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EE has announced trials of a new 4G home broadband antenna that it expects will provide more than 580,000 UK homes with high-speed internet for the first time.
The new 4G home broadband solution combines the 4GEE Home Router with a powerful external antenna and professional installation service. EE believes it will deliver high-speed internet in rural areas that can only access broadband speeds under 10Mbps today.
Sarah Lee, Head of Policy at the Countryside Alliance, said:
"Fast and reliable internet is just as essential in the countryside as it is in urban areas, but unfortunately it is not currently as widely available. This is a major issue for everyday life at home – students rely on a decent internet for research, parents need to bank online, and thousands of rural families are missing out on a wealth of on-demand entertainment.
We welcome this innovative 4G solution from EE and believe it will have a big impact on some of the most remote communities across the UK."
One area where EE has been testing its solution, the Northern Fells in Cumbria, has dramatic topography which makes traditional fibre broadband difficult.
Mal Hilton, Chairman, Northern Fells Broadband said:
"This new service from EE is going to help households in some of the most isolated areas of Cumbria; areas where residents simply cannot and may never receive fibre connectivity. It is going to radically change the lives of people in this community.
With fast and reliable home internet for the very first time, they can now function like everybody else in the UK."
Up to 32 devices can be connected to EE's 4GEE Home router — which is ready to go from the box, and does not require a landline. The antenna is fitted to the side of a customer's property. In the tests in Cumbria, the solution has provided speeds over 100Mbps.
EE claims its 4G network covers 90 percent of the UK's landmass; which represents coverage of 99.6 percent of homes.
Alongside its new 4G antenna solution, EE has launched the UK's first combined fixed and mobile broadband coverage checker for customers to see the best solution for their postcode.
You can find out more about the solution here.
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WASHINGTON After buying a chunk of land 50 miles north of San Francisco, the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria just broke ground on a new, Las Vegas-style casino. It will be the largest in the Bay Area, with 3,000 slot machines, 200 hotel rooms, a spa, bars, restaurants and parking for more than 5,000 cars.
In New York, the Shinnecock Indian Nation is considering Long Island as a site on which to build the Big Apple's first tribal casino.
And in Washington state, the Spokane Tribe of Indians wants a new 13-story casino and hotel next to Fairchild Air Force Base, prompting fears that the city will become "Spo-Vegas."
The plans are extraordinary for one reason: In all three cases, the tribes want to build their palaces on land that's not part of their original reservations.
The expansions are the latest twist in the nation's Indian casino wars, and they mark a major shift for the tribes, which already run 385 casinos and bingo halls in 29 states.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for large-scale Indian gambling 25 years ago, tribes have been forced to keep the majority of their casinos on reservation land held in trust by the federal government, usually in remote regions far from public view.
Now, thanks in part to the Obama administration, Indian tribes across the country are ready to bust out, bringing gambling to the same land that was taken from them long ago.
Tribes are seeking to cash in on a loosening of the rules, announced in June 2011 when the Bureau of Indian Affairs junked a Bush-era requirement that a casino had to be within easy driving distance from a tribe's reservation.
Casino opponents now fear that tribes, with their sovereign status, will have far too much authority to do as they please on their new lands, especially as they press for even less federal control.
In the small desert town of Joshua Tree in Southern California, Victoria Fuller said she worries what might happen if the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians is allowed to open a new, off-reservation casino near the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park.
"They could do anything they want," said Fuller, the president of the Joshua Tree Community Association and a leading opponent of the plan. "They could put a 20-story building with spotlights on it, and we would have no say."
The new push by the tribes is aimed at reviving a $28 billion-a-year industry hit hard by the recession. After growing at a brisk 14 percent annual rate from 1995 to 2007, gambling revenues have essentially stalled out, increasing by only 1 percent a year.
The tribes' moves have ignited a debate over how quickly the United States will hit a saturation point with casinos. While polls show broad public support for gambling, some say the tribes are ready to push the envelope.
"It's just all about the money, and the model is very simple: It's to get as many slot machines as possible as close to maximum-population areas " said John Kindt, a gambling researcher and professor of business and legal policy at the University of Illinois. "They're going to go everywhere."
The epicenter of the battle is in California, one of six states along with Washington, Florida, Oklahoma, Arizona and Connecticut that account for more than two-thirds of all Indian gambling revenue.
The Golden State already has more than 60 Indian casinos, the most in the nation. And when U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill last year that would make it harder for tribes to buy new land for gambling, she said the state could easily have another 50 casinos in coming years if Congress doesn't stop them.
Feinstein warned that another 67 tribes in California were already seeking federal recognition, the first step toward getting a casino. And she said "the problem is only going to get worse," with some tribes vying to open new casinos more than 100 miles from their tribal headquarters.
Casino opponents who are tracking the tribes' activities said that at least 137 applications from California are pending with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which must sign off on the land transfers before casinos can be built.
Cheryl Schmit of Penryn, founder and director of Stand Up For California, a statewide organization that has been leading the fight against more casinos, called the rule change a mistake and said that, if allowed to stand, it could result in casinos opening "on every offramp."
"Some of these are just land grabs by wealthy tribes," Schmit said, lamenting that the tribes are making their push to expand with little attention from either the press or the public. "It's huge, but everybody's kind of been numbed by all the gambling."
Since 1990, the Indian gambling industry has made political contributions of nearly $58 million, with 70 percent of the money going to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And the tribes also have been spending heavily on lobbying, more than $20 million in 2011 alone.
Schmit and other opponents say the relaxed rules on off-reservation casinos are merely a payoff to the tribes, which have made the president their top recipient of campaign cash in the last two years.
In Congress, both Feinstein and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona are pushing bills to clamp down on off-reservation casinos.
When she introduced the Tribal Gaming Eligibility Act last year, Feinstein said she wanted to end the practice of "unbridled reservation shopping." Without congressional action, she warned, "Californians have no power to stop these tribes from opening unwanted casinos in their backyards."
The Democratic senator personally intervened in one of the hottest fights in California, lobbying Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to kill the plan to open a casino in Joshua Tree.
Fuller cheered Feinstein's entry into the fray and said there is no shortage of gambling opportunities in Joshua Tree, with seven casinos already operating within an hour of the town. She said the tribes have created "a real ticking time bomb for communities and states."
"I don't think anybody ever envisioned that they would be able to go out and buy land and have casinos everywhere," she said.
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California's Brown Wins Tax Measure Ballot Order Fight - Bloomberg
California Governor Jerry Brown won a court ruling allowing his income tax initiative to be listed on the state's November ballot above a rival measure sponsored by a group headed by civil rights attorney Molly Munger.
State court Judge Michael Kenny in Sacramento today rejected the suit by Munger's group, Our Children, Our Future, that sought to derail legislation aimed at giving Brown's initiative an upper hand at the polls.
California lawmakers included language in a June budget bill requiring bond measures and constitutional amendments to get top billing on statewide ballot pamphlets. That legislation, and Kenny's ruling today, pushes Brown's tax proposal above Munger's, according to an e-mailed statement from Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for Munger's group.
"No matter where we end up on the ballot, the fact remains that our measure will reboot California's public schools by sending $10 billion a year into a separate trust fund for education that can't be touched by the governor or the Legislature," Ballard said in the statement. He said Munger's group won't appeal today's court ruling.
