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"It's very much a labor of love." ~ Vivian Campbell on Last In LineLast In Line is a band comprised of Vivian Campbell, Jimmy Bain, Vinnie Appice, Claude Schnell, and singer Andy Freeman - a band born of the desire of the original members of Dio to again play the music that produced platinum records, sold out tours, and created a platform for Ronnie James Dio to achieve solo stardom after successful stints with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and Black Sabbath.
After twenty one years with Def Leppard, Vivian has found himself reinvigorated by a brief stay with Irish rock legends Thin Lizzy. Playing with Lizzy reminded him of his early love affair with the guitar, and he finally felt ready to face his past with the Dio band, something he had been unable to do for almost thirty years. The split with Dio is a thing of rock legend - we deal with that in great detail in the interview, which I would hope any lover of rock will read with an open mind and heart. Viv pulls no punches, dodges no issues, and stays on the point that as the composers of the material, the original members of Dio have every right to take the music to the stage once again, and I think at the end of the day this is a win/win scenario for everyone involved.
I spoke with Vivian Campbell just before he announced his cancer treatments - it was decided that any discussion of health could be left to him to dispense, and we limited our discussion to things musical. I will say that the Irish guitarist sounded very healthy - he was enthusiastic about the future, and emphatic about the past. We laughed a good deal as we navigated the straits of his long and successful career in some of the best bands in the history of rock.
My first question was 'Why now,' for Last In Line?
Vivian Campbell: "You know, Tony, what I figured, a big part of it was that I did a stint with Thin Lizzy in 2011 - and Lizzy were a very, very influential band for me when I was learning how to play guitar as a teenager. That was the shit I learned, the Live & Dangerous album. I think that my role in Def Leppard, as great a band as it is, isn't that challenging for me as a guitar player. Leppard is about the songs, the singing, the structure - and I've certainly become a much stronger singer from the 21 years in Def Leppard, but most of the stuff we play is the classic stuff, and Phil Collen plays most of the challenging guitar solos.
"So my stint with Lizzy kind of reminded me of my guitar playing youth, and I got real excited about my guitar playing again. I came home from the Lizzy tour, and I'm playing a lot of guitar - so I called Vinnie, and Claude, and I said, 'Hey - let's get together and play some of those old songs that we did,' and Vinnie recommended Andy Freeman, who he ad worked with briefly in Lynch Mob. Andy came in, and he sings the shit out of the stuff! We had a great time and we decided to take it a stage further."
Next, I was curious to hear how it felt to play that material again after such a lengthy and trying period of being away from it, and the situation of his leaving Dio:
Vivian Campbell: "It was very, very, very exciting, and it actually sounded incredible! We probably could have done a bit of a gig that night.
"It was so tight, and it all came back so quickly for us. It was a very unique chemistry that happens with any group of players, especially when you write the songs together. I firmly believe that no two people play alike - no two guitar players are quite the same, no two drummers are the same. There's all sorts of difference between the notes, and little grace notes that are very unique to individuals.
"You know, Vinnie, Jimmy, and I, we wrote those songs together, so nobody is ever going to play them like us - and as soon as we started playing, it all came right back."
Getting reinvigorated by playing on the same stage with Thin Lizzy is certainly understandable, but I was interested in what it was actually like to be standing on stage playing with Scott Gorham and Brian Downey after learning their catalog note for note as a kid:
Vivian Campbell: "That was incredible! Because again, every musician is unique, and nobody plays like Brian Downey - he's got a real swing feel to his playing, I don't even think Brian had ever intended to be a rock 'n' roll drummer. It's part of the whole uniqueness, that idiosyncrasy that he has that made that music so unique.
"Gorham was one of my guitar heroes - particularly the classic era lineup of Brian Robertson and Scott, like I said, the Live & Dangerous album in particular, and the Jailbreak record, I knew them inside out. It was very much from my love for Thin Lizzy that I came across Gary Moore, who was probably my most influential guitar player, y'know?
"It was a real honor and privilege to play with those guys, and to be on stage with them every night. I was pinching myself - here I am on tour with Thin Lizzy, because when I was about 18 or 19, my first band out of Ireland, Sweet Savage, we did a UK tour opening for Thin Lizzy, and every night we'd go on stage and do our thing, then we'd watch Phil Lynott and the band do their thing. I so badly wanted to be a part of that band - and here I was, 30 years later!"
Stepping back a couple of decades, Campbell had joined the already hugely successful Def Leppard after two rough endings with Dio, and Whitesnake. I asked Vivian what he remembered about that experience:
Vivian Campbell: "It was a lot to learn! They are very specific about what they want - it's not open to interpretation, if you know what I mean.
"And to be honest, that's more the way I play - my playing has always been a little fast and loose. When it comes to taking liberties with style, because I'm a self taught player, and I'm not very schooled. I still to this day don't understand modes, or any of that stuff.
"But I was a Def Leppard fan from way back - like I mentioned before, my band Sweet Savage started at the same time That Leppard did, and they were kind of an inspiration, not even so much musically, but as forging their own path. Leppard and Maiden were two of the first bands to break out of that whole New Wave of British Heavy Metal thing. As a result of that, they were very inspirational. We were very aware of what they were doing, and we were always checking out their music.
"I was also a friend of Joe Elliott's - Joe had lived in Dublin for a great many years. He and I had mutual friends, and we knew each other socially. I'd see him in clubs, and we'd go to dinner occasionally, we'd have a little game of soccer together, y'know? So, Joe knew me personally, and he was the one who invited me into the band - he had to do a selling job to the other guys, because the other guys only knew me by reputation.
"I'd been in Dio and gotten fired, I'd been in Whitesnake, and been fired....so I was two for two in terms of not being able to hold on to a job. The other guys were a little bit skeptical about my reputation, so we had this sort of long courtship that lasted about two months here in Los Angeles.
"I had lived in LA ever since I had come over to do the Holy Diver record, and the band came to town - they were mixing the Andrenalize album. We got together and we played, and it was great when we played, but it wasn't even about the music with the guys in Leppard.
"They wanted to be sure that I could be part of their team - they wanted to make a commitment for the long term, they weren't just looking for a guitar player for a tour.
"Literally - we went out to movies together, I remember we went to the Imax to see The Rolling Stones, we went to dinner together, played football together, and we'd go into the studio and play some more, then we'd go for a walk! It was like going on a date, y'know?
"That went on for six to eight weeks here in Los Angeles, and eventually we really got to know each other, and it worked out.
"Material wise, I just put my nose to the grindstone and got in there. I was already familiar with the songs, I just had to ascertain which parts specifically to play, especially on the later material like Hysteria, because there are so many layers of guitar parts. Fortunately, Phil lives about an hour from me, he lives down in Orange County, so he and I could get together frequently, and I just sat with Phil with a couple of practice ampss, and he'd show me the specific parts - you play this for the verse, you play that for the chorus, so it was easy enough!
"I like to think that I'm an easy guy to work with, I think if you ask anyone in Leppard, they'll tell you that, but obviously the reputation I had coming out of Dio, and coming out of Whitesnake didn't do me any favors. It didn't look like I was someone who could keep a job!"
We had reached that point in the conversation in which it was time to broach the topic of the guitarist's relationship and history with Ronnie Dio. Many unpleasantries had been exchanged over the years, and in the light of the legendary metal singers' death, many internet discussions were overheard that questioned the appropriateness of the Last In Line project. At this point, I must congratulate Vivian Campbell for stepping up, taking the bull by the horns, and having his say:
Vivian Campbell: "Why would anyone be against the Last In Line idea?
"We wrote and recorded those songs, and we'd like to play them! That's what it comes down to - the only issue being that Ronnie and I had a public spat.
"I can hold my hand up and admit being wrong about saying some mean things about Ronnie, and I was also derogatory about the genre of music.
"The thing that Dio fans may not completely understand is that they weren't there when we wrote and recorded those records - Ronnie was a very difficult person to work with. He was a lovely human being to his fans, but he didn't always share that wonderful personality with those closest to him.
"Every human being is complex, there's no back and white, no cut and dry.
"I had a very difficult relationship with Ronnie, and he had a very difficult relationship with me, and it really hurt me that he not only fired me, but he went on to betray it as if I had left the band. So that's what got me so riled up, and I really turned my back on him and the genre of music because I was very, very hurt by what it was he had done to me.
"I admit that it was childish, but a lot of water has gone under the bridge, and for me, I've taken all that out of the equation. When I think about the music, I didn't listen to it for almost thirty years - that's how caught up I was about that shit.
