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How does a thermos work?
First, you need to know what heat is. Heat is the rattling, wiggling motion of all the atoms that make up a substance. It's a form of motion energy, but special because the solid as a whole isn't going anywhere. How is that possible? Imagine a large crowd of people standing around, in line, perhaps, for concert tickets. They could be standing quietly or shoving and milling about, even though the crowd isn't going anywhere. It's like that with solid objects, which are really vast "crowds" of individual atoms, that may be quiet (cold) or may be milling around excitedly (hot).
A hot (jumpy) solid contains more energy per unit volume than a cold (quiet) solid. If we put a hot solid next to a cold, then some of the energy in the hot solid will flow into the cold solid. This is called the flow of heat.
OK, now we need to think about how heat flows from something hot (your hot chocolate inside your thermos) to something less hot (the atmosphere). There are three ways:
(1) CONDUCTION. If the hot solid is touching the cold solid, then jumpy (hot) atoms can bump against their quiet (cold) neighbor atoms, and if they do the hot guys get quieter and the cold guys heat up. Then the newly-hot-used-to-be-cold guys start heating up *their* neighbors, in turn, and so forth until the heat flows deep into the cold solid.
(2) CONVECTION. If the hot solid is not touching the cold solid, there will usually be some third material between the two. If the third material is also a solid, we just have conduction from hot to third material, and from third material to cold solid, category (1), already dealt with, phooey.
But if the third material is a liquid or gas, something new can happen. Suppose for the sake of argument the hot solid is on the bottom, the cold on top, and a liquid in between. This describes things like a saucepan on the stove or the inside of the Earth. A hot atom will jostle a neighbor cold atom in the liquid, heating it up. When a layer of liquid atoms near the hot solid are all jumping around, they take up more room, as you'd not be surprised to hear. That is, the liquid expands. When it expands, it weighs less per fluid ounce, quart or gallon than the cold liquid above it. Now, you know how light fluids (like oil) float to the top of heavier fluids (like water)? And hot gas (in a hot-air balloon or from a smokestack) rises up through colder gas? Same thing happens here. The hot fluid rises up to the surface, where it meets the cold solid, and gets cooled off. Then it sinks down, and starts the cycle all over again.
With convection you get very efficient cooling because the hot solid always has fresh cold material coming in. Almost all modern cooling systems -- for your car, refrigerator, A/C, etc. -- use convection of a ``refrigerant.''
You also get strong currents in the fluid. That's why there are currents in the ocean (which is heated by the Sun and the sea floor), currents (winds) in the Earth's atmosphere, which is heated by the Earth's surface, and currents in the Earth's mantle (it's heated by the Earth's core further inside) that lead to volcanos (when an up-traveling current of hot rock bursts up through the crust).
(3) RADIATION. A solid will also shake loose on occasion a little low frequency light, and when it does some energy escapes as the (invisible) infrared light, and the atoms cool down a bit. Radiative cooling is not very efficient, but when there is no material at all between the hot and cold solids, it's all there is. The Sun heats the Earth by radiation across the empty space between.
Now, how can we STOP heat flow, so your hot chocolate stays hot in the thermos? We do it three ways. First, we put an empty space between the hot and cold solids. So we make a bottle and put it inside a slightly bigger bottle, seal the gap, and suck out all the air. This is the thermos bottle. With no material in between, conduction and convection do not work. The bottle's made of glass because it's easy to seal glass up so there are no leaks (you just melt it a little). Finally, we try to slow down radiation by painting the inside of the outer bottle silver, so it reflects any radiation that falls on it from the inner bottle. Hence, a thermos bottle has a mirror (shiny) surface.
A thermos works just like a blanket or a Polystyrene foam cup: it puts a material that doesn't conduct heat very well between a cold thing and a hot thing. In most thermoses, the material that doesn't conduct heat very well is air at very low pressure--ideally, a vacuum.
Actually, they probably do something else as well. Hot things can give energy to nearby cold things in two ways: direct conduction, and radiation. In direct conduction, the jiggling molecules of the hot thing bump into the relatively quiet molecules of the cold thing and make them jiggle. If the hot thing can't touch the cold thing, direct conduction doesn't work, but the hot molecules could bump into nearby air molecules, which could then bump into their neighbors, etc. until somebody bumps into the cold thing and gives it some energy. Thermoses attempt to minimize this.
Hot things also radiate heat in the form of electromagnetic waves, like radio waves, infrared waves, light, etc. Thermoses also attempt to minimize this by reflecting infrared radiation. At least I think they do. If they don't, they should.
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A thermos basically consists of a small inner bottle inside a slightly larger outer bottle. The space between the bottles is evacuated, so that it contains very few air molecules (or anything else). Heat is the kinetic energy (energy of movement) of molecules. One of the main ways heat is transferred between objects is by the fast molecules of the hotter object bumping into the slower molecules of the cooler object, making them move faster. With nothing between the two bottles, it is hard to transfer heat between them.
This does not completely eliminate heat transfer, because other mechanisms are still available. Chief among these are heat flow through the connection between the bottles (near the mouth), through the stopper, and heat transfer by infrared radiation. (All objects at temperatures higher than absolute zero emit infrared radiation, which itself contains energy. Hotter objects emit more energy through infrared than cooler objects. When an object emits infrared, some of its thermal energy is carried away by the infrared; when some other object absorbs the infrared, it gains the energy, raising its temperature. So, objects can attain thermal equilibrium even in a vacuum, bu exchanging infrared. This is slower than conduction and convection in air. Thermos bottles are coated with metal to help them reflect infrared, slowing down (but not stopping) this process as well.
