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I know, logically, that this is temporary, and yet . . . it just keeps getting better.
After last night when I was ailing and cranky and lonely and I misunderstood the Writer so he called me . . . we had another "lunch date."
He said to me while we were curled up together naked talking about family history and music and film and whatever, isn't this a better lunch than eating? And then immediately corrected himself: "No! I should never say that to you. You should always eat."
And it's moments like that which make me adore the Writer even more.
He knows me. He pays attention to everything I tell him. He is wired in to my frequency. He cares.
Every part of our afternoon was perfect.
He showed up a little ahead of schedule. Later than we had originally planned, but earlier than I expected. Still, I got everything situated and ready.
We have a routine: I watch for him and I open the door before he gets to the bell. He was wearing a total rock outfit: classic punk t-shirt, dark jeans, boots, sunglasses. He's never looked quite this punk before. Usually, he is much more hipster.
We start kissing as soon as the door closes. I had already told him what I wanted to do, as we always discuss it in detail beforehand. Always.
This was a deliberate switch to our routine. We were undressed immediately, kissing passionately and then condom on and sex on.
The sex was exactly what I wanted. It was perfect. And, he loved it, too. We connected and it was passionate and hot and we kissed the entire time.
As we essentially finished simultaneously, we then curled up together and kissed and talked and fooled around for another hour. There is nothing better than curling up with someone you adore and talking about everything.
And laughing. So much laughing.
It's not that this is separate from our life. This is not an affair. It is our life together. We have to deal with each other's lives.
We were talking and he said something about tonight. He is likely going to a punk show in my neighborhood and I am hosting a bday party at the hot new restaurant and then a hipster bar. He said, "well, I already had amazing sex, so…" and I teased him with "and you had sex with me."
"Uh, I meant you."
Yeah, honey, I know.
So, we decide that maybe we are going to go to a show tonight and/or maybe he is coming with me to the bday party.
Which means my married beau, with a ring on his finger, may be my date to a party with all of my friends.
And, I think I mentioned that he's kinda famous in our world. He's a writer. Even if he weren't wearing a ring, everyone knows he's married. It's part of his thing.
So, we have this connection between us that is strong . . . strong enough that we are going to be public about it. Which is likely going to be awkward for a lot of people, and likely will lead to a few "what the fuck are you doing" conversations.
Most of my friends are open-minded about such things. And my closest friends know I am dating someone who is married. They just don't know it's The Writer.
This is right for right now.
It's a perfect place for me to be. He is so present in my daily life that sprawling across the foot of the bed in his arms laughing and talking in the late afternoon on a friday feels like the best thing we could be doing.
I sent him an email on Wednesday, the day after the one year anniversary of that accident that nearly killed me, thanking him for being in my life, for being so positive and awesome.
And now here we are on Friday, happy together.
Friday night.
The first half of FM's birthday party was great. But the idea of the Writer joining me The idea of him joining me post-dinner at the bar freaks me out a little.
I can tell from his lack of activity that he has fallen asleep early. I bounce home around midnight. I wasn't feeling great and I'd been out for like 5 hours.
The next afternoon, he texts me.
Him: hey u 3:32 PM
Him: i ended up falling asleep hella early 3:33 PM
Me: Hey 3:33 PMHim: how was yr night? 3:33 PMMe: It was cool. I was home in bed my midnight. 3:33 PMMe: My friend who's birthday we were celebrating had a great time 3:34 PMHim: good!! 3:34 PMMe: I published a photo to Facebook for your benefit last night 3:35 PMMe: Boobtacular 3:35 PMHim: yessss 3:37 PMMe: 😉 3:38 PM
Me: Just had a nap dream so real I was surprised you weren't here talking to me or holding my hand 5:01 PM
Him: lordy 5:10 PM
Me: It was funny and pleasantly disorienting. 5:11 PM
Me: I was sleeping on my hand… 5:12 PM
Him: sounds excellent 7:23 PMMe: Kinda was. 7:28 PM
Him: whatcha doing? 10:01 PMMe: Reading in bed. What are you doing? 10:02 PMHim: same. also football 10:03 PMMe: I like you in bed. 10:04 PMHim: i like you there as well 10:04 PMMe: Also in hallways, movie theaters and cars 10:06 PMHim: excellent 10:07 PMMe: Well we are VERY good in bed 10:07 PMHim: it is true 10:07 PMMe: 🙂 10:10 PMMe: Yesterday was incredibly hot 10:12 PMHim: i agree:) 10:28 PMMe: I need you […] next time. 10:31 PMHim: yes. yes u do 10:32 PMMe: Felt so amazing 10:38 PM
Me: I have a request. It's a little weird. 2:39 PMHim: Hit me 2:56 PMMe: I want a picture of you … smiling. 3:06 PMHim: Sent 3:09 PMMe: You are the best. 3:09 PMMe: And I am beaming. 3:10 PMHim: Good 🙂 3:17 PMMe: Thank you thank you. 3:21 PMMe: Love getting to see your handsome face, even if its just a picture. 3:23 PMHim: I am glad you like it. 3:28 PMHim: I am never happy with how i look in pictures in which i smile 🙂 3:28 PMMe: I know you don't. But that's the you I see when we are together: smiling etc 3:30 PMMe: Thank you. 🙂 3:30 PMMe: Flipping through photos on my Dropbox. So many nudity I took for you. SO MANY.. 3:46 PMMe: When/if you have a moment alone, ill shoot you one. 3:47 PMHim: Pls do 4:00 PMMe: Sent. And I have a complete shot … If you need 4:23 PMMe: Sent you something entirely NSFW 7:32 PMHim: Wamt 8:00 PMHim: Want 8:00 PMMe: Xoxo 8:01 PM
Me: Hi. Thanks again for sending that photo. 9:50 PMHim: My pleasure 10:14 PMMe: MY pleasure, handsome. 11:29 PM
He messages me through facebook. I can tell he is busy. I know he is getting ready to head out of town this weekend for a work trip. It's the first week we have not started by seeing each other.
Him: hi there 9:55 AM
Him: insane work day today
Me: Hi!
Him: but I wanted to say hi
Me: Thanks. Get back to it. We will talk later. : )
Him: everything cool?
Me: Of course. Awoke at 3 am and couldn't fall back asleep. Everything cool with you?
Him: totally
Me: Excellent. I know you're crazy busy and traveling etc but I'd like to see you this week if we can carve out some time.
Him: I hope I can
Him: I will do my best : )
Me: No pressure and no worries if you can't. I totally understand.
Him: xoxo
Me: Xoxo.
Monday Afternoon.
I have a late lunch with RA at a friend's restaurant.
We have a lot of ground to cover: RA's job search, my living situation, my relationship with the Writer . . . and with everyone else.
She asked me pointedly, what are you doing to protect yourselves from falling for each other.
It's an important question. I answer her truthfully: I am dating a lot of other people. Her response: "You are ALWAYS dating a lot of other people. This guy is clearly the most important one."
