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HARTFORD – The right decision was made, and it really didn't take that long. Kevin Ollie now figures to be UConn's coach for a long time, and he is in position to succeed.
"I want to be here for a lifetime," said Ollie, who turned 40 this week. The five-year extension is signing on Saturday will give him a good start toward that.
The deal begins after his current one ends on April 1. It runs through the 2017-18 season. Ollie will make $400,000 per year, plus $800,000 for "institutional speaking engagements" in 2013, with that latter figure increasing by $50,000 each year. Add it up and he is to make more than $7 million for the life of the contract, plus bonuses for conference titles, advances in the NCAA Tournament, coach of the year awards, etc., that could add significantly more.
Ollie will get bonuses if his players keep the program above the NCAA's academic standards, but he could face sanctions, such as loss of bonuses, suspension and even termination if the program has multiple poor APR scores. So the school has some protection.
There could be some rocky times ahead. UConn still feels the effects of the transfers and departures last spring, and needs to make up recruiting ground to have good classes for 2013-14.
But Ollie, if he can't control all of that, can do something about it – and with his boundless energy, he very likely will. Now, he has the credibility to go out and recruit, with plenty of time to catc up. Perhaps UConn will now get some good news on this front soon, now that stability has come.
And Warde Manuel comes out ahead, too. He saw what he wanted to see – that Kevin Ollie can handle the job, that he is in no way in over his head. The Huskies have played hard for him – there, the players did help their coach – have looked well prepared, done well in school for the fall semester and carried themselves well in public. Talks got serious within the last week or so, and though there was some talk on Friday from Ollie's camp that negotiations were not going well, but once the offer was made, agreement was reached fairly quickly.
But those are problems Kevin Ollie wants, the problems of a lifetime. UConn is his program now. That is Warde Manuel's decision, on his time and his terms. One would think that, after months of negative news, this will bring some smiles to UConn fans out there.


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Brivo technology selected for DHS Land Port of Entry facilities
Vector Electric installing 100-door system complete with new 'guard tour' feature
Bethesda, MD, August 24, 2011 – Brivo Systems LLC, leader in Software as a Service applications for security management, today announced that its Aparato ACS is being installed at four Department of Homeland Security-managed Land Port of Entry (LPOE) facilities in the state of Michigan. Vector Electric is the lead integrator on this growing project and is working in partnership with ADT Commercial Security.
The facilities, equipped with detention cells designed to temporarily detain subjects for security purposes, are located at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, the Fort Street Cargo Facility in Detroit, the Blue Water Bridge between the US and Canada, and the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie, MI. All the facilities were previously equipped with legacy access control systems. The Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), issued in 2004, mandated certain compliance measures that required the legacy equipment to be updated or removed.
The General Services Administration, manager of all Federal government buildings, approached Vector Electric, Inc. (VEI) requesting that an additional technological feature be included in any upgrade: a "guard tour" capability, utilizing existing PIV cards that would provide an audit trail of guard visitations to each detention cell and document that detainees are being properly monitored. PIV cards, smart identity cards issued to government employees in compliance with HSPD-12, have actually created a platform whereby agencies can manage both physical and logical access control for all their employees through a single integrated system.
Duane Pittman, President of Vector, contacted a number of top access control providers but was surprised to find only one company willing to make the R&D investment needed to compete for this prized business. "That says something, Brivo was the only company willing to take the time to design the software this customer wanted and to make it non-proprietary," related Pittman. "As the DHS upgrades these and other detention facilities around the country, we are providing a model both for the detention center audit trails, but also for the overall access control needs of each facility, should the GSA and the DHS decide to go in that direction."
Each of these Land Port of Entry facilities, also known as Federal Inspection Sites, has their own set of detention cells designed to temporarily detain subjects for security purposes. The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel installation served as the beta site to test the "guard tour" capabilities of the Brivo system, and the guard tour function has now been extended to two of the other facilities to date. The Brivo system is programmed to read the officers' existing PIV cards, so no new, separate cards are needed.
After a number of months of beta-testing the guard tour functionality, Pittman was hearing that the staff wanted more from the system. "We had to identify the biggest challenges they were facing. Turns out the guards need to document the detainees' condition after taking each tour and this was generating a lot of paper. With software upgrades to the Brivo Aparato, we were able to duplicate the required DHS form in the Brivo system interface—no wasted paper, everything is in one place, and the form is compliant with DHS requirements."
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But what made the [How I Met Your Mother] pilot pop, what made it seem smart and nuanced and surprisingly philosophical, was the closing moment when a "cute guy meets cute girl" story concluded with the narrator, the man telling the story of How He Met Your Mother, saying that this cute girl was not the mother. This was how he met "Aunt Robin." He'd get to the mother later.
This was a move legitimately subversive of a rule that television knows all too well: The answer to "will they or won't they?" is always "they will," and that's why we're all here. Knowing that Ted did not wind up with Robin, but wound up with someone else — but still remained close enough to Robin that his kids addressed her as "Aunt Robin" — said something different. It said, "You know what? They won't. But don't leave yet." It said that there is value in stories about things that don't work out, and value in romances that end. Everyone matters, everything is important, everything fits together and makes a whole life.
The series finale revealed that to the degree this is what the show seemed to be saying, the joke was on you. It was a nine-year-long con (as James Poniewozik put it) that fooled you into thinking it wasn't running on an engine of total cliche when — psych! — it totally was. Because it turned out that of course Ted wasn't really saying everything matters, that your whole life is important, that you can still love people even if you don't end up with them, that the good pieces and the bad pieces and the ups and the downs were all part of the story of how you wound up in the right place.
No, he was telling this whole story because he was in denial, and he spoke about the sad and happy moments of his life for nine seasons so that his teenage children could tell him to get over their dead mother and go after their aunt. (As the teenage children of widowed parents always do in this blithe, go-get-'em-tiger kind of way, in Bizarro World.)