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The Spirit of '68 in the Criterion Collection: 'Medium Cool' and 11 Other Films About Revolution
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on May 30, 2013 | Be the First To CommentHaskell Wexler's Medium Cool is a film whose immediacy and docu-realism was all too fitting for an America that could, for the first time, see its wars on television. Shot during the protests and riots that accompanied the Democratic National Convention in August 1968, Wexler's film seamlessly mixed narrative storytelling and documentary – Medium Cool is a Hollywood-made document of America in '68 if there ever was one, a stunning portrait of the chaotic state of politics and its relationship to media in one of the most tumultuous years in American (or, perhaps, world) history. But Criterion's long-anticipated release of Medium Cool isn't the only A/V flashback to '68 occurring this summer. Olivier Assays's Something in the Air reflects on the student protests surrounding the similarly turbulent demonstrations in France in May of that year, while Season 6 of Mad Men has just entered the sweltering summer that will climax in the events in Chicago that August. Maybe it's Congress's seemingly eternal bottleneck, or the government's paranoia-inducing surveillance of the press, or a general aura of well-justified cynicism, but the simultaneously dark and potentially revolutionary years of '68 seem to demand contemporary reflection, even if it only results in pop culture nostalgia. That said, here's The Criterion Collection's archive of films that captured the spirit of the revolutionary times of the '60s around the world, all fitting comrades of the brilliant Medium Cool.
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Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on November 2, 2010 | Comments (3)Today is the day of the midterm elections, a day which will mark the stark transition from functionaries on the center who can't accomplish anything holding office to functionaries on the right who are too busy yelling in every direction to accomplish anything holding office. Under that grand political tradition whose unwavering slogan is "Losing = Tyranny," much has been made from candidates on the far right (who will become mainstream right if elected or exponentially grating windbags if not) about staging an armed revolution if, y'know, that whole democracy thing doesn't work out for them. Well, before the pasty and overweight turn off the Fox News echo chamber and actually embody the daunting degree at which human action can precede human thought by taking arms against an administration that has done nothing to challenge their 2nd Amendment rights, I'd like to use the history of cinema to illustrate what true revolt against actual political oppression looks like.
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In this Aug. 30, 2012 file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Sean Spence (51) is tended to by trainers after he was injured in the fourth quarter of their NFL preseason football game against the Carolina Panthers, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Don Wright, File) by Will GracesAP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sean Spence had to look. He didn't really have a choice if he wanted to move forward with the kind of healing that can't be addressed with a brace or a wad of tape. Handed a photograph of the moment that changed his career and his life, the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker tried not to get nauseous. He nearly failed.


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What had been a slow, steady drip of gold bullion out of the trust for the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSEARCA:GLD) in recent months turned into a torrent on Wednesday as the gold price tumbled more the $40 an ounce on the spot market.
Per the latest data, the world's most popular gold ETF shed nearly 21 tonnes of the metal as shown below, the largest single-day decline since August 2011, that is, back when the gold price was gyrating wildly as it made new record highs.
This was the fifth largest single-day outflow since the ETF was launched in late-2004, and it caps a string of outflows that began early in the year, not long after the Federal Reserve launched a fourth round of money printing in December and the gold price failed to rise.
After reaching a record high of 1,353 tonnes in early December in advance of the Fed announcement, GLD holdings have now fallen by 54 tonnes to 1,299 tonnes, during which time the net asset value of the trust has dropped from $75 billion to $66 billion.
For gold investors, it's hard to think of anything positive about this development aside from the obvious point that gold is now cheaper to buy than it was yesterday.
In a world awash in paper money, anyone looking to establish new positions in gold or add to existing ones should consider doing so on this price dip.
That's what the Chinese central bank is surely doing since, like a lot of other gold investors, they probably don't believe the Federal Reserve will be halting its money printing effort anytime soon, despite what the latest Fed meeting minutes said.
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"one-tit wonder" and "botox pop," are you kidding me? She can sing live and has proven it on multiple occasions, this being the only poor one I have seen from her. Also, she does have more than two songs. She has an entire independently released album called Kill Kill, which housed several great songs like "Raise Me Up (Mississippi South)" and "Queen Of The Gas Station.
Watch her on Jools Holland, compare it to SNL, tell me it wasn't nerves.
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I really think this is lacking something… Oh yeah, it's Nina Diaz from Girl In A Coma! So indie, everyone forgot about her, or didn't know.


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MUMBAI: Three of the accident victims, Sandhya Lokhande, Jaywanti Chorge and Gundaji Kamble, who were brought to Cooper Hospital on Monday, had to be sent outside to get a CT scan done. That is the fate of every patient needing a CT scan at the civic-run hospital, as it does not have such a facility.
Patients generally have to go the nearest CT scan centre, which is Nanavati Hospital, say sources at Cooper Hospital. "Since we do not have a CT scan facility of our own, we have to send patients to Nanavati," said a doctor from Cooper Hospital. "They get the CT scan done there at a subsidised rate since they are BMC hospital patients, but crucial time is lost," he added.
Though Nanavati Hospital is about 10 minutes away from Cooper Hospital, patients have to wait quite a bit. "Generally, there is a waiting period of about two-three hours to get a CT scan done," said a radiologist. Nanavati being a private hospital, tends to do CT scans for its own patients on a priority basis, say doctors from Cooper Hospital.
What is more surprising is that apart from Bhagwati Hospital in Borivli, V N Desai in Santa Cruz and Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar, none of the other 13 peripheral civic hospitals have CT scan facilities. K B Bhabha Hospital in Bandra for example, is another one where a huge number of accident or disaster victims turn up. "We get many victims of accidents from the Carter Road area. Though they are brought here, they have to be sent to V N Desai Hospital for a CT scan or to Sion Hospital for the entire treatment," said a doctor. "It is not that we don't have the ability to treat patients, but absence of a CT scan facility does prove a hindrance," he added.