We are both, RA and I, mystified by the amount of access and time I have with the Writer, who is married and has children. And yet, I am going out with him on Friday and Saturday nights, very publicly, in high profile places, where we are publicly affectionate.
I don't know what his deal is with his wife. I am confident that we are following whatever rules they have established. Safe sex, obviously is a huge part. Also, not falling for each other . . . hugely important.
The Writer is a relationship guy, clearly. He is not a conquest guy. He likes to be in this deeply. I assume he has had many girlfriends. He's been married more than 10 years and presumably he has managed through this before.
Interestingly though, he said to me early on "I'm figuring it out" when I had asked him if we would see each other socially. I've looked back through our old messages and we quickly established (like later that afternoon in conversation) that we would be socially engaged and also hooking up regularly. He was clear with me that he wanted to "see me socially," which is a very different thing than just hooking up with someone or doing things secretly. I had asked the question early because I wanted to know.
There are no secrets here.
So, what are we doing to protect ourselves? Well, it's really only a matter of me protecting myself. Presumably, he is fine. He has done this before. There may be other women right now.
There are certainly other flirtations. I can see them on social media. He knows I am going out a lot. He has not asked if I am sleeping with anyone else. He has said to me in person, on the phone, and via text, "sweetie, I'm not jealous." But I still don't volunteer the status of what I am doing when I am out. If he asks, I will tell him, but he rarely asks.
There have been nights I have forced myself to go on dates just to not sit home thinking about him. There have been nights I have been really excited for the dates (the architect, the 2013 ed editor) and aftermath.
And, next month, my long-distance fling is here. That weekend will be very very public, as I am escorting the LDF to things and there will be pictures and we do — weirdly — genuinely love each other.
And, let's not forget that LP was texting me from New York this morning.
He will likely be upset about the 2013 ed Editor, because it's someone he knows and respects. The 2013 ed Editor has no idea I know the Writer.
[Interesting side note: I mentioned the Editor to FM, who was impressed that I am dating him. And also amused that the LDF is still in the picture as it was FM who introduced us.]
So, I am contemplating all of this, how to keep myself from falling for someone I can never have fully, worrying about who to invite to super-public events I have upcoming for which I need a date who is not someone else's husband, and lamenting the fact I will likely not see the Writer this week.
My phone rings. It's a little before 6 pm and I am sitting in a library. I quickly gather my things and call him back, whispering until I am in the foyer. He asks: "are you okay?" "Yes, just leaving a building." He tells me he has a story he has to tell me which is hilarious. He says, you will likely never meet these people, but you can't tell anyone.
And then he tells me something hilarious and sad and one of those things you'd not believe if it weren't actually happening to very good friends of his in a different city.
Related: everyone's marriages have weird shit in them.
And we are laughing and talking as he tells this crazy tale. Right as I reach my front door about ten minutes in, he pauses, gets distracted for a second, and, says, sorry, I have to jump.
No problem.
He texts me within a minute to apologize: "Sorry. In car." "Nothing bad"
Which is weird, because, um, I didn't think it was anything bad. I knew he was driving, and we often have to end abruptly.
It is never a big deal and I am always aware he has a wife and a marriage and he is presumably happy. She seems lovely and they've known each other forever.
We are in this weird thing together, all of us. I am respectful of his marriage. She is presumably aware that he has someone new in his life as we are in constant contact.
In looking back through some old messages, I remembered his saying that he couldn't believe I said yes when he asked me out.
Tuesday Morning.
Between last night and this morning, I reread pretty much everything we have said to each other. Thousands of messages, dozens of emails, and dates and calls and this connection is complicated.
We have been completely enthralled by each other since the beginning. Since before we met. And that connection keeps getting stronger, which means it is getting more complicated.
It has been more than a month since we have been speaking, less than that since we met, but we have spoken every single day, even if it's just, a hi, I am really really busy today.
I was thinking about him this morning, after I had texted him at the time he is normally heading to his office, and I hadn't gotten a response. It was a weird text story I had sent him from my morning's chaotic adventure. I should have sent it via FB, rather than to his phone, and he was ignoring me, so I apologized via FB.
And, of course he was not ignoring me. He was asleep. He had gotten up, taken his children to school, and then sat back down and fell asleep for 45 minutes, which then put him 45 minutes behind what he wanted to accomplish today.
He called me from the car, commenting immediately on my tale.
Then we started talking about music venues and sound quality and terrible rooms and great ones and teasing each other about music.
He thinks I have terrible taste in music.
Which is funny for a LOT of reasons.
As he drives, I hear the ambient noise, and I know when he has gotten to to work. We are both aware that I am between his office and his house, about 7 minutes off the highway he takes daily. We don't mention it, nor do we mention that this is the longest we have ever gone without seeing each other.
He's stressed out. I assume it's work-related. He is leaving for a work-trip this weekend, a conference, and he feels like he is constantly behind."
I don't demand to see him. I don't demand anything from him at all.
But, I get him. I get to have him in my life, and he gets to have me in his and it works for a lot of reasons. It works well.
My life is better because he has been in it.
Were it to end tomorrow, this has been a net-gain.
He is lovely and caring and thoughtful and he has inspired me to be better in my own life.
He is present in a way that is important.
And, I cannot worry about days and weeks to come. We have talked about things that happen in the future, and I have teased him that by November, I will be a distant memory.
By November, it will be different . . . it would have to be. This is not sustainable as it is. Feelings will deepen and/or lessen.
But for now, I have this remarkable man in my life, in my head, and about 2 times a week in my bed.
I am in this intense, passionate thing. He is in many parts of my life. He asks me intensely personal questions — did you get paid yet? do you have health insurance? how'd you get that scar? — and I don't. Often, he has told me about his health, his finances, his whatever — but though he mentions his wife and children openly, we don't spend a lot of time talking about them. My life affects him. His family does not really affect mine.
I am aware that it's kinda fucked up that the healthiest, most present relationship I have been in in years is with someone else's husband, while I am actively dating other people.
But, that's where we are.
This is good.
And it's getting better.
Someday it will end and we will be the best of friends. And we will occasionally look back and think, wow.


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I can see it in your eyes that you're so sure,
Please don't tell me I'm the only one that's vulnerable
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Electronics Engineers Design, develop and test electronic systems, devices, and equipment. Examples of these systems include computer components, GPS systems, communication systems, antennas, satellite transponders, electronics guidance system for aircraft, electronic control for missiles, signal processing based biomedical instruments, entertainment electronics and home applications, VLSI and ULSI chips and many more. Several specializations within Electronics Engineering that include Automatic Controls, Digital Systems (Computer Systems), Electromagnetics, Electronics, Semiconductor Devices, Communication and Signal Processing.
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Biju Patnaik Central Library uses Dewey Decimal Classification system and simple author code to classify books.
A class number is a simple number used to identify & locate books in the library.
Example: 621.381 for Electronics.
An author code are simple letters used to identify titles written by a different author, like first three letter of the title of author / first letter of the title of the book.
