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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - Michal and Paul - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
Michal and Paul - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
Michal Tyser is a very nice guy, who looks great too. We were very keen to get him into action with another guy, so we set up this screentest with Paul Fresh. After a brief interview by Paul the guys start to kiss. As they kiss Paul reaches into Michal's underwear to play with his cock. Then it is back to kissing and Paul works his way down Michal's body, kissing it as he takes the cock out of the undies and then starts to suck it. It is rock hard and standing proud as Paul sucks, and removes the undies. Michal is rock hard from the mouth action on his cock and rubs Paul's back as he is sucked. Paul then lays down and pushes his undies down, so that Michal can start working on his cock. He begins to suck it and soon it is fully erect and filling his mouth. Paul removes his undies as Michal sucks him and chews on his ballsac. Next Paul moves Michal into a postion, with a leg in the air, so he has access to that hairy ass, for some rimming. He also fingers Michal's tight hole. His tongue really laps at the hole and the finger probes deeply, and very fast, getting it ready for what is to come. Before long Paul is ready and shoves his big, hard cock deep into Michal's waiting hole. He fucks that ass deep and hard, with Paul moaning as he takes it. His dick really pounds Michal's ass, stretching it wide as he fucks in and out. Michal is then moved onto his knees for more fucking. Paul really knows how to fuck and is relentless in his use of that willing hole. Michal feels every thrust, and grimaces as Paul pounds his ass, but it takes it manfully. Another change of position sees Michal sitting his ass down on Pauls rigid dick, taking it all deep in his ass. He rides up and down on that thick shaft before Paul takes over and really fucks him hard again. He pulls out and shoots a big creamy load all over Michal's balls. Michal needs to cum too and sits astride Pauls chest to dump his load. Paul, obligingly sucks on the cock to clean it off before climbing onto his knees to end the scene by kissing Michal after a very successful screentest.
... more about Michal and Paul - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT further in this newsletter
Our Coming Soon Set Preview
We brought newcomers Albert Kroka and big dicked Zdenek Kabat together for a Broke Czech Boys shoot. The guys are interviewed and then begins the video, where they are pushed to do as much as we can get them to do. Firstly they must kiss each other. So Zdenek leans over and kisses Albert and is told to caress his body as he kisses. Then he has to kiss the nipples and feel Alberts crotch. He licks at the nipple and kisses it as he rubs Alberts crotch and then it is time for Albert to reciprocate. As he does so we see Zdenek's balls in his shorts, as the leg is pulled across. Albert move to lick the second nipple, continuing to rub the crotch. Zdenek's huge dick is growing and begins to peep out of the leg of his shorts. As the instructions continue Albert's tongue pokes into Zdenek's mouth and his hand goes inside his shorts to grab that big dick. Albert then pulls Zdenek's dick out of the legs of the shorts and wanks it as he kisses him. At the same time Zdenek reaches over to feel Albert's cock in his undies. He removes Albert's undies and begins to play with his cock. Albert is then told to kiss Zdenek's cock head, and he does so, a little reluctantly, but is told to do it again, and then to lick it. Slowly he goes further and eventually is persuaded to suck that big cock, with his own cock getting hard at the same time. As he sucks that cock Zdenek reaches over and wanks him as well. Albert has a big cock too and Zdenek is told to lick it. He doesn't seem to be reluctant and does it immediately and then sucks it when told to do so. He sucks that cock real well, going down on it as far as he can, his head bobbing up and down on it as Albert wanks him. They are then told to 69 and Albert's reservations seem to have disappeared as they do it very well indeed. Albert then comes off the cock and wanks it, with Zdenek's massive balls out of his shorts too. Albert wanks that cock and Zdenek soon starts to moan, with a mouthful of cock, as he shoots a nice big load. Zdenek then reciprocates and wanks Albert to a big, creamy load, and even licks that sticky, spent cock.
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Hi, hope your holiday weekend went well. Things will be getting back to normal from today around our shop. This is one of those days when I must do an early abbreviated contribution to the Newsletter. I want to attend an important shoot in a couple of hours.
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The sets for this newsletter are very good indeed, starting off with Michal Tyser's Screentest, with Paul Fresh. Following with Michal's Czech Up with Danek Rovny and Jan Sadecky, Julius Cesta's erotic video, Zdenek Kabat's erotic video and Adam Bostiks session stills. All very good indeed.
Our castings today are Kristof Hertz, Tomas Melus, Zdenek Kabat and Tomas Belunek. A close call today but my pick of the day is Tomas Melus.
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John Waters: A Primer
John Waters will be visiting Jacksonville this holiday season to share some of his fondest Christmas memories. You can find out more about the show on the Florida Theater's website. We've put together the following list of library materials for your enjoyment and edification. Have a safe and happy holiday season!
"John Waters has done more than any living American to give bad taste a good name."
– Interview Magazine
Find John Waters @ Your Library
John Waters.
Role Models.
Find Role Models at your library
"Wanting to be notorious and also well-liked is an oddly forked ambition, but for 40 years now John Waters has been treading his double path. In books such as the new Role Models he gives the paradoxes of his image some fine-tuning. The essay on art collecting has some charmingly brisk advice for the beginner (go to the second show of an artist you like and buy something for about $5,000) and everything on his list of Five Books You Should Read to Lead a Happy Life if Something is Basically the Matter With You is worth knowing." – The Observer
John Waters.
Crackpot: The Obsessions Of John Waters.
Find Crackpot: The Obsessions Of John Waters at your library
"In Crackpot, a reissue of Waters' 1986 collection of rants and reviews, originally published in Rolling Stone and elsewhere, the sweetness of the auteur's alleged perversity shines through on every page. Whether discussing the life story of Pia Zadora or the success of Hairspray on Broadway ("The real reason I'm praying that Hairspray…succeeds is that if it's a big hit, there will be high school productions, and finally the fat girl and the drag queen will get the starring parts"), Waters exhibits a moral heart buried in the garbage of celebrity culture. In his career as filmmaker, gallery artist, journalist and professional wit, Waters has always championed the loser with irrefutable panache. This document of his clever, searching mind will inspire old fans to laugh with renewed affection, and may win him a few new admirers." – Publishers Weekly
John Waters.
Shock Value.
Thunder's Mouth.
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"Opening with his upbringing in Baltimore ('Charm City' as dubbed by the tourist board; the "hairdo capital of the world" as dubbed by Waters), it covers his friendship with his muse and leading lady, Divine, detailed accounts of how Waters made his first movies, stories of the circle of friends/actors he used in these films, and finally the 'sort-of fame' he achieves in America. Complementing the text are dozens of fabulous old photographs of Waters and crew. Here is a true love letter from a legendary filmmaker to his friends, family, and fans." – Barnes and Noble
John Waters.
New Line.
Find Hairspray at your library
"Waters doesn't try to transform the sappy fun of pop into art; he loves it for itself. He's a twenty-year veteran of the midnight-movie circuit; his affection for bad taste is no sham. And he loves narrative: he has half a dozen plots crisscrossing each other. Poor-girl Tracy has a rich-girl rival—slender, blond Amber (Colleen Fitzpatrick), who has been raised to be popular and a star. The two girls are pitted against each other as the top contenders in the Miss Auto Show 1963 contest. To complicate matters, Amber's boyfriend, Link (Michael St. Gerard), a ringer for Elvis, is fed up with her and is drawn to Tracy, white lipstick and all. Corny Collins (Shawn Thompson) wants to integrate his show but can't, because the head of the TV station—WZZT—won't permit it; this rancid boss is also played by Divine. At times, "Hairspray" suggests a home movie made by a gang of celebrities. The many plots involve Debbie Harry and Sonny Bono as Amber's parents, who are monomaniacal about her becoming Miss Auto Show; Jerry Stiller as Tracy's father; Waters himself as a sick psychiatrist; and Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora as the first of the lank-haired beatniks who are about to displace the ducktail and beehive brigades." – The New Yorker
John Waters.
New Line.
Find Polyester at your library
"Baltimore-based underground filmmaker John Waters, famous for his midnight circuit hits like Pink Flamingos, surfaces in the pro ranks with Polyester, a fitfully amusing comedy of not so ordinary people. Waters' fabled shock tactics are toned down here. Transvestite thesp Divine never steps out of character essaying the role of a housewife stuck with horrid children (Mary Garlington and Ken King) an unsympathetic husband (David Samson) and a truly evil mother (Joni Ruth White)." – Variety
John Waters.
'Til Death Do Us Part: The Complete First Season.