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Google unblocked in China after Tiananmen anniversary has passed.
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Multiple sources are reporting that Google services are once again available in China. They had been blocked in the lead up to the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests.
Access to Google services within China returns | Reuters
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China celebrates 25th anniversary of Tiananmen with censorship.
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In anticipation of possible protests in memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre 25 years ago, China has blocked access to Google search and Gmail. The censorship has been in place for a few days now, suggesting that this may be more than a short term action.
China has long blocked access to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and services which would circumvent the blocking, like Anonymizer.
Google search, and Gmail are both popular in China. It will be interesting to see if this actually draws attention to the anniversary, rather than diffusing it.
The image with this post is from 2010 when Google moved out of their China offices to avoid government control. (via Wikipedia)
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Shanghai getting more relaxed great firewall
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The South China Morning Post reports that the ban on Facebook, Twitter, the New York Times, and many other sites, will be lifted, but only in the Shanghai free-trade zone.
The information came from anonymous government sources within China. The purpose is to make the zone more attractive to foreign companies and workers who expect open Internet access. The sources say that the more open access may be expanded into the surrounding territory if the experiment is successful.
It will be interesting to see if this actually comes to pass.
Two questions occur to me. First, will the free-trade zone be considered to be outside the firewall, and hard to access from within the rest of China? Second, is this as much about surveillance of activity on those websites as it is about providing free access?
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The Privacy Blog Podcast – Ep.8: Phishing Attacks, Chinese Hackers, and Google Glass
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Welcome to The Privacy Blog Podcast for May 2013.
In this month's episode, I'll discuss how shared hosting is increasingly becoming a target and platform for mass phishing attacks. Also, I'll speak about the growing threat of Chinese hackers and some of the reasons behind the increase in online criminal activity.
Towards the end of the episode, we'll address the hot topic of Google Glass and why there's so much chatter regarding the privacy and security implications of this technology. In related Google news, I'll provide my take on the recent announcement that Google is upgrading the security of their public keys and certificates.
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Government enabled Chinese criminal hacking.
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Thanks to the Financial Times for their article on this.
When we hear that a company has been hacked by China what is usually meant is that the company has been hacked from a computer with a Chinese IP address. The immediate implication is that it is Chinese government sponsored.
Of course, there are many ways in which the attacks might not be from anyone in China at all. Using proxies or compromised computers as relays, would allow the attacker to be anywhere in the world while appearing to be in China. The fact that there is so much hype about Chinese government hacking right now, makes China the perfect false flag for any attacker. It sends investigators down the wrong path immediately. However, there is growing evidence that many of the attacks are actually being perpetrated by independent Chinese civilian criminal hackers out to make a buck. They are intent on stealing and selling intellectual property. The huge supply, and under employment, of computer trained people in China may be to blame. They have the skills, the time, and a need for money.
The Chinese government has also been very lax about trying to track down these individuals and generally suppress this kind of activity. The hacking activity is certainly beneficial to the Chinese economy, as the IP is generally stolen from outside China and sold to give advantage to Chinese companies. That gives a kind of covert and subtle support to the hacking activity without any actual material help or direction.
So, it is not quite government sponsored, and it IS actually Chinese. The bottom line is that it is a real problem, and a threat that is actually harder to track down and prevent because it is so amorphous.


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One morning, Pablo and Blanca and I were having pancakes with strawberry topping and whipped cream at the Denver Diner, not far from where Pablo lives. Pablo was talking about his decision to testify before the Colorado Legislature on a matter of deep importance to him. It took me a while to realize that every time I looked down to write in my notebook, he was flicking spitballs into Blanca's right ear.
Pablo, Blanca and various members of the posse liked to perform in plays. As sophomores, they'd won a national competition for the best History Day skit in the American public school system for an original script about the Sand Creek massacre. This year, they'd decided to perform a scene from Two Gentlemen of Verona in the school district's annual Shakespeare Festival. On the day of the performance, Blanca looked radiant in a pink frilly gown, while Pablo looked faintly ridiculous in a floppy woman's hat, a gold-embroidered vest, green velvet bloomers, black dress socks and black dress shoes. It was impossible to understand the inaudible comic asides that Andrew and Sergio made to the audience, but Pablo enunciated his lines clearly as he knelt before Blanca and spent himself in an impassioned plea for her affection. Blanca responded with a fiery diatribe about how lacking she found his suit. "Hie you home to bed!" she ordered, full of disdain. Off-stage, however, Blanca could be just as fiery in expressing her admiration for Pablo. She cited his talent on the stage as proof that he wasn't just another unlettered peasant, that he didn't fit the stereotypical image of an illegal alien. "He's not just somebody who's ignorant!" she fumed.
Blanca was a fervent student activist with leftist leanings who viewed the Junior ROTC as an insidious arm of the military-industrial complex. Pablo, on the other hand, viewed Junior ROTC as a vehicle through which he could learn important skills such as leadership. By his junior year, he was serving as commander of a company of other students, mostly fractious freshmen and sophomores. "Stop flirting!" he instructed members of his unruly company one afternoon in the ROTC building. "Flirt after class!" After leading the group in the Pledge of Allegiance, Pablo pulled a yellow pencil from behind his ear and took roll call. As he called out the names of various cadets, one after another responded, "Here, captain!" Pablo loved the Junior ROTC program and spent all of his spare time in the building. Less patriotic students enjoyed ridiculing those who wore the dress greens. "They call us Œpickles,'" Pablo confessed. He shrugged off the slur; in the chaos of a large public school like West, he found the ROTC program to be an oasis of discipline.
