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Hello Doctor, I really appreciate the good work and really prepared to donate..a minimum of 50 dollars... I went to a strip club last weekend. The girl was wearing a small and thin pantie. while dancing she was touching her finger all along through the bottom of her pantie, i mean all along the ass hole but over the pantie cloth ... I am sure, she did not insert her finger either in to her ass \anus or her vagina. And very soon, she slipped while dancing and tried holding my head for support. In that process, her fingers touched\rubbed my pimple which is there on my forehead and I immediately took her hand out of my pimple. After i came home, I touched my pimple with my hand and observed that the pimple did not damage\bursted with respect to apperance or only slightly damaged on the outer surface. How ever, when I first touched the pimple, if felt it slightly wet (may be the outer layer slightly got rubbed and the wetness could be because of water in the outer layer) and when I touched it for the second time i did not find any wetness. Do I have any risk of getting infected with HIV? I am literally sleepless, and tooo much worried and panic as HIV can be infected through pimple as well. she might have touched some parts of her which can contain HIV virus and touched my sensitive pimple (causing slight\average damange to the pimple) which might result in spreading the virus to me. Kindly let me know if you have a HIV positive case reported spreading in this manner. i am tooo much nervous and panic. I have lots of work project work to do at my office and am not able to really concentrate. please help me with some advice. I read one of your posts where you mentioned "Post orgasm Zit Hopping is not a risk for HIV" and after looking in to that I got bit peace of mind as my case is not even close to that possibility. How ever, I would feel comfortable, if you reply to my actual case. I am 100 percent ready to donate a minimum of 50 dollars...for the good work.. Please provide me response asap...
Relax Max! Your HIV-acquisition risk is nonexistent. See below. If HIV were transmitted that easily, it would have wiped out the planet long ago!
Thanks for your support of The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation (www.concertedeffort.org). It's very much appreciated.
Be well.
Dr. Bob
pimples and hiv Sep 1, 2004
A few minutes after mastubating herself, my girlfriend began popping some zits on my back. Can HIV be transmitted from her fingers to me as a result of her popping the pimples?
Response from Dr. Frascino
I've heard of cuddling in the afterglow, taking a nap, smoking a cigarette, or putting the cap back on the little brown bottle, but your girlfriend's behavior strikes me as somewhat odd. She gets herself all hot and bothered and then decides to "pop zits on your back?" I must say that visual image is more than a bit unappetizing. What happens when you give her oral sex?" does she get so excited she decides to lick the boogers out of your nose? Actually, maybe I don't really want to know the answer to that question, so I'll just answer your question instead, OK?
Post-orgasmic zit popping is not a risk for HIV.
Dr. Bob
I found my "pimple" worry in the forum (PIMPLE) Apr 16, 2007
The staff at the body does such a great job, that it is almost a job in itself to search through your available data to find an answer to a question. It doesnt help that in our viral phobia, us nervous wrecks tend to ask questions in the wrong forums. I just wanted to say thank you to the staff for doing all they do. My answer was indeed in the forum, just not the safe sex and prevention forum; I found the answer in the Side effects of HIV medication. The fact that you guys still answered this question is a testament to your patience,
So for anyone worried about vaginal secretions infecting a pimple, yes it is possible, but unlikely.
Does this type of exposure, by the numbers, merit an HIV test, no one knows, but anytime you are concerned you may have been infected with HIV, that alone warrants a test, they only take 20 minutes and are inexpensive
The link to the answer of my question is below
With that a donation is on the way, odd enough at my tax bracket with my income I can actually afford 1000 dollars a year in donations and not lose any money. I know its not a great deal of money, but I am sure someone in this world could use at least a 83.30USD discount in their monthly medication. Really its a choice between George Ws Dont ya have sex or talk to no gays policy or the bodys website crazy Idea of reality, education and encouragement, needless to say, you guys win, my money goes to you,
Thanks for your help, I pray one day there is a cure to this horrible disease so good people and perverts alike (me being a perv) dont have to worry about one slip in judgment costing us 1,800 USD in pills a month, not to mention the social and medical side effects of the fearsome hiv
Take care
My prayers to all HIV infected people
All though I will take all the karma you can throw out, I know, I will undoubtedly be negative and woo hooing but I guarantee you that I will be thinking about those who got the other resultAgain my prayers and at least some of my money to the victims of this evil disease,
I truly wish I could do more
Response from Dr. Frascino
Thanks for taking the time to write in and share the information you found in the archives. Actually "popped pimples" is a fairly common question, although it has not reached QTND (Question That Never Dies) status. I'll reprint a few more from the archives below. I agree with your assessment that the HIV risk would be low, in fact extremely low in most cases. I also agree with the advice that if anyone is concerned about placing oneself at risk for HIV, he or she should get an HIV rapid test done at the three-month mark to quell those fears.
