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Hi friends! We want to touch on why influence has so much power, why it's so important, and why we focus on it. For starters, if you want to read who influencers are and our thoughts on them, you can check out our previous blog post here! While we all know, love, and follow our favorite influencers, their power to influence is huge. We briefly dove into how we all look towards influencers for reviews on products and advice and how their relatability makes them so popular amongst so many people, but how can they really get the most out of their growing following and platforms?
The Importance of Influence
Influencers have a huge amount of power and following, which allows them to influence others' decisions. How they act online, what they promote, the clothing they wear, etc., influences hundreds, thousands, and sometimes even millions, depending on their following. Think about it right now - who do you look toward for fashion inspiration? Who do you see or follow online and think you would like to obtain some of their personal qualities? And who do you look at and wonder why they have a following because they aren't doing anything good online? I'm sure a few names came into your mind thinking about it, because I can pick out an influencer in each of those categories I just mentioned. For me, Jaci Marie Smith has an incredible style that I wish I could replicate in my closet. Tara Massicotte shows off her real self in her YouTube videos and I would love to be friends with her. For the person that isn't doing any good with their influence, we won't name because we only want to focus on the positivity that influence can bring!
How Can Influencers Bring About Positivity?
Influencers have a lot of power over so many people that many of them may not understand the responsibility of their impact when they begin influencing. Creating a personal brand, whether it's through being a YouTuber, influencing on Instagram, or being a blogger, these influencers all have similar "jobs" when it comes to influencing. One of the biggest things that influencers should focus on is what kind of impact they can make on their audiences. This is showcased through what type of content they put online and if it's positive or not. Influencers should want to inspire and empower those who follow them, to follow their dreams, to create something out of nothing (a business, a brand, etc.), or just to be a better person in general (yes, there's a ton of other things they can influence on, but these are a few big ones). They can bring about positivity by giving back to their community and showing their following what they're doing. This can inspire others to do the same, which is incredible because giving back to those who are less fortunate not only feels good, but really shows the light in someone's character. If you can empower even just one person to be a better person and to shed light and positivity towards another, then why wouldn't you? I think influencers have the perfect platform to promote all types of positivity to their audiences.
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What comes along with being a positive influence on one's community and audience, is the ability to market brands. So many influencers are now becoming the face of a brand, collaborating with brands, and promoting products for brands. When brands are looking for someone to help market their products, of course they're going to pick those who are showcasing good in some way. Whether they are a great role model, they're constantly give back to their community, or they're inspiring others, brands are going to want those positive people to be associated with their company, which in turn promotes the brand in the same positive light as that influencer is seen.
Influencing is more than just posting pretty photos on Instagram or well edited videos on YouTube. It's all about being a good person, being a role model, and showcasing positivity in all aspects of life. Of course influencers aren't meant to be positive and happy 100% of the time, that's extremely unrealistic; they're normal people too and can have bad days, but how they address bad issues and unfortunate times also shows who they are as a person. Being a positive influence on others can make a huge impact on the world and create a chain of positive people and empowerment for people to do good.
So what should you do today? Focus on the positivity, unfollow those who are negative or make you feel bad about yourself, and instead, follow those that empower you to do something good and those that make you want to better yourself. That is the power of influence.
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Yes, I'm one of those people who love, love, loves goal-setting. That's why the week between Christmas and New Years gives me such a rush. The tree and lights and nutcrackers are still out from the holiday build-up, but there's this calm that abounds before the new year starts. Perfect for reflection and dreaming.
This year I've been inspired by Chris Guillebeau (author of the Art of Nonconformity which I'm reading now) to do my looking back and forward in a more structured way. I followed his format (with a few deviations) because I think it's a good way to ask yourself lots of key questions. I thought I'd share some of the highlights, and I'd love to hear what some of your goals are.
Looking back on 2010
Two priorities
For the past few years I've chosen just words to focus on for the year. Any more and it gets a bit overwhelming. This year the words were writing and simplicity. I definitely gained momentum with writing, wrote a rough draft of my manuscript and found some supportive writer friends to encourage and keep me accountable. Not bad for a years' work!
In the simplicity department I think I'd also give myself an A (self-evaluations are always the best), because I do feel like I succeeded in enjoying some of life's simple pleasures (food, drink, time with loved ones) and in not stressing (too much) even though living out of a suitcase for 8 months, moving internationally twice, having no solid plans for what we'd do when we moved to the TBC location that turned into Seattle, and then settling down into said city. Oh the lessons in patience and faith you learn when you move every few years!
Focusing on simplicity has helped me to just take one step at a time, to not feel overwhelmed in all that I don't know and to focus instead on what I do know: that I have enough and things are going to be OK. Starting from scratch (over and over since we've been married) has given me a lot of practice in guarding my priorities as I build a life from the ground up. In this culture of busyness and more and more, simplicity isn't something you can just fall into, but it's worth the effort for me.
What went well?
In a nutshell, quite a bit! I am so grateful to have spent the first six months of 2010 living in New Zealand, reading, writing, drinking coffee and swimming in the sea. Staying with Dan's parents in Auckland all that time was such a surprise that was so good for the soul, the
perfect transition from England to life in the US.
I'm also thankful for these past six months, moving across the world once again and settling into a city I'm proud to call home: Seattle. We had no idea what to expect (that's how we roll), but think things have turned out nicely. We love our little one-bedroom apartment, our flexible income streams (ie jobs) and the community around us. It's also just nice to be home.
I know that years don't always play out like this one did, but rest assured I haven't taken one moment for granted.
What could have been improved?
There are always little things to learn from -- challenges and imperfections that are part of the journey. But overall, I wouldn't change anything. I am thankful for for seasons of stretching and challenge and disappointment, but even more that winter always breaks into spring, and seasons like this year come along to restore and recharge.
Looking forward to 2011
Two priorities
For the third year in a row, writing's in the spotlight. But this year I'm upping the ante and have some specific goals, like finishing my manuscript and finding an agent. I'm planning to write at least one day a week and pushing forward with all the progress I've made. The other word is going to be balance. Balance isn't something that comes naturally in American culture (try over-the-top!/ busy!/ ambitious!), but it's something I know a lot of people want. For me, work-life balance is so important. I love working hard on things I love, but also having flexibility in my schedule to just hang out with my husband on a Thursday afternoon if I so choose is really important.
What am I looking forward to?
So much! It's nice to feel like we can unpack our bags for a while finally, and build on the past six months rather than prepare to up sticks again. Some of the words that I feel about 2011 are growth and roots. I've always thought that for the last 8 years living the life of a nomad I been growing roots in potted plants. I love the freedom that comes with being mobile and unattached. But I'm also glad to put those plants into some local soil and let them flourish.
I've got a lot of things I'm looking forward to, but here's a sampling:
- Writing:
- Having a writing day once a week
- Doing a writing retreat
- Going to a writers conference to practice pitching to agents
- snagging an agent
- Design:
- I've always wanted to learn graphic design, so I'm going to sign up for an InDesign class at the local community college
- Travel:
- Dan and I are kind of obsessed with travel hacking and traveling for cheap. So we're trying to wrack up our frequent flyer miles and score some free trips. Here's the list of places we'd love to visit this year:
- Dallas to see some great friends
- San Francisco and NYC (I'm going for work anyway, so why not?)