Sergeant Damon was laired up in a tiny cave of an office at the back of the building. He had served 23 years and eleven months in the U.S. Army before joining the faculty at West and had a manner that was equal parts drill sergeant and mother hen. His tour of the facility included a wall-sized display of the chain of command, topped by a grinning, amiable photograph of President George W. Bush. The Junior ROTC motto was painted on another wall: "To motivate young people to become better citizens."
Sergeant Damon said that the staff had known about Pablo's immigration status when they'd picked him to be part of the color guard -- because Pablo himself had volunteered the information. When they asked him to carry the American flag, Pablo reminded them that he wasn't a legal resident, wanting to make sure it was really okay for somebody like him to be the flag-bearer. Sergeant Damon thought it was. "We understand that this country is built on immigrants," he said, "so I have no hangups, so to speak."
Inside the walls of Pablo's school, this accepting attitude was typical. Outside of school, things were different. Pablo's family lived in a cramped brick house that was painted a dull red. A chain-link fence outlined the tiny front yard, which consisted of neatly swept dirt. The first time I visited, Pablo seemed too big a character to fit into such diminished surroundings. Pablo's father, a short, barrel-chested man with a thick mop of black hair, was sitting in the tidy living room before the television set, which was tuned to the Discovery Channel. Pablo's two-year-old brother, who was born in this country (making the family partly legal and partly illegal), kept appearing and disappearing from other rooms. When Pablo's mother arrived home, she just waved and retreated into the kitchen.
The reason for my visit was to discuss with Pablo's parents how I would identify their son; because of virulent anti-immigrant sentiments around the state, my story could put the whole family at risk. Pablo's father looked at his son and said only, "Que t� quieres." He left the decision up to his sixteen-year-old.
It seemed extraordinary that this close-mouthed man and his almost invisible wife had produced a son as socially adept as Pablo. About two months later, however, when I returned with a friend from Mexico City, I realized that I'd misread nearly everything about Pablo's family. In the company of my Mexican-born friend, Pablo's parents proved to be completely different people: His mother was an opinionated woman who had completed high school, unlike most undocumented immigrants; his father was an animated man who made wry jokes all the time. Pablo's father was the risk-taker in the family, and it was from him that Pablo had obtained his keen sense of social justice. Pablo looked just like his mother, though. She had given him her pale skin, her long nose and her wavy hair, as well as her aptitude for school. She was also the reason he dressed so smartly -- she was always telling him to tuck in his shirt or to change his pants.


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As I get older, I am eager to recall all of my sexual escapades because I know they will never happen again. So, for all of you readers, please know that each and every detail is true. I certainly wish I could replay these wonderous events, but alas, time waits for no man. Enjoy! And by the way, her name has been changed to protect her anonymity, as only a virtuous and honest man would, wouldnt you? Not sure what category to put this in, so based on the events, Ill put it in to mature. Any and all comments are welcomed. (This was first posted in Literotica in 2007.)
All I could see what this fantastic set of legs in high heels, a skirt just above her knees and this great ass with tumbling long black hair. She was in front of me at the checkout in the grocery store. All of a sudden she drops her credit card, turns to bend down to get it, and I see this set of tits, probably the biggest I've ever seen. I don't even look at her face, I'm so mesmerized by her huge tits. I bend down with her at the same time to help, and I get to the card first. I hand it to her as we are both standing back up. "Oh thank you so much" she says. "My pleasure" I gush. Then I look at her face. She is just average, but has really bright red lipstick on this very sensuous mouth, the kind you really want to kiss or something else. She squirms around her grocery cart and starts to put the bags in the cart. She obviously was into 'green' as she had asked for 'paper' not plastic. I was stunned. This gal couldn't have been much over 20, was dressed with a very professional suit on, and her tits were bulging out of her top. I thought to myself, 'Wow, some lucky guy is fucking her.' I paid for my purchase and by now she had already left the store. I walked to my car in the parking lot and there she was, putting her bags in the back seat with the door to her car open, that kept me from opening my door. I said to her, "Can I help you?" She turned to look at me and said, "Oh the nice man who got my card back. Sure, could you hold the door?" As she came out of the car and stood up, my instincts ran wild. I don't know what I was thinking, almost tripping over the grocery cart, but I just reached over took her face in both of my hands, and kissed her on the lips. I realized that I probably was going to get kicked in the balls for doing that. As I backed away a couple of inches and dropped my hands, she said, "Why did you do that?" My instant response was really dumb, "Because you look so inviting." She just stared at me. "I'm really sorry" came tumbling out of my mouth. No sooner than I said that, she moved closer and then took my head in both hands and planted a kiss on me that was not just a 'thank' you kiss. Her lips were soft, wet and she proceeded to probe my mouth with her tongue. I thought I was going to die. This was no little lingering kiss, but beyond passionate. My instant response was to wrap my arms around her. She withdrew her tongue, backed up a couple of inches, and ran her tongue over her lips very seductively and said, "That was really a great kiss." "Boy, it sure was." was all I could utter. She put her hand out and said "My name is Beverly, but everyone calls me Bev". Again, without thinking, looking down at her huge breasts, I said "Dave." Now here's what makes this encounter so unusual. First, I'm old enough to be her father, and being spontaneous is not a quality of mine that I normally demonstrate. Reluctantly, as we stood there, I said, "If you don't mind my asking Bev, how old are you and are you married?" She looked me right in the eye and said, "No silly, if I was married would I kiss you like that?" My response was another lame one, "No, I guess you wouldn't" I said. "Well, how old are you anyway?" I once again uttered. "Old enough." She insinuated. I was really at a loss here