And so he did. He went and gave himself to Robin, whom he'd loved all along. She doesn't matter because they'd loved each other and that always means something; she matters because he's still in love with her and now they can kiss. She never wanted kids, but apparently she now wants to be a stepparent to Ted's kids, something something mumble mumble what was this character about again?
So it was all a trick — they will after all! The end.
That's not to even mention the other things that went wrong in the finale: The marriage of Robin and Barney, which the show spent its entire final season on, was dismissed with a sort of hand-wave of "she traveled a lot and it didn't work out" so that Robin would be free for Ted's destiny to be fulfilled later. The embrace of Barney as a selfish jerk seemed to be the part of its original DNA to which the show would remain true, but then — psych! — he had a baby with a woman he barely knew and we never saw, and it made him nice and domesticated. Neil Patrick Harris played the heck out of the scene where Barney falls in love with the baby, but it still didn't make any kind of sense, nor did it resonate with anything else that had happened in the show up to that point.
Perhaps worst of all, the fine work of Cristin Milioti as the mother across the final season was wasted as it turned out she was, within the show's structure, merely a piece of the great love story of Ted and Robin, and died of Unspecified Sad Hospital-Bed-itis so that their romantic balcony scene could happen.
"It's the journey and not the destination" is usually the right way to look at series finales, a disturbing number of which don't stick the landing. The problem with this one in particular is that the relationship between the journey and the destination was the show's animating principle. That Ted was on a journey that was not about Robin was the first interesting thing the show ever said." — Linda Holmes, "Oh, 'Mother': An Awful End To A Long Love Story" (via lesserjoke)
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lol so how many times were we shown that ted and robin didn't work as a couple
how many times was it made painfully clear that their relationship was unhealthy
how many times was it shown in uncomfortable clarity how bad it was for both of them that ted idolized robin the way he did
frankly i don't care that barney and robin didn't end up together but to devalue years of character development, to reduce the mother to a plot device, to make robin miserable and disconnected and unhappy without ted in her life was wrong
it was wrong and it was a betrayal and i am so heartbroken, guys, i gave nine years of my life to this show for it to turn around on me like this
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One Manly Food Writer's Case Against "300 Sandwiches"
Byon September 27, 2013
As an avid reader of such prominent ladyblogs as Jezebel and XO Jane, I am subject to regular spasms of outrage on behalf of women everywhere. (Which is weird, because I am an unrepentant sexist of the worst kind go figure.) Smug CEOs, douchey bro blogs, evil southern legislators I hate them all. But nothing had prepared for the 300 Sandwiches blog.
I'm a few days late on this, but that's only because I have been too livid to write. To sum up: some lady is making 300 sandwiches to prove herself marriage-worthy to her boyfriend. She is of course taking pictures all the way, and the whole premise of the blog is no doubt guerilla marketing for what would otherwise be just another sandwich blog. It worked, too: there have been stories on it in the New York Post, Jezebel, and now Eat Like a Man. Most of the coverage has concentrated on the demeaning, retrograde nature of the whole premise of the thing that any woman should have to prove herself marriage-worthy through her willingness to feed her man. But of course what so many writers are secretly seething about is the fact the woman, Stephanie Smith, is stunningly, outrageously beautiful, and her boyfriend a pallid emo ghoul.
The whole thing just bothers me. It's not just the injustice of their pairing, or the naked retrograde female self-abasement; after all, both of those things are universal tropes in the movies I watch. No, it's the perversion of sandwiches that bothers me most. Consider:
Any man that is too lazy to make his own sandwich deserves to starve. Which it looks like has been happening here. Perhaps the sandwiches are a covert intervention to save him from manorexia.
Even if a man was too lazy to make his own sandwich, he shouldn't be asking his fiance to do it. That's disrespectful and lame. Moreover, it displays a lamentably weak-minded and even effeminate indifference to the sandwiches themselves! Who but a man himself can know just how much butter to put on the bialy, how crispy the bacon should be, how viscous the American cheese? Like democracy and masturbation, there are some things a man needs to do for himself.
And then there's this: the mere fact that someone is eating 300 different sandwiches is a sign of degeneracy. What kind of nut eats 300 sandwiches in a lifetime, much less a few months? I can't think of that many sandwiches, and I'm a food writer! The truth is that there are, at the end of the day, only about ten or twelve archetypal sandwiches. To paraphrase Donovan, on board were the twelve: the hamburger, the hot dog, the steak sandwich, the dagwood, the BLT, the meatball sub, the Italian grinder, the bacon, egg, and cheese, the french dip, the hot pork sandwich, the patty melt, and the po' boy. Once you start getting into open-face shakshuka sandwiches, and ooey gooey fig and mozzarella panini, you have moved beyond sandwiches, beyond sexism, beyond the squalid schemes of viral marketing. You have entered the abyss. And I won't follow.
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An armed man robbed a convenience story in Honeyville on Friday evening.
According to the Box Elder County Sheriff's Office, the man entered Lainie's Country Store, 6690 N. Highway 38, at approximately 6:44 p.m.
He approached a store clerk, showed a pistol and demanded money. The clerk handed the man an unspecified amount of cash from the register.
The robber fled in a blue passenger car, according to Box Elder Chief Deputy Kevin Potter.
The robber is described as a clean-shaven Hispanic male with shaggy brown hair, approximately 25 to 35 years old. He was dressed in black shirt and blue jeans.
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"Like a lactose-intolerant cheesemaker, the cuttlefish is unaware of its own gifts." Wonderful.
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That was delightful.
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The True Facts videos are some of my favourites for picking up my mood when I'm down. The best part is that the facts are (mostly) true, but you'll never see a textbook present them like that… Also, I think it was for the slow lorris, he laughs during his own narration.
carlie says
The way he says "preeeegnant" just killed me.
Kevin, 友好火猫 (Friendly Fire Cat) says
Okay… I just squeed at the baby cuttlefish.