Example: a book titled Electronics And Radio Engineering written by M. L. Gupta and author code is: GUP/E.
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Below are select list of topics and their respective call nos. of books related to Electronics and Communication Engineering
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621.38 : Electronic Communication/Signal Processing
621.381 : Electronics
621.3815 : Components and Circuits
621.38152 : Semiconductor
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Active and Passive Electronic Components
International Journal of Electronics
Journal of Electronics (China)
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Journal of Low Power Electronics
Library subscribes following print journals on this subject. These are displayed in the New Arrivals display area (at Ground Floor).No. Title Publisher
- Bharatiya Vaigyanik Evam Audyogik Anusandhan Patrika NISCAIR, New Delhi
- BioTecNika Magazine BioTecnika Info Labs
- Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences NISCAIR, New Delhi
- International Journal of Electronic and Comm. Engg. Int. Res. Pub. House
- Journal of Instrument Society of India Instrument Society of India
- Journal of The Institution of Engineers: Series B The Institution of Engineers
Elsevier's Science Direct
Science Direct provides desktop access to the full text of hundreds of journals published or distributed by Elsevier Science. NITR has access to 40 e-only subscribed journals with five current subject collections. To get specific Electronics and Communication engineering e-journals, please Click here
Emerald Group Publishing
Emerald Group Publishing has become the world's leading scholarly publisher of journals and books in business and management with a strong and growing presence in disciplines including LIS, social sciences, engineering, linguistics, and audiology. To get specific Electronics and Communication engineering e-journals, please Click here
IEEE Explore
The IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. IEEE Xplore provides Web access to more than 3-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. To get specific Electronics and Communication engineering e-journals please Click here
JSTOR is a shared digital archive for the scholarship. The majority of content in the archive is journal literature, though the inclusion of other materials such as conference proceedings, transactions, pamphlets, monographs, manuscripts, and other material is growing. JSTOR is not a publisher and does not hold the copyright of any content available. However, obtain licenses to preserve and make published content available digitally from the publisher. Currently, there are 2500+ titles, including previous titles, as well as other content available. New titles and other materials are being added regularly. To get specific Electronics and Communication engineering e-journals please Click here
With weekly periodicity, Nature is an international journal publishing original, groundbreaking research spanning all of the scientific disciplines like; Articles, Letters to Nature and Brief Communications. Click here.
Science Online
Science is the world leading journal on original scientific research, global news, and commentary. The Science journals articles consistently rank among the world's most cited research. NITR has access online to the following content. Click here
Springer Link
Springer Link is one of the world's leading interactive databases for high-quality STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection. Springer Link is a powerful central access point for researchers and scientists. NITR has access to e-journals, eBooks, eBook Series. To get specific Electronics and Communication engineering e-journals please Click here
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Engineering Village
EI is a Web-based information service that offers a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in the applied science and engineering fields.
It covers research in mathematics and mathematically related research in statistics, computer science, physics, operations research, engineering, biology, and other disciplines, and indexes 1800 serials and journals.
SciFinder Scholar is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science and more. SciFinder Registration Procedure.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process. You can spend less time mastering databases and more time on research. It has 33 million abstracts as of now.
The Web of Science (formerly Web of Knowledge) is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
NPTEL video courses accessible to NIT Rourkela with in campus.
Electronics & Communication EngineeringVideo lecturers developed by A N Khosla Centre for Technology Enabled Learning (ANKCTEL), NIT Rourkela.
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A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention. In other words, a patent is an exclusive right to a product or a process that generally provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application.
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Engineering Village, the essential engineering research database, provides a searchable index of the most comprehensive engineering literature and patent information available.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information scientists need.
Web of Science is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service maintained by Thomson Reuters that provides a comprehensive citation search. Patent information can be searched using this product. Follow the procedure to search patent; Select All Databases -> Search your related term -> Select Document Type "Patent" from Refine Result -> Click on Analyze Results -> Select Analyze -> View Records.
Standards are officially approved benchmarks aimed to ensure that goods and services meet the minimum set limit. They cover ranges like: Design, Performance, Quality, and Safety.
The Library has access to BIS (Indian Standards) and also subscriptions to the American Society for Testing and Materials.
American Society for Testing and Materials.
ASTM International is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of voluntary consensus standards. Today, over 12,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance health and safety, strengthen market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.
Bureau of Indian Standards (Indian Standards).
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the National Standards body of India which has been successfully promoting and nurturing standards in the country since 1947. With over 500 qualified technical and scientific personnel and more than 25,000 experts voluntarily associated with standardization activities, BIS has formulated around 19,000 standards in various technological and industrial areas
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere. MIT OpenCourseWare is a large-scale, web-based publication of MIT course materials.
Tektronix Courseware Eco-System
To bring in the community of educators in electronics engineering laboratory courses, Tektronix launched an online platform to share lab courseware for free.
National Instruments Courseware
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Kristen Stewart may play a bad-ass action hero in Snow White and the Huntsman, but exactly how bad-ass is she in real life? Well -- she's starting to do some of her own stunts now. And it's kind of freaking her out!
KStew revealed which stunt scared her the most in Snow White, and it had nothing to do with hanging upside-down by her ankles with Chris Hemsworth. In fact, the stunt sounds kind of fun, actually. It's exactly what I would have liked to be doing during that heat wave we just suffered through. I hope she learned to enjoy this one a little more.
YES, jumping off a cliff into the ocean below looks terrifying. But also mad fun! Well, I mean, it looks fun if it's summer time and you're in a warm climate and wearing a swimsuit. It doesn't look super warm where Kristen is in that clip. But I can relate to that stomach-lurching feeling just before you have to jump. Hell, I do the same thing before jumping into a swimming pool. From the side. Into the shallow end. I can't even remember the last time I found myself on an actual diving board.
But plunk me on the edge of a waterfall in Bali and I'm positive I'd go running fearlessly off the edge. Okay, I'm like 50% positive.
Anyway, it's so cool to see Kristen did this one herself, because just a few short years ago it was a stunt double who did the jumping-off-a-cliff scene for her in New Moon -- and that was into a green-screen mattress. Ooh, I'm feeling dizzy now.
Could you jump off a cliff into water like Kristen does in Snow White?
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Palumbo-Donahue School Dean Appointed to New Term
Dr. Alan R. Miciak has been appointed to an additional three-year term as dean of the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University.
"I am grateful to the president and the provost for their continued support during my first term as dean," said Miciak, who was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Finance" in 2008 by Treasury & Risk Magazine. "I am also thankful to the faculty, staff and alumni for all of their contributions to advancing the school and in assisting me."
Miciak first joined the University in August 2005, when he was named dean of the Palumbo-Donahue School. He had previously served as dean of the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
"With Dr. Miciak's leadership, the Palumbo-Donahue has strengthened its commitment to scholarship, its emphasis on ethics and its links to the business community. He has also made our business school a world leader in sustainability," said Dr. Charles J. Dougherty, Duquesne University president.
Under Miciak's direction, the Palumbo-Donahue School has strengthened its relationship with numerous organizations in the region.