"Ronnie and Wendy Dio went out of their way to betray me as someone who had turned my back on the band in the middle of a tour and quit, which was absolutely, 100% untrue - I was fired from that band, I never intended to leave that band, and I never wanted to leave the band.
"Those are my songs as much as they are Ronnie's songs. Jimmy, Vinnie, Claude, and myself got fuck all for those records. We got nothing from the record sales, none of the t-shirt money - we were salaried musicians earning less than our road crew! Because we believed in the music, and we believed as Ronnie had told us that we were going to have an equal cut by the third album.
"And that's all I asked for! The third album came along and I said Ronnie, do you remember that first time we met in London when we jammed and this band was put together, and you had promised us that by the third album it would be an equity cut, which was why we got fuck all for all those years? We put our blood, sweat, and tears into doing that and it hurt the fuck out of me, as it would anyone. So then he goes and fires me, and betrays me as being the one who quit. So for thirty years, I didn't listen to those records.
"I wanted nothing to do with Dio, I wanted nothing to do with that genre of music - I just removed it all from my life.
"After thirty years, and maybe it is because Ronnie's dead, maybe that does make it easier, I don't know - I haven't sat down and analyzed it, but the fact is, that's my music, I'm the one who's entitled to play it, and that's what I'm going to do.
"What really makes me laugh is when people think I'm doing it for the money! We've got four shows booked in the UK, and I can't even begin to tell you how much money it's costing to do that. It's all for the love of guitar playing, the only reason I did it in the first place!
"The only thing that I would ask is that people come with an open mind.There's been a lot of shit said in the press, a lot of it untrue, some of it is true, but it's truly about the music. I'm not doing this for the money, believe me, I've got plenty of money. It's about the love, the passion for the guitar playing. When I did it in the first place, I didn't do it for the fucking money - $100 a week, I don't think that's a lot of money, and that's what I got for doing Holy Diver. And that's pretty much what I'll get for doing it again, thirty years later, hahaha!"
I was reminded of the days when I was a guitar tech for the McAuley/Schenker Group and had been instructed to never talk money with the band, as we crew members were making a more, shall I say, livable salary:
Vivian Campbell: "Well, that's exactly what happened with Dio. Right up until the Sacred Heart Tour, and when I got fired, we were still getting paid less than guys in the crew!
"It's one thing to get less than the principle artist, yes - I get that, but to earn less than the crew?
"Especially when you are the ones writing the songs, it's not like we were hired to play the parts. We wrote those fucking songs, we were part of the band, and we were totally gipped over.
"But in hindsight? I said all those things about Ronnie, and well yeah, part of it was true about Ronnie being the one who ultimately made the decision, but it was really all Wendy Dio. Jimmy Bain, Vinnie Appice, Claude Schnell, they still haven't made a fucking dime, nor have I. I have been very fortunate to have twenty years of work, so I'm doing fine, thank you.
"Rock 'N' Roll is full of these kinds of stories though, y'know? But it's all just very much a labor of love."
We spent a bit more time talking minor guitar talk, but I think it feels right to stop here - again, I thank Vivian for being so willing to discuss very openly a part of his history that has been buried for so long. As always, there are two sides to every story, and most generally things aren't as simple as they are made to seem. I definitely get the impression that Campbell feels, and quite frankly I agree, that he has every right to go out and play the music he's written, and I think that at the end of the day it is the music that matters - personally, I can't wait to hear them again doing what they did so marvelously for so long.
I'll leave you with one thought - as soon as Campbell made the call, every member of the original Dio band signed on (and without promise of financial gain), and remain anxious to again take the stage as Last In Line. To me, that speaks volumes.


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About Riya mami aged 41yrs and her body structure 36-26-40, huge structure My name is Amar aged 22yrs, i was staying in Mylapore where all brahmins people stay, after 15yrs of stay in chennai dad was transferred to Jaipur hence they thought to leave me because would affect my studies.We had brahmin couples whom we know for the last 8yrs when they came to know about this hence asked parents what plan about me, mother said was in dilemma what to do. Riya mami asked whether i would stay in their house hence mother called me in kitchen and asked whether would like to stay in Riya mami's house.
We know that they don't have children and above that mama always would go for pooja ie 4days because of which mami would be alone, when i said ok that time could see joy in mami's face, she asked mother about my way of eating and food etc, mother said she wouldn't have any problem because i was adjustive person.I always use to go to mami's house, many times have seen her talking to me openly like as she use to wear madisar many times her pallu use to come down because of which her blouse was getting exposed.Still know when i was small around 8yrs old that time would stay most of time in mami's house, one evening mami came and told mother that mama had gone for 10days hence whether night could stay in her house,mother said i was her son hence can do whatever needed, that happens to be saturday, it was 8pm she was seeing serial in TV, even had to see with her.
She asked whether finished my studies said yes,she checked all doors and windows, she went to bathroom and after 10minutes came back, she lied next to me and made me lie down and started to kiss my body, she put her pallu down and told me to close eyes, she stuffed her nipple into my mouth.I was enjoying every moment of this, full night was keeping on sucking her nipple,night when got up for going for bathroom saw mami's breast hanging, hugged mami and slept off.Mami was awake in morning but didn't get up because my sleep would be disturbed, once i got up mami went to kitchen and made coffee for both, she had wrapped her body with her madisar. Mami said was having her bath and asked whether was joining said ok, we went to bathroom where got present of my life, mami was naked and seeing her body was treat, as was small hence mami had no shame of being naked.
I like to stand under the shower hence mami would lift me by keeping me on her chest, we both would enjoy the shower and many times by mistake touch her breast.This went on till i was 10yrs old.
After few days time came for parents to leave for Jaipur, i told would come to station but mother was against it when asked why she said couldn't see me crying, by that time Riya mami said she would come with me. We all went to station and waited till the train left, it was sad moment but it was Riya mami who was consoling me.We reached home in taxi, i said to mami that night i would sleep in my house, she said would ask mama and come. She told mama that i wanted to sleep at home for which he said mami to sleep with me because they didn't want me to think about parents.We both came home, mami closed the door and switched off light in all room. I asked mami where she would sleep, said in my room with me, i said ok and went to bathroom to change my dress, mami was looking at my room.Parents had given me all the facilities needed for person, she said had arranged my room very nicely,i came out wearing lungi,nothing on top.Mami was seeing books of mine, her structure was so good that was seeing her for sometime.Seeing me Mami said that i was having good body and to maintain like that, mami went to bathroom to wash leg, I on the AC in 5minutes the room was little cold when Mami came out she was feeling cold, hence came and hugged me.
Now for me this was chance to touch her body hence as if unknowingly kept hand on her stomach and slighthly on to her blouse by pressing her breast little so that she feels that happened by mistake.While rubbing hand on her stomach mami's pallu fell down hence kissed her back and asked mami why she didn't have children for which mami said uncle should have time for all that, for lady that was life but her faith seems can't have any child. She said if goes like that then seems she need to sleep with someone and have child, she asked whether could make her mother and that would be secret between both of us, i said ok just for her sake. Saying that I started to kiss her body, lifted her and took her to the bed and started to kiss her whole body like stomach,neck etc she was responding nicely, tears was coming from her eyes thinking hurting her said sorry for which she said it was happiness tears hence to carry on.I removed her saree, blouse etc her body was so huge especially mami's breast and also ass, made her to stick towards the bed by putting pillow behind it, i started to suck her nipple like a mad guy and started biting them one by one and was also fingering her pussy for 10minutes.
Poor mami was jumping in bed making noise, she said was doing all this for the first time.I kissed mami's mouth so badly that she tried her best to separate me. After putting her on bed started to lick her from top to bottom, almost kissed her whole body Now she started pleading me to fuck her as she cant take it any more. Now I said to her that I would fuck her only after she sucks my dick and gives me a blowjob and drinks my cum. She said anything you want me to do I will do. Mami removed my lungi and seeing my cork said never thought the size of my cork would be like this, it was 10inch long and 4cm width. I inserted my dick in her mouth but mami was having problem sucking my cork because mouth was too small for my cork.But I started sucking her cunt by doing my tongue in and out and then she shuddered and had an orgasm. I drank her lovely juice and licked every bit of it. I liked it very much and so I again started sucking her cunt, meanwhile as she was sucking my dick I wanted to cum so I held her tightly and shot a load of cum in her mouth and she drank every drop of it.Mami was sucking my cork very slowly when asked she said that mouth was paining . Now I went over to her breasts and started sucking them until juices started flowing from her breasts and I started drinking her juices. Now it was time for me to get into her so I went down to her thighs and asked her to fold them so they touched her chest revealing her hole clearly.