- Shanghai and Korea (dream big and all that)
- New Zealand
So, those are some of my reflections at the end of the year. Right now the sun is streaming into our wood-paneled apartment, Dan's reading and I'm drinking coffee. In a few hours we'll be celebrating the new year with fondue and friends and hope for a wonderful year ahead.
Happy New Year to you! What are some of your goals for 2011 or reflections on 2010?
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1. to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
2. to cooperate, usually willingly, with an enemy nation, especially with an enemy occupying one's country: He collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.
IT is often said that Britain and America are two countries divided by a common language. That is also true of Washington and Silicon Valley. The other day, I was interviewing Alan S. Cohen, an expert on networks who has been involved in several successful start-ups. At one point, Cohen began talking about the importance of "collaboration" both within and between firms in Silicon Valley. Then he stopped and said it's interesting that in Silicon Valley "collaboration" is defined as something you do with another colleague or company to achieve greatness — something to be praised — as in: "They collaborated on that beautiful piece of software." But in Congress "collaboration" means something very different today. It's the second definition — collaboration is an act of treason — something you do when you cross over and vote with the other party. In Silicon Valley, great "collaborators" are prized; in Washington, they are hanged. Said Cohen, who was vice president at Nicira, a networking start-up that recently sold for $1.26 billion: "In Washington, when they say 'collaborator' they mean 'traitor'; here they mean 'colleague.'
It's not the only reason, but it's a big reason that Silicon Valley is thriving more than ever, finding more ways to solve bigger and bigger problems faster, and that Washington is only capable of producing 11th-hour, patched-together, Rube Goldberg compromises, with no due diligence, that produce only suboptimal outcomes to our biggest problems. In Washington today collaboration happens only to avert crises or to give out pork, not to build anything great. That is why if Congress were a start-up, the early-stage investors would have long ago been wiped out and the firm shuttered. Cause of death: an inability of the partners to collaborate. "People in Washington," said Cohen, "forgot that they are developers: 'I am on this committee. I have to fix this problem and write some software to do it,' and that requires collaboration. They have forgotten their job and the customer."
Don't get me wrong, Silicon Valley is not some knitting circle where everyone happily shares their best ideas. It is the most competitive, dog-eat-dog, I-will-sue-you-if-you-even-think-about-infringing-my-patents innovation hub in the world. In that sense, it is, as politics is and should always be, a clash of ideas. What Silicon Valley is not, though, is only a clash of ideas.
Despite the heated competition, lots of collaboration still happens here for one main reason: to serve the customer the best product or service. One way is through new open-source innovation platforms like GitHub — a kind of "Wikipedia for programmers" — where hobbyists, start-ups and big firms share ideas in order to enlist more people (either within a firm in restricted ways or from the outside in a wide open manner) to help improve their software or Web sites.
Another way is through "co-opetition." There are many examples here of companies trying to kill each other in one market but working together in another — to better serve customers. Microsoft Windows runs on Apple Macs because customers wanted it. When Apple Maps failed, Apple asked its users to download Google Maps. Finally, within firms, it is understood that to thrive in today's market, solve the biggest problems and serve customers, you need to assemble the best minds from anywhere in the world.
"When you obsess about the customer, you end up defeating your competition as a byproduct," said K.R. Sridhar, the founder of Bloom Energy, a fuel-cell company. "When you are just obsessed about the competition, you end up killing yourself" as a byproduct — "because you are not focused on the customer."
The far-right lurch of the G.O.P.'s base has made this problem worse. When President Obama built his health care plan on Mitt Romney's operating system in Massachusetts, Romney was so focused on coddling his base to beat Obama — rather than trying to improve Obama's iteration of Romney's own design to best serve all the customers — that Romney disowned his own software. What company would do that?
"Sure competition here is sharp-elbowed," said Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn. "But no one can succeed by themselves. Apple today is totally focused on how it can better work with its [applications] developer community." It cannot thrive without them. "The only way you can achieve something magnificent is by working with other people," said Hoffman. "There is lots of co-opetition." LinkedIn competes with headhunters and is used by headhunters.
With collaboration, one plus one can often turn out to be four, says Jeff Weiner, the C.E.O. of LinkedIn, adding: "I will always work with you — if I know we'll get to four. You can't build great products alone. And if everyone understood that you can't build great government alone our country would be in a different place."


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We are not fans of ZOOs in general as their goal is to entertain people. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is something completely different. It is an institution to help the animals. This elephant orphanage takes care of the baby elephants whose mothers were killed by poachers or they got separated due to any number of reasons. They can't survive on their own and they need help to get through their first few years. Here the orphanage steps in. The baby elephants are rescued in the wild and put into a nursery where they feed them for 3 years. After that they move the elephants to Tsavo National Park, where the elephants learn to be on their own for another 5-10 years. When the elephant is ready they introduce him back into the wild, where they belong.
The greeting in the orphanage is brief, as it should be, but very personal as they are just feet from you while eating and rolling in mud. Their handlers bring them by so they can be touched but, it is clearly not a petting zoo or for entertainment, but so we can connect with them beyond a documentary, commercial or movie. You actually feel why you should care.
To help the elephants do what we did. Adopt one by donating at least $50 per year. They are super cute and they need your help to be able to survive and go back home – INTO THE WILD.


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SOLVED: Giving a Kindle eBook as a gift in UK
A common frustration with Kindle eBooks in the UK is that you cannot buy them as a gift for another person. In the USA this feature was added some time ago.
We've created a way around this limitation. Whilst you can't buy Kindle eBooks as gifts, you can buy gift cards which people can then use to buy Kindle eBooks.
Our simple system will help you create a customised Amazon gift card featuring the name and cover photo of any Kindle book you'd like to gift. This is then emailed to the gift recipient. You could also email it to yourself and print it to deliver by hand. Currently Amazon only allow email gift cards to be customised with an image.
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A Reminder of the Frailty of Life
Life. Always changing. Never the same. Any moment, any second can change everything. There is always such irony in realization regarding the infinite. Yesterday, I was informed of storm damage (from Sunday's pop-up storms) in Beaumont, Kentucky and went to investigate. I visited with three households who each had some surprising damage. Downed trees, tin and sections of barn roof blown off, barn door blown in, dead cow, flattened section of corn field. What a mess. They had already cleaned up most of the damage, but generously provided photos, contact information and details of their experience. I'm organizing my data and have been in contact with NWS. I love being a trained spotter, but can not understand the irony of why I keep being involved in these unknown discoveries. Then late lastnight, a substantial amount of fire trucks and rescue personnel swiftly passed my house on 839. Always excited by their urgency, I went outside to investigate. I could see the orange glow of a fire in the distance which was confirmed via scanner radio. I drove to the church nearby and watched from a distance. The situation was handled so swiftly, there wasn't anything worth photographically documenting, but I did get a few pics. Yet, as I sat alone in my HHR, I began to think about how suddenly everything changes. Hours before, I had passed that house on my way to investigate the storm damage. There was no way of knowing that this home would be a scene of a tragedy of flames later that night. It's a reminder of the frailty of life. Love. Hate. Fear. So many emotions that dictate our existence, yet in the end what do they matter if that existence wasn't lived to the fullest? Life is SO very short and everything we own or love could easily be gone. Be forever thankful and live as if you're dying...because you are. We all are dying from the moment we are born.