"Pittsburgh is a wonderful city and a great place to be dean of a business school," said Miciak. "There are many great organizations and companies here, and we rely on our relationships with them to bridge the connection between the academic and business world."
Additionally, the school has increased its scholarship, earned numerous accolades and distinctions, and further elevated the undergraduate and graduate school's reputations for excellence
In January, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) reaffirmed the accreditation of the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business through 2012-2013. Less than 5 percent of business schools worldwide have earned this distinguished hallmark of excellence in management education. The AACSB International is the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in business and accounting.
Other notable successes the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business has achieved under Miciak include:
- The Donahue Graduate School of Business was listed for the third consecutive year in the 2009 edition of The Princeton Review's Best 296 Business Schools.
- Dollars donated to the business school have increased by 137 percent since 2005, and the number of business school donors has increased by 81 percent.
- The MBA program was ranked first in the world among schools of its size and eighth overall by The Aspen Institute for its emphasis on social and environmental issues.
- Duquesne ranked highest in ethical business education—along with Georgetown and Notre Dame—in a recent survey of graduate business schools conducted by the Academy of Management Learning and Education, an interdisciplinary management journal.
- The Donahue Graduate School of Business received the prestigious Page Prize for the best United States submission of an environmental sustainability curriculum. The Page Prize, a project of the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, is designed to encourage efforts to expose business students to state-of-the-art environmental sustainability knowledge.
- The Palumbo-Donahue School is among the first 100 endorsers of the Principles for Responsible Management Education, a United Nations-backed initiative promoting environmental stewardship, human rights and fair trade practices in business education.
Works by Miciak have been published in the Journal of General Management, the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing and the International Journal of Advertising. He has a Ph.D. in marketing and international business and a B.S.B.A. from Kent State University, and an MBA from the University of Toledo.
Duquesne University
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Thames Valley Police are searching for clues after three burglaries were reported in North Bucks this weekend: two in Buckingham, and one in Nash.
Police have not confirmed the incidents are linked. Investigating officers are keen to hear from anyone that might have seen or heard anything suspicious in the area.
One of the break-ins, on Lenborough Road, Buckingham, took place between Thursday January 18 and Friday January 19.
The resident left home at 7pm on Thursday, returning home at 8:45am on Friday to discover jewellery had been stolen, after offenders entered the house through a toilet window.
They left by climbing out of a kitchen window, after searching the bedrooms.
If you have any information please call DC Wilson on the 24 hour non-emergency number 101, quoting reference number 43180019107.
A second burglary has been reported in Pillow Way, Buckingham, between Friday Januar y 19 and Sunday 21.
The occupant left the premise at 4pm on Friday and when they returned, at around 7:50pm on Sunday evening, they discovered that the patio door had been smashed and a messy search made inside - Jewellery had been taken.
If you have any information regarding this incident please contact DC Howe on the 24 hour non-emergency number 101, quoting reference number 43180021582.
A third burglary has also been reported, in Nash, between Thursday January 18 and Sunday January 21.
This time, offender(s) smashed the rear patio door of a property on High Street before forcing open an internal door. They searched the main bedroom and stole property including jewellery.
The occupant had left the curtains open when the premises was left and when they returned all the front curtains had been closed.
A local resident heard glass breaking at around 2am on the Friday, which may be connected to this crime.
If you have CCTV and live in the area please check the footage to see if anything suspicious has been recorded.
If you have any information please contact DC Bailey on the 24 hour non-emergency number 101, quoting reference number 43180021564.
If you don't want to speak to the police or give your details you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111, or report it online.
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Halliburton Pleads Guilty to Destroying Oil Spill Evidence…but Corporations Don't Go to Jail
Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which will result in the company paying a nominal fine but no officials going to jail.
The U.S. Department of Justice charged Halliburton with one count of destruction of evidence. As a result of pleading guilty, the corporation will pay $200,000, the maximum allowable under the law, and be subject to three years of probation.
Halliburton also agreed to continue its cooperation in the government's criminal investigation of the accident that killed 11 rig workers on April 20, 2010, and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Following the blowout of the undersea well, Halliburton tried to shift the blame to BP, the British oil company, saying that Halliburton recommended the well include 21 metal centralizers to stabilize the cementing. BP chose to use six instead.
Then, during an internal probe, Halliburton twice told its workers to destroy computer simulations that showed little difference between using six and 21 centralizers, according to the Justice Department. Nevertheless, Halliburton continued to say that BP should have followed its advice.
Businesses and others impacted by the oil spill had long accused Halliburton of conducting undocumented cement tests and hiding the results.
Thomas Roth, a senior company executive who was in charge of cementing operations when the spill occurred, testified during a civil suit that because of the well design and other factors, "the cement placement was going to be a job that would have a low probability of success."
-Noel Brinkerhoff
To Learn More:
Halliburton Agrees to Plead Guilty to Destruction of Evidence in Connection with Deepwater Horizon Tragedy (U.S. Department of Justice)
Halliburton Pleads Guilty to Destroying Evidence After Gulf Spill (by Clifford Krauss, New York Times)
BP Accuses Halliburton of Destroying Gulf Oil Spill Evidence (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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Alex Kyza was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New Jersey. His passion for music started at an early age, since his father was a musician.
As his interest in music grew, his father decided to teach him to play instruments and also to write and read music. Then, Alex started playing in his father's band.
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Defence Research & Development Organisation – Ministry of Defence Recruitment – 80 Graduate Apprentice & Technical Apprentice Vacancy – Last Date 21 Days from the Date of Publication
Ministry of Defence Recruitment 2017
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence invites applications for the post of 80 Graduate Apprentice & Technical Apprentice. Apply before 21 Days from the Date of Publication. Qualification/ eligibility conditions, how to apply & other rules are given below…
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Find your state legislators and their contact information here.
Schedule a meeting in Harrisburg or at the local office with your legislator to discuss MarchOnHarrisburg legislation. (Invite your friends/neighbors/other constituents to join us at the meeting!)
Review Do's and Don'ts of Lobbying and FAQ around lobbying here.
Want to lobby with us? Even better! Simply check out the calendar for the next lobbying event.
citizen billboards
Citizen billboarding is a very effective way to raise attention in your district and to generate pressure on your Legislators. The idea is simple: We hold light and inexpensive billboards at major intersections that direct constituents to a website where they are instructed to call their Legislators. Watch our how-to video here.
Want to learn more? Check out detailed instruction on how to build your own Citizen Billboard here.
The citizen billboarding tutorial was put together by Frank Kirkwood. If you have any questions on building your own Billboard, or joining in on an Pittsburgh event, contact Frank, Western PA organizer here: firstname.lastname@example.com
citizen media
Public opinion, especially the opinion of constituents, matters to elected officials. To show representatives in Harrisburg that we are watching what they are doing and that we want an end to gerrymandering and legalized bribery, we are targeting representatives that have not been supportive of this legislation through a letter-to-the-editor writing campaign.