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"Get out the confetti, the wedding cake, and the hearse. John Waters (Hairspray, Serial Mom, Pink Flamingos) stars as the Groom Reaper in Love You To Death, the 13-episode, half-hour, anthology series featuring stories inspired by true crimes involving married couples whose once wedded bliss ends in murder. As presenter and narrator, The Groom Reaper, he brings his macabre sensibility and wry comedy to a series of dramatised stories which reveal the real life cases of ill-fated relationships, what they did, why they did it, and how they covered it up. Recalling great anthology series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, each episode of this dark, edgy, and unique series has a happy ending, John Waters style, with the guilty spouse getting caught in a way he/she never expected." – The New York Times
John Waters.
John Waters.
Cry Baby.
"John Waters's goofy, 1990 comedy about a Baltimore girl (Amy Locane) who can't decide if she should remain 'good' in her 1954 world or hang out with the motorcycle boys is funny in a scene-by-scene way, but doesn't quite gel into the grand piece the director was hoping for. The cast is exceptionally likable, however, including Johnny Depp as an Elvis type and Iggy Pop as a chattering loony. The best material is set in a fringe world of bikers and losers on the outskirts of town, and Waters writes some hilarious sardonic dialogue for the characters. Cry-Baby is the last of Waters's more undisciplined features; he followed it with the glossier but no less perverse Serial Mom." – Amazon.com
John Waters On The Holidays:
Commentary: Why John Waters Loves Christmas
A paean to Christmas by filmmaker John Waters, who counts this holiday among his many obsessions. (NPR)
Catchy And Rare: A John Waters Christmas
Director John Waters, known for making art from sleaze, has a new CD for the season, A John Waters Christmas. It includes such songs as "Here Comes Fatty Claus," "Little Mary Christmas," and "Santa Claus is a Black Man." Waters was once crowned the "Pope of Trash" by William Burroughs. (NPR)
Christmas Party Decorating With John Waters
Every December since 1966, filmmaker John Waters has hosted a huge Christmas party at his Baltimore home. Christmas is an obsession for Waters, and this year he released a holiday compilation — featuring such titles as "Here Comes Fatty Claus" — on a new CD, A John Waters Christmas. NPR's Scott Simon visited Waters as he and a team of friends prepared to decorate every room of his four-story 1928 home. Everything gets the holiday treatment, from the fireplace mantel to the electric chair (from his movie Female Trouble) that sits in his foyer. (NPR)


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The UCCS Wireless Networks
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs wireless environment is composed of over 1,400 access points, allowing for easy Internet access from within any building on campus. Access is permitted to all students, faculty, staff, and guests of the university. Different access levels with different security requirements are provided through a number of different wireless networks. In order to gain full access, an account is required. For students, faculty, and staff, your UCCS login and password are what you will use to log on to the UCCS-Wireless network. If you are a guest, you can create a temporary account by first accessing the UCCS-Guest network, and then using your temporary account to access the UCCS-Wireless network. Alternatively, guest accounts can be requested from the computing services help desk, located on the first floor of the El Pomar Center, located underneath the clock tower.
Up-to-date information about the network status and outages can be found at uccs.info. Additional information can be found at the UCCS's Office of Information Technology web site.
Access Policies
Anyone connecting to the UCCS Wireless network is required to comply with the UCCS and CU Information Technology Policies. These can be found at the following links:
- 700-002 Responsible Computing
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- 700-004 Wireless Network
- 700-005 UCCS Computer Security Policy
Available Networks
When you browse through available wireless networks on a device, whether it is a laptop, tablet, or smartphone, you are generally presented with a list of network names. Two different wireless networks are present everywhere on the UCCS campus, each providing a different level of service. The names of these networks are UCCS-Wireless and UCCS-Guest.
UCCS-Wireless is the general-purpose, full-access, secure network intended to be used by all students, faculty, and staff. This network uses WPA2 Enterprise encryption to ensure security. This network provides full access to the Internet.
At the time that you connect to the network, you should be prompted for a username and password. If you are a student, staff, or faculty member, these will be the same username and password that you use for everything else on campus, such as accessing email or lab computers. If you are a guest, your username and password will be provided as part of your temporary account created while on the UCCS-Guest network, or provided by the OIT Help Desk.
If this is the first time you are accessing the UCCS-Wireless network on a specific device, your first attempt to access a web page may be rerouted to our Network Access Control (NAC) page, depending on which type of device you are using to connect. At this point, you can make a choice between being granted Full Access or Limited Access. In order to be granted Full Access, we require users of this network to install a lightweight client known as SafeConnect in order to be allowed full access. SafeConnect itself does not enforce any policies on your device, but rather checks to make sure that your operating system is up-to-date, and that you have some form of anti-virus and anti-spyware program installed. A full list of NAC requirements can be found on the NAC requirements page. The process of downloading and installing the SafeConnect program typically takes under a minute. Once SafeConnect is installed, you will either be granted full access, or you will be directed to instructions explaining how to update your computer to be in full compliance. Additionally, after SafeConnect is installed, you should not need to visit the Network Access Control page again. From this point on, you should have full access to the Internet. After SafeConnect has been installed for the first time, you should immediately have access to the network as soon as you connect to UCCS-Wireless from this point forward (ie... you don't have to install the SafeConnect client every time you try to connect to UCCS-Wireless. That is, unless you have uninstalled the client).
The second option is Limited Access. This option is for people who can not or do not want to install the SafeConnect client. Picking this option will still grant you access to the Internet, but with several restrictions on which types of connections are allowed. Basic web browsing is allowed (HTTP and HTTPS), along with off-campus SSH and VPN connections.
UCCS-Guest is an open network which does not require any username or password to use. This network does not provide full Internet access.
Guests will be prompted with a Captive Portal were they can choose from several options.
Single Click Access is a way to quickly get internet access to resources on the world wide web for a single day. The Single Click Access is designed for temporary, day visitors to campus. Some ports are blocked for security reasons and data usage is capped.
The UCCS-Guest network can also be used to create a temporary account that can then be used to access the UCCS-Wireless wireless network. These temporary accounts are active for a week from the point in time they are created, and can be used to log in to the UCCS-Wireless network in order to gain Internet access. The username and password for these temporary accounts can be delivered to the guest either by email, or through a text message to their phone. Additionally, guests accounts can be obtained by visiting the Office of Information Technology Help Desk. For hours and location see there Get Help page.


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"Too-big-to-fail" legislation unveiled yesterday in Washington is needed to rein in the biggest U.S. banks because the Dodd-Frank Act has failed to guard taxpayers against future bailouts, the bill's sponsors said.
The four largest banks -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co -- "are nearly $2 trillion larger than they were" before getting U.S. aid to help them weather the 2008 credit crisis, Senator Sherrod Brown said in a news conference.
"If big banks want to continue risky practices, they should do so with their own assets," said Brown, an Ohio Democrat. "Our bill will ensure a level playing field for all financial institutions by ending the subsidy for Wall Street megabanks and requiring banks to have adequate capital."
Brown and Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, whose plan is opposed by key lawmakers, are proposing a 15 percent capital requirement for so-called megabanks as a way to reduce risk and remove the perception that they would get bailouts in a crisis. Mid-size and regional banks, those between $500 billion and $50 billion in assets, would need to have 8 percent capital relative to assets.
"It is our intent to have much more protection against a crisis and against a taxpayer bailout in a crisis, and it is our intent to level the playing field and take away a government policy subsidy, if you will, that exists in the market now favoring size," Vitter said during a roundtable meeting at the National Press Club on April 23.
Mid-size 'Losers'
The $500 billion threshold effectively puts a cap on growth for regional banks such as PNC Financial Services Group Inc. and BB&T Corp., which would be "losers" under the bill, according to Joseph Engelhard, a former Treasury Department official who is now senior vice president at Capital Alpha Partners LLC., a Washington-based firm that "offers predictive insight for capital-markets professionals," according to its website.
"To the extent this bill gets close to passage it will make the Fed and other regulators work even harder to implement Dodd-Frank in a tougher way," Englehard said in an interview.
The Dodd-Frank financial-regulation law was enacted in 2010, two years after a credit crisis that led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and taxpayer bailouts that helped sustain other leading financial firms. Implementation has been slowed amid disagreement within regulatory agencies and legal challenges to some rules.
Traditional Banking
At least six banks have assets exceeding the $500 billion threshold Vitter cited April 23 for the highest capital standard: JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, all based in New York, as well as Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America and San Francisco-based Wells Fargo.
