (artist and producer). With seven Grammys gleaming in her home, the 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' hitmaker certainly has her sights focused on adding to her collection of awards, and is staying busy while on the road for her 2013 Red Tour.
When you have that many famous country musicians in one single evening, you know all the fans will leave the event satisfied; they might even 'feel like a rock star.' With a star-studded performance lineup and all of your favorite songs, you won't want to miss the 2013 ACMs, as it's sure to be one of the most talked-about events this year.
The 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will air live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7 at 8PM ET on CBS.


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Tavern is an establishment for the sale of beer and other drinks to be consumed on the premises, sometimes also serving food. We all agree that tavern is were the centers of social life, especially to those who want to add spices to their gloomy life.
Tavern Restaurant
Blue Dog Beer Tavern
Tom Bergin's
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Villains Tavern
Timmy Nolan's Tavern and Grill
Story Tavern
The Tavern on Main
Westside Tavern
Tavern on Brand
Rosewood Tavern
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City Tavern Culver City
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Casey's Tavern
City Tavern Downtown Los Angeles
Basement Tavern
The Red Lion Tavern
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Rick's Tavern On Main
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Peking Tavern
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Hyperion Avenue Tavern
Franklin & Company
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When I was around 17, my father gave me a piece of advice.
When I was around 17, my father gave me a piece of advice.
I didn't know it at the time — sitting there waiting for the traffic signal to change at the intersection of the Martha Mitchell Expressway and Blake Street in Pine Bluff, Ark. — but the brief admonishment would have profound consequences for my life.
As Thanksgiving is the one day each year we're almost legally obliged to ponder that for which we are thankful, this seems as good a time as any to share that advice.
While we sat there waiting for the light, my Pop told me that he didn't care what I did with my life. By this he didn't mean he was disinterested or indifferent. Rather, he was giving me the emotional permission to become my own man, to chose my own path.
He continued by saying that while he didn't care what I chose to do "when I grew up," I should pick something I loved so much that I would do it for free. Better yet, I should pick something that I would pay for the privilege of getting to do it. He told me if I would just live by that one rule, I'd have a good life and I'd spend it doing something I loved.
I spent a long time trying to figure out what that something might be. I've worn a lot of hats. I've amassed an odd collection of college degrees and callouses in the process.
"Desultory" is a word that occurs to me when trying to describe my route. While I wasn't as aimless as that term implies, I was without a core purpose — a code.
In the most recent career path change, I quit a perfectly good job and ran off to graduate school. It took three years, but I got my doctoral degree in criminal justice. I had graduated from one of the best schools in the country, and my dissertation had won the university prize.
I was all set to become a shiny new assistant professor at some lucky college. A series of unpleasantries unfolded that kept me from taking that course in the traditional way. I had little choice except sulking home and trying to pick up the pieces.
Those were hard months. I was never very good at putting on a brave face. I was more unhappy than at any time in my whole life. I had almost gotten to do the very thing I was positive was going to fulfill my father's advice.
I scraped paint on our old house. I wrote for the newspaper. I worked in the yard. I taught classes online. It wasn't the triumph I had imagined. The apparent success in school became an onerous millstone of unfulfilled promise.
I had a lot of time to fill. I started writing chapters for a project that would become my first book. When that was done, I wrote another book. I wrote a series of chapters in other peoples' books. I got two more book contracts.
Before long, I realized something stunning: I had published almost a million words; and had gotten paid to do it.
On the heels of that revelation, I remembered my fourth-grade self. I had written a little illustrated book and sent it to Random House publishing. In a couple of months they returned it with a gentle note. It read in part, "Keep writing and someday you might just have a published book on your hands."
Anybody who knows me knows I have had a lifelong love affair with words. As a child, it separated me from the world. When you're eight and you know words your teacher doesn't, it's no longer cute. It was never cute among my peers.
Love them as I did, I didn't know what to do with these words. Mostly, I used them to be a smart-aleck.
I spent nearly 40 years running from them. Now, they are again what they once were: my love and window on the world. Yet again, it appears the old man was onto something.
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Oil Out of Sync With Market Forces
Prices of many commodities are down this year, but U.S. oil futures have rallied. Skeptics say the mismatch is a sign of trouble. Christian Berthelsen reports. Photo: AP.
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Mike Morehouse necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
4 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 30 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Data Alchemist
FGM, Inc., is an information technology company delivering sophisticated, customized solutions that improve business efficiency across the enterprise.
FGM is an agile provider of technical solutions that enable mission-critical operations and decision-making. Our solutions help our customers improve their business performance through information technology transformation services focusing on architecture, information management, systems integration, and integrated solutions.
Buyers interested in products that can support computer network defense, cyber-crime and the like. The desired audience would be medium to large companies and government agencies who are affected by cyber crime and wish to put capabilities in place to block cyber criminals.
The product name, "Data Alchemist", conjures up the image of a sorcerer or magician. With this we are trying to convey the real magic that we can do with streams of data and content. That being said - I am not looking for the more obvious images you would think of (wizards, wands, etc) but something more subtle.
The design must be contemporary and capture one or more of the subtle aspects of the product such as stealthyness, networked, agent-based, and/or data transformation.
This graphic may be used as icons in the product, images on printed material and/or images in the web-based marketing material and should not contain any copyrighted materials.
A few other design thoughts include:
1) Use of Dark Reds and Blacks is good as they match the product interface
2) Detection
3) Security
4) Defense
5) Three dimensional, shaded graphics
6) Embedding the product name in the graphic is fine as long as the typeface is clear and readable
7) Stay away from the older looking computer-type font
8) Some ideas have been floating around about using a dark background and using a bolt of lightening.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2006 News Releases > February 2006 > Determination was key to Poppell's success
Determination was key to Poppell's success
SAN ANTONIO – The road to graduation was long, hard and tiresome, but last Sunday, all Wanda Poppell had left was a quick trip across the stage as she received her degree from Wayland Baptist University-San Antonio. Not only did Poppell earn a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education, majoring in human services, but she was also named recipient of the Hector Garza Memorial Award.