Thank you for your very generous donation (www.concertedeffort.org). Your one gift will touch many lives, turning hopelessness into hope. On behalf of those lives, please accept my heartfelt thanks. I am indeed sending my best good-luck/good-health karma that your definitive test will be negative, as I very strongly believe it indeed will be. I look forward to WOO-HOOing with you very soon.
Be well. (And that's a doctor's order!).
Dr. Bob
The Off-shore guy ... again! Jul 26, 2006
hello doc,
it's been a while since i last wrote you. and sad to say, i'm still on board and can't get a test and make a donation for you. (so sorry but i'll be home on sunday so expect a donation from me)
i just want to ask again, after 3 months now, this enlarged lymph node under my jaw is still present. does this look HIV to you? still having sleepless nights, and aside from this, i have no other symptoms.
I'm a little too chickensh**t right now. I just want to here your comments again before i home and check. shed me some little light.
again this is my risk :
broken pimple in the pubic area. is a broken pimple deep enough and big enough for HIV to transmit?
fingering with cut is just a theorical risk right?
thanks for your time doctor. I have relatives in LA, and if i test positive, i'm going to visit you.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Chickenshit indeed! Geez, the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz has more guts than you!
Since I cannot examine the pubic pimple, it's difficult for me to speculate. In general, unless your pimple was so large and deep that they should have had orange hazard cones parked along the perimeter, I'd say no, your pooped-pimple-pubic-predicament is not a real problem.
I can just about guarantee you won't have to make that trip up from L.A.
Good luck!
Dr. Bob
Worried out of my mind $100 donation for reality check Apr 16, 2006
Hi Dr Bob,
I am a huge fan and I appreciate what you do for everyone.
I recently had sex with not one but two prostitutes (two different instances) in one week and it wasn't until the second one that I totally lost it and now I am out of my mid worrying. What is worrying me is a. was the pimple (that recently had popped) on the base of my penis covered by the condom? and b. When she took the rubber off and cleaned my region and penis with a sanitary wipe did I get any secretions in my urethra?? the condom did not fail, if I got HIV I think it would be from after I took the rubber off and juice got in there or in my pimple. Am I totally out of my mind or do I have any reason to worry? I have read up on all the statistics of HIV transmission and understand the 5 in 10,000 and all, but what are the risks if you have a raw skin on your penis from a recently healed wart or pimple? What if it just touches the vagina a little bit? but what is making me worried has never been answered. I know HIV cannot transmit outside the body but it does not die? what if I cum and my cum gets under my foreskin right away and four hours later I have sex (and the semen that was underneath my foreskin infects my girlfriend? Say if I touched the head of my penis and then touched the outside of the condom while putting it on?
Thanks Dr Bob, If you can give me some reality on this I will gladly donate
Response from Dr. Frascino
So let me see if I've got this correct. You're worried about a hypothetical situation in which you shoot your wad with a hooker and get some spunk under your foreskin, and then four hours later have sex with your girlfriend and possibly infect her by touching the head of your penis and then touching the outside of the condom while putting it on before shagging your main squeeze??? Hmmm . . . .
And you ask if you are:
(1) totally out of your mind or
(2) have a reason to worry.