Now I placed my dick on her hole and asked her if she ready to take it in. she told me to go ahead. But i was having doubt whether cork would go inside mami's cunt, I closed her mouth and gave a jerk to my dick and nearly one fourth of it went into her cunt. She started shouting with pain and begged me to stop, as it was paining very much.She said that cork was too big for her pussy, But I said that it was she only who wanted to get fucked and she should bear it. Mami was trying to remove my cork at any cost,With that I gave one more push into her cunt and she again shouted, but instead of stopping I kept on pushing my dick until I was completely into her. Poor Mami was shouting and crying saying to have mercy on her but i was enjoying it, now I stopped as she was shouting a lot due to pain. I started kissing her lips and caressing her breasts until she became normal. Now I asked her that if she is feeling ok then I should start fucking her.She said that she is ok now and with that I started riding her like a horse. First I started slowly and then I gathered some momentum and started fucking her with a speed of a train. She came to early and stopped due to which I had to do rest of the things myself. And then I also came and cummed into her poured my entire water into mami's cunt. Then I laid on her for quite a some time.After removing cork noticed that she was bleeding, she said now understood why she wasn't able to conceive because her virginity was not properly broken. After my cork was out it was relax time for mami because of pain, mami went to bathroom to clean herself so even i followed her and became fresh, mami kissed me saying that have given her new life.I was pressing mami's ass because wanted to have her ass at anycost, hence asked her how she was feeling for which mami said ok, she asked me how come knew about sex because like professional was doing.
We both went to bed were mami saw time it was around 11pm she said would sleep so that morning could go early at 5am.Till morning nearly 2times we had sex when mami said morning needed to go told her to sleep when time permits. We both slept naked, morning mami got separated wore her madisar saree and kissing me said was going home.I got up and went to close the door, before mami went out pulled her inside and opened blouse and sucked her nipple badly mami was saying to leave her. Then she wore her blouse and asked whether liked her breast said yes then she said can use her whenever needed anything i wanted. That was enough for me because wanted her ass get fucked, after closing the door went to room and slept off, around 7am got up and made coffee.In meanwhile mami called me saying for breakfast come to her house hence got ready and went to her house, she was in kitchen making food for the afternoon. She put leaves on floor and served breakfast for me, asked whether she had breakfast,said after i finished, i said to have with me. Mama was packing asked her where he was going, mami said was going to bombay for wedding and would be back after 10days, i was happy because mami would be alone.While eating was seeing mami's face was looking tired when asked she said 2times at night is seen on her face but anyway she enjoyed it.I told mami wanted to suck her breast and nipple, but she said when mama go then have it because now her breast was paining and also nipple because had bitten it like anything.Mama had to leave now, mami acted as if would be alone but mama said Amar was there to take care of her then why to worry.I asked mama would come to station but instead he said to have fun with mami, after closing the door mami went to kitchen and kept all the food on floor.
Time was 11 she asked whether was hungry but said no, told mami was going to my house and would study for time being and would come for lunch. I was studying in room that time someone rang bell, when opened Riya mami was there, she came inside and told me to close the door, she went to my room and put curtain just for fun asked why she had come mami said i wanted to have her breast hence she came down so that could have breast and nipple.She said when both of us are alone can ask anything but not in front of anyone.Saying mami removed her madisar and blouse,she was naked hence standing itself started to suck nipple and pressed her breast.Made mami to lie on bed, mami said to have sex at night because people may come to know about relation, i was kissing her body. Mami asked again how knew about sex so told her would tell saying that on PC, made mami to sit on my lap and played CD, it was bluefilm which mami said was seeing for the first time.While she was seeing film i was busy playing with her body like pulling her nipple, i asked mami whether night we would see because i had reason in CD there was lot of ass fucking scene which mami see would not like to get her ass fucked, i asked mami whether can see in her house for which mami said night she would come to home and see movie together, she stayed with me for 20minutes and then went to house and told me to come.
After lunch i stayed back in mami's house and slept off so also mami, evening after tea went home and studied for few hours. Night mami came with tiffin carrier and said both of us would have dinner, we finished our dinner at 8pm. She told me to put CD, when movie started she was seeing with interest suddenly the ass fucking scene came, mami asked what was they doing so said nothing.I told mami that wanted to fuck her ass hole. She got afraid and said that mama has never fucked her ass hole and so it is still a virgin and it will pain a lot to her. But I wanted her ass hole at any cost as it was virgin and looked like cream. So I inserted my dick in her mouth on order to get it erected. She sucked it until it got erected and then I turned her and said her to be ready to get her ass hole torn apart.
She started crying that it will pain a lot and she can't bear in the pain. But I got her into doggy position and got on top of her and took my dick and placed it on her ass hole and then with one push I inserted my dick in her ass hole tearing it apart. Mine only half of dick was inside and she started shouting 'oooooohhhhhhhhh aaaaaahhhhhhh oooooouuuuuuc hhhhhh you killed me. You tore my ass apart aaaaahhhhhhhh. Pleasssssss leave me other wise I will die. Mami was crying like small baby saying not to fuck her ass instead can use her cunt, but where to listen told mami only for few minutes then everything would be ok.I slapped on her ass and asked her to be quite other wise I will insert reddish in her ass hole. She started crying but I instead of stopping started inserting rest of my dick in her ass hole.Indeed mami's ass was very tight that had to struggle a bit, Mean while I was holding her breasts from behind, I started molesting them and pressing them real hard. I entered into her ass hole successfully and then started fucking her. Now I started enjoying it as her ass hole was real tight. Mean while she kept on crying and begging me to stop it, but I told her that she is a big bitch and this time I won't leave her. Then I cummed into her and when I took out my dick I saw that her ass hole was bleeding and it was torn. Mami said in movie was the scene on ass fucking said yes.Mami said that her ass was paining and wouldn't be able to get up tomorrow said to her no problem, I told mami that now she wouldn't have pain but she said not to fuck her ass, i said nothing would happen,Talking to mami like that again my cork became big hence went to kitchen and brought oil in utensils and I poured oil on my cork and made it fully lubricated. Now her whole hips and thighs were naked, her beautiful ass was in front of me. With both of my hands I apart her mountains.
Her hole was very tiny and pink in colour. I asked her to apart her bum with her hands. She brought her hands at her back and apart her bums. Now it was a very lovely view. I looked a little down at her cunt. My cork became more erected as I love trimmed cunt. Then I poured some oil on her hole and placed my cork on it. With the touch of my cork she shivered and stiffened her body and said please do it slowly, don't hurt me I started moving my cork in circles on her ass. I did it for about five minutes meantime my precum mixed with oil and made it more lubricated. Then I felt that she had relaxed. I started pressing my cork slowly in her hole. She tightened her body again. I kept pressure of my cork on her hole and moved it up and down slowly. I continued it for three minutes then she relaxed her body again. This was the chance, I pressed my cork with thumb and finger. By now her ass had become very lubricated and as her body was relaxed my cork make a way into her hole and its head buried in her ass. She said ooeeeeeee with pain and removed her hands from her ass and held cushions to absorb pain. As the head of my cork entered her tight ass, it felt very hot inside her and the view of my corks head buried in her ass was so sexy, I became so horny and excited that I held her bums and apart them and gave a strong push to my cork in her ass. She tried to tightened her ass and said no nnnnn please but she was late. As my cork and her ass were so lubricated, my full cork entered her ass in one jerk. Oh! She was so tight that my cork felt slight pain due to tightness of her ass.
She screamed and cry in a loud voice ooooeeeeeeeee oooeeeeee oh oh oee mmmmm hi I will die. ooeeee my ass will tear in part. mami's voice was so high that I was afraid neighbours may not hear the noise. I tried to place my hand on her mouth but she buried her face deep in cushions and kept crying and saying u have tear my ass, ohhhh I will die please let this monster out from my ass. I slowly squeezed her huge boobs with both hands they were very hard and her nipples were erected. Then I bowed down and kissed on her neck. She again requested please I will die with draw it. I pressed her boobs a little hard and while licking on her ears said u demanded maximum pleasure and for this you have to pay the price.
She brought her left hand towards her ass and touched my cork and said uff its too thick, it has torn my ass and I feel its burning inside I squeezed her boobs more tightly and licked on her ears and said is it so thick? She said not only thick but also burning like fire I moved my cork slightly in her ass and she screamed oh no please don't move it's paining like hell, keep it inside and don't move. She turned her face towards me and with her right hand she held my head and brought closer to her face and kissed on my face and again touched my cork with left hand and said your cock is so thick and long also mama doesn't have such a monster. Her filthy talks made me horny and I tried to move my cork in her ass. Her ass was so tight that that my cork was unable to move. She shouted with pain and said Plz don't move I will die with pain keep as it is and take sometime so that my ass will use to of this monster. I said ok I moved my hand under her belly and placed my palm on her cunt.