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In conjunction with the RPS come and explore the mysterious world of Infrared photography with a specially converted infrared camera for you to use we will explore a number of locations in the Yorkshire Dales that are ideal for this type of photography, it will cover wooded areas, streams, limestone pavements and the iconic big skies that this area is known for. Join me for a day devoted to IR photography based in the Yorkshire Dales.
The Yorkshire Dales photography workshop is a wide ranging expedition that covers some of the notable beauty spots in this area of outstanding natural beauty. Beginning in the Ingleton area we explore the limestone pavement of Twistleton Scar and the otherworldly erratics before moving on to Ribblehead viaduct, Malham, Goredale Scar, Janet's Foss waterfall and Scaleber Force. There will be ample photographic opportunities en-route as the light and conditions change. This is an excellent opportunity to explore some of North Yorkshire's gems from an infrared point of view. If you want to use your own camera you are perfectly welcome, you would just need a screw in IR filter for your lens, please be aware that you will need to use a tripod for your shots as your shutter speed will be slower than cameras that have been specially converted. With these cameras you are able to shoot at normal shutter speeds.
There is the opportunity to book a post processing day at the reduced cost of £80 I will show you my workflow to bring out the best from those raw files, we will look at Black and White conversion, levels, curves and printing fine art B&W infrared images. Each client will take away a 50 X 40 cm print as part of the workshop fee. There really is no better way to develop your craft than by 'getting out there and doing it'. I will provide you with a friendly, fun and informative workshop experience that will, I am sure, leave you with some memorable images to add to your portfolio. Complete the online Booking Form through the RPS Landscape Group website to reserve your place.


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Accessibility deadlines loom for public sector and higher education
Following on the heels of GDPR legislation which came into effect in early 2018, new regulations have come into force governing the accessibility of web and mobile applications for public sector bodies (including most higher education institutions).
Passed on the 23rd of September, 2018, a new law, called The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018, brings the UK into alignment with the EU directive on web accessibility and requires organisations covered under the law to achieve specific accessibility standards.
The law will come into effect in stages. Any website published later than 23 September, 2018 must be compliant by 23 September, 2019. Sites published before that date have an extra year to become compliant. All native apps need to become compliant by 23 June, 2019.
What the new law requires
Specifically, organisations covered under the law are mandated to meet the 'accessibility requirement' of the law by making their web and mobile applications 'perceivable, operable, understandable and robust' (known as the WCAG "POUR" principles).
Another key requirement of the law is that all websites must display an 'accessibility statement' alongside privacy and cookie notices. The accessibility statement must detail how WCAG compliance has or has not been met as well as provide any available alternatives for people with disabilities. The statement must also provide a clear and transparent explanation for how the organisation reviews, monitors and enforces actions for resolving accessibility issues.
The new law will have tangible impact
Many organisations have good intentions and take a good-faith approach to building accessible web and mobile applications. But far too often, accessibility is viewed as a value-add 'nice-to-have' at the end of the project. And far too often, for cost or time pressures, accessibility is short-changed or left out altogether to meet budgets or project deadlines. This is both unfair and dismissive to members of the disabled community.
The new law turns this dynamic on its head. Accessibility planning and execution must now be integrated into the entire product lifecycle and subject to the same quality assurance as code and content. Rather than being viewed as a burden, however, the new law offers organisations an opportunity to use accessibility planning to improve the overall, holistic experience of their digital applications.
Accessibility is good for business
The UK government states that 'There are over 11 million people with a limiting long term illness, impairment or disability'. That's 17% of the total population as of 2014. Any organisation that isn't taking the basic steps to making their applications accessible for the disabled is missing out on a huge slice of potential audience for their service.
Accessible design thinking offers creative benefits when designing user interfaces. Designers are encouraged to think freely about how to create websites and applications that are useful for people with and without disabilities. Designing interactions to serve user needs when the experience needs to extend beyond the screen can result in more human centered, natural experiences. This type of design thinking will grow in importance as digital experiences extend beyond the screen to platforms like voice and AR/VR.
How we can help
Building websites that meet accessibility standards from Day 1 requires planning and proper implementation. That's something Squiz delivers to our clients on a regular basis. However, the ongoing challenge lies in maintaining accessibility as the site evolves and the content is produced at scale.
Squiz takes web accessibility very seriously. So much so that we've built and open-sourced our own free accessibility checker called HTML CodeSniffer. You can quickly test your sites accessibility today using our CodeSniffer tool.
We've also integrated accessibility tools into our DXP platform including Funnelback's Accessibility Auditor and integrating the code sniffer directly into our Matrix CMS content editing tools. These tools are very effective at delivering detailed accessibility reporting and monitoring your compliance over time.
At Squiz, our consultants and technologists are experts in delivering accessible web experiences both for new builds and with refitting existing sites to meet accessibility standards.
- The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018
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- Make your public sector website or app accessible (Government Digital Service)
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Vijay Sethupathi seems to have a winner in hand again as his latest film Aandavan Kattalai is showing signs of turning as a hit at the box office. The Kollywood film, which was released on September 23, is performing well at the collection centres in Tamil Nadu.
Aandavan Kattalai saw the light of the day in over 275 screens and it had opened to highly positive reviews. Looking at the good word-of-mouth, many exhibitors came forward to screen the film and the screen count has now crossed 290.
The interesting part of its success story is that Aandavan Kattalai is enjoying a superb response in the 'B' centres and the film has registered an earth-shattering 90-100 percent occupancies on the weekdays.
With no film to give competition for the next seven days, Aandavan Kattalai is expected to do fantastic business. However, the makers are yet to open up on the collection made by the flick, although there are reports of the film doing close to Rs 15 crore till date in the state.
The film has also done well in the overseas centres, including in the US where it has earned Rs 20.34 lakh in its first weekend.
Aandavan Kattalai is written and directed by Manikandan and produced by GN Anbu Chezhiyan. Ritika Singh has played the female lead in the flick, which has Pooja Devariya, Nassar, Yogi Babu and others in the cast.


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Clients hire Form Ltd. for a variety of projects; sometimes to replace an aging design, sometimes to completely redesign an unusable layout. Seeing the process illustrates our ability to give a kitchen a beautiful face-lift or reorganize an entire floor to better suit the needs of our clients.
Below are the various stages of some of the projects we've worked on or are currently working on now.


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Registrations for Academy 2017 are officially open
Especially designed for students and young professionals who are or will be the stakeholders of the construction industry, The City of Green Buildings Academy 2017, reached its third edition and will take place between July 17th and August 2nd in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The theme of this year's edition is "How to turn your building project into a brand?"
The Academy offers a unique approach in answering this theme`s question, based on case studies and the analysis of practical, non-theoretical, aspects that students and young professionals need to learn in order to become true experts in this field. The participants can be students at any level – Bachelor, Masters, PhD, recent graduates or young professionals in any field related to the sustainable construction industry – engineering, architecture, natural sciences, economics, marketing and even medicine or psychology.
Each day of the program is divided in two sections, morning and afternoon, separated by the lunch break. Each section contains lectures, workshops or sites visits according to the schedule. Evening and weekends are devoted to social and cultural activities. For the workshops, the participants will be divided in teams and will work together on a real project. Moreover, all courses and workshops are in English, therefore, Academy 2017 is a great opportunity for its participants to practice their English language skills.