to say anything else. Looking very sheepish and certainly dumbfounded, I said, "Could I kiss you once more?" She looked at me like I was from Mars, and said, "Why would you want to do that?" Now, I'm really at a loss for words. "Because that's the greatest kiss I've ever had, that's why." Came tumbling out of my mouth. "Well, come here then" she said. I moved closer to her, she put her arms around my neck, and I kissed her like it was the last kiss I was ever going to get. It must have been several minutes into the kiss when I automatically reached up and cupped her left breast under her suit jacket. The kiss was now burning with intensity from both of us and she made no move to dislodge my hand or stop the kiss. I was kneading her huge breast and could feel her nipple getting hard against my hand. I moved even closer to her and had her against the car. She moved her body into me, and I'm sure could feel my hard cock against her thigh. I was tweaking her nipple by now and she was actually moaning as we continued this hot kiss. It was almost like we couldn't get enough of each others mouth or tongues. My tongue was moving very slowly in her mouth and hers was meeting mine, and almost sucking my tongue into her mouth. We had to come up for air. As we broke the kiss and our faces retreated a foot or so, not having removed my hand from her breast, she exclaimed, "Whew "and looked down at my hand on her breast. As we caught our breaths, she said, "Would you like to see them?" In an astonished smile, I said, "You're joking, right?" Without a mili-second passing she said, "Follow me." They say opportunity only knocks once, hell, I was going to break the damn door down. She got in her car, started it up, motioned to me with her finger crooked in a 'come with me' move and backed out. I was right behind her. She pulled into a driveway to a real little 'cracker jack box' house. I pulled in behind her. She got out to get the bags of groceries, and I ran up to help her. She didn't say another word. Went up to the front door, reached into her purse slung over her shoulder, got her key, and walked in. I was right behind her. "Just put them on the counter" she said pointing to the tiny kitchen counter. I did and as I turned toward her she said,"Wait right there." About five minutes later, she was standing in front of me, still in her skirt and heels, totally naked on the top. Talk about tits! I couldn't believe my eyes. She had to be a 46DD. Once again, my alert staccato mind reacted and I said, "Oh my God!" Her tits were snow white, stood almost straight out but were certainly reacting to gravity, with the largest pink areola I've ever seen and nipples that sort of blended in. I took her all in from top to bottom. I couldn't figure out how she could have such huge tits, slender shoulders and arms, trim waist and obviously great legs. "So, do you like them?" she said as she stood there with her hands on her hips. "What's not to like?" I said. I moved closer to her, looked her in the eye, bent my head down and took one of her nipples in my mouth and cupped the other tit and fondled it and massaged it as I sucked greedily on her nipple. She put both hands on my shoulders and whispered, "Oh God, yes, suck it." I continued to suck her and kiss her tit and she started to moan "ummm, uummm, yes, yes." Her little nipples were really hard now, and were not really protruding. I was in a bent position and it was starting to become a little uncomfortable. I stopped the sucking and stood up. I guess she thought I was done, and she held me at arms length and said, "Ok. that's enough, we have to talk." By now it's obvious that my reaction may be a little slow, as I said, "About what?" She reached down, took my hand and led me to the couch. "Sit down please." I did, not being able to take my eyes off of her magnificent tits. "Look at me, not my tits" she sort of commanded. I raised my eyes to hers and put my arm on the back of the couch. "Ok, here's the story" she said. "I share this little house with my best friend Karen. We're from Oregon and we just left home. I left, because everyone I knew were always making comments on my huge tits. They called me "Chesty" and really embarrassed me all the time. Even my one boyfriend never wanted to take me anywhere, he just wanted to play and suck my tits. I got fed up with it, even the snide remarks from my stepfather, and Karen and I, who's my best friend, decided to leave. We've been here only two weeks. We both got jobs right away. She works at Macy's and I work in a lawyer's office. I think he hired me because of my tits. Anyway, you're the first man who's been nice to me, and the kiss was amazing. I know the question on your mind. Yes, they're really mine, and no, they're not surgically enhanced. My Mom is built the same way, but I'm much thinner and taller. I started to develop when I was 12 and they kept growing. I'm telling you all this, because I really like you and you were so kind and you need to know some things before we go any further. I know you're quite a bit older, and that's OK with me, because I can't deal with the men my age, they're just not sincere. No, I'm not a virgin, and yes, I like sex with the right guy. (she paused, caught her breath) OK, that's it." She sat back with her hands in her lap waiting for me to say something. I said nothing. I scooted over, reached up, trying not to attack those tits, took her face in both of my hands, and kissed her just like the last time. She wrapped her arms around my neck again, crushing those enormous tits to my chest,and kissed me back. As we broke this kiss, I said to her, "OK Bev, let's get something else straight." I sighed. "First, you are absolutely delicious. Your kiss would melt an iceberg. Next, yes, you have amazing and beautiful large tits and they are so suckable. I don't blame your boyfriends. Oh yeah, you're statuesque as well. You fill out a suit like no one I've ever seen. Next, I'm a good deal older than you but I would love to be your friend, and if you let me, your lover. I would be really proud to take you out anywhere, anytime. Finally, I firmly believe in giving my partner all the pleasure I can muster if you'll tell me what pleases you" I guess that was all that needed to be said. She stood up, unbuckled the small belt at her waist, unzipped the side of her skirt, let it drop down to her ankles, kicked off her heels, took the sides of her lacy white boy panties and shoved them down to her feet and kicked them off. She stood back up and I looked at her body. Aside from her huge tits, she had a little baby fat at her waist, a little 'poofy' stomach, and a neatly trimmed 'V' shaped bush with light brown hair, a little sparse and thighs that had been designed for her height and weight, down to her trim ankles. She was at least 5'8, and maybe 145. She looked delicious all over and white as snow. As I looked at her, she sort of turned