'An Abuse'
Molly Munger, the daughter of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A) Inc. Vice Chairman Charles Munger, sued in June to block the ballot ordering provision, calling it "an abuse of the political process and legislative power." The change pushed Brown's tax proposal to the top of the pamphlet from ninth.
Brown, a Democrat, and a teachers' union collected signatures asking voters in November to temporarily raise the state sales tax and income taxes on the wealthy to erase a $15.7 billion deficit and eliminate a recurring shortfall that has plagued the most populous U.S. state for the last decade. The revenue already is calculated into the fiscal 2013 budget. If voters say no, it would trigger a $5.5 billion cut from schools, the equivalent to three weeks off the academic year.
Brown said at a news conference today in Oakland that his measure is "so important that it deserves the dignity of being ranked with other constitutional measures and bond issues" on the ballot.
"We're going forward and I think we're on the right track," he said. "Ultimately the people will choose."
A bill passed this month removes an $11 billion water-bond proposition from the November ballot on concern that too many high-cost measures might jeopardize Brown's proposed tax increase.
Joe Arellano, another spokesman for Munger's group, said in an e-mail that the precise positioning of propositions won't be known until Secretary of State Debra Bowen assigns ballot numbers and releases the order later this week.
Shannan Velayas, a spokeswoman for Bowen, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
The case is Our Children, Our Future v. Bowen, 2012-80001194, California Superior Court (Sacramento).
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Furniture Now! in Lewes celebrates 18 years of community enterprise - Lewes Today
It celebrated 18 years of community enterprise in the Lewes, Wealden and Eastbourne areas with local MPs Norman Baker and Charles Hendry in attendance.
The party was opened by Cllr Ruth O'Keefe, Deputy Chair of Lewes District Council, and Furniture Now! welcomed its new patron, journalist and broadcaster Polly Toynbee.
Rik Child, Director of Furniture Now! said: "We are delighted to be celebrating our 18th birthday. It is really exciting to bring the community together to celebrate the work of the charity over the last 18 years.
"In this time, we estimate we have helped 60,000 households, therefore benefiting approximately 150,000 people. Approximately 140,000 items of furniture have found new homes."
He added: "The charity trains 80 to 100 volunteers each year who give a remarkable amount of their time to help the customers get the items they want, measure it up, buy it and even help deliver it into people's homes. This is how we provide such low cost items."
Mr Child continued: "This year marks Furniture Now!'s coming of age. In a climate of considerable change, the charity is opening shops in Hailsham and Portslade, and is developing a computer refurbishment and recycling business under the banner, Computer Now! and of course we will continue to work with as many trainees as possible.
"This year we have run long and short courses for 120 separate learners who were isolated and unemployed. More than half have progressed to accredited courses and are now seeking employment."
Polly Toynbee, author of Hard Work: Life in Low Paid Britain, writes for The Guardian and has long been recognised as an advocate for social justice and a fairer society.
Source: www.sussexexpress.co.uk
California gasoline prices still falling; national average rises - Los Angeles Times
Average retail gasoline prices continue to fall in California, but the national average for a gallon of regular fuel rose for the first time in several weeks, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.
The average price of a gallon of regular gas in California is $3.708, the AAA said, down 4.1 cents since last Monday. That's a decline of 43.4 cents a gallon over the past month. Here's why it might not feel like much relief: the current average is just 6.3 cents a gallon lower than it was at this time last year.
California gasoline prices have fallen for eight straight weeks, but the pace of the decline has slowed. Analysts said that California fuel prices were still catching up to a $30 plunge in U.S. oil prices, which briefly fell below $80 a barrel before recovering slightly in the past week. The drop was attributed to signs of a slowdown in the global economic recovery.
"California still has some catching up to do in fuel price declines," said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service. He added that the California average could fall as low as $3.50 a gallon. OPIS and Wright Express provide the numbers for the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is $3.382 a gallon, up 5.6 cents since last week, the AAA said. The rise broke a string of 13 straight weeks of declines across much of the U.S. Analysts said the prices around the nation may have already bottomed out for awhile.
Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for the price-watch websites run by GasBuddy.com, said, "While I don't necessarily believe that the recent uptick in crude prices will stick, I also don't see prices falling considerably lower until after the conclusion of the summer driving season."
U.S. oil prices are up 95 cents to $85.40 a barrel in trading so far on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Signs that Chinese economy is slowing
Source: www.latimes.com
Iran to mount 21st International Furniture Exhibition - Presstv
[getrss.in: unable to retrieve full-text content]Iran is set to hold the 21st International Furniture Exhibition, showcasing a wide array of home furniture items from different countries in the Iranian capital of Tehran. Some 420 foreign and Iranian companies will present their latest productions and ...
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California High Speed Rail Still Faces A Lot Of Obstacles - Huffington Post
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California lawmakers may have given their OK to what could be the nation's first high-speed rail line, but the project is still a long way from leaving the station.
The project has prominent supporters such as President Barack Obama and Gov. Jerry Brown, but supporters must still overcome a number of challenges, including environmental concerns, clashes with local leaders over land use, a $68 billion overall price tag with no funding guarantees and an increasingly disenchanted public.
Supporters applauded Friday when the state Legislature narrowly approved $4.5 billion in state funding for rail improvements and to begin construction on the initial segment of high-speed track in the agricultural Central Valley. The move enabled the state to tap $3.2 billion in federal bond money.
Critics, however, are redoubling their efforts to derail the project that could eventually link Los Angeles and San Francisco with trains traveling up to 220 mph.
Among those gearing up for a fight are the farmers whose land lies in the path of massive infrastructure project.
The Madera and Merced county farm bureaus, along with other parties, have filed a lawsuit to halt the project on grounds that the state has not done enough environmental vetting. The plaintiffs say the train would render 1,500 acres of fertile land unfarmable and disrupt 500 agricultural businesses.
"We are going to protect our property," said Frank Oliveira, a farmer and leader of the Central Valley group Citizens For California High-Speed Rail Accountability. "Somebody is coming into our area, and they are going to seize our property and say we don't have a choice in the matter."
Brown has made the project a touchstone of his administration. He had initially attempted to prevent courts from using the state's complex environmental law to stop construction but backed down from that proposal under pressure as he sought to win lawmakers' approval.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday praised Democratic lawmakers for approving the project, despite intense pressure from critics, saying it reinforces California's position as a leader in high-speed rail.
"The president's vision is to get America to have high-speed rail. There's no better place to do it than in California," he told reporters at San Francisco International Airport.
Associated Press writer Fenit Nirappil in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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As the NHL playoffs began back in May, I started reading a handful of hockey romance novels. Needless to say, once I started I was sucked into the hot, sweaty world of hockey heaven. I figured I'd save you all a lot of time and give you the reviews of some of the favorites I've read this year.
Elle Kennedy's Off Campus Series
The Deal – book 1 in this series
I loved this book. The witty banter between Garrett and Hannah (Wellsy) was delightfully refreshing. The pacing was well done and the plot was carefully crafted.
I thought the author did a really good job capturing Hannah's trepidation but strength in overcoming her past. I loved how tender and compassionate Garrett became over the course of the book. The development of their friendship, to friends with benefits didn't feel rushed. I really couldn't put this book down and finished it at about 5:30 this morning.