The Hector Garza award is given to an outstanding student majoring in human services. Garza was a retired police officer of 25 years who planned to teach high school and return to Wayland to complete a master's degree prior to his death. Qualifications for the award specify that the recipient be a student who demonstrates a determination equal to Garza's in pursuing and earning a degree.
Approaching age 60, Poppell wasn't sure she would ever reach this milestone. She tried several times, but resources and health seemed to hold her back. After quitting once due to a lack of finances and support, Poppell re-enrolled in Wayland in 2000 determined to complete her degree. Her five-year journey, however, was nothing short of a struggle.
Poppell worked a full-time job with the Methodist Mission Home, teaching independent life skills to deaf and hearing-impaired adults, as well as adults with other handicaps. She had to juggle her work schedule in order to accommodate her classes. Not only that, but Poppell's health took a turn for the worse.
"I attended classes the day I was diagnosed with breast cancer," Poppell wrote in a statement concerning her nomination for the Hector Garza award.
Poppell took a mid-term exam the night before surgery then completed her minority relations course while taking chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Soon after, Poppell's mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and she had to drop out of school to care for her until her death in 2003.
That wasn't all, however. While receiving treatment for her own battle with cancer, Poppell suffered a bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, leaving her deaf in her right ear and hearing impaired in her left ear. Suddenly, Poppell was suffering from the same handicap that she had worked with for nearly 30 years. She admitted that continuing her education was a difficult decision.
"When I wanted to throw in the towel and give up on my education, my professors, friends and peers gave me the encouragement needed to continue," she said. "I have to study hard and there were times when I was saying I couldn't do it. But there was something that kept pushing me on and I'm so glad I did."
Poppell has made the most of her situation. Overcoming her own hearing loss was difficult, but she was able to adapt better than most people due to her career working with the deaf.
Her classes adapted, also. In classes where students were involved in group discussions, her professor would let her group leave the room to discuss in an area free from other background noise and discussion. Professors showing videos in class would also turn up the volume to accommodate Poppell's hearing loss. That's not all.
"They were very supportive if I kept having to ask, 'What did you say?'" she said.
Poppell also said her situation has given her a new appreciation for what those people she works with are going through.
"It's frustrating sometimes to have to ask, 'What did you say,' or 'can you say that again,'" she said, "but I feel that I may have adapted better than the average hearing adult because I already had the sign language skills behind me."
Fortunately, Poppell's friends all know sign language as well, making communication in certain environments much easier.
Although she's been through a lot while working toward her degree, Poppell said she is glad she finished and it was well worth the effort.
"In some ways it is easier taking classes as an adult than as a young person because you have lived life and you know some of these things you are reading about in sociology and psychology classes," she said.
Poppell said her degree in human services will not only enhance her ability to do her current job, but could help her in the future when she decides to retire.
"If I want to work part-time somewhere else, the degree will help me get my foot in the door," she said.
For now, however, Poppell is pleased to put her pursuit of education behind her and focus on her job. While she is glad to have earned her degree, she is also happy to leave the strenuous class work and busy schedule behind. The only further education she sees in her future is continuing education credits in sign language and interpreting.
"I'll continue working where I am," she said, "with maybe some additional responsibilities."


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Published: 1st December 2004
Number Of Pages: 48
For Ages: 7+ years old
The governor of Gaul has always been a 'creative' accountant. Now he's under investigation by Vexatius Sinusitis—or he was, until someone poisoned the investigator. In order to heal Vexatius, Asterix and Obelix set off to locate a special flower that grows only in Helvetia.
About The Author
Rene Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, and spent most of his childhood in Argentina, before eventually moving to Paris in 1951. He died in 1977. Albert Uderzo was born in 1927 in a small village in Marne, France. He met Rene Goscinny in 1951 and on 29 October 1959 their most famous creation, Asterix, made his first appearance on page 20 of PILOTE. ASTERIX THE GAUL their first album, was published in 1961 and there have now been 33 Asterix albums. Rene Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, and spent most of his childhood in Argentina, before eventually moving to Paris in 1951. He died in 1977.
A cartoon drawn with such supreme artistry, and a text layered with such glorious wordplay, satire and historical and political allusion that no reader should ever feel like they've outgrown it.--TIME OUT
The Asterix books represent the very summit of our achievement as a literary race. In Asterix one finds all of human life. The fact that the books were written originally in French is no matter. I have read them all in many languages and, like all great literature, they are best in English. Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge, Asterix's translators since the very beginning, have made great books into eternal flames.--THE TIMES
Series: Asterix
Audience: Children
For Ages: 7+ years old
For Grades: 7 - 9
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 48
Published: 1st December 2004
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 29.21 x 22.23 x 0.64
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Agencies Brace for Sequestration Cuts
Government agencies on every level are keeping an eye on Washington and watching to see if the so-called "sequestration" cuts are made.
Officials with the South Dakota National Guard say automatic spending cuts could force them to furlough 548 of the Guard's 918 full-time employees for one day a week for 22 weeks, beginning in late April, if the automatic cuts are made.
Such an action would also mean those employees would also lose one day of pay each week.
State Adjutant General Tim Reisch says the planning for the furloughs is precautionary so far, but he says they need to be prepared.
Guard officials say the furloughs could affect 304 Army Guard members and 244 in the Air Guard.
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It appears the Arizona Cardinals grew tired of waiting for the return of Todd Heap.
The veteran tight end was released on Tuesday, the Cardinals announced in a release. Heap hadn't played since suffering a knee injury in Week 2.