Brown, 60, and Vitter, 51, say their bill would limit the government safety net of deposit insurance and discount lending to traditional banking operations and require affiliates and subsidiaries of large banks to be separately capitalized. It would provide regulatory relief to community banks including changes to a qualified mortgage rule, creating an independent bank examiner ombudsman for those institutions and adopting privacy notice simplification.
For Brown, who was elected to the Senate in 2006 after serving in the House, the proposal recalls his failed effort during debate over what became the Dodd-Frank Act to include an amendment to limit banks' size. Vitter, who was elected in 2004 and joined Republicans in nearly unanimous opposition to Dodd- Frank, has criticized proposed Basel III capital standards as a "mess" and said they should be thrown out.
Chairman's Opposition
Their legislation faces obstacles to enactment, starting in the Senate Banking Committee, where Chairman Tim Johnson, a South Dakota Democrat, has said regulators should finish work on Dodd-Frank before determining whether it solves too big to fail. Senator Mike Crapo, the Idaho lawmaker who is the panel's top Republican, said in an interview that setting capital standards is a job for regulators, not legislators.
The Brown-Vitter bill is also opposed by Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who excoriated banks for their pre- crisis risk-taking in his role as chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
"I want to have tough regulation, which is what I think Dodd-Frank stood for and explicitly says," Levin said in an interview. "I'm fighting for that. I can't at the same time give up on that and say 'break up the banks.'"
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Switch to Direct Modeling Speeds Furniture Maker's CAD Workflow10 Jan, 2013 By: Cyrena Respini-Irwin
Kimball International moves to Solid Edge with synchronous technology and gains shorter design times and simplified reuse of legacy data.
If you're reading this article at work, odds are good that you're seated in an office chair — and possibly one created by Kimball International, an Indiana-based company that designs and manufactures furniture and electronics. The company's furniture segment provides desks, chairs, and the like under the brand names Kimball Office, National Office Furniture, and Kimball Hospitality.
Kimball's history stretches back to 1950, a time when the office and hospitality furniture market was much different than it is today. In recent years, Kimball has been faced with a business environment that's changing on every front; competition, materials, customer expectations, and even the office itself are all evolving quickly.
"A few years ago, we had very little competition; now, the competition is global," said Ricardo Espinosa, R&D Engineering Services manager at Kimball, pointing to challengers in China and Latin America, as well as some closer to home. "The whole market is requiring shorter development times." Globalization also affects the demand for new materials in furniture, he observed, as more exotic options are brought into the United States from around the world, and customers gain a greater awareness of the value of sustainable materials.
Changes in office technology and workflows pose their own challenges, as more workplaces migrate to an open floorplan intended to facilitate collaboration and networking. "The open office is the main driver for what we've been doing [design-wise] in the past three years," said Espinosa. "Cubicle farms are almost gone; there's a lot more interaction between people." And with the prevalence of technologies such as tablet computers and smartphones, far more employees are on the move during the day, he noted. "You need a lot more flexibility, you need mobility, [but you still] need privacy."
Transition Time
Espinosa believes that cost reduction is essential to remaining competitive in this volatile landscape, especially in the hospitality market. "For hotels, you have to provide something that looks really good for very little money," he commented.
Finding fat to trim, however, has become increasingly difficult. "A few years ago," Espinosa explained, "cost reductions came from materials and processes, but we have come to the end of that [strategy]; supply chains are optimized, and we are already using cost-efficient materials. Now we're working on the way we design products" — and that means turning an eye to new tools.
Kimball's designers had been using traditional, history-based Solid Edge 3D modeling software since 2004. In 2008, Siemens PLM Software released Solid Edge with synchronous technology — a history-free, feature-based modeling solution that simultaneously synchronizes geometry and rules through a decision-making inference engine. Created to accelerate design processes, synchronous technology helps designers reuse CAD data, incorporate data from multiple CAD systems, and make design changes quickly.
Complex curved surfaces and plastic cast parts (left), and a credenza assembly (right), all designed by Kimball product engineers using Solid Edge. Images courtesy of Siemens PLM Software.
Espinosa began evaluating synchronous technology a couple of years ago, using just one computer to experiment with it whenever he had a spare moment. He timed himself performing typical design tasks using the company's existing version of Solid Edge, followed by the same tasks using Solid Edge with synchronous technology. "It was some time before I was completely convinced this was the way to go, [but] it was faster for everything," he reported.
Convincing himself was only the first step, however. The next task was to convince everyone else at Kimball. Like any midsized company, Kimball was slow to embrace change, he said, "but I was able to prove [my case] with real products and real part numbers."
Training Strategy
The transition to synchronous technology began in the summer of 2012, with a carefully selected test group. Eight superusers were trained with the help of an external consultant, then spent several months designing products from scratch. Once the core group had uncovered any kinks in the training process, its experience and knowledge was shared with the rest of the team, Espinosa explained. The remaining product engineers were separated into groups of eight to ten, according to their job functions, for specialized training sessions.
Kimball completed the transition in mid-September, having trained all 50 engineers on synchronous technology, plus almost 300 employees on Teamcenter, Siemens PLM Software's product lifecycle management software. "I can't say that the transition was perfect ... but I believe all [the problems we encountered] are minor things, and we expected them."
Espinosa expected that it would take an additional three to six months to get all product engineers up to the same level of productivity as the test group, but he noticed benefits of the changeover right away. "The general population is getting happier because how they can do the work better," he said, reporting that design work is "less repetitive, less tiring, and more fun" with synchronous technology.
Not everyone shares that view, of course. Espinosa received complaints from about seven users, one of whom called the move to synchronous technology "the worst thing we ever did." The greatest resistance has come from longtime users — those with decades of experience in the company. "It's really hard for them to think differently," Espinosa observed. He explained that younger employees are helping their older counterparts understand the system more quickly, and Kimball is developing special training for the die-hard fans of history-based modeling. "It's less about [teaching] synchronous technology than about opening minds," he said.
Reusing Legacy Design Data
When Espinosa was evaluating synchronous technology, one benefit garnered particular attention: "[The fact] that we were able to reuse legacy data was ideal." Much of the company's CAD data was created using I-deas software, and although some of it is decades old, it's still valuable. With synchronous technology, Kimball's designers can easily reuse that data in new designs, instead of starting fresh each time.
Kimball designers can import legacy assemblies into Solid Edge with synchronous technology, and quickly make small changes or adjustments to dimensions. They can also create models without performing additional calculations. The import process, which used to take days, now takes just minutes. That's important, as the company still keeps thousands of components in legacy formats.
"We really work on reusing existing legacy information," said Espinosa. "We had it in the vault and never used it; now that vault is open, and we're saving a lot of time versus working from scratch." Although details and design concepts — such as ergonomics and sustainability — may change, the fundamental components of furniture design remain the same over time. "We're not reinventing the wheel; a chair is a chair, a desk is a desk," Espinosa pointed out. "Almost everything we do starts with a legacy component ... 90% of what we do is based on existing information."
This Kimball WaveWorks Workstation with Timberlane chairs was designed and rendered with Solid Edge. Image courtesy of Siemens PLM Software.
And it's not just a matter of translating legacy data; Kimball works with suppliers across Europe, India, and China, all of whom have their own CAD systems. "With synchronous technology, we don't even care if it's SolidWorks or CATIA. ... We just ask the suppliers to send us [files in] STL or IGS format, and we start from there," Espinosa explained. "Every single industry could take advantage of this."
In addition, the internal design team sometimes works with contract designers, architects, and customers who create designs using 3ds Max or Rhino — or even ballpoint pen and a napkin. "We have all kinds of sources," Espinosa said. "It doesn't matter where the idea comes from, we have to create a 3D model and specifications. ... This is where synchronous technology helps a lot."
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Ron Guth: The mintage of the 1855 Half Dime dropped significantly from that of the previous two years, but it was still large enough that this date carries only a very small premium over the normal type. Dozens are known in MS63, MS64, and MS65, with the highest concentrations appearing in MS64. MS66 examples are very rare (to the tune of half a dozen examples) and none have been certified finer by PCGS.
Clashed dies, weak denticles, and striated planchets are typical of this date, and fully struck examples are truly scarce, if they exist at all.
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From 1977 onward a significant number--perhaps 30,000--Episcopalians left the Episcopal Church/U.S.A. because it had begun to ordain women as priests; had changed or was changing radically on a variety of sexual-ethical issues, for instance, on abortion and on the indissolubility of Christian marriage, and had altered The Book of Common Prayer (B.C.P.) in ways that the departers perceived as falsifying certain Christian doctrines.
