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I'm a graduate student at Texas A&M University. I'm rather new to genealogy but am interested in learning more about my heritage. Thus far, I've been mainly focusing on my Hiatt and Woodford ancestors, as they're the most well-documented. I am trying to document everything I know about my relatives but am finding so many holes, even in the lives of relatives I've actually met. I wish I had started this long ago, but better late than never. I want to fill in the gaps for future generations.
I first started researching my family background a few months ago, while putting together an album of all the brides in the family to give my niece for a wedding gift.
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I walked all over the cemetery and didn't see his marker. Any ideas? I can go back another time and re-look. :)
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Greetings Mr. Thrasher,
Thanks so much for your posting. I am the great great granddaughter of Augustus "Gus" Askew. He is my mother's father's mother's father. Gussie Irene Askew is my grandfather's mother. I'm so excited about this information and will be traveling to Eufala Friday after next and wanted to see if you have any additional information on my Great Great Grandparents? Please be in touch.
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Can you send me a msg please? Hoping you remember our family. Mom was a friend of Diana's
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I may be able to help you fill in some of those potholes. :) Please contact me back as I would love to share the info with you I have on Harmon Albert Hiatt and I would loooove any info you have on this gentleman. Thanks! :)
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This particular area of the memorial park has quite a few unmarked graves.
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"Daily NewsMakers with Jeff Lytle" ... Collier County ambulance services
Collier County ambulance services get the whole 30 minutes on this week's "Naples Daily NewsMakers with Jeff Lytle" program airing this morning at 10 on ABC7.
The director of a model system in Seattle, Jim Fogarty, joins Collier County Medical Director Dr. Robert Tober and North Naples Fire Chief Orly Stolts. Then two civic policy experts, Ed Morton and Janet Vasey, size up what they heard and where the issue goes from here — after the Collier County Commission rejected a referendum on consolidating ambulance and fire services countywide under the Sheriff's Office.
Highlights are at naplesnews.com/newsmakers.
Here are excerpts:
Jim Fogarty
Fogarty: The King County (Seattle) system is a tiered response system where there's a very strong basic life support (BLS). The basic life support component of the medical system handles about 75 percent of all the calls. The EMTs (emergency medical technicians) who are part of that system are very practiced and very good at what they do.
Lytle: And ALS is the advanced life support ...
Fogarty: The ALS paramedics are very well trained. They are trained at a single location, Harborview Medical Center, and they're held to a very high standard. There are only about 246 of them for the entire county ... just a little under 2 million people, about 2,100 square miles and of that entire area, we have a total of 26 medic units.
Dr. Bob Tober
Tober: In reality, basic life support is where virtually all of the lives are saved. I've been trying for a long time to refocus this system to a basic life support first response of four minutes followed by advanced life support thereafter.
A lot of the argument ends up coming down to who is going to provide ALS; what kind of training and experience should they have to provide that ALS? In a system that has between 200,000 people in the summer and 350,000 people in the wintertime, we have almost as many ALS paramedics in Collier County as Jim has in Seattle. We're about the same square mileage of territory, and he has somewhere around six or seven times the population.
Lytle: That statistic almost boggles the mind, and how is that possible? Why is it that way?
Tober: Well I think it's that way because we don't have a unified, consolidated system here. I don't believe that everybody is, in the final analysis, rowing in the same direction with the same goal in mind. I'm not suggesting that everybody doesn't have an interest in saving lives, but there isn't a coordinated oarsman at the front of the boat with the gavel sounding out how we're all going to row in one direction, because we have a lot of fragmentation and a lot of different systems in the community.
Orly Stolts
Stolts: I actually ... we like the King County model very much. When the Blue Ribbon Committee starting looking at it, we did too. And what we found about the King County model is very interesting: it's a heavily driven medical component that makes up the King County system, and I believe there are seven, I believe, different medical directors in King County that work together as a system.
There are 30 fire departments within King County; there are six ALS transport providers; five of those six are fire department-owned and -operated,
And we looked at that system, we thought, well, gosh, that system could work basically here in Collier County. We have a number of independent fire departments. We have city fire departments. They do, too, in King County. The King County Medic 1 system is an educational component with strong medical leadership at the top. And they contract with the fire departments to run the advanced life support.
Now the piece that we're missing here is the BLS (basic life support) transport. I think, Jim (Fogarty), you talked about 40 percent of the calls are ALS?
Fogarty: About 25 percent ... of all the calls that enter our 911 system, about 25 percent are triaged to advanced life support; 75 percent are basic life support.
Janet Vasey
Vasey: We don't like the fact that Emergency Medical Services and fire departments are constantly fighting. We don't think it's good for the public. We don't think it's good for the patient.
Our solution was to put it all under the sheriff, and then you have one person in control, knocking heads if necessary, to get the right solution.
And we believe ... I believe that a medical-based fire/EMS system is what's needed. Because we have 36,000 medical calls a year and not very many fires. So, the control and the decision-making should be very much medically based.
Ed Morton
Lytle: What are your impressions of the panel discussion (with Fogarty, Tober and Stolts)?
Morton: Well, I thought it was productive and touched on some of the more critical points. But I think one of the areas that was not highlighted and missed, frankly, by that panel was the criticality of standardization.
What didn't come through is, you can have a rather disparate group of people. You can have 20 or 30 fire departments; you can have different ALS providers, but if they do not subordinate themselves to a single, standardized medical set of clinical protocols, then ambiguity is dangerous.
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These pictures are great. I'm going to have to make some time to see the rest of them. Thanks for posting.
These pictures are great. I'm going to have to make some time to see the rest of them. Thanks for posting.
Wow, these pics are amazing!!! Thanks, for posting them. I only get out to DL every summer so it is nice to see pictures. Makes me feel closer to DL. I know sounds silly but I love DL!!!!
Tom - I think I saw you, too. I was walking down Main Street (towards Town Square) sometime around noon, and I swear I saw you walking the other direction towards the Hub - on the east side of the street somewhere around the Penny Arcade. You had a big smile on your face, and I think you had a backpack (or it may have been your camera).
I was tempted to say hi, but wasn't sure it was you...
More photos!
Click each of them to read more about the shots!
Disneyland In Bloom by Tom Bricker (WDWFigment), on Flickr
Looking good!!!!
About those trees with the pink blossoms at the Hub... Are they cherry trees?
Everyone is entitled to an informed opinion.
Harlan Ellison
I may not be the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, but I do shine.
Texan by birth, Californian by choice.
There should be a sticky thread called "This Day in Disney History." The company has a long history and this would be a good way to acknowledge it. Walt was born 112 years ago; that's quite a chunk of American history and culture.
Yep, Japanese blossoming cherry trees.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~Edgar Allan Poe
A couple more!