The last time we heard anything about Heap was early November, when Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt spoke with Heap for 10 to 15 minutes during a portion of practice open to the media. It was an unusual occurence, which led to speculation Whisenhunt was trying to send a message to players who were lingering on the injured list.
Whisenhunt didn't address the details of the conversation and neither did Heap. A month later, Heap is gone.
Heap goes down as a bust of a signing for the Cardinals. The 12-year veteran missed more games (16) than he played (12) over two seasons. At 32 and with a well-documented injury history, this could be the end of the road for the former first-round draft pick of the Baltimore Ravens.
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Thank you for stopping by to look at the pictures. This site is dedicated to the exploration of many unique forms of Photography.
There are many astrophotographs posted in different galleries with detailed explanations about each image. These images are taken at one of the two observatories I operate. The image above is the Orion Nebula about 1,200 light years away.
As you would expect, there are many telescopes in these observatories. However, in my observatories, you will also find microscopes in use.
This is so I can explore (and photograph) the universe as it is presented in the large scale... and in the small scale.
The photo above is a tiny speck of chlorine photographed through a microscope. This "speck" was about the size of a head on a pin.
I often use my astrophotographic equipment to photograph the exotic and the invisible!
The world of the Infrared Spectrum can be captured in photographs with the right equipment even though it is invisible to the naked eye.
The photo above is one example of what the world looks like in infrared. You can see more infrared photos in the galleries to the right.
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To get the most out of my site take please take some time to read all the posts which are above and on the left side of the center screen.
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Shocking affidavit: During man's trial, wife slept with his lawyer
Thursday, April 21, 2011 03:10 AM
While Robert Caulley was trying to prove that he didn't murder his parents nearly 15 years ago, his defense attorney and wife were engaged in a romantic affair before, during and after the trial, according to records filed yesterday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
Hours after the Grove City man was convicted, Celeste Caulley Bowman says in a five-page affidavit, she and her husband's attorney, James D. Owen, again had sex at a local hotel, where he told her "I love you" for the first time.
Caulley, 46, is serving a life sentence at the Belmont Correctional Institution in St. Clairsville. His current attorney argues that the relationship between Bowman and Owen was a direct conflict of interest, negatively influenced Caulley's defense and entitles the former aeronautical engineer to a new trial.
"This conflict of interest hits at the heart of the attorney-client relationship," said new attorney Kim Rigby. "A duty of loyalty is owed to every client. Here, Jim Owen's loyalty was clearly divided between his duty to represent Caulley and his personal interest in continuing his relationship with Caulley's wife. A court cannot have confidence in the outcome of Caulley's trial based on this unethical behavior."
Common Pleas Judge John D. Martin now will rule on Rigby's motion.
Bowman and Caulley had been married about eight years before Caulley's trial in 1997. They divorced in 2000.
Owen, a prominent Columbus lawyer who has handled several high-profile criminal cases, could not be reached to comment yesterday.
Owen's office said that he is being represented by Geoffrey Stern, a Columbus lawyer who formerly served as the Ohio Supreme Court's disciplinary counsel, which investigates allegations of wrongdoing against lawyers and determines whether discipline is necessary.
In her affidavit, Bowman said the affair with Owen began shortly after Caulley was arrested and when she moved back to Ohio from Texas to help Owen work on her husband's case. She said their relationship became physical in the summer of 1997, when she and Owen first had sex at his cottage on Buckeye Lake.
Bowman said that she and Owen consistently had sex two, three or as many as four times a week, and their encounters took place in the cottage, Owen's office and conference room, local hotels and other places.
She said the affair intensified beginning the day Robert Caulley was convicted and continued for about another year until late 1998. She said Owen told her he would leave his wife several times but never followed through, and Bowman said she broke off the relationship and moved back to Texas. Bowman is now remarried and lives outside Houston.
In an interview with The Dispatch, Bowman, who has always believed in her ex-husband's innocence, said she didn't come forward with information about her affair because she wanted to protect her son and spare Owen public embarrassment. She said she began and continued the affair with Owen because it helped take her mind off of her then-husband's case and brought a "sense of normalcy" during a time when her life had been turned upside down.
She said the guilt became too much after she went to visit Robert Caulley last June. Her mother had encouraged her to come forward about the affair for years, and she finally told Caulley's new attorney in January.
"The last thing I wanted to do is hurt anyone; that is one of many reasons it took me 15 years to bring this forward," Bowman said. "I had to consider Jim's livelihood, career and family life, and then weigh that against the fact that an innocent man has been sitting in prison. Jim acted unethically in pursuing me. I was fairly young, scared and in an extremely vulnerable state of mind. Whether he meant to or not, Jim took advantage of that. His first priority should have been to his client who was on trial, Bob Caulley."
Lois and Charles Caulley were beaten and stabbed to death in their home on Jan. 16, 1994. Robert Caulley called police and said he had found their bodies.
Investigators initially thought the couple had interrupted a burglary, but nearly three years later, they focused on Caulley, who was then living in Texas. After several hours of interrogation, most of which wasn't recorded, they obtained a confession that Caulley has always maintained was coerced and manipulated.
Judges ruled that the interrogation was proper, and Caulley was convicted in the fall of 1997 by his own words. Caulley avoided the death penalty but is serving a sentence of 25 years to life.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said his office has not yet reviewed the motion for a new trial, but he said prosecutors faced a strong defense on Caulley's behalf.
Caulley's case was highlighted in "Test of Convictions," a five-day Dispatch series published in 2008. His is one of 30 cases the newspaper identified as prime candidates for DNA testing. So far, three men have been exonerated after serving a combined 72 years for crimes they didn't commit. Four others have been proved guilty, and several others received inconclusive test results, including Caulley.
Despite a bloody crime scene and several rounds of DNA testing, Rigby points out that there still is no physical evidence connecting Caulley to the crime.
Caulley first learned of the affair between his trial attorney and ex-wife a few years ago from his sister, but he wasn't made aware that the affair took place before and during his trial until this past January.
