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Evening all - James asked me to share some of my thoughts on a subject of my choosing, so I thought I'd bore the bollocks off you with an extended rant on nuclear deterrence.
It's proved controversial, but I think that the Government should be congratulated for convincing Parliament to vote for the new Trident nuclear defence* system. It's extortionately expensive and completely useless, and Tony Blair managed to convince a majority of Parliamentarians to blow twenty billion pounds on it.
Jolly well done, sir. Truly, this man could sell tits to Hugh Hefner.
It's just a little disappointing that we're too polite to ever actually use it. I can't really imagine any of our recent Prime Ministers ordering a massive thermonuclear strike on Moscow - they'd think it was terribly rude.
Actually, I tell a lie - I could envision Lady Thatcher ordering a strike on Moscow. Now that I come to think of it, I can easily imagine Mrs. T nuking French Guyana, just to annoy Jacques Chirac. At least now, with our shiny new missile system, we could theoretically do so.
That's assuming the damn thing works, of course. Picture the scene - as the Iranian missiles shriek towards London, placid senior civil servants calmly explain to a panicked Prime Minister that our nuclear arsenal doesn't work in desert conditions.
Still, nukes seem to be the weapon of choice as far as bloggers are concerned. Every time some crank in the Middle East burns a flag, I wind up reading feverish demands that we turn the entire region into a sheet of radioactive glass.
I can see why that might appeal to certain figures in the Bush administration. After all, it'd make prospecting for oil a lot easier - you'd just have to walk about looking down.
So if we can't use these missiles, why don't we take that twenty billion pounds and spend it on something we can use?
If they junked the Trident program and just handed every Briton their own big pointy stick, we'd have enough left over to buy a round and crisps for 55 million people.
I'd think better of New Labour come polling day, I can tell you.
In coming to this conclusion, I've had to consider what would happen to the concept of deterrence. The arms race would brutal, as countries competed to build ever larger and sharper sticks. I suppose that the worst case scenario is the Iranians developing a stick so big and pointy that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could lean out of his Tehran window and poke us all in the eyes.
I've considered that eventuality, and we'll need to keep a secret weapon of near infinite destructive capabilities in reserve - Britain's enemies will have no response to the shock and awe of the sock and 8-Ball.
We should take great care to use this awesome power wisely.
Thank you for your kind attention - I've been Flying Rodent, and I'm here all week.
*You can tell this is the British government we're talking about - the Americans spell the word "defence" differently, and imbue it with a wildly different meaning.


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Jennifer Aniston is to play a Harvard professor of psychology who makes people feel younger through the power of suggestion.
Hollywood studio Universal Pictures is to produce Counter Clockwise, based on the real-life studies of US academic Ellen Langer, renowned for her work on the illusion of control, decision-making and ageing theories. The Friends star will produce the film and could play the lead role.
Counter Clockwise focuses on a study Langer conducted in which she reversed the ageing process of her subjects by making them believe they were younger. She wrote her findings in a study called Mindfulness. The study was also mentioned by New Age guru Deepak Chopra in Ageless Body, Timeless Mind.
Counter Clockwise's script was written by Paul Bernbaum, who wrote Hollywoodland, the well-received 50s LA-set drama about the death of Superman star George Reeves.
Aside from Counter Clockwise, Aniston is set to play a framed cop who attempts to break out of prison with cellmate Meryl Streep in next year's Wanted.


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Unfortunately, slip and fall accidents happen all the time and at any given moment. You might take a plunge in a restaurant, a grocery store, private property or school. Perhaps an employee failed to properly mark the wet floor with a warning sign, the sidewalk is not properly maintained or even something as simple as a blueberry is left on the ground. The pain is matched only by the embarrassment of being on public display.
It is right for you to be upset after a slip and fall because property owners have a general duty to protect those who they allow on the premises. In fact, most business operators and homeowners understand the possible premises liability they have for injuries that occur. Nevertheless, slip and fall accidents happen with amazing frequency and cost Americans untold amounts of damage, states the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
Here in Arizona, slip and fall victims are finding it beneficial to hire a Phoenix personal injury lawyer to file a claim for damages. Stores, restaurants and other establishments should train employees and inspect surfaces. These actions would help prevent slip and falls.
One woman recently filed a $1 million claim against a local grocery store. Apparently, she was walking when she slipped, suffering physical and emotional injuries. The business had failed to clean up a wet substance and any customer would have failed to notice it until too late. It is this sort of negligence that an experienced slip and fall attorney can expose in court to get judge or jury to award monetary damages.
People suffer financial, physical and emotional damages from slip and falls. According to the Hirsch & Lyon Accident Law team, a lawyer at Hirsch & Lyon Accident Law in Arizona, "A slip and fall can be devastating for some people in Phoenix. Victims constantly have to visit the doctor for therapy and check-ups and some may never recover from their injuries."
The repeated visits to the doctor can amount to a mountain of medical bills. Many victims have to remain off the job while they recover physically. Unable to work, you have no income to pay the bills. You can wind up in bankruptcy.
It is always in the best interest of an accident victim, such as yourself, to contact an experienced attorney to discuss a civil lawsuit to recover damages.
Proving the presence of negligence is central to winning a slip and fall injury case. In general, negligence consists of four elements:
It proves impossible to receive monetary damages for the injuries without demonstrating the above factors in the case facts. Those victims who try to go it alone often walk away from the process empty handed. This does not have to happen. Competent legal professionals are prepared to negotiate and litigate with businesses, insurance companies and homeowners to settle cases or win them at trial.
All slip and fall victims should consider filing a lawsuit to request recompense for the harm done by the accused. In general, lawyers always recommend requesting compensatory damages. These monetary awards attempt to make the victim whole again.
Medical costs and lost wages are examples of compensatory damage awards. The victim usually sits down with their lawyer to accurately calculate the amount of out-of-pocket expenses to date and expected in the future.
Lawyers also recommend demanding pain and suffering damages as well. These less visible costs deserve mentioning. You can suffer years of anxiety after a slip and fall. An experienced attorney is best able to demonstrate to the court just how the accident has affected you emotionally.
Anyone involved in a slip and fall accident should seek legal advice as soon as possible. It is important to begin accumulating evidence early because paper trails disappear and witnesses get more forgetful as time passes.
People who speak with the other side, insurance company or court officials, without the advice of a Phoenix accident lawyer, may create a situation where they cannot file a claim in the future. Some businesses will seek to negotiate with you alone to trick you into saying something to hurt your case.
Fortunately, in Arizona, you can contact Hirsch & Lyon Accident Law, a personal injury law firm, for a free consultation about the situation.
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Post-PAX 2014!
And we're back!
Hey all! It's good to be back here at home, and back on SA. If you kept up with my twitter feed over the weekend, you know we didn't have internet access at the hotel from Saturday-Monday (Angry Blarg!). So I wasn't able to post about what we did, what we didn't do, who we saw, what we got, and that kind of stuff. I DID, however take a few pictures …some of which look like they were taken during a magnitude 4 earthquake (those with chronic nausea, proceed with caution). I have to say, I had a FANTASTIC time at PAX East 2014! If you were able to go this year I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, and if you couldn't make it, I'm sorry =/ …maybe you'll be able to go to PAX East 2015, PAX Prime, PAX Aus, or the newly announced PAX South! If you can't make it out to any of these, worry not! You can check out most of the panels on YouTube or TwitchTV. And I know my buddy Austin from www.twitch.tv/feruun may, or may not (sorry folks, I don't know ALL the details), be giving away some of the swag we got, so go watch his channel for a possible chance to win …maybe!
Alright, back to the PAX news. So the weekends was GREAT, and, yes, we did walk away with quite a bit of free swag including (but not limited to) t-shirts, lanyards, pins, stickers, magnets, Oatmeal (Details Here), League of Legend skins, Smite skins, 20 tracks of music by Sumthing.com, posters, beta keys and game codes (for free access to AirMech Arena, The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot, Ghost Recon Phantoms, Might&Magic Duel of Champions, Anomaly Warzone Earth, Carmagedoon Reincarnation, Strife, Dawngate, and yes …even Borderlands the Pre-Sequel!). And we bought even more epiclyslamtastic (yeah, that's a word now) merchandise! We got some cool things from the TwithchTV booth, played some sweet games from the makers of Age of Mythology, and enjoyed the HELL out of panels like Gearbox, NIVIDIA (Where I single-handedly started a championship game of rock-paper-scissors with 200 people for a free graphics card! I lost in the semi-final round, but it was still awesome!), Acquisitions Inc., etc. All and all a weekend I'll remember gloriously for a longgg time to come. And what did we do the day after PAX you ask? We went to the aquarium! Cuz' hey, fish are cool (I threw in a few aquarium pics below too).
Alright, enough of my babbling, hope you all had a great weekend, now here's some pictures!!!