Al Dente says
There was nothing about the cuttlefish's ability to write excellent poetry.
Cuttlefish says
I think that is most likely covered as one of those ink releases you feel like saying "excuse me!" after. (I try my best to keep mucus out of it.)
Skip White says
I too love the True Facts videos. The one about Morgan Freeman, also narrated in Morgan Freeman style is especially hilarious.
Daniela says
Hello !!!
This post reminded me this cuttlefish changing colour very fast. I wonder if octopuses can change their colous as fast as them..
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October 25, 2014
Many of us here in central Virginia have been lulled into a false sense of security over the past couple of weeks. In fact, it seems that short sleeves and light jackets are back in fashion during a time of year when we are typically ADDING the layers on to our bodies! I even saw a convertible or two with tops down earlier in December. Again, not a very common sight around these parts in the days leading up to Christmas. It seemed as if this pattern would take us into the new year, with our high on January 1 reaching nearly 60º. Then...it all changed.
Snowflakes began flying in the mountains of Virginia early on Monday morning and by the afternoon, some of those flakes made their way east of the Blue Ridge. Our Facebook and Twitter pages suddenly began firing up with reports of snow from Madison, Crozet, Orange, Gordonsville, and even Charlottesville! The snow wasn't here for long, but it was a gentle reminder that we are in the month of January. If you liked the taste of cold weather, you're in luck - but not for long.
The jet stream has taken a big dip across Virginia and this will allow for temperatures to remain below average for Tuesday and Wednesday. The coldest temperatures will be felt on Tuesday, when our afternoon temperatures will only climb a few degrees above freezing! With gusty winds factored in, our wind chills will stay in the upper 10s and lower 20s, even during the afternoon. The winds will taper off on Wednesday, but temperatures will remain cold in the upper 30s.
It won't be long until the weather pattern does a complete reversal. Thursday, but especially Friday and Saturday will boast some much milder temperatures, with our highs soaring back into the 50s! A few spots could even get close to 60º. What are your thoughts on this mild winter so far? Would you like to see the snow and cold stay far away, or have you had enough of this warm weather? Leave your comment at the bottom of this blog!
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Il Libro d'amorebyharding©
The book sat on the very top shelf in the tiny, dusty shop we had stumbled upon after getting hopelessly lost in the back alleys of Naples. We had been on our way to the Reggia di Capodimonte but had taken a wrong turn, made the mistake worse by trying to retrace our steps, probably turned right instead of left, or left instead of right, and found ourselves in alleys that became narrower and more shaded the further we went. The top of the tall buildings overhung the street. The sun, only moments before too hot, had gone, only the thinnest line of blue showing above us. The air smelled of damp stone, the washing that hung from lines between the buildings, and fried garlic.
"I'm cold," my girlfriend Samantha said, wrapping her arms around herself. We had dressed that morning expecting another hot day. Sam was in short cargo pants and a halter top, braless, her small breasts requiring no support, and I could see her nipples had stiffened in the cold. I was sure it was the cold, because I knew, to my cost, she rarely if ever experienced sexual arousal.
I put my arm around her shoulder, about all I could offer. I was dressed the same way - but had a thin tee shirt rather than a halter top, they didn't suit me - so had nothing to offer she could put around herself.
"We'll find a way out soon," I said, turning left. I had gone straight over every junction, on the theory that, eventually, as long as I kept going the same way, we would come out into sunlight, find other people, and rediscover civilization. Now I suspected that some of the alleys curved around on themselves, even though it wasn't obvious. We had climbed and descended long flights of steps. I had seen the sun catch on one side of the rooftops and then the other. I knew, eventually, we would get out. We had to.
Instead we entered the narrowest alley of all, and Sam slowed.
"I don't like this, Chris. Can't we just go back?"
"To where?" I said patiently. She had raised the idea before. But if we didn't know where the hell we were, how were we going to work out where "back" was? "Let's just keep going."
I went ahead, and reluctantly she followed. I knew she would. I had a good feeling now, as though we were almost out.
Down at street level the houses crowded close on either side offered little comfort. Flaking doors, filthy windows where they could be seen, but mostly it was closed shutters. The alley turned at a right angle and as we came around the corner the old bookshop was ahead of us. The alley was a dead end and my heart sank.
"We'll have to go back now, Chris," Sam said, satisfaction in her voice.
"I guess. Let's just take a look at the books first."
She sighed, but she knew how I felt about books, any books, even the no doubt old Italian ones that were all we would see.
We had arrived in Naples three days before and booked into a small, cheap hotel. This was week three of our trip around Italy, my parent's High School graduation present to me. Sam's parents had agreed, reluctantly, to let her come with me, but I had to promise to take great care of her, and to "be careful". This last said in that tone of voice that makes it clear if we came back and Sam had, somehow, gotten pregnant or caught some awful disease, my life would be worthless.
Both my parent's and Sam's knew we slept together. We had spent nights in each other's houses, and had never, in the last year, slept in separate rooms. So I guess they were OK and knew we were having sex, but jetting over to Italy for six weeks was something else.
Before we left both Sam and I knew this would be our last time together. I was due to fly to Berkeley, Sam was going to the opposite coast to study in New York. We had been going out since we were both thirteen, had never had any other boyfriend or girlfriend, and always assumed we would get married, settle down and have kids.
That changed when we turned seventeen and I managed to get Sam to take her top off for the first time. We had fooled around and spent a long time kissing and fondling, Sam slapping my hand away whenever is strayed.
Then, when we both turned eighteen I kind of assumed we would go all the way. And we did, eventually, and that was when I discovered Sam was not really into sex. After a couple of months of her lying back and letting me hump myself to an unsatisfactory climax on top of her I realized that I needed more than she wanted to, or was capable, of giving.
Sam said she still loved me, and I guess the fact she let me fuck her showed she believed that.
But I was young, my sex drive was on afterburner, and I needed more... a lot more.