around as a model might and faced me again. "You are a real hot lady and quite a turn on" I said. Even her ass was cute, maybe a tiny bit of extra weight, but her cheeks were solid. She didn't jiggle anywhere but her tits. I stood up, looked her in the eye, and said, "Come let me love you." As she walked over to me I held out my arms and she walked into them. I kissed her lips, her neck, her shoulders, and all over her tits and worked my way down to her stomach, gripping both of her ass cheeks, and got down on my knees and kissed her pussy. She gasped, "Oh, oh" and a sigh. I kissed the inside of her thighs, her legs, and brought my mouth back up to her pussy. She was sighing and whimpering. I stood up, and said, "Where's your bedroom?" She grabbed my hand and turned a corner and we were in her bedroom. She had a single bed and not much else in the room. I walked her backwards to the bed, and the momentum forced her to sit on the edge. I started to push her back and she said,"No, wait." As she said that she started to unbuckle my jeans, unzip them, and drag them down to my ankles. I had already reached up and taken my shirt off over my head. She reached over to drag my black briefs down and my hard cock sprang right up. I pushed her back on the bed, with her legs and feet on the floor. I said to her,"Tell me what pleases you." She looked up at me and said, "I don't know." I looked up and down at her body and said, "OK, we'll find out together." I got down on my knees, tried to spread her legs apart, and met some resistance. I placed my hands on her thighs, and said, "Baby, whatever I do, if you don't want me to, or you don't like it, just tell me to stop, OK?" Very quietly, she said, "OK" Again, I tried to spread her legs and this time she let me. As I did, I could see the puffy lips of her pussy covered by sparse light brown hair, and the pinkness of her inner pussy. I ran my finger up and down her slit very gently, not touching her clit, and could feel how wet she was. "Does that feel good?" I asked. "Oh yes" she replied. I bent down and kissed her pussy hair, her lips, and ran my tongue up and down her slit very slowly. She was getting wetter. I gently slipped my middle finger into her pussy. She let out a little yelp, startled and said,"Oh God." Isn't it funny how women get religious when they feel all hot and turned on with sex? I never could understand that. I said, "Do you like that?" She cooed back, "Oh yes, Oh yes" I began stroking in and out of her pussy very slowly. "Oh my God" she stammered, "do it faster." I was shoving my finger all the way into her pussy, as far as it would go, and she cried out, "Oh God, please fuck me now." I looked up at her and she was kneading her huge titties in both hands and raising her ass to meet my finger thrusts. Boy, was she wet. Her juices were flowing out of her pussy, all over my hand and on to the bedspread. I withdrew my finger and put my whole hand on her sopping wet pussy and scooped up as much as her wetness as I could, and raised my hand to my mouth, so she could see what I was doing, and licked my fingers and palm. She went wild. "Yes, yes, fuck me please, please, fuck me now." Needless to say my cock, all 6 inches, was rock hard. I stood up, positioned my feet and legs inside of her spread legs and guided my cock to her pussy. "Please fuck me now." she cried out. I put the tip of my cock to her hole and she lunged, driving my cock in to her. Our pubic hair was meshing and I started to fuck her slowly and evenly. She was thrashing her head from side to side and still mashing her huge tits together and began yelling, "Yes, yes, fuck me ,fuck me , fuck me harder" I was slamming my cock in and out of her pussy and she raised her legs, grabbed her ankles and drew them back as far as she could, all the while muttering, "yes, yes, fuck me, slam that cock into me, oh yes, fuck me harder." About three more pumps and I knew I would cum. " I'm gonna cum, do you want me to?" "Yes, cum in me, just fuck me, oh yes" I shot two good spurts into her pussy, and her ass cheeks tightened, and her pussy clenched around my cock, and she exploded. I drove into her with a final shove and our cum started to leak out of her pussy. I was sweating. She lowered her legs, and was panting. As we caught our breath, I slipped out of her, and crawled up beside her. I kissed her neck and she said, "God, that was a good fuck." I laughed and said, "Have you ever had a bad fuck?" She turned to look at me and said, "Of course I have. Boys don't know how to fuck." I chuckled, and said, "So how many bad ones have you had?" She giggled and said, "Wouldn't you like to know." As a follow up I said, "What made this one good?" She reached down and fondled my now limp, wet cock and said, "Well you made me cum, and you fucked me hard and I like that." 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1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. 3 Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands.
4 Pilate then went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in Him." 5 Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, "Behold the Man!"
Pilate can see that he is losing the crowd, so he tries to appease them by having Jesus scourged. Perhaps this will be good enough for them; perhaps they will stop calling for Jesus' execution. Regarding scourging, listen to Fr. Farley's description of this brutal punishment:
"The Roman punishment of scourging was severe indeed, and calculated to wring the heart of anyone. It involved having the victim tied to a post with his back and legs exposed. One (or two) soldiers then lashed the length of the victim with a leather flagellum or whip of several thongs, each thong of which had pieces of bone or metal inserted into it. These pieces actually removed the flesh from the victim's back and legs during this scourging, turning the back into a bloody pulp and exposing the bones, sinews, and nerves within. It was not uncommon for some to die during scourging" (319).
To me, this sounds exactly like what was depicted in The Passion of the Christ (although certainly, the real scourging might not have lasted as long, and in any case, it wasn't necessary to show the whole thing!).
This brutal scourging was not enough for the soldiers. They also insisted upon mocking Jesus in a cruel parody of the ritual of greeting a Roman Emperor. In Jesus' day, when a Roman citizen found himself in the presence of the Emperor (who would, of course, be wearing a crown), he would approach slowly, kneel before him, cry out "Hail Caesar," and give him a kiss of allegiance. Instead of doing this before the King of Kings, however, the soldiers made him a crown of thorns, lacerating his scalp as they roughly placed it on him. They then placed a purple garment on him (purple being the sign of royalty), mockingly called out "Hail, King of the Jews!," and gave him slaps instead of a kiss.