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Blokify the @Cubify iPad app to get young pupils into #3DPrinting
Personally I'm not all that into games on computers or tablets, I see these devices as being more for "doing" things with. But a can see that these programs and apps have great appeal to youngsters. So why not use them as a way to introduce kids to designing an making with 3D printing?
Well that's just what 3D Systems and Cubify have done with the new app "Blokify". It's available for iOS and Android. Here is the link to the Apple App Store.
The app is a bit like "Minecraft" in that simple blocks (bloks?) can be assembled into all sorts of structures… Castles, forts, etc. And then of course exported or in this case emailed as a .stl file.
Even for an oldie like me who has never played with computer games the app proved to be extremely intuitive to construct my castle…. A colleague of mine commented that even her 4 year old was able to use Blokify, so it doesn't really say much about my skill level :o)
Anyway, here is a screenshot from the Blokify app that I have exported and is currently printing on my CubeX 3D printer…. I'll post another picture when it's completed.
The app is free to download and comes as standard with a few different building bloks but it's an in app purchase to unlock some extra different bloks using "diamonds" as currency (note that as this is mainly an app for kids safeguards are built in to help prevent them running up big bills on your Apple store account)
Here is a quick picture taken mid print…. Love the texture that is showing up on the castle walls!
Anyway, I'm really impressed by how well this all works. So congratulations Cubify on a great app to encourage creativity in 3D printing for youngsters!
And here it is…. My first mini Blokify castle!
Building on Making Learning Irresistible -in D&T
On Friday I was given the opportunity to run a workshop for the North Somerset Learning Exchange… A primary school conference called Building on Making Learning Irresistible. My workshop was primarily to look at the implications of the new national curriculum for Design and Technology.
The first part of the workshop involved a presentation and discussion "unpicking" the key parts of the document and looking at how schools might change the activities they do with their children in the context of their school.
The second part was "hands on" with some of the newer technologies, 3D Printing, Robotics and programming, and CAD/CAM.
The conference happened to be taking place on the BBC "Children in Need" day. So the mascot Pudsey Bear inevitably made a few appearances.
Before finishing this post I must thank a few people for helping out with the organisation, loan of equipment and inspiration for the workshop…. Clevedon School Learning Hub, North Somerset Learning Exchange and Teach Design for all the organisation and admin. 3D Systems for providing the Cube 3D printer, Roland DG for providing the vinyl cutters, VEX Robotics for the loan of the VEX IQ Clawbot.
@Cubify Draw app for #3DPrinting with iPad
I stumbled across Cubify Draw app for iPad earlier today… Just had to download it!
My initial thoughts were that it is very simple… Perhaps too simple but maybe this will develop over time. I then went on to start thinking about how this could be used in schools. And my thoughts instantly went towards primary school age children. What a fantastic way to get them to doodle an idea and start 3D printing on a Cube or Cubex printer within minutes of getting started… And no complicated CAD to get involved with.
Being so simple it will be necessary to think carefully about what the kids can design but instantly I was drawn towards the idea of personalised bespoke biscuit (cookie) cutters and the like. (I must be hungry whist writing this for my mind to wander towards food again!)
Anyway, I've had an initial try out with the app and can't wait to try printing some objects.
Finding 3D components for #3DPrinting (with an iPad).
It's very time consuming to design every single nut and bolt (or similar standard part) when designing for 3D printing in 3D CAD programs. And building up a library of these parts is pretty futile as you never seem to have the exact part that you need saved to your PC.
There are loads of places on the web that these parts can be downloaded from but it takes quite a lot of searching to find them in the right format for your software… And students seem to find themselves easily distracted from the designing as soon as they fire up a web browser 🙂
But I think I may have a solution… Use an app on your iPad for finding the parts and keep your PC free for the designing! These two bits of kit can actually work very well side by side on your (or your student's) desk.
I have been trying out the app "3D CAD Models Engineering" by CADENAS GmbH …. There are literally thousands of parts in a huge number of catalogues and most of these can be configured to different sizes etc. And even better they can be downloaded (emailed to yourself) in the correct format for your CAD software…. All you have to do is open and save the email attachment on your PC.
So, here is the iPad app that I'm trying at the moment https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/3d-cad-models-engineering/id522705054?mt=8
… The app provides search facilities, QR code search, 3D previews, and even augmented reality views!
Another similar iPad app I have downloaded (but not yet fully explored) is GrabCAD. First impressions seem to indicate that the objects available from this app are more complete designs rather than component parts and it looks like selecting the parts/objects within the app redirects you to the safari browser and the GrabCAD website. So perhaps not quite as useful a pairing of iPad and PC as the CADENAS app provides…. But it's still a great way to search for things to 3D print when you have run out of ideas or don't fancy designing something yourself.
Here's the link to the GrabCAD app https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/grabcad/id518400211?mt=8
Year 9 D&T CAD/CAM and #3dprinting
Some of my current Year 9 (12 years old) D&T projects are really progressing. Here in the photo are a couple of projects that are nearing completion of the practical work. These are the designs that have been 3D printed using one of the Bits from Bytes 3D printers (Hopefully more pictures will follow when some of the other projects are completed)
The students chose the area of D&T they wanted to specialise in for a 10 week block… And this group chose CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design / Computer Aided Manufacture). The students were set a task to design and make a "Bespoke USB Stick". They have done most of the design work using CAD software (Creo Parametric, 123D Design or Inventor) and some have been very experimental and instead of designing using PC programs they have used the 123D Design app on their iPads…. Perhaps some of the first students to do this!
All the students in this group have chosen to record their work in an e-portfolio… Ok, not a real e-portfolio but using PowerPoint on a PC or Keynote on their iPads. Using the iPads has been very successful so far, it has meant that students have been able to photograph their paper based sketches and add them straight into their portfolio and screen shots of their work on PCs has been emailed to themselves for inclusion too…. As well as doing some of the actual design work in 123D Design.
It is really impressive how the students in these groups have embraced the use of new technologies (3D Printing and iPads) and incorporated this into their projects… Well done year 9!
Designing, prototyping, 3D printing… and augmented reality.
3D CAD is fantastic and students using it can use it to design their products with relative ease. Even better if they output their designs to 3D printers or CNC machines. But there are times when visualising the designed object in the "real environment" can be difficult. Visualising the object "in situ" before committing to printing or machining can be useful in determining whether the design is correct, suitable for purpose or "looks right".
Ok so it is possible to "Photoshop" an image of the CAD design into a photo of the environment but wouldn't it be better if this could be done in 3D?…. With augmented reality this is possible and using an iPad and a suitable app relatively easy to do.
The photo attached to this post only shows half of the story… Its not possible to show a 3D scene using 2D media! The object (a model 3DTouch 3D printer) is 3D, moving the iPad around this virtual object does actually allow you to see it from above, sides, front, back, etc.
Yes the object viewed using augmented reality is still a "virtual object" but as a method of "testing" ideas before actually prototyping or making the object is another tool available to designers… Used in isolation I'm not certain how useful augmented reality actually can be, but as a first check in an iterative design process I can see some potential for some students in some design projects.
I have a feeling that teaming augmented reality with 3D printing could be a powerful combination. I hope to try this out with students soon and intend to get them to design objects, test them with augmented reality and modify their designs before 3D printing them.
If you fancy giving it a go then you might be interested in trying the iPad app "Augment" https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/augment/id506463171?mt=8 For a free app (at the time of posting this) it is really powerful, a range of 3D formats can be imported (.stl, .3ds, .obj etc) and of course these can be designed in CAD or downloaded from sites such as Thingiverse. Imported objects can be scaled, rotated, moved, photographed etc. And to get you started there are a number of lovely sample files available in the app too.
D&T iPad apps
Ok, so not really about 3D printing but my school blog is "locked" for updating to a new platform/hosting service. My school has just launched into a new project for students to bring portable devices into school… Mainly iPads but other devices are allowed. So students setting up new iPads face a bewildering number of apps, here are a few suggested apps that I have tried out over the last year or so. The star rating is based on usefulness, price, etc… But just a guide! There are many other apps available.
Autodesk Forceeffect … Free *** Study the effect of forces on structures https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/autodesk-forceeffect/id476321600?mt=8
Forceeffect Motion … Free *** Study the effect of forces in motion https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/autodesk-forceeffect-motion/id512045820?mt=8
123D Make Intro… Free *** Design 3d designs for laser cutting https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/123d-make-intro/id513915986?mt=8
123D Design… Free *** Simple 3D CAD https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/123d-design/id567821620?mt=8
123D Sculpt… Free (model export £6.99 in app purchase) ** 3D sculpting https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/123d-sculpt/id446119510?mt=8
123D Catch… Free *** Scan objects in 3D https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/123d-catch/id513913018?mt=8
Sketchbook Express… Free ** Sketch, draw etc https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sketchbook-express-for-ipad/id410871280?mt=8
Pixlr-o-matic… Free ** Another photo edit app https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pixlr-o-matic/id450263811?mt=8
Other apps
D&T app … 69p per subject or £1.99 for all 6 *** D&T textbook, revision etc https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/design-and-technology/id363449581?mt=8
Moodboard Lite… Free (limited) or £6.99 ** Create design mood boards https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/moodboard-lite/id369796813?mt=8
iDT HD…. Free*** D&T "dictionary" https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/idt-hd/id383058247?mt=8
Neu.Draw… Free *** Vector drawing https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/neu.draw/id392532294?mt=8
iDesign… £5.99 ** Vector drawing https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/idesign/id342790226?mt=8
iDraw…£2.99 ** Vector drawing https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/idraw/id363317633?mt=8
Adobe Photoshop Express by Adobe…free *** Photo editing https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235?mt=8
Magic Plan… Free ** Create scale room plans https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/magicplan/id427424432?mt=8
Creo view mobile… Free *** Viewer for Creo 3D designs https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/creo-view-mobile/id560549930?mt=8
3D CAD Models Engineering by CADENAS GmbH… Free ** 3d cad models (downloads) catalogue https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/3d-cad-models-engineering/id522705054?mt=8
Idea generator…£1.99 * Random ideas generator https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/idea-generator/id293258418?mt=8
Ohm work… Free ** Resistor colour codes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ohm-work/id406539017?mt=8
Design Museum Collection … Free *** Iconic designs https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/design-museum-collection-for/id510964197?mt=8
Dexigner… Free *** News of what's going on in the design works https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/dexigner/id319785197?mt=8
Arduino Companion… Free * Arduino reference https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/arduino-companion/id501635254?mt=8
Spacecraft 3D… Free ** Augmented reality 3D spacecraft https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/spacecraft-3d/id541089908?mt=8
Maplin … Free * Electronics catalogue https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/maplin/id434388627?mt=8
Screwfix catalogue… Free ** Hardware catalogue https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/screwfix-catalogue/id531135973?mt=8
123D Design
At last a free 3D design app for the iPad that can be used for 3D printing!
Autodesk have just released the 123D app for the iPad and at first sight it appears to be quite useable. Designs can be created from simple primitives and modified by stretching, rotating, shelling, chamfering, rounding etc. The design can be saved to the iPad for further editing or exported to the cloud. The designed object can be downloaded to a PC (or mac?) using the 123D design program…and saved as an stl file for printing!
The iPad app is truly intuitive to use… I was creating printable objects within minutes. Best of all it's not necessary to be a CAD expert in fact anyone with a little experience using Trimble (Google) Sketchup will in their element with this app.
I'm pretty certain that this will open up new possibilities for students to be designing and making with iPads and 3D printers. I can't wait to try it out with students to see what they produce… iPads paired with our RapMan, BfB3000/3D Touch printers look like being a fantastic combination for student creativity.