1. Modify one these letter templates, filling in your personal reason for supporting these bills.
2. E-mail this letter to your letters to the editor or opinion section local newspaper, with a short note:
"Hi, my name is ___. I'm a volunteer with MarchOnHarrisburg and I have lived in _________ neighborhood for _ years. Below is a letter to the editor around redistricting reform."
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Francmarie - A genderless clothing label inspired by street sense, is returning, Friday 29th June with it's third fashion show - WE, THE BRAVE.
A campaign which encourages authenticity, edge and thrives on individuals brave enough to step up to the plate and contribute to the conversation of fashion. Whether formal or casual, your uniform speaks volumes.


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The gorgeous Goddess Brianna always deserves to have anything she wants. Goddess Brianna sips wine as one of her foot slaves worships her perfect feet, when she reveals that she caught him pleasuring himself to a video of her. It was not just any video, however. The slut was watching Goddess Brianna make one slave suck another slave's cock. With access to this slave's secret, perverted, cum-craving desires, she has a new plan in store for her little whore. He can start to earn a cock down his throat by taking Goddess Brianna's strap-on between his lips. Then, once her slave has had enough practice, she'll bring in her stud's big cock. Goddess Brianna expects her slave to eagerly suck her stud's cock until his mouth is full of his thick, white, hot load. Tied down and given no choice, he will become Goddess Brianna's cock sucking bitch!
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scrub brush
a brush with stiff, short bristles for scrubbing.
Origin of scrub brush
First recorded in 1675–85
Also called scrubbing brush.
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for scrub brush
Historical Examples of scrub brush
Jaffa, as a whole, could stand the scrub-brush and the hose.The Ship Dwellers
Albert Bigelow Paine
But when Gail found her with soap and scrub-brush polishing off each precious ball, she was forced to curb her zealous gardening.At the Little Brown House
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That he did, and with such feeling, that I almost fancy I see now the scrub-brush belabouring his head for his pains.The History of Margaret Catchpole
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Epidural vs. Natural Childbirth
You've waited nine months to bring your baby into the world. The type of childbirth experience that you have depends on your own preferences, your tolerance for pain and your doctor's advice. Before you create your birth plan, understanding the pros and cons of an epidural or natural childbirth can help you to make an informed decision to make labor and delivery manageable and memorable.
RELATED: 10 Labor Surprises to Prepare For
Body Basics
An epidural is a form of anesthesia administered through a catheter placed into your back between your vertebrae. This typically lessens feeling from the waist down, easing the pain of labor. Even though you can still feel and move your legs, you may not have the ability to stand or walk after an epidural, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The catheter will stay in place, taped to your back, through the delivery. On the other hand, natural childbirth requires no IVs, catheters or other procedures. Going natural also means that you can stand, walk and feel the full range of sensations that your body is going through during the entire labor and delivery.
First Stage of Labor
During the first stage of labor you'll go from the onset of contractions in the early phase through 10 centimeters dilation in the transition phase. The American Pregnancy Association notes that epidurals are typically not given until the second phase of the first stage of labor, when the cervix is dilated between 4 and 5 centimeters. This means that you will experience the pain from contractions during the early phase whether you choose to get an epidural or not. This may last from 8 to 12 hours, according to the American Pregnancy Association. During the remaining two phases of labor -- the active second phase and transition phase -- you can choose to lessen the pain with an epidural or go without pharmacological help.
During Delivery
Even though there's no gold medal for enduring the most pain during labor and delivery, choosing to forgo an epidural has its advantages. While you may not want to feel the contractions, these painful parts of the process can serve as a guide to facilitate and speed up the baby's entry into the birth canal, notes childbirth educator Judith A. Lothian, a registered nurse, in her article "Why Natural Childbirth?". If you choose an epidural, you may have difficulty feeling contractions and controlling the pushing part of delivery, according to the American Pregnancy Association. This may result in your doctor needing to put pressure on your uterus or use forceps to help the baby out.
Choice and Risks
The American Pregnancy Association notes that the side effects from an epidural may include a sudden drop in blood pressure, a severe headache, a slowdown in the speed of your labor, difficulty pushing and nerve damage in a few rare cases. Following delivery you may also have some back soreness where the epidural was placed, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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A student announced in her research presentation yesterday that "fried sushi" was one of the popular types of sushi outside of Japan. Everyone agreed that it wasn't popular here in Japan. Maybe not, but it does exist (of a sort):
"Deep-fried sushi exists in Japan, and here's where to try it" (from Japan Today)
And speaking of unusual fried things, in a suburb of Osaka, fried maple leaves are a traditional snack going back to the 14th century:
Deep frying makes almost anything taste better. Even candy bars (?) — see the famous Scottish fried Mars bar in the video below (after Scotch pie and before haggis, at about the 2-minute mark):


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VICTORIA, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada has no immediate plans to sell its shares in General Motors Co (GM.N), Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday, and the province of Ontario said it would offload its GM stake only when it can get the "best possible return" for taxpayers.
Both were responding to a report in the Globe and Mail newspaper on Friday that said Ontario's finance minister believed it was time for both the Canadian and Ontario governments to shed their GM shares.
"I don't think at this time it would be in our interest, the taxpayers of Canada, to engage in a fire sale of those shares, and I don't intend to do it right now," Flaherty told reporters in Victoria, British Columbia.
The two governments became shareholders of GM in 2009 when they contributed a combined C$10.8 billion ($10.89 billion) to a bailout to keep GM afloat. The U.S. government provided about US$50 billion.
Canada and Ontario's combined 9 percent stake, made up of around 140 million common shares and 16.1 million preferred shares, was worth C$3.5 billion at the end of September.
"I was in the private sector for many years. I wasn't in the habit of selling stocks at half their price," Flaherty said.
Separately, Aly Vitunski, a spokeswoman for Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, said Ontario will sell its GM shares "when the time and circumstances are appropriate and in a judicious manner to ensure that Ontarians receive the best possible return on their investment".
The Globe had quoted Duncan as saying that "the sooner we're out of the stock the better".
Selling the stock would give an immediate boost to the coffers of both governments, which are both trying to reduce their budget deficits, the newspaper said. That is because the book value of the shares on the government's books is much lower than the current share price.
Flaherty said he has had "continuing discussions" on the subject of the GM stake with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Reporting By Jennifer Kwan in Victoria, Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and Claire Sibonney in Toronto; Editing by Peter Galloway


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Random Acts of Flowers is led by a national board of directors whose focus is on overall strategic development of the organization. Each branch has a local board of directors that focuses on that area and the sustainability of the branch.
Current Board Members
Mrs. Nancy Elder, Board Chair
Community Leader
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Dr. John Bamforth
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Mrs. Sarah Clark
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Dr. Nicole Sheetz
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Jumeirah Village Circle is a new residential development that blends all the modern facilities of a city in a tranquil village setting.
Developed by Nakheel, it is comprised of more than 2,000 townhouses and family-friendly villas. The facilities in the area include a community centre, sports pitches, scenic trails, promenades, supermarkets, schools, clinics, and mosques. The community also has open green areas and water features.