I don't know if the Italy trip was an attempt to heal our relationship, or the final straw that would break it. Either way I didn't care, just so long as something changed.
We had stayed in small hotels, not knowing sometimes even which town we were going to end up in. Quite soon after arriving Sam made it clear that, if twin beds were available, that was her preference. If there was only a double, then she would put up with it, but that did not mean sex was on the agenda.
So we traveled through Italy, me with my cock in a state of almost permanent arousal with little in the way of relief. In retrospect maybe Italy was a mistake. There were too many beautiful women. On the beaches they wore the tiniest of bikinis, frequently just the bottoms.
Occasionally I locked myself in the bathroom and took care of myself, but always reluctantly, always in the belief that maybe, tonight, Sam would relent and I would not need to use my own hand.
It didn't help that Sam was gorgeous. She stood five feet four and was very slim. Her breasts were small, but she had great nipples that would grow extremely long when I sucked them - at least I think they could, but my memory was even failing me in that, so long had it been since I had done that with her.
Her legs were long and slim, her hips narrow and her butt small and tight.
Her pussy was completely untrimmed, just one more area of dispute between us. She couldn't see the point in shaving or even trimming. To her, it didn't matter. Even when we went to the beach, which was often, and her bikini bottoms showed a few stray curls peeking out the sides she was oblivious.
It didn't seem to bother the Italian men, because I saw the looks she got. Had to fight them off at times. It appears that the presence of husband or boyfriend just adds to the pleasure of the game in Italy. My language skills were OK, and I managed to get by when no one spoke English, but I had learned a lot of new words since I arrived they had never covered in school.
Despite the wild undergrowth, I still wanted to go down on Sam, but apart from a couple of times early in our sexual relationship, that was out of bounds as well.
As for her going down on me... well, I hadn't even dared raise that subject.
Despite my growing frustration, I was having a great time, and I think Sam was too. We started in the north and planned to work our way down the length of the country, finish up in Sicily and then a last week in Sardinia lazing on a beach before flying home. July was half way through, then in August we went to college and I knew that would be it.
We flew into Turin and took a train north. In the Alps we rode a cable car and walked on a glacier.
We visited the big northern lakes, went on to Venice where we were ripped off. American tourists, yay. They saw us coming, and loved it.
Then we drifted down the eastern seaboard, astounded by one picturesque town after another.
Cutting across, we were again ripped off in Rome.
We stayed in tiny hotels in Umbria and Tuscany, lazing around cobbled town squares where we ate the best pasta in the world and drank soft Italian red wine.
Sam wanted to visit Art Galleries because she was going to major in Renaissance painters, and I went with her and even enjoyed it.
I wanted to see hills and ancient monuments and swim in the sea, and we did that too.
One day we went skinny dipping in a secluded bay just south of Rome, cut off on our own private beach, and afterwards Sam had sunbathed without bothering to dress and as evening fell she let me fuck her for the first time in two weeks. She even tried to pretend she enjoyed herself, which I loved her for. In fact, that had been the last time we had sex. Now, ten days later, we were lost in Naples, standing outside a second hand bookshop. Sam took my hand nervously and we stared through the clean window at titles laid out on soft cloth.
"Can we go in, just for a minute?" I asked.
Sam loves art. I love books. Even old Italian books I can't understand.
She lifted her shoulders, tanned and smooth, and said, "I guess. We're here now."
I pushed the door and a bell dinged loudly above it. Inside the air was warmer than the alley, thick with the scent of old paper, leather bindings, ink made in ways modern man has forgotten. There was more light than I expected and I stood in the doorway for a moment until I felt Sam push me in the back.
"Go on then," she said, and I moved into the one large room.
Shelves lined all the walls, even the far one where a small table was set up. Behind the table was a single gap in the shelving and a recessed door. As I moved around looking at the enormous range of books on display, that door opened and a very old woman dressed in black emerged.
"Buongiorno," she said, nodding briefly. Her voice was much younger than her appearance.
I returned her greeting, believing my accent was improving, and she nodded and turned back through the door and I wondered what I had done wrong.
A couple of minutes passed and then the door opened again and a young woman appeared, probably twenty, also dressed in black but on her it looked good. Her hair was dark, falling over narrow shoulders.
"Buongiorno," she repeated the greeting, then said, in good English. "My grandmother speaks Italian only. She recognized your accent and sent me to help you. Are you looking for anything in particular?"
I shook my head. "Just browsing. Is that alright?"
"Of course," she said, smiling, her teeth very white against her Mediterranean skin. "Take as long as you like. If you need me I am only through the back. Just ring the bell," and she gave a small brass bell on the table a ding. With another smile she turned and went through the door, leaving it open behind her. I watched her go, watched the way her thin hips moved, then drew my attention back to the bookshelves.
Sam was leafing through some old fashion magazines in a wooden rack. I turned around, pulling out titles, reading front pieces, struggling through the Italian and wondering did I really want to buy a book written in a different language to my own?
But I knew the answer. Yes, of course I did. In August I was going to Berkeley to major in French and Italian. My French was already good, almost fluent, but my Italian less so. This trip was meant to give me practice and prepare me for the first semester in California. So yes, I would buy a book and I would read the entire text until I understood every single word.
I browsed, chose, judged and returned.
Then I saw it. A small volume in a pale cover, high up on a shelf. I stretched to reach it, could barely touch my fingertips to it, but as they brushed the spine the book toppled forward and simply fell into my hand. It felt comfortable there, light, thin, and without opening it I thought: Yes, I could cope with this, it's not too long.
I blew on the cover to remove dust and opened it. It was old, I could tell that much, and the title page was produced in an ornate script, and long dead hands had inscribed their names inside. As I turned the pages I could see other notes in the margins, and the book gave me a warm feeling. It had been read, loved and cherished. I wanted it. No, more than that. I needed it. Had to have it.
I turned back to the table to ring the bell, but the proprietor was already there, both the old woman and her granddaughter.