This one is from the Walt Disney Studios, but from the same trip...thought some of you might like it:
The Walt Disney Studios - Legends Plaza by Tom Bricker (WDWFigment), on Flickr
Haha.... I've seen these all already (follow you on FB and Twitter ). I, too, saw you two (but on Saturday) and boy were you in a hurry! Gee- I wonder why? lol
I love your work and always look forward to seeing what you come up with! Great job, as always!
For anyone who ever wonders if they see me in the parks, "in a hurry" pretty much describes me 99% of the time. Actually, "in a hurry to nowhere in particular" might describe me a little better. I always move quickly. That's just how I like to move. I'd rather walk twice as far and NOT be moving in a crowd than move slowly in a crowd, even if the end result is arriving at the location at the same time. I just hate moving slowly. No clue why. Oddly, crowds don't irritate me (we had fun on New Year's Eve at WDW and a great time on OMDD), it's just my preference to move quickly. So don't not stop me to say hello just because I'm moving quickly. Chances are I'm not moving quickly because I have anything pressing on my agenda...it's just the way I move!
Nice pics fantastic!
Two of my favorites from "One More Disney Day"
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^Those pictures appear a bit soft for some reason. They must have compressed when resized for MC. To see them in all their glory, click the image to go to its page, and then once the page loads, click again to see the full size lightbox version. They appear much better!
Absolutely FANTASTIC photos. Man I wish I was there!
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EDITORIAL - Over-prescription: Pfizer pays a steep price for loose marketing
A $2.3 billion settlement by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer for illegal promotion of unapproved use of a drug highlights a significant problem in American health care.
Pfizer developed Bextra, a pain-killing drug that the Food and Drug Administration approved for use in treating arthritis and menstrual cramps. The company then launched an aggressive ad campaign urging patients to ask for -- and doctors to prescribe -- Bextra for other complaints, for which the FDA had not judged the drug suitable. The agency was concerned that Bextra posed risks of damage to the heart, kidneys and skin. The drug has since been pulled from the market.
Perhaps even worse, Pfizer paid doctors, as consultants, to promote Bextra for its unauthorized, "off-label" uses. Pfizer has been involved in other cases and has reached settlements with respect to four drugs. Another drug giant, Eli Lilly, paid $1.4 billion earlier this year in a comparable case, so this practice is not unique.
Where does that leave patients? They can't trust pharmaceutical manufacturers not to promote medications for unauthorized uses. They may not be able to trust their doctors, who may be receiving checks from the pharmaceutical company.
The good guy in the affair is the federal government, which brought the case through the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services. The $2.3 billion settlement with Pfizer is more than a rap on the knuckles, even though the amount represents a small fraction of the company's annual sales. The money will be divided among whistle-blowers in the company who revealed what Pfizer was doing, Medicaid, Medicare and the U.S. Treasury.
The lesson for Americans is that they should study any medication suggested to them, by advertising or by a doctor, and pose hard questions before taking it.


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Tall, densely packed flowers appear on this plant, which is native to southern New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico, in late spring. Blooms vary from deep violet to white, and cuplike calyxes are covered with white hairs that often have a blue or violet tinge. Like other members of the sage family, mealycup sage is generally pest free.
Southern natives, these easy-to-grow members of the sunflower family yield a profusion of yellow blooms. Their seeds attract birds but not deer.
Native to Madagascar, India, and tropical Asia, these bushy plants thrive in both humid and dry heat. Flowers bloom atop glossy leaves in pure white, pink, rose, or white with a rose or red eye The flower was formerly known botanically as Vinca rosea, and many people still call it vinca.
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These easygoing summer bloomers feature daisy-like flowers in warm colors—yellow, orange, and red. They thrive on neglect, so put away the watering can and fertilizer. Their blooms make excellent cut flowers.


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ASF-Keystone, which is at 4831 Hohman Ave., sent a notice Monday to the state and said the layoffs set to start Dec. 17 are the result of "unforeseeable business circumstances regarding the dramatic downturn in our business."
The notice was sent pursuant to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
Certain employees who will be laid off are represented by the United Steelworkers Local 2003.
"Bumping rights" exist for union-represented employees in accordance with a collective bargaining agreement. When a more senior employee's job is eliminated instead of that employee losing employment, he or she "bumps" a less senior employee and takes that employee's job.
Chicago-based Amsted Rail is a privately held firm, and the ASF-Keystone facility produces steel springs used in sectors including rail and heavy construction.
Bill Carey, a United Steelworkers District 7 staff representative for Local 2003 members, said most of the workers affected are likely union members, but he didn't have an exact tally. He estimated about 150 workers are currently part of the bargaining unit.
The company said in its notice the workforce reduction would be permanent, but Carey said he doesn't expect that because the company took the same action in reducing its workforce in 2009 but brought people back later.
Railroad freight car building, a key segment for the company, is highly cyclical, Carey said, and the layoffs are likely the result of weakness in that sector. There isn't as much replacement of freight cars because, with the nation's natural gas supply and exploration efforts, there isn't as much need to ship coal and buy or replace the freight cars that typically transport the product.
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said he's concerned about the planned workforce reduction because earlier this year, the city granted ASF-Keystone a 10-year property tax abatement to help it complete a $7.7 million renovation. McDermott said the company completed building and façade improvements, hired more than 20 employees and bought equipment for its new spring production line.
McDermott said he plans to visit with company officials Monday and find out more about the situation and determine whether the company is meeting the terms of its agreement.
"That makes no sense to me," McDermott said. "Just a few months ago, they were telling us how good business was. They were telling us they were consolidating operations into Hammond. It's sad news."
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A magnifying lens incorporated in an endoscope optical system for viewing an illuminated area to be examined by means of the endoscope is adjustable between end positions in which it lies behind and in front of the focus of the optical system respectively, whereby to enable general examination of said area at a relatively small magnification and a more detailed examination of said area at a relatively higher magnification. A viewing window of an endoscope optical system is heated by an electrical heating conductor to guard against clouding of the viewing window, for example by the breath of a patient.
1. An endoscope comprising
a. a barrel
b. a light guide passing through said barrel
c. an optical system for viewing an illuminated area to be examined, said optical system having a focus,
d. a magnifying lens incorporated in said optical system and
e. means for selectively varying the magnification of the object to be viewed, thereby to enable the object to be viewed at one enlargement and view angle on the one hand and a different enlargement and view angle on the other hand, said means comprising a setting mechanism coupled to said magnifying lens for effecting axial displacement of said magnifying lens between two positions in which said magnifying lens lies in front of and behind said focus respectively.
2. An endoscope according to claim 1, wherein said means for adjusting said magnifying lens comprises a setting mechanism which is mechanically coupled to said magnifying lens and which includes mechanical means for effecting axial displacement of said magnifying lens to set the magnification factor of said magnifying lens.