Most of these former Episcopalians established or entered what are called "continuing Anglican Churches," some of which are of evangelical or low-church orientation and others are of Anglo-Catholic orientation. These churches are relatively small and often factious groups.
A much smaller number of former Episcopalian laity and clergy were received into the Catholic Church, some into a "continuing unit" that provided a corporate existence for "Anglican-use" congregations in accord with norms issued by the Holy See in 1980 and implemented under the supervision of the Most Rev. Bernard F. Law, then Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., and now Cardinal-Archbishop of Boston.
Although this Pastoral Provision, as it was called, permitted already-married former Episcopal priests to be ordained as Catholic priests (about 85 have been so ordained) after careful evaluation of each candidate's application, and resulted over the years in the formation of about half a dozen Anglican-use parishes throughout the country, it was notably restrictive in what it permitted former Episcopalians to bring along with them from The Book of Common Prayer and included no plan for their continuing existence as a corporate body.
Some elements from the B.C.P.'s Eucharistic liturgy and daily offices were permitted, but, for the former, usually in concert with elements of the Roman Sacramentary. The Anglican-use congregations were incorporated as personal parishes in the local Latin-rite dioceses.
It would seem that this 1980 Provision has a bleak future. Why? It does not sufficiently embody and safeguard the Anglican/Episcopal liturgical and spiritual tradition for those who wish to retain this tradition in as integral a manner as possible; and it does not provide a jurisdictional framework that will permit the continuing parishes to maintain their distinctness, interact fruitfully and grow within the Catholic Church.
The issue is raised again today because about 15 of the Anglican provinces (of a total of 30) now ordain or have voted to ordain women as priests. The Church of England, mother church of the Anglican Communion, recently so voted. At least two provinces, those of the United States and New Zealand, have already ordained women as bishops. Others are likely to do so. For the former Anglicans or the departing Anglicans these steps constitute the final proof that Anglicanism no longer has a valid claim (with Rome and Orthodoxy, as they formerly thought) to share the historic faith and order of Catholic Christianity.
Bishop Graham Leonard, recently retired Anglican Bishop of London and a leader of those Anglicans who believe they can no longer stay within the Church of England, has called for a continuing Anglican group to live in communion with the Holy See. His idea, not a new one, has been thrashed over for about 75 years in a variety of romantic and unrealizable forms. Does the idea have any merit in any form?
It seems that a more generous, creative and enlightened yet perfectly orthodox reception ought to be available to those former Episcopalians and Anglicans (anywhere in the world) who seek an ecclesial life in communion with the Bishop of Rome as their true spiritual home. Yes, their numbers in anyone place are likely to be small; but they are seeking to end a schism more than 450 years old, not to begin one, which other Anglicans or Episcopalians, unfortunately but understandably, will label them as doing. What can we do for these Christians who, moved by conscience to seek a new spiritual home, are knocking at the papal door?
Back in 1980 it seems that U.S. Catholic leaders, and perhaps also relevant officials of the Holy See, showed only a modest, even embarrassed interest in those former Episcopalians seeking communion with Rome. (It must be emphasized that only some former Episcopalians sought to take such a step. Most did not.) Some ecumenists no doubt held that a positive outreach to the departing Episcopalians would be viewed as sheep-stealing, harmful for the ecumenical dialogue in general and a concession to "traditionalists."
Such an approach, I think, is mistaken and may explain the cramped nature of the 1980 Pastoral Provision. Anglicans and Episcopalians have a beautiful liturgical, hymnological, spiritual and scholarly heritage, all of which, with only those modifications needed to prevent ambiguity or false teaching, they ought to be able to bring with them into the Catholic Church.
Can we do better now? I think so. But only the will and wisdom of the ecclesiastical authorities can make it so. We should approve, with necessary revisions, the American Book of Common Prayer, both in its 1979 and 1928 editions, since some former Episcopalians strongly prefer the older edition. When the need arises, a similar editing and enrichment of the B.C.P. as it is used in other provinces of the Anglican Communion would be in order. This prospect of yet more liturgical variety within the unity of the Catholic Church may distress some, but such variety was for many centuries the rule rather than the exception in our church.
As revised, the B.C.P., its original versions having been composed in the main from late medieval Catholic service books, could be the liturgical book used by those congregations of former Anglicans received into full communion with the Catholic Church.
Catholics should welcome the hymnological and other musical traditions of the Anglican Communion and authorize the use of such hymnals in Anglican-use congregations. We should welcome the heritage of spirituality and scholarship in the ecclesiastical sciences common to Anglicans, particularly in the British Isles and in North America. This spiritual and ecclesial heritage, preserved and promoted now in the context of the belief, life and worship of all the churches, Eastern and Western, in communion with the Bishop of Rome, can only enrich the Catholic Church.
To insure that the continuing Anglican-use congregations maintain their spiritual identity and have a framework in which they can mutually interact and grow, we should establish a special geographical (rather than merely personal) prelature for them on the model of the Eastern Rite exarchates (Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Chaldean, Melkite, Maronite, Romanian, Armenian) that Pope John Paul II and his predecessors have established in this country and then, after a time, have promoted to full-fledged dioceses or eparchies. In such a framework the Anglican-use congregations will find guidance, direction, mutual support and needed institutional structures.
Clearly, as with the current Provision, each person being received into the Catholic Church must be able to accept and affirm the entire content of the church's binding teaching, in accord with the standard profession of faith, and receive the sacrament of confirmation. For the common good of the entire church here and elsewhere, too, future candidates for the priesthood must be willing to embrace the celibate state, although, as now, clergy already married when received into the church may be considered for Catholic ordination.
These latter clergy, in order to function as Catholic priests, must receive sacramental ordination in the Catholic Church.
I expect that the proposal outlined here will draw sharp criticism from those Catholics who want their own church to take the same doctrinal position that official Anglicanism has already taken or is now taking. It will also draw the ire of Catholics, Anglicans or other Christians who view the step as a concession to a group of idiosyncratic, traditionalist Christians. Still others will view it as the creation of new and harmful "unia" (the Eastern Orthodox designation for those Eastern Churches that, over many centuries, have restored communion with the Bishop of Rome) or as an anti-ecumenical step that, in any case, is just not needed.
To be sure, all interested observers should express their sincere convictions. Catholics, however, must approach the issue with respect for the authentic doctrinal convictions of their own church. The salvation of souls, moreover, is the supreme law. Those former Anglicans or Episcopalians who, on their own initiative and in a corporate way, seek full communion with the Holy See as their rightful spiritual home ought to receive from us a generous welcome.
Let the papal door swing wide! After all, we do believe, do we not, what Vatican II teaches ("Dogmatic Constitution on the Church," No.8; "Decree on Ecumenism," No.3): that the Catholic Church is their God-intended spiritual home?
From 1977 onward a significant number--perhaps 30,000--Episcopalians left the Episcopal Church/U.S.A. because it had begun to ordain women as priests; had changed or was changing radically on a variety of sexual-ethical issues, for instance, on abortion and on the indissolubility of Christian marriage, and had altered The Book of Common Prayer (B.C.P.) in ways that the departers perceived as falsifying certain Christian doctrines.


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(See? Healthy as an ox. A big, crazy, racist ox. )
Thanks to CP reader David T. for passing along the good news via ShockMansion.com:
"A few reports coming out of Russia claimed Viacheslav Datsik had been killed in a prison fight. Alexander Zubov, Head of Press Service of the Federal Penitentiary Service management for St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, said 'This is fictional. Who profits, I cannot say. Datsik is healthy, eating, has recently been out for a walk'."
The original report quoted St. Petersburg human-rights attorney Joseph Gabunia, who claimed that Datsik was stabbed to death in a brawl — but if a Russian prison publicist says that Red Tarzan recently went for a walk, then that's good enough for us. Although if Datsik was killed, I guess that wouldn't be the end of the world either.
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On a small island, that is, a cliff, northwest of Ulcinj, in the inlet Kruče, there are the ruins of what were thought to be the remnants of the Old Town of Ulcinj – Dolcigno Vecchio. According to the Venetian historical documents, it was assumed that the ancient Olcinium was located between this crag and the shore and that it sank. However, the later archaeological explorations have found that a small signal station (specula) was placed on this rock, that is, on this little island in the ancient times, and that in the Middle Ages a fortress was built there which served as a watchtower.