I smiled, a little surprised, and held the book up.
"Quanto costa?" I asked.
"One hundred and fifty euro," the young woman replied.
Ouch. Two hundred dollars. For a musty old book.
She waited, watching me.
I went to replace the book, but found I couldn't. It called to me. Again, I knew, I had to own this small book. Nothing on earth could make me walk from the shop without it in my possession.
"I don't suppose you take Amex?" I asked.
The young woman lifted her shoulders apologetically.
I pulled my wallet out of my canvas shoulder bag, opened it and leafed through the notes inside. I could just about make it. We would need to visit an ATM on the way back to the hotel, but if I wanted I could purchase the book.
"One fifty?" I repeated.
The young woman nodded, and her grandmother watched me with dark eyes, and she nodded as well, once.
I looked at the granddaughter. A faint smile played on her lips, her eyes caught the light from the window but her pupils were still large. She stood relaxed, breathing gently, and I found myself growing aroused in her presence and mentally shook myself. What the hell was happening here?
"I'll take it," I said, counting out the notes.
"Would you like me to wrap the book for you?" The young woman asked.
I pulled it back from her hand. "No. I'll... I'll put it in my bag, thanks."
She nodded slowly, took my money and handed it to her grandmother, who smiled and nodded once more. She spoke in Italian, very quickly, and I struggled to keep up, pulling only the odd word from her sentences. Guardian. Good - repeated several times, that one was easy. Something I translated as passion, but which I may have gotten wrong. Much else that went past me.
The younger woman listened, then said, "My grandmother says you have made a good choice, signore. She trusts you will be very happy with the book."
"I hope so," I said, and slipped it inside my bag.
Suddenly, I realized I was not alone. For a while I had completely forgotten Sam. Now I turned to see her with arms crossed, tapping her foot impatiently.
I turned back and said, "I'm afraid we are also a little lost. Would it be possible to direct us back to Via Medina?"
"Of course." The young woman came around from the table and brushed past me, trailing an unfamiliar perfume that lodged in my head. For a moment dizziness washed through me, then faded as I breathed deeply.
The bell on the door sounded as she opened it. Sam went through and I followed, slowing as I passed her to draw in another head full of that scent.
Outside, she pointed back the way we came, instructed us to turn left, left, right and left again and we would find ourselves at our destination. It sounded far, far too simple and I don't think I believed her, but we followed her instructions and within five minutes were back on familiar streets.
Sam was quiet, and I wondered if she thought me a fool for paying so much money for the book. But it was my money, I was bankrolling our holiday so she could hardly complain. OK, correction, my Dad was bankrolling the trip, but he had more money than he knew what to do with and wouldn't miss it.
I stopped at an ATM and withdrew four hundred euro.
Somewhere, the day had almost gone and the sky was turning dark blue. Cafes were re-opening, tables and chairs appearing on sidewalks. Now we had emerged from the alleys the day was warm, the breeze mild.
"Do you want to eat first, or go back to the hotel and come back out later?" I asked Sam.
"Hotel," she said. "I feel really gross. I need a long shower before I even think about eating."
We walked side by side, and half way back to the hotel Sam reached over and took my hand. I smiled, holding her smaller hand inside mine.
Our room in the hotel was small, and we shared a bathroom with another on the same top floor. At the moment the other room was unoccupied, so the bathroom was as good as ours. It was six paces along the corridor from our door, and Sam left the door open as she went to shower.
I sat in the single chair by the open window, the view out over tiled roofs, beyond them domes and spires of churches, in the very far distance, a faint blue shimmer that might have been the Mediterranean.
I pulled the book from my bag and opened it again, peered at the front piece, finding details I had missed before.
I was amazed at the antiquity. The Italian was old and the phrasing unusual, but that would be good, make it more of a challenge.
I read: "This book was produced in the year of our lord 1497 in the town of Padova."
"All future guardians of this book must bear the full weight of responsibility carried within these pages. Only those of extreme sensuality may make use of the knowledge contained within. Use these spells wisely, and always do no harm."
I shook my head, lowering the book and gazing out over the view.
I had just spent two hundred bucks on a wind-up!
I wondered if I would be able to find the shop again tomorrow and return it.
I could faintly hear the shower running, the sound carried along the corridor and in through the open door, water splashing as Sam soaped herself. I pictured her in the spray of water, her slim body covered in soap, water running down over her skin. We were both exercise freaks. Sam loved running and swimming. I ran but my main pleasure was to swim long distances.
It had made us both toned. Sam had a pretty face, short brown hair and small breasts. Her hips were almost non-existent, but her ass was tight and firm. I considered it a criminal waste of a gorgeous body that she didn't enjoy sex. We could have had so much fun together.
I lifted the book and turned the page, struggling through the first page of text.
Each page seemed self contained, the entire book organized in the same way.
At the top of each page was a short section, almost verse, which consisted of between five and seven lines. Never an even number. I flicked through, scanning, found one page with three lines of verse, one with eleven, but seven seemed the most common, followed by five.
Underneath the verse was one long paragraph of dense text. I started working through the first page, referring to my small dictionary to translate the parts I didn't know, guessing some of the more archaic phrases.
I glanced up, listening. Sam was taking her time, the shower still running.
I translated the first few lines, struggling, but thought they read:
"In certain times some women may lose interest in matters of the flesh and no longer wish to (partake of? enjoy?) congress. In these instances, this first simple spell will loosen their ties, (unfetter?) their (corsets? underwear?) and lay their pure beauty at the disposal of the knowledgeable magi..."
I grinned. It was a good fake, and interesting, I had to admit.
I went back to the verse and read it through, not bothering to translate it fully.
I read the lines once, easily, my Italian rolling through the room and out the open window into the evening air.
I sat back in the chair, read them again. Looked out into the gathering night and read them a third time, no longer needing to look at the page. They had embedded themselves in my memory; if I closed my eyes I could almost see them as a glowing script.