3. An endoscope according to claim 1, wherein said means for adjusting said magnifying lens comprises a tubular mounting member for said magnifying lens and defining a light passage in which said magnifying lens is mounted, means for moving said mounting member axially of said barrel and a tubular guide member which encircles said mounting member and which is fixed with respect thereto, said guide member defining an axial guide slot in which said mounting member slides to prevent rotation of said mounting member whilst permitting axial movement thereof and which has end portions defining said two end positions respectively of said magnifying lens, said means for moving said mounting member axially including a rotatable tubular member encircling said fixed guide member and a key projecting from one of said mounting and rotatable members through said slot in said guide member, one of said rotatable tubular and mounting members defining a key-way which is inclined with respect to the axis of the barrel and in which said key engages, and means for rotating said rotatable tubular member, and wherein said optical system terminates in a viewing window at a distal end region of said endoscope, means are provided for heating said viewing window, including an electrical heating conductor, electrical connecting wires passing through said barrel and a connection at a proximal end region of said endoscope connected to said connecting lines, for connecting said electrical heating conductor to a source of electric current.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to an endoscope, in particular a laryngoscope and eiphyaryngoscope, comprising a barrel having a light-guide passing therethrough, and an optical system for viewing an area to be examined while under illumination. Such an endoscope will hereinafter be referred to as "of the kind described".
2. Description of the Prior Art
Endoscopes of the kind described are intended, inter alia, to make it easier to observe and examine the larynx and epipharynx, given that the methods of examination previously employed, which involved mirrors, optical systems and the like, called for unusual manual dexterity on the part of the doctor performing the examination, in some cases could not be employed because of anatomical abnormalities, frequently prevented optimum results being achieved, and made it difficult or impossible to make records, which is the case with examination by mirror for example.
Accordingly, the main object of the present invention is to provide an endoscope, which is particularly suitable for use as a laryngoscope or ehpipharyngoscope, by means of which the larynx and other body cavities can easily be examined, especially in cases where, following a general inspection of the area to be examined, there is to be a detailed inspection as well.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an endoscope of the kind described and having a distal window for the optical system or an exit window for the objective lens in which the window in each case can be kept free of clouding resulting from the condensation of moisture.
To this end, the invention consists in an endoscope of the kind described in which a magnifying lens which can be adjusted between two terminal positions at the proximal end is incorporated in the optical system in such a way that in one terminal position it lies in front of a focus of the optical system and in the other terminal position lies behind this focus.
By this means it becomes possible initially to make a general examination of the area to be inspected, which may be the plane of the vocal cords for example, at a relatively small magnification and thus a large angle of view. When the person performing the examination wishes to examine a detail more closely, he adjusts the lens system in the appropriate direction so that the detail, which may perhaps be something of a pathological nature which has been discovered, is increasingly enlarged as the angle of view becomes smaller. In this way extremely precise examination and inspection become possible and at the same time incorrect diagnosis is largely avoided.
Practical experience has shown, particularly when the mouth and throat regions are being examined, that the patient's breath causes the viewing window or objective plate to become obscured. The result of this is that the standard of the image which is seen suffers because the obscuring layer, being moisture condensation, causes light losses along the optical path of the optical system and, amongst other things, detracts from the quality of the image as a result of optical distortion.
To avoid disadvantages of this nature, the procedure adopted in accordance with a feature of the invention in the case of endorscopes which have a viewing window is to heat the window with an electrical heating conductor which is connected to a source of heating current via a connection at the proximal end of the endoscope.
When condensation may be expected on the window, the heating conductor is supplied with a preferably adjustable heating current in order to bring the temperature of the window, or at least of that face of the window adjacent the area to be examined, to a temperature which is higher than the dew point of the air breathed by the patient. In this way clouding of the objective or viewing window, and the frequent cleaning which would otherwise be necessary, are avoided at the outset.
FIG. 1 is a partial view in longitudinal section through an embodiment of an endoscope in the form of a laryngoscope and constructed in accordance with the invention,
FIG. 2 shows a plan view of the distal end of the endoscope,
FIG. 3 shows a section through the barrel of the endoscope in the area occuped by the viewing window,
FIG. 4 shows a plan view of the viewing window with a heating wire fitted, and
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of one possible arrangement for the magnifying lens.
The instrument shown in FIG. 1 comprises a barrel 1 inside which an optical system made up of lenses is housed in a viewing tube 2. Via a viewing window 3 and a deviating prism 4, the light forming the image passes through the optical system to an eyepiece lens 5, which is followed by a conventional eyepiece 6. The light required to see the image reaches the distal end of the instrument from a light source (not shown), via a connector 7 and fibre light-guide 8. At the distal end of the endoscope the light guide is divided to either side of the window 3 to form two exit surfaces 9 for the light which are ground flat. Instead of being continuous in the way shown, the light-guide 8 could also terminate at the proximal end of the endoscope and the remainder of it connected in a known way to the instrument by means of a coupling.
As can be seen in FIG. 5, a magnifying lens 10 which is axially adjustable lies between the eyepiece lens 5 and the last lens 11 of the optical system, and is so arranged that in one terminal position a it lies in front of the focus B of the optical system in that area and in the other possible terminal position b it lies behind this focus. By virtue of the laws of optics, this means that on the one hand it is possible to select high magnification at a small angle of view to enlarge details and on the other low magnification at a large angle of view for general inspection.
Using a suitable setting mechanism, the magnifying lens 10 may be continuously or discontinuously adjusted as desired in the axial direction, for example by mechanical or motor means, so that the factor of enlargement required in any particular case may be arrived at. A possible way of adjusting the lens mechanically is shown in FIG. 1.
In FIG. 1, the magnifying lens 10 is held in a tubular key member 12 which in turn is guided in the direction of the longitudinal axis 14 of the barrel 1 in a fixed guide tube 13 which is coaxial with it. This assembly is likewise surrounded co-axially by an axially immovable setting or adjusting tube 15 which can be rotated about the axis 14 by means of a setting or adjusting lever 16.
A setting pin 17 projecting from the outer periphery of the tubular member on which the pin is mounted extends through an axial guide opening or slot in the wall of the guide tube 13. The free end of the pin 17 engages in an adjusting groove or slot which is formed in the outer periphery of tubular member 15,whose path, when developed, must contain an axial component. If the path of the adjusting groove, when developed, is an oblique straight line, this means that a relatively small angle of rotation is required to adjust the magnifying lens between its two possible terminal positions. The possibility also exists of the adjusting groove, when considered as developed onto a plane, being of comparatively small inclination at the ends so as to provide a relatively fine adjustment near the possible terminal positions of the lens.
Thus, when setting tube 15 is turned by means of lever 16, lens 10 is adjusted axially in one or other direction, depending on the direction of rotation, for example to bring it to one of the terminal positions a and b shown in FIG. 5 and to arrive at the factors of magnification which these permit. Alternatively, the pin 17 may be mounted on the tube 15 and the adjusting groove in which the pin engages be in the wall of the tubular member 12.