I would have to say the answer is "all of the above," because I think you do have a reason to worry that you are totally out of your mind! Dude, calm down, take a couple of big yoga breaths and relax a bit. Go ahead. We'll wait. There. Now don't you feel better? Your hypothetical question about your own cum under your foreskin transmitting HIV from hooker to girlfriend within four hours is beyond common sense and reason. After all, we all know a guy like you is not going to get lucky twice within a four-hour period, right? OK, even if you did, the risk of HIV transmission from the scenario you describe is nonexistent.
As for HIV transmission from popped pimple or sanitary wipe post-shag, I would say the risk is negligible to nonexistent. However, if you are worried and clearly you are get HIV tested at the three-month mark. It may well be the most effective and efficient way for you to calm your unwarranted fears. While waiting for the three-month window period to end, don't forget those big, cleansing, relaxing yoga breaths, OK?
Thanks for your donation (www.concertedeffort.org). In return, I'll send you not only an acknowledgement of your gift, but also good-luck karma that your HIV test is negative.
Good luck.
Dr. Bob
Is it likely... (3rd try - please respond!) Apr 27, 2003
This is my third try asking you my question. I'm trying to be patient, but it is really hard when I am so worried about this... I am a male, and I had sex with a female whose HIV status is unknown. I did use a condom ("mini-woo-hoo"), BUT there was a problem! I had a pimple that had popped 5 hours or so before we had sex. This pimple was at the bottom part of my penis (close to my body). The condom didn't fully cover it and I am pretty sure it entered her... At no time was it bleeding. 3 or 4 days after sex with her I got a sore throat. This sore throat lasted about 2 and a half weeks, and now its gone. I have no other symptoms other than not eating as much cuz I am worried all the time!!!
So here come the questions again! =) Are the chances high that I got HIV from her if in fact she is HIV positive? Should I "Woo Hoo!" now or wait a while and get tested, and then hopefully) "Woo Hoo!"?? Please help me... I have searched your board, and the rest of the Internet to find a like case and I can't find anything. I think that if I wasn't bleeding then there was no access for HIV to get to my bloodstream, but I'm not an expert and I am unsure and worried sick...
I am not mad that you haven't replied to my question before, because I know you are helping so many others and trying to live your life as well. I do thank you for your time. If you read this though, and if you respond I don't mind if you don't spend much time with it and it is short! I just want to know what you think of my situation.
Thank you so much...
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hey Matt,
Your risk sounds very low to me; however, if you had a cut or popped a pimple that was not covered by the condom and that area was actually going into your partners vagina, then there may be at least a small theoretical risk of contracting HIV. Your sore throat symptoms are not at all worrisome. I think you are probably fine. Statistically, the odds are way in your favor. If you are worried, go ahead and get tested at the 3-month period. Ill bet its a WOO-HOO. Good luck.
Dr. Bob
shared hospital room with hiv+ man......freaking out Jan 16, 2004
4th time asking but please answer me. I dont know what to do im freaking out. I don't go outside, I sleep to escape my fears and my g/f is gonna break up with me because she thinks i lost interest and am cheating on her. Thanking you in advance for answering. Thanks
I recently was hospitalized and shared and room with an HIV+ man. The whole time I was there I did not encounter any blood. Atleast that I could see with my naked eye.
My first question is this: I poped a pimple in the bathroom mirror before I knew my roommate was HIV+ Could I have got traces of hiv+ blood invisible to the naked eye on my finger and became infected with HIV when I poped my pimple?
Question 2: The nurse would come in and check or vitals. To check our pulse they would use a kind of finger clamp thingy. She would check his his first then mine. I had a small cut on my cuticle that was almost healed it had not blood or scab on it anymore. Again I did not see any blood but could I have been infected through traces of hiv+ blood invisible to the naked eye through the cuticle?
Question 3: After my pulse was check I may have picked my nose with the same finger. I had an open cut in my nose it was not bleeding. Again there no blood on my finger or the pulse clamp thingy. Could I have been infected through traces of Hiv+ that could not be seen with the naked eye? about 1 mouth after i was released I got a fever sore in my mouth. I am conveinced im infected. do you think I could be? please Rob Please help me. I live with my grandmother and have fears of infecting by accident. please please help me rob
Response from Dr. Frascino
Yes, you have "asked this question so many times already." I've also answered similar questions many times in the past. You cannot get HIV from casual contact. The answer to all three of your questions is a resounding No! If you remain "conveiced" you have it, you need some counseling to help you cope with your irrational fears.