Great job Elle Kennedy. This was the first book of yours I've read and I can't wait to get my grubby little paws on your other books, including the next in this series!
If you love New Adult and are tired of many of the tired and clichéd books currently out there, give this one a whirl. I promise you won't be disappointed
The Mistake – book 2 in the series
I didn't love this book as much as The Deal, but it was still a light, fun read. The witty banter that I came to enjoy in the first book was there, but for some reason I didn't quite click with Logan and Grace the same way I did with Garrett and Hannah in the first book.
The story revolves around Logan and Grace. Logan is the hot hockey player that can hook up with any puck bunny that crosses his path. When he meets Grace, the quiet studious girl he makes a stupid mistake that pushes her away. He spends most of the story trying to get back in her good graces. I enjoyed how Kennedy handled Grace's virginity and didn't make her a naïve sexual scaredy cat. I wished the pair was together more than they were apart. All in All, a fun romantic read.
Lynda Aicher's Power Play Series
Game Play – book 1
I really enjoyed this one. The story revolves around Samanatha, an former Olympic hockey player who's searching for a life after Hockey. Dylan Rylie plays for the Glaciers and is in a pivotal year of his career. The pair meet up during a meet and greet and end up falling in bed.
The story was just the right amount of romance and sports. I particularly loved that the heroine was a strong athlete and not some random hookup. The plot moved nicely and while Sam ran away at times when I didn't really understand her motivation, but Dylan was amazing and way more patient and forgiving than I might have been. Just a nice fluffy hot read. Looking forward to the next in the series.
Back In Play – book 2
This is the second in the Power Play series, and it was an okay read. It felt more like a stand alone book than part of a series, which disappointed me a little bit since I really enjoyed the first book in the series and the characters.
This book was about Scott, the captain of the Glaciers and Rachel a mild mannered school teacher who happened to be visiting Minnesota for a wedding when she meets the famed hockey player. Scott is getting old for his sport and has had one too many injuries to his knee, causing him to be addicted to Vicoden. The owner of the Glaciers can read between the lines and decides not to renew Scott's contract partially because of this.
He leans on Rachel to help him kick his habit in hopes of being able to return to the Glaciers for one last run for the Cup. He stays with her for the summer and their insta-love is all flowers and roses until he decides to go back to Hockey.
The story was pretty predictable, but well written and the characters were well rounded and likeable. I didn't fall in love with this pair like I did in Game Play with Dylan & Samantha.
Penalty Play – book 3
I really liked this book, almost as much as the first one, which I fell in love with. My only beef with this one was by about 2/3 of the way through, the heroine got so in her head and whiny, that I found myself skimming most of Jaqui's POV because of it. Just a little too heavy handed for me. I did like Henrik quite a lot and how patient and kind he was. I enjoyed that he was more of a relationship guy and not a 'player' like the previous heros in the series.
All in all a nice fun read, especially if someone's really into Hockey player stories, like I am right now.
Pilots Hockey series by Sophia Henry
Delayed Penalty – book 1
I enjoyed this book quite a lot. The story revolves around Auden, a girl raised by her Russian grandparents when her parents died when she was young and Aleksander, a star Russian hockey player for the Pilots. Auden is hired to be Aleksander's translator even though he doesn't really need one. He just doesn't like talking to the media. Their relationship changes quickly to romantic and did feel a little bit rushed. The perspective of two adults still grieving the loss of a loved one was well done. I loved how solid Aleksander was as a character. All in all, a nice read, although not very steamy and with limited hockey time. Still curious to see what the next in the series holds.
Hometown Players series by Victoria Denault
One More Shot – book 1
One More Shot is an angsty little tale about second chances. The story revolves around Jordan and Jessie, childhood friends who tried to take their relationship to the next level. Unfortunately miscommunications abounded and they ended up breaking each other's hearts.
Six years later they meet again, and Jordan is hell bent on getting Jessie back and making up for his past mistakes. Filled with meddling families and witty dialogue.
I really wanted to love this story, and I liked Jordan and Jessie's characters, but their issues seemed a bit contrived. All in all, a nice little read. I am really looking forward to book 2 in this series, as I liked Luc's character quite a bit.
Atlantic City Hustlers series by Veronica Forland and Susan Scott Shelley
Simmering Ice – book 2
Simmering Ice is one of those stories that I really wanted to love, but ended up just being an average read for me. Annie, a physical therapist runs into professional hockey player, Alec when the team comes to the hospital she works at to do some community service to visit sick children. The attraction between the pair seems a bit instantaneous and far fetched.
Annie just got out of a bad relationship and Alec's attraction to her is curious. Her insecurity is causing her to question everything. Alec lost his wife to cancer and is trying to move on, and Annie is the perfect person to do that with.
My main issue with the story was that Annie was too much in her head and made assumptions that felt forced. All in all, it was a bit predictable, but a nice enough story.
Cold Fury Hockey Series by Sawyer Bennett
Ryker – book 5
This story is about Ryker, aka "Brick", the goalie for the Cold Fury Hockey team and the newest and only female GM in the NHL, Gray Brannon. Gray also happens to be the daughter of the CEO of the team.
The team and much of the media believe that Gray is way out of her league and has no business being a GM because she's a girl. No one cares that she was an olympic hockey player and one of the top scouts for the team before becoming the GM.
Brick is the super single dad to two adorable daughters. I found much of this story to be completely unrealistic. The complete lack of professionalism between Gray and Ryker was astounding, not to mention how perfect and/or cliched to the point of eye rolling.
Just an average read for me.
So there you have it. If you're looking for hot, sweaty athletic men, you've come to the right place. Pick one of these great reads up, and you'll be hot under the collar.
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You can, Gemma. Believe in yourself and you can do anything. Take it one day at a time.
Hi Gemma, I'm with the October group from last October. Just popping by to see how today's going for you. It's not easy in the beginning but stick with it it will get easier as your days add up. Wishing you the best.
Thank you Blue,
So kind of you to message. Yesterday didn't go so well but I'm feeling stronger today I have to beat this this time! I just found out I'm pregnant which is what made me pick my quit date so quickly and I guess my hormones are making me extra emotional . I'm going to try and read loads today to educate myself about this addiction. I have been a heavy smoker since a very young age that has now been over 20 years. Just saying that makes me cringe about what I have put my body through and now it simply has to stop.
you have done so well I bet you feel amazing a while year smoke free, well done
Thank you
Congratulations on your pregnancy and a great reason to quit. I was as hard a smoker as they came, smoked 2 packs a day at the end and smoked for 31 years. It is tough at the beginning but it really does get easier, you can totally do this and will feel so great that you did. Rooting for you Gemma.
Thank you sooooooo much today has been better. I'm walking off the cravings, drinking loads of water and singing really loudly your messages are helping so much! You lovely lady
Awesome. I know I'll get there some day. I'm at the point where I think I'm just going to stop counting. Feels longer. Dido on the "seeing other people smoke" thing. I can't believe I used to smell like that too.
That is scary. Chest discomfort at rest and needle pricks with exertion/coughing. Very unsettling. I hope you keep going. Try replacing with nicotine free gum every now and then. Has been working for me. The less nicotine the better. Be amazed because you can do it.