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Along with the new year came a tremendous amount of reorganizing in my house. I believe that in order to begin the year with success everything should be in order, including your home. How can I succeed if I can't be at ease where I lay my head at night? It's possible but why not give yourself a better shot at success with organization. So with these thoughts I decided to switch up my living room, dining area, my second bedroom, and my closet.
My normal morning routine includes me hopping out of bed because I just realized what time it is, rushing to the bathroom to get my self in order, and then rushing to my closet to figure out what to wear for the day. With all of this morning rushing, I've realized I'm causing my self a disadvantage of not starting the day on the right foot. So I decided that no more of that behavior will continue for me. My mom taught me a long time ago in grade school how to iron and pick out my clothes during the weekend, for the week ahead. As you can see I haven't been listening to what she instilled in me from a young age, but she had a point and I should of listened. Don't worry mom, I'm on the right track now, haha.
My Fiancé and I share a closet together, well I guess you can call it sharing seeing as though I take up most of the space, but hey I did give him ALMOST half of the closet space —"wink", "wink"! Anyhow, color coordinating and grouping your clothing accordingly will allow you to easily pick outfits and know where everything is. So I followed this routine with both of our articles of clothing. Reorganizing also allowed me to really take a closer look at my clothes and realize that I didn't wear many of the stuff, so I was able to donate a lot. One of the biggest jobs I encountered with this closet project was throwing away all of my shoe boxes. It was a task but I love the outcome. (DJS & STYLE tip of the day: Don't hold on to shoe boxes. Remember that shoe boxes are only meant to protect shoes when in transport to their designated destination, but after that it's time to throw them away. Plus, it makes life easy when you can actually see those beautiful shoes!) You might be wondering where are my fiancé's shoes, but don't worry he has some he just places his in our second bedroom closet!
In our bedroom we have a smaller closet that I now store my jeans, shorts, small handbags/clutches, cold weather accessories, and sweaters. For a chic touch I added some heels to the shelves! (DJS & STYLE second tip of the day: If you have a lot of small clutches and you want to keep them more organized, storing them in a magazine holder works great!)
My closet is not exactly where I want it to be but it's getting there. Next, I want to buy better hangers, but in due time that will happen. Also stay tuned because I may be creating a clothing rack, this way I can hang my clothes for the week out on display!
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TV's favorite inmate is on the other side of the law now.
"Prison Break's" Wentworth Miller will guest star on the season premiere of "Law & Order: SVU," reports TV Guide magazine.
Miller will play Nate Kendal, an NYPD officer who saves a rape victim and interacts with Det. Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson, both of whom will be back since Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay just signed contracts to return for at least one more season.
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These are some of the smaller quilts that I have made for the sweet kiddos in my life.
Addy's Quilt
Cecily's Quilt
Carson"s Quilt
My name is Susie. I am a farmwife that likes to grow wheat in her fields and flowers and vegetables in her gardens. Fabric, quilts and photography are also on my list of favorite things. That list begins with my faith in God and my hardworking loving husband. I have a wonderful daughter and a son and his bride and now a grandson!
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Really the august and revered classical actor, who's been Lawrence of Arabia, Henry II, Lord Jim, the Lion in Winter, and on and on: Yes, that's him, behind a Plexiglas bubble helmet, encapsulated in a thick white rubber suit, a throat mike strapped, fighter-pilotlike, to the great bobbing Adam's apple. Look ye mighty and despair, this Irish Ozymandias might well be thinking from the ruins of a once-great career now collapsed to Grade Z Yank schlock. This is the one that should be called "Fallen."
To be fair, O'Toole is professional to the nines, or even the tens, bringing that acerbic intelligence and eerie regret to the role of one Dr. Timothy Flyte, ex-Oxford paleobiologist and current crackpot columnist for the National Event, where he covers the end of the world, which, according to him, is next weekend. This particular time he may be right, which is why the FBI recruits him to join a team investigating a Western town where everybody has either been swallowed whole or turned to mottled corpses.
I suppose that means O'Toole is wearing an Earthsuit, not a spacesuit. But if I'd said Earthsuit, would you have known what I meant? In any event, the legendary thespian is at one point required to stand terrified amid a squad of similarly attired men while giant tentacles lash out all about him, penetrating their bubbles and eating their faces. His own mug does register true horror, but I suspect the beast that has him so frightened doesn't have suckers so much as pages: It's the script.
Based on a novel by Dean Koontz and adapted by Koontz himself (and directed by Joe Chappelle, as in "Who the hell is Joe Chappelle?"), the story postulates that some giant carnivorous worm has lurked underground for thousands of years, rising occasionally to feed. These occasions are the great mysterious disappearances of history the Mayans, a Chinese battalion at Nanking, the original colony on Roanoke Island. As worms will, by ingesting human prey over the generations, this worm has somehow absorbed human intelligence and vanity and now believes it's a god. Great next it'll want an agent!
It falls to the 65-year-old O'Toole and several handsome young people whom the worm has spared on the sound theory that all horror movies need chicks to destroy the creature. Hmmm, what should that be in the Army trailer but just the right bacteria for the job!
The effects are murky and the giant worm looks more like a smear on the lens than anything else. Most of the intensity is generated by sudden sound effects like ringing phones, alarm clocks or oven timers. But I have a bumper sticker that reads "No fear of oven timers," so this didn't work for me.
As for the other actors in the cast, Ben Affleck is standard as the sheriff of the town and Joanna Going is stalwart as its beautiful young doctor. Liev Schreiber, a weirdly tuned actor, has a nice turn as a screwball deputy in the only performance worth noting. "Phantoms" itself is hardly worth noting. Let's hope that Peter O'Toole isn't turning into Vincent Price. That would be a horror movie!
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A Solemn Day
I got a Coach bag from my friend Egypt. My Judge took me out to lunch. My friends called to tell me I was old.
And then I watched the Greatest Artist of All Time, Michael Jackson, be put to rest.
Sigh. Everyone always dies or has a funeral on freakin' July 7th.
But, that's okay. Life and death...It's just human nature.
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Looks pleasing, at least... with the dark long locks and that unbelievably tiny waist... except that it doesn't look Asian (which I still prefer that) haha... :)
Indeed, it isn't the first time I come across SecondLife. 2 years ago, there's this interest to explore the potential of SecondLife in Teaching and Learning. Think the Consultancy section introduced this to the Principals and at PD section, Soh Tin also took the lead to bring in Kenneth from NIE to introduce it to us. In fact, I have a blog post for this too! Sharing on 2nd Life & Pedagogical Benefits (10 Sep 2008)
It's a new move to explore learning... Guess there are lots of potential in it... except that we've yet found the right key to open the door that shows us how it could do in an effective, yet practical manner (which includes the amount of time and effort), making it worth every single cent and amount of effort put in.