As for hospital rooms, I'd choose the HIV-positive guy over an anxious pimple-popping nose picker any day!
My advice? Stop picking. Stop popping. And stop worrying!
Dr. Bob
Will facesitting transmit aids? Dec 27, 2004
Hi, I visited a prostitute about 5 months ago and asked her to sit on my face to satisfy my sexual desire. Her vagina smothered my face on my nose and lips. Now, I'm wondering if i'm at a risk of HIV transmission.
I can clearly recall that i did not lick her vagina during the process, and I did not have any sores on my lips. I also need to know if HIV can be transmitted from her through broken pimples on my face. Thanks in advance.
Response from Dr. Frascino
"Facesitting???" Hmmm . . . . The risk of HIV would be essentially nonexistent, but depending on the size of the hooker, I guess there would be a risk of a broken nose or perhaps even suffocation. As for the popped pimples on your face, you might try seeing a dermatologist instead of a facesitter. I know creams and lotions may not be as much fun, but then again, I suppose you can use whatever kind of applicator you like to apply them. To specifically answer your question, no, I see no significant HIV risk from this episode of facesitting, even if the pussy was perched on your pimple-popped puss.
Stay well. Happy Holidays.
Dr. Bob


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Fair warning: Kiyosaki repeatedly brings up "seminars" throughout the book, in an almost subliminal fashion. Since this book has taken off, he has created several companies providing "real estate investing" seminars throughout the country, under several company names ("Rich Dad Education," "Elite Education," etc.). There's a long history of complaints associated with these companies (see BBB), and they visit central Ohio on an annual basis, offering free seminars, which are basically a giant pitch for an upcoming weekend seminar ($200-$300).
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This was written for the cupcake contest. Yes, I know, it's very long. Probably too long! But I had this idea and I really wanted to write it! Bella and Edward are arguing about Bella's morality...again. Alice hears them, causing her to have flashbacks of her own transformation. I re-named this. it was recently called Transformations.
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"Bella," Edward said frustrated. I could imagine his face, twisted up in anger, his topaz eyes burning with fury. He would look dangerous, and Bella would be doing her best not to cower in fear.
"It's for the best Edward," she replied stubbornly. Her hands would be on her hips, her feet spread apart on his floor to show that she wasn't going to change her mind. They were having an argument we all heard before and were most likely going to hear many more times in the future. Edward promised her and he was doing his very best to dissuade her from her choice. Her choice to be the 'Eternally Damn' as he called it. FLASHBACK
The walls were covered in cobwebs and dust. The floor boards creaked when ever I shifted my weight and the door was poorly set on it's hinges. The windows were murky, letting no light shine in. There were no furnishing, only a rusty shovel that was broken in two; the splinters were all over the floor. I wondered how I got to be in such a place. I looked at my surroundings again, seeing if they were familiar in anyway. But the only thing I could remember was days of seemingly endless pain. I withered in agony, burning thoroughly. I wanted someone to just kill me so that I wouldn't have to face another second of pure torture. And my wish came true, but not in the way I thought it would. When I woke up I expected my heart to be beating frantically and sweat to be lining my face. But all I felt was fear and my skin was rock hard, no trace of any wet substance on it. I looked at my body again. I was deathly pale, incredibly skinny, and from the looks of it, very short. There wasn't a mirror in the shack, so I had no idea what my face looked like.
I looked at my clothes, hoping that they would give me some insight about my past, but they were normal civilian clothes. I frowned involuntarily. Did I at least remember my name? I thought long and hard. Mary Alice Brandon…Was that my name? It was the only one I could remember. Alice…It sounded familiar, and who really cared if it wasn't actually mine? There was no one in the shack with me, nobody to tell me who I was. Who would care what I called myself?
I stood up and started to walk towards the door. The grace of my movements startled me. I stopped immediately, wondering if I was like this before the pain. I smiled to myself and started to walk again. I opened the door and let the rays of sun shine fall in. I shrieked when I saw that my skin was sparkling just like it was made of millions of diamonds. I slammed the door shut and put my back against the wall.