For some reason I felt my cock stir and stiffen in my pants. It snaked down my leg, extending slowly, until it was fully hard.
The shower stopped.
I sat, watching the air grow thick, watching lights flicker on among the houses. I was sure I could hear the sea crashing against the distant shoreline, but that was impossible.
The bathroom door opened and I heard Sam's bare feet pad back along the wooden floor of the corridor.
I turned to see her enter the room. She had not dressed, instead wrapping a large white towel around herself, tucking the top in over her breasts. She pushed the door closed with her hip and walked to the bed, sat leaning against the headboard, her long slim legs stretched out. The towel did not extend far, and lying as she was I had a clear view up between her legs to her naked pussy.


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Products of those vendors do suffer from possible DoS, propably default
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Contacting mitre.org, asking for CVE and a contact at D-Link:
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Maybe NetGear and D-Link could consider to work together with the OSVDB
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The vendor itself seam to not to care about their customers or security...
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In addition to the traditional holiday staples, Christmas isn't Christmas at my house unless there is a rosemary plant shaped and decorated like a Christmas tree. These plants are available at many of the garden centers, grocery stores and other plant outlets.
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Kernel Power 41 - playing Planet Entropia
Hello, Please help me with a problem i cant seem to resolve.
When playing Planet Entropia (widely know as planet calypso) I am getting sudden unexpected shutdowns. This happens when in windowed mode or fullscreen.
The computer is a SONY VAIO Laptop (more detailed specs at bottom of page)
What happens...
Screen goes black, computer restarts.
This crash does not produce a MEMORY DUMP file.
I have collected the information explained in the posting instructions, you will find the zip file at the bottom of the post, along with my computer specs.
This has been happening for almost a month now.
What I have done...
Changed Nvidia drivers from 182 to 190
Then on the 15th of April I factory reset the whole computer, ensured i had all updates from sony support (including a bios update)
The system now has the latest sony recomended driver for nvidia
Turning off C3/C6 support in the bios seems to have no effect.
I have also monitored thermal properties, and all temperatures appear to be well within normal operating ranges. (using OpenHarwareMonitor)
I have also, cleaned the copper heatsink and fan assembly, just in case.
My Planet Entropia installation has been checked and is valid.
I have also read the microsoft article about Kernel power 41 located at..
Description of Windows Kernel event ID 41 error in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2: "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first"
This article only leads me to another question...
As this is a laptop VAIO computer, and the power supply is external, is it possible that a problem with the power supply would translate into the computer? (or would the computer just switch to battery?)
Graphics card.. Nvidia 425M
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (pre installed)
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ACME-VAIO
System Manufacturer Sony Corporation
System Model VPCF13M0E
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz, 1734 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. R0190Y9, 20/10/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name ACME-VAIO\Daffy Duck
Time Zone GMT Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.98 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.11 GB
Total Virtual Memory 7.96 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.24 GB
Page File Space 3.98 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Ant help you could give me with this error would be greatly appreciated, so far sony support have not responded to my email, even though it has been well over 48 hours since i sent it.
Thank you for any assistance you can offer.
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Fulton County, Indiana, is the Round Barn Capital of the World, leading in round barn preservation with its Round Barn Center of Information and Round Barn Festival. Fulton County Historical Society works with the descendants of the Potawatomi Indians to get historical markers at each campsite every 15 to 20 miles on the Trail of Death Regional Historic Trail - there are now 67 markers. We will dedicate more in 2002. In 2003 we will organize our 4th Trail of Death Commemorative Caravan to travel the trail to Kansas. The Fulton County Museum is located on U.S. 31 four miles north of Rochester, Indiana, on 35 acres. At the north end we have museum, round barn, and Living History Village called Loyal, Indiana, which now has 11 buildings. The Trail of Courage Living History Festival portrays frontier history and is held 3rd weekend of Sept. since 1976 on banks of Tippecanoe River. We honor a different Potawatomi family each year and publish their genealogy and family history. We also produce Redbud Trail Rendezvous the last weekend of April, and Round Barn Rendezvous and Market the 2nd weekend of June. We added 40 feet to north of museum to enlarge meeting room and Reference Room. We publish Fulton County Images, Indian Awareness Center Newsletter, and Fulton County Folk Finder (genealogy). FCHS dues are $15 year, Indian Awareness dues are $5, Genealogy Section dues $6.50. Museum is open Mon.-Sat. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed holidays.
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On dday I told my H "Your whores may be willing to share you with me but I will never (knowingly) share my H with another woman". I meant every word and he knew it.
In your shoes I would pack his gear, phone her and tell her she can have him.. I would definitely ask her about the herpes. (But that's me ). Then have all his stuff delivered to her house. Make sure it includes his dirty laundry.
Then when he gets home tell him that you told her he is all hers so you thought you'd help him pack.
If you continue to let him gaslight you he will keep doing it. Having said all that I really am so sorry honey.
You know what this - why are you waiting for "the truth" from him? Rhetorical, really - I waited until he actually admitted it too.
After DD my boundaries were muh firmer. What I was asking was not that difficult. HE was risking ending our M to maintain female friendships.
He too tried to gaslight me with the same bullshit "you're willlin to risk our M because I have female friends??".
WRONG. I was not risking attempting R or even having a relationship with someone who crossed my boundaries. Namely, you you moron.
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Whitney Houston was found in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel yesterday ... with her face underwater ... people close to Whitney tell TMZ.
According to our sources, her stylist, hairdresser and two bodyguards were among the people in the room at the time. We're told they became worried about Whitney because she had been in the bathroom for over an hour and it was time to start getting ready for the Clive Davis party.
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very rude people!!!! she had a disease. an addiction. people who r addicted dont wanna live like that but its hard to stop doing pills or whatever. dont put addicts down unless u have walked in there shoes!!!! IDIOTS!