As already stated other methods of adjusting the magnifying lens may be considered in addition to the purely mechanical one. Thus, instead of the manual method shown, it is for example possible to use a minature geared motor with an appropriate switching device in series. Another method which may be considered is adjusting the magnifying lens from outside by means of a magnetic field. Such a system would have the advantage that no sealing problems would arise, these being known to be particularly critical in endoscopes.
Clouding of the viewing window, which is composed in the conventional manner of glass and may even be formed by the objective lens itself, could be avoided by continuously scavenging the window with air by means of an air supply tube 18 whose free end is directed onto the window. This tube extends, inside or outside the barrel 1 and via a connecting pipe 19, to an air connection 20 on connector 7, to which an air pump, a bottle of pressurised gas or the normal gas supply available in a clinic may be connected as desired.
However, alternatively or in addition, clouding of the window 3 may be prevented with particular advantage by heating the window with an electrical heating conductor which may be connected to a source of heating current via a connection at the proximal end of the endoscope. For this purpose electrical contacts 21 which are isolated from connector 7 may be provided on the connector, these contacts being connected to a heating conductor 23 by means of electrical leads 22 which extend through pipe 19 and barrel 1.
If the window 3 is only to be heated electrically, the air connection 20 and tube 18 may naturally be dispensed with. Another possibility also exists, namely that the electrical contacts for the heating conductor may be incorporated in the connection for cold light so that it is then only necessary to insert the end of the light conducting cable into a modified source of cold light for light, heating current and/or air to be brought simultaneously to the tip of the instrument through appropriate lines.
There are a number of different possible ways of forming and fitting the heating conductor. Thus, the heating conductor may for example be applied to either the inwardly or outwardly directed face of the window 3, or it could be also be embedded in the viewing window by being fused in. FIG. 4 shows an embodiment in which the heating conductor extends at a distance around the centre of window 3 in the form of a loop and is attached to the window. A further possibility is for the viewing window to be held in an annular insulating body with the heating conductor situated on or in this insulating body. There may be advantages in this embodiment in that the heating conductor does not lie directly on the optical path.
A further procedure which might be adopted would be for the heating conductor to cover the viewing window 3 in the form of a thin, transparent layer. For this purpose, the heating conductor could consist of a layer of metal which was vapour-deposited on the window. An electrically conductive lacquer might also be considered. If light losses are found to be too great with these embodiments, the possibility also exists of having the conductive layer cover only part of the viewing window, preferably forming a part-annular area near the circumference of the window.
As FIG. 2 in particular clearly shows, the exit area of light guide 8 is situated in the immediate neighbourhood of viewing window 3. This ensures that the end of the light guide is also situated in the area where temperature is influenced by heating conductor 23 and thus that clouding of the exit faces of the light guide is very largely avoided. The possibility also exists of heating the distal exit faces of the light guide with at least one separately provided electrical heating conductor in order in this way to prevent them from becoming obscured.
Various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. For example, in place of an endoscopic optical system made up of lenses, it is also possible to use a known optical fibre system in which case a flexible barrel can be used instead of the rigid barrel 1. In this case the proximal end of the optical fibre would have a lens associated with it which in principle would take over the role of lens 11 as the last lens in the optical system, so that in this case too it would be possible for the magnifying lens 10 to lie in front of a focus of the optical system in one terminal position and behind this focus in the other terminal position.
Furthermore, the magnifying lens may be constructed by cementing together a plurality of lens to form a compound lens. Alternatively or additionally, the magnifying or compound lens may have another lens or other lenses associated with it whose functions may be optical correction and the like, which results in there being a group of lenses.
In this specification the term "viewing window" means a separate transparent window or the objective lens of the optical system.
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Behind The Shelves, Hermione/Ginny, NC-17.
[Jul. 2nd, 2004|
11:13 am
Hermione/Ginny Femmeslash Community
*waves* Hi, I'm new! :D (and I still don't understand why I never looked for femslash communities before...)
Title: Behind the Shelves
Pairing:. Hermione/Ginny
Rating: Definitely NC-17.
Summary: Pure smut.
Disclaimer: We all know who came up with the characters! I just wish it had been me.
They always tell Harry and Ron that they are going to the library to study, and of course, the boys believe them. What
could Hermione spend her time on, anyway? Especially with the NEWTS only eight months away. So Harry and Ron just nod, eyes never leaving their chess game, Hermione's coloured (and squeaking) organizers buried at the bottom of their trunks.
Sometimes Hermione wants to tell them that they
should join them, that they'll thank her for it afterwards, but every time she opens her mouth, lips curled in a smirk, Ginny blushes and tugs at her sleeve, dragging her away.
go to the library. And since Hermione is the only person Madam Pince remotely trusts and likes, they are allowed to go study in the Restricted Section, "away from the noise and the bustle of the other students" (even though most of the noise is made by Pince shooing off imaginary conversations). There's a single table there, at the back of the long rows of dusty (and often grumbling) books.
Books, parchments and quills are laboriously laid on the table, perfectly arranged; school bags are tucked between the feet of the chairs and those of the table. Hermione is idly looking at the rows of old, mysterious books, fingertips gliding from spine to spine, when suddenly her skirt is lifted up and fingers are deftly slipping into her panties, going straight for the kill. Her moan is loud and opened as she arches under the touch, her arse pressing against Ginny's middle and her breasts against the leather covers. Her fingers curl around the edge of a book's spine, and it flips over and falls to the floor, yellow pages staring reprovingly up Hermione's skirt before the book flutters shut with an indignant 'thump'. She's been wet all day just thinking about that precise moment and Ginny's fingers don't meet the slightest resistance upon entering her. Her other hand pushes Hermione's hair away and soon her lips are paying their respects to Hermione's shoulder, teeth gently biting the flesh, tongue darting out, hoping to taste salt, as if Hermione had been swimming in the sea all day. Instead of salt, Ginny's taste buds are greeted with the non-taste of clean skin, but she licks it anyway, savouring the shivers she can feel going through Hermione's body.
Ginny's free hand creeps around to cup Hermione's breast, fingertips teasing the nipple through the layers of cotton, and when she glances up, mouth still fastened around Hermione's shoulder, she's greeted with the sight of Hermione's pearly teeth closing around her full bottom lip, her cheek pressed against the books as if against a favourite pillow. Before she knows what's happening Hermione finds herself flipped around as Ginny claims that mouth, those teeth, that tongue, body pressing demandingly against Hermione's, hands suddenly awkward as they desperately try to touch everything at once.