What am I?
I sighed and flipped through the pages of my magazine again. It was filled with images of celebrities hiding their faces, stepping out of limousines. If they wanted to be left alone then why don't they just drive ordinary cars? Limousines…nothing extraordinary about that, I thought sarcastically. I then shuddered. Why was I letting some egotistical human wearing a fur coat frustrate me? I rolled my eyes and put the magazine on the dining room table, Rosalie might want to look at it later. I sat on one of the many chairs in the living room and closed my eyes.
"I don't care about that, Edward!" Bella's voice rang trough out the house, hurting my sensitive ears. "Maybe I want to be devastatingly beautiful! Maybe I want to have a body as hard as granite! Maybe I want to be able to get close to you and not be in fear of getting crushed!"
Edward didn't respond for a few moments. But when he did, his voice was considerably louder then Bella's was.
"And what about the blood lust?" he countered.
They better not be doing this for an eternity…
I figured it out after a while. My blood lust, the way I was able to move faster then I ever had before, my super strength. No matter how many times I tried to convince myself otherwise, I always came back to the same conclusion. I was a vampire. And I defiantly didn't like the sound of that.
I sat by a small pond, by body shaking with small sobs. How could this of happened? Why was I a…vampire? What did I do to deserve this? I wondered if I had to stay away from humans. Did I have to drink from them? I knew I wouldn't be able to do that. Maybe I would have to starve. I buried my face in my hands. No tears came, making me feel more and more like a monster every minute. What human can't cry?
The burning in my throat was horrible. I knew I would have to…hunt for food soon if I wanted to survive. But how could I ever drink from a human? Just then a deer strayed into my line of sight. The wind was blowing my way, sending the animal's scent right towards me. Venom flowed into my mouth and my eyes widened. Every fiber of my being was shouting 'FOOD! FOOD! FOOD!'. It was hard to ignore and my will power crumbled. Using my new found speed, I was at the deer's throat in mere seconds. Instinct ruled me now. With a knock to it's head, it was dead before it even hit the ground. I put my teeth to it's throat and drank deeply. The blood clenched my thirst immediately, leaving me satisfied. When there was no more blood left in it I stood up and surveyed the damage I done. There wasn't a drop of blood spilled one the ground, but I couldn't help but feel guilty for what I done. I buried the deer in the ground and moved on.
"I'm not going to be a monster when I'm a vampire, Edward! No matter how many times you say you are one! You are not!" Bella yelled. I could hear her pacing around his room.
"Do you remember all of the human lives I took? Or have you forgotten that I was and still am a cold blooded killer?" Edward seethed.
"You only killed humans that were monsters! You saved many lives by killing them!" Bella said, a little bit of hysteria in her voice.
"How are you going to be able to drink blood Bella?" Edward asked. "You faint at the sight of it! How do you expect to drink it?" Bella was quiet for a minute or two.
"I think I'll manage."
I managed. I thought long and hard about my vampirism. Was I a monster? I spent hours pondering this question. But in the end I decided that I wasn't a monster. A monster kills for the sake of killing. A monster enjoys causing horror and fright in people. A monster doesn't pity life, he/she destroys it.
I was sitting on a rock near a small creek, staring at me reflection. My eyes were red, but they were turning gold slowly. Whenever I smiled my venom coated teeth would flash, making my smile look deadly. I didn't look like a human at all. I looked like a monster. One that parents would tell their children about as a bedtime story, or as a threat. If you don't brush your teeth then Alice will come and get you! If I was a human it would scare me.
I closed my eyes, not wanting to think anymore. I was a monster and I couldn't do anything about it. I probably had no soul either. I shuddered. I wondered what would happen if I died. But that would be impossible. I banged my hand against a stone and it broke easily. What could kill something like me?