Pilate allows this abuse, then goes back out to face the crowd and show them just how beaten, broken, and humiliated Jesus now was. He is hoping "that the crowd, seeing one of their countrymen so badly abused, will rouse themselves to His defense and ask for him to be the one released" (Farley, 319). He cries to them, "Behold the man!"—"that is, 'Look at the poor thing!' His hope is that the spectacle will excite their pity for the Nazarene" (320). It is as if he is saying, "Are you satisfied now? Haven't you had enough?"
Sadly, they had not.


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The Ramayana is one of the two great Indian epics,the other being the Mahabharata. The Ramayana tells about life in India around 1000 BCE and offers models in dharma. The hero, Rama, lived his whole life by the rules of dharma; in fact, that was why Indian consider him heroic. When Rama was a young boy, he was the perfect son. Later he was an ideal husband to his faithful wife, Sita, and a responsible ruler of Aydohya. "Be as Rama," young Indians have been taught for 2,000 years; "Be as Sita."
The original Ramayana was a 24,000 couplet-long epic poem attributed to the Sanskrit poet Valmiki. Oral versions of Rama's story circulated for centuries, and the epic was probably first written down sometime around the start of the Common Era. It has since been told, retold, translated and transcreated throughout South and Southeast Asia, and the Ramayana continues to be performed in dance, drama, puppet shows, songs and movies all across Asia.
From childhood most Indians learn the characters and incidents of these epics and they furnish the ideals and wisdom of common life. The epics help to bind together the many peoples of India, transcending caste, distance and language. Two all-Indian holidays celebrate events in the Ramayana. Dussehra, a fourteen-day festival in October, commemorates the siege of Lanka and Rama's victory over Ravana, the demon king of Lanka. Divali, the October-November festival of Lights, celebrates Rama and Sita's return home to their kingdom of Ayodhya
Prince Rama was the eldest of four sons and was to become king when his father retired from ruling. His stepmother, however, wanted to see her son Bharata, Rama's younger brother, become king. Remembering that the king had once promised to grant her any two wishes she desired, she demanded that Rama be banished and Bharata be crowned. The king had to keep his word to his wife and ordered Rama's banishment. Rama accepted the decree unquestioningly. "I gladly obey father's command," he said to his stepmother. "Why, I would go even if you ordered it."
When Sita, Rama's wife, heard Rama was to be banished, she begged to accompany him to his forest retreat. "As shadow to substance, so wife to husband," she reminded Rama. "Is not the wife's dharma to be at her husband's side? Let me walk ahead of you so that I may smooth the path for your feet," she pleaded. Rama agreed, and Rama, Sita and his brother Lakshmana all went to the forest.
When Bharata learned what his mother had done, he sought Rama in the forest. "The eldest must rule," he reminded Rama. "Please come back and claim your rightful place as king." Rama refused to go against his father's command, so Bharata took his brother's sandals and said, "I shall place these sandals on the throne as symbols of your authority. I shall rule only as regent in your place, and each day I shall put my offerings at the feet of my Lord. When the fourteen years of banishment are over, I shall joyously return the kingdom to you." Rama was very impressed with Bharata's selflessness. As Bharata left, Rama said to him, "I should have known that you would renounce gladly what most men work lifetimes to learn to give up."
Later in the story, Ravana, the evil King of Lanka, (what is probably present-day Sri Lanka) abducted Sita. Rama mustered the aid of a money army, built a causeway across to Lanka, released Sita and brought her safely back to Aydohya. In order to set a good example, however, Rama demanded that Sita prove her purity before he could take her back as his wife. Rama, Sita and Bharata are all examples of persons following their dharma.
This lesson focuses on how the Ramayana teaches Indians to perform their dharma. Encourage students to pick out examples of characters in the epic who were faithful to their dharma and those who violated their dharma. Mahatma Gandhi dreamed that one day modern India would become a Ram-rajya.
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Our talented theater students present four productions a year, from musicals to the classics.
Most performances take place in the Joan Steele Stein Center for Communication Studies/Fine Arts, which includes the lovely 400-seat Nancy Kendall Theater that is accessible to people with disabilities and has assisted-listening equipment for the hearing-impaired. On-campus parking is plentiful, well-lighted, and free.
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"A PR debacle." "A very difficult sell." "A fiasco." Those were among the terms used to describe the Ohio State "town meeting" on Iraq broadcast on CNN February 18—used not by the Clinton administration, but by the news media.
In the days following the raucous event, at which audience members peppered three administration officials with pointed questions about U.S. policy and anti-war chants, reporters across the country tended to focus not on whether military action was warranted or whether it would be supported by the public, but on a more important topic: how the government failed to sell war to the American people.
Viewers at home might have been forgiven for assuming that the point of the exercise was to answer questions, not circumvent them. Presented as a "town meeting" for senior officials Madeleine Albright, William Cohen and Samuel Berger to address questions surrounding what then seemed to be an inevitable U.S. bombing of Iraq, the event was open to the public, albeit a pre-selected slice thereof: 1,000 floor seats were distributed to local civic and veterans' groups, and to such student organizations as the Young Republicans and College Democrats. Five thousand general admission tickets were also made available to the general public, though only the privileged "red tickets" would earn the bearer a shot at asking a question.
Even the notion of putting public officials before the public, according to media post mortems, was an unforgivable mistake. The New York Post may have been the only paper bold enough to splash "No Way to Run a War" across its front page (2/19/98), but other media outlets' sentiments were similar. "Unruly, disorganized and badly staged," summarized Dan Rather (2/18/98), with fellow CBS reporter Scott Pelley sympathetically quoting a "senior administration official" bemoaning that the event was "a disaster. Badly scripted."