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In the initial stages, digital marketing is a lot like anything else in life – you should be genuine and you should not compare your strategy with your competitors'.
Steve Carroll, head of sales at realestate.com.au says business owners should also be "be mindful of over-promising and under-delivering" because this can put people off and it is much harder to win clients back than it is to lose them.
"Your digital profile is available to the world 24/7, be careful what you post. Fifty-seven per cent of decisions/opinions are formed before physical contact is made. That's the power of your digital footprint," Mr Carroll said.
Complex, long-form content is not the order of the day for the online world. Smart, simple pieces that provide honest feedback and advice are more likely to be read and shared online.
"One of the pitfalls is getting distracted by the newest shiny object, spreading themselves too thin, and not just doing one thing reasonably well. They try and do everything and they do it poorly," Mr Carroll said.
By keeping your strategy simple and focusing all your energy on one or two platforms, you will be able to provide your followers with consistency, something that is harder to do if you're trying to cover all the latest social media options.
Effectiveness in digital marketing is about clear, concise messages hitting the exact audience you're trying to reach. Simplicity in your strategy and content will make this easier to achieve and more likely to succeed.


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Hanan Elaraby
Period 6
Ms. Pryor
February 3,2004
New Beginnings
New beginnings. What are they really? I mean, are they good things. Bad things. Stuff like that. I hope you get my point so far. Because this writers notebook might be a little confusing. (are you supposed to start a sentence with because?). Any ways back to my point.
Sometimes new beginnings are good. Like when you move to a new place. Or if you decide to make new friends. That's a new beginning. Also if you want to change something about your self. There's an other new beginning. They aren't all bad.
But some people see change and new beginnings as a bad thing. I really don't see how it can be a bad thing. But not everyone is the same. Some people are shy. Others like to be center of attention. Sort of like me. I love attention.
I like to entertain others.
Ha ha I just got off topic. Well not necessarily. I still think I'm on topic I sure hope so. Okay now I m off topic. Well back to my main idea or my main topic or point. What I'm saying is change can some times be a good thing.
Like if you stopped doing drugs. Or stopped being an alcoholic. Do you see what I'm getting at. Because if your lost I'll explain it this way. Changing is not as horrible as it seems. It might take a big step. It might even take a little step. It depends on what you are changing.
I must say this is a big change. I'm talking about the writers notebooks. See and that's a good change. It wasn't a bad one. Like I said I can't think of any way of how change could be bad.


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He also had a repo for it where the code is a bit different (and looks newer) so you might wanna try that, although I've found the above pretty effective as-is. His 0.3.0 branch is required for IE 6-7-8.
The native DOM function is:
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text: unconscience 0 Posted July 24, 2003 yea well today was an "extra credit" day in summer school. Yesterday we took our FINAL, i got a 20/20 on it and the test before i got a 9/10. before i took those tests and did my extra credit i had a 65%. Today when i went up to look at my grade AFTER he had averaged them out. I still had a 65%, so i did what anyone else would do and i begged(like seriously got on my hands and knees and begged him to let me do extra homework and shit). he told me there was nothing i could do, so i threw my books across the room and started cussing at him calling him every word i could think of. well all in all i got my grade up to a 70%. the moral of the story is: if you ever need a better grade, go off on the teacher and scare him/her to death until they change your grade. :king: Krook :C-average-student-oner::lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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v. in·ten·si·fied, in·ten·si·fy·ing, in·ten·si·fies
1. To make intense or more intense: The press has intensified its scrutiny of the candidate's background.
2. To increase the contrast of (a photographic image).
To become intense or more intense: The search intensified as dusk approached.
in·ten′si·fi·ca′tion (-fĭ-kā′shən) n.
vb, -fies, -fying or -fied
1. to make or become intense or more intense
2. (Photography) (tr) to increase the density of (a photographic film or plate)
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1. to make intense or more intense.
2. to increase the density and contrast of (a photographic negative) chemically.v.i.
3. to become intense or more intense.
in•ten`si•fi•ca′tion, n.
Past participle: intensified
Gerund: intensifying
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|intensify - increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"
increase - make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"
redouble - double in magnitude, extent, or intensity; "The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio"
|intensify - make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"
increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"
fan - make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred"
amplify - increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
sharpen - make crisp or more crisp and precise; "We had to sharpen our arguments"
|intensify - become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"
increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"
build - develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"
redouble - make twice as great or intense; "The screaming redoubled"
erupt, flare up, irrupt, break open, burst out, flare - erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"
condense - become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed"
sharpen - become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened"
accelerate, quicken, speed up, speed - move faster; "The car accelerated"
|intensify - make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
photography - the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
1. increase, boost, raise, extend, concentrate, add to, strengthen, enhance, compound, reinforce, step up (informal), emphasize, widen, heighten, sharpen, magnify, amplify, augment, redouble They are intensifying their efforts to secure the release of the hostages.
increase weaken, lessen, diminish, decrease, dilute, minimize, dull, damp down
increase weaken, lessen, diminish, decrease, dilute, minimize, dull, damp down
A. VI [desire, frustration, dislike] → intensificarse; [pain] → agudizarse; [odour] → hacerse más intenso; [rain] → arreciar; [fighting] → recrudecerse, intensificarse
B. VT [+ fear] → intensificar, incrementar; [+ pain] → agudizar; [+ attack] → recrudecer, intensificar
vt [+ efforts] → intensifier; [+ pressure, attacks, campaign] → intensifier
vi [efforts] → s'intensifier; [pressure, attacks, campaign, fighting] → s'intensifier
vt → intensivieren; meaning, fears → verstärken; conflict, competition → verschärfen
vi → zunehmen; (pain, heat also) → stärker werden; (fighting also) → sich verschärfen
1. vt → intensificare
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Deal of the Week: Rise of GloryJune 15, 2011 No Comments
This week deal of the week is Rise of Glory. It's regular price is $2.99 and until next week it is $1 cheaper at $1.99. If you were even thinking about getting this game before, you should definitely pick it up now. Especially if you are into great looking airplane games.
Game info:
An amazing First World War flight simulator with arcade accents. Fly your favorite plane in the single player campaign or play skirmish user defined missions. Amazing graphics, realistic aircraft behavior, challenging AI, incredible game experience.