Suddenly, my mind went blank and I closed my eyes. I was having another vision. I was surprised when I first had one. It took me a little while to discover what they were. But now I almost enjoyed having them. They were a secret only I knew about.In my vision I was still sitting on the rock, obviously not paying attention to my surroundings. I didn't seem to notice when a man walked up behind me. I waited for myself to lunge at him, but then I realized he was a vampire, too. His eyes were blood red like mine were, even though his were defiantly darker. I turned my head to look at him. He was handsome,inhumanly so. But then so was I."I see you're one of those vegetarian vampires," he said disgusted. In my vision I looked at him funny, not knowing what he meant. "Why do you do it? Going against your nature like that? Don't you know that vampires are supposed to hunt humans?"he asked angrily like I insulted him.
I just kept looking at him, still confused to what he was talking about. But then I discovered it. My eyes widened and then the vision ended.
I opened my eyes and looked around. The vampire didn't show up yet and I had a feeling I didn't want to meet him. I stood up and ran away as fast as I could.
I realized then that he was the monster, not me. He killed humans, I didn't. He took their life away and didn't even seem to regret it. I then vowed that I would never turn out like him. I was never going to become a monster.
Their argument calmed down for a few minutes as each of them tried to think of other tactics to use against each other. I rolled my eyes at them. Both of them were arguing because they both loved each other. It was a silly situation to be in. I could see why Bella wanted to become a vampire and I could see why Edward didn't want her to be one. But Edward was just being stupid. He left Forks to keep her safe, only to come back and then refuse to change her. After putting them both through so much pain, Edward owed her big time.
"You'll be an outsider!" Edward exclaimed. "Do you know how it feels to only be able to talk to your kind?"
"Hey!" Emmett yelled insulted. "You're boring, too, sometimes!" I chuckled, just picturing Edward's face when he heard the comment.
"You won't be able to do any humans activities without having to restrain yourself for the fear of accidently killing one of them! You will always have to hide who you really are!" Edward yelled, ignoring Emmett.
"Edward, I don't even like to do human activities now. And what would I do which I will have to restrain myself? Sports? If you don't know already I'm not very fond of sports," Bella said irritated.
"Not just sports Bella! Everything! Even just walking down the hall can be a challenge!" Edward said. "School is a nightmare sometimes!"
"Who said we have to go to school?" Bella asked. Edward went silent.
It was hard getting used to my new found abilities. I was stronger and faster then humans and I had to learn to control myself, or I would have to live in solitude for the rest of my life. I practiced controlling my strength first. I would pick up a fragile stick and try to hold it with out breaking it. I fumble around with it and try not to make it shatter. I also practiced my gait. I worked on my form, making it as normal as possible. I also worked on restraining my speed so that I could walk at a slow enough level so that humans wouldn't become suspicious. And then the hardest thing I had to do. Building my endurance for blood. I had to control my blood lust if I wanted to be able to interact with humans. I would set a dead, bleeding deer in front of me and resist as long as possible. It took a while to build enough endurance so I could be around humans. It was hard trying to act like a human, especially because I was far from being one.
"You won't be able to do human activities! You will miss it after a while. You would want to be able to eat regular food. You will want to be able to sleep. You will want to be able to quench your thirst with water and not have to kill something to do it!" Edward yelled. I could hear Bella stomp in frustration.
"Well, maybe I don't care!" Bella screeched. I heard Edward's frustrated sigh.
"You will want it Bella," he said. "When you get tired of being a vampire, not being able to sleep to pass the time, you will wish that you could. You will want to be able to go out for dinner in public and taste all of the different dishes the restaurant has to serve. When you're a vampire, all you have is blood."
"I don't care," Bella said immediately after Edward was done talking.
"But you will!" he yelled. I covered my ears with my hands. I was going to have to leave the house or go up there myself and scream at them to shut up. And I didn't even know what Edward meant. I don't miss human food. It tastes like dirt.
FLASHBACKI wanted to be normal. I was jealous of humans. I saw two couples feeding each other and a mother place a bowl of ice cream in front of her child, whose face immediately lit up. I looked down at the ground, wondering if I could still eat food. I doubted it. Why would I need food if I drank blood? But a part of me desperately wanted to find out what food tasted like. Like an experiment. If it tasted horrible, I wouldn't eat food again. It was simple. But a large chunk ofme wanted the food to taste good, so that I was somehow humanlike. So that I wasn't completely an outsider.