Ginny is always the one to lead and Hermione gladly submits, the spines of books digging in her back, dust catching in her hair (they thought that after the fifth time, no dust would be left, but it seems to be part of the Hogwarts' library, as unmovable as the furniture it rests on), fingers tightly gripping the shelves, leaving small dark marks in the brown wood. Having sex in the library, in her
, gives her a rush that nothing else can. The rare times they manage to crawl into each other's beds, it's tender and loving and very good, but in the library Hermione feels like she isn't herself anymore; she feels wild and sensual and
, and even though at first it's been more than disconcerting, quite frightening in fact, she
Just as she loves standing there, knees buckling as Ginny all but rips her clothes off her body, smiling sheepishly as a button falls to the floor with a soft 'plink', trying to trap the flaps of Hermione's shirt behind her back, unzipping her skirt and watching it fall to the floor with undisguised satisfaction. For her birthday, Ginny has offered her several pairs of high white socks, and just like stockings, it makes Hermione feel more naked than if she was wearing no socks at all. Ginny's tongue glides along their rim over and over, while the fingers of both her hands creep up and up, thumbs massaging the oh-so-tender flesh of Hermione's inner thighs, eager to have a second feel of the warmth within.
Hermione's hand buries itself in Ginny's fiery hair and Ginny looks up, then presses a kiss against Hermione's belly-button, eyes gleaming with cockiness and seduction, tongue darting out to lick the soft bud of flesh. Her name is but a pleading whisper in Hermione's mouth, brown eyes wide and unguarded. Ginny's smile turns tender and almost innocent, despite the fact that her fingers are curling around the edge of Hermione's panties, softly pushing them down her legs.
Her lips migrate downwards and Hermione's body sags towards the ground, arms tensing against the shelves to stop its descent and keep it hovering in mid-air, legs curling up and parting without shame. Ginny's hands slide from Hermione's knees down to what she's so willingly exposing, thumbs ending where they've longed to be, just for a second, before the hands slide back up, two fingertips coated with what, for now, looks like transparent nail polish. Hermione gasps and closes her eyes, parting her legs even wider, hips rising up in a silent shout. Then there are lips and tongue and fingers and Ginny's silky hair against her thighs and her stomach and Hermione almost blacks out, forgetting everything about exams and wizards and books, forgetting everything about Ginny even, because right at this instant Hermione isn't a brain anymore, she's just a body, and her only wish, her only thought, is that such pleasure never ends. It does end though, always sooner than she'd have wanted it, and her brain slowly jumbles back into work, doing what it can with the few words scattered on its floor; 'desire' and 'want', 'deeper', 'warmth', 'inside', 'merciless', 'harder', 'more', 'please', 'crawl', and in a far corner, 'love'.
Hermione is always submissive, until Ginny looks up at her with shiny eyes and glistening lips and chin, and only then does Hermione claim her, pushing her back on the floor, nimbly undoing buttons, zippers and laces, shedding clothes until Ginny is naked from the root of her hair to the tip of her toes, her hands, arms, shoulders, buttocks and the soles of her feet pressed against the dark dusty wooden floor as her body arches and opens, shamelessly begging for a touch.
Standing up again, contemplating her work, Hermione pulls her skirt and panties back on, only leaving her shirt opened. If somebody was to enter the Restricted Section, she would be able to cover herself, but Ginny is spread out on the floor like a sacrifice, gloriously naked and trembling both from desire and fear that someone
Hermione knows how to tease. She excels in never-ending caresses, in ethereal pleasure; she can stop time more surely than the most advanced wizard; her fingertips know every path along Ginny's body, every curve; they can draw out stabbing pleasure from any stretch of skin. Hermione knows how to make Ginny burst into tears with sheer unsatisfied want, how to make her beg and thrash and she likes nothing more than watch Ginny finally rebelling and bringing herself to orgasm just as violently as when it's Hermione's body her fingers are attacking.
But right then, her need to possess Ginny is stronger than her need to tease and her mouth lashes onto her right away, tongue and fingers seeking out the warmth hidden within, hands blindly sliding up to close around Ginny's breasts, kneading and pinching, then sliding around to Ginny's arse, raising her hips up, pressing her more firmly against her greedy mouth. But before it's too late she wrenches her mouth away, muffling Ginny's frustrated moan with her sea-scented hand. Ginny is as relaxed as a rag-doll and it's almost no trouble turning her around. Ginny has never been to a Muggle museum, has never seen Auguste Rodin's
, and yet it's always the position she adopts. Her legs are bent under her as she lies half on her side, forehead pressed against the floor, her curled arms framing her face, and her hair is flowing over them like cooling lava.
Hermione watches, kneeling back on the soles of her feet, and the aching intensifies further; right then she wants to meld into Ginny so forcefully that she thinks she will probably turn mad if she doesn't achieve it, one way or another.
has been to the Rodin museum the previous summer, during her parents' second trip to France, and she's stood in front of the small marble sculpture for hours, fingers pressed against its cold glass prison, cheeks ablaze and breathing erratic, wondering how Harry had managed to make that window disappear without a wand, long ago in the zoo, hands tingling from the overwhelming urge to touch and pet and worship. But she's never told Ginny, because she knows that if she does Ginny will
to take the pose, and, ironically enough, fail.
Ginny moans, a sound so close to the purring of a cat that Hermione is reminded for a disturbing second of Crookshanks. Her eyes snap up to Ginny's profile, her closed eyelid, her doll-like freckled nose, her lips, red and swollen and nibbled by hungry teeth. Her eyes climb over Ginny's shoulder, to the nape of her neck, down her spine and the crack of her arse. That sculpture is hers and as soon as she remembers it she's all hands and lips, sprinkling Ginny's body with kisses and tickling it with whispered words of love, till Ginny's sitting in Hermione's lap, arms wound around her neck, eyes closed under the passion of their kiss.
Hermione is no longer hungry and her fingers are gentle when she brings Ginny over the edge, mouth still closed on hers, drinking her moans away. Her other hand is petting Ginny's breast, but once Ginny's orgasm has subsided it slides around to the small of her back, rubbing soothing circles on the heated skin. She can't seem to stop murmuring "I love you", but it doesn't matter because Ginny is echoing it just as frantically, arms wound tight around Hermione's back as if she was afraid she might vanish from under her.
With Ginny's breathing still fanning against her neck, Hermione finally reaches up and fumbles blindly on the table until her fingers meet the rough touch of a parchment, and brings it down to her eyes. The list of what they have to work on that night is just as long as it always is, and not for the first time Hermione smiles and sighs and wishes they could wait till their work was done to give in and play.
And later on, when they are finally back in the Common Room, and Harry and Ron are still there, sprawled into the couch reading Quidditch books, she thinks, not for the first time, that the boys really should give the library a try.
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2004-07-03 08:55 pm (UTC)
Never before...
I've never read H/G slash before... but i'm glad I did. A sizzling tale with great truth to the books (somewhat... i dont remember sex in the books haha)
Great job!
2004-07-05 07:26 pm (UTC)
Never looked for femmeslash!?! It seems to me that you could have been meant to write it. That was excellent.
I like how you characterized the girls and in little ways made it seem deeper than fucking. (though that part was good too...)
2004-07-07 09:47 pm (UTC)
I enjoyed pretty much all of it- it was the first femmeslash I've ever read... definitely more to slash than I thought :)
Great story... I liked how it got steamy but wasn't 100% about lust... I'd like to see what would happen if they got caught... ^^
2005-03-14 10:09 pm (UTC)
Amazing. One of the few H/G fics I have truly been enthralled in. You are a superb writer.