This year's edition will be different in a good way from the others not only because of the more complex curriculum, but also because of the more challenging theme and project. Our focus will be not only in helping the participants understand the technical aspects of a sustainable building, but also the commercial and marketing sides, which have a significant contribution in delivering a successful project. If you are a student or young professional eager to develop a future career in the field of innovative and sustainable buildings, take advantage of this opportunity and enroll for our summer educational program in Cluj-Napoca. Besides developing your professional career by gaining new skills and insights, you will build your future network of professionals and have fun at the same time.Adrian Fratean
Although there is a registration fee, the participants will benefit of free accommodation, free public transportation and lunch during the whole duration of the program. The main fee for attending the program is 199 EUR – the Early Bird Fee is 149 EUR and is available for registrations made until 15th of June. For more information and registration please visit the event section.


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A weekend of riverside family fun on the gorgeous green of Potters Fields Park right next to Tower Bridge!
Your weekend programme includes:
- The best new troubadour and folk sounds on the Boatshed Stage (Saturday & Sunday, 12pm-7pm)
- Soapbox Science, on the riverside at London Bridge City Pier "bringing female scientists from the lab onto the streets" (Saturday, 2pm-4pm)
- Professor Kayoss, creator of the Save the World Club, with his recycling bicycle show (Saturday, 1.15pm-3.30pm)
- Get up and close to the animals of Vauxhall City Farm (Saturday & Sunday, 12pm-7pm)
- Clay modelling workshops on endangered species at the Whale of a Time (Saturday & Sunday, 12pm-6pm)
- Blue Ribbon Village stalls (Saturday & Sunday 12pm-7pm)
- Join Team Polar Bear or Team Husky for games with Unicorn Theatre's Arctic Adventure (Saturday & Sunday 12pm-6pm)
- Create a beautiful flower head dress with florist Nicky Doodson (Sunday, 12pm-6pm))
- Be transformed by our fabulous facepainters from The Big Brush (Saturday, 12pm-6pm)
- Thunderous drumming by Rhythms of the City (Saturday, 12.15p[m-1.15pm)
- The one and only Spurting Man by Avanti Display, which must be the UK's funniest piece of street theatre (Sunday, 1.55pm-3.45pm)
- Plus opportunities to unlock the Thames on two wheels with Santander Cycles' 'Summer of Cycling' Spinning Classes (Saturday & Sunday, hourly, 40mins, 12pm-6pm)
On Sunday 6 September, join the crowds celebrating Colombia Day. There will be a Colombian food village selling delicious traditional dishes, you can enjoy Colombian music and join in a rousing cheer for the arrival of the biggest Tall Ship in the world, ARC Gloria which will come through Tower Bridge at approximately 7pm.


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Has anyone else noticed the abundance of sci-fi and sci-fi-like programming that has been appearing on network television lately? It seems like the major networks are jumping on the bandwagon as sci-fi becomes more mainstream and popular.
Perhaps this is because of the geek revolution that seems to be taking place, or maybe it's because they finally caught on to how awesome and loyal sci-fi fans are. Or could it be that the networks are trying to pick up where SyFy has left off? Whatever the reason, the major networks are starting to lean the way of sci-fi and it's awesome.
NBC has announced its new schedule with a renewal Chuck (which I still don't particularly consider sci-fi), and the premiere of Grimm and Awake. Chuck will air on Fridays at 8 p.m. followed by Grimm at 9 p.m. Here are the official descriptions of Grimm and Awake released from NBC:
"Grimm is a new drama series inspired by the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales. Remember the fairy tales your parents used to tell you before bedtime? Those weren't stories—they were warnings. Nick Burkhardt (David Guintoli Turn The Beat Around) thought he prepared himself for the realities of working as a homicide detective until he started seeing things he couldn't quite explain. When his ailing Aunt Marie (guest star Kate Burton, Grey's Anatomy) arrives, Nick's life turns upside down when she reveals they are descendants of an elite group of hunters, also known as Grimms, who fight to keep the balance of humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world. As Nick digs deeper into her past, he realizes that he will have to shoulder the responsibility of his ancestors—and contend with a larger-than-life mythology of the Brothers Grimm that is now all too real."
"Awake is an intriguing drama about a detective (Jason Issacs, Harry Potter, Brotherhood) who finds he is leading an arduous double life that defies reality. When Detective Michael Britten (Issacs) regains consciousness following his family's car accident, he is told that his wife Hannah (Laura Allen, Terriers) perished but that his teen son, Rex (Dylan Minnette, Saving Grace), has survived. As he tries to put the pieces of his life back together, he awakens again in a parallel reality in which his wife is very much alive—but his son Rex died in the accident. In order to keep both of his loved ones alive at one time, he begins living two dueling realities in parallel worlds, which churns up confusion—in one moment, Michael and his wife debate about having another child to replace their son, while in the other reality, he is attracted to his son's tennis coach, Tara (Michaela McManus, The Vampire Diaries), to fill the void from the loss of his wife. Trying to regain some normalcy, Michael returns to police work and solves crimes in both worlds with the help of two different partners—Detective Isaiah Bird Freeman (Steve Harris, The Practice) and Detective Efrem Vega (Wilmer Valderrama, That '70s Show)." (Courtesy of Blastr.com).
Am I the only one finding an incredible similarity between Grimm's plot and Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime books The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear? Maybe? Just a little? Personally, since I loved the concept of Fforde's books, I'm interested to see how Grimm plays out, even if they technically have nothing to do with each other.
ABC isn't one to be left behind. After canceling V, and No Ordinary Family, not to mention last summer's The Gates, they're running a little low on sci-fi shows. Never fear, they've picked up two new sci-fi-ish shows Once Upon a Time and The River. Once Upon a Time sounds surprisingly similar to Grimm in that it's a modern take on a fairy tale:
House's Jennifer Morrison stars as Emma, a woman with a troubled past who is drawn to a small Maine town called Storybrooke by the son she gave up years before. Her son, Henry, is 10 years old and believes in fairy tales. In fact, he believes that his mother is the missing daughter of Prince Charming and Snow White, and that she was sent away to an alternate world to protect her from the Evil Queen. As Emma begins to investigate Storybrook, she discovers that the world of fairy tales and modern day are about to collide. Lost's Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis created the series, which also stars Stargate Universe's Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstiltskin. (Courtesy of Blastr.com)
While The River is being billed as a horror story. No seriously, horror. Didn't they try something similar with Happy Town or am I remembering that wrong?
When a TV explorer (Star Trek's Bruce Greenwood) goes missing in the Amazon with his crew, his wife and son set off down the enormous river in a vessel called the Magus to find out what happened to him. However, in their search for answers they discover a place where powerful magic is as real as science. 24's Leslie Hope and The Dresden Files' Paul Blackthorne also star in this series, from the creators of Paranormal Activity, DreamWorks and Michael Green (Kings). (Courtesy of Blastr.com)
The River has two things I like, horror and Paul Blackthorne. I'll definitely be tuning in to check that one out.
Other sci-fi shows for the season include CW's Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries, HBO's popular True Blood and Fox's Fringe and Alcatraz.
Check your local listings for air dates and times. It's sure to be a summer of sci-fi!