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CWEF's GROW program seeks to improve the lives of left-behind children by connecting these children with university student mentors, who provide support and encouragement through regular phone calls and in-person visits. Additionally, GROW student mentors seek to facilitate improved communication between children and their parents, as well as coordinate with local schools to organize regular GROW activities at the school consisting of music, sports, language instruction, and other fun activities.
A GROW pilot project is now underway in Guangdong province, Huaiji county, where nearly 70% of children are 'left-behind.' All current GROW volunteers are previous recipients of CWEF's high school scholarship program, and many of these GROW volunteers also participated in other CWEF programs while in high school, such as the REACH student development program and Career Workshops.
GROW provides training and support to these previous recipients, equipping them to give back to young left-behind students in need, and providing an opportunity for both children and young adults to 'grow up together' with a greater sense of service for others and hope for the future.
The average student served by GROW…
- is in 4th – 6th grade.
- has 3 siblings.
- has one or both parents living and working in a large city in the Pearl River Delta, such as Guangzhou or Foshan.
- is taken care of by grandparents, who are usually in their 60's and 70's and whose own schooling ended after primary school.
- seeks out a fellow classmate when they are unhappy or have a problem with their schoolwork, rather than their parents, guardians or teachers.
For more information about the GROW program, please read this white paper.


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Cleantech Innovation and 'Reinventing Fire' with Amory Lovins in San Diego on April 11
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his latest book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era, which he co-authored with his fellow scientists at the Rocky Mountain Institute. (Lovins is the co-founder, chairman, and chief scientist of what he calls a "think-and-do tank" that is based in Snowmass and Boulder, CO.) He contends the United States can make this transition without oil, coal, or nukes—and by spending $5 trillion less than business-as-usual— and the result would be an economy that is 2.6 times bigger in 2050.
Lovins gained prominence in 1976 for his landmark essay, Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken, published in Foreign Affairs. He also preaches what he practices. At the Rocky Mountain Institute, he has spent the past 30 years working to realize his vision of an alternative energy strategy. His nonpartisan and economically based approach to energy policy has given him entre to numerous heads of state, and his long list of clients includes the Pentagon, Ford Motor Co., Wal-Mart, Corning, Monsanto, Ciba-Geigy, Texas Instruments, Unilever, and more than 100 utilities.
Throughout his career—and the 29 books he's written—Lovins's message has been remarkably consistent. Tapping market mechanisms to drive more efficient uses of resources isn't simply a good thing for the global environment. It also generates greater employment, wealth, equality, and national security. Or as Lovins told us at an Xconomy event in 2008, it's good for democracy and bad for tyranny and corruption.
After giving his keynote address, Lovins will sit down (on stage) with CleanTech CEO Jim Waring for a chat about the ways that San Diego's entrepreneurs are applying green innovation in the energy-intensive sectors of transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity. The idea is to explore how clean technologies being developed in San Diego can be broadly applied to revolutionize markets around the world.
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In order to use MasDeDe, you'll need to set up a user account on Megadede, which is free on its official desktop website. But, if you already have a Megadede account, simply use your old account as per usual.
Once you found a movie or a TV show that you want to watch, all you have to do is tap on it and pick out one of the viewing options available. You'll find there's tons of different choices: pick between languages and image quality, or even from different sources. Plus you'll also get to download any of the videos if you're interested in storing them for later offline viewing.
MasDeDe is an app for TV show and movie lovers. Its catalog is immense. With a simple, easy-to-use interface you'll be ready to watch after a just few quick seconds. And you'll get to create lists, save movies and TV shows for later and much more.
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Events Calendar
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Training for new foster parents
Since 2006, all future foster parents or adoptive parents must complete certain mandatory training provided by the Ministry of Community and Social Services (MCSS).
The PRIDE training (Parent Resources for Information, Development and Education) is among those mandatory training sessions. The Valor Institute provides this training on a regular basis in order to give future foster parents the opportunity to learn more about the challenges and the particular aspects of being a new foster parent. The PRIDE training is offered both in French and in English. The MCSS-certified trainers provide this training. It is offered jointly by a trainer and a foster parent to showcase the positive aspects of team work. Training is given through nine modules that are three hours long for a total of 27 hours.
Developmental training for foster parents:
- Resilience and different approaches based on their strengths
- Positive parental role and democratic style
- Seven developmental aspects evaluated under the LAC model
- Effects of positive expectations
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Dear Colleague:
The Mark Diamond Research Fund (MDRF) is currently searching for graduate students to serve on the Summer 2017 review council. Additionally, we are looking for 5 alternate council members.
Your responsibilities include serving on a one review council, with adequate time to review the grant(s) you are given. It will additionally include one council meeting where you will be given a full brunch/lunch as a thank you for your time. The council will be reviewing approximately 20 applications in each meeting. Each reviewer will be asked to read three to four complete applications as a primary reviewer and six to eight summaries (abstract, budget, and budget justification, and supporting documents) as a secondary reviewer. Primary reviewers should be prepared to give a three to five minute informal presentation on each full application. Secondary reviewers should be prepared to add to the discussion.
Summer 2017 review council meetings are scheduled for:
Thursday, June 15, 2017 from 10:00am to 2:00pm
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If you are willing to serve on the council, please fill out this survey: https://goo.gl/forms/3Dwxd9HmKRlC9ZtZ2
We will contact you to confirm the committee meeting you are assigned to. Please feel free to contact us at email@example.com should you need more information, or have any questions.
All the best,
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From time to time, when nobody sees me, I like to play the guitar and every time I face a challenge – how to tune it properly. And like in any other case Ruby comes to the rescue!
Tuned classic guitar has known frequencies – 329,63Hz for the open first string and so on. So to tune the guitar we need to know frequency shift for any string and simply fix it.
Let's start by recording the sound of the first open string.
In .wav file we have "signal vs time" data and to look at the wave form we can use some software, like Audacity:
or we can plot it with Ruby and Gnuplot.
To obtain sound vs time data from .wav file let's use SoX:
sox guitar_first_string.wav guitar_first_string.dat
guitar_first_string.dat will consist of several columns – time and volumes of every channel:
You can download .dat file from here.
Plotter code:
require 'open3'
class GNUPlotter < Struct.new(:data, :params)
def plot
image, s = Open3.capture2("gnuplot", stdin_data: gnuplot_commands, binmode: true)
system "open #{params[:image_name]}"
def gnuplot_commands
commands = %{
set terminal png font "/Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf" 14
set title "#{params[:title]}"
set xlabel "#{params[:x_axis_title]}"
set ylabel "#{params[:y_axis_title]}"
set output "#{params[:image_name]}"
set key off
plot "-" with points
data.each do |x, y|
commands << "#{x} #{y}\n"
commands << "e\n"
sound_data = File.read("guitar_first_string.dat").split("\n")[2..-1].map { |row| row.split.map(&:to_f) }.
map { |r| r.first(2) }
plot_params = {
image_name: "plot.png",
title: "Guitar first string sound",
x_axis_title: "Time, s",
y_axis_title: ".wav signal"
plotter = GNUPlotter.new(sound_data, plot_params)
Mathematical transformation employed to transform signals between time domain and frequency domain by Wikipedia
We will use http://www.fftw.org/ library for converting .wav file data (sound vs time) to its spectrum (magnitude vs frequency).
Now we have everything to calculate spectrum.
require "fftw3"
require_relative "plotter"
def read_channel_data(filename, channel_number)
data = File.read(filename).split("\n")[2..-1].map { |row| row.split.map(&:to_f) }
duration = data.last[0]
signal = data.map { |r| r[channel_number] }
return signal, duration
def calculate_fft(signal, duration, max_points = 3000)
na = NArray[signal]
fc = FFTW3.fft(na)
spectrum = fc.real.to_a.flatten.first(na.length / 2).first(max_points).each_with_index.map do |val, index|
[index / duration, val.abs]
signal, duration = read_channel_data("guitar_first_string.dat", 1)
spectrum = calculate_fft(signal, duration)
max_frequency = spectrum.sort_by(&:last).last.first.round(2)
spectrum_plot_params = {
image_name: "spectrum.png",
title: "First guitar string spectrum #{max_frequency}Hz",
x_axis_title: "Frequency, Hz",
y_axis_title: "Magnitude"
plotter = GNUPlotter.new(spectrum, spectrum_plot_params)
And a final plot:
As you can see we need to pull the string for 77.09Hz :)


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At our Children´s Club, we provide a daily schedule of activities that your children can enjoy for FREE that includes all snacks and drinks. Fully supervised by the Children´s Club Manager, your children can enjoy activities at various times of the day and late afternoon such as Arts & Crafts, Beach Combing, Volleyball, Pool Games, Age Appropriate Movies and other fun activities for kids of all ages to participate in, leaving you free to enjoy a little adult-time. We also provide games for the children to play at their leisure (and the adults!) including :
Sony Playstation, X Box, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Connect 4, Scrabble, Monopoly and more
The dedicated Resort team of 90 plus are on hand to take exceptional care of both owners and guests with every aspect of your stay.