As she felt my touch on her cunt she shivered and moaned and said what you say this part? I pressed her cunt and the apart outer lips and said cunt. She turned her face and kissed and entered her tongue in my mouth. She kissed me After hearing this I loosed my control. I gripped her boobs very tightly and pulled my cork out. As my half cork became out I pushed it in her with great force. She started crying ooeee haeee no ummmm ohhhhh, please don't move this monster but I didn't listen to her and started fucking her ass madly. She collapsed on bed and I continued fucking without listening her and held her hips with my hands bringing her closer to me and started more fast. Now once my cork was coming to normal size removed it out and put in her mouth and told mami to drink my sperm.
Mami said wanted to go to bathroom and become fresh, while she was walking could feel the pain. I also went to bathroom where she started to hit me saying that was bad boy and had no mercy on her.Still mami was crying hence hugged her nicely and sucked her breast, i took her to bed and told her to sleep but i was busy inserting my cork inside her cunt, she said that i was not having pity on her body, but where to listen fucked her cunt again mami was keeping shouting saying that cork was hurting her, once i finished my sperm was inside mami's cunt, i cleaned both of us and slept off. As mama was not there hence mami didn't get up early other than that she was tired and her body would also be paining because of ass fuck.Morning mami got up and also woke me up saying she needed to go, after 2hrs even i got ready and went to mami's house where she was busy cooking seeing me made coffee and asked me to sit by that time after finishing cooking would join me.While mami was walking could see in difference, she was having pain in her ass, In the 10days the amount of sex we both of us had was not counted, mama came from bombay, even after that we both have sex, never made mama realised that some affairs was going on between mami and me, now mami was becoming close to me she use to do sex with me and i would be resting,mami use to say that she would tell mama also to have sex so that he never knows all these, this went for 2months. Mami started to say that something is wrong with her.After 2month one day mama called me and said mami was not well so to take to doctor, when our turn came we both went inside.
Mami told doctor who took her for check up and 15minutes later she told me that i was going to have brother, unknowingly i asked doctor to tell in detail, she said mami was pregnant and to take care of her. While going home i purchased sweet for mama and told mami to tell news to mama because of his effort she was pregnant, mami said credit was for me because i was father of this child.When we both came home mama was leaving for bangalore for some pooja hence couldn't tell him. I stayed back in mami's house but then also we both have sex, now mami's ass was adjusted to my cork size, because her ass started to become my friend.
When mama came back she told him the news, he was so happy that started to say atlast he was becoming father but only mami and i know the actual father, now mama whenever was going out would tell me to stay with mami. When we both would be there that time mami would allow me to suck her breast and nipple.This went on till the delivery date was coming nearer, normally delivery would be done in mother's place but as mami had noone hence they decided to do delivery in hospital, but there was big function where mama's presence was must hence he told mami who would bit upset but said would manage on her own,One night mami started to make noise saying was paining, i called for ambulance and went to hospital where doctor who did checkup was there waiting, they took mami to delivery room, after 5minutes nurse came and told that doctor wanted to see me.
When went inside doctor said mami wanted me to stay next to her.She holded my hand and in 20minutes baby came out, mami started to cry seeing the baby and she kissed my hand saying thanks.
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21 Responses to Cookie!
steve says:
wow, it looks like the chicken has caused the Cookie Monter to focus for a while, his eyes are looking the same way.
I'm the same with my Coffee in a morning
: )
emily says:
steve, that is the most adorable comment ever.
bobbie says:
as a recovering addict i have looked those chickens in the eye far too many times and wondered how they made it through life without the insanity of the cookie. this is marvelous – thank you! i hope you don't mind, i posted it on my blog.
Jonathan says:
really funny!! reminded me of when he was on family guy. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Dinana says:
I *love* Cookie Monster! I could care less about his reincarnation as Veggie Monster!
Mickel says:
I'm with Steve: Coffee coffee coffee. Today's comic is great.
FupDuckTV says:
Most Muppets seemed to be suffering from some sort of psychological disorder. Does anyone one remember when Elmo was borderline suicidal? Or that Miss Piggy was a Bipolar Narcissist?
Adam says:
Answer: Withdrawal
Seraphine says:
i think i could live happily on a cookie diet.
Tony Bond says:
Cookie Monster has Low Blood Sugar…
Give the poor creature a cookie!
Eric says:
There is no Veggie Monster. That was another baseless internet rumor.
Heidi says:
Great, now I've got the "C is for Cookie" stuck in my head.
C is for Cookie that's good enough for me!
C is for Cookie that's good enough for me!
C is for Chicken that's good enough for me!
oh Chicken Cookie Chicken stands for C!
bri says:
Cookie Monster vs. Happy Bear
who's the better child mascot?
steve says:
@bri : there's only one way to find out. FIGHT!
(sorry if you are not from the UK, or haven't seen Harry Hill's TV Burp)
: )
Luke says:
ha ha ha ha
RACHEL says:
Me want cookie… Duh!!!
adchick says:
OHMYGAWD! That might be the best one yet! Love your humor!
Capt. Obvious says:
@ steve, I've never seen the show, but I agree, handcuff Cookie Monster and Happy Bear together and give them both kitchen knives, see who's REALLY the winner.
(btw Doug, Cookie Monster is simply a case of arrested development: toddlers love him because he IS a toddler, psychologically speaking. I have one who acts *exactly* like this about cookies or candy.)
Aud says:
One of my friends asks me that all the time.
CT says:
ha ha ha ha
Joel says:
Hit it everybody! He's shaggy and blue and he knows how to chew … Cookie! Can you dig it?
Whose appetite is completely outta sight? Cookie! …
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C24 and mongoDB - Agile Message Management. This article presents and demonstrates a natural combination of two enterprise software products - C24 Technologies C24 iO Studio and 10gen's mongoDB. Both technologies will be introduced, key feature sets outlined and a practical demonstration of their combined capability provided through working code. The primary driver for promoting these two technologies is that they form a powerful toolset that has underpinned agile software delivery for several significant enterprise applications that required non-trivial messaging and data storage capability.


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Its Asian alliance is crucial for Bombardier—but will China deliver?
Bombardier Aerospace claims it can handle a global supply chain unlike any other system integrator. But following the temporary transition to Canada of key CSeries fuselage parts production from its Chinese partner Shenyang Aircraft Corp. (SAC), industry concerns are mounting that the Canadian airframer might have gone too far this time.
When Bombardier built up the manufacturing system for its new 110-149-seat jet family, it allocated development and production of three fuselage sections—forward, center and rear—plus the empennage to SAC. The Chinese supplier is also supposed to build the tail cone and wing-body fairing and, most challengingly, center wing box.
But that work allocation has changed significantly—perhaps just temporarily—as first reported by the Aviation Week Intelligence Network last week. Bombardier itself has taken fuselage assembly to Montreal for the initial set of aircraft, although the components are still to be built in Shenyang. Industry sources also say that several of the work packages that were previously allocated to SAC have subsequently been shifted temporarily to Western suppliers. Spanish aerostructures specialist Aernnova says it has a contract to deliver 40 center wing boxes and tail cones for the CSeries before the work is moved back to China. It is unclear how many sets of fuselage sections are to be built in Montreal, but one executive says at least 10 aircraft could be affected.
Industry executives with insight into the project are not suggesting that the CSeries program is in peril; however, it is clear that Bombardier has been forced to react to considerable problems in airframe manufacturing. Several questions arise from the reallocation nonetheless:
•Will the CSeries development and production schedule be affected?
•What will the program's longer-term industrial setup look like?
•What does the whole process say about the readiness of the Chinese aerospace industry—that not only Bombardier relies on—as an increasingly important part of the global supply chain?
Bombardier says the published schedule is not about to change. The first CS100 is slated to fly by year-end, with final assembly to start in the coming weeks (AW&ST June 25, p. 20). The fatigue-test aircraft is to be ready by September. The manufacturer plans to deliver the first CS100 to a yet-unidentified operator by the end of 2013. That would still be within the range that was originally suggested when Bombardier formally launched the CSeries four years ago on the eve of the 2008 Farnborough air show.
And the company says "it is very common for Bombardier to manufacture the initial shipsets of the more complex work packages of its new aircraft programs. The intention is to share best practices with suppliers while allowing them additional time to ramp up toward volume production." That approach has always been "in the plan," says Bombardier. As far as the temporary shift to Western suppliers is concerned, the company states: "There are cases where third-party suppliers overlap work packages, but this is not a reallocated work package." SAC's mandate "has not changed."