2005-03-27 11:09 am (UTC)
It's my first time reading this, and I can't beleive how much I have wasted NOT knowing this kind of thing existed. I have to tell you that I was wet before finishing the first paragraph and actually had my hand in my panties and masturbtaing before the end of the second. Reading the whole thing gave me four incredible orgasms. It was, quite simply the most erotic thing I have evr read. Thank you SOoooo much! (Of course, I now need to make something likethat happen to me. Can't wait for school to start!)


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UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey returns to the octagon next Saturday as she defends her title against Alexis Davis at UFC 175. Regardless if she wins the fight, is Rousey the best female athlete in all of sports? It was announced this morning that Rousey was nominated for two ESPY awards, "Best Female Athlete" and "Best Fighter." Also receiving ...Read More »
Chael Sonnen Receives Temporary Suspension Due To Failed Drug Test
On Tuesday, Chael Sonnen received a temporary suspension from the Nevada State Athletic Commission for a failed random drug test that was revealed last Tuesday. The Commission voted unanimously to give Sonnen the suspension. Sonnen, who tested positive for the drugs, Anastrozole and Clomiphene was randomly tested during the weekend of UFC 173 last month. The three-time UFC title challenger ...Read More »
Chael Sonnen Retires, UFC 174 Preview and More
Brian and Steve are back for the weekly MMA podcast as they talk about Chael Sonnen retiring following his failing a random drug test, who is at fault with this mess and what should have been done, his interview on Fox Sports 1, if they think Sonnen is really retiring from competition, his Fox Sports 1 job as an analyst ...Read More »
Chael Sonnen On Why He's Retiring From MMA (Video)
Video: Chael Sonnen announces retirement from UFC Say goodbye to the bad guy. On Wednesday night's edition of "UFC Tonight", Chael Sonnen announced his retirement from mixed martial arts. It was announced on Tuesday that Sonnen had a failed a random drug test given by the Nevada State Athletic Commission last month. The three-time UFC title challenger was given the ...Read More »
Chael Sonnen Announces His Retirement
In shocking news, UFC star Chael Sonnen just announced his retirement from mixed martial arts. Sonnen announced his retirement on UFC Tonight, in which he serves as an analyst. Yesterday, it was revealed that the 37 year-old had failed a random drug test by the Nevada State Athletic Commission that was conducted in May as Sonnen was scheduled to fight ...Read More »
Dana White: Chael Sonnen And Nevada Athletic Commission To Blame For Drug Test Failure
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Chael Sonnen Says He Took Banned Substances
Earlier today, it was revealed that Chael Sonnen failed a random drug test and is out of his UFC 175 fight with Vitor Belfort. The three-time UFC title challenger tested positive for Anastrozole and Clomiphene, which are prohibited substances on page 5 of the USADA banned substance list. Sonnen was on the "Jay Mohr Sports" on FOX Sports Radio to ...Read More »
Chael Sonnen Fails Drug Test, Out Of UFC 175
ESPN.com is reporting that Chael Sonnen has failed a random drug test and is out of his UFC 175 fight against Vitor Belfort. Sonnen tested positive for two illegal substances, Anastrozole and Clomiphene, which are two female drugs. Anastrozole is used to treat early stages of breast cancer and clomiphene is used in cases of female infertility. Sonnen took a ...Read More »
Vitor Belfort Reveals NSAC Random Drug Test Results
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Lots of UFC Action, Jon Jones Opponent, Vitor Belfort Reveal
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Facebook in talks with music labels
Social giant Facebook has been in talks with music labels for the past few months, although nobody is quite sure what the company is planning.
Reports say Facebook has met with Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, three of the big music licensing labels. Since this doesn't seem to involve indie labels, we can assume it isn't a music streaming deal, but instead a licensing and content protection deal.
OnePlus has free Google Cardboard VR headsets for everyone!
Virtual reality is making a comeback. Forget the atrocious examples we endured in the 90s, now we have the likes of Oculus Rift to delight our senses, and Microsoft is tempting us with HoloLens. Neither of these are particularly cheap, but Google came up with a cheap alternative in the form of Cardboard.
As the name suggests, this is a foldable cardboard unit which can be used to transform a variety of smartphones into a fully-fledged VR headset. While much cheaper than the likes of Oculus Rift and HoloLens, Cardboard is not free... or at least, it wasn't. Ahead of the launch of OnePlus 2, OnePlus is offering its own OnePlus CardBoard for free.
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Video games have come a long way. What was once a single or double player affair, is now much grander thanks to online gaming. It is much more engaging to play against multiple real people, rather than an artificial opponent. You can even communicate with other players by using a microphone -- very cool.
The Xbox One comes with a headset in the box, and it is passable, but hardly comfortable nor high quality. Marathon gamers will want to invest in a premium headset for improved audio and comfort. Turtle Beach will soon be selling its self-proclaimed "affordable" Ear Force Stealth 420X wireless headset, and it looks like a winner.
Scan pages as searchable PDFs with NAPS2
Earlier this year we wrote about NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2), a tiny open source tool which could scan documents to PDF, TIFF and other file formats. We liked the program's simplicity and ease of use, and in the past few months it's been further extended with some major new features.
Integrated OCR means you can now make your PDFs searchable. There's no complex interface to navigate, no manual setting of OCR regions or anything else: just click the OCR button, choose the document language and NAPS2 handles everything else.
The 2015 Nexus 5 will be built by LG
The Nexus range of smartphones has proved a popular way to get a fairly high-end handset running stock Android at a decent price. Previous models have (largely) sold well, and there is always eager anticipation surrounding the next release. One thing people are always keen to know is just who is going to be making the handset.
According to a report by AndroidPIT, it is LG who will be responsible for the 2015 Nexus 5. A spokesperson said that the device is to be based on a yet-to-be-seen prototype rather than the LG G4. Based on previous launches, it's safe to assume that the release will coincide with the launch of the next version of Google's mobile operating system, Android M.
Reddit faces yet another user revolt, mods shut down several top subreddits
An insurrection is underway on Reddit, one of the largest websites on the planet. The juggernaut network which maintains thousands of open groups -- called subreddits -- dedicated to news, science, technology, entertainment, and sports among others is facing a backlash from moderators of many top subreddits over the company's decision to fire Victoria Taylor, one of the key figures over at Reddit's extremely popular AMA subreddit.
Victoria Taylor joined Reddit in 2013 as its director of communications. As several moderators bring to our attention, Taylor headed AMA's celebrity sessions. She relayed users' questions to high-profile figures and transcribed their responses to the website. Her sudden and unexplained departure has left moderators with a feeling of betrayal.
5 common Wi-Fi problems -- how you can resolve them
Say it's up to you to pick a Wi-Fi solution. If the Wi-Fi experience is great -- fast and dependable -- you're a hero. But if performance is slow or connections drop, people get grumpy.