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Sometimes it does feel like time is moving soo slowly.
Dido on that. I'm going to try not counting and not checking out my quit smoking app. You guys give me inspiration and ideas without even intending to. Thanks.
I'm quitting for the 2nd time in 2019, at exactly midnight sharp, today, October 21st 2019, so I am with you Julian. 1st time lasted nearly 3 months and 6 days. Stupidity allowed me to stray. It won't happen again. 56 years old. It's enough already. We'll get through the first week together. I will not post much, but will follow. Will NOT be the person with the oxygen tank. Will NOT be the person gasping for their last breath. Will NOT give Philip Morris 1 more red cent of my money. "F" them. 5 hours 53 minutes. I'm with you. Good luck to ALL of us.


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Porn certainly has a hang on our populace. I remember when Playboy take into consideration adult, as well as when ordinary individuals were found to be viewers, it claims that they "review it for the write-ups, not the images." Yes, there was some fact to that, since Hugh Hefner, in his wisdom, crafted an extraordinarily well-written and informative publication that just so took place to be marketed mainly for its images of the Playmates. Remember the days when full nudity frown?
Along came Penthouse, Hustler and others and also their full-frontal nudity – also consisting of men in the pictorials. The penthouse had a letters section called The Forum which later became its publication. I remember reading the Forum and being impressed at the letters (were they real?) explaining sex-related show amputees, threesomes with two guys and also one woman, and so on. Because these letters were off the beaten course, they were that a lot more alluring.
It was Forum, as a matter of fact, together with the male/female nakedness of these publications generally, that first stimulated my rate of interest in other men. I was not a "hard-core" viewers of this pornography, however I definitely admit to having registered for Playboy for several years as well as likewise having read Penthouse routinely (these were the vast 2 for some time), and then being attracted to occasional ventures into Hustler and also High Society, among others, later.
Not long after the development of this soft-core market showcasing ladies' bodies came Playgirl, which came to be a mainstream purveyor of nude males' bodies. It was no place near the top quality magazine that Playboy was, and the nakedness was rather puerile. Nowhere did you locate an erection, and also a lot of the guys posed with only a tip of a penis in the picture. Though it prevailed to see full genitalia in the "guys'" magazines, this "lady's" publication seemed to make believe that the male member did not exist.
Eventually, the majority of the men's publications routinely released pictorials featuring both males and females. The primary thrust was to lure heterosexual men, so most of the content was specific, showcasing of the women kind. When both sexes imagine, however, it was common in scenes that recommended details sexual acts, such as fellatio or cunnilingus. The act of procreation – intercourse itself – was seen to be a taboo, apparently; as nobody printed such images.
Honestly, with the preponderance of so many "males" magazines on the shelves, it was pretty simple to come to be accustomed to the photo spreads of all the wonderful ladies. In my situation, I came to be much more thinking about the male-female pairings that provided me a chance to check out the nude men. Mind you, buying these "males" magazines enabled me to secretly enjoy the sight of naked men without the shame of having to plop down a copy of Playgirl on the counter for purchase. The shop staffs had no clue, after all.
Not acknowledging my sexuality during that time (I remained in denial, puzzled, accustomed to heterosexuality), I wed. For a while (maybe a couple of years or so), I lived my life as a heterosexual spouse, as well as figured that I 'd place my days of "testing" behind me. The homosexuality that I assumed I had left behind, however, returned and also I located ways to check out gay pornography without informing any person. My better half was a Webcam Porn viewer also, though she had no concept that I had an interest in it. Of course, on the celebrations when she was not at home, I regularly browsed her duplicate of the publication. At some point, our sex life became non-existent. Currently, I didn't realize it had anything to do with homosexuality, yet chalked it up to her boosting dimension as well as our enhancing inability to agree with each various other.
Lacking a sex life, I transformed a growing number of to porn, both on the telephone as well as in publications. After a couple of more years of non-sexual as well as not-so-pleasant argumentative episodes, my spouse as well as I divided. I did start dating various other women, figuring that was my life circumstance, nevertheless (never admitting to being gay, but denying it to myself).
In my newly single life, of course, I had terrific flexibility, and also I ordered up memberships to 2 mail-order brochures (International Male as well as Undergear) which marketed underclothing that was alluringly depicted in the catalogs by a range of young, great looking models. Usually, my masturbatory fantasies with these images, and also I started to tell myself things like, "If I ever did obtain with each other with a man in a sexual context, it would certainly have to be somebody who appeared like him." In that method, I could continue to refute my desires and also my inner feelings; all the while delighting in the fruits of my dreams.
I like the business of females, as well as I do not assume that ladies are unattractive. One of those who I dated, nonetheless. We only dated for around six months, yet a few months in, she asked me, "Are you certain you're not gay?" Naturally, I addressed "no," yet nevertheless, She and also I quit dating at about the very same time I determined to sign up with the computer system age. My first desktop took me to areas I had understood about; however, never experienced – chatroom.
In the beginning, my conversation experiences were mundane. I was feeling out the region to see precisely how this innovation functioned, exactly how it would suit my life and also what impact it could carry me. Within a month or two, I had discovered a couple of chat rooms that honestly went over sexual topics. The Instant Message likewise came to be a part of my life, and also I found myself talking independently with other males. These were usually pretty necessary conversations, but in a short time they ended up being extra sexually explicit as well as there were conversations regarding mutual self-pleasure as well as other sexual activities that two guys could engage.
My wishes were again coming forward, as well as I determined to yield – to locate another man with whom I could investigate this advice. In a short while, I made contact with a man named Steve, and also he as well as I consented to a meeting at his house. That very first meeting was moving gradually initially, and also we sat on the couch and talked for a while until Steve asked if I 'd such as to enter his bedroom. Since that was the sole purpose for which I was checking out, I concurred that it was the essential things to do. He and I resolved into his bed and also I enjoyed my very first sex-related call with one more male in regarding 25 years.
In the next few years, I met and bedded down with numerous other males. One of them was a married man called Bill, with whom I came to appreciate what appeared to be a burgeoning relationship. His schedule was flexible enough that he could see with me at different times of day, and I can state with certainty that he and I truly cherished each other's interest. After knowing Bill for about three years, his other half died. Within several days, he remained in my bed, covered in my arms, as I tried to comfort him in his pain. Though he 'd been married for many years, he informed me that understood would indeed relocate far from her sexually and I thought, honestly, that he was, potentially, "the one" for me.


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Car number plates should be better regulated, making them easier to be read by a nationwide network of 'Big Brother' type
cameras on motorways and main roads.
That's according to a report prepared by the UK's surveillance camera commissioner Tony Porter and presented to Parliament this week.
There's an estimated 9,000 automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras monitoring roads across the UK. These can notify authorities if a car passes through them and triggers an alert – that could be anything from an expired MOT to being listed as a wanted car connected with criminals.
But in his report, Porter claims it's too easy to modify number plates to evade detection by ANPR cameras.
"ANPR depends on the quality of number plates it captures," said Porter. "The whole infrastructure, I would argue, is predicated against the fact that number plates do what it says on the plate – allows you to read the number. If they are frustrated by their design or people easily circumvent capture by screwing a deceptive screw between a 1 and a 1 making an H – then who should be concerned?"