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Magellan telescope staff, with engineers from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and Harvard University, commissioned the f/5 Cassegrain focal plane on the Magellan Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in April 2009. The above photo of a globular cluster (NGC 2808; colorized by Nelson Caldwell) was taken with the Minicam test imager in preparation for Megacam deployment later in 2009.
The f/5 focus enables two important new instruments at Magellan: The SAO Megacam, a 324-megapixel imager, and the SAO MMT and Magellan Infrared Spectrograph (MMIRS), a near-infrared multi-object spectrograph essential for studies of the high-redshift universe and nearby brown dwarfs.
The 66-inch diameter secondary mirror (photo above), one of the world's largest, was built by the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab and integrated with the telescope by Carnegie engineers. SAO provided the 4-element optical corrector lens system that enables wide field performance.


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The dark morning skies had yet to give way to the light and for the first time in months, I wanted to sit down to write. I hadn't yet shaken the sense that it was something far too dangerous to do, hiding the truth that I was told wasn't mine to wander with. I learned that I wasn't the ticking time-bomb they feared, scared that I might declare my truth for me and be honest about what was happening, releasing myself from that prison in the process.
It's the thing about harassment and assault that no one tells you and few dare to talk about- the way it poisons the river water but causes a thirst that only water will satisfy, without any for miles; No one told me they believed me but they had to because evidence doesn't lie. It was undeniable and yet they still tried to lay blame in its wake, insisting the power wasn't tipped the way it should be to make those claims. There was no recognition given or saving grace to heal the heart that stood completely naked, with everything to lose, speaking the words that something was taken and couldn't be given back. The audience though, usually cares more for the reputation of their favorite person than truth.
I didn't know I could ask for time or space to heal the rift that quaked through my hours and days without warning. What I didn't know then, I walked away from now because begging for dignity isn't what I'm about do and no, I won't applaud when you treat me with the most basic decencies and try to distract me by pointing only to those parts. I'll applaud when asked, "Are you okay?" after I confess what was done, more than, "That's all? Are you sure?" like it happens everyday.
October through to May, I spent wandering through wasted hours, attempts to sleep so that I might burn out of my brain, the way it felt to have people look like they knew the truth. I tried to run because of how it felt to know that my truth counted for nothing, but rumours held more weight than who I was to be. There was no winning and nothing to be won by advocating for myself and what happened no matter how I tried or twisted or cried or worked to still be who I was before and after. There were people who used to greet me with smiles and asking how I was, but it shortly turned into scowls and looking at the ground because I demanded they ask the questions that made their days harder. Rather than look at the man who acted without thinking, all eyes turned to me and why I couldn't get over the residual bullying, rumours and being treated like I didn't know what I felt for myself; Rather than look at the man who acted and see me for truth, they would rather stare at the ground because it was far more interesting than what I needed them to be.
It took self-love and walking away to realize that it's safe for me to laugh, not becoming the victim they needed me to be just to have the simplest of decencies like being believed. Only the most broken are trusted and dare you let out a laugh or try to be normal again, even something as simple as wearing heels, you're met with stares and whispers that sometimes make their way back to you, that in the end break you anyway. They challenged my truth and knew nothing of what happened but rumours and words defending the one they thought they knew because familiarity births disbelief in the face of these things. It took looking hard at what I had left and carefully cleaning up the pieces to realize how many I still had despite those long months.
I remember sitting in a chair and being asked about every little detail, like the obvious ones weren't big enough to do anything about when in the end they were sufficient. I remember the look on your face as you tried to catch me in what you thought was a lie because I stumbled trying to explain after re-living the pain. You looked happy in some twisted way because you'd rather believe that I was lying than that you had to do this to someone you knew. For what it's worth, I wish that too, but the truth doesn't lie even under the stumbles, stammers and gasps for breath between tears. No one wants to believe it but it's not our job to defend what we want, when the truth settles so loudly in a silent room.
It was freeing to walk away and wake up among the quiet hours thereafter realizing I didn't have to struggle or strain, doing something as simple and what stories they would try to construct to defend their belief that I was the bad one. I woke up one morning and realized, recognized and remembered this feeling of freedom and dug roots into the fresh soil of the day because the Winter finally ended and I was able to sprout flowers and leaves again. The sun shone on my face and rather than thinking hard about what I had to do to become more or different than what everyone thought of me, it was just me, the sun and maybe the breeze. Many people avoid silence and quiet because they aren't particularly excited about what it tells them but it was a reprieve to be free of the rumours, gossip and declaring who others thought me to be, that I woke up to face every day when there used to be so much more to me.
They looked wondering why I couldn't shake it off or walk away and before long I became the trouble maker needing to be hidden from sight. They had to believe because it was blatant but I was waiting in the silence of those halls for the words that would never come, "I believe you," because it was true and written all over me; I was vandalized with permanent marker I couldn't wash off even after all that time. It took so much to believe that I had to erase the ink more than me needing to be washed away.
I woke up today and realized that for the first time in a while I wanted to write because I was finally ready to leave behind the way it felt and the way it was, that stared me in the face from the other side of the pen. It's what people don't understand when you create to heal, is that when something destroys a part or a piece, it can't just be put back together with glue. It needs to be faced and given a voice or it too destroys where it could mend and bring us back to life.
For the first time in months, I wanted to write because writing is freedom and that's how I feel more often than unable to breathe from the weight of the way things came to be; Not articles, nor things I'm paid to produce but writing free from inside me. I tried to sit down to say anything but all that came out was the thing they tried to make me believe I was bound to speak nothing of, until I decided it wasn't my secret to keep and more than what was taken in the first place, it was taking my truth and the voice to express it that took more than he ever could. It's not my secret to keep because it's not something bad that I did needing to be hidden or tucked away and I realized that I wasn't vandalized but was looking at myself in the reflection of that space; The marks were on them, not me.
For the first time in months, I'm writing and writing is freedom and that's how I feel. The truth never scared me because it was never a lie and I sleep more soundly than I thought I could having walked away. For the first time in months, I'm breathing deeply and realizing that it's not my battle to make the truth more true than others want it to be because I remembered I had enough power to walk away.
For the first time in a year, I am free.
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Hey everyone! This is the first post in one of our new segments – Boy's Love Break. Since Killing Stalking is categorized as Yaoi; I decided to make this our first segment. I'd like to state that first and foremost – just because the above says "Boy's Love" does NOT mean I support the relationship in Killing Stalking or any relationship with Intimate Partner Violence. If you or someone you know is in an abusive relationship, please seek help. Without further adieu – my feelings on Killing Stalking.
Killing Stalking follows the tale of unimpressive, scrawny Yoon Bum and his object of affection – Sangwoo, who happens to be the school's most popular boy. Yoon Bum quickly discovers that beneath Sangwoo's charm is a horror that he cannot escape – Sangwoo is a serial killer.
Truthfully, it comes as a shock to me that there are those who are romanticizing Killing Stalking. These are the same types of people who say it isn't okay to romanticize Harley & Joker or that you're a pedophile if you "age up" an underage character for the sake of art or writing. So why is Killing Stalking different? Because it focuses on a homosexual relationship, perhaps?