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Read and find out more about "A Future Youth Want."
Your tax-deductible gift helps ensure that young people around the world, including some of the most vulnerable and underserved, are able to realize a brighter future.
Learn about Zangar, an initiative launched in partnership with Chevron and local government to teach STEM and life skills.
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Our corporate partnerships are proof that Investing in young people not only changes lives—it also makes good business sense.
For scale and sustainability, we've always emphasized building local partner's capacity to serve youth long-term.
Over 300 development resources: our initiatives, approaches, and best practices.
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To close the gender wage gap and promote women's economic mobility, women need increased access to traditionally male-dominated jobs.
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A few months ago, when IYF's job placement team in Morocco secured a position for the 900th young person, they celebrated with a cake, a small Alice in Wonderland-style gâteau with the number 900 written on the top. Then, two weeks later, they found jobs for another 100 young people. So, what to do—buy another cake?
If you build an aircraft maintenance workforce, will investment for a maintenance facility come? If you're in Chihuahua, Mexico, the answer looks to be yes, thanks to years of planning.


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Sharples Davies Limited is pleased to announce several additions to the company as part of its current growth strategy.
John Lake joins the company as a recruitment consultant with 27 years' merchant experience as a director of his family business E&JW Lake and regional director of Buildbase. Mr Lake will be responsible for the recruitment of sales professionals to director level appointments for manufacturers, distributors and merchants within the building products sector.
Alicia Potts joins the company as candidate development manager and Emma Leach joins Sharples Davies as an administrator. Ms Potts & Ms Leach join Sharples Davies as part of the Candidate Development Team to continue supplying the building products industry with quality sales professionals and in addition to offering advice and support to candidates throughout the recruitment process.
Sharples Davies has been established since 1996 recruiting solely within the building products industry on a national basis for manufacturers, distributors and merchants.


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Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Problem of Workplace Bullying
Posted by IBMP Integrative Body Mind Psychotherapy
Workplaces are being confronted with increasing claims of bullying according to Industrial Relations tribunal statistics in Australia. It is surprising to note that in Australia there is no common definition or statute law covering bullying or related cyber-bullying.
In terms of the law one finds that certain types of bullying behaviours such as stalking, assault, threats etc may be covered by other actual statutes and laws that relate to the immediate type of activity. In general one finds that Bullying is covered under the implied conditions that a workplace should be a safe environment for the staff involved at that workplace. Occupational Health and Safety Laws provide some guidance in this area.
In a typical workplace today one routinely finds workplace policies for internet and email usage, harassment, racism, and discrimination policies. These policies also cover workers from bullying and cyber-bullying that could occur using those themes and mediums covered by those policies. It is less common to find actual Bullying and Cyber-bullying policies but these too are now emerging to define and inform for workers what is and is not condoned in the workplace with respect to interpersonal behaviours between staff.
What is important is that employers must take the issue of workplace bullying seriously. The documented effects of bullying on the victim and the bully are quite pervasive and potentially far-reaching. Victims have been shown to often suffer trauma that equates to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and may have associated Anxiety, Depression, Psycho-somatic illnesses, and psychological disorders including impulses to suicide.
The bully often has a pattern of controlling, intimidatory and anti-social behaviours in their history and will normally found to have low self-esteem and poor self and body images. They may have been bullied themselves in their past, and bullying is often either an attempt to overcome their felt sense of powerlessness in life, or their mal-adapted way of social engagement. Bullies are often depressed, anxious, confused and may also exhibit physical and mental health issues and symptoms.
The employer suffers from the fact that their workplace becomes unsafe and less cohesive in the face of the bullying behaviours. Studies have shown how productivity drops, absenteeism rises, staff turnover increases, and morale slumps over time if the issue is not confronted and dealt with. Remember that bullies typically have low self esteem and feel powerless. They typically compensate by trying to move higher through the workplace ladder and get placed in positions of power and control, which legitimises their need to use this authority in a dysfunctional way.
The employer also suffers as increasingly staff are seeking recourse to the law to fight workplace bullying when employers are seen to ignore, or dismiss bullying by their staff against another colleague. As an example, Worksafe W.A. defines workplace bullying in quite broad terms. It is described as: "repeated unreasonable or inappropriate behavior directed towards a worker, or group of workers, that creates a risk to health and safety".
The Workplace perspective orients itself towards the potential adverse effects on the workplace health and safety for staff and subcontractors or agents of the business.
Employers need to understand that if they turn a blind eye, or minimize or dismiss instances of workplace bullying then they run the risk of incurring expensive litigation costs in various courts and tribunals that an affected staff member may take legal action through.
More importantly employers now need to understand and enact workplace policies that describe and guide employee behaviours around Cyber-bullying. Cyber-bullying is a serious topic because its effects on the psychological health of victims is more far reaching, lasting and damaging that the traditional physical bully.
Cyber-Bullying is a new concern as the tools and nature of the internet mean that any content, once transmitted and posted, can never be guaranteed to be fully erasable, deleted or removed. A rule of thumb is that what is put on the internet remains there forever. In the past a victim ceased being bullied physically once removed from the presence of the bully. Although harmful there was limits to the effect of bullying via physical avoidance or absence of presence. The audience of bullying was often small.
The nature and problem of Cyber-bullying is that one is exposed for eternity to a worldwide audience when one is subject to malicious comments, rumours, shaming, exposure or attack on the internet, particularly when conducted on social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube.
The Internet security firm AVG, researched this emerging problem and presented their finds at the 2011 American Psychological Association annual convention. AVG concluded that:
- Victims of cyber-bullying and the related phenomena of cyber-stalking, suffer more than victims of "traditional" bullying.
- The inability to escape from the 24 x 7 online world, coupled with the public nature of threats and humiliation resulting from posts on the internet, made electronic bullying more intense.
- 4 out of 10 women suffered electronic harassment after dating using online dating sites.
- 20% of prosecuted online stalkers used social media and social networking sites as part of their modus operandi to stalk victims.
- Online bullying and stalking is under-reported and likely to increase as more people become social media "savvy".
Psychological studies are showing how a class of people with anti-social mental disorders, and other people who feel confronted with physical interaction, are starting to live "virtually", or increasingly locked away from true social interaction, in front of computers and mobile devices. A generation is now emerging who have been raised on these devices and technologies. Neuroscience has shown how the internet and social media experiences such as Facebook interactions are highly addictive for some people.
As a consequence of the damaged nature of some individuals in their personal histories, plus the explosive trend of the internet as a replacement or compensation for social engagement, a general social trend is emerging for remote interactions and connections that transcends workplace boundaries. This does not lift the burden of responsibility away off the employer.
An employer can be found responsible for the online practices done through the workplace supplied internet and social media enabled technologies and devices. Likewise the internet becomes the new "cyber-playground" where the bully can show up and torment others. Employers are not outside their duty of care to employees when one employee bullies or abuses another through one of the many gateways into the online world.
Employers need to be pro-active and amend or introduce updated workplace policies that provide a cohesive and linked framework of guidance, education, definition, and policy or rules that proscribe and set boundaries around personal and online presence and behavior. Whilst an employer cannot directly control the actions of their employee they can certainly articulate the physical, behavioural, cultural, online and value driven standards, rules and mores that are expected of all that would work under the banner of that workplace.
Employers that continue to omit or neglect to introduce or update doing so are increasingly running the risk of ending up in a litigation linked outcome that can only result in the risk of heavy cost, and damage to the reputation of that business.
Corporate Energetics regularly consults with employers on the matters of workplace bullying and cyber-bullying, as well as running our "Standing Tall" Anti-Bullying/Cyber-Bullying programme.
Contact Richard Boyd to find out more how he can help you to proactively introduce relevant email, internet, harassment, racism, bullying and cyber-bullying workplace policies, or Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) to assist staff who have alleged bullying in the workplace.
Richard also personally assists and provides coaching to managers, supervisors and executives in the workplace who find they have bullying tendencies in their personality that are getting in the way of discharging their leadership roles to optimum success.


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Well, it's been two and a half years, almost, and the time had come. Phoebe wears a barrette in her hair every day. But she objects to having her hair combed, every day. She shrieks and cries and usually leaves the room as though it's a bizarre and new request. Every day. So I thought a trim would help. Her hair would be shorter and easier to handle. But did I dread getting her in that chair.
To my knowledge (which is hardly extensive) they don't have those special kids' hair salons with seats shaped like race cars or horses in Rome. It seemed like that would have helped, plus stylists who are used to/immune to the objections of the under four feet crowd. So I took her to my salon, which Phoebe actually knows because it's near our house and we often stop by to pet the owner's Pomeranian named Lucy. Still, this lady was bound to want to comb Phoebe's hair and it wouldn't be pretty. Or maybe it would. With Estelle in the Bjorn, I turned my phone toward her and recorded this easy breezy experience. Who would've known?
Okay, so there isn't any "cutting" in this video but she let the stylist put her in a chair, throw on a robe, comb out her hair then yes, cut it. And we have a keepsake.