He adds that the number of approved number plate manufacturers should be restricted, with controls similar to the production of passports and driving licences applied.
"I understand there are approximately 40,000 (20,000 'active') number plate suppliers in the UK. This, in an unregulated environment, which seems to me tailor made to defeat the system."
It is not known how many number plates are misread by ANPR cameras, but estimates suggest it could be as high as three percent. Porter says he's working closely with the Home Office to establish a figure and discover the impact of 'misreads'.
Surveillance chief: number plates should be regulated like passports
Car number plates should be better regulated, making them easier to be read by a nationwide network of 'Big Brother' type
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Salman Khan took to Twitter to start the count-down for the release of Rustom. The superstar promoted Akshay Kumar's upcoming romantic thriller by using #10DaysToRustom and asked his fans to watch the film in theatres on 12 August, 2016.
After Salman, it was Ranveer Singh who tweeted out a childhood picture with Akshay Kumar today and used #9DaysToRustom. The Befikre actor recalled his fanboy moment in Delhi. It seems the industry has come together to promote the Tinu Suresh Desai directorial by kick-starting the official countdown till the film releases.
While Salman Khan started the campaign, it will be interesting to see if it ends with Shah Rukh Khan.
#10DaysToRustom @akshaykumar pic.twitter.com/Yd50voI8Av— Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) August 2, 2016
Also starring Illeana D'Cruz and Esha Gupta, the movie releases on 12 August, 2016.


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Octavia E. Butler, who overcame dyslexia and social anxiety to become one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers of all time, is honored by Google with the June 22, 2018, Google Doodle on what would have been the author's 71st birthday. Butler reached the top of the science fiction genre, a field dominated by white men, becoming not only perhaps the greatest African-American writer in science fiction, but one of the greatest women, and lesbian, writers in the genre as well.
But Butler considered herself a perfect fit for a career in speculative fiction, saying in a 1998 interview, "I'm black, I'm solitary, I've always been an outsider," according to her New York Times obituary. Born on June 22, 1947, Butler died in 2006 after suffering a fall in her Seattle, Washington, home.
An only child raised by her mother and grandmother after her father — who shined shoes for a living — died when Butler was just seven years old, Butler realized her calling at an early age. According to a bio on The Portalist pop culture site, Butler was 12 years old when she watched a science fiction movie on TV, a cheesy sci-fi "B" flick called Devil Girl From Mars.
"I saw it when I was about 12 years old, and it changed my life," she recalled. "As I was watching this film, I had a series of revelations. The first was that 'Geez, I can write a better story than that.' And then I thought, 'Gee, anybody can write a better story than that.' And my third thought was the clincher: 'Somebody got paid for writing that awful story.' So I was off and writing."
Today's Google doodle is dedicated to Octavia Butler on what would have been her 71st birthday. #afrofuturism pic.twitter.com/lYN2EbLxtl— Bodak Red ???? (@AFarray) June 22, 2018
That would have been 1959. But, as Newsweek reported, it wasn't until 1976 that Butler published her first novel, Patternmaster, which turned out to be the first in her five-book Patternist series in which Butler imagined a secret history of the world extending from Ancient Egypt into the distant future.
The novel that permanently established Butler as one of the greats of the genre, however, came three years later, in 1979. Kindred, her fourth book, was directly inspired by the racism she saw her own mother experience as Butler grew up in Pasadena, California, in the 1950s and 1960s. In the novel, a black writer named Dana travels back in time to the slavery-era South, meeting her own ancestors and being forced to adapt and compromise to survive as an enslaved person herself.
"Kindred was kind of draining and depressing, especially the research for writing it," she told In Motion Magazine in 2004. "A lot of my reason for writing it came when I was in preschool, when my mother used to take me to work with her. I got to see her not hearing insults and going in back doors, and even though I was a little kid, I realized it was humiliating. I knew something was wrong, it was unpleasant, it was bad. I remember saying to her a little later, at seven or eight, 'I'll never do what you do, what you do is terrible.' And she just got this sad look on her face and didn't say anything."
p.s. Octavia Butler's literary archive resides at @TheHuntington Library: https://t.co/qBNZl4ld7w pic.twitter.com/QYel3SO7Xl— Well-Read Black Girl ™ (@wellreadblkgirl) June 22, 2018
Unlike many science fiction authors, Butler's work gained mainstream acclaim and in 1995 she became the first writer in the genre to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, sometimes known as the "genius grant."
Her best-loved works came in the late 1980s, with her Xenogenesis Trilogy — later retitled Lilith's Brood — the story of humanity's survival after a nuclear holocaust, when an alien race known as the Oankali "rescues" humankind — but for reasons that may not be altogether good.
"Butler explores issues of consent and manipulation in her first book (in the trilogy), Dawn," explained the feminist site Bitch Media. "Some of the outcomes are upsetting. As the trilogy continues, readers see how Lilith's decisions have affected future generations of humans and ooloi as they navigate a renewed planet."
Butler's family posted a message on the June 22, 2018, Google Doodle page.
"Our family is grateful and honored by the opportunity to invoke the memory of Octavia E. Butler. Her uniqueness emerged at an early age when she expressed a strong interest in the written word. It was clear, even then, that Octavia had found her destiny — she decided to pursue a career as a professional writer," the Butler family wrote.


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Tuck professor co-authors study on alternative rating systems
When products in the United States are given a numeric rating, most ranking systems use a "bigger-is-better" method in which a higher score reflects better quality. According to a new report co-authored by Ellie Kyung, a professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business, when this method is used, scores are likely to affect U.S. consumer buying patterns because bigger-is-better rating systems are the cultural norm. Yet if a product is rated by a "smaller-is-better" structure, consumers are less likely to perceive changes in scores.
The report, titled "When Bigger is Better (and When it is Not): Implicit Bias in Numeric Judgments," tested whether the rating of products on a scale opposite of the normative would impact consumers' attitudes toward those products.
"One of the things we wanted to test was whether [different rating systems] could affect people's willingness to pay for actual objects," Kyung said.
Research for the study consisted of several experiments involving consumers' attitudes toward products based on a given quality rating. In each test, half of the participants were shown a product with a rating on a bigger-is-better scale, while the other half were shown the same product with an equivalent rating translated into a smaller-is-better scale.
Some of the experiments for the study were conducted using Dartmouth undergraduate students as test subjects. In one of the experiments, 72 students were instructed to make auction-style bids on a stainless-steel coffee mug. Half of the students had been told the mug scored 6.1 on a scale where 1 is unsatisfactory and 7 is very good. The other half had been told the mug scored 1.9 on a scale where 1 is very good and 7 is unsatisfactory.
The experiment found that the students who were told the bigger-is-better rating were willing to pay on average over 1.5 times more for the mug than the students who were given the same rating on a smaller-is-better scale.
In the report, the authors find that the results of this and other similar experiments are explained by a cognitive bias of consumers toward the rating system with which they are most familiar.
"If you're using kind of a rating scale where people have to make some kind of translation, it essentially wipes out the difference in perceived quality," Kyung said.
As a result of the study, Kyung said that companies might want to consider adjusting their rating scales based on the rating system familiar to their target audience.
Associate dean of the faculty and Tuck professor Richard Sansing said that the report's conclusions align with a number of psychological tests measuring human response patterns.