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Awesome!Sony Video Audio Editing System at the end of the day its all just VCR to VCR control. & some Audio mixing.
Does the IR output of the controller just go to a VCR?(Presumably a special SONY VCR because... SONY!)
Quote from: Fungus on December 20, 2016, 10:00:50 amDoes the IR output of the controller just go to a VCR?(Presumably a special SONY VCR because... SONY!)Yeah, all I was thinking looking at that was the IR control going to two tape decks wired between each other (this was also addressed in the YouTube comments)edit: I looked up the service manual - the Control L lead in the panel on the bottom connects to your camcorder, the IR controls to your VCR, then you connect the video leads from the camera to the VCR. Then the machine tells the camcorder to queue up the video/play, and tells the VCR to pause/record. It worked with non-Sony VCRs by teaching it the IR remote signals - this is what the IR panel on the front of the device is for (rather than the emitters on the back).It even has a whole system to let you fine-tune the delay in playback/recording between the two devices to make sure the cues get hit.This thing won the Japanese "Good Design Award" in 1991! http://www.g-mark.org/award/describe/18077
Wow, never knew it was this advanced... Almost made me regret shipping it, but if I didn't, I never would have known that it was this well thought out. Hats off to the boys from Sony!
Ah, the Blackberry Playbook. Still love the way it handles most of the time. Although, it shows its age by now.
Quote from: NottheDan on December 20, 2016, 03:59:04 pmAh, the Blackberry Playbook. Still love the way it handles most of the time. Although, it shows its age by now.It was only a 16GB version. Blackberry appeared to have dumped a huge stock of the 64GB version to PC World in the UK and Ireland, for a very low price. I bought two for the kids and they still work fine except the YouTube player uses the old non supported API :-( I never managed to find a replacement player which actually worked, but I think there is a way to side load Android apps on to it. Never had problems with the wifi. One annoying thing is the time it takes to boot from a cold start, it replaces the OS with a backup on each boot up.


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Social Development is taking giant steps in the 21st Century. People are changing the world for the better, in ways that were never possible before.
In this brand new age, where ideas are assets, new forms of wealth are being created, and small organizations are finally gaining access to political power and economic resources.
A brave new world of social development and environmental consciousness is gaining momentum and making giant strides in its efforts to create a better world.
The world is becoming one large, inter-connected community, and communities are becoming the new frontier. Making the world a better place is now happening on a much larger scale than ever before.
One example of the progress being made by groups working for social development, economic opportunity, and environmental management, is an organization called The Centre for Social Innovation, (CSI), located in Toronto and New York.
This program features an interview with Adil Dhalla, Director of Culture for the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) This is a discussion about social change, and how it is developing, with examples from CSI.
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Mrityunjay Singh is Associate Vice President at Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) Unit of Infosys. He has over 19 years of professional experience in various capacities. He heads FSI ADM delivery globally.
Prior to this role, he was head of Service Delivery Head for all Financial Services client in UK & Ireland, managing a team of 1200+ people. He had complete responsibility of client satisfaction, operational excellence and employee satisfaction for the unit. He has been the key anchor for one of the first large outsourcing deals and then worked as Global Transition Manager.
Prior to joining Infosys, worked for 9 years in different companies (TATA Steel, Infosys, Kanbay, Quinnox) in India and US.
A graduate from India Institute of Technology (IIT) – Banaras Hindu University in 1992.
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Nirmalendu Jajodia is a financial Services industry expert in areas of trading, exchange operations, clearing, settlement, custody, depositories, operations and IT management in Financial Services Industry, operations and general management in IT services, outsourcing and offshoring. He specializes in complex systems design and implementation.
During his tenure as Vice President at Central Depository Services, he has been responsible for setting up the depository (the second in India), designed processes, systems, products, negotiated and implemented software, hardware, networks and BCP and obtained regulatory approval. He has also served as Vice President at Larsen & Toubro Infotech and Executive Vice President at Datamatics before joining National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) as Chief-Technology and Operations.
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An Inspiring Leader...Visionary and Strategist with Enriching Experience, Insight & Wisdom in Leading and Managing IT effectively with focus on continual innovation and effective deployment of Business IT Initiatives through effective Team Work and Partnership Approach to deliver Business Value.
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Visiting Faculty - Guest Lectures (10 years plus) on Leadership, IT Strategy and Execution, Business - IT alignment, Enterprise Systems, Project Management in leading B-Schools (Mumbai & Pune). Leadership in Project Management for MDP at IIMA. Guest Lectures on Leadership, Change Mgmt, Customer Centricity, Program Management in some leading Corporate. Member of IDG-CIO Leadership Council & CIO Forums, Executive Member of CIO Club. Active participation in roundtable, panel discussions and speaker in leading CIO / CXO forum & BizTech2. Being healthy and staying healthy through Yoga and Meditation (Spiritual Principles) Specialties
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Ameya Gumaste is Vice President - ePM Services of SYNEFRA. His core responsibility is to lead and manage the Project Management services business with focus on 'Corporate and Commercial' sector. He is also a key member of the SYEFRA Core Management team vested with the authority to represent SYNEFRA ePM vertical to our valued Clients.
His key skills would be providing overall leadership and guidance to Project Management teams of SYNEFRA, engage with key stake holders, facilitate deployment of best in class PM teams backed up with strong service delivery and operations support customized to the project needs, enable leveraging of the knowledge and R&D hub within SYNEFRA, advise clients on the best practices, peer review of key project strategies and deliverables, facilitate value engineering and sustainability.
He has a varied exposure of over 18 years in India and overseas with reputed International consultancies and contracting organizations delivering professional Project management, Cost Management and Construction management services. He has acquired diverse and cross functional experience on varied projects including corporate campuses, Interior fit outs for IT/ITES, large Retail and mixed use developments, Five Star hotel, Serviced apartment, Hospitals, Integrated township development, Science city and Industrial projects. Also, he has worked on large WORLD BANK and ADB funded projects.
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He has to his credit Master planning and development of 1400 Acres of SEZ Infrastructure, 820,000 Sft Corporate Campus which is a LEED Platinum and GRIHA Five Star rated development. Also, his design for a Corporate office in Amsterdam was voted as one the best office offices in the WTC building complex. He has the skills of handling multiple projects running concurrently and has been involved in over 150 large and small projects in the capacity of Designer, Project Manager and Owners representative.
Currently he is working on the design management of 'Pune International Exhibition and Convention Center' and for Design Coordination of Mercedes Benz Projects in Pune.
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Yesterday I posted a summary of the first half of my speech from this past weekend's Inaugural service at St. Timothy & St. Athanasius church. I spoke about two out of the three fundamental building blocks of STSA: Extreme Love and Ancient Faith. The third and final building block is REAL COMMUNITY.
The most glaring discrepancy between the many churches that exist today and The Church written about in Scripture is this…COMMUNITY. They had real community. They did more than just drink coffee together after church or attend weekly meetings with one another. They had real fellowship with one another and they lived life together.
"Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people." Acts 2:44-47
Compare that to how we live today. Back in the early days of the Church, the believers "were together", "had all things in common", "sold their possessions and goods and divided them among all." They didn't just meet together; they lived together! They continued "daily with one accord" in both the temple and from house to house.