As to when work will be moved to SAC, Bombardier says: "There is no final date; it's a progressive transfer following the initial shipset production."
However, industry sources are expressing serious doubts that the overall situation is as unremarkable as Bombardier claims. One executive, who was briefed recently by Bombardier on the status, says that in his observation the production process for the CSeries prototypes is far less advanced than that of the Airbus A350; the program's first flight-test aircraft is scheduled to enter final assembly this month. But the latest Airbus model is slated to fly around half a year later than the CSeries.
One executive says that final assembly of the first unit of a new aircraft should start at least around one year ahead of first flight. The CSeries has not yet reached that milestone. Power-on for the first flying aircraft in any particular program should be reached three to four months ahead of first flight, he notes. The CSeries would therefore have to be at that milestone by September at the latest.
Chinese engineers encountered problems with CSeries manufacturing, but perhaps no more than the usual difficulties that can be expected in a new program, says one industry official in China.
SAC is mainly a combat-aircraft builder and has given some of its CSeries work to its civil offshoot, SACC (Avic SAC Commercial Aircraft Co.), which receives detail parts from SAC and builds the major assemblies for export to Canada. Reviewing the SACC business, President Pang Zhan spoke this year of such challenges as meeting the ever-higher-quality demands of customers, and said his answer was to specialize. The company could not bring together the resources to properly build all parts of an aircraft, he said; so in developing its business, SACC was concentrating on tail sections, doors and engine mountings—a much narrower range of work than what it is doing on the CSeries.
A representative of SAC referred Aviation Week to Bombardier.
One source with knowledge of the situation says it is "shocking that Bombardier has watched [problems unfold in China] and done nothing about it for so long."
The contracts with Shenyang were announced in 2008 at Farnborough, two days after the formal launch of the program. In August 2009, Shenyang delivered a 23-ft. test fuselage barrel to Bombardier's Saint Laurent plant in Montreal. SAC started construction of the facility in which fuselage sections were to be built in March 2010. Less than two years ago, Bombardier is understood to have contacted suppliers such as Aernnova about stepping in temporarily to build some components. Aernnova delivered the first center wing box to Bombardier in January.
One executive sees the cause of the problem in Bombardier's supply-chain management. SAC could not handle well enough the manufacturer's design tools that are challenging even when using Western data systems with no language barrier involved, he says.
Another industry source hints at the difficulty of gaining Western authorities' approval of Chinese-developed and -produced large subassemblies or sections. Obtaining such approval is easier if production is transferred to foreign suppliers at a later stage, with the initial batch of aircraft being produced at home—Montreal in this case. "China has great difficulty in introducing the right procedures and documentation," the executive says. Potential rework would be "very time-consuming."
Xian Aircraft builds A320-family outer wing boxes to what Airbus calls a high standard, but did not begin doing so until Airbus had been building them for more than 10 years, and at first Xian did not make the complete assemblies. Similarly, SAC supplies wing parts for the A320 and A330 family.
As for Bombardier's involvement with China, the goal has been broader than merely finding cost-efficient and skilled suppliers. Like many other manufacturers, Bombardier sees China as a huge market. According to its latest forecast, Chinese airlines will buy 2,220 aircraft seating up to 149 passengers in the next 20 years—about the same as Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States combined. Only North America is still a much larger market (4,700 units).
As a result of that assessment, Bombardier has gone much further than any other commercial-aircraft integrator in its China exposure. That approach is aided by Chinese government funding. Around $400 million in Chinese public money is believed to be invested in the CSeries project, but that money will flow only through the work shares of state-owned suppliers. Bombardier is also forming close links with Chinese manufacturer Comac, which is developing its C919 narrowbody airliner. The two companies want to achieve a common cockpit design for the C919 and the CSeries and plan to cooperate in other areas. There have even been suggestions that China might look at buying Bombardier Aerospace outright, although that has not yet materialized. c


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On Thursday, October 3, 2013, genesis, the art and literary magazine of IUPUI, is proud to present our biennial literary editors panel to be held in room CE 309 at 4:30 PM. Join us to learn about literary editing, publishing, and writing through a panel discussion and Q&A session with these professionals in the field:
Katie Moulton serves as Editor of Indiana Review. Her fiction and nonfiction have recently appeared in Quarterly West, Ninth Letter, Post Road, Devil's Lake, and others. In her life before the IU MFA, she was a music and culture critic for Village Voice Media and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Chad Redden is the author of Thursday (Plain Wrap Press, 2013). He is the creator and editor of NAP, an online literary press. Chad has worked in editing and layout design for other literary magazines such as genesis, Quarter, and POP SERIAL. He lives in Indianapolis. Links to some of his work can be found at lablablabs.net.
Barbara Shoup is the author of seven novels and the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Her short fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous small magazines, as well as in The Writer and The New York Times Travel Section. She is the Executive Director of the Indiana Writers Center.
For more information, visit the genesis website.


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Statement of David A. Rust
Acting Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs
Social Security Administration
Testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means,
Subcommittees on Select Revenue Measures and
Income Security and Family Support
October 17, 2007
Mr. Chairmen and Members of the Subcommittees:
On behalf of Commissioner Astrue, thank you for inviting me to discuss proposed changes in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. I am David Rust, and I serve as Executive Secretary of the Agency and, since early August, as the Acting Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs. My responsibilities include oversight and coordination of policy and operational issues for both the SSI and the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) programs. In this role I have an obligation to make these programs as effective as possible, and a great interest in proposals that would help achieve that end. So I am pleased to offer the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) views on several SSI-related proposals contained in the Chairman's draft bill.
Before turning to the specific proposals contained in this bill, I would like to take a minute to provide some helpful background information. SSA has been administering the SSI program for more than 30 years – dealing with a program in which eligibility and the amount of needs-based benefits is dependent upon the fluctuating circumstances of millions of beneficiaries. Complex income rules, designed to more favorably consider earned wages than unearned payments, mean that SSA must evaluate the source of every dollar. Resource limits, likewise, mean that a beneficiary who is eligible for payments one month may not be the next.
If it sounds complicated, that's because it is. Means-tested programs such as SSI have to balance the stewardship requirements of protecting taxpayers, while insuring fair treatment for beneficiaries, with the administrative need to design programs that are manageable. It is quite a challenge for SSA and the Congress, both of which have studied SSI simplification and equity issues for years.
Over the years, Congress has pursued incremental changes to SSI law, finding ways in which equity can be improved and policy can be streamlined within the basic structure of the program. It is in this context that we can best evaluate the SSI-related provisions of this legislation, and I am pleased to say that we support two of the proposals without reservation, as they have in fact been previously transmitted to Congress by SSA in Administration bills.
Treatment of Most Military Compensation as Wages
Turning to the first proposal, this provision would treat most military compensation as wages for SSI, and codify SSA's policy of treating certain housing allowances as "in-kind" income. We believe this legislation is very important.
The provision would remove a significant inequity in the consideration of household income, and is especially needed in light of those who are most often affected by the current policy – the disabled children of our Nation's service men and women.
Under current SSI law, generally only basic pay is counted as earned income. All other allowances – housing, uniform, special duty pay, and so on – are counted as unearned income. Because of SSI's provisions supporting beneficiary efforts to work, earned income is treated differently than unearned income in determining benefit eligibility and payment level.
Generally, all unearned income above $20 is used in these calculations. But in determining eligibility and calculating benefits, we do not count the first $65 of earned income and one-half of income above the $65 amount. When a child is disabled, we determine eligibility based on family income, using the same distinction between earned and unearned income. Current law requires us to treat all payments except for basic pay as unearned income. (Combat pay is disregarded altogether.)
This distinction between consideration of military basic pay and other pay types has had the effect of disadvantaging military personnel compared to civilians in similar situations.
Let's look at the differences in the way income would be treated in two similarly situated families:
The family of an active duty service member could be receiving basic pay of $1,459 per month, and a military housing allowance of $1,087 – a total of $2,546. The housing allowance portion is counted as unearned income. Because of the less-favorable treatment of unearned income for SSI purposes, in calculating SSI eligibility for a disabled child, we would "count" $519.
But a civilian with the same total income of $2,546 would receive all income through wages (earned income) and would pay rent via a portion of the wages. Thus we would count $141 of the civilian's wages in determining SSI eligibility for the disabled child. Assuming there is no other income to either family, the disabled child in the civilian family would receive $502 in SSI benefits, while the disabled child in the military family would only receive only $124.
The proposal contained in the HEART bill would result in treating most cash military compensation and civilian wages alike (for SSI purposes), thus eliminating this present unfair treatment of military compensation other than basic pay.