"I trusted Jim Owen with my defense," Caulley said in an affidavit. "I assumed he would work hard to get me acquitted. I never thought he would betray my trust and have an affair with my wife."
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Analyst Debate: Is ATP Oil & Gas a Top Stock?
The Motley Fool has been making successful stock picks for many years, but we Fools don't always agree on what a great stock looks like. That's what makes us "Motley," and it's one of our core values. We can disagree respectfully, and we often do. Investors do better when they share their knowledge.
In that spirit, we three Fools have banded together to find the market's best stocks, which we'll rate on The Motley Fool's CAPS system as outperformers or underperformers. We'll be accountable for every pick based on the sum of our knowledge and the balance of our decisions. Today we'll be discussing oil and gas deepwater drilling company ATP Oil & Gas (NAS: ATPG) .
ATP Oil & Gas by the numbers
ATP Oil & Gas' results have fluctuated wildly over the past decade. Here's a quick snapshot of some figures that will better acquaint you with the company.
Result (most recent available)
|Annual Revenue
|$687.2 million
|Net Income
|($192 million)
|Market Cap
|$344.1 million
|5-Year Revenue CAGR
|Price/Cash Flow
|$65.7 million/$2.01 billion
|Short Interest
|Ensco (NYS: ESV)
Newfield Exploration (NYS: NFX)
EOG Resources
Sources: ATP Oil & Gas Annual Report; Morningstar; Yahoo! Finance; author's calculations. CAGR = compound annual growth rate.
Sean's take
The $64,000 question is: When will ATP Oil & Gas actually make a big enough find that it pulls the company out of a deep trough of losses?
The answer to that question could be the Shimshon well in the Levant Basin off the coast of Israel. According to ATP, estimates range from 1.5 trillion (yes, with a "T") cubic feet to 3.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in that region. Even with natural-gas prices near decade lows, that is a company-changing find that could actually make ATP relevant again.
Despite the excitement surrounding ATP's possible finds off the coast of Israel, we have to remember that two-thirds of the company's revenue is derived from deepwater drills it has set up in the Gulf of Mexico. With the deepwater drilling moratorium a thing of the past, you'd think that ATP would be spilling over with profits, but that hasn't been the case. Rival Ensco has noted that all of its rigs are up and running at the full-day rate. ATP has seen sales and cash flow improve, but not nearly enough to get the company back to an elusive profit.
The true detriment to ATP is its crushing debt load. Had it not been for rising oil prices stemming from Iran's threat to block the Strait of Hormuz, ATP may well have defaulted on its debt. With $2 billion in debt, $1.5 billion of which pays a staggering 11.875% interest and is due in May 2015, ATP paid $76.5 million in just interest payments alone in its latest quarter. That's not very comforting, given that it hasn't regularly produced positive cash flow in recent years.
ATPG Book Value per Share data by YCharts.
As ATP crushes shareholder value with its frivolous spending while peers like EOG Resources and Ensco continue to produce strong profits, I can't help but be bearish on ATP. Even Newfield Exploration, which has an exceptionally high level of debt relative to cash on hand ($27 million in cash versus $2.92 billion in debt), is raising production guidance and maintaining healthy profits. ATP simply isn't up to par with its peers, and it's not worth the gamble even at these depressed levels.
Alex's take
It's always nice to see an exploration company committed to developing its properties, and ATP has managed to boost production three years running, from 5.9 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2009 to about 9 million BOE last year. But although ATP has increased total production by more than 30%, its revenue has more or less tracked the broader price of oil, and profit remains elusive:
ATPG Revenues TTM data by YCharts.
It's doubtless that a heavy weighting toward natural gas in the company's reserves has played a part in keeping things from taking off, but as Sean mentioned, ATP has been out from underneath the boot of a deepwater moratorium for a while, and interest expenses are killing any momentum the company might have generated from consistently high oil prices. Its latest payment is actually down a bit from midyear, but that's hardly much consolation when annual payments ballooned from $41 million in 2009 to $326 million last year.
Nearly half of the company's undeveloped reserves lie under the North Sea, which ATP has been waiting to tap for more than five years. It won't be going anywhere until 2014, which is a really long for a company to wait before reaching the other half of its potential. Contrast that with Kodiak Oil & Gas (NYS: KOG) , which has taken off from nothing in the time it took ATP just to get back to its pre-recession revenue highs (and without the pre-recession profitability). Kodiak sticks to dry land, and it has boosted its developed reserves nearly fourfold in just one year, with much of that from an increase in oil production. ATP, on the other hand, boosted total production by just 17% over the same time frame. Both are running at high levels of infrastructure investment, and both took out big loans to do so, but only one company seems to be reaping quick returns from that borrowing.
With plenty of high-growth drilling stocks to invest in that have shorter time horizons for their projects, focusing on one that will not realize its full potential for years seems a poor use of valuable portfolio funds. I'm not saying ATP is a guaranteed stinker, and it may be worth placing on your watchlist if you're patient enough. But it doesn't look like a great buy right now.
Travis' take
I'm tired of companies that dangle hope in front of our faces, only to disappoint when it's time to perform. ATP says that production is picking up at Telemark, Clipper will begin production in the late third or early fourth quarter, and Israel is a gold mine waiting to happen, but I want to see results. ATP reported $210 million in losses last year and $349 million in losses the year before. Analysts are expecting a $2.19 loss per share this year and another $0.82-per-share loss next year, and those estimates are only getting worse.
The expected losses are bad, but what really makes me worried about this stock is the balance sheet. $2.1 billion in debt is a lot, especially when the market cap is only $369.4 million.
Then there's the price of oil and natural gas to consider. I'm not a fan of natural gas going forward, simply because I think there will continue to be too much supply domestically, and prices will remain low. Internationally, prices are higher, but shale drilling has just begun in the area, and natural-gas exports from Cheniere Energy's (ASE: LNG) export terminal could level prices. I'm also wary about betting on oil prices right now, because threats from Iran appear to be dissipating, and a weak economy in Europe will keep prices from rising too fast.