We must first address that yaoi, especially in Japan, is less a depiction of actual homosexual relationships and revolves more around fetishization that targets a female audience. This is something I can admit as both a yaoi fan and a member of the queer community. And yet, fetishizing a homosexual relationship doesn't appear to be the objective of this Korean Manwha at all. In fact, the comic presents itself in the form of a beautifully drawn comic, in color, that is quite graphic and horrifying. In a nutshell – this comic presents depictions of rape, molestation, intimate partner violence, and murder; it is not a read for the faint of heart.
As someone who has grown up on horror and thriller movies, Killing Stalking is very reminiscent of horror movies. There are times that the graphic depictions and unhealthy relationship in the comic were almost too much for me and I'm not one that frightens easily. Moreso, it was just unsettling reading this comic and knowing that there are those who romanticize the relationship between the two main characters. Clearly, as the comic progresses, these characters are falling into a strange and unhealthy infatuation with one another in the form of Oedipal themes as well as Stockholm Syndrome on the part of Yoon Bum. Sangwoo sees Bum in a similar was as the mother that it is implied he murdered. Not only this, he becomes dependent on Bum's effort to smile for him, show him affection, etc. Often, in his confused state, it flashes to images of his mother. Was Sungwoo perhaps in some way infatuated with the mother that tried to protect him from his father's abuse? We cannot be sure at this time.
What is most peculiar is the state of mind of Yoon Bum, Sangwoo's stalker. Certainly his "love at first sight" upon being saved in the military by Sangwoo is one thing but he goes above and beyond. Of course, at the beginning of the series we see the words "Borderline Personality Disorder" in reference to Bum, and yet he exhibits very little of the signs of BPD throughout the story. Self-harm in patients with BPD often presents itself in the form of frequent sessions of cutting or damaging one's skin or even banging one's head. Whil Bum has appeared to have cut himself once, his tendencies to self harm are rarely present and never present themselves at times of stress. Despite the fact that abuse is often a factor in the development of borderline personality disorder- Bum exhibits very few of the other signs of BPD aside from self-loathing, depression, and isolation – which are also signs of unipolar depression. In fact, Bum presents little to no emotional volatility, zero outbursts of anger, and his mood is fairly stable in the sense of it not shifting (Comer, 2014, pp. 489-491).
As someone passionate about psychology, I found this depiction of BPD to be not only flat but almost insulting to those with BPD. Is Yoon Bum's stalkerish tendencies a symptom of his BPD? This is unlikely. In fact, it is more easy to believe that he has dependency issues of his own and needs an escape from his abusive uncle. In fact, it is for this reason and his previous image of grandeur revolving around Sangwoo that he appears to develop Stockholm Syndrome, which only makes this series more unsettling in its own right.
Killing Stalking is twisted, graphic, and overall intriguing. It is certainly a series I will follow until completion.
Comer, R. J. (2014). Abnormal Psychology (8th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.


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Michael Clark Proves That (20/10 Vision) Does Exist In The Basketball World
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DENVER— Tara VanDerveer had just walked out of a meeting room Sunday morning when she heard her assistant coach Amy Tucker scream.
Tucker wasn't the only one. There were screams, gasps and high fives all around the sites of the NCAA women's tournament Sunday.
Tennessee's Candace Parker had just dunked.
She didn't just do it once. She did it twice.
She didn't dunk as a gimmick. She dunked in the flow of the game.
She didn't need a clear lane and a huge windup to accomplish the feat. Her first one-handed jam was on a breakaway. On her second, she rose up through traffic from the baseline.
It was historic, and ESPN milked the moments throughout the day with constant replays. Although three other college women have dunked in games, no one had done it since 2000. And no one had done it in a tournament game.
"I was glad she got a good throwdown and it didn't ricochet off the back of the rim," VanDerveer said. "I think it's great buzz. It's great for the women's game."
On a weekend when a fabulous new generation of women's basketball players is being showcased, it was an exclamation point on the change in the game.
"A lot of players in our class can do things that others can't do," Stanford sophomore guard Candice Wiggins said.
Wiggins is "Ice" to Parker's "Ace" (nicknames based on the spelling of their first names). They are such good friends that, before the junior world tournament in summer 2004, they did the ultimate act of female friendship bonding: They got their tongues pierced. Parker went first (and added a belly-button piercing for good measure), so Wiggins had to follow through.
She's not surprised that Parker went first again Sunday.
"I've been expecting it," Wiggins said. "I knew she could do it."
We all knew Parker could do it. After all, she won the McDonald's slam-dunk contest when she was a senior in high school — competing against boys.
"It's pretty cool to bring it out in the tournament," said Oklahoma center Courtney Paris, who also played with Parker on junior national teams. "I remember being pumped up as a teammate when she did it. If I could do it, I'd do it all the time."
But not everyone can do it. Though Parker's dunks felt like earthquake tremors shaking the women's game, in truth the landscape won't change that much. There aren't going to be suddenly hundreds of girls arriving in the NCAA with the hand size to palm the ball or the vertical leap to elevate above the rim.
Paris, the freshman whom some are calling the best player in the country, last tried to dunk in her freshman year in high school. A newspaper account described her as "barely missing a dunk."
"I left it at that," she said. "Just a putback layup that helps my team is fine."
So what exactly is Paris' vertical leap?
"Really high," said Paris, arching her eyebrows. "We don't want it be scouted, so we don't talk about it."
Paris' coach, Sherri Coale, isn't pushing her star to leap higher. Though she gave Parker credit, she's not in love with the dunk.
"I've never been enamored of it," she said. "Just like in the men's game, I think `Great, you dunked. You got two points. Just like the point guard that laid it in.'
"But maybe people will tune in and watch because they hear about this. And that's a great thing."
The interesting subtext of Parker's dunk is that many inside women's basketball believe there's a healthy competition going on between Tennessee's Pat Summitt and Oklahoma's Coale over who has the best freshman in the country.
Paris and Parker are both dubbed "CP3" — with identical initials and jersey numbers.
There's some speculation that Summitt, already peeved over Tennessee being slighted with a No. 2 seed, may have unleashed Parker, a redshirt freshman, to get the spotlight away from Paris.
If so, that's not a bad thing. Two dominant players are always more interesting than one. And a healthy rivalry for four seasons between Paris and Parker could be a great thing for the game. Add in other fantastic young players like Wiggins, Louisiana State's Sylvia Fowles and Rutgers' Essence Carson and the women's game appears to be in terrific shape.
"I'm excited to be part of this generation," Brigham Young's Ambrosia Anderson said. "Good for Candace."
Amid the screams and gasps that Parker caused, there were undoubtedly some groans. Some fans of women's basketball may lament the fact that their game is creeping closer to the men's — where individuality is more important than teamwork.
But the young players here in Denver were unanimously excited about Sunday's earthquake.
"Maybe I'm a little less old-fashioned than Coach Coale," Paris said, "but I think it's cool."