We talk about fellowship all the time in churches, but rarely do we achieve it. Our goal at STSA is to do whatever it takes to get there – to establish a real community of believers who love one another, support one another, forgive one another, esteem one another, share with one another and live in community with one another. That is the Biblical mandate and that is what the True Body of Christ is called to be.
How will we do that? I have no idea. I wish I had all the answers but I don't. In fact, there's a lot more things that I don't know than I do know! How will we create community? How will spread the extreme love of God? How will we deepen our knowledge of the ancient faith which was "once for all delivered to the saints"?
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I don't have all the answers. I don't know how we'll do it and I don't know when we'll do it, but I do know this. WE ARE GOING TO DO IT! Or more accurately stated, GOD HIMSELF IS GOING TO DO IT!
How do I know? Simple. This church/tidal wave is not the idea of any man, but it is the command of God. In His final words to His disciples before He ascended to heaven, the Lord Jesus said:
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen." Matthew 28:19-20
We have the promise from the mouth of Jesus Himself. He will be with us and He will not abandon us nor forsake us. We are not relying on our own strength or abilities, but on the power and might of the Almighty Lord God of Hosts – who was, and is, and is to come.
Because of that, I know that we will do it. We have no building, we have no money, we have no 3 year or 5 year plan. But what we do have is the Spirit of the Living God with us. And by His power and by His might, we will accomplish our mission.
What is our mission? We exist to transform lives in the DC metro area through an authentic relationship with Jesus Christ founded upon the life and teachings of the Orthodox faith.
I hope you're all ready. There's a tidal wave that's coming.
Discussion: What are your thoughts about REAL COMMUNITY? How can the Church today get closer to what it was back in the Book of Acts?


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Pan Seared Maple Trout with an Apple Turnip Compote
- serves 6
tsp vegetable or canola oil (10 ml)
3 rainbow trout fillets, approximately 6 oz each, halved vertically (180g each)
1 Tbsp + 1 teaspoon maple syrup, good quality (20 ml)
tsp lemon juice (10 ml)
1 bunch Fresh watercress springs (optional garnish)Apple Turnip Compote
1 cup turnip, peeled and diced into one-fourth inch dice (250 ml)
½ cup unsweetened apple juice (125 ml)
¾ cup spy apple, peeled, cored and cut into one-fourth inch dice (180 ml)
½ tsp fresh thyme leaves (2.5 ml)
Zest of 1 lemon
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Place a second medium skillet over high heat for the trout. Add the oil to the pan and allow to heat for 30 seconds.
2. Season the trout with salt and pepper and place skin side down in the hot skillet. Do not move the trout - allow it to cook for 1-2 minutes or until the skin is nice and crispy. Carefully flip the fish and add the maple syrup and fresh lemon juice to the pan. Cook for another minute.
3. Remove the fish from the pan. Reserve the juices in the pan to drizzle over the fish.Apple Turnip Compote
1. Set a medium sized skillet over medium heat, add the turnip and apple juice and allow them to cook for approximately 3-4 minutes or until the turnip is slightly tender. Add the apples, thyme and zest.
2. Allow the mixture to cook until the apples are slightly tender, approximately 2 minutes. At this point most of the liquid should be absorbed. Remove from the heat, season with salt and pepper to taste and keep warm.
3. To plate the dish, divide the apple turnip compote by spooning onto six plates. Top the compote with a piece of fish. Drizzle with reserved pan juices from the trout.
4. If desired, garnish with fresh watercress sprigs.
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Circ'ed by the School Nurse
Fiction, written by Jennifer. About a boy getting circumcised at school, written in 1st person.
This is the story of how I was circumcised by my school nurse in 11th grade when I was 17 years old.
It was a Tuesday morning, December 11th, my first day at my new school. I had just transferred mid school year from out-of-town. It was 7:30 a.m. and I was sitting in homeroom sleepily. The bell rang and I had to go to class. During my English class second period a young woman popped her head in the door. She appeared to be and office aide. "Hi, excuse me. Is Matt Rutherford here?" she said.
"Yes, he's right over there." Ther teacher replied and pointed in my general direction. I meekly raised my hand.
"Can he come with me for a moment?"
"Sure. " The teacher said. I put my books in my bag, got up from my desk and followed her out into the hallway.
I stood there and looked at her somewhat quizzically and she took my cue and said: "You need to have a checkup from the school Nurse Practitioner. We check all of our strudents once a year, usually right at the beginning of the fall semester, but since you just got here we're doing you now."
"Okay." I said.
She led me to the right down the hallway, then down two flights of steps to the basement area beside the cafeteria where the Nurse Practitioner's office was located. She knocked on the door and it was soon opened. The N.P. was a stunning woman in about her early 30's with long straight blonde hair under here nurse's cap. She held out hter hand and said, " Hi, you must be Scott. I'm Lori Stewart, the Nurse Practitioner."
I shook her hand and said. "Hi."
"Well I'll be going now." Said the aide.
"Alright, see you Kellie." The nurse said. She turned to me and said, "Well, you're new here, so we've got to get you checked up. Sit down on that table and take your shirt off." She smiled and turned to go get something. I walked over to the table, put my bookbag down on the floor, sat up on the table and took my shirt off, setting it on a chair next to the table.
She was fiddling with some instruments in the corner. I didn't know what she was doing. I took a good look at her. She was wearing white high heels and a very tight white nurse's dress that revealed almost all ofher lean shapely legs. She bent over to get something from a bottom cupboard and her dress inched up ever so slightly in back to reveal a hint of her white cotton pantes and even more of her legs. Her ass was gorgeous. I could see the outline of it clearly through her tight white dress.
She walked over to me and began examining me. She checked my ears, nose, eyes, mouth and throat. "Everything looks okay there." She said. Then she examined my neck, putting her left hand around my throat and massaging gently and feeling around. She got out her stethoscope and put it agiainst my chest. "I'm listening to your heart beat now. Breathe!" As I was breathing at her commands I noticed her chest heave up and down each time she took a breath. She was showing a lot of cleaveage with her low-cut collared dress. I was staring right down at her cleavage and her lacy white underwire bra was peeking out. I don't think it was a push up; she wouldn't have needed it . She then said: "Now lay on your back, I'm going to check your lower organs. I laid down and she started poking and prodding my belly with her fingers. "Your large intestine is distended. It seems as if you're a bit backed-up. When was the last time your bowels moved, dear?"
"I... I don't know... two days ago, I think."
"Well, your guts are definitely impacted with feces. I think and enema would be in order to clean your pipes out." she said. "enemas are good for you. You need to have your entrails flushed out periodically, otherwise all of your intestines can become impacted with feces, which leads to chronic constipation. Just think how nasty your farts smell. That's air coming from your nasty dirty stinky intestines. With all your food waste built up in your clogged intestines, you're lucky your nose isn't next to your anus. A lot of people think that when they eat something it just disappears. But it doesn't, of course, it fills up your digestive tract and stuffs up your guts and makes your intestines bulge untill you expell it out your rear end in due time. If you haven't relieved yourself by tomorrow we'll definitely give you an enema. You don't want your guts all full of shit, do you honey?
"No, I guess not." I said.
Then she said, "Now take your pants off." I couldn't believe what I was hearing and I was getting noticeably embarrassed. My face was turning beet red and I was fidgeting on the table.
"My underwear too?" I said.