In the oil and gas industry, reserves are great, but eventually you have to put up the financial numbers to back them up. ATP has built up a nice pile of reserves, but its balance sheet requires perfection in turning those reserves into production. I'm just not willing to bet on perfection, and I think we're more likely to hear about a dilutive share offering before we hear about blowout earnings.
With all of that said, ATP has proven it can pop on a moment's notice, so I'm wary of an underperform call. I'd prefer to watch ATP from the sideline.
The call
Despite all three of us sending markedly bearish words ATP's way, the consensus appears that it's best to leave ATP be at the moment. With high levels of short interest and a mountain of natural-gas reserves potentially buried below its drill sites, the possibility of a short squeeze is very real. All of us, however, realize that fundamentally, the company hasn't done much to prove its worth to investors. For now we'll file this in the "avoid" category and put it up for further review as necessary.
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Asian stocks rose nearly two percent to hit a five-month high and the dollar fell as both houses of Congress passed a bill to end the "fiscal cliff" crisis that threatened a U.S. recession and roiled world financial markets.
European markets were set to rally on the news, with spreadbetters expecting London's FTSE to rise about 1 percent and Frankfurt's DAX to open up 0.5 percent.
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The Congress approved extending lower Bush-era tax rates to all but the nation's wealthiest households in a budget deal that stopped automatic implementation of $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases.
The bill's passage in Congress allayed earlier concerns over complaints from a number of Republicans that spending cuts were still not adequately addressed.
The temporary reprieve that the deal offers the U.S. economy also sets up Wall Street for a strong start to trading which resumes later in the day.
Asian stock markets cheered the developments as a major risk for investors, namely a slump in the global economy, appeared to have receded for now.
"This is great news for global growth and explains why shares and other growth-related assets such as the Australian dollar are up strongly today," said Shane Oliver, strategist at AMP Capital.
Australian shares rose to a 19-month high while the Aussie dollar jumped to 1.4082.
The MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan index of stocks <.MIAPJ0000PUS> rose 1.9 percent. Chinese shares in Hong Kong jumped 3 percent as last month's rally spilled over into the new year with stocks closely linked to China's economy such as steel and cement posting the biggest gains.
In South Korea, where data showed manufacturing activity rose for the first time in seven months in December, the KOSPI index <.KS11> was up 1.6 percent led by a 3.6 percent jump in smartphone giant Samsung Electronics <005930.KS>.
"The index is riding high on the U.S. fiscal deal. This upward momentum will last a couple of weeks, after which there will be a reality check due to the unresolved issue of the spending cuts and debt ceiling," said Cho Tae-hoon, an analyst at Samsung Securities.
Singapore was the best-performing market in South East Asia rising 1.2 percent after data showed the city-state dodged an expected economic recession in the last three months of 2012.
Asian stocks outside Japan rose nearly 20 percent last year as a combination of improving economic data from China, easing worries about a euro zone blow-up, and global central bank easing that encouraged investors back into equity markets.
Sakthi Siva, Asia strategist for Credit Suisse, said in a note to clients that 2013 could see similar returns for Asian equities, given a solution to the fiscal crisis.
"As we move into 2013 we retain our bullish bias, and our theme is whether markets could catch up with earnings," said Siva, adding that markets in China and India could offer the most upside given the mismatch between index levels and earnings expectations.
Risky assets across the board got a lift with crude oil futures up 1.1 percent and copper futures in London jumping 1.7 percent.
The euro rose to $1.3261 against the U.S. dollar.
The safe-haven U.S. dollar edged lower, falling 0.4 percent against a basket of major currencies .
The Japanese yen continued its slide as investors wagered the Bank of Japan would have to take ever-more aggressive easing steps to support the economy and satisfy the new government.
The yen fell to 87.17 against the dollar to its weakest level since July 2010.
The Japanese currency also dropped to depths not seen in more than four years against the Australian and New Zealand dollars.
(Additional reporting by Wayne Cole in SYDNEY, Masayuki Kitano in SINGAPORE and Somang Yang in SEOUL; Editing by Eric Meijer)


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Thursday, 21 February 2008
Let's have a look in Alex's cupboard!
Chocolate covered coffee beans
Royce Creamy Milk Chocolate Bar
Sparx Magic Colour Changing Popping Candy
Bag of Watagashi (four individually bagged portions of candy floss)
Two small bags of Doctor Who marshmallows
Boiled Strawberry Lollipop
Gummy Hotdog
Peanuts Christmas Hot Chocolate Sachet
Mike Popcorn (actually the best bagged popcorn in the world)
Gummy Bears
Nesquik Magic Straws
Two bottles of Reese's Peanut Butter Ice Cream Topping
Glico hard toffees
...and an unusually detailed chocolate model of a chimpanzee.
What? There was some rice and some instant cup noodles in there too.
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
Snow Festival Prelude / My Part In Its Downfall
Sapporo's internationally, globally, world famous Snow Festival kicked off this morning with an opening ceremony that featured "Miss ~ from all over Japan". I haven't been down to check it out yet, and I'll have to live with the disappointment of missing that cavalcade of lovelies, but I can at least bring you news from the build up last weekend.
Sapporo Snow Festival apparently attracts over two million visitors a year. Sapporo is a city of around one point seven million people. Now I've expressed scepticism about this in the past, but here I'm going to go right out and call shenanigans here. Where the hell could we possibly fit all those people? Today someone said "Yes, but Sapporo does have a lot of hotels", which is true, but does it have a hotel district BIGGER THAN THE REST OF THE CITY? Christ on a bike.