Here, in plain English, are five culprits behind bad Wi-Fi and how to avoid them.
Best Windows apps this week
One-hundred and thirty-sixth in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps and games released for Windows in the past seven days.
Microsoft pushed out three builds of the Windows 10 operating system to Fast Ring systems this week (the latest is 10162) and will pick a suitable RTM soon for the operating system.
Firefox 39 introduces social network sharing of Hello conversations
Mozilla has unveiled the latest version of Firefox, 39.0 for Windows, OS X and Linux PCs, along with Firefox for Android 39.0.
The new desktop build adds a social invite tool for its Firefox Hello chat feature while implementing a number of improvements and security features for Mac OS X and Linux.
Buy a Windows Phone from Microsoft, get Nokia headphones for free
If you are in the market for a new Windows Phone now is the time to pull the trigger. Microsoft is running an attractive promotion, giving customers a free pair of Nokia headphones with the purchase of any Windows Phone from its online store.
And I mean any Windows Phone. This promotion applies to all Acer, BLU, Microsoft and Nokia-branded Windows Phone devices that Microsoft sells, so you are not limited to a certain brand or, most importantly, a certain price bracket.
Your online payments could soon be authorized with a selfie
Make an online payment with your credit card and you're probably used to having to enter a password or PIN. But if a trial scheme by MasterCard takes off, this could become a thing of the past. The finance company is testing out a new payment authorization technique including fingerprint scanning and facial recognition.
MasterCard is working with Apple, BlackBerry, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung to introduce the biometric checks. The initial plan is to trial the system with 500 participants before possibly rolling it out on a larger scale. It's something that MasterCard believes will be welcomed by millennials and should simplify the process of making payments from a smartphone.
How much does security software slow down your PC?
One of the main complaints that people express about security software is that it harms the performance of their PC. But how much of an effect does it really have?
Independent testing organization AV-Comparatives has conducted a test of 20 leading security products for Windows to assess their impact. Tests were performed on a 64-bit Intel Core i5 machine with Windows 8.1.
The world's smallest drone can be had for just $35
Drones are a much talked about technological development, but they have yet to really take off with members of the public.
There is a whole host of factors holding them back, regulations being chief among them, but it seems size certainly isn't going to be an issue. Particularly when drones are being made that can easily fit into the palm of your hand.
Official Eyefi Mobi app available on Windows Phone
As more official apps are available in Store, more consumers will start paying attention to Windows Phone and, perhaps, be willing to switch from their Android smartphones and iPhones. The selection is improving, even if at a slow pace, and it is nice to see new known developers embracing the platform.
So, having Eyefi Mobi finally available on the platform is a major win. While not known by the majority of users, in the sense that Facebook is at least, it is a very important app for photography enthusiasts. here is what you need to know about it.
Prince pulling music from popular streaming services
One of the most prominent skeptics of digital music, Prince has surprisingly been off the radar on the whole music streaming debate, until now.
The Minneapolis sound pioneer removed all of his songs from Deezer, Spotify, Rdio and Apple Music earlier this week, while keeping music on Google Play and Tidal.


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Elizabeth Smart Asks for 'Time, Attention and Prayers' to Help Find Missing Utah Woman
Originally posted 04/28/2015 01:15PM
One month ago, Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado moved to Utah from Mexico so that she could learn English after serving a mission for the Mormon Church. Now the 26-year-old is missing, and another young woman who shares her first name has stepped up to urge the public to help find her.
Elizabeth Smart: My Greatest Aspiration Is to Be a Mom
Originally posted 05/09/2014 02:40PM
Elizabeth Smart has motherhood on her mind – but she and husband Matthew Gilmour aren't starting a family just yet.
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Elizabeth Smart on Her Abduction: 'There Was a Point That I Stopped Crying'
Originally posted 10/04/2013 02:30PM
A decade after her rescue from a nine-month kidnapping ordeal that began when she was taken at knifepoint at 14 from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart is telling her tale in her book to be released next week and to Meredith Vieira in an NBC interview to air Friday.
My Story, by the now 25-year-old, recalls the painful days and nights held in captivity by Brian David Mitchell – a onetime homeless preacher – and his wife, Wanda Barzee, when the teen was chained, dressed in disguise and told she and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. She also relives the moments where she was brought back to her family and saw justice served to her attackers.
Elizabeth Smart's Message to Rescued Women: Don't Blame Yourself
Originally posted 05/07/2013 01:45PM
Very few people can truly understand what the three women rescued from years in captivity can be feeling today – and what they may face in the years to come.
Elizabeth Smart is one of them, and she has a message.
"First of all, I'd make sure these young women know that nothing that happened to them is their fault," Smart tells PEOPLE. "They still have the same worth. They're still valuable. They haven't lost any of their worth to what's happened."
Smart was kidnapped from her home at age 14 in 2002 and forced to be a sex slave for nine months. She's now a newlywed and advocate for missing children.
Elizabeth Smart's Memoir Cover Revealed
Originally posted 03/08/2013 06:00PM
Elizabeth Smart is a smiling, married woman these days, but such a future was unthinkable for her in 2002.
Smart, 25, who has worked as an activist and ABC News contributor in recent years, was abducted from her home when she was 14.
Raped daily for nine months by Brian David Mitchell – a onetime homeless preacher – she was rescued in 2003. Her case drew national attention, and she is finally sharing her story – in her words – with the world.
Top 10 Celebrity Stories of 2012
Originally posted 11/03/2012 05:10PM
What a year!
While the nation moved through an economically challenging election year, Hollywood kept things interesting by focusing on everything from engagements and divorces to babies and bikinis.
Here, in descending order of popularity, were the biggest PEOPLE.com news stories of 2012.
Inside Elizabeth Smart's Dream Wedding
Originally posted 02/25/2012 06:00AM
From the beachside kiss to the evening luau, see how Smart celebrated her big day in Hawaii
Elizabeth Smart's Dream Wedding
Originally posted 02/22/2012 08:00AM
A modern-day fairy tale complete with a beautiful heroine and a dashing Scottish Prince Charming, came to life on Saturday on the North shore of Oahu, Hawaii, as Elizabeth Ann Smart married her boyfriend of one year, Matthew Gilmour in an intimate ceremony attended by family and close friends.
In this week's cover story, PEOPLE shares exclusive photographs of the radiant bride and happy groom, their wedding party and evening luau – as well as exclusive details of how they met and how he proposed, the wedding day preparations and the reasons Smart chose the breathtaking shores of Oahu for her celebration.
"They are clearly besotted with each other, and it's a wonderful thing to see," the groom's mother, Kay Gilmour, tells PEOPLE.
Elizabeth Smart and Matthew Gilmour Step Out Post-Wedding
Originally posted 02/21/2012 07:30AM
The Hawaiian wind in their hair, newlyweds Elizabeth Smart and Matthew Gilmour stepped out after tying the knot in a private ceremony there.