The Old Town is a core of cultural and historical heritage of Ulcinj. On the upper plateau of the fortress, next to the northern gate, there is a museum complex of the city. This is where the most interesting monuments of the history of Ulcinj are located. There is a church-mosque converted into a museum where all findings from the Old Town are exhibited. An ancient pedestal with a Greek inscription to the goddess Artemis is particularly noteworthy as well as an antique cameo with the image of the goddess Athens with helmet, two axes from the Bronze Age of the Skadar-Dalmatian type. The Collection of Stone Monuments contains Ionic capitals, parts of the ciborium from Mala crkva (the Small Church) from the ninth century and objects from the Turkish period. Right behind the museum there is Kula Balšića (the Balšić's Tower) whose premises are used today by a gallery. In front of it there is a small square, once known as Trg robova (the Slave Square) which is enclosed by casemates (arches) of the fortress. At the entrance there is a fortress ramp and across from it there is a high wall Balani from the Venetian era. In front of the entrance to the museum there is a Turkish drinking fountain from 1749.
Nearby there is the Ethnological Museum with an extremely rich collection of exhibits. Many streets lead to the lower plateau of the fortress. In front of the southern entrance to the city foundation of Bogorodicna crkva (the Orthodox Church of the Holy Mother of God) from the twelfth century is located which was later converted to the Catholic church of St. Marko. Not far from there, there is a Turkish powder magazine from the eighteenth century covered in irregular-shape calotte. On the place where today's Palata Venecija (Palace of Venice) stands there were the remains of the building which was assumed to have been the seat of the governor of the city during the Venetian rule. Because of its beauty and functionality subsequent rulers had used the building as palace. Not far from Palata Venecija there is Dvori Balsica (The Balšićs' Castle) which consists of a large Venetian building.
The Old Town of Ulcinj hosted a famous Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes as prisoner who had subsequently wrote the world famous novel "Don Quixote." Since the city's name was Cita di Dolcinio, Cervantes named his hero's mistress Dulcinea after the city of Ulcinj in which he was imprisoned for five years. Even today in Ulcinj there is a square where slaves were brought and sold and is called Trg robova (the Square of Slaves) or Servantesov trg (the Square of Cervantes).


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An employee filed a claim with the Kansas Department of Labor (KDOL) for wages under the provisions of the Kansas Wage payment Law, K.S.S 44-313 et.seq. The law provides that the Office
of Administrative Hearings shall conduct a hearing and decide issues raised by the claim.
The Presiding Officer will conduct the hearing under the principles of "due process of law." The decision will be based solely on the facts of the case and the applicable law. You and/or
your legal counsel will appear by telephone for the scheduled hearing. Any party who fails to attend or participate in a prehearing, hearing or other state of an adjudicative proceeding
may be held in default pursuant to K.S.A. 77-520 of the Kansas Administrative Procedure Act. At the hearing, the claimant and the employer may submit testimony under oath and documentary
The Office of Employment Standards has provided a copy of the claim documents to the Office of Administrative Hearings. However, you must mail all documents that you desire to present
as evidence to the Office of Administrative Hearings located at 1020 S. Kansas, Topeka, Kansas 66612 at least seven days prior to the date of the hearing. Copies of all documents must be
mailed to the opposing party. These documents must be received prior to the scheduled hearing or they will not become part of the record.
If you have questions about the witnesses, subpoenas and documents, please contact the Office of Administrative Hearings at (785) 296-2433 prior to your hearing date.
It is important that this hearing be conducted on the date it is first scheduled. If there is a reason that you cannot attend the hearing, notify the Presiding Officer immediately.
You may attend the hearing without an attorney. However, if you have an attorney, he/she may participate at any stage of the hearing. You must pay your own attorney fees. If you have an
attorney, he/she must be licensed to practice law in Kansas or associated with an attorney who is licensed to practice in Kansas.
If you do not appear, the Presiding Officer will issue a decision based on testimony and other evidence. If you filed the claim, but fail to appear, it is very likely that you will lose.
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SYCAMORE — For Kelli Larsen, Sunday, Oct. 21 was a dream come true.
After a full year of spending every Saturday rebuilding a house on Roosevelt Court in Sycamore, Larsen was finally able to call a house a home after years of renting. It was a gift she always wanted to give her 14-year-old son Keagon and 21-year-old son Eathon, who has yet to see his new home because he is in South Korea with the military.
"It's been an adventure," Larsen said of building a home with volunteers from Habitat for Humanity. "The hearts of many have really been in this house and it has a lot of memories already."
Sunday marked the 11th home the DeKalb County Habitat for Humanity volunteers dedicated to a family in need – a milestone volunteer coordinator Chris Atherton said she was happy to reach. Unlike most Habitat for Humanity homes, Atherton said volunteers rehabilitated an early 1900s home instead of building from the ground up.
The major overhaul, which included stripping the house down to the studs, presented more challenges than usual for the group. Atherton said difficulties, such as removing the whole basement floor, and surprises, such as books and bottles found in the walls, made the build one of the most unique experiences for the group.
"The thing with rehabbing is you never know what you are going to find," Atherton said. "It was a cool experience."
Habitat for Humanity serves the community by building – along with the chosen family – simple and affordable homes with no interest loans to families who meet the qualifications. Those qualifications include living in DeKalb County for at least a year, meeting income requirements and living in unsafe or substandard housing.
And despite a downturn in the economy and increase in foreclosures, Atherton said the group is struggling to find families to build for. She said she was not sure if people were intimidated by the application process, but encouraged eligible residents to submit applications and seek out information at www.hfhdcillinois.org.
"We have a lot of options in DeKalb," she said. "And we have people inquire but then we don't hear from them again."
Larsen said after working for a full year with volunteers to achieve her dream of home ownership, she would recommend Habitat for Humanity to anyone who needed the assistance. Larsen addressed more than 20 of the volunteers and friends Sunday in her new home as she thanked everyone involved while holding back tears of happiness.
"What a sight it is," she said of her new home. "We finally have a place to call our own."
Larsen's new home would not be possible without the help of volunteers such as Curt Willard who came out every Saturday to organize volunteers in the mornings and work in the afternoons.
Willard said volunteering to build homes has become a passion as he has helped with seven houses in the county and even took a trip to Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina to help rebuild. Although the construction labor comes after long work weeks, Willard said he would not trade in his experiences for anything.
"It's such a warm feeling," he said about watching families enter their home for the first time. "It's always very rewarding to see the final results."
In addition to seeking families to build for, Habitat for Humanity also is seeking volunteers and people to serve on its board. Atherton said those interested can email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 815-758-5055.
Habitat seeks board members
Habitat for Humanity of DeKalb County is seeking interested people to sit on a committee or on the board of directors.
The board of directors assists in selecting partner families, building planning and fundraising, among other activities. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 815-758-5055.


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We now know how many people responded to the offer of an internship at Charlie Sheen, inc. Are you sitting down?
According to Internship.com, in the first two days since Sheen posted the offer on its site, more than 74,000 people have applied. The gig, in case you missed it the first time around, is a social media internship, working for the former TV star turned fastest-ever-to-a-million-followers on Twitter.
It's a paid job; Sheen himself saying he needs someone to help him handle all the attention that's come his way in the social media world. In a fitting touch, the application asks you to keep the "Why I should get the job" part to 75 words or less.
We'll keep following this, and eventually let you know who gets it. Just know that if you haven't applied yet, there's a long line ahead of you.
Scott is resigned to keeping his current job. He's on Twitter: @scottbudman


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Hey, Boyfriend! Male Reproductive Choices
Excerpted and adapted from S.E.X., the Scarleteen Book
If you're someone with a penis who's with a uterus-toting partner, even though you're not the one who can become pregnant, you still get and have choices, and you still should participate in birth control use and responsibility just as much as your partner unless you both -- not just either one of you -- want and are prepared for a pregnancy. Understand that many methods, such as hormonal birth control like the pill or Depo-Provera, carry risks and side effects (and they don't offer any STI protection). Since women bear a far greater burden with pregnancy as well, many prefer to back up their birth control with condom use. So, while it may seem to you that a given method is best and easiest for you, your partner may not feel the same way since she's the one who needs to live with it, short and long-term.
For instance, she's the one who may have a diminished sex drive or less natural lubrication because of the pill, and the one who will need to remember to take it at the same time every day. She's the one who will have to be most responsible, and deal with the most changes to her body and her life if and when an unplanned pregnancy does occur, whatever choice she may make with that pregnancy. If a given method seems like a good choice to you, by all means, bring it up for discussion, but know that the choice is primarily your partner's to make, and she's the best one to make it.