I was in town on Saturday and Sunday though, and the large number of tourists was pretty apparent. It's not like I'm the only Caucasian in the city here, but certainly I don't see all that many white folks in my average week. This weekend there were loads of them as soon as I got off the train. And while there's a natural snobbishness (that I'm not going to deny) that you get about any city in which you live, it really didn't bother me all that much. UNTIL that is, I was in a tiny, tiny vintage shop where the woman at the counter asked me in Japanese if I was in town for the Snow Festival. Putting aside the fact that if I were in town for the Snow Festival I probably wouldn't have understood her, I replied "No… I live here" in a kind of crestfallen way. Oh well, it was an awesome shop, and the whole time I was in there she seemed to be giving a Ukulele lesson to another woman who was standing at the counter. Seriously.
On any other day that would've easily won the day's medal for best shop, but I also managed to stumble upon a bookshop that sold both new and ancient, second hand children's books, art and design books, fabulous stationery and a bunch of other things. The shop was on the third floor of some no-mark building off the beaten track, and I talked to the owner for ages, as he had excellent English from working in New York for two years as a butcher (!). His stock was endlessly fascinating, and I should probably write a whole piece sometime about the appetite for travel and assimilation of western culture that allows you to strike up long conversations with Japanese people in a way that foreign nationals never could in the UK or America. I also bought a phenomenally cool mechanical pencil from the Czech Republic. Sweet!
Wait… I was going to talk about the Snow Festival I think. So even more awesome than going shopping was the fact that I got to help out with Jesi's Snow Sculpture, which was one of the small blocks of snow that they allocate to the citizens of Sapporo. There are 120 citizens sculptures altogether, and they are raffled off to people from a list of 600 entrants. Of course most teams consist of half a dozen members, and they all enter in order to secure a block. Jesi entered all on her own and scored spot number 112 of 120. I helped out for maybe three hours in total, and frankly I take little pride in it, as both times I only actually turned up to apologise in person for not helping out, only to actually end up helping out. Still, check out all the pictures; those wrists and the drumstick in his right hand… all me baby. It was fun, and we felt a little special as we got a lot of double takes from Japanese people who didn't expect to see any foreign people making snow sculptures. The only other foreign non-pros that I saw were the US NAVY team. Our sculpture was better than theirs.
A massive number of citizen's sculptures are cartoon characters and company mascots, which is really very sensible since those characters are mostly large blobs with other blobs attached. A pretty safe bet for snow sculpting. They have to open up some of the blocks of the park to allow the citizens to get access to their sculptures, so I probably saw most of the big statues last weekend and they're all pretty cool. I'll be going down again in the next couple of days to have a proper look, but as everyone says – it will be very cold, there will be too many people, and I will catch flu and die. My question for all of my students this week is "Are you going to the Snow Festival" to which the answer is 95% NO. For the people of Sapporo this whole thing is just a week long inconvenience.
Lets knock this on the head with my favourite Snow Festival trivia right now.
Firstly while the main Snow Festival site is in Odori Park, the park that runs for a dozen city blocks across the centre of the city, the big sculptures are actually placed carefully slightly to the west. This is because there's an underground mall to the east of the park, and the massive weight of a large snow sculpture would crash through the ceiling and destroy the wonder that is Aurora Town.
Secondly the Snow Festival is actually smaller now than it was a few years ago, not just because they've had a run of years with poor snow, but because of Japan's increased military presence on the global stage. Apparently the Hokkaido SDF base sent troops to Iraq a few years ago, and as the SDF has always been one of the main contributors to the Snow Festival there were suddenly less people to make the massive sculptures. Is it shallow to make a joke about that being yet another reason to hate the war in Iraq?
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ARLINGTON, Va. — Occupant protection in side impacts of midsize cars is improving as automakers introduce safer designs and add side airbags as standard equipment. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently completed front, side, and rear tests of seven 2008 model midsize cars, both moderately priced and luxury: Chevrolet Malibu, Dodge Avenger, Infiniti G35, Kia Optima, Mitsubishi Galant, Nissan Altima, and Saturn Aura. All earn the highest rating of good for occupant protection in frontal crashes. All but the Kia Optima earn the top rating of good for side crash protection (Malibu's rating applies to cars built after February 2008). Rear crash protection results vary more widely. Among the seats/head restraints evaluated, only those in the Optima earn a good rating.
"The side impact results represent a huge change from just four years ago," says Institute senior vice president David Zuby. "In 2004 we tested 10 midsize moderately priced cars, and all 10 were rated poor in their standard configurations without side airbags." In the 2004 tests, only the previous generations of the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, and Chevrolet Malibu earned good ratings when tested with side airbags, which then were optional equipment.
"Side airbags were mostly optional in our first round of side impact tests of midsize cars," Zuby says. "A major change is that side airbags are standard in every one of the seven midsize cars we tested this time around. Auto manufacturers have been moving quickly to make side airbags standard, even on lower priced models."
When the Institute tested the Avenger's predecessor, the Dodge Stratus, without its optional side airbags it earned a poor rating for protecting people in side crashes. The safety cage didn't hold up well, resulting in a lot of intrusion into the occupant compartment. The driver dummy's head was struck by the intruding barrier, and injury measures recorded on the dummy indicate that broken ribs and a fractured pelvis would be likely to occur in a real-world crash of similar severity.
Chrysler redesigned this car as an early 2008 model, renaming it the Avenger, which also is sold as the Chrysler Sebring. Front and rear head curtain airbags and front seat-mounted torso airbags now are standard.
The Avenger's performance in the side test is "dramatically improved compared with the Stratus," Zuby says. The new model kept intrusion into the occupant compartment to a minimum. The side curtain airbag protected the driver dummy's head from being struck by the barrier. Injury measures indicate the possibility of rib fractures, but other injury measures are low. The Avenger is rated good for side impact protection, and it would win a Top Safety Pick award if its seat/head restraints earned a good rating instead of acceptable.