Before I could change my mind I walked into the nearest bakery and looked for the cheapest thing on the menu. I accumulated a few dollars over the year, so I had just enough to buy a cupcake. It was vanilla and topped with pink frosting. The baker smiled and handed it to me. I gave him the money he asked for. I ran out of the bakery and into the forest. When I was far enough away from humans so that they wouldn't see me, I looked at the cupcake nervously and bit in.
It tasted like dirt. No worse. My eyes widened and I spit it out immediately. I threw the cupcake into the bushes and gagged for ten minutes. I then killed a deer and drank it's blood to get the taste out of my mouth. Right then I was glad I wasn't a human. Who would want to eat this stuff anyway?
Their argument calmed down considerably. I could hear Bella breathing deeply and the floor boards creaking as Edward paced around the room. The seconds ticked by and the tension was thick in the air. I didn't know why they did it. Bella was going to become a vampire. Edward couldn't stall forever. Bella was a stubborn girl, and she wasn't ever going to give up.
I heard Edward take a deep breath, like he was dreading asking the next question.
"Why do you want to be changed into a vampire?" he whispered. I couldn't believe my ears! Was he blind and deaf?
"Because I love you," she whispered.
Jasper walked by me then, his eyes looking at the expression on my face. He smiled and then sat down next to me. He slung his arm around my shoulders and brought his face close to mine.
The argument raged on upstairs, but Jasper and I tried to drone it out.
"I wish they would stop doing that," he said, talking about Edward and Bella. They quieted down a bit, but I could still hear their argument from where I was sitting.
"I still think he's being silly," I said, referring to Edward's behavior. "He loves her! Why can't he just do this for her! They both want to spend forever with each other!" Jasper sighed and then brought me in close.
"You know how Edward is," he said, chuckling a little. He smiled down at me and kissed my cheek.
"Why can't he just get it through his thick skull that he will have to change her sometime," I said, my frustration getting the better of me. "I know he wants it, too! And-" Jasper put a finger to my lips, silencing me.
"If I was a human, would you change me?" he asked, his eyes boring into mine. I sat there for a few minutes, not knowing how to respond to that.
"Would you want to be changed into a vampire if you were human?" I asked, worrying about what the answer might be. He just smiled and ran his hand through my hair.
"I would do anything to be with you," he said, his voice velvety smooth. I grinned, turned around and kissed him gently on the lips.
"Me, too," I whispered. We sat there for a few moments until Bella stomped down the stairs.
"You're being difficult, Edward!" she yelled. Her eyes were narrowed and her lips set in a frown. She opened the front door and closed it behind her. I heard her annoyingly loud truck start up and then leave the driveway. Edward then walked down the stairs, rubbing his temples.
"She won't regret being changed, Edward," I said before he left the house. I don't, I thought to him. He just stopped in the doorway for a moment and then walked on out the door. I didn't hear his Volvo purr to life, he must have ran. I rolled my eyes and settled in closer to Jasper. I closed my eyes when I felt another vision coming.
It was Bella. She was gorgeous. Her brown hair flowed down her back, it was shinning. Her lips were a beautiful red and her bone structure was perfect. Her eyes were a fading blood red. Even though I could only see her face, I knew she was a vampire.
I opened my eyes to see Jasper looking at me expectably. I just smiled and stood up. Edward was going to cave. Bella was defiantly going to be changed into a vampire. There was no doubt about it.
"I wonder what power she's going to have," I thought out loud. Jasper stood up and walked next to me.
"I hope she can read minds," Jasper said, instantly knowing what I was talking about. I looked at him confused. "That would bug Edward to death." I chuckled a few times before walking outside.
"I'm going to go hunt," I announced. Jasper nodded and then walked up to our room. The air was chilly and the sky was cloudy, typical Forks weather. I knew we weren't going to stay in this town for that much longer, though. Graduation was coming around the corner.
I ran into the forest, tracking a deer I sensed. After killing it and drinking my fill I looked down at the poor thing. Being a vampire wasn't exactly luxury, but it was defiantly good enough for me.