"There's this whole literature on cognitive interference and how that affects the judgments that people make," Sansing said.
As an analogy, Sansing described a study in which individuals are told to hit a buzzer when they see the word "green." But when some individuals are shown the word "green" colored in red letters, they are thrown for a loop, he said, which affects their ability to respond.
"I wouldn't be surprised if that kind of bias or interference carries over into when you're making an actual purchasing decision," Sansing said.
Kyung co-authored the report with Aradhna Krishna, a marketing professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and Manoj Thomas, a marketing professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Thomas said that although the results of the study may be surprising to readers, they were consistent with the authors' expectations. He said he enjoyed the "brilliant experience" of discussing and debating the topic with Kyung and Krishna.
"We had a lot of fun doing that, and I think we are all kind of proud of the outcome," Thomas said.
The report was published on the website of the Journal of Consumer Research in December 2016 and is expected to be published in the journal's print edition in June.


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Targets you might want to acknowledge or inconveniences you might want to determine are genuinely similar to baffles. You realize what you need the result to seem like impressively like looking at the picture on the crate lets you know precisely where the middle, corners and fringe bits of the riddle will all wrap up, directly after the riddle is by and large.
There are various techniques to put a riddle by and large and each and every of these strategies capacities for the specific individual working with it. A few puzzlers place on the whole the outskirts at first. Different people start with a focal picture. A few start working with corners. In any case different people make a plunge and spot by and large any of the pieces they plainly observe coordinate on the whole without having concentrating on a specific segment. Everything about strategies work.
Everything about puzzlers recognizes what their riddle seems like and in the event that they don't have the foggiest idea about, the technique they utilize will empower them make sense of it. All things being equal, each and every puzzler additionally realizes that without having the picture on the crate, it truly is going to assume them longer to position the riddle by and large. How Is Setting and Achieving Targets Like a Puzzle?
Setting and achieving goals starts with bunches of conservative parts simply like a riddle. You need to interface the parts to understand the point. On the off chance that you don't have a clue what your point seems like, in what capacity will you go over the segments that coordinate and interface them? In the event that you are endeavoring to understand a point that is completely new or also far from your current capacities, at that point setting brisk term destinations, extensively like putting all in all corners, fringes, or focuses, for a riddle, should be set and associated at first.
It is commonly the smaller segments that make up an immense and entangled riddle. Setting and accomplishing brisk terms goals helps make fearlessness and helps you understand immense and confused destinations all the more rapidly. No 1, other than you can, produce the picture you need for your finished riddle. What's more, you can not start putting the riddle on the whole till you have an unmistakable idea of how you might want your finished riddle to show up.
Asking oneself these request will empower you associate the littler measured pieces.
How clear would you say you are on your point? Do you know the parts important to accomplish your point? Do you know the activities important to put the parts all things considered? Would you be able to do the activities important to put the segments altogether? Do you realize a person who can do the activities important to put the segments aggregately?
In the event that you can answer these request with an indeed, you are set up to place by and large your riddle and understand your goals. If not, it truly is an ideal opportunity to set the snappy term point of gaining clear.
You can not start putting the riddle by and large till you have a reasonable idea of how your finished riddle will seem regardless of whether you just think about it, so how would you get clear?
Congrats, you have recently set your at first point, getting clear on what you need your mean to seem like. How easy was that? As you push ahead your self-assurance will create and you will be putting on the whole million piece perplexes in a matter of moments.


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This chapter traces nearly every reference to women—real or imagined, literal or symbolic—that appears in Ben Jonson's important collection of poems titled Underwood. It discusses in particular his references to the muses and other figures of classical myth, and it also discusses the ways in which his references to 'real' women often add to the vividness and effectiveness of the collection. Often, however, 'real' women and 'real' events are also treated in highly symbolic ways. The chapter ends by considering the larger issue of 'gender' in Underwood, including the possibility of homoerotic overtones.
Keywords: Women, gender, muse, goddess, symbol, Underwood, Charis, Venus, love, sex
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Who'd have thunk it? It turns out Texas doesn't have a monopoly on clans of tightly-wound yokels suffering from too much isolation and a surfeit of plain old down-home "coo-coo." Which is what novelist Robin Richards discovers when she travels to Sweden for a quiet, secluded farm getaway and ends up right in the middle of BLOOD PARADISE (Artsploitation Films, 2018).
And if you thought that sentence was tortured, just wait'll you see what's in store for Robin (co-writer and co-producer Andréa Winter) after her latest twisted-sex novels drive readers away and her agent suggests she head for the Swedish hills to get her head back together.
It seems farmers are opening their doors to guests who want to escape the city for the pastoral experience and surround themselves with cows, chickens, and, in this particular case, some vaguely not-all-there people like farmer Rolf (Rolf Brunnström), his creepy mute sister, his surly son who likes to carry a sniper rifle around, and Rolf's dead wife who's buried in the garden...or is she?
Even the driver (Christer Cavallius) who picks Robin up at the train station and takes her to Rolf's farm is a weird fellow who's a big, big fan of Robin's books and has "stalker" written all over him.
His name is Hans Bubi (a "Die Hard" reference perhaps?) and he's my favorite character because he's just such a manic oddball (I love his frantic arguments with his jealous, plant-obsessed wife) who I hoped would turn out to be a good guy and not just another member of the creep crowd.
Anyway, with all of that established, BLOOD PARADISE is all set to start keeping us in a state of tense suspense for the rest of its running time. Director Patrick von Barkenberg takes his sweet time letting the story unfold just quickly enough for us to savor every moment of growing unease and mystery as Robin warily observes the actions of her hosts as they grow more suspicious and unsettling.
The film itself is a visual treat, each shot nicely composed with lots of little directorial touches that are oddly satisfying. Performances never go over the top, and the film is refreshingly devoid of the usual jump scares and musical stings. It isn't even all that gory.
Indeed, what happens to Robin (and some other unfortunate people around her) might've been turned into the same tired old torture porn working itself into a lather trying to "scare" us, but instead we're drawn into an increasingly engrossing scenario that carries us along on a wave of pure, skin-crawling suspense.
The low-key, non-sensationalistic nature of BLOOD PARADISE is one of its most pleasing qualities, along with a bone-dry sense of humor. We're able to identify with Robin and thus slowly get up inside the story and experience each and every disturbing little pastoral perversion along with her. And the film itself is so finely-wrought that despite its potent capacity for horror, it's a pleasure to watch.
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Product Details
Format: DVD (also available in Blu-ray)
Catalog: ART67
Country: Sweden
Language: English (with optional subtitles)
Rating: NR
Year: 2018
Length: 84 min.
Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital, 2.0 Stereo
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Bonus material: Four deleted scenes, 2 Music Videos: "Dreamer" by Baby Yoga, "You and Me" by Baby Yoga


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A reader checks in from Interior:
Just wanted to let you guys know that there was an all-hands meeting with the new Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, at 11am today.
The bullet points are:
– Ethical misconduct and criminal acts by Bush political appoints spoiled image of department.
– We want to be held to the highest standards of ethics and accountability.
– We will respect the scientific process
– There is the possibility that we will form a basketball team and take on the White House. Though Sec. Salazar noted that he has to be careful, as he "serves at the pleasure of the president."