"Of course!" She noticed my blushing face and looked up at me with a sly smile. "I am going to have to check your genitals as standard procedure. Silly boys and their modesty! You'd think I'd never seen a teenage boy's willy before, but you can leave them on until I check you down there, I wouldn't want your pee-pee head to get too cold, as it is a bit nippy in here." She said. She wasn't kidding about the nippy part. I could see two perky nipples sticking up under her white blouse.
I took my blue jeans off and set them on the chair with my shirt. I was sitting there in my tighty-whiteys feeling the chilliness of the room now. She checked my legs and feet and tapped my knees with the reflex tester. She was partially crouched down near my knees and she said, "I need to check your genitals now, Honey." My muscles stiffened and my heart pounded. She was really going to take a look at my naked genitals. What an embarassment to have this stranger--a woman no less-- look at and fondle my exposed private parts. When she bent her face somewhat nearer to my crotch she wrinkled her nose and sniffed a couple of times. "Have you changed your underwear recently, Honey?"
"Yes, ma'am. I put on a clean pair this morning just before I came to school."
"Well, you smell a little funky down there, let me check you out and see what's going on with your genitals."
She put on her latex gloves and then hooked the waistband of my underwear with both of her hands and pulled them off. She took one look at my naked genitals and fer face froze with a look of surprise. "Oh my God! You're NOT CIRCUMCISED!!"... "That's what's causing that foul smell! I thought that might be the problem when I smelled your underwear, but I just couldn't believe it, since almost all boys are circumcised by age 13 in this country."... She reached her rubber gloved right hand for my penis. She took the end of my penis with her thumb and forefinger and gingerly rolled my foreskin back. She took a look and then a whiff of my exposed penis head, then turned her head with a disgusted face and exclaimed "Ugh, God! Uncircumcised penises are so disgusting"... "Well, you need to have a circumcision performed on your penis, so I'm going to have to circumcise you."
"D...Do you really have to circumcise me?" I said.
"Yes I do dear, all boys should be circumcised, besides being much more hygenic, it's also school policy that boys must have their penises circumcised. It will be so much cleaner to have a circumcised penis. Your penis won't have those awful foul smells anymore. Those odours are caused by the glands of your foreskin producing a foul substance called smegma. We need to get rid of your nasty stinky foreskin so it can't produce smegma anymore. Your penis will be so much cleaner and better when it is circumcised. Trust me, you'll learn to like it better that way. I've done hundreds of circumcisions, most of them on littler boys, but some on older boys like yourself. Every once in a while we have a teenager like you who hasn't been circumcised yet come to the high school and I have to circumcise him. I've never had a boy come back and complain about his circumcision. Oh, and by the way, almost every girl I know refuses to even look at an uncircumcised penis, let alone touch it. I have to do the dirty work of getting boys circumcised. I have to touch and smell your nasty uncircumcised cock. So you should thank me that I'm nice and caring and I didn't slap you in the face and cut your balls off for the foul smell of your penis that went up my nostrils. And you should be grateful that I'm going to circumcise you. Everything will be fine after I cut your foreskin off, Honey. I'll sever your foreskin from your penis with tender loving care, so don't you worry, Dear. Your penis will be new and improved."
During her monologue my penis had grown and was now standing at attention ever-so-erect. The bulbous purple head was peeking slightly out from my foreskin. I looked down and she looked down at it. She couldn't help but comment, "My you certainly have an erection." She smiled and playfully chided me, "Looks like someone's getting turned on by this exam." She stared at my erect penis and I felt my blood rise and my face get hot, it was almost turning purple from blushing so much as my heart pounded.
"And you have a rather long foreskin, usually when a boy who still has his foreskin gets fully erect the foreskin automatically retracts behind the glans. But yours is so long it almost covers the whole head when you're erect. I'll have to make a note of that so I can remember. I'll need to cut off all of that long foreskin off your penis."
"Please, Nurse," I begged, "I'll keep it clean, honest! Isn't there any way you could let me keep my foreskin?"
Her smile disappeared. "There certainly is not. You need to be circumcised. I will not allow you to remain uncircumcised, and that is that. Boys may say they can keep their foreskins clean, but the fact of the matter is uncircumcised penises are and always will be dirty and unclean. Uncircumcised penises are just unhygenic." She pulled back my foreskin all the way and inspected my glans again. "I've never known an uncircumcised boy who didn't suffer from poor hygiene and you are obviously no exception! So you'll have to come back and see me tomorrow so we can get your guts checked and so I can circumcise you." I was quite stunned; I didn't say anything. She then grabbed my erect penis and said half to herself, "Yes.. you do have a rather long foreskin." She started pumping it up and down. "Your gross long foreskin, I get to cut it off tomorrow." She kept stroking my penis up and down with her clasped hand. "I get to sever this disgusting thing from your body and your penis head will be exposed and bare. When your long foreskin is severed it will be pickled and put in a jar in my office." She was grabbing my foreskin and she kept rubbing my penis head. "Everyone who comes in my office will be able to see what I cut off of your penis. That's right, Dear, I'm going to slice that nasty foreskin off." That was too much for me. My body jerked and I orgasmed, spewing a stream of cum into Nurse Stewart's right hand. There was so much cum some of it splashed on her breasts and tricked down her cleavage. "Oops.." she said, "It looks like you had an orgasm! I swear, nasty horny boys like you cum so quickly."
"We'll call you out of class when we're ready. I'll have my assistant with me to help with the enema if necessary and the circumcision. See you tomorrow, you can put your pants back on now."
I put my clothes back on and I meandered back to class. I stopped in the bathroom on the way. I unzipped my jeans and took out my penis to urinate. Standing at the urinal I looked down at my penis. I looked at my long foreskin covering the head of my penis. I was going to be circumcised tomorrow. Did I really need to be circumcised? Well, the nurse said that I did. She must be right; she's never had a complaint, so she says. I shook off the excess pee and peeled back my foreskin. So this is how it'll look huh? The skin will never be able to reach over the head of my glans after she circumcises me. I stroked my dick a couple of times and pulled the foreskin back over the head of my penis before replacing it back in my pants. It would take some getting used to. The exposed head of my glans would always be rubbing against my underpants. Tighty whiteys would have a new meaning to me.
So finally I left the bathroom and went back to class. The rest of the school day ticked by and I went home. At night I was imagining my upcoming circumcision again. I wanted to test how it might feel like with underwear when I'm circumcised. I unzipped by pants and pulled my cock out of my underwear. I pulled my foreskin back and held it back while I put my cock back in my underwear. Holding back the foreskin with my right hand, I rubbed the bare glans back and forth with the underwear in my left hand. I flinched when I did so. My glans was painfully sensitive and this rough rubbing directly on my bare penis head was rough overstimulation.
I went to bed with my hand down my pants holding my penis. I was dreading having an operation and losing my foreskin. I thought about skipping school, but I would have to go back eventually and when I did the nurse would be waiting for me with her surgeon's knife to cut the foreskin off my penis. I would just have to be brave and face the fact that I was going to be circumcised.