It might be difficult for you to understand the weight of birth control use for women; to comprehend how much a woman has to think about it, how much real estate it takes up in her head. However, it's not unlike safer sex practices, which you can know plenty about. While sexually transmitted infections are something else that women as a group and a class tend to bear the greatest burdens with, STIs still can have a tremendous impact on your life and body.
Think about the flip-flopping that might sometimes go round in your head when you're making those choices --
Do I really need to use a condom for oral sex? Can I get away with not using one for intercourse just this once? Didn't I hear her ex-cheated? What if she got a disease from him? When do I ask her about it? How will she react? What if she takes it as an insult, or thinks I don't trust her? Do I even have condoms with me tonight?
-- the strong desire to avoid an STI, and even how sometimes, it just feels tiresome, or kills your buzz, to have to bring worries and practical issues to bed with you when you just want to freely enjoy yourself without being bogged down with the heavy stuff. Your girlfriend shoulders all that, just like you, and all of those sorts of issues when it comes to pregnancy and birth control that you really don't.
If you're in a long-term or committed sexual partnership with a woman, it's a great idea to suggest helping to shoulder aspects of birth control you can contribute to, like paying for it, helping with transportation to OB/GYN visits, or playing the part you can when it comes to using a given method.
Since you're unlikely to find a doctor that will advocate or allow vasectomy for young men, if you're sexually active, the three methods you can use which are directed by you, or reliant upon you, are condom use (98% effective with perfect use, and 85% effective with typical use), withdrawal (96% effective with perfect use, and 73-82% effective with typical use) or deciding not to have the kinds of sex which present pregnancy risks. All of these methods or choices can be very effective with proper use, and all are great backup methods for other forms of contraception.
Beyond safer sex issues, condom use makes for excellent birth control backup for any other method (though withdrawal can also be used as a backup, it just offers no STI protection), so insisting on that and being in charge of that aspect of birth control can be a great role for you. If we're talking about abstaining from sex which can create pregnancy, since so many young women report feeling that intercourse is something boyfriends push for, if you can be someone to support or initiate not going there, not only is that one way to prevent pregnancy, it also can give your female partner a clear sense that intercourse isn't something she should feel she has to do for your benefit, especially if it carries risks she doesn't want to take or can't yet reduce otherwise.
Understand, too, that when it all comes down to it, of all the birth control options there are, condoms are one of the -- if not the -- least invasive options there are when it comes to side effects as well as the alteration of sexual sensation, for all partners. So, if you think that condoms get in the way of YOU feeling everything you want to feel during sex, remember that most other methods impair or disrupt female sexual sensation far more. Withdrawal may not reduce sensation at all, but it, too, disrupts sexual experience to some degree if a male partner wants to continue with intercourse to or through orgasm/ejaculation.
What if an unplanned pregnancy does happen?
When we're talking about reproductive choice per pregnancy, it's important for folks who have the capacity to co-create a pregnancy but not to become pregnant themselves to recognize that your major choices are choosing to have the kind of sex that presents those risks or not, and choosing to use a method of birth control or not if you do have the kinds of sex which pose pregnancy risks to reduce the risk of pregnancy.
If and when an unplanned pregnancy does happen to a partner because of sex you had with her, this is another arena where your practical choices are limited. A partner who is pregnant has the right to choose either abortion or to give birth and parent on her own, without your permission or acceptance of that choice. Adoption, in many areas (including in the United States), requires your legal agreement. If and when a partner who is pregnant chooses to remain pregnant and parent, you may have some legal financial responsibilities. You will not usually be legally required to actively co-parent, however, that partner and any child will often have very real, big practical and emotional needs for you to do so. Single parenting is doable, but it can be very hard on both a child and parent.
We understand that that can cause many cisgender men to feel like things are out of their control they would prefer are in them. If it's any consolation, many cisgender women in the world would also prefer that biology didn't have its own sexism in this regard, too, and would be delighted if men could also get pregnant, or if a partner's body and life could truly share all of what pregnancy entails for people who themselves become pregnant and deliver. And once more, you always get to choose not to have the kinds of sex which pose pregnancy risks. That choice poses no side effects for you, no possibility of financial, legal or emotional responsibilities, and won't do you or anyone else any kind of harm.
Hopefully, if and when an unplanned pregnancy happens, you can be a supportive partner, even if they aren't someone you're currently in a serious relationship with. It's often very isolating to be pregnant when it wasn't planned (sometimes even when it was), and it's particularly hard on a woman if and when her partner is unsupportive.
Planned Parenthood offers a good breakdown of the difference between an unsupportive partner and a compassionate partner in unplanned pregnancy when a woman is choosing abortion, but these things hold with any reproductive choice:
The unsupportive partner is the guy who rejects any responsibility for the pregnancy. He may stop speaking with his girlfriend or refuse to help her pay for [an] abortion. She got into this situation with his help, but he won't help her. Maybe he offers some money to help pay for the procedure, but doesn't offer any emotional support. Sometimes the unsupportive partner is anti-choice and refuses to be involved with the abortion. He may even try to stop his partner from having an abortion.
The compassionate partner supports his girlfriend in her choices about an unintended pregnancy, including the choice to have an abortion, even if he doesn't agree with her choice. Although he may share his feelings about abortion with his partner, he respects and accepts her decision, too. In whatever way he can, he tries to help pay for the abortion. He may attend medical appointments with her, participating however he can. And he helps his partner get her life back to normal after the abortion. Although he may disagree with her choice, the compassionate partner knows that his partner is the one who is pregnant.
The best ways to do be both a supportive partner, and to best support yourself, tend to involve:
- Let her know that even if you're upset and scared (like she probably is, too), you're going to do your best to be supportive, and are around for her to talk to. Asking her if you can talk with her, too, when you need to talk, and setting any limits and boundaries either of you need for that to feel emotionally safe for both of you.
- Don't blame or accuse, ask questions. If you are earnestly not certain the pregnancy is because of sex with you, or wonder if she used her birth control properly, it's okay to have those questions. But it's important to ask them, fairly and kindly, not to yell, blame or gossip. It's also important to recognize of what use or value some questions have: for instance, if one or both of you didn't use a method properly, finding out who did what or didn't still isn't going to make a pregnancy go away, and acrimony between you won't help you deal with a pregnancy well.
- Assure her that you will support whatever choice she feels is best for her to make with her pregnancy. After all, this isn't happening in your body. It's happening in hers. You can ask her if you can also state your preference, if you have one. If she says yes, you can tell her what that is, make yourself open to talking about it if she wants to, but also reassure her if she's not in agreement, you will understand. If she says no, you can simply respect that.
- Offer to help her with any practical needs, such as transportation to pre-natal care, an adoption agency or abortion clinic, a fair share of financial help with any choice she makes, or any research she wants help with either in making a choice, or after her choice is made.
- Have and respect sound emotional boundaries. Manage any anger or upset as best you can, being sure to be kind and fair in your words and actions. Neither of you wound up in this spot alone, after all, so it's never okay for either partner to put all the responsibility on the other, unless either refused to take no for an answer with sex, use a method of birth control when requested, or one person sabotaged the other's method. It's okay if you're freaked out and upset: again, she probably is, too. Just remember that while it's okay for you both to unload your feelings together, she is still in the more vulnerable position, bearing a greater burden than you are or can.
- Take care of yourself. Even though a woman bears a far greater burden, your emotional care is also important. Facing an unwanted pregnancy and the choices with it are a very big deal, especially if you are unprepared for them. Just because women have more needs in pregnancy doesn't mean men have none. So, be sure to seek out your own care and support, too. If you really need to vent, or are feeling very angry, it's also generally more sound to bring those feelings to someone who is not pregnant.
- Be honest and realistic. None of us are perfect or limitless, and that's okay. So, when she's making her choice, if you strongly feel, for instance, or know, that you don't feel you can commit to 18+ years of parenting, she needs that information to help her make the best choices for herself and a possible child. If you don't feel you can give emotional support after an adoption or abortion, she needs to know that so if she chooses those things, she can arrange for other people to give her that. If you have doubts or reservations about any aspect of her choice that involves you, speak up: that way her choices can be informed ones, and any agreements you to make can be as fair as possible for both of you.
- Advocate for each other. Especially if you're young, an unwanted pregnancy can result in abuse or maltreatment from others, like friends, family or school administrations. If she's choosing abortion or adoption and wants to keep that private, respect her privacy. If she or you are telling your parents, be a united front, having those talks with them together, not going them alone. Make clear to outsiders that you're sharing responsibility, not blaming each other.