We also support placing into statute the current SSA policy regarding how we consider certain privatized military housing. In the SSI program, certain privatized military housing is generally considered "in-kind support and maintenance," and is treated differently than either earned or unearned income. Since March of 2003, we have capped the amount of SSI benefit reduction attributable to the housing allowance to one-third of the SSI Federal benefit rate. This approach to the housing allowances is appropriate because in these situations the full amount of the service member's allowance is deducted directly from his or her pay, and paid to the landlord of the privatized housing by military payroll. By codifying this policy into the statute, Congress affirms the importance of eliminating inequities in the SSI program.
Exclusion of AmeriCorps Payments for SSI
Turning to the second proposal, we also support legislation that would exclude the AmeriCorps State and National and AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps program payments for purposes of determining SSI eligibility and benefit amounts.
Stipends for AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers are currently excluded from income for SSI purposes under the 1973 authorization for this program, the Domestic Volunteer Service Act. However, authorizing legislation for the newer AmeriCorps programs, does not exclude stipends for SSI purposes. These payments are counted as earnings in the SSI program, and room and board provided under the new programs is counted as in-kind support and maintenance. The earnings received based on these newer AmeriCorps programs are also taxable, and earn Social Security (OASDI) quarters of coverage. All three AmeriCorps programs have similar missions, and volunteers in these programs that receive a living allowance can receive a separate educational award upon completion of public service.
Thus, we currently have individuals performing similar volunteer work and participating in similar programs who are being treated differently. SSA supports the proposed legislation. Expanding the earning exclusions to participants in the other two programs would provide equity for our beneficiaries, administrative simplification, and presumably enable AmeriCorps to enroll more participants with disabilities.
Exclusion of Certain Annuity Payments to Blind Veterans
Like all Americans, we recognize the great debt owed to the men and women, who have sacrificed for us as members of the armed services, and the third proposal to exclude State annuity payments to blind veterans from income consideration for SSI benefits, could serve as a means to recognize that sacrifice. An exclusion of State annuity payments for veterans who, by definition, are blind and also of limited means, may be reasonable and appropriate.
In conclusion, the AmeriCorp and Military Service Income proposals correct inequities that exist in current SSI and law, and the Blind Pension exclusion could provide humanitarian assistance to those who have served our country so well.
We would be happy to work with the Subcommittees on these proposals, and SSA looks forward to continuing to work with Congress in our ongoing efforts to promote sound public policy and improve program administration.
Thank you and I will be glad to answer any questions you may have.


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Couple tie the knot on a remote NT cattle station
The bride flew to her wedding in a bright red mustering helicopter in unique NT outback style last weekend.
Her guests drove many kilometres into the heart of the Never Never, to see a young couple say 'I do'.
Alice Rudolph and Daniel Pascall tied the knot last Saturday at Gorrie Station, a remote cattle station, 170km south-east of Katherine.
Alice, 23, works in patient travel at the Royal Darwin Hospital and Daniel, 26, is a carpenter, who once hailed from Mataranka.
"We met at a New Year's party about eight years ago," Alice said.
"I was 15 and he was 18."
The pair have been together ever since, and now have a two-year-old son together named Archer.
"He is an amazing father, once you hit seven years with someone you kind of know it is forever," the bride said.
Although the couple now live together in Darwin, Alice heralds from Gove, a town tucked into the northeastern corner of Arnhem Land.
"Daniel grew up in Mataranka, and he is good friends with the family who owns the station," Alice said.
The bride joked to the station's owner about using one of their mustering helicopters to get to the aisle.
"I asked as a joke, but then he was really excited about it.
"Two other guests owned helicopters and so they took the bridesmaids in those."
The newlyweds said their vows in front of 150 guests.
"He proposed on the beach in Gove, I was expecting it, but not right then," Alice said.
"We usually take the dogs to the beach in Gove, so we were walking along the beach like any other afternoon and then he popped the question."
Guests were treated to an authentic NT feast following the nuptials.
"Daniel's dad did all the food, we had a 'home grown' pig on a spit, mud crabs, barra and steak," the bride said.
Gorrie Station is nestled in the Sturt Plateau, a landscape of red and yellow earths and towering termite mounds.
"It is about 15km down the Stuart Highway, south of Mataranka then about another 62km down a dirt road," Alice said.
"For the people who didn't have four wheel drives, we hired one of the Bodhi Buses which took people out and bought them back to Mataranka.
"Everyone else camped or stayed awake all night."


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College cross country team will travel to Charlotte, N.C. Saturday, Nov. 9 to compete in the NCAA Southeast Regionals. The women will run their third 6K race of the season, while the men will face their first 10K race.
The women's team is coming off an eighth place finish at the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Championships Oct. 26. All five Bobcat scorers posted top-10 times in the school recordbooks, with sophomore Rachel Pasko (Jefferson, Ga.) breaking the school record by six seconds. Classmate Taylor Roeck (Cumming, Ga.) posted the third fastest time in Georgia College history to go along with four top-10 individual performances throughout the season. The fifth best time in school history was set by Lena White (Smyrna, Ga.) who came the closest to winning an individual title this season, posting three second place finishes.
The team has finished in the top-5 in all but one race this season, with their lone team title coming at the Bridgestone-Pacer Invitational Oct. 4.
The men's squad fared a little better at the PBC Championships, placing fifth out of 10 teams. They were led by sophomore Michael Warrick (Marietta, Ga.), who's time was only one second shy of setting the Georgia College 8K record. Three other Bobcats posted times good enough for top-10 in school history, including Trevor Turner (Snellville, Ga.), Paul McNeil (Dunwoody, Ga.) and James Ryden (Atlanta). All three men won an individual title for the Bobcats this season.
The Georgia College men finished in the top-5 in all six of their races this season, winning team titles three separate times throughout the season.
The men's team finished 14th out of 26 teams at the 2012 NCAA Regionals, while the women took ninth place in the 27-team field.
The women will run their 6K race at 10:30 a.m., with the men following them at 11:30 a.m. Both races will be held at McAlpine Creek Park in Charlotte, N.C.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Current version is 1.4. You will found it on CTAN, under the macros/latex/contrib/other/seminar directory.
A minimal support of Seminar is included since LaTeX2html v.98.1
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Here are some demonstration files which want to show the various results that we can obtain.
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NM Tech's Top Engineering Students for 2007 Are Named
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., March 23, 2007– Victoria J. Aston, a senior majoring in chemical engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was named the 2007 Engineering Student of the Year at the state-supported research university in Socorro. Aston, a native of Colorado Springs, Colo. and a graduate of St. Mary's High School, is the daughter of Graeme and Martha Aston, also of Colorado Springs.
Also honored as runners-up were: Jonathan C. Berg, Nathan R. Goulding, Tracy Baker, Keenan T. Dotson, Lee A. Murphy, and Jesse J. Piotrowicz.
Photo, left (click for larger photo): At a recent luncheon in Albuquerque sponsored by the New Mexico Society for Professional Engineers: Dr. Sayavur Bakhtiyarov, chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at NMT, joins students Tom Dotson, Tracey Baker, Nathan Goulding, Victoria Aston, Jonathan Berg and Jesse Piotrowicz. Not pictured: Lee Murphy.
(Students, we would like to have individual photos of each of you. Please contact George Zamora to have your picture taken.)
Victoria Aston, having maintained a perfect 4.0 grade-point average (GPA) during her studies at New Mexico Tech, is a designated Tech Scholar and has been named to the university's academic honor roll each semester of her enrollment. She is a current recipient of the prestigious Macey Scholarship.
Aston's recent research and teaching experiences at the university include: current lab work collecting and analyzing data and performing computer simulations of polymer systems in conjunction with New Mexico Tech materials engineering professor John McCoy; student engineering and research assignments with Tech's Energetic Materials and Research and Testing Center (EMRTC); and serving as a peer facilitator for the university's Advising Resource Center (ARC), where she instructs biology and chemistry majors enrolled in the Freshman Experience program.
Aston's work in polymer physics modeling has resulted in her being named a co-author of a research paper which has been submitted to the Journal of Chemical Physics.
Aston also has been active in engineering pursuits during summer months, having completed last year an engineering internship with EnCana Oil & Gas (USA), Inc.
In addition, Aston currently serves as vice president of the New Mexico Tech chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the national honor society for engineering students, and is the secretary for Tech's student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
During her tenure at New Mexico Tech, Aston also has been an active volunteer in the Socorro community, committing several hours a week to working at both the Puerto Seguro (local homeless and displaced shelter) and Socorro Good Samaritan Village (local nursing and elderly care center).