Kevin Costner NEVER would have let that happen to her
How did they find Whitney's body 30 mins after talking to her mom if she was in the tub for over an hour? Unless she was in the tub and talking to her mother? Little iffy that she would take these pills supposedly in a room full of people and it would take that long to check on her. Do you take Xanax that long before performing?
I will tell ya right now that Xanax was not the only thing she was taking...I have a script for Xanax and can function fully when I take 3....this would not knock her out
Who really gives a ****!!!!!!!
This is so sad. The world has lost such a great singer and entertainer. Rest In Peace Whitney...
Thats so cruel, Her hairdresser etc, should have checked on her after 15 minutes not any later! Bless her soul x
sentiremos sua falta sua voz e seu grande talento que Deus abençoe sua familia e q vc descanse em paz
My heart breaks for her family. Why is the death of a celebrity an opertunity to bash them. She sang beautiful music. She suffered in ways we cannot imagine, now she is dead. I can only hope that she has now found peace.
Whitney Houston was a human being just like the rest of us. She blessed us with her beautiful voice and we should remember her for her talent, not her human flaws. It's so easy for people to sit behind a computer screen and judge someone they never knew. R.I.P. Whitney and thank you for the memories.
Funny how people are blaming her entourage instead of blaming the drug addict herself. There is no one else to blame but HER. SHE is the one who arrogantly said "crack is whack" and kept continuing to do drugs. I don't have one bit of sympathy for her. She was a celebrity who had all the resources to get clean but didn't care because they all think they are invincible.
Where's Kevin Costner when you need him?
so sad...sounds like a horror movie...R.I.P Whitney!
no one is responsible for Whitney's death but Whitney! Even if her "people" had noticed she was high, they have probably seen it before and thought nothing of it as it may have been a common occurrence with nothing negative happening before. If Whitney OD'd and drowned in a tub then that's ALL on Whitney. Yes it is sad to see her pass, she was a great talent, but one who had her demons. Anyone who has seen true addiction will tell you, if the addict doesn't want to be saved, there's not a damn thing you can do about.
thats what i dont understand. Xanax wont kill you unless you took the whole bottle. something dont sound right. it could have been murder? i mean everyone who talked to her said she sounded fine.theres alot more to this sad story.


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About 10 seconds later, he realized it was an aircraft and pulled over to the side of the road, thinking the pilot might be attempting to land.The aircraft flew over the car at an estimated altitude of 30 to 50 feet agl. The witness, who is also a pilot, observed the lower fuselage and noted that the landing gear was retracted. At that time, he estimated the aircraft's speed to be more than 200 knots. He did not report seeing a registration number or logo but did indicate that he thought the aircraft was possibly a Beech King Air.The witness continued northbound until reaching the intersection of Pierce Ferry Road. Upon his arrival, he noted the transmission lines were down and there were small fires along the side of the road in several places. A section of transmission line was draped over an unoccupied pickup truck that was parked near the intersection. He noted numerous fragments of white fiberglass with red and blue stripes spread over the immediate area. One fragment had the words "no push" stenciled on it. The noses of the operator's C-99 aircraft have those words stenciled on them. The corresponding portion of the accident aircraft's nose was missing when it landed at the conclusion of the flight. A second witness was northeast-bound on Pierce Ferry Road when she saw an aircraft cross the road in front of her, flying from her right to left. The aircraft was in level flight about 30 feet agl and collided with the transmission lines that parallel the north side of Pierce Ferry Road. After striking the lines, she described the aircraft as descending briefly to about 15 feet agl. The aircraft's wings "wobbled" momentarily and it then climbed back to about 30 feet. The aircraft continued northbound until it entered a right turn. She watched the aircraft until it disappeared from her view.As she looked back at the intersection, she noticed that one of the broken utility lines had fallen across a parked pickup truck. She also observed that several of the broken lines were arcing on the ground.After the accident, the captain reported to company management that he saw a car on a dirt road that was smoking. Since he was on descent for landing at Henderson, he decided to go down to investigate and see if the car needed assistance. After overflying the car, he thought they struck a power line. After assessing the damage to the aircraft, he decided to continue to Henderson rather than landing at the Temple Bar airport that was closer. The first officer reported that there were no passengers onboard during the return flight from the Grand Canyon. After takeoff, with the captain at the controls, the aircraft climbed to 8,500 feet msl while on a heading of 239 degrees. About 10 miles northwest of the Peach Springs VOR they saw a red car trailing smoke on the road below them. The captain started a descent after seeing the car. As they descended, the first officer tightened his seat belt because the air was getting bumpy. He saw a parked pickup truck and was pointing it out to the captain when he saw utility lines. He called out "power lines" but they were unable to avoid striking the lines. After the collision, the aircraft slowed to about 140 knots but remained stable. At first, the captain told him that they were going to land at Temple Bar, which was the closest airport. He changed his mind, however, because the aircraft remained controllable and there was equipment available at Henderson.As they approached Henderson, they heard a loud thud and the left engine began shaking. The captain brought the power back to flight idle on the left engine and the first officer advised the tower they were unable to maintain altitude. The captain corrected him by saying he was still able to maintain altitude but also advised that he was declaring an emergency. The first officer lowered the gear but did not get a green light on the nose gear. The captain asked him to contact the tower and ask them to visually confirm the position of the gear. He complied and the tower operator replied that the gear appeared to be fully extended.The first officer unstrapped the fire extinguisher in preparation for landing and the captain landed the aircraft without further incident. The crew shut down the left engine as they taxied to the ramp. As the aircraft taxied in, maintenance personnel noticed the damage. An inspection revealed that the top portion of the nose of the aircraft had separated and several avionics components installed in that section were either damaged or missing. They also noted sections of wire embedded in the forward fuselage and vertical stabilizer. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspectors later responded to the accident site and found several damaged avionics components on the ground near the transmission lines. PILOT INFORMATIONThe captain was hired on December 18, 1994, as a first officer and was qualified in the aircraft on December 18, 1994. He was advanced to captain on July 2, 1996. His last flight check was conducted under FAR Part 121.441, on August 13, 1997. There were no performance weaknesses or failures recorded in his flight training records. The first officer was hired on April 17, 1997, as a first officer and was qualified in the aircraft on April 23, 1997. His last flight check was conducted under FAR Part 121.441, on April 17, 1997. There were no performance weaknesses or failures recorded in his training records. AIRCRAFT INFORMATIONThe aircraft was equipped with a ground proximity warning indicator that is set to produce an audible warning when the aircraft descends to within 500 feet of terrain. It is not adjustable from the cockpit and may be disabled only by pulling the associated circuit breaker. A Penney and Giles (B & D Instruments) cockpit voice recorder (CVR) P/N 89094-003211, S/N A01517, was installed in the aircraft under a FAA field installation authorization. The company operations specification's manual requires that the unit be checked during the aircraft preflight inspection and a periodic inspection at 6-month intervals. The last 6-month check was performed on August 1, 1997. The internal recording tape was last replaced on August 1, 1997, during the periodic check. COMMUNICATIONSPages 20 and 21 in the Air Vegas flight crew standardization manual states that it is the responsibility of the captain to use cockpit resource management (CRM) procedures to coordinate with the first officer in a way that provides maximum safety and efficiency of the flight. The manual also requires the captain to use sufficient communications skills and foresight so that there is no question as to a particular phase of flight. The manual further permits the practice of emergency procedures, provided the procedures are in accordance with the aircraft flight manual, as well as execution of practice instrument approaches during "dead head" legs.Section 1, pages 11 through 13, paragraphs 13 through 15, in the Air Vegas general operations manual states that crewmembers will be prompt in bringing to the captain's attention information or factors having a bearing on the safety of the flight. Specifically, the first officer is responsible to bring to the attention of the captain, assertively if necessary, information and factors regarding the safety of flight that may not have been considered. In addition, the first officer will bring to the captain's attention any deviation from standard operating procedures. COCKPIT VOICE RECORDERThe CVR was removed from the aircraft and shipped to the Safety Board Vehicle Recorder's division of the Office of Research and Engineering for voice data retrieval. The audio quality of the tape was unintelligible and no usable data was recovered. The CVR manufacturer reported that the Mylar coating on the recording tape wears over time and can result in poor audio quality. If this deficiency exists, it is independent of and is not reflected on the required preflight test.WRECKAGE AND IMPACT INFORMATIONThe area of the accident site is flat, open, desert terrain. Electrical transmission lines run nearly perpendicularly across Anteres Road along the northwest side of Pierce Ferry Road. The wooden utility poles support a series of three wires. The poles are 40 feet in length with 6 feet below ground level. The wooden cross arms support two wires and are attached 5 feet below the top of the poles. The wires are supported 29 feet agl at each pole, sagging to 27 feet at the midpoint between poles. The poles also support one wire that runs between the tops of the poles at 35 feet agl, sagging to about 33 feet at the midpoint between the poles. Upon inspection, utility representatives reported that approximately 2.5 miles of aluminum three-phase wire was down and 38 wooden cross arms were found to have been damaged.A postaccident inspection of the aircraft revealed that about 8 inches from one blade of the left propeller was missing. The fiberglass nose section was shattered and a broken section of wire was found embedded in the left side of the forward fuselage. The spinners, propellers, engine nacelles, and main wings exhibited denting and marring. The vertical stabilizer exhibited a horizontal cut that originated about 3.5 feet above the root that traveled aft about 2 feet, stopping at the fin spar. The cut then changed direction and traveled up the fin spar an additional 2 feet before stopping. A broken section of wire was found imbedded in the cut. 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I'm not worried about what kids may commit at this point - it will be what it will be. But has anyone noticed that Pruitt AND Saban are starting to recruit smaller, faster players on D? Saban made the comment last year that because of up tempo, spread offenses, the day of the big, fat, slow defensive uglies was over. Or in Saban's case - having a lot of big, fat slow lineman on the field as your opponent runs 106 yards for the winning score is not a good thing. I think this is the most interesting thing about recruiting right now - a lot of these recruits are "athletes" who are versatile, strong but most importantly - fast. Even Pruitt said our D guys need to lose weight and add muscle - this is not to say they were not conditioned well, but rather that they were a little too slow because of their weight. So, I am kind of enjoying this new approach to recruiting right now. It kind of takes us back to the old days when players were smaller and more versatile - being able to play several positions. I have to give Saban credit - after just one year of seeing how these up tempo and spread offenses were beginning to make headway against his bread and butter defenses, he said "OK, I've got to make some changes and quick". Seeing the writing on the wall and making the necessary changes has never been one of Mark Richt's strong points and don't get me wrong, I think he is the right coach for UGA. But, he does have his blind spots. We all do. Anyway, as you may recall, Boise State was much smaller on D against our offensive line and they managed to clog things up pretty good despite the size difference. Having said that, they were an excellent team despite what we thought at the time - I read they had 18 5th year seniors on that team - those are full grown men with lots of experience. And Boise is a huge university as well - the image that it was some small po dunk farm school that was just gimmicky was a huge miscalculation by most Dawgs fans. Well, I digress ~
Bottom line: I think Pruitt "gets it" and will get the job done. Offenses have evolved and basically said, "Hey, OK - you put all off this immoveable meat in front of us so we can't run AT you - no problem - we'll just run around you and wear you down with a fast tempo that will eventually wear all of your 350 pound guys slap out. There is a reason you don't see 350 pound soccer players - they have to run and run for a long time with no stopping. Defenses need faster players that can catch and tackle smaller, quicker offensive players in open space which is where spread offenses go with the ball. They dump the ball for 5 or 6 yards and then count on the fact that their guy is going to be quicker and faster than your D guy and break loose. For every move their is a counter move....should be a fun year coming up.