The young couple wed Saturday "in one of her favorite places," her spokesman tells PEOPLE, adding that having her family there made it "a dream wedding."
Smart, 24, who was kidnapped from her home in 2002 at age 14, has been involved with 22-year-old Gilmour, of Scotland, for about a year. They met in France when they were both doing Mormon mission work a couple years ago.
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Announced in July, the crossover concept will be written by comics writer and Glee co-producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and illustrated by Parent. Said Archie Comics Co-CEO Jon Goldwater, "If you go back to the beginnings of modern music, if you will, with Elvis and moving forward with the Beatles and [Bob] Dylan – they established culturally the tone of what's going on in the country. That's what I've been trying to establish in Riverdale. The characters stay the same, but Riverdale changes. And as musicians change in the culture, they can seamlessly integrate into comic books."
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Would you ever allow your husband to be with another woman?
Sex Confession: Wife Allowed Husband to Be With Another Woman
by Michele Zipp
"Sex Confessions" is a series featuring your naughtiest bedroom secrets and fantasies. Some will sound familiar, others may give you ideas, some will turn you on, and some are dark and twisted. You might want to sit down for this.
Paul* and Anna* have been married for seven years. They have a
son who is 3 and seemingly have a happy marriage with no issues. And
they are happy -- very happy Anna insists, but a little incident last
year has made Anna concerned now. She allowed her husband to sleep with another woman. And he did. Just once. And they hadn't talked about it much until recently. I'll let Anna explain.
Paul and I have had those talks that so many couples do about who our free pass would be. Mine is Charlie Hunnam and we've joked about it when we watch Sons of Anarchy. (I can't wait for Fifty Shades of Grey movie!) Paul's free pass was Jennifer Lopez until one day when we were playfully discussing these celebrity crushes that we clearly never would have a chance with and he said he would add Jessica* to the list. Jessica is our friend. More his friend than mine, but I like her very much. She and Paul used to work together and we'd go out with her and her husband quite often before we had kids. Jessica ended up getting a new job and divorced, and moved about an hour away though Paul still kept in touch with her here and there.
For some reason I told him I would allow him to have a free pass with Jessica. I really thought I wasn't truly agreeing to anything. I never thought it would happen. And I wasn't even jealous when he told me she would be his free pass because I think it's healthy to be attracted to other people and playfully think about it. He was telling me about it so I just thought it was just that -- him telling me he had the hots for his friend Jessica.
This was last year. And a few weeks after that conversation, he told me he spoke to Jessica and she was into it. He wanted me to honor that free pass. So I did. And I regret it.
Maybe I didn't think it would really happen. Maybe I was shocked that he actually asked her if she wanted to have sex with him. But it happened. Just once. And I can't help but feel totally insecure in my relationship now even though I said it was okay. We never discussed it in those early days after it happened. But in the last few months I've wanted to know more. He says it wasn't that great. That he thought about me. That they don't really talk anymore as friends. But I'm not sure how to deal with it all.
What do you think Anna should do?
Would you ever allow your husband to be with another woman?
*Names have been changed.
Not to go off by himself no, but maybe with me. I'm not sure I'd actually be able to go through with it and it would have to be a complete stranger not a friend of ours. It really turns me on to think of him with someone else.
There is NO room in my marriage for anyone, or anything else. We do t even entertain the "free pass" notion.
She was very naive in thinking that a "free pass" would work and do nothing to their relationship or to each other. Maybe she thought she was being the cool and easy-going wife, but I think it's just delusional. He, on the other hand, was an ass for turning in that free pass. The fact that he actively went out and spoke to this other woman about it beforehand should've made her leery to begin with. It's a slippery slope and this sets a bad precendence in their relationship.


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Recordings from a jet that crashed July 24 in Mali have proved unintelligible. The lack of black box data deprives investigators of clues as to what sent the plane into a plunge that killed all 116 people on board.
Experts examining a black box recorder retrieved from the jet's wreckage cannot make out the audio, Remi Jouty, the president of France's BEA air accident investigator, told a news conference on Thursday. Nearly half the people aboard the Air Algerie flight were French nationals.
The 18-year-old aircraft's black box used magnetic tape - rather than digital recording - which broke or crumpled in key places. After repairing the tape, investigators couldn't make out pilots' conversations.
"There is sound on the tape but it is unintelligible," Jouty said Thursday. "The device seemed to be recording, but we don't yet know why it did not work, except that this was not a result of the crash itself," he said, adding that investigators first thought the tape's corruption a "simple technical problem."
French officials believe bad weather helped bring the plane down. The pilots had asked for permission to alter their route because of a storm as they flew north after taking off from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. Still, the investigators have not ruled out other explanations
"We're trying to avoid overly hasty theories," Jouty said, adding that all hypotheses remained valid.
President Francois Hollande said the remains of all passengers will be flown to France before being repatriated the countries of their origin.
'Extremely violent'
The jet lost altitude and speed as it detoured around a storm cell, according to the other black box, which records flight data rather than audio. After resuming its original course, the aircraft abruptly turned back on itself to the left and entered a corkscrew-shaped descent. Jouty said the investigators could not yet explain the unusual flight pattern.
The plane hit the ground at high speed, and Jouty described the impact as "extremely violent."
The strong concentration of debris in one spot on the ground has led investigators to believe that the plane crashed rather than disintegrating in the air. Without the voice recordings, however, experts face a complex task in establishing what happened in the cockpit, including whether the pilots had noticed a technical fault. Jouty said investigators would continue to try to extract useful recordings from the tape and meanwhile build up an alternative picture of what the pilots may have faced by studying air traffic control recordings and other data.
N'Faly Cisse, the head of Mali's civil aviation accident commission, told reporters that a fresh progress report would come in mid-September.
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The solutions emerged when John Lam, a PhD candidate working with Dr. Jain, developed a compact, simplified circuitry and controller design that overcomes the power problem while also meeting consumers' need for a dimmable, inexpensive CFL. "Understanding the significance of the problem motivated me to work hard at finding a solution," Mr. Lam says.
The two main challenges were making the technology directly replaceable with existing designs, and economical to produce, says Dr. Jain. "We were able to develop a more power-efficient, dimmable and cost-effective CFL technology that can truly replace the power-hungry incandescent light bulbs. This makes it very attractive to the consumer market."
The work was carried out at Queen's Centre for Energy and Power Electronics Research (EPowER), which tackles key problems in the area of energy conservation and brings those solutions to industry.
PARTEQ Innovations, the technology transfer office of Queen's, will work with major CFL manufacturers to bring the technology to market.
"This is an excellent example of university research providing an innovative solution well in advance of a potential market problem," says John Molloy, President and CEO of PARTEQ. "The key to providing useable innovation is understanding the problems of existing technology and finding elegant solutions. Here we have a motivated researcher who saw a key problem and delivered the solution to an industry in need, in time to make a difference."
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