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Sporty, for an outing on the racetrack. Comfortable, for a long journey in a party of four. There is no 'either–or'. That's the
Let's give you some examples. Ascending centre console: enabling swift hand movements from the steering wheel to the gear selector. New control and display concept:
In the new
Available as an option for the
In conjunction with the large centre console, folding tables are available for the rear compartment on request. Folded away, they are concealed inside the large centre console. For use, they fold out manually – aeroplane-style – and adjust for distance.
Optional ambient lighting with rear interior lighting is an indirect lighting concept designed to enhance passenger comfort. You can choose from seven lighting colours and customise their intensity.
And what else? You decide: seat variants, leather or two-tone interior schemes? Fine woods, aluminium or carbon? More sporty? More luxurious? Both? Thanks to our extensive range of personalisation options, the possibilities for you and your wishes are virtually boundless.
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* Data determined in accordance with the measurement method required by law. Since 1 September 2017 certain new cars have been type approved in accordance with the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), a more realistic test procedure to measure fuel/electricity consumption and CO₂ emissions. As of 1 September 2018 the WLTP replaced the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC). Due to the more realistic test conditions, the fuel/electricity consumption and CO₂ emission values determined in accordance with the WLTP will, in many cases, be higher than those determined in accordance with the NEDC. This may lead to corresponding changes in vehicle taxation from 1 September 2018. You can find more information on the difference between WLTP and NEDC at www.porsche.com/wltp.
Currently, we are still obliged to provide the NEDC values, regardless of the type approval process used. The additional reporting of the WLTP values is voluntary until their obligatory use. As far as new cars (which are type approved in accordance with the WLTP) are concerned, the NEDC values will, therefore, be derived from the WLTP values during the transition period. To the extent that NEDC values are given as ranges, these do not relate to a single, individual car and do not constitute part of the offer. They are intended solely as a means of comparing different types of vehicle. Extra features and accessories (attachments, tyre formats, etc.) can change relevant vehicle parameters such as weight, rolling resistance and aerodynamics and, in addition to weather and traffic conditions, as well as individual handling, can affect the fuel/electricity consumption, CO₂ emissions and performance values of a car.
** Important information about the all-electric


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Senior Living services in Sachse
Oxford Glen is an intimate environment that focuses on the needs of our residents in a uniquely personal fashion.
CALL TODAY, and ask us about respite and day-stay options!
The following list of services and amenities is only a sampling of what you can expect – because loving our residents is a way of life, not a bullet point on a list.
Communities that Inspire. You'll Love Oxford Living. Love where you live.


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When you need solutions to support your vacuum and low pressure applications, you'll want expert partners that will give you all the benefit of their experience and knowledge.
ISO 22000. ISO and its member countries used
the Quality Management System approach, and
tailored it to apply to Food Safety, incorporating
the widely used and proven HACCP principles
and Good Manufacturing Principles (addressed
by Prerequisite Programs in ISO 22000).
All our products come fully certified and our experts with you to ensure you have necessary compliance for the Food & Beverage Industry
Gardner Denver can help identify and reduce any risks through a free site survey, which may extend to working with the production team to ensure the equipment is included in the HACCP assessment
Air quality is particularly important in a food and beverage manufacturing environment. Our vacuum experts can help you improve the quality and reliability of your vacuum supply
We pride ourselves in offering exceptional after sales care. We work with you to offer timely, predictive maintenance using high quality genuine spares to keep you up and running no matter what
Gardner Denver have the widest range of vacuum technologies available in the market, including both oil free and lubricated technology options
Choose an oil-free vacuum pump specifically
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requiring only the highest air purity standards.
Oil-free vacuum pumps don't require the same
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as there is no need to replace oil or filters.
This also provides the added benefit of cutting down on costs over a pump's lifetime. Another major advantage to an oil-free vacuum pump is that it doesn't have to be removed to carry out maintenance. This means a dramatic reduction in equipment downtime and associated costs from oil, waste oil disposal or labour.
With the focus on air quality only likely to increase as time goes on, there's real potential for those operating in production sensitive environments to reap the rewards of oil-free vacuum pumps.
The Elmo Rietschle oil lubricated pumps have
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Listening to the voice of our customers we have redesigned this successful industry classic.
This safeguards against oil discharging from the exhaust or oil carryover from the pump, which could contaminate food. Check filters regularly to ensure that they are not blocked
This ensures that pumps operate at peak efficiency with little or no oil carryover and have an optimum life span
With oil-free vacuum pumps there is no risk of oil discharging from the exhaust, and no risk of oil carrying over.
As there is no need to replace oil or filters, they also require less maintenance than oil-lubricated models, which in turn significantly reduces whole life costs
Even when procedures are very rigorous, trace amounts of lubricant can and do come in contact with surfaces, packaging or the food itself.
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Lakeview Terrace is the new home for two new home buyers, Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington. They become the target of their deranged new neighbour played by Samuel L. Jackson, an LAPD officer who is so odd he should be in a padded cell.
Jackson takes it upon himself to be the all seeing eye of the neighbourhood and involves himself way to much in the daily running of peoples lives and especially his new next door neighbours. A constant pain in the newlyweds lives with constant harrasment and directed hate to them being a mixed race couple. In the end Wilson and Washington fight back.
I should have known from booking the movie which was the smallest showing room that this wasn't going to be exciting. The most painful thing apart from losing a good 2 hours of my life to an awful movie is that now I feel let down by Samuel L. Jackson. When actors take part in rubbish movies which aren't going to take the world by storm they're clearly needing some extra cash for Christmas. I never thought Jackson would have done this but he clearly has. The movie seemed utterly pointless and is a MUCH worse version of Denzel Washingtons 'Training Day'.
There isn't much to say really, it was quite possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen.


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"I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting though trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities."
Preface, p. vii
"When I returned from the Galapagos, that long-dormant fire of adventure had been rekindled and the glamour of my life turned gray."
Chap. 1, p. 4
"I am symbolically peeling away the person I have become and releasing the woman who has been trapped inside all these years."
Chap. 1, p. 15
"My experience of chicharron is a different kind of affirmation. It suggests that I have let go of the old and given myself permission to move on."
Chap. 1, p. 16
"Juanita's lessen would serve me well for the rest of my life: connection requires participation."
Chap. 2, p. 31
"I have always dreamed of owning nothing but the step I could carry on my back."
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"But I'm not running away. I'm running toward ... toward adventure, toward discovery...
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The skin is the body's largest organ and the first to show signs of ageing, so keeping it hydrated and healthy is a must. There's a long list of culprits when it comes to dry skin, including sun exposure, drying soaps, skin conditions, long hot baths or showers and, of course, the season.
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Use an ointment or cream rather than a lotion, and - depending on your skin type - opt for a moisturiser that includes an oil like olive oil, jojoba oil or shea butter – which can help eliminate dryness, especially in the cooler months. Remember that the same skincare routine might not work year-round, your skincare needs change as the seasons do. Dry skin can itch, flake, crack and even bleed, so it's worth speaking to a professional to assess the best plan and products for your skin type.
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On March 27th, Dana Medical Library hung a commemorative plaque that honors the famous physician, poet and soldier, Dr. John McCrae. UVM Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine dedicated the plaque to the library in 2016 when the library hosted a talk and exhibit on John McCrae. He was also the author of the famous poem, In Flanders Fields.
The library also hosted a Medical History Open House at this time to showcase its extensive medical history collection. In addition to a collection of books specifically devoted to the history of medicine in Vermont, the Medical History room contains a large display cabinet filled with tools dating from the early 19th century, and other artifacts used by physicians in Vermont and elsewhere.
In attendance were individuals from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, the Chittenden County Historical Society and the UVM Libraries. Director Marianne Burke spoke and Medical History Librarian Angie Chapple-Sokol gave a brief talk on Dr. John McCrae.
Dana's Medical History room is open to the public every Wednesday, 1-3pm. For more information, contact Angie Chapple-Sokol at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Trystan: Stavanger, friends, beautyJune 17, 2010
After a few short days of hanging out with my parents in Bergen, it was time for one last road trip. Bags were packed, food was made, cars were collected, and everyone put on their Fun Caps™.
Stavanger's a decent drive from Bergen, something like 4–5 hours, including ferries. The ferries, by the way, are killer. For our whole trip, with two cars, we spent almost as much on ferries as we did on cars (kr 1.800). It's a nice drive, though, and the ferries actually break up what little monotony there is. Driving in Norway is like aiming a freight train up a bee's ass: it's hard to get a straight shot, and all it takes is one wrong move for game over.
We got to see the city of Stavanger for a couple hours when the sun was going down. Although we barely glimpsed the surface, the main shopping area was very cool, cute, and clever.
Maybe an hour out of the city we pulled off onto a little side-road-of-a-side-road. After some initial consternation, we agreed on it and found a soft camping spot, where grass covered the rocks so thickly it was like walking on hay. There we were – camping on the beach with a fire, food and drink, and the best company one could ask for. The place was beautiful, too. Watching the sun set—and then start rising just a few hours later—over a mountainous lake with wine and friends is superb.
We packed it up early, and got back on the road to Kjerag. The drive there is beautiful, as it is everywhere. At the end it gets very hairy—hard hairpins constantly, and only one lane wide the whole way (you have to pull over and/or back up if you want to let someone pass!). We also saw a bunch of goats just chillin' in the road, which was fun.
We knew Kjerag would be a tough climb. We knew that. But I didn't realize just how exhausting it'd really be. The views, at every single point, were beyond breathtaking. Even little things, like drinking right from a stream, are so cool
There was still a lot of snow up on top of Kjerag. It's strange to think that it was the middle of June, and here we were trudging through snow – again. But, finally we made it! It was tiresome and overwhelming(ly beautiful), but we made it! At the top of Kjerag is Kjeragbolten—the Kjerag boulder. It's wedged between two sheer rock edges of a huge rift, and has been for who-knows-how-long. That means that directly beneath is an 984-meter plummet into the fjord (that's 2/3 of a mile!). For those of you who know me, I'm not a huge fan of heights. Furthermore, I'm a clutz. Majorly. So, you say, a wise, clumsy person afraid of heights would not venture out on a round boulder with no footholds dangling 1000m above the sea. Fortunately, I am no sage. Mother, stop reading. Everyone else, behold:
Neža and Sam got out there too, which was pretty awesome. Unfortunately, I couldn't bring myself to stand up on it, unlike Florian, who apparently has bigger cajones than the boulder itself. Mike couldn't bring himself to do it, but he tried his damn best – impressive nonetheless.
We rested on top and meandered our way back. Tired is an understatement. Five hours of hiking on only 4–5 hours of sleep really takes its toll. But back into the car we clambered, heading towards Preikestolen, looking for our next camping place. We got, um, lost. And by lost I mean, we all realized more simultaneously that nothing looked familiar, and it turns out we were +/- 3 hours out of the way.
We made it back up towards Preikestolen, and found what can only be described as the most unbelievably perfect camping spot… ever. On the beach, in an inlet, surrounded by trees and water, with the sun setting over the sea. Not a soul in sight.
The sun was well up by the time we went to bed, but after a few hours of sleep, we were ready to tackle Preikestolen. Preikestolen is completely unimaginable. From the side it's beautiful, and from on top it's terrifying and stunning. We had much better weather for Preikestolen, and the colors of the fjord were really something to take it. Photos just can't do it justice. But it can help give a perspective of the sheer size of this monstrosity.