Secretary Salazar was extremely well received, with a fairly open Q&A session following his speech. My first impression of him is that he seems to be a highly qualified, and a genuinely nice guy to boot. He also seems to have brought with a group of extremely qualified people. I'll wait and see, as always. It was a really heartening meeting though; everyone seems very excited. It feels like a return to rational governance.
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Stout hearts prevailed on Sunday as the Philly Gaelic Athletic Association hosted football at Cardinal Dougherty on Sunday.
Driving rains didn't keep two teams from squaring off and somehow, amazingly, finishing on Sunday at Cardinal Dougherty field. We caught the second game, Naomh Peregrine vs. Chaoimhín de Barra. Naomh Peregrine won the day 0-11 to 0-04.
A third game never got started because the weather just made it impossible to continue.
Cruel taskmasters that we are, we dispatched our talented friend and GAA fan Gwyneth McArthur to shoot photos of whatever she could on such a dismal day. Scarf shielding her hair and plastic bag shielding her camera, Gwyneth took to it all like a duck to water.


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Different diet and fitness regimes are all the rage. Almost every night we can watch them being inflicted on people on our television screens. Will they break under the pressure and eat a cream do-nut or a bacon buttie? Will they cut down the calories and go down to the gym or will they stay on the couch munching forbidden snacks? How much weight will they actually have managed to lose when they step onto the scales?
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DeCero and former California Republic Bank Chief Executive Jon Wilcox also join the board.
Mechanics Bank closed its $330 million acquisition of Irvine-based California Republic Bank on Oct. 1. Boards of both banks approved the deal, which pays California Republic shareholders $37.19 a share.
DeCero has no immediate plans to relocate to Northern California, instead planning to travel between Irvine and Walnut Creek.
The Business Journal in November ranked California Republic as the fifth largest OC-based commercial bank, with $1.5 billion in assets as of June 30, 2015. Its assets as of March 31 were $1.8 billion.
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NEIL Jenkins has been impressed by the way that in-form Sam Davies has started life at the Dragons but says Wales boss Wayne Pivac has plenty of options if he decides to add a fly-half to his Six Nations squad.
The Welsh management are hopeful that Dan Biggar will be fit to face France in Cardiff next weekend after the first-choice 10 suffered a head injury against Ireland.
The Northampton playmaker is going through the return to play protocols after suffering a third blow in five months following head knocks against Australia and Fiji in the World Cup.
Wales need him to come through as they are down to their last fit specialist fly-half in Jarrod Evans after Owen Williams was ruled out of the tournament after suffering a hamstring injury in the warm-up in Dublin.
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The 26-year-old has been in fine form since swapping the Liberty Stadium for Rodney Parade, catching the eye of former Wales and Lions points machine Jenkins.
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"Depending on the discussion and which way they feel they need to go, Wayne will decide.
"Angus O'Brien has done well along with Dan Jones at the Scarlets while young Sam Costelow is doing well for the Under-20s, so there are a lot of good 10s and when the time comes I am sure Wayne will make that call if we need another one."
If Wales do call up a replacement for Williams then Davies could be battling with Rhys Patchell, who is nearing a return from a shoulder problem.
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"Dan is alright, he's just doing the normal return to play protocols," said Jenkins. "That takes a bit of time but he is pretty good and is recovering pretty well so hopefully he will be okay for next week.
"The World Cup was a concern in terms of the heavy ones that he had but I don't think Saturday was as bad as those, that's for sure.
"But (an HIA) is still something that you've got to do and the right decision was made.
"He is a tough old player, as you could see on Saturday because trying to get him off was an issue, but hopefully he will do everything he needs to do and will be back ready for France.
"Dan is a fantastic rugby player and a world-class 10 who has been here for a long time. It was his 81st cap on Saturday and that speaks volumes for how good a player and a professional he is. In my eyes he is world class and a huge player for us."
Biggar was replaced by Cardiff Blues playmaker Evans in Dublin, a 23-year-old of great promise.
"We've got Jarrod going pretty well and is still a young kid who is learning and trying to get better," said Jenkins..
"He had 30-odd minutes in Ireland and probably hasn't played a game at that level, certainly away from home. That will put him in good stead and hopefully he will learn and develop from that.
"There are other 10s in Wales that we could easily call in if we wanted to, but I will leave that to Wayne and he will make that decision when the time is right."


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When eugenics and racial hygiene were practiced in the USSR
Early Soviet scientific opinions on love, reproduction and sexual desire
Many Communists believed that normal sexual behavior ought to be defined in accordance with Darwinian truths about species survival and adaptation. Procreation was made the sole defensible aim of sexual activity. According to doctor Sigal, "sexual instinct has the goal of uniting the man and the woman for reproduction." All pleasurable activity beyond the basic act of intercourse was deprived of any "biological justification" and qualified as obsessive, or perverse, and therefore bourgeois and decadent. Not that Soviet sexologists objected to sexuality as such. Doctor Lass, for example, argued that, "the social-biological function of sexual instincts should not be destroyed." Rather, sexuality was to aim at reproduction of the class only. In the words of Gel'man, a prominent Soviet sexologist, "Sexuality has to be directed toward the same goals social life directs itself toward, pending psychical and physical degeneration."
Echoing the Christian condemnation of carnal sexuality, the Communists conceived of "naked sexuality" as the animalistic and antisocial in man, an obstacle on the path to a collective class consciousness.
Dr. Zalkind's Twelve Sexual Commandments for the Youth - The Polar Opposite of "Cultural Marxism"
In 1926, neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst A. B. Zalkind published the book "Revolution and Youth", in which he introduced the following guidelines for a moral sexual life worthy of a true builder of Socialism:
1. Sexual life shall not develop too early among the proletariat.
2. Thou shalt exercise sexual restraint until marriage, and marriage shall take place only upon full social and biological maturity (20-25 years).
3. Sexual relations shall be the culmination of a deep and comprehensive sympathy and attachment to the object of thy sexual love.
4. The sexual act shall be the final link in a chain of deep and complex experiences binding the lovers together at that moment.
5. The sexual act shall not be repeated often.
6. Thou shalt not often change thy sexual object. There shall be less sexual variation.
7. Love shall be monogamous and monoandrous (one wife, one husband).
8. Every sexual act must be committed without forgetting the possibility of conceiving a child - thou shalt always remember thy progeny.
9. Elements of flirtation, skirt-chasing, coquetry, and other particular methods of sexual conquest must not be introduced into love relations.
10. Thou shalt not be jealous.
11. Thou shalt not engage in sexual perversions.
12. The sexual shall always be subordinate to class interests, never interfering with the latter, but shall always serve it.
To a modern Western person, the above might sound extremely puritanical. Yet it's little things like this that separate the morality of Eastern European countries to that of countries like the USA even today. While Wilhelm Reich, Magnus Hirschfeld and the Frankfurt School, who came to dominate sexual thought in the West, viewed so-called "free-love" (ie. the prurient, unrestrained hedonistic depravity championed by the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s) as the key element of human liberation, Soviet science praised familial love and mutual faith as important in formenting a healthy society.
One can note that the only difference between these guildelines and similar guidelines given to the German youth during the Third Reich, is that "class" takes the place of "race" - the National Socialists said that family life should be subordinated to the interests of race, while the Soviets that it should follow the interests of class. Yet, as we will now see, race was also an important consideration for early Soviet advocates of healthy family-planning.