The 2004 Optima (vehicle tested was the Optima's twin, Hyundai Sonata) is rated poor for occupant protection in side impacts, even with its standard combination side airbags designed to protect front-seat occupants' heads and chests. Measures recorded on the driver dummy indicate that rib fractures and internal organ injuries would be likely to occur in a real-world crash of similar severity. Plus the rear passenger dummy's head was struck by the windowsill and the pillar behind the rear door.
The Optima was redesigned during the 2006 model year. The performance of the new model is much improved. Driver injury measures indicate the possibility of a fractured pelvis, but all other measures are low. Kia also changed the side airbag configuration to curtain style that protects the heads of people in both front and rear seats. The new test results apply to Optimas built after June 2006.
The seat/head restraints in the Optima are the only ones the Institute tested this time around that earn the top rating of good for occupant protection in rear crashes. Five of the seat/head restraint combinations earn marginal or poor ratings.
When a vehicle is struck in the rear and driven forward, its seats accelerate occupants' torsos forward. Unsupported, an occupant's head will lag behind the forward torso movement, and the differential motion causes the neck to bend and stretch. The higher the torso acceleration, the more sudden the motion, the higher the forces on the neck, and the more likely a neck injury is to occur.
The key to reducing whiplash injury risk is to keep the head and torso moving together. To accomplish this, the geometry of a head restraint has to be adequate — high enough to be near the back of the head. Then the seat structure and stiffness characteristics must be designed to work in concert with the head restraint to support an occupant's neck and head, accelerating them with the torso as the vehicle is pushed forward.
"In stop and go commuter traffic, you're more likely to get in a rear-end collision than any other kind of crash," Zuby says. "It's not a major feat of engineering to design seats and head restraints that afford good protection in these common crashes."
Rear-end collisions are frequent, and neck injuries are the most common injuries reported in auto crashes. They account for 2 million insurance claims each year, costing at least $8.5 billion. Such injuries aren't life-threatening, but they can be painful and debilitating.
The Institute's frontal crashworthiness evaluations are based on results of 40 mph frontal offset crash tests. Each vehicle's overall evaluation is based on measurements of intrusion into the occupant compartment, injury measures recorded on a Hybrid III dummy in the driver seat, and analysis of slow-motion film to assess how well the restraint system controlled dummy movement during the test.
Side evaluations are based on performance in a crash test in which the side of a vehicle is struck by a barrier moving at 31 mph. The barrier represents the front end of a pickup or SUV. Ratings reflect injury measures recorded on two instrumented SID-IIs dummies, assessment of head protection countermeasures, and the vehicle's structural performance during the impact. Injury measures obtained from the two dummies, one in the driver seat and the other in the back seat behind the driver, are used to determine the likelihood that a driver and/or passenger in a similar real-world crash would sustain serious injury to various parts of the body. The movements and contacts of the dummies' heads during the test also are evaluated. Structural performance is based on measurements indicating the amount of B-pillar intrusion into the occupant compartment.
Rear crash protection is rated according to a two-step procedure. Starting points for the ratings are measurements of head restraint geometry — the height of a restraint and its horizontal distance behind the back of the head of an average-size man. Seats with good or acceptable restraint geometry are tested dynamically using a dummy that measures forces on the neck. This test simulates a collision in which a stationary vehicle is struck in the rear at 20 mph. Seats without good or acceptable geometry are rated poor overall because they can't be positioned to protect many people.
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Outdoor Research Expedition Crocodile Gaiters
Bought these on a lark in Sandpoint, Idaho, for 25$…
Source: bought it used
Price Paid: $25
Bought these on a lark in Sandpoint, Idaho, for 25$ Best gear deal I've seen in many years.
- Waterproof
- Durable
- Stylish
These have been essential in rainy foraging hikes in the PNW. Trusted friend considering I'm usually in day hiker shoes and in the rain.
Completely durable and functional, these gaiters are…
Source: received it as a personal gift
Completely durable and functional, these gaiters are a good investment if you're in the market for a pair.
- Highly durable
- Waterproof
I've had these gaiters for about three years now and have started using them a lot more in the last year since making a move to Alaska. Most of their use comes during hunting season, but they're out on a lot of backpacking trips and an occasional winter foray; they're also handy if you find yourself doing a lot of shoveling after a couple feet of snow.
Paired usually with leather boots, they do a great job of keeping things dry and keeping me from snagging and ripping pant legs and rain pants during the all too frequent bushwhacking required to get just about anywhere around here.
I would recommend trying them on before buying because I definitely had to get a larger size than I thought necessary in order to get a decent fit, but the fit is very good and the material is burly, including the strap and velcro.
Based on my experience so far, I expect these to last for a long, long time.
I wanted to get a pair of these for Mt. Rainer and…
I wanted to get a pair of these for Mt. Rainer and also technical ice-climbing IV/V+, inspired by Jeff Lowe's seminal Ice World book. Fortunately I was able to try them out in my local REI store before buying. They simply did not fit me.
I have large muscular legs with very large calves and the gaiters simply did not reach around my calf muscles (I also tried the regular Crocs, same problem probably even narrower). Otherwise, the design, construction and quality appeared to be good, esp. the tough construction/reinforcing in the all important inner crampon kick zones. The replaceable strap underneath is particularly well designed and implemented.
I find gaiters hellish fiddly to deal with. For me, zips are just too fussy and unreliable for serious conditions. Velcro is better, provide the fit is adequate but snow can clog it up. In the end I made do without gaiters (on Mt. Rainier, Adams, Ben Nevis, Cairgorms, Starved Rock Illinois and French Alpine waterfall ice at La Grave La Meije, Grand Teton) and managed just fine without them. Although my boots were quite high and waterproof (Koflach Ultra plastic shell boots and La Sportiva K2 leather boots), and usually I wore stretchy Troll or REI climbing pants with the cuff zipped over the top of the boots and waterproof leggings on top.