The ten-member committee (comprised mostly of Tech engineering faculty and professional engineers), which chose Aston as this year's Engineering Student of the Year, also named six other Tech seniors as runner-ups for the prestigious honor:
Jonathan C. Berg (1st Runner-up), a graduate of Albuquerque's Temple Baptist Academy, is now a New Mexico Tech senior majoring in mechanical engineering. Berg is the son of Ron and Gwen Berg, also of Albuquerque.
Having maintained a 3.97 GPA in the course of his studies at New Mexico Tech, Berg also is a designated Tech Scholar at the university.
Berg's recent research-related work at the university has resulted in his being named a co-author of "An Automated Tape Application System for Composite Autoclave Bagging Operations," a paper published this past December in the International Journal of Manufacturing and Science.
Last semester, while working in conjunction with New Mexico Tech mechanical engineering professor Andrei Zagrai, Berg and two Tech graduate students collaboratively developed a series of laboratory exercises for students to employ in the academic department's Mechatronics Laboratory.
Berg also has been active in research pursuits during summer months, having completed student internships with Sandia National Laboratories and Applied Research Associates, Inc. of Albuquerque.
In addition, Berg is an active member of both Tau Beta Pi and the New Mexico Tech Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
Nathan R. Goulding (2nd Runner-up), a graduate of Albuquerque's La Cueva High School, is now a senior majoring in both computer science and electrical engineering at New Mexico Tech.
Goulding is the son of Robert and Barbara Goulding of Albuquerque.
Goulding is a past recipient of the university's prestigious Macey Scholarship and Student Appreciation Award, and more recently was awarded both a Tau Beta Pi Record Scholarship and a New Mexico Tech Fifth-Year Scholarship for his demonstrated academic excellence in the classroom.
In addition to his studies and related class work, Goulding currently works as a peer facilitator for Tech's ARC and has previously worked for the Institute for Complex Additive Systems Analysis (ICASA), a specialized research division of the university.
He currently serves as chapter president of Tau Beta Pi, a position he has held for the past two years, and also is the current chair and past secretary of the local student chapter of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Tracy Baker, a graduate of Incarnate Word High School in San Antonio, Texas, is now a Tech senior majoring in civil engineering.
Baker is the daughter of Larry and Becky Baker, also of San Antonio.
Baker's recent engineering work at the university includes managing a New Mexico Department of Transportation project in which she and four other Tech students are currently inspecting the paved landing surfaces at 48 regional airports throughout New Mexico. The ongoing research project entails coordinating inspection visits at each airport, preparing AutoCAD diagrams of airport facilities, collecting site data, and then inputting the data in order to compile a complete database.
In addition, Baker currently serves as co-editor of Miners' Ink New Mexico Tech's literary magazine, and also volunteers her writing and editing skills at the Tech Writing Center. She is a member of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers at the university.
Keenan T. Dotson, a graduate of Farmington Harrison High School in Farmington Hill, Mich., is a New Mexico Tech senior majoring in materials engineering.
In the course of his studies at New Mexico Tech, Dotson has maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA and has been named to the university's honor roll every semester he has completed. The Tech Scholar currently is attending the university on both the prestigious Ron Roman Scholarship and the Tech Competitive Scholarship.
Dotson's work at the university includes a current stint as a peer facilitator and tutor for the New Mexico Tech ARC, as well as previous work as a research laboratory assistant with both Tech's Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Department of Mechanical Engineering. Most recently, he also was a lab assistant working with Tech materials engineering professor T. David Burleigh, conducting research on anodized oxide coatings on carbon steel.
Dotson also has been active in engineering pursuits during summer months, completing two student internships with Traylor/Shea, JV, in which he managed data communications on a major underground tunneling project in Southern California.
In addition, Dotson is a past senator on the Tech Student Association, and currently serves as treasurer for both the Students for Progressive Action and the Tech Rugby Football Club, on which he also plays lock and flanker positions. He also is an active member of the local chapter of the Tau Beta Pi national honor society for engineering students.
Lee A. Murphy is a graduate of the University of Arizona and is now a senior pursuing a bachelor's of science degree in petroleum engineering at New Mexico Tech.
Murphy currently attends the research university on numerous scholarships, including the New Mexico Tech Transfer Scholarship, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)-Denver Section Scholarship, the SPE Roswell Section Scholarship, and the Society of Petroleum and Well Loggers Association Scholarship. He is a past recipient of the university's Kelly Scholarship.
During the past two summers, Murphy completed two petroleum engineering internships with Burlington Resources and ConocoPhillips in the San Juan Basin.
In addition, Murphy currently serves as social coordinator of the New Mexico Tech student chapter of the SPE.
Jesse J. Piotrowicz is a New Mexico Tech senior majoring in mechanical engineering.
Piotrowicz currently is leading a student design team through program planning, detailed development and design, fabrication, and possible testing of a prototype for the university's EMRTC.
In addition to his studies, Piotrowicz currently works as an undergraduate technical intern with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and as both a department analyst and undergraduate student representative with the New Mexico Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Piotrowicz, a member of Tau Beta Pi, also lists organizational memberships in the local chapters of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, in which he serves as chapter president. He also currently serves as LANL student ambassador for the New Mexico Tech campus.


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This is just too funny. Hovind's latest too-good-to-pass-up offer for the government: let me go and I'll stop suing you. Oooo! Got 'em on the ropes there, Kent baby.
This editorial lays the smackdown on this cretin.
"You dishonor your fellow Americans" by dodging a fair share of taxes, [Judge Casey] Rodgers said.
She sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
Even then he resisted reality.
"I sure would like to go home," he told Rodgers.
Oooh man. I almost feel sorry for the guy.
Wait! what the hell am I saying? No I don't!


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Congress 'astonished' by military smear of Christians
Dozens demand Army secretary rescind 'briefing' immediately
Members of Congress have expressed astonishment that the U.S. Army Reserve would use a training brief that slams Catholics, evangelical Christians and others and are demanding the practice come to a halt – now.
"Our nation needs to have an honest conversation about religious extremism and what we can do to avoid religious violence. However, labeling these major world religions as extremists is wrong and hurtful," said a letter by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., that was signed by dozens of other members.
It was addressed to Army Secretary John. M . McHugh at the Pentagon.
"We call on you to rescind this briefing and set the record straight on the Army's view on these faith groups by providing a balanced briefing on religious extremism," the letter said.
The letter was prompted by reports that soldiers were taught that evangelical Christians are an extremist threat to America along with groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, KKK, Nation of Islam, al-Qaida and Hamas.
"Men and women of faith who have served the Army faithfully for centuries shouldn't be likened to those who have regularly threatened the peace and security of the United States," said retired Col. Ron Crews, executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty. "It is dishonorable for any U.S. military entity to allow this type of wrongheaded characterization. It also appears that some military entities are using definitions of 'hate' and 'extreme' from the lists of anti-Christian political organizations. That violates the apolitical stance appropriate for the military."
See what Christian really is, in "Body of Divinity: The Sum and Substance of the Christian Religion."
The U.S. Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training briefing, given to an Army reserve unit in Pennsylvania, was titled "Extremism and Extremist Organizations."
The material mentions neo-Nazis, the KKK and other white supremacist organizations. Pictures are shown on various slides of people in Klan attire and Nazi flags. The significance of gang tattoos, racist acronyms and numbers was also discussed.
While the material on gangs and racist organizations is similar to what one might receive from a local police briefing on gang issues, after teaching on neo-Nazis in the military such as Timothy McVeigh, the material makes a remarkable link.
A slide titled "Religious Extremism" lists multiple organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida, Hamas, the Nation of Islam, the Ku Klux Klan and the Christian Identity movement as examples of extremist groups.
However, the first group on the list is evangelical Christianity. Catholicism and ultra-orthodox Judaism are also on the list of religious extremist organizations.
The letter said the members of Congress were concerned to learn of the training brief.
"This is astonishing and offensive and we urge you to immediately rescind this briefing," said the letter.
"Religious extremism is a very serious topic, but equating these major world religions with violent extremist groups is simply not acceptable. As you know, the Army is a microcosm of our country and is filled with faithful and peace-loving Catholics, Jews, Muslims and evangelical Christians who are proudly serving our country. This briefing reveals an anti-religion bias rather than a rational approach to religious extremism."