I woke up in the morning, went in the bathroom and masturbated for the last time as an uncircumcised boy. I pumped my luxurious foreskin up and down my glans. It slid so easily, up and down. I splooged a huge load of cum and felt a twinge of sadness as I realized that was the last time I'd ever do that with my foreskin on. I rubbed the slick white cum all over my foreskin. It was like anointing the feet of a prisoner right before he's executed. I tried to tell myself that it was for the best, that boys are not supposed to have foreskin, that I was just a freak of nature who would finally be brought to justice. Maybe I would believe that after it was all said and done, after my foreskin was sliced off. Maybe after my foreskin was severed from my body I would be glad, we'll see. After all, the nurse said that my penis will be better when it is circumcised. And that probably means girls will like it better too. She really seemed disgusted when she saw my uncircumcised penis.
I got on the school-bus and sat down near the middle. As I looked out the window I thought of my impending circumcision, how I was going to have to sit naked in front of her while she cut the foreskin off my cock. I started to get a raging boner and I put my bookbag on my lap to cover it up. What if I got a boner right in front of Nurse Stewart again? That would be so embarassing if she were to see my raging hard cock just before my circumcision. I already had an orgasm in front of her and cummed in her hand. That was humiliating enough. She would know I was turned on and she'd probably be appalled at my erect teenage penis and think that I'm a disgusting pervert. I knew I wouldn't be able to stop it. She's a hot female nurse and I would be naked in front of her again.
I got off the bus and went in the school building to my locker. I still had a boner so I tried to walk with my bookbag in front of me. I got my books and went to class. Throughout my 1st period science class and 2nd period English class I couldn't stop thinking about my upcoming visit with Nurse Stewart. I still had a raging boner and I could feel my cock throbbing in my pants and precum leaking out of the tip of my cock. I looked down and there was a wet spot on the crotch of my pants. For a moment of horror I realized that I had forgot to put on underwear today. Well, it wouldn't matter anyway, I guess, since Nurse Stewart would've obviously made me take them off.
I just kept thinking how my foreskin was going to get cut off my cock today. During math class I kept reaching under my desk and grabbing my hard cock through my shorts. I was pinching and rubbing the foreskin. I couldn't concentrate on the sums. All I could think about was Nurse Stewart playing with my penis. And the enema! I had forgotten about the enema! I still hadn't gone to the bathroom since two days ago. The shit was still stuffing up my large intestine, and there was even more of it today than yesterday because my small intestines had pushed along more food that I ate. I couldn't avoid the circumcision but I really wanted to avoid the enema. So I asked the teacher for the hall pass to go to the bathroom. I sat down on the toilet and squeezed my guts, but to no avail. I tried again but the shit didn't want to come out from inside my intestines. Finally I gave up and went back to class.
Second period English class came and went. Maybe she'll forget about it, I thought all too wishfully. Of course she won't, came my next thought, she's going to circumcise me and give me an enema. There is no way she is going to let me out of the circumcision.
I thought that if I could just get through 3rd period Science class then I could skip study hall and then it would be lunch. They wouldn't call for me during lunch and I'd at least have some more time to try to shit. The bell rang signaling the end of 3rd period. I was glad. But then my hopes were soon dashed. As I walked out of the classroom the aide was waiting for me. She put her hand on my shoulder and said:
"Matt, come with me. The nurse is ready for you. It's time to see Nurse Stewart again."
The aide led me down the hallway to the Nurse's office and ushered me inside. Nurse Stewart was not in view yet but Kellie, the aide told me to sit up on the table. "What's this?" She asked playfully as she pinched the tip of my raging hard cock through my pants. She gasped, "Oh, you naughty boy, just wait 'till Nurse Stewart sees that."
My face turned bright red and Kellie laughed, obviously delighting in my embarassment. then she exited and locked the door behind her.
As it turned out, I was in for a few surprises. First Nurse Stewart came out of the side room. Right behind her was Becky Allison who I recognized from my math class. She was in the same grade as me, and she was very cute. She had lots of freckles and stunning orange hair, slightly wavy and pulled back in a pony tail. I gulped and my face started to turn red. "What is she doing here?" I thought. From the white nurse's outfit and the rubber gloves she was wearing I got a pretty good suspicion. I felt sick to my stomach.
"Matt, this is Becky. She'll be assisting me today for your operation. Becky wants to go to college and become a nurse, so I let her help me whenever I need help."
"I've met Matt before, he's in my math class!" Becky said to Nurse Stewart.
"Well, that's nice, I'm glad you are aquainted then. Well, let's get started. Matt, it's time for you to strip naked now."
It was no good to argue at this point so I just had to let my inhibitions go. I thought this couldn't get any more awkward, but I was mistaken. Just then Kellie came back into the room. She was carrying a video camera. "Kellie will be videotaping the entire procedure today, including the circumcision. The video will be posted on the school website to show what we do to boys when they come to school uncircumcised. We want to show that we mean business when we say that our policy is that all boys be circumcised. But don't worry, dear, we'll scramble out your face so that nobody knows it's you."
"Great, like noone will be able to tell." I thought sarcastically.
She had the gomco clamp ready to go. She took a pair of forceps and grabbed the end of my foreskin off to one side. Then she took another pair of forceps and did the same on the other side. She then stretched the foreskin side to side by tugging on the clamped pairs of forceps. Then she took a scissors clamp and stuck it inside the opening of my foreskin. She moved it around inside to unstick the foreskin from the glans. Then she shoved it down in on the top side of my glans as far as it would go. She clamped it down hard. I could see the muscles in her right forearm flex when she crushed my foreskin. She then released the scissors clamp and there was a crush line going down the dorsal side of my foreskin. Then she stretched open the underside of my foreskin with two fingers and snipped my frenulum with a pair of surgical scissors. My foreskin was wrecked now. There was no turning back now, I was as good as circumcised. Even if she stopped the procedure right now, my foreskin would be so damaged that they would have to cut it off anyway. The crush line looked like a zipper of perforated flesh.
Then she took the surgical scissors and snipped her way down my foreskin until there was a slit going all the way down the crush line. She then pulled the two foreceps apart, opening the slit wide and laying bare my pinkish-purpley glans. She put the steel bell of the clamp over my glans and then took the baseplate of the gomco clamp and arranged it over the bell and foreskin so that the circular opening was around my penis. She then pulled the foreskin through the space between the bell and the clamp's baseplate. She kept tugging untill she made sure that all of the loose skin was caught in the clamp. She then made Becky hold the bell in place as she tightened the nut on the clamp. As she turned the nut the circular opening of the baseplate constricted toward the bell, crushing the foreskin completely. Even with the anaesthetic I could feel my foreskin being crushed under the tremendous pressure of the clamp.


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Today I have my final card for the Waltzingmouse Christmas Card Challenge. I love this challenge! It really helped me to complete my Christmas cards early this year! And it helps that some of my favorite Christmas stamps are from Waltzingmouse.
The challenge for December was to incorporate green in your card. I went for a clean, clean look with mostly white space. I stamped the wreaths with different colors of green ink from A Muse Studio and add some little pops of red. Easy peasy!
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!
Cardstock: PTI Stampers' Select White, A Muse Sage
Stamps: WMS Around Christmas Time
Ink: A Muse Lichen, Sage, Grass, Fern and Cherry
Size: 4.25" x 5.5"


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Hey guys this is a short video explaining how to fix jamming.
for a bolt action or a gun that does not take a clip press the U on the keyboard.
For a gun that takes a magazine keep the magazine in the gun and right click on the gun in the hands slot and click the empty button.