I. G. Gel'man and the concept of race in early Soviet family-planning
I. G. Gel'man
Professor I. G. Gel'man (1881-1937) strongly believed that true love was only possible between a couple that shared the same development, ie. common national background, class background and spiritual conscience. He wrote that in order for love to promote happiness, the physical attraction and sexual desire must be coupled with spiritual closeness. No longer an everyday affair, love can only become more precious.
In his major work Polovaya zhizn' sovremennoy molodezhi, Gel'man writes: "Sexual mores in the future have to reconcile the interests of the individual with the interests of the race" (Примирить интересы индивидуума и интересы расы должна грядущая половая мораль). In the same book, he talks of polygamy as more helpful for the race than polygamy: "From the socio-biological point of view, it must be admitted that monogamy is more in keeping with the interests of race and society, as it meets the needs of more highly developed individuals" (Но с точки зрения социально-биологической надо признать, что моногамия более соответствует интересам расы и обществаОна отвечает и потребностям более высоко развитых личностей).
That he used race and class interchangeably suggests that Gel'man's program was influenced by eugenics. The working class of the Soviet Union was "faced with what was essentially a eugenic challenge - to improve the quality and health of its posterity". Evgeny Preobrazhensky, the Party's wayward theoretician, co-author of "The ABC of Communism" wrote that "matters of family and race assume a particular importance with the proletariat's ascent into power, since henceforth proletarian sexuality will determine the physical health of our race as well as its future".
Considering that Hitler also believed that ideal couples were those of pure Aryan blood (common national background) and unshaken faith in National Socialism (common spiritual conscience), the only difference from Gel'man's view is that Gel'man added common class background as a factor.
Soviet Eugenics
The intellectual history of eugenics in the Soviet Union developed quite differently than in other European states. Compared to many of its neighbouring states, its history was short, limited mostly to the 1920s.
In the first decade after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, eugenics was supported by the Peopleâs Commissariat of Health (under Nikolai Semashko) and the People's Commissariat of Education (under Anatoly Lunacharsky), and perceived as a part of the project of a rational, hypermodern vision for the re-organization of society. Soviet state planners agreed that scientific categorization was necessary to transform the relatively backward lands of the Soviet Union, and worked together with biologists, physicians, and physical anthropologists to charter and survey the characterizations of various ethnic groups on their lands. Soviet racial science was largely led by men who were educated in, and the product of the late imperial era. They were strongly influenced by German racial anthropology and followed similar modules to charter blood groups and racial and physical characteristics to define and categorize the populations.
Soviet eugenicists sought to distance themselves from their colleagues in the west, and to develop a Soviet, socialist eugenics. The eugenic research was, primarily, carried out at institutions for genetic research in Moscow, Leningrad, and Kyiv. In Soviet eugenics, two men, in particular, stood out: Iurii Filipchenko (1882-1930), a pioneer of Russian and Soviet genetics and Valerii Bunak (1891-1979), the leading Soviet racial anthropologist, who worked in the field of craniology, blood groups, and racial classifications. Others, such as the biochemist E. O. Manoilov believed that the study of various blood types could determine racial and national identities. But by far the most important Soviet eugenicist of that era was A. S. Serebrovsky.
Serebrovsky's ideas and why they were finallly rejected by the government
The biologist and geneticist Aleksandr Serebrovsky (1892-1948) was a scientist of international renown and a pioneer in the research of chicken genetics. When it came to humans, he suggested a "truly socialist" way of eugenic engineering, by producing a superior Soviet man through separating love and reproduction. He believed that eugenics were the perfect way to achieve higher labor productivity and at first produce humans who could "fulfil a Five-Year Plan in two-and-a-half years" and later, by continued eugenics, produce the "Superman" that would finally actualize Communism. Here's a short video explaining many of his ideas, and also explaining why they were finally rejected by the Soviet government:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WSWdTLpkjk"]Eugenics in the Soviet Union - YouTube[/ame]
By 1930, the government came to see Serebrovsky's ideas as being too far-fetched, and he was sidelined. By the late-1930s, as a result of the association of eugenics with NS Germany, eugenics in the USSR was officially branded as fascist pseudo-science and abandoned.
However, physical and racial anthropology never ceased to be part of the Soviet scientific curriculum. Soviet racial science remained respected as a legitimate field of inquiry, and questioning the existence of human races was condemned as "subversive-idealistic" position. During the Stalinist era, but also after 1956 and well into the 1970s, Soviet racial anthropologists (called "ethnographers") continued to charter the racial characteristics of various peoples in the Soviet union (using pigmentation, facial features and the newly-discovered DNA) to racially classify human populations. In fact, one of the foremost anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century, Yulian Bromley, was from the USSR.
Igal Halfin: "Terror in My Soul", 2003
I. G. Gel'man: "Polovaya zhizn' sovremennoy molodezhi", 1923
A. B. Zalkind: "Revolutsiya i molodezh", 1926
PA Rudling: "Eugenics by Country (Russia and former USSR)"
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Re: When eugenics and racial hygiene were practiced in the USSR
It's interesting to hear what an atheist like Stefan Molyneux has to say about monogamy and fidelity because he uses facts and statistics to basically confirm everything that Christianity teaches about marriage and sex.
Apparently, even the Communists figured this out too.
To be most effective however, people need to believe that God is watching them and knows what they've been doing.
Most people aren't going to sexually restrain themselves if all they have to worry about is a little social ostracism and STDs.
Commandments from God carry a lot more weight with people that suggestions from intellectual atheists, no matter how well documented.
Stefan Molyneux videos on marriage/monogamy:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um3EmS9DKsI"]The Truth About Sex: Facts You Won't Believe Are True! - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yebxjfjy3zQ"]Promiscuity makes women crazy and unhappy â Stefan Molyneux - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj-zIfDb-Uc"]The Secret About Polyamory: What They Wonât Tell You! - YouTube[/ame]
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Re: When eugenics and racial hygiene were practiced in the USSR
That's very interesting! But I guess eugenics in the soviet union would have us to believe that jews are just like whites and so on. Also, although it seems pretty clear to me that the amount of time to race mix whites out of existence on Socialism would be a lot greater if compared to Capitalism, they still didn't actually practice racial eugenics after WW2. They only had a lot less immigration and some forced repatriations of ethnic groups which they feared that they would betray the Soviet Union as in the war.
As in regards to morals, they were indeed superior in every imaginable way to capitalist societies.
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Re: When eugenics and racial hygiene were practiced in the USSR
Eugenics is all but impossible. Our strongest instinct is to survive. Our second is to reproduce, which is just part of survival (continuing the species).
I do fully agree and wish it could be done. Early thinking people probably began to wonder what would happen if applied to humans after seeing selective breeding applied to animals.
In nature the males pretty much weed the weaker out, and have the all the females, until age, or a stronger, smarter one takes them out.
I just cant see it ever being applied to humans successfully. If people can get it, they are going to get it.
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Re: When eugenics and racial hygiene were practiced in the USSR
I am very slightly enlightened on the eugenic programs
of past Russian Governments..
But them days are passed, its good ole capitalism in the
USSR now days...
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