The signatories, along with Lamborn, were Reps. John Fleming, Robert Pittenger, Scott Garrett, Alan Nunnelee, Tim Huelskamp, Trent Franks, Walter Jones, Vicky Hartzler, Jack Kingston, Steve King, Gus Bilirakis, Vern Buchanan, Tim Walberg, Michele Bachmann, Bill Nuisenga, Mike Kelly, Duncan Hunter, Dan Lipinski, Lynn Jenkins, Ron DeSantis, Randy Weber, Lynn Westmoreland, Jason Chaffetz, Ander Crenshaw, Steven Palazzo, Marsha Blackburn, Bill Posey, James Lankford, Patrick McHenry, Stephen Fincher, Doug LaMalfa, Michael Burgess, Paul Broun, Frank Wolf, Michael Conaway, Jeff Duncan, Dan Benishek, Virginia Foxx, Steve Stockman, Ken Calvert and Jeff Miller.
WND reported that after the military briefing a soldier who describes himself as an evangelical told the trainer he was offended by the material and asked for a copy of it. After receiving a copy, he forwarded the material to Crews.
The material describes religious extremists as those having beliefs, attitudes, feelings or actions that are "far removed from the ordinary." It then elaborates by saying that "every religion has some followers that believe that their beliefs, customs and traditions are the only 'right way' and that all others practicing their faith the 'wrong way.'"
Crews said it is astounding that soldiers were taught that a key foundation of the Christian faith is now considered extreme and compared to those who want to implement Islamic law.
"The idea of salvation being exclusively through Christ is a key doctrine of the Christian faith," Crews said. "It is amazing that the trainer felt they had the authority and right to list evangelical Christian, Catholics and orthodox Jews alongside groups like the Muslim Brotherhood."
The brief does not provide any examples of how evangelical Christians and Catholics are a danger to those serving in the military. However, it offers several examples of Muslim extremists in the military. Among them are:
- Navy petty officer Hassan Abujihad, who emailed classified information to jihadists for possible attacks while serving on a destroyer.
- Ali Abdul Saoud Mohammed, an Army Special Forces instructor at the Special Ops Warfare School at Fort Bragg while simultaneously being a trainer for al-Qaida and traveling overseas to fight with jihadists.
- Sgt Hasan Akbar, who killed two of his fellow soldiers and injured 14 others at a military base in Kuwait when he threw four grenades into three tents where soldiers were sleeping. His reasoning was to prevent the killing of his fellow Muslims.
Conspicuously missing was Muslim Maj. Nidal Hasan, who opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood while allegedly shouting "Allahu Akbar." Hasan's rampage left 13 dead and 30 injured.
The Army has gone to great lengths to minimize the Hasan attack, going so far as to call it simply a case of workplace violence, similar to when an employee gets into a fight with a co-worker.
The Army has doubled down on its decision by issuing a report to Congress claiming that recent legislation that would label the Fort Hood shootings a terrorist act in order to help survivors and victim's families would jeopardize Hasan's chances of receiving a fair trial.
"Passage of this legislation could directly and indirectly influence potential court-martial panel members, witnesses, or the chain of command, all of whom exercise a critical role under the Uniform Code of Military Justice," the Army said. "Defense counsel will argue that Major Hasan cannot receive a fair trial because a branch of government has indirectly declared that Major Hasan is a terrorist – that he is criminally culpable."
Crews said the major problem with the training brief is that it relies heavily on material provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has claimed that WND, the Family Research Council and other pro-family groups are hate groups and extremists.
"We're concerned the use of the SPLC list is not isolated," Crews said. "The Army should make sure its equal opportunity officers across the military do not fall prey and use this SPLC list that identifies Christian and conservative organizations as hate groups as the basis for their briefing."


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Mobile app stores will see annual downloads reach 102 billion in 2013, up from 64 billion in 2012, according to research firm Gartner. Total revenue in 2013 will reach $26 billion, up from $18 billion in 2012.
Free apps will account for 91 percent of total downloads in 2013. Gartner said that in-app purchases (IAPs) will account for 48 percent of app store revenue by 2017, up from 11 percent in 2012.
"We expect strong growth in downloads through 2014, but growth is forecast to slow down a bit in later years," said Sandy Shen, research director at Gartner.
"The average downloads per device should be high in early years as users get new devices and discover the apps they like. Over time they accumulate a portfolio of apps they like and stick to, so there will be moderate numbers of downloads in the later years."
"Free apps currently account for about 60 percent and 80 percent of the total available apps in Apple's App Store and Google Play, respectively," said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner.
"iOS and Android app stores combined are forecast to account for 90 percent of global downloads in 2017. These app stores are still increasingly active due to richer ecosystems and large and very active developer communities.
"However, we expect average monthly downloads per iOS device to decline from 4.9 in 2013 to 3.9 in 2017, while average monthly downloads per Android device will decline from 6.2 in 2013 to 5.8 in 2017. This relates back to the overall trend of users using the same apps more often rather than downloading new ones."
IAP purchases will drive 17 percent of the store revenue in 2013 and increase to 48 percent in 2017. However, as with downloads, IAP is expected to have strong growth in 2013 and 2014 and slow in later years.
This is due to smart devices reaching more mass-market consumers whose willingness and/or affordability to spend on IAPs is lower than early adopters.
Nevertheless, IAP will become a major monetization method for apps stores and developers.
Research shows that IAP contributes to a significant amount of Apple's App Store revenue from iPhones worldwide. Other platforms have not reached such high levels as the iPhone, but analysts expect they will also see IAP contributions increase in the future.
"We see that users are not put off by the fact that they have already paid for an app, and are willing to spend more if they are happy with the experience, said Blau.
"As a result, we believe that IAP is a promising and sustainable monetization method because it encourages performance-based purchasing; that is, users only pay when they are happy with the experience, and developers have to work hard to earn the revenue through good design and performance."


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Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry + More Make Guyspeed's 100 Hottest Women of 2014 List
Leading men's entertainment site Guyspeed has compiled its list of the 100 Hottest Women of 2014, which should keep you warm as another bitter cold spell makes its way to the country next week. Many of our favorite pop stars made the list, like Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry and more.
In fact, one pop star was No. 1 on the list and something tells us her sexy selfies, where she isn't afraid to show off her boobies, helped her earn that position.
We won't spoil it for you and tell you who nabbed the No. 1 slot.
But other pop divas that found themselves on the list include: Azealia Banks, Iggy Azalea, Kim Kardashian, Ciara, Miley Cyrus, Lucy Hale, Lea Michele, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Naya Rivera, Selena Gomez and Rihanna.
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DAC Collection Artist Information
Antonio Canova
Italian sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Canova was the most successful and influential Neoclassical sculptor. During the 1780s he developed a new style marked by severity and idealistic purity, which led many of his contemporaries to prefer his ideal sculptures to such previously universally admired antique statues as the Medici Venus and the Farnese Hercules. He was also a popular portrait sculptor, often combining a classicizing format with a naturalistic presentation of features.
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500115339.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Antonio Canova:
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|Theseus with the Slain Minotaurus, late 18th century - early 19th century
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U.S. Citizen In Iraq, Sentenced To Life In Prison
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court has sentenced an American citizen to life in prison on charges of assisting al-Qaida and financing terrorist activities in Iraq, according to a government statement.
The Interior Ministry said Omar Rashad Khalil, 53, was recruited by al-Qaida in Iraq in 2005. Khalil, an architectural engineer, is of Palestinian descent and entered Iraq in 2001, the ministry statement said.
The ministry released excerpts from a confession it said Khalil made in which he admitted to receiving money from a Syrian man in the United Arab Emirates to pay for terror attacks.
Also known as Abu Mohammed, Khalil was sentenced by Baghdad's central criminal court on Wednesday. Iraqi government officials could not immediately be reached for more details Thursday.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Frank J. Finver, said embassy officials were aware of the reports and were checking them. He declined immediate comment.
Meanwhile, Iraq's Justice Ministry said six people convicted on terrorism charges were executed on Thursday, bringing the number of executions since the beginning of this year to 102. The ministry statement had no further details and did not identify the six.
The increase in government-sanctioned executions in Iraq has raised concerns among international human rights observers about whether the defendants are receiving fair trial. Iraq has shrugged off calls to abolish the death penalty.
Also Thursday, police and health officials said five bystanders were killed and 13 people wounded in a morning car bombing in Baghdad.
The explosives-packed car went off in the upscale Sunni-dominated Mansour district, two police officers said. The blast narrowly missed a passing convoy of employees working for an unidentified security company. Three policemen at a nearby checkpoint were among those wounded in the attack, the officers said.
A medical official in a nearby hospital confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Violence has dropped in Iraq since the height of insurgency a few years ago but militants still launch deadly attacks nearly every day. The Sunni-dominated al-Qaida in Iraq has for years sought to undermine Iraq's Shiite-led government with large-scale attacks that target security forces and Shiites almost every month.
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