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Return to the farm and create perfect ingredients of pizza for the town. Run your farm and start by growing grasses. The animals are to be fed and collect the produced goods that you need to create the ingredients. You also need to get rid of those bears that comes. The products are mixed up to produce the ingredients that you need. You have to buy buildings that is helpful on your production. You can also upgrade it for more convenience as it can produce more products at the same span of time. You have to be quick because you need the ingredients as soon as possible. The vehicles are available to deliver the products. Upgrading vehicles are necessary so that it can bring more products faster. The more you sell the better your farm will be Enjoy the frenzy and join the pizza party.
This game is fun-filled just like the original Farm Frenzy. Great action awaits as you protect your farm from those nasty bears. The excitement of owning and running the farm never stops. The goal of creating ingredients for the pizza is very interesting. The pizza lovers will surely have an eye for this game. It has the right mix of fun and challenge. The gameplay is very nice and full of fun. The graphics are very great and has a good response. The music is cheerful that adds to the excitement. This game definitely relaxing at the same time has an exciting game pace. The level of difficulty is neutral that people of all ages can enjoy. Definitely a must played game for everyone.
Life in farm is much different from the city. You will be cultivating fields, feeding your animal...
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Thousands protest Keystone XL pipeline
Thousands of people rallied in downtown San Francisco on Sunday to urge President Obama to reject construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, an action they said would prove he is committed to fighting global warming.
The demonstration across from the Ferry Building was held at the same time as similar events in cities including Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles. The main event in Washington, D.C., drew tens of thousands of supporters in what was billed as the largest climate change rally in U.S. history.
Organizers of the San Francisco protest estimated that more than 4,000 people gathered to condemn the proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would run nearly 2,000 miles to connect Canada's oil sands to refineries around the Gulf of Mexico. Because it would cross an international border, it requires Obama's approval.
"We're asking him to reject Keystone XL as one way to move forward on climate change," said Jess Dervin-Ackerman, a conservation organizer with the San Francisco Bay chapter of the Sierra Club, which planned the event along with 350.org, the Natural Resources Defense Council and several other groups.
Opponents of the pipeline, including Democrats and environmentalists, argue the project could contaminate land and water along its route, particularly in Nebraska, and release high concentrations of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by increasing oil production from tar sands.
But proponents say the company behind the pipeline, TransCanada, has agreed to obey 57 special conditions designed to keep the pipeline secure from leaks. The line would create thousands of jobs and strengthen the country's energy independence, they contend.
Canada views Keystone as a crucial step in furthering oil production and growing its economy. It would be the longest oil pipeline outside Russia and China, able to transport more than half a million barrels of crude oil daily.
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But activists who rallied in San Francisco said Obama would be hypocritical to give Keystone the green light after promising in his inaugural address and State of the Union that he would work to combat climate change.
"I think he has his heart in the right place on climate change, but I think he's going to have to show tremendous backbone to make any progress on this issue," said Karen Kramer, 54, a lawyer and an artist in Oakland. "I hope for everyone's sake he can find the backbone. We're here to show him we have his back on this."
Kramer and her mother, Joan Allen, 78, a retired adoption worker in Berkeley, were part of a crowd that marched around One Market Plaza. The block contains an office of the U.S. State Department, which is responsible for permitting infrastructure projects that cross a border.
They chanted and held signs with slogans such as "Stop Tar Sands," "Tar Sands = Game Over For Us All," "Stop Keystone XL" and "Climate Action: It's Our Obligation."
Preservation fight
They gathered in Justin Herman Plaza to listen to speakers who included San Francisco District 11 Supervisor John Avalos, who touted CleanPowerSF, the city's proposed clean-energy program, and his call for the city's retirement system to divest from fossil fuel companies.
The speakers said that battling Keystone, along with pushing to reduce coal burning and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, was critical in preserving the environment for future generations.
That message resonated with Woody Little, 18, a UC Berkeley freshman who held a sign that read "Love Each Other, Love the Earth." Born one day too late to vote for Obama in the last election, he said he wanted climate change to be one of the president's achievements.
"It just doesn't make sense," he said. "Why would we be accessing this deposit, these tar sands' dirty oil, when there's so much out there to be used already?"
Stephanie M. Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @stephaniemlee


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Teacher loses fight to take gun to class
"I'm about to give a Newtonian demonstration, of a bullet, it's mass, and it's acceleration." - MC Hawking
I think this teacher was demonstrating great logic. What parent wouldn't feel comfortable knowing that educators keep live weapons on their person? Is she that delusional that she thinks the Bill of Rights has got her back on this one? Charlton Heston gave way too many people a boner when he starting preaching about bearing arms. We may as well put every child through a hunter's safety course and allow them all to bring firearms to school. We will let them to use their own judgment on when to open rounds. As long as they feel their safety was threatened, the ends should justify the means. Freedom isn't the right to carry a gun around children in school. We need less neurotic faculty teaching students and not ones that compromise my freedom by coming up with idiotic ideas like this. I had a physics teacher who used to smoke in the classroom. We never knew this because we saw him do this, but we knew because every day when we came back from lunch at 12:45 the class smelled like Marlboro Reds. I don't want to have to come back from lunch and find bullet casings and gun powder on the floor...it makes me feel a little more uneasy than a pack of smokes.


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City Council President Pro Tempore Sabina Matos today issued the following statement regarding Council President Aponte's indictment:
"I am concerned and saddened by today's indictment against Council President Aponte. Luis has been a colleague and friend for many years. This is a difficult time for the City and our constituents.
As President Pro-Tempore, I wish to assure the people of Providence that their Councilors remain committed to continuing their hard work to ensure that Providence is a vibrant, successful city for all its residents. While the judicial process unfolds, I will remain focused on our work and committed to moving the City of Providence forward."
Majority Leader Bryan Principe issued a statement echoing Councilwoman Matos' emphasis on the Council's commitment to constituents:
"At the end of the day, the judicial process that began today is out of our hands, and we can't control its outcome. Instead, we will remain focused on fulfilling our commitment to the people of Providence and continue to serve the City to the best of our ability."