It may also happen that you someday have a partner who isn't responsible with her part in birth control, or who wishes to become pregnant when you really don't wish to be involved in that. In those situations, the burden of birth control, via condoms, or by vetoing sex if you don't agree with a partner about readiness for parenthood, may lie solely with you, and you have every right to insist your OWN choices be respected.
It's also completely okay to insist on birth control backup via condom use or withdrawal, even if your partner has told you she already uses an additional method. If you need or want a backup for your own security, your need for extra protection is just as valid as hers. Of course, if you have any reason to believe you can't trust your partner in being honest about already using a method, the best tactic is not to sexually partner with that person at all: trust is an important and vital part of healthy sexual partnership.
On the other hand, you may want or feel ready for parenthood when your female partner isn't, or may wish not to worry about birth control altogether. In other words, it may be you doing or thinking about the birth control sabotage or irresponsibility. Thing is...well, let's not tiptoe. That's not okay. If you're ready for sexual partnership, you need to also be ready to deal with birth control and to respect your partner's wishes when it comes to parenthood and birth control options. If you have a partner who wants to use condoms as birth control and you just don't, then you need to be able to just opt out of sex with that person, taking responsibility for your own wants, rather than battling them or arguing.
You should be just as responsible for birth control as your partner is.
No matter what kind of sexual relationship you're in, you still need to be bringing your half of birth control responsibility to the table, rather than assuming your female partner is or must be solely responsible for taking care of that: like any other part of partnered sex, birth control should be a game for two. That's not just an ethical issue, it's a practical one: if you don't and a pregnancy does occur, your female partner can hold you legally responsible should she see a pregnancy through to term. So, even though it may feel like it's not your issue, and you do have limited choices in the matter, a good deal of responsibility does still lie with you, and to be a good partner, you need to step up and take charge of the aspects you can.
Be sure and talk together with partners about all of these issues, ideally in advance of sex together. A lot of people set up precedents in male/female sexual relationships where anything to do with birth control is entirely on the person who can become pregnant. That doesn't serve men or women. It sets up women to feel like they're in that aspect of sex alone, which doesn't make sense with something that's about partnership, and it can set men up to feel like they get no say, and like they have no responsibilities, which doesn't actually leave most people feeling very empowered. Talking in advance about safer sex, birth control, and the possibility of pregnancy helps assure the choice you both make will be in good alignment with what you both want and feel ready to handle, will make managing birth control a lot easier, and will help make your sexual partnership more of a partnership. And if it turns out in those talks you find you and a potential partner are on radically different pages with any of this -- like if you are anti-abortion, but that's what she says she'd want, like if she wants a kid soon, but you really don't -- having those talks ahead of time can allow you to choose not to be with a partner at all; not to risk situations where it seems clear from the outset, would likely be a real mess.
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The Super Lig holder agreed a fee with Inter to engage in talks with the Netherlands international earlier in the week, and the sporting director admits that his side expect to announce the midfielder's arrival soon.
"Sneijder transfer is one of great interest, especially the president's. All that is left is for the player to agree to the move," Albayrak told Sporx. "His wages are too high for Inter, and right now, it is most likely that the player will accept our terms."
"He is thinking about giving us an answer this evening. Perhaps he has yet to talk to other clubs, but Inter have agreed a deal with us for a fraction of his market value."
However, Albayrak stopped short of giving the transfer his seal of approval, adding: "There is no signature without the agreement so I cannot say much more.
"I've got to be very cautious and represent my club's interests."


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Dynamic dancing horses; fast, flashy, massive and magnificent horses; energizing equine entertainment; plus World Champion riders sharing secrets to their success….See it all and much more, at the Northwest Horse Fair & Expo 2014, presented by Bison Coach, March 21 through 24 at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center in Albany, Oregon. "We're thrilled to present the 15th Annual Northwest Horse Fair & Expo once again to Albany! We offer world-class clinics, a huge variety of horses on display, a gigantic trade show, plus our third annual competition: the All Breed Challenge! We invite all horse owners and horse lovers to join us for the Northwest Horse Fair & Expo 2014, as we Celebrate the Spirit of the Horse!" said John Cloe, Event Founder and Manager.
Competition Strategies for Mountain Trail & All–Breed Challenges.
Special Thursday Evening Clinic!
����������� Two World Champion competitors will present a dynamic clinic, to kick off the Northwest Horse Fair festivities, followed by the first round of the All Breed Challenge. The Thursday evening action, sponsored by KRKT, begins at 5pm March 20. Mitch and JoLinn Hoover, from Eugene, will apply their 35 years of world-class competitive, training, and coaching experience, to present a top-notch clinic, perfect for rugged trail and versatility competitors: Competition Strategies for Mountain Trail & All–Breed Challenges.
����������� The Hoovers will answer these questions: What is the Judge looking for? How do you get better scores? How do you remember the pattern?� Watch numerous obstacle runs critiqued from the Judge's perspective and glean inside information on showmanship styles, pattern memorization and walk-through tips.� Their advice on mental preparation and relaxation techniques for competitors, will segway perfectly into the first Round of the All Breed Challenge, held immediately after the clinic.
A Challenge of Competitive Courage…
����������� The All Breed Challenge calls upon horse and rider teams from all over the Northwest, to square off in a tricky competition, that tests the courage and character of horse and rider!� "We're offering $3,000 dollars in cash and prizes in our third annual All Breed Challenge! We anticipate some great riding, as entrants square off in this unusual test of horse and rider abilities," said Mr. Cloe. Competitors will face a timed course that could draw upon obstacles and maneuvers from numerous disciplines of riding, including barrels, jumps, trail obstacles, reining, dressage maneuvers, and more.� Contest requirements are designed to judge competitors' all-round horsemanship, performance, accuracy, equitation and attitude of their horses.
����������� The Challenge begins Thursday night and continues Friday, with the Semi-Final Round on Saturday. The top five contestants will square off in an exciting Final Round on Sunday, including a Free Style Ride where competitors show off their finest performance skills and creativity, hoping to be named the 2014 All Breed Challenge Champion!!
World-Class Clinics
����������� The Northwest Horse Fair will spotlight world-class clinicians, trainers and instructors, providing a broad variety of educational demonstrations, workshops and clinics. Headlining the star-studded list of presenters will be World Champion rider and trainer Chris Cox, providing Chris Cox Horsemanship/Horse Training; Eitan Beth-Halachmy featuring Cowboy Dressage™; Peggy Cummings teaching Connected Riding�; Janet "Dolly" Hannon presenting Dressage clinics; Mitch and JoLinn Hoover with Competition Strategies for Mountain Trail & All Breed Challenge and a Versatility Ranch & Stock Horse clinic; Muffy Seaton giving Drivingclinics; Raye Lochert conducting General Training/Horsemanship clinics; Scot Hansen and Sandy Siegrist presenting HorseThink; and Dana Boyd Miller from Andis Clippers, providing horse clipping demos.
Chris Cox is a leading U.S. horseman and clinician, who's been conducting clinics and demonstrations for over 25 years, teaching the principles and methods behind his no-nonsense, practical horsemanship. He has a busy touring and clinic schedule, as well as providing weekly RFD-TV programs. Chris received the 2006 Equestrian of the Year Award, and he is the only 3 time undefeated World Champion of the prestigious Road to the Horse event. Chris will provide multiple clinics at the Northwest Horse Fair, including groundwork, colt starting, how to build rider confidence, how to achieve softness as a rider, and advanced horse training. He joins the Northwest Horse Fair from his ranch in Mineral Wells, Texas.
Eitan Beth-Halachmy is a World Champion rider and trainer, and the founder of Cowboy Dressage™. Eitan has trained and shown his horses, winning five Morgan World Champion Western Pleasure Horse titles. His Western horses are easily recognizable from their self-carriage and elegant style, which he attributes to the use of dressage in his training program. Eitan has become famous for his own brand of horsemanship dubbed Cowboy Dressage in which he applies his training in classical dressage to Western horsemanship. Eitan will introduce Cowboy Dressage in his clinics at the Northwest Horse Fair, teaching about the competition court, the maneuvers and how to ride the tests in Cowboy Dressage competitions. Eitan and his wife Debbie own and operate Wolf Creek Ranch in Grass Valley, California.
����������� Peggy Cummings is an internationally recognized equestrian clinician.� She developed her Connected Riding� methods from years of training in both Western and English disciplines, the study of human and equine movement, and a passion for helping people and horses learn easily. Peggy will provide lectures and clinics using Connected Riding techniques to improve rider position and horse performance. Peggy joins the Northwest Horse Fair and Expo from her home in Poulsbo, Washington.