Such sentiments were echoed through the news media, which seemed determined to critique the event as if they were PR consultants for a pro-war media campaign. The meeting was derided as "unruly democracy" (Bergen [NJ.] Record, 2/19/98), a "PR disaster" (Time, 3/2/98) and, most damning of all, "very bad television" (Chicago Tribune, 2/20/98). Time essayist Andrew Ferguson (3/2/98) dissed the forum as "worthless as a means of preparing the country for war," and the magazine's news coverage in the same issue agreed: "That homey, Yankee tradition of a folksy town meeting is great for campaign rallies and safe issues like health care or job training. It's no way to sell a war."
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Given that both White House and media readily acknowledged that this was meant to serve as a PR event for a planned military action, it's remarkable that a news organization was sharing the billing. "We cannot be just a vehicle for the administration," CNN's Frank Sesno had told the Associated Press before the town meeting. Not, that is, without getting something in return: "We made it clear," Sesno explained, "that, for editorial purposes, this had to be a CNN event"—i.e., exclusively on that network.
The White House agreed, and as a result viewers were treated to an administration war rally hosted by CNN anchors Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff, who dutifully shushed audience members who showed too little respect for the officials. Shaw announced, for the benefit of the TV audience, that "there are only about 12of you who are shouting." (Earlier shots had seemed to show several dozen, but after Shaw's remark the cameras were determinedly pointed at the lower tiers.) Later, evidently befuddled by his joint role as journalist and master of ceremonies, Shaw shouted at an audience member during a commercial break, "This program lasts 90 minutes and you are not going to be allowed to disrupt it!"
Denied co-hosting rights by the exclusive CNN deal, other networks had to scramble for their own angle, but still found ways to serve the war cause. In contrast to the "abuse" (as it was called on World News Tonight, 2/18/98) the officials were subjected to by audience members, Nightline later that night presented the proper way of questioning government officials, airing the results of Ted Koppel's daylong trek with the OSU Three. On an Ohio-bound plane, Koppel prompted both Berger and Cohen, "What is it that you see in the newspapers that ticks you off?" (The two officials had few complaints.) After the town meeting, Koppel repeatedly wondered aloud to the trio whether the tumult had given Iraq the wrong idea about American resolve.
"The dissenters asked tougher and better questions than the national security advisers get from Congress or [the] press corps," noted Cleveland Plain Dealer TV critic Tom Feran (2/21/98), who wrote that the "hecklers left the moderators, CNN anchors Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff, looking panicked, upset and almost like official presenters for policy they are supposed to be covering."
Others took a dimmer view of antiwar dissenters. Ever since Ronald Reagan popularized 'Vietnam Syndrome" as an explanation for the U.S. public's distaste for war in the early '80s, the media have been dismissing anti-war activists as mere throwbacks to a past era, a myth only bolstered by the near- blackout of the massive anti-war protests during the Gulf War. The OSU protestors were portrayed as "reminiscent of the anti-war protests of a generation ago" (Newsday, 2/19/98), "hippie-era catcalling" (Washington Times, 2/23/98), "the type of vocal protest not heard since Vietnam" (ABC World News Tonight, 2/18/98), "Berkeley and the '60s fast-forwarded to 1998" (Time, 3/2/98). "It began to sound at times like an anti-war teach-in during the Vietnam era," noted Koppel, an odd analogy given that the "teachers" were uniformly pro-war U.S. officials.
Worse yet, some reporters charged, these students may have been guilty of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The dissent "must have been music to the ears of Saddam Hussein," reported Pentagon correspondent David Martin on CBS (2/18/98)—adding parenthetically that "one of the big three" had confided that "he remembered better protests from the '60s." Boston Globe columnist Thomas Oliphant (2/22/98) summed up the hecklers as "a few Saddam apologists and Israel-haters."
Little wonder, then, that hawkish veteran Mike McCall, who asked if the U.S. planned to "finish the job" or "do it half-assed," was the lone audience member invited onto the Today show (2/19/98) to debate Albright. Meanwhile, Jon Strange and Rick Theis, the two most articulate anti-war audience members, were limited to the much smaller audiences of Pacifica Radio.
When all these themes were brought together, coverage devolved into a thick stew of buzzwords. The grand prize went to the Philadelphia Daily News, which in one rhetoric- packed editorial (2/19/98) referred to "60s-style chants" and "college kids emulating 1960s movies"; called the event "The Mother of All Television Fiascoes," "an unruly circus" and, inevitably, "a PR debacle"; and compared the proceedings to Oprah, Rosie O'Donnell and "a Jerry Springer show on transvestite strippers."
The talk-show metaphor was a popular one—"Oprahfication" was the word repeatedly used by an oft-quoted GOP representative—in part because it allowed commentators to reject whatever public sentiment had been expressed without seeming to reject the public outright. But when Time's Ferguson (3/2/98) called the televised town meeting "the offspring of Phil Donahue," he was making his political preferences clear: He hailed the undemocratic aspects of the U.S. political system for their ability to "quiet the mob" and "create a space for sober decision-making by people the voters had chosen to make decisions for them."
Not many were so blunt as to describe those expressing unauthorized opinions as a "mob," but that was the subtext of much coverage. The New York Times' Elaine Sciolino (2/22/98) reported of the Ohio meeting that "President Clinton dismissed the event as an exercise in old-fashioned democracy." One gets the impression that both Clinton and much of the media would prefer a more newfangled democracy: the kind where no one disagrees.
Neil deMause is the co-author of Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit (Common Courage).