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Creating the guide inevitably involves choices. We removed any partisan bias by picking the issues before recording the votes. With the House and Senate under different party leadership, we found it necessary to choose different votes for each body, since very few issues received a vote in both houses. We chose not to include the continuing resolutions, omnibus appropriations bills and other compromises necessary to keep the government running.
We focused on kitchen-table issues – the concerns that Americans struggle with at night over their kitchen tables: jobs and wages, affording health care for their families and college for their kids, wondering about how to afford a secure retirement.
The issues we've chosen reflect common sense. With 23 million Americans in need of full time work, and a faltering recovery, middle-class Americans have a direct stake in government action to create jobs. As Europe has shown, inflicting austerity at this time is the path to a double-dip recession. The conservative head of the Federal Reserve, and the director of the International Monetary Fund share this perspective. It is also the stated assumption of the directors' report of Simpson and Bowles and of the Rivlin-Demenici Commission. So we score members on their votes on the American Jobs Act and on other measures to put Americans to work.
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America's corporate trade policies led to trade deficits of over $2 billion a day before the economic collapse. These imbalances, the IMF concluded, were destabilizing and unsustainable, contributing directly to the bubble and its eventual bust. In 2009, the G-20 reached a consensus that surplus and debtor countries must move to more balanced trade. For the middle class, our trade imbalances have meant the loss of good jobs abroad, stagnant wages, and contributed to the economic calamities of the Great Recession. Not surprisingly, despite bipartisan Washington support for more trade accords, Americans are increasingly skeptical of our corporate trade policies. We score legislators on their votes on the bilateral accord with South Korea, whose mercantilist trade policies contradict any notion of a level playing field.
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The company has to assess and analyze the security risks and take the necessary action. Purchasing certified equipment alone is not enough. The responsibility for the integral safety has to be guaranteed by the employer, not the manufacturer.
According to the ATEX 137 companies also have to evaluate the risks of non-electrical equipment, mostly mechanical equipment, as a potential ignition source, for example jammed hot bearings of pumps, hot surfaces, static electricity and mechanical sparks.
Minimised costs, better connection options, easier maintenance
New couplers for fieldbus installations in zones 1 and 2
Minimised costs, better connection options, easier maintenance:
R. STAHL has extended its range of field device couplers, adding two new models for zone 2 installation and one new zone 1 model with detachable terminals. Advantages of the new devices are better cost-efficiency and easier maintenance.
The first new device is the zone 2 Ex i FDC (Field Device Coupler), an Ex i fieldbus barrier especially designed for installation in zone 2. The unit allows users to connect up to 8 intrinsically safe FISCO-compliant fieldbus devices from zone 1. Compared with a zone 1 fieldbus barrier, this new solution achieves savings of up to 20 %.
Electrostatic charging
Static electricity occurs in almost any business. It is caused by poor adhesion of electrically conductive materials. The electrostatic charge (ESC = Electrostatic Charging) of persons and objects are difficult to recognize, however the discharge can be spectacular (ESD = Electro Static Discharge). We all know the unpleasant shocks that can be felt when getting out a car or touching a door handle. Most discharges are harmless to people and goods. However, electrostatic discharge can also cause fire, explosion or disruption and / or damage to electronic equipment.
An electrostatic discharge has sufficient energy to ignite or explode a flammable liquid or gas. The required ignition energy to realize a fire or explosion depends on the type of substance, concentration, temperature and humidity.
Daytrip to Amsterdam? Free public transport!
Come and visit the fair HET Instrument and enjoy the free public transport to Amsterdam.
Wenn: 28 September - 1 October 2010
Where: RAI Amsterdam
Booth: 5.B.047
Free public transport AND free admittance!
If you pre-register, you can enjoy the free public transport and free admittance. Please use the Visitor Registration button.
Our Sales Team will be waiting for you in Hall 5, booth B.047.
NEW website CMP on-line
CMP Products, supplier of explosion proof cable glands, has launched a new website.
Please visite: www.cmp-products.com
Alle CMP products can be purchased at Electromach.