Several friends that do a lot of mountain walking and low grade scrambles in North Wales, Scotland — which can be very wet — (and Matterhorn and the Picos in Spain) use and swear by the famous *Berghaus Yeti Gaiters*, which fit tightly around the rand and edge on your boots and under the instep. They glued/sealed them to the boots sole to keep water out. They are also repairable (e.g. from Foot First Ltd. in Chesterfield, England).
So, if your calves aren't too big, and you really feel that you need gaiters (see above, I haven't found a real need ... yet), and if you don't need the total coverage/protection of Yeti gaitors, these may well be the gaitors for you. Especially if you plan to wear crampons and/or want a close fitting gaiter (for technical ice perhaps).
They are light and sturdy; this is the first impression…
Fabric: 3-layer 70D Taslan Gore-Tex® upper leg + 1000D Cordura
Fill: none
Price Paid: $55
They are light and sturdy; this is the first impression without the crampons. As long as the user is cautious while using the crampons, there is no other real danger one can damage these gaiters.
The only drawback that I noticed is the plastic velcro strap turnaround buckle. It should have been much better off if they were metal. Mine is intact but if you pull the velcro strap to hard, that plastic piece might snap and you are doomed, so be careful with that.
Best gaiter on the market for mountaineering. The…
Fabric: Gore-Tex, Cordura
Price Paid: $79
Best gaiter on the market for mountaineering. The field replaceable instep strap is awesome, and the fact that the entire inner leg is reinforced makes these guys able to take a beating. They are sized for a mountaineering boot, ie insulated leather or plastic, so try them on with the boots you're going to use before buying. I had to send mine back in because I bought a size too big.
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Adult Pottery Throwing Introduction for Beginners.
One 2-Hour session of 1-to-1 tuition
Flexible Weekday & Weekend Sessions between 10am - 9pm, Including public holidays.
Come and experience the core techniques of throwing on a potters wheel with me, Paddy Hartley at my London Bridge ceramics studio just 3 minutes walk from London Bridge Underground Station. My 2-hour sessions will introduce you to the fundamentals of throwing, experiencing various types of clay and experimenting with a range of throwing techniques and tools.
Our first session is all about the fundamentals of throwing. Ill show you various techniques on the wheel to centre, open and draw up the clay walls of your pot. I'll also show you some quick and simple finishing techniques including profiling the base of your pot for that added finish before the final challenge, cutting your pot from the wheel.
If you choose to book follow-on sessions to build on your throwing skills, we will explore throwing cylinders and bowls (the basis of all throw ceramics) and as you progress, more adventurous forms. The emphasis is on fun, practice and learning as much from what goes wrong as what goes right!
Your best 2 pots from each session will be fired and glazed. We only fire the very best of your work! If you don't want to be limited to firing 2 pots from each session and decide you want to take your throwing to the next level by Paddy can advise you on buying in your own preferred clay and glazes.
For maximum flexibility, this ticket buys you a 2-hour session at a time and date which is convenient for you with an earliest start time of 10am and latest finish time of 9pm weekdays and/or weekends. When purchasing this ticket, purchase for the earliest date listed in the drop down menu. The date on this ticket is NOT the date you will attend, it is a purchase date. Upon purchase, Paddy will contact you directly to discuss and arrange with you the most convenient future dates and times for you to attend your session/s.
If you have any questions prior to booking, contact me directly first at email@example.com
Block bookings are available at a reduced rate and are listed on my Eventbrite Organiser Profile page. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/paddy-hartley-238757686
Two 2-hour sessions @£100.
Four 2-hour sessions @£190
If you prefer you can choose to either spread these sessions over a single day, week/s or month/s
If you want to experience a session with a friend before committing to further tuition, my Speed Pottery sessions for 2 people are an ideal taster session. For this and other ticketing options, visit my Eventbrite Organiser Profile https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/paddy-hartley-238757686
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50% refunds offered up until 30 days before the first day of the event. Once block booking dates are agreed, dates will be adhered to as dates cannot be repeatedly rescheduled. Contact Paddy if you wish to discuss this further prior to making a block booking.
The studio is located near the Guy's Hospital Campus, King's College London (2 minute walk from London Bridge Tube Station) and is secure access only. Paddy will email all participants prior to the class to arrange to meet you as a group outside the studio on the day.
Fees include all clay, tools, firings and small selection of glazes.
The entire studio site indoors and outdoors is a smoke-free and vape-free zone.
Secure cycle parking is available (see details in FAQ's).
Wheelchair access is available on request (please email)
Infinite tea, coffee and biscuits are provided to keep those energy levels up!
To find out more about Paddy and his work, visit www.paddyhartley.com
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Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?
This is an adult course and only taking bookings for attendees over the age of 18. For particularly youthful looking attendees, proof of age is required.
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
The studio venue is only a couple of minutes walk from London Bridge Underground/bus/overground station. A secure cycle parking shed is available though you will need to bring a lock and cyclists use the facility at their own risk and the event organiser cannot be held liable for any cycle theft or damage.
Is this event unsuitable for anyone?
Some of the materials we will be using are unsuitable for those who suffer from severe asthma, have breathing difficulties, skin allergies or are in any stage of pregnancy. If any of these apply to you, please do not sign up for this event. Im afraid babies and toddlers cannot attend with a Mum and Dad due to the nature of some of the glaze materials in the studio.
I look forward to hearing from you and getting you a little muddy!


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Why not enjoy a day of sunshine, sand and surf at Austinmer beach. I got there by train with a 90 minute journey from Sydney Central through the Royal National Forest. You can also get there by car and take a leisurely drive through the forest. I walked from Austinmer to Thirroul with a lot of beach paddling along the way. Of course a coffee and cake at an Austinmer cafe set me up for a really enjoyable stroll.
There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.