���������� Janet "Dolly" Hannon is an accomplished dressage rider, trainer and instructor, having taught and trained Dressage and Eventing for more than 30 years. She has competed extensively through Grand Prix Level and her students have won numerous regional and national awards. Dolly is a United States Dressage Federation (USDF) Certified Dressage Instructor and is a US Equestrian Federation (USEF) "S" Dressage judge with additional training in judging equitation, young horse and freestyle classes. She is currently the chairperson of the USDF Freestyle Committee. At the Northwest Horse Fair, Dolly will provide tips for improved dressage scores and freestyle rides, better equitation, and how to get your horse on the bit. Dolly makes her home in Golden, Colorado.
����������� Mitch and JoLinn Hoover, from Eugene, each have over 35 years experience training and coaching in the horse industry. Their lifetime Championship awards span western & dressage, reining, cattle and stock dog events, extreme mountain trail, versatility ranch horse, and cowboy challenges. The Hoovers' down-to-earth instructing style, sense of humor, and "if we can do it, you can do it" attitude, leave students equipped to tackle their next Trail Horse competition or recreational trail ride, with confidence and ease. The Hoovers will present clinics on competition strategies for Mountain Trail and All Breed Challenges, as well as Versatility and Stock Horse basics.
����������� Muffy Seaton from Williston, SC, has been an active Combined Driving Event and Pleasure Driving competitor, judge and clinician for the past 35 years. Muffy has won every major Combined Driving Event in the Eastern U.S., and has won the United States Equestrian Federation(USEF) National Pony Champion four times. Muffy is a Registered USEF and American Driving Society judge in Pleasure, Combined Driving and Driving Dressage.� She also is also an evaluator for the Carriage Association of America's Drivers Proficiency Program. Muffy will present a clinic on the "The Many Faces of Modern� Carriage Driving" at the Northwest Horse Fair.
����������� Raye Lochert trains and conducts horsemanship clinics all over the U.S. and at his home ranch in Northern California.� Raye is considered to be a very accessible teacher, using an approachable style that's practical and easy to understand. His helps clients feel empowered, capable of handling their own horses, no matter what their discipline or level of riding.� At the Northwest Horse Fair, Raye will provide clinics on how to help your horse find a relaxed canter/lope; solving ground control issues and building your horse's confidence.
����������� Scot Hansen is a retired mounted police officer who trained officers and horses, purchased remounts, and worked the streets. During this time, he had the opportunity to ride horses in and around obstacles that the average person never encounters.� His wide range of experience, instruction, and practical use of horses allows Scot to effectively teach a wide array of horsemanship skills.� At the Northwest Horse Fair, Scott will present clinics on desensitizing your horse, self-defense for trail riders, and evaluating a new horse to buy.
����������� Wayne Williams of the Speaking of Horses radio and Online TV will also be at the expo, to visit with Northwest Horse Fair celebrities and fans.
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Costumes, Choreography, Creativity with Horses….
����������� The Northwest Horse Fair will feature horses at their finest: from delicate dancing to action-packed precision drills, there is something for every horse lover! Colorfully costumed riders on high stepping horses will sashay to music, as the BlackPearl Friesian Dance Troupe struts their stuff!� With the grace of ballet dancers, the Ecco Ridge Vaulters will perform agile gymnastics on the back of moving horses!!� And don't miss the high-speed, action-packed precision drill team performance on horses, provided by the Mane Attraction Rodeo Performance Team! Turn back the pages of time as the Northwest Cavalry Associations demonstrates cavalry training techniques and simulated battle.
����������� Take in a colorful array of horses, small, medium and large in Breed Demos, presented by many talented and athletic varieties of equine from all across the world. Dainty Peruvian Horses, majestic Canadians, rugged Icelandics, and mighty American Mustangs are just a sample of the variety of horses presenting educational and entertaining demos at the Northwest Horse Fair.
Shopping, Shopping, Shopping!!
For the avid shopper or those with a nose for a bargain, there are two full buildings of vendors in the expo trade show, providing shopping fun for young and old! A wide variety of equine supplies and clothing is offered, plus trailers, boots, hats, feed, farming products, services, gifts, home d�cor items and much more!
Help a Great Cause for Discount Admission!
Northwest Horse Fair attendees can get a discount off the Admission price, while helping support a good cause, on Friday March 21. Simply bring a non–perishable food item donation to the entrance gate that day, and receive $1 off the admission price.� All contributions will benefit the Albany Helping Hands Homeless Shelter.� Limit one discount per person; discount is off regular gate admission only.
KMTR Youth Day –Kids Get in Free!
Junior horse enthusiasts can get in free on Sunday, March 23, for KMTR Youth Day! All children 12 and under get in free that day with a paid adult admission, and 4-H and Pony Club members, aged 13 to 18 years, can get in free with their club ID Cards. "We want to support the growth and education of young horse lovers, plus thank the fantastic organizations that educate young people about horses," said Mr. Cloe. "All children 5 and under get in free every day at the Northwest Horse Fair, when accompanied by a paid adult admission. We thank KMTR-TV for sponsoring Youth Day, again this year!"
Tickets & More Info
����������� Advance tickets are now on sale, at a discounted price, at Wilco Farm Stores and many other retail locations throughout Oregon and Washington.� For more information on tickets and advance ticket purchase locations go to: http://equinepromotions.net/northwest-horse-fair/attend/tickets/.
����������� Tickets are also available at the gate during the Expo. One low-price General Admission ticket to the event includes all clinics, lectures, demonstrations, special events and access to the trade show.� Cash only at the gate.
����������� For more information on the Northwest Horse Fair and Expo, go to www.equinepromotions.net, email email@example.com, call 765-655-2107, or join us for late breaking details and excitement, on Facebook and Twitter.
����������� Sponsors for the Northwest Horse Fair and Expo 2014 include: Bison Coach, the presenting sponsor; Andis Clippers; Beelart Embroidery; Guaranty RV & 5thWheel Centers; KRKT; KMTR-TV; Northwest Rider, the official publication for the Northwest Horse Fair and Expo;� Phoenix Inn & Suites, the hosting hotel for theNorthwest Horse Fair and Expo; Oregon Horse Center; Valley Vet Supply; and Wilco Farm Stores.
Celebrate the Spirit of the Horse! - The Northwest Horse Fair & Expo 2014 -
Dynamic dancing horses; fast, flashy, massive and magnificent horses; energizing equine entertainment; plus World Champion riders sharing secrets to their success….See it all and much more, at the Northwest Horse Fair & Expo 2014, presented by Bison Coach, March 21 through 24 at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center in Albany, Oregon. "We're thrilled to present the 15th Annual Northwest Horse Fair & Expo once again to Albany! We offer world-class clinics, a huge variety of horses on display, a gigantic trade show, plus our third annual competition: the All Breed Challenge! We invite all horse owners and horse lovers to join us for the Northwest Horse Fair & Expo 2014, as we Celebrate the Spirit of the Horse!" said John Cloe, Event Founder and Manager.


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NEW YORK, June 13 (UPI) -- Legislation to restrict buying large sugar-sweetened beverages in U.S. food establishments would affect more of the overweight, not the poor, researchers say.
Lead author Dr. Y. Claire Wang of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York said the study findings challenge criticism that the legislation is discriminatory against the poor.
Wang said the proposed New York City soda-size cap was approved by the New York City Board of Health and is currently under appeal after being struck down by the New York State Supreme Court in March.
The study used national data, but the researchers said the results were a strong validation of the obesity-prevention measure no matter where implemented.
Wang and co-author Seanna M. Vine analyzed 19,147 dietary records from 2007-10 for the demographics related to the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.
More than 50 percent of Americans consumed sugary drinks on a daily basis, but 7.5 percent purchased them from a food establishment in portions larger than 16 ounces on a given day.
The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found the proportion was marginally higher in some groups: 8.6 percent of those who were overweight compared to 6.4 percent of those who weren't overweight, 13.6 percent of overweight teenagers and 12.6 percent of overweight young adults ages 20-44.
Americans with incomes less than 130 percent of the poverty line consumed large sugary drinks from food service establishments in equal proportion to those with higher incomes, the study said.
Given the uncertainties, the researchers said it was difficult to estimate how the policy would cut calories, but a reasonable assumption, would be 80 percent of large soda drinkers would downsize to a 16-ounce soda and 20 percent would buy two 16-ounce sodas -- cutting 63 calories daily.
Wang's earlier research found a reduction of 64 calories per day is needed to reach the country's Healthy People 2020 goal for reducing obesity.