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The virgin/whore dichotomy is the source of slut-shaming, whorephobia and rape culture. The dichotomy is simple enough, if absurd; it is the belief that some girls want sex and others don't. Secondly, the dichotomy confuses ethics and repression by naming women who want it as 'bad' and the repressed ones as 'good'. Finally, men want to sleep with 'bad' girls and marry 'good' girls.
This means:
No grey areas. Women can choose to be a good girl or a slut; they are limited to these two unreal, impossible extremes which allow no scope for natural, real sexuality.
In popular culture, 'good' women were preferred, as they got their man (through marriage) wheras 'bad' women only had the man for a short time. Even 50 Shades of Grey carries the message that virginity is prized by men, is an attractive state, and is rewarded by ****SPOILER ALERT!!!*** marriage at the end of the trilogy.Christian marries the virginal Ana instead of his many previous girlfriends and one night stands.
The dichotomy leads to both genders seeing sex and marriage as entirely separate and not on a continuum of lust/attraction/friendship/love. In this way, the virgin/whore dichotomy is a cause of and closely connected to the madonna-whore complex (a psychological problem that makes a man unable to sleep with his wife, because he cannot connect love and marriage. He will instead seek out sex workers and have extra-marital affairs.)
The dichotomy also leads to slut-shaming (including stigmatisation of female single parents, young female parents, sex workers, and most commonly, bitching about other girls in high school and calling them 'sluts' while desperately asserting that you are definetly not a slut,…)
The worst outcome of the dichotomy is an aspect of rape culture – that victims are often blamed for 'inviting rape' by drinking, being out at night, wearing a certain outfit/showing skin, 'leading the man [the rapist] on', being in a bad area of town, walking alone down a street…
On a less disturbing, but nevertheless quite important, note, the dichotomy is indirectly responsible – along with religion which reinforces it – for the abstince cult (Daddy-daughter purity balls, abstinence education, virginity pledges, abstinence rings etc).
Why the dichotomy is totally stupid
I see no reason to use less colloquial/PC language but it is stupid!!! To the utmost level. Because nobody – man or woman – is either a virgin or a whore; human beings are complex, multi-layered, context-specific, culturally-influenced beings. A virgin may have a very 'dirty' mind, and a female Casanova a relatively 'pure' one. And how on earth can you compare two people? Our childhood development, background, experiences, friends, jobs, religion, availibility and expectations of sexual partners all heavily influence our sex life. If your partner talks you into sleeping with them, how can you be compared to a virgin with an abstinent or more respectful partner, when she has not faced the pressures that you did? Who can say who would have caved in the quicker, had the playing field been equal.
Furthermore, the dichotomy assumes that only women can be whores or virgins – men are all created equal no matter how slutty* they are. This of course leads right to the double standard.
The dichotomy is not equal – it doesn't apply to men. Women do not want to marry male virgins and fuck whores.So, men's promiscuity doesn't harm their chances of marriage; they have a golden ticket to indulge their most slutty desires.
The implication is that women were/are given the goal of remaining a virgin until marriage, or she might lose her chance to marry.This represses and constricts their sex life.
This put men and women at odds with each other – women had to preserve virginity while men wanted them to sleep with them. Women who did lose virginity to keep their boyfriend would actually lose the chance of keeping him. Thiscreates tension in dating and relationships and is not conducive to a harmonious community.
Women who were literally 'easy' to talk into bed were not valued by the men.
It creates an ethos of mens' goal being sex and the woman's being the opposite which is unfair; men wanted virgin brides when they themselves were not virgins.
It means there can never be any concept of men being virgins or whores – or easy to get into bed/devalued versus hard to persuade and marriage material. It also precludes concepts of women actually taking the initiative or even wanting to sleep with a man without persuasion or coercion.
It leads to men telling lies or using coercion to get what they want; the sexes are literally battling each other.
Mens' ethics are not called into question; if they are whores they are not 'bad boys', or, even if they are, they are called such in a much more flippant, non-stigmatised way. They cannot be shamed for losing virginity. Usually, the more slutty a man is, the greater his bragging rights.
Its premise is utterly delusional, as nobody is either extreme.
The dichotomy oppresses women, as it means we have less control over our sex lives and much less rights to an autonomous, fulfilled sex life than men. So, women are always unequal and inferior.
The dichotomy in the real world:
-Can often be seen in literature, non-contemporary art and religious scriptures
-Is less relevant in the west nowadays, however in certain regions of America it can still be seen. It also lurks, unseen, behind the double standard, rape culture, slut-shaming and stigma attached to lone mothers.
-Apparently some men still believe in it – even the whole 'good girls and bad girls' rhetoric. Never met one.
-Is not expressed in such strict terms; a relatively inadventurous woman nowadays may be the 'virgin' and a more adventurous woman the whore in popular consciousness, media reports and contemporary literature. Respective examples I just thought of are: the wife versus the lone mother; tabloid portrayals of "foxy", promiscuous femme fatale Amanda Knox versus quiet studious Meredith Kercher. This was a complete fiction, as we do not know enough about their personalities, fantasies and experiences to even hazard a guess at who was 'foxy' and who wasn't.- (As if labels like 'foxy' and 'studious' could somehow encompass and sum up the multi-faceted, complex characters of two people). In contemporary literature and also film, the femme fatale is usually also sexually adventurous, just like how the tabloids painted Knox. Ana and Kate are contrasted in terms of the dichotomy in 50 Shades, and the heroines or protagonists in literature and film tend to not to be overly adventurous, especially in recent phenomena (Hermione, Ginny, Bella, Babydoll, Ana) but also generally.
This blog
Through the dichotomy, women can choose one of two fictional extremes. This blog represents a challenge to that. As a virgin woman, I am selling my virginity – the ultimate whore act (prostitution of the prized innocence). So, which am I, virgin or whore? This journey proves that even if you believe in the dichotomy, you have to accept that the transition from virgin to whore is gradual. There is a huge grey area in between. If I am a virgin, do I become a whore the moment Roland and I have sex? Or the moment we finish? Somewhere in between? And if I am a whore, did I become a whore when I decided to go to the photoshoot to trial him? Or when I agreed to meet him at the Tower? Or when we finalised the deal? Or perhaps it is entirely physical; you may take your pick from my first spanking to oral sex or whatever act you think would change someone from virgin to whore.
Whichever way you look at it, this blog captures a transition from virgin to whore. It expressses a virginwhore, an entity who is neither and who is both. As we all – women, men, trans – are.
*'Slutty' is used in a non-sincere manner in this blog. I don't believe sluts exist. It's just a tool to repress women.


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About Law Rising
The purpose of this law blog (or "blawg" in lawyer lingo) is to release legal information, my legal insights and opinions into cyberspace for everyone and anyone who cares to read it. My hope is that you'll find some of my posts useful. If not useful, then at least entertaining and/or thought-provoking. My expectation is sometimes I'll accomplish that and other times the posts will be trivial at best. I will mainly focus my posts on the areas which I practice but I won't limit myself to that. I'll be writing on anything from the basics of creating a will to the legal implications of genetically-engineered salmon — basically whatever sparks my interest in the legal world.
If you'd like to learn about me and my practice, you can visit my website: www.orestelaw.com.
With that, a lawyerly disclaimer: Nothing on this blawg constitutes legal advice or an attorney-client relationship. The posts here at Law Rising are for informational purposes only.
And we're off into the blogosphere…Enjoy!


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In Memory of Merlinda Fournier( - 2015)
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- February 1, 2015
Merlinda Skow Fournier passed into the Spiritual World on February 1, 2015, at age 66. Due to many unfortunate circumstances this was not discovered by her spiritual family until January 8, 2016.
Merlinda joined the Unification Church in 1970 in California. She participated on the Southern One World Crusade (OWC) team and pioneered the Unification movement in Alabama and later in Mankato, Minnesota. She received the Marriage Blessing in 1975 with Lou Fournier as part of the 1800 couples.
She was one of the first missionaries to Sri Lanka, and stayed there for one year before the communist take-over.
In 1980, she returned to America to join her husband in New York. She later moved with her son to California to care for her aging parents and disabled younger sister. Merlinda is survived by her son, Coby, and sister, Teri, as well as numerous spiritual family members across the United States and abroad.
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But no worries, C moved it for us...PUSH!!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Let's start at the very begining...
But no worries, C moved it for us...PUSH!!
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Hurricane Ike
So, we are all okay. We have been staying at the in-laws after spending Friday night at the high school. We are still with out power, but a cool front came in so the weather is very pleasant. A tree fell on the corner of our house and rolled onto B's truck. The truck is fully functional with a few minor scrapes and scratches, but we will probably need a new half-a-kitchen. All in time.
Thanks so much for all your thoughts and prayers. In the meantime, we are enjoying all of the comforts of a small generator and time with family.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
a little poem...
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Did I mention C scored an escalade?
C got this sweet ride for his birthday! He is getting so good at driving it. Initially, when he would run into something, he would get out and push the car to a clear path. Now, he can back up and turn and he looks where he going...
Here is AM enjoying a ride from her brother...She actually doesn't like it when it moves. When we would go to Toys'r'us, I would let the kids sit in all the cars and jeeps, but they never moved or made any noise. I think she prefers that.
C is smitten with our neighbors great granddaughter and luckily...she was quite taken with the car!! C's first date.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
First Day of School :)
Today was the first day back to school for the Fall. This is a big deal because C started preschool and AM is in the older toddler class. MAN! They both had their backpacks and they were pretty excited to go. I am so lucky that I will be able to drop them off this semester as my classes don't start until 11:00. Next semester I have an 8 o'clock...MAN!!
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